When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#473 - The extraordinary and weak, the holy one ascends to heaven!

Flick Academy of Arts and Sciences, as a key construction project, was naturally made of brick and tile, located next to the military camp.

After inspecting Flick Academy of Arts and Sciences and finding no problems, Horn thought about returning to the Mechanical Palace for a nap.

Walking across the wooden bridge over the Para River, Horn caught a glimpse of several Mechanical Palace staff members fiddling with something by the riverbank.

"What are they doing?"

"Cleaning slimes," Rafael glanced over. "The rainy season is coming soon, and the air is humid, so many slimes have emerged.

Moreover, Princess Shilov stays in the Mechanical Palace all day doing experiments, and there are many fragments in the wastewater. Slimes happen to have scavenging properties, so they like to gather at the drainage outlets.

But it's not a big deal, just clean it every two or three days, we're used to it."

"Oh, I see." Horn nodded, as if remembering something, and smiled at Rafael, "Shilov has been asking me to go to the lab these days. Since I have nothing else to do today, let's go take a look."

Shilov drew a few drops of his blood this morning for the so-called Demon-Loving Bacteria experiment, and he wondered how effective it was.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Entering the Mechanical Palace, Horn arrived outside Shilov's laboratory and could see the heavy, thick iron door.

The two Cheka guards at the door naturally didn't stop him when they saw Horn, smoothly opening the door and letting him in.

"Ah, Horn, you've come at the right time." Shilov had just taken off her leather goggles and, catching sight of Horn, raised her ears and head simultaneously.

"Come at the right time? Why?" Horn casually pulled up a chair and sat down, so he could look directly at Shilov's face.

"Do you remember me telling you a few days ago that I was close to solving the mystery of the Favored Ones? Do you remember?"

Horn bit the bullet and replied, "I remember."

"Liar." Shilov stretched out a snow-white finger and tapped Horn's nose. "You never remember what I say."

"I can't help it, it's a passive skill I developed with Jeanne, I can't cancel it."

"Passive skill... what strange things are you saying again?" Shilov turned her wheelchair, took a folder from the shelf, and handed it to Horn.

"Regarding the Favored Ones' Demon-Loving Bacteria, after several experiments, I've roughly summarized the patterns..."

Listening to Shilov's explanation and looking at the experiment report in his hand, Horn's expression gradually became serious, and he gradually understood the operating mechanism of the Favored Ones' Demon-Loving Bacteria.

First, there must be a wound on the body to facilitate the assimilation and entry of the Demon-Loving Bacteria. Previously, the Demon-Loving Bacteria could not survive for long through drinking and smearing.

Second, Horn himself must be present, and preferably he himself must be injured, to facilitate the spread and infection of the Demon-Loving Bacteria.

Third, Horn's Demon-Loving Bacteria is too low in toxicity and is killed by the body itself before it can take effect. It is best to use it with other bacteria, that is, it is best to infect the wound.

"Do you remember the first batch of infected people? Most of them were injured or sick in the High Plateau Mountains, and they already had injuries and illnesses, so the infection was rapid.

Do you remember that many people who got your Witch Disease did not awaken to become Favored Ones?

That's because their own vitality was too strong and they eliminated your Demon-Loving Bacteria.

The sudden increase in Favored Ones in the previous Battle of Pavia was because there were enough wounded and the body had to deal with too many bacteria, allowing the Demon-Loving Bacteria to take advantage of the situation and create many Favored Ones.

The reason why there were fewer Favored Ones in the subsequent battles was because the increase in the number of transcendents and the popularization of allicin agents strengthened the killing power of your Demon-Loving Bacteria."

Due to a lack of sufficient biological and medical knowledge, Shilov did not have concepts such as immunity and viruses, and often relied on medical and biological knowledge from the Ancient Elven period to explain.

But from the report, the description was inaccurate, but the rules were summarized correctly.

"Does that mean..." Horn's buttocks left the cushion, his body leaned forward, and he waited expectantly for Shilov's reply.

"Yes, after solving this problem, in principle, we can mass-produce Favored Ones." The muscles in Shilov's cheeks were twitching slightly at this moment, and her tail was raised proudly.

Mass-produce Favored Ones...

When he heard this word, the sound in Horn's ears was a little blurred. He thought he would have to wait until before he died to hear this word.

"Great, Shilov, you've done a great job!"

Horn rushed to Shilov's side, picked her up from the wheelchair, turned her face red, and then put her back on the wheelchair, holding her under her armpits.

He didn't expect Shilov to figure it out in a few months. If the IQ of all beastmen is one stone, Shilov alone occupies one stone and two.

No wonder Horn was excited, this was one of his trump cards to dissolve the Church's transcendent hegemony.

When transcendence is a natural phenomenon-like existence, the so-called elimination of transcendence is a joke.

Horn can kill all those who know breathing techniques and burn all books related to breathing techniques and divine arts.

They exist under the surface of nature, and someone will always rediscover them and then reuse them.

Could it be that Horn's decree can command nature?

Horn has always carefully controlled the common people's views on transcendence, not because he is a transcendent, but because he cannot eliminate transcendence.

He believes that transcendence should be recognized and utilized, and then popularized, just like fire burns people, but people should use fire instead of eliminating and denying it.

He let Shilov study, established a system of natural theology, popularized scientific research methodology... and even radically allowed human experiments on death row inmates.

The purpose of all this was to find and discover the laws of transcendence.

This effort finally bore its first flower bud at this time - Demon-Loving Bacteria.

Perhaps others have not yet seen its potential for a while, but Horn has already seen it.

What if the Demon-Loving Bacteria could be mass-produced, made into something like a vaccine, and then widely injected into all common people under the Salvation Army?

Five million Thousand River Valley people, five million wizards, five million alchemists and holy gunners!

Even making it an obligation in the future, injecting Demon-Loving Bacteria into all newborns for generations, turning the entire country into a country of wizards.

At that time, even witches will not be able to spread the Witch Disease to ordinary people, then all the stigmatization and trials of witches will become bubbles.

All witches can live healthy lives in the land under the sun, no longer needing to hide.

This is Horn's solution to the two problems of the Church's transcendent hegemony and the alienation of transcendence to people -

Turn everyone into transcendents, forcibly lowering the upper and lower limits of personal martial power.

Mechanical suffering, flesh ascension, when everyone becomes transcendent, then the proposition of "transcendent alienation" does not exist.

Only this method can eliminate the breathing technique itself, and even turn it into a physical activity or even a calisthenics exercise.

However, Horn's fantasy was soon splashed with cold water by Shilov.

"No, it can't be mass-produced for the time being, and it can't reach the quantity you said."

"Why?" Horn still asked puzzledly, "Can't you just take a culture medium and mass-produce a large batch of the Favored Ones' Demon-Loving Bacteria?"

"It can't be cultured, have you forgotten? Demon-Loving Bacteria can only reproduce in a magic-rich environment. In a low-magic environment, it will eliminate all activity to preserve itself for continuation." Shilov tugged at the tip of her tail, rubbing the hair that was stuck together with oil.

Horn woke up. Any environment with magic will be bound to living organisms and cannot be mass-produced using a culture medium.

A living culture medium is another situation, that is, the living body itself is transformed at the same time as the Favored Ones' Demon-Loving Bacteria, becoming a second-generation Demon-Loving Bacteria that has lost the ability to distort nerves.

Simply put, the first-generation Demon-Loving Bacteria is food, and the second-generation Demon-Loving Bacteria is the poop that is pulled out after eating the food, which does not have enough nutrition.

That means that for a long time, Horn will be the only production workshop for the Favored Ones' Demon-Loving Bacteria.

But since the problem of whether or not there is has been solved, the rest is only to slowly develop it to be usable. Horn can afford to wait.

"Then how did you do those experiments?" Horn thought of Shilov's experiments.

"I take it as I use it. When I need to do experiments, I'll just get some blood or scrape some tongue coating to do it." Shilov's wolf tail suddenly swept, which is a sign of her feeling happy.

"Horn, if you want to turn someone into a Favored One, you just need to spit on their wound."

"Huh?" Horn was said with a confused face.

"Think about it, sputum contains both auxiliary bacteria and Demon-Loving Bacteria in the nasal cavity and throat. Isn't the effect of spitting on someone else's wound better than our acquired configuration?"

Spitting on someone else's wound to infect new Favored Ones... what the hell is this?!

But after thinking about it, Horn had an unspeakable sense of absurdity, because he found that what Shilov said actually made some sense and feasibility.

Demon-Loving Bacteria needs other bacteria to cover it up, and the nasal cavity happens to have other bacteria, and the throat has Demon-Loving Bacteria.

After mixing it like this, you don't even need to configure it temporarily like Shilov.

But Horn was still a little unacceptable for a while. Others develop their subordinates by saying "Join the glorious evolution!", but he develops Favored Ones by saying "Ptooey... thpt!"

Damn it, I thought jumping around was dirty enough, but how come there are masters?

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