Chapter 1677 Good Guys, Are You Trying to Subvert Social Ethics? (Ten Thousand Rewards Plus 5 Updates)
Annevia is Gretel's disciple - but not from the Thunder Lord's lineage.
There is no way, she is a natural priest, not a magician. Thunder Horn is willing to treat Grete differently, but it is impossible to treat her as one of their own:
To put it simply, non-core knowledge can be listened to, but core knowledge has no way; if the non-core resources are redeemed by the people in Gretel's Mage Tower and then exchanged for her, Thunder Horn is willing to pretend not to see it.
...At this point, the Lord of Thunder and Gretel's senior brothers and sisters have a more open attitude.
During the lecture, as long as Anivea can catch up, she can listen to it. If she has any questions, she will be given guidance without discrimination.
Therefore, Grete had dinner and chatted with the teacher and senior sister, reporting on the progress of the research during this period. When asking for advice, Anivea had made a breakthrough, so she happily reported it.
"Oh? What did you do?"
Gretel turned his head curiously. After Anivea advanced with the magic of promoting the reproduction of spiritual beasts, she has been working hard on this path and plans to rely on this to continue to improve.
The way of reproduction is extremely profound and difficult. After all, Annevia is only a level 10 nature priest with limited power. Even with the guidance of elders, there are still some things that she can't figure out or is beyond her power.
However, thanks to hard work, working around the clock every day, and Gretel's unlimited resources - even a microscope is dedicated to her - the progress is still quite good:
In recent times, she has successfully pushed the mass reproduction technique to the point where it can serve high-level monsters above level 15 and adult dragons - in other words, just like her teacher.
As for the adult dragon clan, Annevia is not sure yet. At the very least, the surrounding barbarian tribes sent many women to serve Bernard, not seeking status, but just to preserve seeds, but so far no one has successfully become pregnant——
Even with Annevia's help, no one was able to get pregnant. She observed carefully under a microscope and confirmed that the cause of pregnancy failure was still the inability of sperm and egg to combine:
In other words, the sperm successfully enters the egg, but the chromosomes cannot successfully replicate and the cells cannot divide successfully. Every time, the problem lies in those extraordinary points. Either it’s broken here, or it’s broken there…
Bernard's side didn't work. Apa's sperm kept failing to combine with the eggs of various reindeer and various magic deer in the forest.
Under Gretel's guidance, Annevia used various methods to contain fertilized eggs, using blood, serum, saline, holy water, tree sap of life...
It's no use, it's no use. Even under the protection of a powerful life spell, the eggs taken out from the doe's body cannot survive for more than 12 hours after being combined with the sperm.
The only thing that can hold fertilized eggs is an exclusive container modified from the Necromancer's [Clone Technique] alchemy vessel. Only this kind of container can allow fertilized eggs to survive normally until they cannot divide and die...
Fortunately, during the research process, Anivea made an analogy.
Together with Leon Carlos, she consulted the elders of the Natural God Cult, and the other consulted the high-level mages from the Black Crow Swamp. From time to time, she also went to the Transmutation Department to recruit someone.
In other words, they are using Gretel's banner as a tiger's skin, and everyone from top to bottom of the Mage Tower is willing to pay attention to them. The alchemy vessel of [Clone Technique] has been modified seven times and eight times, and after seven changes and eight changes, it actually turned out to be a usable thing:
"Teacher! We changed the [Clone Technique] container into a [Accelerated Growth] container!"
"Oh..." Grete said, but he didn't react for a moment. Accelerating growth can be regarded as the signature spell of the Natural God Sect. Every disciple must learn it when starting -
Even for a loser like Gretel, who cannot recognize plants or seeds, second- and third-level nature priests can communicate with each other after grabbing a handful of seeds, and they can also catalyze the seeds into vines.
So, accelerated growth?
"Our accelerated growth is from a fertilized egg to an embryo directly!" Annevia's eyebrows were filled with excitement, her cheeks were filled with two thin red flowers, and her whole body seemed to be shining:
"So far, we have used fish eggs, primary devil frog eggs, devil frog king eggs, and third-level to fifth-level devil lizard eggs to verify them one by one! It only takes one day to accelerate to breaking out of the shell!"
Grete's breathing suddenly became rapid.
This research is so important!
As long as this research can be used in dragon eggs, his current research speed can be increased by 10 times, 20 times, or even 100 times!
"How did you change it?"
He couldn't help but ask. Annevia paused, took out a large roll of parchment from the space bag, unfolded it, and picked up the top roll. She pointed at the messy lines on the parchment and explained carefully:
"The first is the bottom of the alchemy vessel..."
"Just tell me your thoughts." Grete shook his head and interrupted.
He had also studied the cloning spell configuration, and it took him at least half a month just to memorize it.
Let the disciples talk from beginning to end. Today, from the teacher to the wife, to the senior sister and him, no one has to sleep anymore——
It's okay for him and his senior sister not to sleep occasionally. Teacher and his wife, they can't delay making a baby!
"That's it." Annevia sorted out her thoughts, flipped through the parchment roll, and pulled out another one that was particularly large and had particularly complicated lines.
She used a few vines to hang the parchment in the air, pointed at the scroll and began to speak:
"Part of the texture on the alchemy vessel is used to maintain the internal state of the vessel. Temperature, humidity, pH, etc... allow the cloning technique materials to maintain a normal growth environment. This cannot be moved."
The idea is very clear, Gret nodded. Annevia took two steps forward, and a vine sprang out from her fingertips. A green leaf spread out from the tip of the vine, gently brushing against a pattern on the paper roll:
"This part, according to our tests, is to promote liquid circulation inside the vessel. It allows new liquid to enter, waste liquid to be discharged, and at the same time, it takes away a batch of waste materials produced during the growth process."
This is also correct. When Grete learned the cloning technique, he took the notes and personal research records of Archmage Heins. He received personal guidance from the 18th-level Archmage, and these basic contents were not difficult for him.
Just like a baby needs to eat, drink and excrete in the process of growth; in the process of cell division and organ growth, it also needs to absorb nutrients and metabolize.
The cloned object of the cloning technique is just a piece of flesh and blood, and it will not circulate on its own. Therefore, alchemical vessels are needed to help it circulate...
"And this part is used to increase the speed of cell division - in this spell configuration, we even found traces of divine magic. The cloning spell can create a body in a year. If it does not increase the speed, it is completely useless. possible!"
Gretel's eyes lit up!
Yes, that’s it!
When Grete was studying the cloning technique, he only intercepted its function of guiding somatic cells to reverse into stem cells and guiding stem cells to differentiate.
As for increasing the speed of cell division, Grete has not studied it carefully at all. Anyway, the basis of ordinary treatment techniques is to increase the speed of cell division. It is just a question of higher efficiency and lower efficiency. He did not have the energy at that time.
"so?"
"So, the cloning technique uses flesh and blood to differentiate and turn it into a body. We can't use many of its functions. We deleted some functions, modified some functions, and turned it into a culture chamber for cultivating fertilized eggs!"
For example, to guide somatic cells to transform into stem cells, this function is not necessary. As long as the fertilized egg divides normally, it can differentiate into an embryo normally, and the magic guidance function is not necessary.
Anivea and Leon Carlos, two fellow apprentices, were ignorant, fearless and daring. Relying on the sufficient resources provided by the master, the alchemy warehouse was modified over and over again. At least dozens of improvements were made.
If they were replaced by ordinary level 10 priests and level 9 necromancers, no one would even bother to change these. But after making random changes, they actually made something usable!
"Good guys, you guys are..."
Gretel took a deep breath. From fertilized eggs directly to hatched fish, frogs, and lizards. If we take this a step further and even fertilized mammalian eggs can induce birth, then it will be an artificial womb!
——In the previous life, countless big bosses and countless research laboratories spent countless resources on it. The latest progress is only to culture blastocysts to the early organogenesis stage...
The subsequent steps, whether it is due to research ethics issues or technical difficulties, in short, cannot be carried out. Unexpectedly, he was accidentally hit by these two little guys and got it out!
"Have you ever tried using fertilized eggs from mice, rabbits, deer, these warm-blooded, viviparous animals?"
Gretel tried to suppress his heartbeat and said in a deep voice. Anivea's eyes flashed and she shook her head:
"……not yet……"
"Not yet, then don't do it." Gretel breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank God, the emergence of artificial wombs may have a subversive impact on social ethics and social structure!
He has no concept at all in this area. His "Medical Ethics" class was basically memorized by rote and completed after passing the exam...
"This technology must be kept as secret as possible and not leaked. - Well, next, I will go with you to take a look at this technology. If it is confirmed that there is no problem, we will start the next step of research -"
"In which direction should we study, teacher?"
Anivea asked excitedly. Grete concentrated slightly:
"Two directions. One is animal experimentation, which further advances the experimental animals. From low-level monsters, to mid-level and high-level monsters, all the way to dragon beasts, and the offspring of dragon beasts and male dragons."
Once the demonstration in this direction is completed, there is no doubt that dragon eggs can be cultivated.
"Is there another direction, teacher?"