Chapter 88: Frankenstein and his monster
Chapter 88: Frankenstein and his monster
Word count = 1015 on 9/28/2023
An early middle aged looking man in a lab coat is standing over a vat of blood. The man sports a red slim beard and red hair portrayed to the side. He has deep brown eyes paired with an unshakable gaze.
A blood red and black trident with what looks like smoldering veins spread out all over it, materializes in his hand. A group of 7 rings with most of them being black or red with the final 2 appearing like a black flame trapped in the flat rings. Just before the first black ring begins to glow and expand beyond all the other rings. The man waves his hand and a giant draconic claw materializes next to the vat of blood. The claw is still bleeding as if recently severed or ripped off based on the bits of extra scales randomly scattered at the end of the draconic finger.
The first ring is activated and the purity of the blood and finger is both enhanced up to an acceptable level to the man. He then stops and dematerializes the trident before summoning a hefty black and red robe with golden linings onto his body. 9 rings this time appear with the majority of them being black, 2 red and 1 that is a type of transparent red. This last ring that is the half transparent one glows like the 1st ring that was activated before it.
This time around, the blood moves and attaches itself to the giant finger claw before expanding further until the blood figure becomes a blood dragon that is roughly 60 ft wide and 20 ft tall. Adorning this blood dragon are a few patches of scales scattered around its body which give it relative form as well as its link to the original donor of the blood, scales and finger.
As the man forms the creature's body, a few others step forward and with various tools in hand. Multiple lights glow upon the body as the scales are regrown and begin to cover more of its body. The blood hidden inside acts as a form of skeletal structure which keeps everything else in place before the glows finally end after half an hour. Every one of the individuals step back and go to rest while the man slowly begins to deactivate his 9th rings influence.
The dragon doesnt move, the original patches of scales had been expanded throughout its body, the claw has also been merged into it and used as the template for its arms and legs.
The man and his coworkers originally are worried that it's another failure as they are truly at the end of their ropes on how to actually continue without truly killing the donor beast or mixing in more precious resources that could be used to advance their people's strength.
The central man has a gloomy expression as he approaches the draconic shell and places his hand on one of its giant arms. He lowers his head in contemplation before he receives a strange feedback from his touch. One that makes him begin shaking violently with a grin on his face.
"HAHAHAHA. IT'S ALIVE" he spreads out his arms wide as he laughs hysterically.
He senses the blood inside the dragon making use of its own intense vitality provided through refinement to essentially create a type of soul core which the researchers have dubbed 'the blood core'. It would serve as an artificial heart and brain to provide the beast seemingly endless energy or at least give it the ability of photosynthesis without the need for green pigment. It also grants the creature the ability to harness it's own bestial instincts to live and perhaps even mate and populate itself.
Through refinement, a medicinal energy is mutated to form a type of chlorophyll inside the original dragon blood cells, that then works with the mitochondria to provide the beast energy and life….or at least that was the theorized structure but this is their first true success after 2 years of work
This man is obviously Xue Tie who is now 22 years old, his power has risen by 1 level in these 2 past years as the research occupied all his time. He decided to grow out a beard in the meantime. Throughout this time, he has been expanding his team of researchers for various support users with at least half of them having some sort of vitality bestowal abilities or at least healing and buffing types.
The beast is not moving yet but the researchers aren't worried as they measure Xue Tie's growing happiness which has not diminished throughout the past few minutes as he tells them about how the blood is making more of itself through the blood core until it fills its own vessel which is the draconic shell they made.
It is roughly 2 hours later that the researchers and Xue Tie, who has calmed down but still grinning with his pearly white teeth, that they notice a claw or two trembling, sometimes the head nudges a certain way or the tail twitches. Xue Tie stands before the beast while the others are either hidden away or in the back as they consider this situation similar to a birthing process where the first thing they see is their parents.
Eventually the dragon lifts its eyelids to reveal a swirling red circle, like those blurry blackhole images or red eye glow from soulsborne creatures. The central point of these blackhole eyes focuses on Xue Ties figure. It tilts its head in confusion. Xue Tie approaches it and places his hand under its chin. He says,
"From this day forward, your name is Nocturn, The guardian of Blood Beasts."
"My lord?!!" The dragon closes its eyes before opening its mouth and chomping down on Xue Tie. His lower half sticks out and the researchers panic while Xue Tie himself is almost about to laugh again as he says to himself.
"Is this what Twilly feels like?"