Chapter 287: Weak Mortals, Dragons, and Ascension

“you’re awake?”

A warlock said with a smile when he saw the dragon people in the jar, whose height had grown to two meters and eighty, almost three meters, opening their dragon eyes that were emitting faint golden light again and looking at him.

“The nutrient solution is leaking out, and your jar is broken.”

Feeling like having a new body, the reborn Dragon Citizen did not move. Instead, he frowned and looked down at the nutrient solution that had dropped to his waist, alerting the warlock outside.

“How is that possible? We just held a meeting and unanimously decided to stop your cultivation. You can come out of this damn jar. Your body has been perfectly integrated with the two dragon hearts.”

Another warlock explained, also making a joke because this guy always complained to them when he was awake.

“Are you not going to continue observing me?”

Although he had been lying in the jar for several months without freedom, he was able to sleep during this period. Every time he woke up, he could feel that he had become stronger than the last time. This feeling was enough to make him endure the boredom and boredom when he woke up.

As an adult, he knew how rare this opportunity was, so he was willing to continue lying in the jar for a few more years.

“Who said we won’t observe you? Next, you will receive adaptability training and actual combat training. After completing the training, you will accept the call of the Holy Dragon Heart and join the battle group!”

The warlocks outlined the next series of arrangements, and none of the dragon people objected, because each one was an opportunity to change their fate.

Especially with regard to joining a warband, His Majesty the Holy Dragon has only established three warbands now, and there is no third way to join these warbands except for the goblins who have passed the trials and those who have studied in the academies opened by the goblins.

After he completed the transformation surgery, he was specially recruited into the Holy Order. It can be said that he was favored by the goddess of luck. How could he resist?

When this dragon citizen was released from the training process and underwent adaptive training, his performance made the warlocks who participated in the transformation cheer again.

The dragon people who were running around in the training ground, after entering the explosive state, turned into little giants with their bodies covered with a layer of fine blue-gray dragon scales. Compared to humans, their already huge bodies expanded again, reaching a true height of three meters, which was intimidating to look at.

He is tall and strong, yet well-coordinated, possessing both strength and explosiveness, as well as endurance. He also possesses combat power far beyond his appearance. He is a perfect warrior.

This dragon citizen who underwent a heart transplant and surgical transformation was just a high-level silver transcendent before his heart was pierced.

A professional of this level is naturally mediocre and unattractive in the city of Elisim. It is precisely because of this that under the threat of life and the temptation of the desire to become stronger, he signed a contract with the warlocks and reached an agreement.

After the operation, his strength was forcibly pushed into the Brilliant Gold Realm because of the two dragon hearts, and he became a lower-gold warrior.

If anyone takes this realm seriously, they should be prepared for bad luck, because the explosive power he now demonstrates in the training ground is enough to rival that of fighters above the gold level.

This is the bloodline advantage that dragon blood has given him. It is also because of the dragon blood as a glue that he is able to accept two hearts of different races in his human body, allowing them to burst out with powerful vitality in his chest and further transform him.

“This is a very outstanding performance. I think it can be used as the final result and reported to His Majesty the Holy Dragon.”

“No, it’s not enough. Don’t you think he’s missing something as a fighter?”

“What’s missing?”

“Weapons and armor. We need to customize a set of rune heavy armor that is strong enough for him. This will allow our transformed warrior to unleash his true power.”

“You’re right, that’s a good idea!”

Then, a terrifying warrior wearing golden armor and reaching a height of three meters and five appeared in the Mage City, causing a group of mages who were not involved in this project to be amazed.

“This is also a battle armor. Are they crazy?”

“What a crappy battle armor. Do you know how many layers of master-level precision mechanical structures and alchemical runes are inside it? The thickness of the chest armor of this thing is wider than my palm.”

“This is the result they are going to present to His Majesty the Holy Dragon. They will certainly do their best. If His Majesty the Holy Dragon is satisfied, they will be able to get more research budget.”

The mages gathered around an iron warrior holding a beheading sword in one hand and a lava battle axe in the other, talking among themselves.

Although his body is not as tall as a regular golem, the aura he exudes is much more terrifying than that of a golem. Not an inch of flesh is exposed on his body. Even his eyes and face are covered by a thick helmet. Only a pair of red-gold goggles provide his vision.

“I want to know how much this set of magic mechanical kinetic armor costs?”

“It is said that group of lunatics threw 35 million gold dragon coins into it.”

“What? This is the amount of tax revenue collected by the surrounding Acropolis every year, just to build a set of armor? If His Majesty knew, how could he approve it? Are they only going to make 32 such warriors a year? Are you kidding me?”

“You are too optimistic. Just making armor costs money? Modifying a warrior who can wear armor doesn’t cost money?”

“If we can achieve large-scale production and manufacturing, the cost in the later stage should be able to be reduced.”

“How can we lower it? It’s already so high in the beginning. Even if it’s 50% off, it’s unacceptable.”

Although the warlocks in the Mage City who are dedicated to biological transformation have achieved amazing results, such a high cost is considered unacceptable by the vast majority of mages.

However, the Holy Dragon Noah, who had the final say, did not reject the project after seeing the performance of the dragon people who received two dragon hearts. Instead, he allowed them to move forward, but required them to further reduce costs while maintaining the same combat power as the first test subject. At the same time, Noah also approved that if the test subject did not show any rejection or adverse reactions after three years, then the second heart transformation technology could be opened to his subjects.

With the principle of voluntariness as the first premise, the people in the territory can transplant a second heart for themselves when they meet the conditions to undergo the operation.

The wave of biological transformation is about to emerge under the impetus of Saint Dragon Noah, but at the beginning of this wave, the first thing to begin is limb transplantation.

Extraordinary professionals are a group that is very vulnerable to injury, especially those adventurers who have no special background and simply rely on their talent to enter this field. Living on the edge of a knife is their daily life, getting injured is commonplace, and losing limbs is even more common.

Once disabled, it is inevitable that the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, so there are many adventurers who install prosthetic limbs for themselves.

Regenerating severed limbs is not an impossible thing, and high-level transcendents can do it with their vigorous vitality. Similarly, even if one cannot reach this level, one can spend a large sum of money and ask high-level priests in the temple to help.

Unfortunately, this is something only a small number of extraordinary people can enjoy. The vast majority of disabled extraordinary people can only hang around at the bottom of the society, and it is already very good if they can maintain their daily survival.

Most of them would install a wooden stick on the broken leg and add an iron hook to the broken hand. Those who were a little richer would go to the goblins or dwarves to order a mechanical prosthesis, but that was all.

None of these could be compared with living limbs. Therefore, when the city of light, Elisim, ruled by the Holy Dragon, launched living limb transplants, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the adventurer circle.

Although the limbs provided by those damn warlocks were not normal human arms and thighs, but rather dragon claws or hind limbs covered with scales, the pragmatic adventurers did not hesitate too much and chose to pay for them at the not-so-high price.

The purity of racial bloodline or the beauty or ugliness of appearance are no longer within the consideration of adventurers who can only survive at the bottom of society due to physical disabilities. Regaining living limbs and possessing combat power far beyond the past is something they could never have imagined in their dreams.

Thus, within a few months, a large number of adventurers with dragon claw hands or sturdy dragon limbs and hind legs appeared in the city of Elisim.

These were adventurers who had fallen into distress due to their physical disabilities. After receiving the news, they immediately emptied their savings, even at the cost of borrowing money, in order to replace their limbs.

Of course, compared to adventurers who only have one dragon claw hand, adventurers who undergo leg replacements often choose to replace both legs. Even if they originally had one intact leg, they have to amputate the other leg for the sake of basic balance.

However, even Elishim, who highly respected dragon culture, and the dragon people, whose aesthetics had begun to move closer to those of the dragon clan, could not accept these reborn mercenary adventurers.

After all, the benefits that the warlocks offered in order to smoothly promote their next research plan only charged the most basic labor fees and the most basic material fees. In this case, there is naturally no need to expect them to do a great job.

As long as it can be used, any problems that arise during use and whether there will be rejection reactions are not their business. Anyway, the code does not stipulate these things, so you can do what is not prohibited by law.

Not only is there no way to punish them legally, but even morally, no one can blame them because they do not make any profit from these operations; they are purely for the benefit of the vast number of adventurers.

Therefore, even some human racial supremacists can only complain about this but cannot make any extraordinary protest actions.

To stop a group of disabled adventurers from regaining their lives? No matter how much they claim to be righteous forces and gods, they will be overthrown.

Even Noah just watched instead of stopping or calling a halt.

Although those warlocks were somewhat unethical, they transplanted arms and thighs of lizardmen or dragonized kobolds to adventurers in need.

It is precisely for this reason that some forces of justice, such as the Paladin Group, although they have some opinions about this, they only complained and did not take any action to stop it. However, if they were to replace them with more suitable human arms and thighs, it would not be as simple as complaining.

Noah knew why these sorcerers were trying to gain publicity at a loss. They wanted to implant the concept of biological transformation into the minds of the people. Even if they didn’t want to get people to accept it, they would actively carry out the transformation. At least, they wanted the general public to not reject it and make it a daily routine.

These guys want to turn the research on the second heart into a profitable project. By continuing to build arms and legs, it is just a basic non-profit project, so that the majority of adventurers can feel the benefits of biological transformation, and their psychological bottom line will be further relaxed so that they can accept internal organ transformation.

The ultimate goal is also very simple, which is to create dragon warriors for the supreme Majesty the Holy Dragon who can exert ferocious combat power even in cross-dimensional battles.

Although Noah turned a blind eye, he did not let these guys do whatever they wanted. The Golden Dragon Code soon added supplementary regulations to target their behavior.

Warlocks are required to be responsible for adventurers who voluntarily undergo surgery, and at least guarantee that they can recover their basic human abilities and resolve the rejection reactions associated with the surgery within ten years.

The emergence of these supplementary regulations further suppressed certain voices of opposition, because it can be seen that Holy Dragon is paying attention to this matter, and it can also be concluded that Holy Dragon supports biological transformation.

“Heretic! This is blasphemy against the creations of the gods!”

“This is the devil’s work. They are corrupting these poor lambs!”

Opposition voices exist everywhere and at all times, it’s just a matter of whether or not they dare to express it openly. The visual impact of acquired limb extension is too great.

Even though it was a benefit given to disabled adventurers, the criticism and abuse never stopped after the first adventurer who inherited the Dragon Claw Hand appeared.

However, knowing that His Majesty the Holy Dragon supports them, the warlocks have nothing to fear and they have all begun to cultivate second hearts in batches.

Since it is mainly sold to the outside world, it is naturally impossible to pick the hearts of the special mutated dragon species in the Dragon Domain. This is not only a waste, but also not worth it.

More importantly, if they want to replicate the same results in batches in the future, they cannot use biological cultivation. They have to use more advanced technology, using embryos or living flesh and blood, to independently cultivate a complete heart. Living flesh and blood is too inefficient.

“What’s going on with these guys?”

The success of the Second Heart Project caused the jealousy of many research groups in the Mage City, causing their subsequent research directions to change. As a result, Noah received many applications for biological transformation projects that looked extremely familiar.
“King Kong kidney? Combat sub-brain? Mountain-melting stomach? Void lungs? Regenerative blood…”

(End of this chapter)