Chapter 288 The Crown Prince is in danger and arrives across the sea

“Twenty-one transformation plans? Your results can be pieced together to form a complete creature. In this case, you can conduct joint research and create for me the most perfect all-round warrior within your capabilities!”

Noah looked through the transformation plans in front of him one by one. Some of the research projects were launched earlier than the Second Heart, while some were proposed after seeing the success of the Second Heart. However, Noah did not care about the order and called them together to merge them into a larger project team.

Although Noah is not stingy with its resource investment, unnecessary waste still needs to be curbed. It would be best to merge these biological research projects with similar purposes instead of doing it separately.

Both the warlock who successfully implemented the second heart technology and the many mages who subsequently proposed projects all had opinions on the joint research.

But their opinions were insignificant in the face of Noah’s will, so they could only merge and then hold internal meetings to discuss or compete to decide the priorities, resource allocation, and progress planning of the research projects.

However, Noah didn’t care about these details at all. He was only responsible for making requests, investing resources, and then waiting for results. He also provided them with ideas when these guys got stuck in a bottleneck and had no clue.

Therefore, with mature technology that has been verified by many experiments, sufficient resource supply, and relaxed policies, more Dragon People in need secretly signed agreements and accepted bio-modification.

Although the process of the final transformation experiments on legal citizens tended to be conservative under Noah’s supervision, it was also because of this conservatism that, even though there have been as many as 51 successful cases, no extremely outrageous accidents have occurred.

Of course, these fifty-one cases with good transformation results did not meet Noah’s standards. The most one person had only undergone three transformation operations and transplanted three unusual organs.

Most of the transformed people only underwent one operation, but even so, their vitality and strength increased by leaps and bounds.

The superiority of bio-transformation technology is also reflected here. Those who undergo the operation are all legal residents of Noah’s territory, and they are also good families whose ancestors have lived in Noah’s dragonization field for generations.

A considerable number of them have encountered various accidents and are in a state of dying, while others are left with no other options.

Just like the dragon man whose heart was pierced at the beginning, if he didn’t receive a heart transplant, he would have no chance of survival. But after undergoing the transformation, he instantly became a powerful transformed dragon warrior and met the standards for joining the battle group.

The significance of the transformation surgery is to allow these dragon people, who were originally mediocre and could no longer play any role, to be reborn and burst out with vitality far greater than before.

It is worth mentioning that Noah originally planned to incorporate these warriors who had undergone transformation, whose power had exploded and who had set foot in the golden realm, into the originally formed battle group.

However, considering their special characteristics and the increasing number of transformed warriors, Noah reorganized them and formed an independent regiment with their special characteristics as the core.

Because the technologies used on them are all bio-modification technologies that are currently being verified and are not suitable for large-scale promotion.

So, Noah named them the Imperial Guards, meaning a legion that uses forbidden technology.

Every Adeptus Custodes is unique, and even Adeptus Custodes using the same technology may have different organs transplanted into their bodies.

Those were organs that the warlocks had found for them in the Dragon Realm, and had modified and tailored for them. The weapons and armor they used were also specially customized.

This is a group that has no battle record, but everyone believes that they have unparalleled and powerful combat power, because each of them can defeat a standard team of the Gold Glory level with a devastating force.

However, looking around in the Holy Dragon Land at the moment, there is no enemy worth mentioning for them to fight. The only place that can make this group of warriors, who are about three meters and five meters tall after wearing armor, fight bloody battles seems to be the Underdark.

However, the Valley of Fire taken over by Noah has maintained peace and tranquility for nearly a century. Under the control of two consecutive dragon fairies, the underground clans are as docile as sheep.

“Are we going to imitate the war of conquest that our foster mother launched against the Underdark?”

As the saying goes, when you hold a weapon, you will naturally have a murderous intent. Originally, Noah had no soldiers, only a group of goblins and cloud giants.

These guys can just make do with this. To be honest, Noah doesn’t have any expectations for the fairies to step onto the battlefield and fight a tough battle.

As for the cloud giants, although they have good combat power, given the giants’ natural affinity for the Titan bloodline, Noah never intended to form a war group with the giants as the core.

Things are different now. Noah finally has a decent regiment under his command.

“Unfortunately, there are still too few people. Let’s wait a little longer.”

Decades of technological accumulation have now come to fruition, and the wealth accumulated in his territory can transform these achievements into combat power in a very short time.

As long as it can be verified that an ordinary dragon citizen who has been transformed into a dragon for generations can undergo transformation surgery without risking his life and become a perfect dragon warrior, the number of battle groups under Noah’s command will increase rapidly in a very short period of time.

To become a professional at the Brilliant Gold Realm through practice, not only does one have to have a talent threshold, but one also needs years of hard work and guidance from a famous teacher, and success is not guaranteed.

But as long as the body meets the requirements for the surgery, the patient can soak in the nutrient jar for a year and then come out after the transformation is completed. As for the rejection reaction in the subsequent stage, there is almost no rejection reaction.

It should be noted that even ordinary humans who do not have any dragon blood and have not lived in Elisim for generations will hardly have any rejection reaction after undergoing limb reattachment surgery as long as they stay in the dragonization field for a period of time.

The limbs they grafted onto were able to integrate well with the body. Of course, if they left the city of Elishim right after the operation, there would be a high probability of problems arising. Lack of flexibility of the grafted limbs was a minor problem, and there was a high possibility that the limbs would rot and stink.

Noah slowly accumulated his own imperial guards, while waiting for a legitimate reason to start a war. After all, the Holy Dragon would not actively invade any civilized forces. At most, it would enter the wilderness and expand the civilized territory.

“Well, why is this kid in trouble again? His life is in danger. If you count the time, it’s already been nine years. It will be over soon. Why bother?”

Noah looked up in the direction of the Alvis continent. In his perception, a flame of life closely connected with him was swaying like a candle in the wind.

But this is just a false appearance. As long as he removes the seal, his vitality will gush out like a river bursting its dam.

…huff~huff~
The boy’s chest was like a broken blower. When he inhaled, it was as if it was his last breath in the world, and he breathed with all his strength.

But when he exhaled, he wished he could spit out every ounce of air in his chest, but the air he exhaled was visibly bloody, it was a cloud of blood mist.

“teacher!”

The boy, exhausted both physically and mentally and wanting to fall asleep, forced himself to stay awake. The breath from his mouth and nose was filled with the lingering smell of rust, but he knew what this mental state represented. As long as he closed his eyes now, it would probably be impossible for him to get up again in this posture.

“I’m here.”

The middle-aged man, who was leaning against the wall with a pale and bloodless face, heard the young man’s call, and slowly stood up with the help of his sword. The silver armor on his body had long been broken and covered with shocking cracks. Through the gaps in the armor, many horrific wounds deep enough to see the bone could be seen.

“I can……”

The boy was ready to reveal the secret of his life experience, but as he was in such a desperate situation, he no longer saw any hope, so he had no choice but to blow himself up and take the initiative to break the agreement he had made with his father.

Then, the people in the entire town can be saved, as well as those brave paladins, who should not be buried here by the conspiracy of despicable people.

Although this would make him a loser, he would not regret it, because following the paladin in front of him, he had embarked on a long and arduous journey.

He has experienced a lot and seen a real corner of this world: the suffering of ordinary people, the ugliness of powerful businessmen, the villains who exploit in the name of God, and the self-redeemers who, even though they are in darkness, still look toward the light.

Eliade saw a lot during these nine years. His cognition and understanding of the world were completely changed because of this journey. The world was not as glorious as he had thought before.

The glory of the Holy Dragon Land is due to the existence of his father. The legendary ancestral dragon is like the eternal sun. Under his brilliance, all darkness and shadows can only curl up in the corner and can hardly run rampant.

But the area that this sun can shine on is too narrow compared to the vastness of the material world, and too many places are still suffering.

They could not feel, nor were they aware of the existence of the Holy Dragon. To Iliad, the environment they were in was so dark, like hell.

But even so, these poor people are living a hard life, but the powerful people who exploit and oppress them are still not satisfied with this. In order to fulfill their ugly desires, they are willing to sacrifice them to evil gods and demons.

In the eyes of those powerful people whose every pore is filled with dirty desires and ugly sins, the common people who are struggling to survive are not even human beings, not even as good as livestock, but consumables that they can exploit for their own amusement.

Eliade did not understand this at all, because even as noble as he was, he never regarded the common people as stones and grass on the roadside.

He was willing to let his father seal and disguise himself as a mortal to experience their lives. Why did this group of people, who were essentially not much more powerful than their own people, dare to trample on their own kind like this?
This is a question that Eliade still cannot find the answer to. Even the teacher he seeks out cannot explain why those powerful people can be so cruel to their own people.

It was precisely because of this that they had fallen into their current predicament, a town that was about to be sacrificed, and they had underestimated the viciousness and cruelty of the nobles.

Although they did find help, compared to the challenges they faced, the aid that arrived was like a cup of water poured into a sea of ​​fire, and ultimately could not escape the result of being evaporated by the flames.

“Eli, you are the best child I have ever seen. I am proud of your growth. I have a feeling that you will become the greatest paladin in the world!”

Without waiting for Eliade to finish, the nearly exhausted Paladin Rand grabbed the boy’s wrist, pulled out a blood-stained scroll from his arms, and put it in the boy’s hand.
“So, remember everything I have taught you, leave here, and become the holy warrior I expect you to be. You can avenge me, but don’t be blinded by hatred, or you will fall!”

“Teacher, you…”

Under the blood-stained sky, the young man was shocked. The holy warrior in front of him, who was still preaching to him at the last moment of his life, had a teleportation scroll in his hand that could allow him to escape from the sacrificial area at any time, but the holy warrior hid the scroll from everyone and handed it to him.

“Let me be selfish for once. This is a gift from a good friend of mine who works in Holy Dragon City. I leave it to my proudest student so far!”

Rand misunderstood the shock in the boy’s eyes and laughed at himself.

Because his behavior was not consistent with the conduct of a paladin, he left the last chance of saving his life to his students rather than the wailing mortals in the town.

“What about you?”

Eliade felt a throbbing sensation in his heart that he had never felt before. Although he had witnessed the noble character of the holy knight more than once along the way, he was still moved at this moment.

“There is no paladin who has ever abandoned the civilians and fled.”

The middle-aged man with a tired look on his face smiled.

“Then I…”

“You are not a paladin yet, so you don’t need to bear such a burden.”

Rand winked at Eliad with a mischievous look on his face, but such a joking tone made Eliad’s nose sore.
“Go, leave here. This is not the battlefield you should be on right now. You don’t need to have any psychological burden because of this.”

“No, wait a minute, please listen to me.”

Eliade now obviously did not have the ability to resist a paladin. Even if he refused, Rand still activated the teleportation scroll.

However, as the visible spatial ripples emerged, Ilanyad did not disappear. Instead, the spatial ripples were gradually dyed by golden light. Finally, a huge and sturdy figure gradually appeared…

(End of this chapter)