Playing with life in the name of research is not uncommon in the fields of magic and engineering. In the past, this may have been a "blasphemy" in ethical thought, but now such research is undoubtedly opening up a new future for modern society.

Is such a thing good or not? At least for now, Lizzie has no way to say - the present era is very different from the past.

It has to be said that Hermia and Curt's knowledge of spell research is still stuck in the days of the Great War decades ago before the outbreak of the Great War - maybe even much earlier than that. At least now, the term "heretic" is rarely used to refer to mages who have studied certain fields.

In this day and age, "blasphemy" is still used to hinder the research of magicians or engineers, and it is estimated that only those countries that are closed to the point of being two or three hundred years behind the rest of the world will have such a phenomenon. From the beginning of medicine to various daily application disciplines, the behavior that was once condemned as "blasphemy" has only been studied by researchers from all walks of life, and there are too many differences from the common perception in the past.

Where does this world end?

Since the beginning of the long past, people who have studied various schools of thought have pondered this question, and they have finally realized that the more they come into contact with something, the more unsolved confusion will appear in front of them. What was once thought to be "truth" is often overturned by its successors.

It has to be said that the last 100 years or so have indeed been an era of flying, and the progress of various disciplines has almost changed the world into a different shape. In a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected, there may be more research piled up than the millennia of the past thousand combined.

Truly. The ever-changing results of the exhibition have made people tolerant of most researchers, but there are still some studies that make it easy to feel repulsed. One of the most striking is the study of the chimerism of living organisms, the study of the traits of living organisms and the organic adaptation of them - an area that has been the subject of many academies in recent decades. At the same time, the opposition has become stronger.

Only recently proposed modified plants have caused an uproar, not to mention the modified animals. Many conservatives believe that artificially modified organisms have a significant impact on the natural environment and endanger the safety of humans who come into contact with them.

This may be a step forward - at least they no longer use religion or ethics to block technology exhibitions. But their goal is almost the same as that of their predecessors for thousands of years, they can't accept the world that has changed, so they have to use more force to suppress it.

Admittedly, such research does not stand still—no matter how stressful it is, people in the lab are hardly affected. Unfortunately, though. The old man's research seems to have been affected, and from the signs observed, he has a deep grudge against it.

She didn't know what the old man had studied in the first place to "touch the taboo". It's just that when it comes to the study of "artificial lifeforms", even a mage will laugh at it. After all, such research is nothing more than a dream with today's technology.

Unlike necromancy or mechanical puppets that give false "life" to objects, the first reaction of a sorcerer to an "artificial lifeform" is almost always a living creature of the "little man in a bottle" level, made out of thin air with a lot of life-related organic matter.

So did an alchemist and high-ranking magician whose name was so long that he could bite his tongue when he pronounced it that alchemy was the technique of transforming all kinds of natural raw materials into finished products that would be beneficial to humans. Legend has it that he was also the first person to successfully create an "artificial lifeform".

It's just a legend. Legend has it that the name has been forgotten. The sorcerer, who can only be called "the sinner of the Westlands", was once a doctor with great medical skills. For some reason, he studied alchemy in order to create the most perfect life form in Zào, but in the end, it led to a great disaster.

In alchemy, life is considered to be made up of three things: soul, spirit. In other words, as long as these things can be refined, it is possible to give birth to human beings without relying on the mother's womb. But because

Having said that, even if you succeed in refining these three, you can casually create one that is an excesses that violate the laws of nature and social ethics. So it is also seen as a taboo. So at the end of the legend, the alchemist failed. A city with him was reduced to ashes.

Despite the legend, studying "taboos" is already a common occurrence for alchemists. From the birth of the oldest forms of alchemy, to the time when they were searching for alchemy and elixirs of immortality, alchemists have challenged the taboos of society more than once.

So if someone told her that there was a group of alchemists somewhere working on "artificial lifeforms", she would just nod her head blankly and reply, "Oh, that's it, don't forget to notify me when they succeed."

She wasn't the only one who would react like this, at least most of the mage's first reaction when they heard someone was studying this kind of thing was "let him go".

But...... He is also a doctor who studies spells, he is also good at alchemy, and he is also obsessed with the study of "artificial lifeforms"_What is the connection between this old man and the "sinner of the Western Lands"? Lizzie was a little tempted to see this as a coincidence, but she was always a little worried.

So these specimens are the failures of the old man in his research - what did the old man do in the process of research that made his research have to be terminated?

Different lifeforms are chimerated to create a new creature ...... Although this is a very advanced technology, it is still a long way from making "artificial lifeforms". What you see on these specimens is nothing more than people playing with the flesh and blood of living creatures.

Lizzie reached out and picked up a glass jar placed in her hand to take a closer look, in this cold transparent glass jar contained a mouse that was thinner than the average test mouse, but on its body, a pair of red wings as if it were burning suddenly grew.

If the rat in this specimen is of the same species, then Lizzie can be sure that she has not seen it in any naturalist history. But just by looking at the flaming wings, Lizzie could tell at a glance what kind of creature it belonged to.

These are the wings of the Flame Demon Butterfly, a cluster of flames that spread their wings and fly.

Widely distributed in the savannah of Osatalia and the southern end of the old Big 6, only bugs about the size of a small fingernail have huge wings. Whether in pattern or shape, their wings look like flames, and the blazing light and temperature contribute to this impression.

A famous painter once painted a picture of a flock of flame butterflies dancing - it was a flying flame, leaving a fiery red stream of light in the direction of their red-hot wings, and when they crossed the sky, it was like a burning cloud.

The wings of the Flame Demon Butterfly have been processed by Liqi more than a thousand times as alchemy materials, and the wings taken from that beautiful butterfly have wonderful characteristics. Not only can they maintain the warmth of the agent, but they can also be used to supplement the lack of "flame" properties in some materials.

It would be normal if the wings were still intact on the Flame Demon Butterfly - but they were stuck in the body of a small mouse, and the heat could still be felt clearly even through the cold glass jar, which seemed a little strange.

What's the point of doing this kind of thing?

Lizzie was amazed at the shape of the chimeric beast - after all, it was a far cry from the chimeric beast she had in mind.

When it comes to chimeric beasts, even people who aren't mages will immediately react to a monster made up of different animals. It is often shaped like the head of a ferocious beast, the claws of a femme fatale, or the wings of a bird of prey, and most of these monsters spit flames like thunder.

What is the matter with this little mouse with butterfly wings? This chimeric beast, which has neither function nor corresponding beauty, seems to her to have no need to exist, it is like a researcher who suddenly combines two materials one day with a sudden blood whim.

If it's not for the sake of showing off your skills to some people, it's out of pride in making a finished product that you want because of your skills. But no matter what, Lizzie couldn't get the slightest affection for the strangely shaped chimeric beast.

Her gaze swept over the other glass jars in turn, except for the little mouse with the wings of the fire demon butterfly, it was difficult for people to feel good about the specimens in the other jars. Whether it's a nine-headed lizard or a large bird with the head of an unknown animal, they are all things that make people wonder why. Just looking at them, one can feel the pathetic creative power of the people who made them.

Walking around the room, all you can see is the glass jars containing the strangely shaped chimeric beasts, and nothing else is of interest. Lizzie shook her head, now was not the time to continue wasting time here, during this time, the old man and the short fat doctor didn't know if they had already run to the real studio, and might have started to continue their plans.

Just as she was about to leave the house, she smelled a fierce stench coming from nearby, like a rotting fish floating in stagnant water. Almost instantly, the probe of the magic power was released again, but no reaction from any living creature was still felt in the vicinity.

It seems that the "smell" that is approaching is not coming from a living creature. (To be continued!)

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