CHAPTER 489: CHAPTER 7 THE RACIAL DISTINCTION OF THE SLIME GIRL

Before the Foreigners’ Studies officially went online at the Pamir Academy, many high-ranking nobles had actually already begun research on the foreigners.

At first, they were only interested in the players’ unique undying characteristic. Many secretly captured some players, hoping to figure out some sort of secret magic ceremony to obtain the players’ resurrection ability.

However, after studying for a while, such projects gradually got shelved. Because even Ninth Rank professionals were unable to understand the source of the players’ traits.

There were even rumors suggesting that behind the foreigners, there was an involvement of some immensely great existence, whose power far surpassed the Ninth Rank of this world.

Thus, after the initial period, high-ranking professionals always kept a respectful distance from the players. They also suspected that the players might be part of a scheme set by some powerful existence.

If that were the case, then the wisest choice was to keep their distance.

In the beginning, this approach posed no problem, as the players, who were generally of lower levels, were unable to access things at their level.

But as time passed, the performance of the players had completely reshaped their understanding.

Growing stronger by eating, drinking, and cat-finding?

And even advancing faster than their training speed?!

Noticing the eerily rapid strength enhancement of the players, many high-ranking professionals were profoundly shocked.

If it was just one or two foreigners behaving this way, it could be attributed to their special talents, but when all the foreigners were like this, the matter became serious.

Could finding cats possibly generate some indescribable special power?

To unravel this mystery, the vice chancellor of the Empire Royal Magic Research Institute, Sai the Star Chaser, even personally took part, joining one of his foreigner students to find cats.

But after catching hundreds of them, Vice Chancellor Sai found that throughout the cat-finding process, there was no abnormal flow of power.

The only moment that the foreigner, who was the subject of observation, emitted a surge of power was at the instant of completing the task, where his power suddenly increased without any warning, and he even broke through his rank on the spot.

Sai was completely puzzled by this unreasonable way of breaking through.

But no matter how many questions they had, as time passed, a large portion of the foreigners’ strengths were already infinitely close to the Fourth Rank.

This was a critical threshold; professionals who have undergone the first qualitative transformation of their spiritual power at Mid Rank are the true backbone forces of the countries across the continent.

The good news is that these foreigners seemed to have finally encountered obstacles when reaching this threshold and could no longer smoothly break through.

Now, with the rise of the Foreigners’ Studies course, many professionals in the academy have also begun to form their own foreigner forces, planning to use them as potential subjects of observation for the future.

And the Secret Ceremony Society, as an already established and perhaps the largest foreigner power in the Empire, has recently drawn the covetous thoughts of many.

In light of this, both Ninth Prince Lanno and Evan had specifically warned Anvis about this during their previous meeting with him.

.........

Several days later, Becki delivered the first batch of slime samples as promised to Anvis.

Upon receiving the samples, Anvis immediately took them and entered his newly renovated underground laboratory.

The matter with Claire could wait; thus, Anvis decided to first resolve his research on these slimes to add some core competitiveness to his Secret Ceremony Society.

Other forces have also begun to take players seriously now, and although their start seems to be much later than Anvis’, he never overestimated the players’ moral integrity, after all, mass defections and back stabbings are traditional arts.

"Welcome, Your Control Highness."

As Anvis’ presence approached, accompanied by the greeting of the Tower Spirit Pomiya, the heavy Anti-Demon Alloy doors automatically opened. At the same time, various states that enhanced agility and immunity to negative effects were bestowed upon Anvis.

With the growth of his own strength and power, he had transformed this place into a truly cutting-edge Magic Laboratory.

It includes all sorts of extremely expensive magic instruments, which demand high spiritual power from the user, to the extent that even researching forbidden spells is not off-limits.

Anvis placed the silver storage box containing live slime specimens on the central composite analysis platform, opened the lid, and released the slimes within.

"Plop—Purrr—"

However, upon opening the box, Anvis discovered that among the slimes Becki had sent, only five were the original dumpling-shaped slimes, while the other five...

Looking at the few semi-transparent maiden slimes curiously watching him on the experiment table, Anvis showed no expression.

Humans, winged ones, half-beastmen, Natural Elves, Dark Elves, these were five new types of slimes again.

It was fairly easy to distinguish the specific types, after all, one had wings, while another had cat ears.

As for how he could tell the difference between the Natural Elf Slime and the Dark Elf Slime...

It was because one was a light green color, and the other was a dark gray.

All ten slimes exuded a first-rank strength aura, and after considering for a moment, Anvis extracted samples of gel from each of the ten slimes.

He put half of them into the culture tanks, and the other half into the large transmittance analyzer, preparing to carefully examine the changes in their structure and to compare them with ordinary slimes as well as the reproductive cells of giant dragons as control groups.

"Interesting..."

Under the control of Anvis’s powerful high-rank spiritual power, the results soon presented themselves.

Through the perspective of the Magic Eye instrument, special structural changes in the microscopic structure of this gel were observed, resembling some kind of natural magic power pattern, sharing partial similarities with the structure of dragon cells.

Unlike the process of ordinary creatures bearing Dragon Descendant offspring, the breeding process of these mutated slimes still centers on the division and proliferation of the gel.

However, the small slimes produced by the division of regular slimes will still only be ordinary slimes.

But these Giant Dragon Slimes, when proliferating within the maternal body, can obtain life information from the mother, allowing the offspring to inherit some of the mother’s strength and characteristics.

In other words, from a structural perspective, the reproduction of slimes does not necessarily require certain specific organ environments; they only require a sufficient supply of nutrients.

For Anvis, this was good news because it meant that as long as sufficient nutrition tanks were provided, they could be mass-produced.

After figuring this out, Anvis immediately allocated five huge nutrition tanks in a corner of the laboratory and placed chunks of the five different species of slime maidens into them, allowing them to divide and proliferate on their own.

The original method of reproduction through a maternal body was too inefficient; batch reproduction in tanks is the proper way.

In the future, Anvis plans to list the divided offspring in the Secret Ceremony Society’s special product list, providing them as a camp-specific summonable creature for exchange by the Secret Ceremony Society.

In "Mysterious Era," a ’harmonious’ game, there should be many players who would like such disharmonious things.

Anvis was also curious about how these slime maidens would appear in the eyes of the players, after all, you can’t expect a glob of gel to come with clothing.

Of course, before selling them publicly, he first needs to adjust the life information of the offspring to deprive them of the ability to continue dividing to prevent them from being exchanged by outsiders and bred infinitely.

Having done all this, Anvis’s attention turned to the other five slimes.

"Ploplop—"

Under his gaze, several slimes bounced flexibly. Apart from the color being a light pale blue, they looked no different from ordinary slimes.

And next, Anvis planned to test their limits.

For instance, he remembered that among the three Curse Plutonium Dragons he had previously raised, it seemed that two were female.