《The Rise Of A Porter 》Chapter 148: Into The Swamps (3)
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"You used the lowest quality crystals to generate enough energy to power up a building this big? I don't even think anyone knows about this even in theory, I've never heard about it anywhere either so I think this knowledge is exclusive to us." Arnold was amazed by Talos' intelligence and utility. He felt a proud father whose son won the Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry or whatever. He was just happy.
"The answer is yes and no." Talos replied.
"What do you mean, by 'yes and no'?"
"While I indeed used white and green beast crystals to power up this building, they don't much energy in their raw form and can't be used to generate enough electricity to power up this entire building." Talos explained it to Arnold and the others, however, only Arnold and Alice were listening to him intently.
Bad-Breath tried to involve himself in the conversation but he simply lacked the intelligence to understand much about it, more like he didn't care about it, he was just happy that they now had electricity inside the dark void.
"I see, so what did you do?" Arnold asked yet another question, he was invested too much in this, this idea had the potential to take them into a different place entirely!
Although he was just informed about it and didn't know much, he could still inform Nathan about Talos' findings so that this could be implemented on a larger scale. Arnold knew the true worth of the discovery Talos had made, and it was just the type of thing which would place America back on the world map! A new pollution-free source of energy! Happy hippies!
"I simply fused them together to increase their rarity along with their Xenoic energy." Talos answered back.
"You did what!?" Arnold was a bit confused about it now.
"Yes. Dread and I, in my Demon Orc form, poured all of our strength into forcing the beast crystals together, with Alice's strength and stamina boosting support spells and Bad-Breath's lightning, we managed to superheat the crystals and they ended up fusing together, as Alice already said it was a tiring process but in the end, it was worth it. After achieving success for the first time, we kept repeating the process again and again till we formed a bunch of red beast crystals. We did not stop there and kept trying again and again but sadly couldn't fuse the red beast crystals into a Purple one, so in the end, we used a hand full red crystals to power up the generator, that the other automatons made while we were busy fusing the best crystals. It's still a prototype but as you can see, it works well."
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Upon the mention of his name, Bad-Breath smirked as if he was the only one who could've done so, while Alice remained as calm as always, she was just glad that she could help in any way or form possible. however, Talos' explanation raised further questions about his discovery.
"Are the crystal you fused together, the same as the ones found naturally, I mean inside the monsters or there's some difference between them? Also, how did you come to know that the crystals could be fused together and used in such a manner, I don't think you just had an arbitrary thought about it all?" Arnold kept coming up with questions, he was just invested too much to care about the time anymore, for something that would greatly benefit America, Nathan could wait for some more time.
"Obviously it isn't similar to the beast crystals found inside the body of the monsters. It might be impossible for an artificially made thing to be compared with a natural resource. I'd say that, at best the crystals we made contained only about 80% energy that's found in a natural red Crystal." Talos explained everything as if he was teaching to a group of primary school students, "As for your second question, Master, the Demon Orc you battled wasn't that strong when the battle between them and us began, he was just a mutated Orc King having powerful abilities but that was it, and then suddenly he did something that made him evolve even further."
Upon hearing the word 'evolve', even Bad-Breath, who hadn't been serious about the conversation, instantly became interested in it.
"What did he do?" Arnold asked.
"Do you remember the dead Orcs that were concentrated in a particular area? With their necks been ripped apart?"
"Yes, I thought it was a bit weird since you guys wouldn't have done something like that even to a monster."
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"The Orc King, bit on to their necks killing them instantly and swallowed a part of their neck. I think you are aware of the fact that, the neck of humanoid monsters is the place where-"
"Their beast crystal is located..." Arnold completed Talos' statement, "So you're saying that he evolved after eating beast crystals of his own kind?"
"Yes, Master. But not only did he evolved physically, but he also evolved mentally and hence gained the ability to communicate through human language."
"But how come he got so strong in such a small timeframe, whereas you people took so much time to fuse them together, at least I think it took a while for you people, right?"
"Yes, it took time for us to fuse the crystals together, I think it depends upon the metabolism of the monsters. Stronger the metabolism is, the quicker it will absorb the beast crystal and hence stronger will it become, at least this is what I think. Thankfully we have acquired some living specimen whom I can experiment on and see whether what I'm thinking is correct or not, and if all went well then maybe we could even use the same method to make ourselves evolve as well." Talos presented his hypothesis in front of Arnold and the others.
"Will it work on humans as well?"
"It could but considering how different the metabolism and physique of monsters and humans are, it might not be effective and in the worst-case scenario, could even kill someone." Talos replied.
"What about a human who has a monster inside her?"
"Master, you're not trying to suggest-"
"Talos, you may think my intentions aren't pure, but they are. You said that eating beast crystals evolved the monster mentally, so maybe if the fetus absorbs enough crystals and gains some sort of intelligence and other values, then maybe, just maybe we could raise the monster kid as a human being. Don't you think we should at least try to do something to help the mother as well as research more about the beast crystals at the same time? Just imagine a beast having the intelligence as well as the moral values of a human, the possibilities could be endless"
Arnold didn't need to persuade Talos into doing anything, all he needed to do was to give just one command and Talos would have to do whatever Arnold said, but it didn't feel right to Arnold that's why he decided to persuade Talos instead of ordering him to do so.
"You do have a point. It could be a revolutionary step if it worked, and if it didn't... well, then we already know what we have to do." Alice reassured Talos, who looked at Bad-Breath and he too agreed with Alice and Arnold.
After seeing everyone's reactions Talos finally gave in, "Then I shall do as the Master wishes."
"Thank you, Talos. And now you guys have fun, I have to go somewhere and I'm already late." Arnold said and left the domain.
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