"Beltram, what kind of monster were you thinking of being?" I stared at the shy boy who had a deep hatred for humans, well to be more specific his family.
His family was abusive, physically assaulting him to blow off steam once in a while. The maids and servants do not listen to him and occasionally harass him.
He wanted to become a monster to fight a monster, but this time quite literally. "An Eldritch Dragon." I spat out my drink and coughed vehemently. "Eldritch Dragon?! If you made a wish like that there'd be a terrible price to pay!"
Eldritch Dragons, a sinister draconian race with nightmarish appearances and terrifying abilities. They are known to be natural born disasters.
It is rumoured that wherever Eldritch Dragons go, there will always be calamity that follows. Hence their title as the feared 'Calamity Lords.'
If Beltram really wanted to become one the price would be immense from the destruction of a country or the sudden deaths of millions across the world.
Once a new Calamity Lord is born, mysterious phenomena shall appear. The consequences would be dire if Beltram had wished for this.
Since I was in genie form I would have had to grant it no matter what. Even though I do not feel quite attached to humans, I still had my conscience.
"Beltram, if you really did wish for that to happen, then the price would've been immeasurable. For example your humanity or your soul itself." I stared straight at his warm brown eyes, determination flaring within them.
I knew I couldn't persuade him to stop thinking of these terrible thoughts, so I did the next best thing.
Grant his wish. What he wanted was to become a monster that would tear his family apart. A monster; a large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature or an inhumanly cruel and wicked person.
It is hard to define what a monster is, in this world humans call anything other than their own race nonhumans and those that do resemble humans in some way demihumans.
But some nonhumans are often called monsters rather than nonhumans due to their appearance.
What I suggested to him was that, rather than becoming a monster with no morals and sanity, he could become a creature far superior than humans in every way.
Such as an Elf, Vampire, Werewolf. He had many to choose from! "I do not know much about other species so I would rather have you choose." I violently blinked, feeling speechless so I decided to call on my Android.
Athena, named after the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. "Master, his bloodline contains traces of Dwarven DNA however there are many more that I do not even recognise."
She paused for a bit facing Beltram before going back to me. "The results show that his ancestors used to regularly copulate with other humanoid species until it had been diluted human DNA.
Over the past few hundred years the mixture of dense genetic materials had properly integrated into their bodies altering their genome completely.
This means that his family do not live long as their physical bodies cannot adapt to such genes."
The others were confused, science was unknown to them of course. "How do we deal with this Athena?" I squeezed out an arm of a wolf, the smell was nauseating but once it turned into juice an addictive one burst forth.
"Body modification. We could restructure his entire physiology to one that could adapt easily to mutations, evolutions and transformation." The answer was surprisingly simple, however the process surely wasn't since there'd be a high expenditure to completely modify him.
"Very well, take him to the lab." While I could easily just drop him into a pool of mutagen, it was still unfixed. And while I could easily give him a Devil Fruit.
Transforming into an animal was actually pretty common here and the Mythical and Ancient Zoans were very rare and extremely hard to replicate due to its nature.
Same went for Logia, they were very pricey and would not sell them unless someone paid the actual price. Which were typically over a million gold coins?
There were three of us left in the main shop. I then remembered that I forgot another person in my personal lab.
I shook my head and faced the other two. Rude and Lydia. "I get that Lydia wants to become independent because she hated the city, but Rude, aren't you a famous Sorcerer? Not only that you are a genius when it comes to magic."
I was confused on why Rude wanted to work for me so badly. "I find you interesting, I've never felt like this before, not even the royal family made me feel such interest." My mind was thrown into chaos, after hearing this I thought he may have had a crush on me.
First Walter now this guy? Am I a magnet for those kinds of people? Maybe I should change my appearance.
I touched my face feeling a little lost. I glanced towards him, he was handsome but young, mentally I was around twenty years old while I was physically eighteen.
I had no idea what he was thinking at all. To be so interested in me like that. "Wait! Before you reject me I still have my wish, correct?" I nodded, he was correct.
Even though I changed back into my human form I was still able to grant wishes with my bracelet. He paused for a bit before standing up. And indignantly said.
"Then I wish to serve you as a master." I screamed internally, cursing him for making such a wish. "Hold on a minute! Do you realise what you have done?! Retract the wish before it's too late!" I screamed at him wanting it to stop.
But the damage was done, a heavy wind exploded, forcing Lydia to back away from us. We floated into the air as a pale green light emanated from my left hand.
He took my hand by force completing the contract. A dark purple ribbon wrapped around our hands connecting us through a specific contract known as the Master-Servant Contract. I panicked.
He was now deemed as my servant, which meant that he had to follow all of the rules I set for him. But at least it was better than the Life and Death Thread Contract in where if either side dies the other will follow.
Although I was furious that it happened so quickly I couldn't help but only reprimand the teenaged boy.
I doubted that he had an impulsive personality, but I do wonder why he had made such a rash and reckless decision.
"There, I now belong to you, and you alone Master." He kneeled down in respect. It was strange but I was somehow used to it for some reason.
"Very well, since you are so adamant to serve me I might as well give you this." In a puff of smoke a Devil Fruit appeared in my hands.
It had assumed the shape of a banana with the typical swirled patterns. The colour was a metallic shade of gold, but it wasn't the Gold Gold Fruit.
I had already squeezed that one out and transferred the liquid into the girl's body which was why she showed signs of disgust and discomfort while she disappeared into the smoke.
"Take a bite." I ordered him using our contract, he reached out and peeled the skin. He opened his mouth widely and bit a huge chunk.
Sloppy chewing sounds could be heard as he swallowed it loudly. Then the disgusting flavour hit him.
He spasmed before eventually dropping down on the floor. His mind went blank, completely free of any thoughts.
He had been knocked out. I could hear him utter words of agony and despair. "No.... no more! Please! It's so gross!"
His body shivered a bit before finally stopping. I felt like I should fix the bad taste but I knew that it wouldn't be authentic if I fixed it.
Besides even if I wanted to fix it I couldn't either way. "Now what do you want Lydia?" I turned to the girl who had been pushed away by the mini vortex earlier.
She stumbled and stammered before finally getting her words out. "Um, I want to become beautiful!" Resting my chin on my hand I thought to myself that beauty was an easy matter, I smiled walking towards her I activated my power and imagined something.
It was an anaesthetic sprayer. I sprayed it directly to her face, resulting in her falling down on the ground.
I princess carried her to the lab where I left Walter and laid her down on a chair. I did the same thing with Rude, what I was about to do was beneficial for all three of them.
First I gassed the entire room so they would be asleep and would not feel pain for about six hours.
I placed them onto beds and moved to the white room. Setting up all the equipment for this time-consuming operation.
I removed their clothes since they were a bother to handle. Sterilised myself, put on gloves, mask and many other things since hygiene was very important and I did not want to infect others despite the existence of magic.
After my preparations were done. I went
to the bed Lydia was on, for her I shall accelerate her metabolism and perfect
her flaws.
Clearing up her clogged pores, shedding off her dead skin. Have her cells undergo a specific mutation making it twice as efficient than before.
I wanted to replace every single thing! I activated my powers and created two eyeballs. They were similar to Lydia's eyes and were of similar sizes.
I forced the closed eyes open and carefully carved it out with a scalpel cutting the optic nerves off.
Blood flowed everywhere, I then proceeded to put the eyeball and the broken off nerve together chanting a spell I learnt before.
"Connect, Fuse, Biokinesis. Combine! Body Manipulation." A gentle light encased the eyeball dropping down carefully back into the socket.
It looked good as new except for the fact that now it could change colours depending on Lydia's mood. It also had some special abilities and had enhanced sight.
I repeated the process with the other two with them having different ocular abilities each. The two boys had no problem with weight so it was Lydia who needed to get rid of fat.
While I could have just given her the Slip-Slip Fruit, I found it a waste to give her it in the first place.
So I resorted to getting rid of fat the harder way. Exercising! Although she had to be awake for it to happen.
I cleared all her pores and got rid of her acne now all that's left was to improve her physiology. Muscles reinforced, blood transfusions, a few bones replaced.
The brains have also been strengthened allowing more mental energy to be stored. Now all that was left was to change their Mana Circuits and embed a Monster Core into their bodies.
The artificial Monster Cores were to allow them to evolve like monsters. Evolution in this case is a process where a weak monster grows stronger.
So what I needed to do was to restructure the entire body to be able to handle the strain of evolving. Evolution takes time and some may even be instantaneous that is why an adaptable body was good to have.
"Phew... Good thing I learnt surgery back then otherwise I wouldn't be able to do stuff like this." I stretched my body squeezing out all the stress. Juice dripping down the floor. I squeezed clothes drying it.
This was the final pièce de résistance. A perfected reagent that alters and fuses the DNA of one being to another. This way they can potentially become anything they wish to be.
In addition they can mix and mash up all the DNA, test for the proper amounts and create a completely new species!
The only side effect is that at first when injecting the reagent into a body they shall feel great pain even when unconscious.
I call it the Chimera Serum. Physically they should be fine, however I am a bit concerned with what they may choose to do with this ability as Beltram may still want to become an Eldritch Dragon.
I wonder if I should tell them that they can only limit it to one species? I paused for a bit wondering how that would work out.
In the end I just didn't care. It was their lives not mine, I still had to warn them of course. I just hope nothing with draconian bloodlines come.