'Wait, Shiro Sabrina and Herodot? What the hell are you doing inside my head?'
'We wanted to ask you the same question' said Shiro 'say what your system said when you received blessings?'
' It said do I want to absorb it, how could I not know it, you were absorbed into me, blessings are just parts of your souls, so when I absorbed blessing I also absorbed these fragments' Why it took so long for him to understand? At the same time, Shiro was confused, how he understood the nature of blessings? It's something only a handful of people know about.
"Did something happen? You look confused, young one." Asked the priest when he saw that Jax was shaking his head.
"It's nothing, I am just amazed by this place" Jax found an excuse, he couldn't say that, he has pieces of three Gods in his soul.
"Oh I understand, yeah I agree with you" Priest smiled warmly at Jax. Jax went to his parents and departed to his home.
"So did you get a blessing?" Abigail asked, and Haytham was curious, as well. ' I can't lie, but I can say half-truth'
"Yes, Herodot God of Wisdom and Knowledge blessed me." Abigail hugged her son.
"That's amazing! Being blessed by God like Herodot, you are very lucky" Abigail praised him, Haytham didn't say anything, but he smiled at Jax who nodded.
"So you are telling me that, you are stuck with me until death?" Asked in disbelief, Jax in his workshop.
'Yeah I know it can be quite uncomfortable for you, but we will not stop or limit you in any way, and we will help you' said Shiro, she felt guilty, being part of Jax soul is a blessing for him, but people will kill him for it.
"Yeah I understand, well you will be quite helpful in my research" he said when he injected another rat with a mix of healing potion and orc blood." Experiment 123. Injecting mix of diluted orc blood, and healing potion ratio 2:8 into living organism." After a few minutes, the rat died.
"Experiment 123. Failure. Test subject died, but healing potion allowed it to resist orc blood and live longer, [Researcher Eyes] shows that few cells adapted to orc blood.
Conclusion: orc blood should be further weakened, and ratio for potions increased."
'I'm curious, what do you want to achieve exactly?' asked Shiro. She understood that he wanted to create regeneration serum, but she didn't know the true reason for it.
"Well, I want to protect myself and my family, also I want to have some trump cards to use against people." He didn't hide it, this Shiro Sabrina and Herodot weren't the same as originals they were fragments bound to his soul, his dead isn't a guaranteed method to make them free, also if they betray him, they will be used to a lot worse things than what he would do.
'I think you should try to separate mana from orc blood to weaken it' Sabrina suggested.
"Yeah I tried it, but even though I have [Mana Sense] and [Mana Control] without actual teacher, mana in blood can go berserk and some of it can invade my body, I have [Adaptive Body] but it couldn't help much, I'm too young and weak to survive it." Jax stated. He tried to do something like this in the past, but he felt instability of mana in blood when he did that, and he threw away that blood, a minute later it blew up. It was something like atomic fission, he separated energies and it blew up.
'I can teach you this, I want to see results of your work' Sabrina said. She wanted to see if magic can help create something like this.
"Thank you, so what is the starting point"
'First you must...' Sabrina was explaining and guiding Jax in this process. After a few hours, it was done.
"[Appraisal]"
[Weakened orc blood: orc blood, which by using secret magical technique, was weakened by separating big quantities of mana from it]
"Let's see how it will work" he took a syringe and pulled it in, and injected it into a rat. "Experiment 124. Injecting weakened orc blood into a living organism." To Jax surprise rat didn't die, but started to shed skin after some time it grew bigger, and its skin was green. He used [Appraisal] on it.
[Orc rat [unstable]: species of rat that drank orc blood and survived, this species is stronger and faster than normal rat, but because of the quality of the method it's unstable, and will die very quickly.]
Orc rat died a few minutes later.
"Experiment 124. Partial Success. The living organism survived injection and transformed into orc valiant, but was unstable and died a few minutes later." Jax was happy, it was his first successful experiment. He did more experiments, and he found something interesting in one sample of orc blood.
[Strand of High Orc bloodline: it's a piece of bloodline of orcs ancestor species, High Orc. High Orc were bigger, stronger, faster and far more intelligent compared to present orcs. This strand was extracted from blood of orc]
"Interesting. Herodot, do you know something about High Orcs" Jax asked God of Wisdom.
'Well they were very powerful species that ruled a big chunk of the world, but after they angered,"The Will of the World" they became orc of today'
"Interesting, do you think "The Will of the World" will have problems, if I use powers of High Orcs or other species, it punished in past?" He thought that it wouldn't matter for "The Will of the World" but it was better to ask.
'If you don't try to do the same things as them, it will not care about it' said Herodot, which made Jax even happier, but Herodot extinguished his happiness. ' You were extremely lucky to find blood of orc that had a strand of that blood, all orcs have some high orc blood, but it's impossible to extract'
"Well, for now, it is still a nice thing to have." Said Jax, 'now I have a clear path in making regeneration serum, I need to expand my business and skills even further'.
"Experiment 200. Injecting weakened and diluted orc blood mixed with healing potion and strengthening potion." Jax was now four years old. He injected the mix into another rat. It transformed into an orc rat, but surprisingly it lived for an hour. He used [Appraisal] on it, he skipped most of the information until he saw something different.
[Orc Rat(unstable)]
[Abilities]
[Adaptive Body lv1]
"So [Adaptive Body] really can help in it"
'You didn't know?' asked Herodot. 'How someone like him would not know it'.
"Well I knew that [Adaptive Body] can help it, I tried to use my blood, but when it was mixed with orc blood, orc blood destroyed my blood instantly, also mixing two different monster blood, can further complicate my experiments, I don't have methods to extract properties from the blood, at least for now."
Jax went outside, his regeneration serum project was put on hold until he gets skills or knowledge how to do it. Jax's workshop was just a small building near the garden that was next to his house. He now went to the library. Maximilian greeted him, and Jax greeted him back. Jax picked some books and sat down, he didn't read them, but touched.
[Do you want to absorb knowledge inside?]
'Yes' after this Jax felt that some outside knowledge is injected into his brain.' I think I will never like it, at all'. Thanks to the blessing of Herodot, he gained ability named [Knowledge Absorption], he can absorb contents of entire book, also Herodot blessing gave him, even more powerful memory and comprehension ability, some resistance against evil powers and curses, also every time he acquires new knowledge and develop and level up knowledge skill he gains 200% EXP. Thanks to that he was able to memorize 80% of library, but to not reveal it, he took few minutes per book and flipped pages. He was contemplating about what should he do now. He wasn't discouraged by failures, he knew that he is able to achieve regeneration serum project, and others projects, he just needs to take his time, and develop his skills. Sabrina saw it as an opportunity.
'Maybe you can try magic experiments? With your genius and my help, we can create something new' Sabrina wanted to flatter Jax. 'Sabrina is shameless as hell, well it's not she is wrong' Jax thought.
"Well it's not a bad idea, I can easily acquire some magic books or blueprints for some magical equipment, and I already had some ideas and desires" he stood up and put the books back into their places and picked up more. "We will start it, after I finish memorizing everything here"
"So these are the magic stones? Interesting, I can see and feel mana inside of them." He picked up a blue stone, magic stones are just solidified mana, it is created when magic is condensed in one point or area for long periods of time, under enough pressure.
'Yeah, but they are the lowest grade and purity' said Sabrina.
"I know, but for beginning it's better to get the lowest and weakest" he put down the stone." Unless you want to me to become paint on the walls" he chuckled.
'We all know that if you could, you would already do tests on humans, only your age is stopping you' Sabrina said, and Jax smiled.
"You are correct, so now teach me how to work with these stones"