- It was clear, but it had not been tested in practice. I had to be sure. And as for the "little men"... I have such a lot of scoundrels in my test subjects that I would gladly kill any of them.
Gennady raised his hands in a conciliatory gesture.
- Since there are no questions about these, let's move on to the first test subject. As you can see, he understands us completely, he has retained all his former memories and he is no longer human.
The man in question was sitting against the wall and was tightly bound. Next to him were two gendarmes in armor at once.
- Obtained by injecting our blood into a man's veins. Tentatively named "ghoul" by me. He experienced terrible suffering during the treatment. The treatment itself lasted about five minutes. How is he different from us? Many differences.
Maria approached the convict and took out a silver coin and put it on his forehead. There was a wild scream and a smell of stew. There was a clearly visible mark on his forehead.
- As you can see, they can't stand silver. Sunlight, I beg your pardon, Demur's light, will incinerate them completely in seconds. Increased aggression towards humans. Blood memory is not available. Blood itself needs more to sustain life, especially animal blood. Magic is personal only. But physically they are even a little stronger than us, of course with the same blood doses. It's almost like a classic vampire from our legends, except without the fangs. And his blood injected into people's veins also turns them into ghouls.
The council remained silent, allowing the speaker to speak. There were no questions.
- Next in front of us was the object I called "ghoul".
There were also two gendarmes near this man, but his body was bound with different iron toys.
- The ghoul was the result of death by turning into a ghoul. That is, if a person can not withstand the torments of conversion and dies, then soon he is resurrected and we get a ghoul. The same effect is achieved if the blood of a vampire and possibly a ghoul is injected into a dead person. As you know we had an accident with one of the captives and he is now sitting in my basement as a ghoul. The ghouls are even more different from us. They also react strongly to silver and light, like ghouls. And they have no magic at all, not even personal magic. But they're physically stronger than us by a factor of three. Extremely aggressive. They need flesh in addition to blood. Fangs and claws appear when they eat food. Only partial memory of their past lives is retained. Acting on instinct, not reason. It's basically a semi-intelligent animal.
- What would happen if their blood was injected into humans?
- I haven't done any experiments in that direction, and I don't plan to. I suggest we dispose of the three ghouls we have.
- We'll solve this issue later. Move on to the last one.
The last man in the room was also guarded by a couple of gendarmes, but he was not restrained in any way.
- Nothing to say. A classic ghoul. Unrestrained because he's so well in control of himself.
- Then why is he here? - Alexander expressed a general question.
- Received in another way, namely he drank our blood. The conversion period lasted almost two hours, all this time of terrible agony, but the result is the same as the blood injection - ghoul.
- So there's no way to turn a human into a vampire like us?
- I wouldn't be so categorical, Eugene. We haven't experimented with magic yet. This is just an interim report. I need new test subjects. But at this stage, we can consistently get either ghouls or ghouls. There is no one like us.
Alexander stepped forward and looked around the hall.
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