Chapter 1768 Talent and Price
Harpies are a relatively rare race. Compared with the mainstream humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, dwarfs, lizardmen, and half-people on the [Innocent Continent], Orcs (all), their number Much less, not even half-dragons. The total number of people on the entire continent is similar to that of elves or goblins, such as tree elves, highland elves and other major branches. Although it has not reached the point of survival crisis, it is definitely high-level. The smallest among the intelligent races.
The main reason why the number of harpies is scarce is not only that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a partner these days, but also has a lot to do with their body structure.
First of all, harpies are the only race in the entire continent that is compatible with viviparous and egg-laying. In other words, their physiological structure not only supports the direct birth of fetuses like humans and elves, but also can provide breast milk. At the same time, they can also give birth to the next generation by laying eggs like giant dragons and lizardmen. This miraculous physiological condition is unique to the harpy race in the entire [Innocence Continent].
So strictly speaking, the harpy is even different from every race in the world, and is a 'heterogeneous' that needs to be separated separately.
Of course, except for a few scholars who care about this aspect, most people don't care whether they are heterogeneous or not. For ordinary people, it doesn't matter whether your chromosomes are mainstream or not. What matters is whether your appearance is mainstream or not.
From this aspect, the harpy race can be said to be quite mainstream. Even with the addition of wings and sharp eagle claws below the calves, it still conforms to the mainstream aesthetics. Moreover, In addition, their clothing style is relatively cool and wild, which can even be said to be 'popular'.
It needs to be mentioned here that there are still very few lizardmen, gray dwarves, harpies, wild boars, etc. in the blood barbarian style. Everyone has seen a lot of mainstream lizardmen, including harpies. If so, you can refer to the small community that Mo Tan and others rescued from Dabus around the Anka Market. Although they lived in the woods, they often interacted with other races, and the painting style was much gentler. .
As for the partners, since the harpies are all 'female', unless there are extreme cases, they can only choose to combine with foreign races. Also because of the special physique of the harpies, they are Most races don't have what's called reproductive isolation.
In short, many harpies who have reached age will choose to leave the settlement and go outside to do what they like. Most of them will do so in the process including but not limited to doing business, engaging in art or taking risks. Find the person you like and live with them for a short time until pregnancy.
After pregnancy, the harpies will know whether the child is a viviparous boy or an egg-born girl three months before giving birth. At this time, if the boy is born from the father's race, they will continue to stay with their partner and then give birth to the child normally. , but if the child is a harpy like herself, then she will temporarily say goodbye to her partner, return to her own settlement to lay eggs, and then return to her partner after entrusting the child to her sisters of the same race.
After that, if the emotional relationship between the two parties is stable and there are children, the harpy will accompany her partner until the son reaches adulthood, and then return to her own settlement. Of course, there are also choices with a particularly good relationship with the other party. They grow old together, but most banshees will leave their partners when their eldest son reaches adulthood.
If the relationship is not stable...then what else can you say? Just go back to your parents' house as soon as possible.
To sum up, the harpies in the settlement are basically young girls in their twenties, and old girls over forty years old, and the girls in between are The demon girls are walking around the rivers and lakes outside, looking for encounters.
Then the question is, after talking so much about the harpy, what does it have to do with Luna wanting Lysa to be her assistant?
The reason is very simple. As we said before, the harpy is different from ordinary people in terms of physique.
To expand on the explanation, according to the records in Luna's notebook, the harpy race has always been gifted with unique talents in alchemy, although they have no other skills except the way of druidry. The upper limit of the field of occultism is so low that almost no one has tried to become a spell caster and an 'alchemist' who has a close relationship with the spell caster. But if the notes in Luna's hand are not deceiving, then the harpy is likely to be the entire There is no race in the mainland that has the best compatibility with alchemy.
This theory has not been recognized by the world, nor has it been proven to be true or effective in any form. In fact, if someone published an article titled "The Harpy and Alchemy Are Very Compatible" , then it will probably be criticized by the academic community as a negative teaching material for ten or eight years. After all, this race has basically produced no spellcasters and alchemists.
But Luna's notebook clearly stated that although harpies do not have advantages in the fields of magic and elemental sensing, they are highly sensitive to more than 70% of mainstream alchemical materials. Sex, and this kind of sensitivity can only be obtained by ordinary alchemists through years of experimentation and study.
Without other advantages, this alone is enough to save an orthodox alchemist nearly twenty years of detours, and the success rate of experiments will be higher than the average.
Of course, this is just a theory, because the author of the notes himself failed to persuade any harpy to embark on the path of alchemy. In other words, when the above idea was still in the brewing stage, he was in a He was killed in an accident that was unexpected and reasonable.
But today, as the new owner of the notebook, Luna Lynch, an alchemist girl in her early twenties, took this step and took it upon herself to take over a young but already possessed With independent thought and at the stage of strongest learning ability, the harpy embarked on the profound and mysterious path of alchemy.
In fact, the previous owner of the note had visited many harpy settlements, but was repeatedly turned away after making his appeal. This is actually not a rare thing, because it is indeed It's a bit too fishy, just like an ordinary elementary school student outside the game being told by a strange monster that he will become a great chemist in the future and leave his name in history. Therefore, it is simply unreasonable to be rejected in front of normal children and normal parents.
To be honest, if you want to tell a child, 'You will definitely become an e-sports master in the future, so play games with your uncle,' the child may still be willing to listen to you, but you just say, 'Follow your uncle. Just write the papers and do chemistry. Even if parents are willing, most children who are naturally playful will not give you such a face.
But that is only under normal circumstances after all, and this wild land is not a normal place, so Luna is confident that neither Lysa nor her parents will refuse this offer. A request from a person from the city of Doumbouya who walks with the Son of Justice.
After all, Luna is now certain that she has indeed cured Lysa's 'brain disease', and with the 'emergency rations' distributed to people, people here will only think that it is a good thing to follow her.
Although there are not as many twists and turns as Mo Tan, Luna can still figure out this level of logic.
In short, she now needs an assistant who can get started in a short time to share the work, and Lysa, a polite and sensible little harpy, appears in front of her just right.
Everything that happens next will fall into place.
And there is a particularly important point, that is, compared with other harpies, Lysa has a decisive difference, that is, her brain has received a total of less than three seconds of [human body] Refined】!
If the racial advantages mentioned in the notes can determine the so-called 'lower limit', then a smart and excellent mind will directly affect the more important 'upper limit'.
One thing is that when Lysa stared with bright eyes and unleashed a barrage of verbal violence (physical) on Luna, the latter really felt a sense of fate in a trance.
You know, Luna Lynch has never been a person who is interested in taking advantage of the brains of innocent people. In other words, only Lysa can't take out their brains without using her human body to refine them. A girl with a brain disease, and even if her attempt fails, the situation will only get better and not worse, so Luna can take action without hesitation.
If it is a normal brain, then no matter how cautious and malicious Luna is, there is a high probability of causing irreversible damage to her brain, and only a 30% chance of causing an unpredictable degree of damage. Positive effect.
But for Lysa, if her previous brain score was 45 and a normal person's score was 80, then after being forcibly 'refined', there is a 70% chance of being raised to 55- 65 points, the 30% probability is firmly over 80, and because of this, Luna will directly make a judgment in this situation that will only benefit Lysa anyway.
It needs to be emphasized here that the above scores are only a very one-sided 'performance' score. Simply put, they are hardware parameters and have little to do with actual intelligence. A simple example is the brain of Cordoba, a normal person. It is 80 points, and the Futaba brain of a normal person is also 80 points, but under the same hardware parameters, there is a big gap in the 'intelligence' they display. In other words, even if Lysa has obtained better hardware The conditions don't mean that this girl can punch Tan Mo and step on Shuangye, and defeat the likes of Gavin, Foster, and Fiyali with her brains.
But these messes are currently out of Luna's consideration. At this moment, she is simply enjoying this moment of silence while fighting against the backlash in her body that wants to tear her apart.
No one can master this level of taboo knowledge [Human Body Refining] without paying any price, and to a certain extent, Luna is actually paying the price of this power all the time. For example, a large part of the reason she rarely slept was the need to rebuild her slowly crumbling body while awake.
For example, the potion she made was difficult to swallow. The fundamental reason was that she had lost her normal sense of taste for too long. Although she barely regained it in the previous period, she could no longer distinguish. With the ability to 'delicious' and 'unpalatable', she may now be able to distinguish between 'sweet' and 'bitter', but she is unable to judge which of them is a positive taste without thinking like most people.
A chef who loses his sense of taste may still be able to cook a good meal.
If an alchemist loses his sense of taste, then the only reason why the things she makes are not the ceiling of the catering industry in [Innocence Realm] is that Ji Xiaoge is too strong.
But these are not important...
Luna, who successfully suppressed the backlash, closed the note and walked slowly to where she was studying the pages of illustrations with a wrinkled face. Beside Lysa, whose small wings were trembling unconsciously, she asked calmly: "Do you understand?"
"Wow!"
The startled girl suddenly raised her head, and when she saw it was Luna, she immediately showed a sweet and big smile: "I feel a little understanding and a little confused, but Lesa is trying hard to understand what big sister can do. We can't let Lysa..."
"No need."
She took the note back from Lysa's arms. Luna was very cooperative, but her face was full of unwillingness. The girl said: "For a qualified alchemist, practice is much more important than theory. Of course, the premise is that you can ensure your safety during the experiment."
"Ah..."< br>
Lesa was stunned for a moment, then lowered her face in disappointment and muttered: "But Lesa can't guarantee her own safety."
"It doesn't matter."
Luna shook her head and said calmly: "You are different from me. When I did the first experiment in my life, I only had an alchemy notebook beside me."
Lesa blinked, and then looked down at her empty little hands: "But Lesa doesn't have any notes, or should I say that the ones that big sister showed me just now are considered notes. In that case, Lesa will follow Sister, we are the same, but she said we are different, so what is the difference?"
"The difference is..."
Luna turned and looked at the alchemy table next to her, He emptied the remaining potion in the crucible, and while taking out the materials on the pages that Lysa had just read from the cabinet and placing them around the crucible, he said calmly: "I only had the alchemy notes with me at the time, but with you ...there is me.”
"Ah! Big sister, do you mean to protect Lysa? But Lysa doesn't want to cause trouble to big sister, so if she can read that book for a while longer..."
"Having one doesn't count. Smart people have told me that it would be foolish not to take a shortcut, and I don't want to I hope my assistant is a fool, do you understand?”
“I understand, big sister, I’m sorry.”
“No need to apologize, now I hope you try to use these materials to make a drink of life and death water. ”
“Water of life and death?”
"Powerful sleeping pills. The two pages of illustrations you just looked at are the simple process of making the water of life and death. The steps are above and the materials are here. Let's do it. If there are any equipment you don't know how to use, just ask me directly."< br>
“Am I going to mess up?”< br>
“It’s difficult when I’m here.”
“I know, big sister, I will definitely try my best, but Lysa suddenly feels a little dizzy and a little hurt. I don’t know why!”
"Lack of oxygen..."
"?"
"Shut up and just concentrate on breathing."
"I know, big sister, but why is Lysa missing..."
"Shut up .”
“……”
Chapter 1,759: The End
(End of this chapter)