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Going down
Going down
"What did you do!?" the dude demanded furiously as he started to squirm and resist again.
"Naturally I just made sure you couldn't bitch out before I had my fun is all. It's so very rare that I get people I wouldn't have any moral issue with experimenting on. Did you know that the anatomy of monsters and people are vastly different? I don't mean the obvious shit like organs and the mana stone either but the very fundamental stuff that makes up the bodies of monsters is entirely different than people. Oh sure it LOOKS the same but it isn't I assure you. Due to this I haven't gotten a chance to test my theories on body modification, until now. I thank you in advance for your cooperation." I said with a mad cackle as I sealed his vocal cords still to remove his ability to scream.-
I may have intentionally played up what I was going to do to this guy out of pettiness. To be fair though I didn't ACTUALLY lie about using him to test some theories of mine. But I wasn't some evil fucker with no moral bottom line. The experiments I had in mind were in truth probably more beneficial to him more than anything else.-
See I had this theory that I could sorta alter the material properties within the body to improve it. Things like increasing the density of the skin to improve durability or altering the lungs to allow for more efficiency in each breath taken. Naturally I needed a guinea pig for this since I was a poor choice due to my semi-formless state thanks to my technique. I also wasn't going to conduct experiments on my familia or random innocent people.-
There was something refreshing about reaching a dense forest after trudging through a monster infested cave system. After taking a moment to relish the experience I headed towards my tree base. I thought it rather funny that despite how close it was to the entrance of the Great tree labyrinth floors no one had found it yet or if they did reported it's discovery. The place was certainly not a thing anyone was likely to misunderstand the importance of. I as said previously despite the floor being a "safe" floor monsters did come into it from other floors and destroyed anything manmade they could.-
That was where my base's importance came in as it was made of dungeon grown trees fused together and thus totally ignored by the monsters who may have otherwise noticed it and attacked. A great deal of people would go to great lengths to figure out how to replicate this on a larger scale so that an actual settlement could be permanently set up down here. It should be kept in mind that Riviera has been destroyed and rebuilt down here no less than thirty eight times since people first started trying to settle this place.-
If it was no longer necessary to keep the place made of cheap easy to fix stuff due to monsters ignoring it a genuine lasting town could be made and that meant a LOT of profit being involved. That sort of thing brought REALLY dangerous kinda of attention to those behind it. If Evilus wanted me dead due to my potential now they'd pull out all the stops to murder me if they found out I was capable of making something like that a reality. Not exactly good news for me at all.-
I was pretty strong and hard to kill normally sure but the endless malicious creativity of the Evilus meant I would have death breathing down my neck constantly. I didn't want that to happen so the moment I get even a whisper of my base being discovered I was going to pretend it didn't exist and I had no relation to it. Honestly it wasn't even like it would cost me much to do so either as I could easily just make another.