Chapter 365 - Test 4,5,6,7,8 and 9

In the very next day, King Michael called Alama along so they can get in to doing more experiments on the Rats. The Guards came along in the morning, and although confused of the King's decisions they did bring more Rats, 4 of them to be more exact.

With three of the rats, he intends to do the same experiment he did with yesterday's three Rats. You might be asking yourself why he would repeat the process, he knows what will happen.

Well he actually doesn't know it, at least not 100%. What if the mutations were Random and what if the mutation can vary on every individual rat based on individual mental or physical background? He can never be sure about it, so new tests have to be made.

You might be thinking, after knowing what specific portions of meat will do to the Rat, would he want to keep them and where would he keep them if experiments go on for a month? Eventually the Rat count would be over 100, squeaking and possibly fighting since making a 100 cages would just be a bad idea.

He does have a plan, to put the rats in to use. But doing so would require a bigger count, for now we can just say that he has plans for these Rats.

However getting back to the experiment, before he is about to test the three rats, he wanted to test the fourth in a rather different way. How, well listen out to what he said to his assistant here. Calmly calling her name before requesting, "Alama, write this down. Demon Toe, waist, head. Rat as the Consumer."

Afterwards he dropped the three mixed up piece of meat and continued to glance upon the Cage. Thinking, "We sure will need more Cages."

The changes on the Rat that followed after are more than noticeable. The Rat grew in size, not in just a individual spot, but everywhere and I do mean everywhere!

The Rat pounced against the Cage and knocked it all the way near to King Michael's belly, not being dumb enough to rush and grab the Cage which could lead to a very possible bite.

He walked away from the Cage calmly, and heard that with another pounce the Rat knocked its own Cage from the Table. He grabbed three planks and placed them right over the Cage, not paying more attention how the Cage is placed as long as it is flat.

Although not particularly scared of Rats, when King Michael took a glance at her, he noticed that Alama's eyes have been opened wide in shock. He guessed that if panic broke here, Alama would be quick to join in the panic.

"Write this down, the Result of this mix causes Quadrupled size, perfectly balanced." He specified, making sure that everything is written on Parchment.

"We will need at least 10 more specimens like this. Write it to the corner of this experiment log in smaller letters, so we remember." For what he needs them though, he did not specify. That would take too much time, and he likes how Alama doesn't ask questions for such a case.

"You sure are having fun there." She teased slightly, after doing the final punctuation in this experiment.

"We might be the only ones who are keeping experimental logs on such a test, this could be written in the History books!" Although he does not care so much about titles, he sure would want to be in a book. So that feels nice to think about.

"You do have a point there, but how do you think that you will notice a longer lifespan, should there be a special glow or something? Because all I'm seeing is these Rats suddenly grow in size." This has been the only question that has been puzzling her, and she did not want to ask until now so he can keep his concentration. But this itch had to be scratched and soothed.

"I'd say that the most obvious sign would be the Rat actually not changing in to anything. It is those specific Rats that we need to take to another room and keep." It is fair to say that he has all of this thought out, he will use everything he can to find what he or they are looking for.

"So we have to wait a decade or two in order to assure that we have found the secret to a longer life span?" Before King Michael was about to answer that question, she asked another. "How long do Rats even live?"

"Well in the wild they averagely live 6 months, there are many predators out there so there even are many newborns eaten. Here in a Cage, I'd expect these Rats to live for a year." This at least is good news, and he specified it why by adding. "So we likely won't have to wait a decade, just three years to be sure."

"That sounds faster than I expected actually." She complimented with a wide joyfull smile across her face, getting more and more hope that this will work. But of course she feels a bit guilty as well, "Sorry I interrupted you, can you continue with your research.?"

"Thank you." He answered with joy as if a child who just got his toys back. And in order to make up some more time he spent talking, he quickly threw Demon Toe meat on the first cage, Demon Waist meat on the second and Demon Head meat on the third.

"Now let's see what happens." He whispered, and tried to look at all three of the Cages at the same time. Not the most effective I'd like to specify.

Like yesterday, the first Rat got bigger legs and as if discussed this with Yesterday's Rat it jumped against the Cage and dented it a little bit.

He didn't rush to put a plank over it, knowing that it won't make it so far. The Cage isn't that easy to completely break, and even if the Rat can and chooses to be Hostile, King Michael is a Grand Master in Lava controlling and can easily handle such a situation.

Looking at the second Rat, well actually squatting down to look at it, he noticed that this Rat has bigger buck teeth now, meaning that the same process has been accomplished here, they are on a roll.

Knowing that this one won't neccesarily manage to move or dent the Cage, he moved on swiftly to glance at the third and saw that the Rat started running swiftly around the Cage once it noticed King Michael approaching.

Getting a couple of planks to stop the denting and rumbling on Cage 1 and 3, afterwards with a smile he glanced at Alama and requested. "No need to write anything down, just give it a little plus (+) it will tell us that the Rats follow the same procedure."

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"Where should we place the Rats Sire?" A Guard walked in, speaking for 2 other Guards behind him as well. He has made his way all the way to this experimental room.

The scene of which the Guard walked in would be considered cute in some aspects, King Michael has walked close to Alama and is asking for her opinion in these experiments. They are practically debating it, aiming to at least narrow everything down by a hunch.

However the Guard wouldn't be able to spot anything cute, considering that a rotting Demon Carcass is on the other end of this room, near the window so the bad nose burning smell can get out.

"Just place them on the table." He answered, knowing that every Cage has been already well sorted.

The Rats are on the right walls of the room, set carefully close to another with a parchment placed on each one and of course planks upon requirement.

Before the Guards could go, King Michael requested. "Can you bring me more planks?"

"Yes your highness." One of the Guards answered, obviously willing to carry out the Demand. Well actually he just wanted to get out of this horribly smelling room as soon as possible.

Thinking about requests, something else crossed his mind. "Oh also tell the Blacksmiths to make as many Cages as possible under a short period of 3 days, but they should not stop the main operations for it."

"You sure are friendly with the Guards." Alama complimented, and continued to explain why she gave out this little compliment. "I remember King Xakro torching 24 Guards once because they failed to properly arrest a thief."

"Mistreating Guards or anyone for that matter will lower down morale, which neccesarily could tamper with their loyalty. The last thing I need right now is any problem like that, we need every Guard we can get." Well this specifies that his niceness has a bit of a bad twist, but at least it is for the good of the Kingdom.

Trying to get back to the experiments, he added. "Anyway, we need to upgrade with the experiments a bit. We will feed the most recently mutated Rats, meaning the three."

"Which body part will you feed them? Could they be mutated twice?" Of course even though she did not want to ask questions, it was just too hard not to at such point.

"Demon Head, and I don't know so we have to find out." Afterwards he approached the Rat on the right side of the room, the one that has been mutated to having Bigger legs.

Dropping it in the cage, and glancing at it right after without breaking his view from it he noticed instant change! Its front paws started changing, he could even see the Rat's pink paws getting bigger.

"Alama write this down. Demon Head, Rat who has been previously mutated with Demon Toe as the Consumer=." The writing this time indeed a bit long, Alama took a few seconds to catch on and knowing that fact he waited before he spoke of the result.

"Also write. Result, front legs increase by triple the amount." As he specified that fact, he thought. "We need to write the new result on the Parchment above the Cage. But we can leave that for later."

Knowing that Alama has likely already caught on or at least is close too, he moved on to the second Rat and dropped the same Demon body part on it, a chunk of head meat. Of course he could feed it waist meat to see what happens if consumed twice but it is better to have 9 results than 3, he will try everything else later.

As the Rat was in the process of being re mutated, he spoke out. "Can you write this down?"

"Yes." She murmured as she swiftly wrote on the Parchment.

"Demon Head, Rat who has been previously mutated with Demon Waist, as the Consumer." After saying this part, he could practically hear Alama's arm winding up and down, left and right trying to catch on.

He decided to give her a bit more time now, but of course to notice changes on this one he had to sit on the ground. This is the Rat with bigger buck teeth, triple the size actually. He noticed a change, that in some aspects it would be considered Random since it has no link with the previous mutation.

Waiting 10 counts until he spoke again, he asked. "Are you ready?"

"Ehmmm..." She spoke in a low tone.

"Result, the Rat has gotten a bigger Abdomen." Trying to say something but not wanting to confuse Alama, he just thought it through. "How backwards, according to common Logic it should have gotten a Bigger Abdomen when it ate Waist meat."

However he felt a little bit heart warmed, when he noticed that the Rat can walk a bit more properly now. The Abdomen grew twice the size and its cute buck teeth won't scratch against the Cave flat base anymore.

Finally moving on to the last Rat of this portion of the experiment, he threw the Demon head meat through the Cave and to enable the Rat to eat he walked away. This Rat just keeps running in an unholy speed whenever it panics, it needs some space.

"The second one is the most interesting one yet." Alama expressed after putting the quill down with her hand aching a little bit.

"It might become the second most interesting." He replied, and feeling that Alama already knows the procedure he added. "I think you know what to write."

Afterwards he was quick to walk towards the third rat with actual aims of spoking it. The result? Well this is absolutely amazing, "Write this down. Result, super speed cut by half!"

And he was being as literal as possible at this point, the Rat is still running in panic. He could only see the red tail and a black shadow, but before he wasn't even able to see the tail thanks to the bursting speed!

This 9 Rat research proves one main thing, this mutation won't follow logic or common thinking. What they expect the mutation to turn in to, can almost always never be the case! On new research at least. This will make research confusing as it is exciting.