Chapter 400
Chapter 400: Researcher
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
Make the White Dragons more like other dragons? This sounded difficult, but it wasn't really all that hard if you heard the explanation . I didn't even need to create a research team, write a report or scam any research funds… Hrm—it seemed quite meaningless, now, to scam research funds . I no longer had investors or higher-ups to report to .
"Are you stupid? You could write a report and ask Dragon City for funds . Aren't they your temporary investors? They have all sorts of dragon magic and ancient secret techniques . There's no reason not to ask!"
"…As expected of the Banshee Queen, my elder in scamming research funds . "
"Of course! Don't you know how I did things back at the Cloud Tower? I would split a simple project that could have been dealt with only one research team into four research teams . Each team would receive funding from different mage organizations . Then, each team would have 'breakthroughs' with slightly different results, obtaining another four batches of research reward money . How else was I supposed to fund my research? Unlike me, Amelia was so weak at scamming research funds that others even saw through her . "
"Yeah, yeah, you're amazing . That's why your request for funds for your research on the solidity and quality of the soul was denied . Now I am your boss . Is it really okay for you to be bragging about scamming funds in front of me?"
"Wait—that's a real project! How am I supposed to research it if you cut off my funding? I promised to share the results with you!"
"Sure . First show me some results and I'll fund you . Stop pretending to be pitiful and saying that you're poor . I know very well that you have lots of money stashed away . Fund your research yourself . If you have any results, I'll fund the rest . "
How could an ancient individual like her possibly be poor? Just a random piece of furniture from her generation would be considered a valuable antique today . Although regular antiques weren't worth much money, it was impossible for Harloys to be poor as she had Golden Elf artwork, forgotten relics, artifacts and so on from the immemorial generation . Previously, when Harloys was out causing calamities in the world, she had never lacked money . It was already nice of me to not force her to hand all of her funds over .
After I took care of the foolish Harloys who had revealed her scamming methods, I focused my attention back on the White Dragon research project . Naturally, I had already intended to use her method of scamming others for funds and resources . Dragon City was a wealthy investor, although their generosity was questionable . But as long as I carefully scammed—er—communicated with them, I could likely obtain many benefits .
Actually, the issue of the White Dragons wasn't that difficult to solve .
White Dragons had unbelievably slow growth periods . For a great part of their lives, they would be nothing more than bloodthirsty beasts . But the White Dragons who lived long enough to become Elder and Ancient Dragons would typically be able to obtain wisdom, making them drastically different to their brethren . However, since they had retained bestial natures for far too long, even the intelligent White Dragons were highly aggressive and threatening compared to other dragons .
If one analyzed the differences between White Dragons and other dragons, it was quite easy to tell where the problem was . Other dragons were able to inherit knowledge even while being a Dragon Egg, so Baby Dragons were born with basic common sense and intelligence . This inherited knowledge would be constantly expanded upon as the dragon grew older . Even Dragon Bloodline Warlocks were capable of obtaining knowledge through their Dragon Bloodlines . It was only the White Dragons that couldn't do so .
This inheritance wasn't exactly a collection of high-level knowledge or secrets . Yet memories and common sense constituted the foundation of a complete "personality . " Without these, and without anyone to teach them, the White Dragons ended up as nothing more than carnivorous wild beasts .
However, I was familiar with this concept . To use an analogy, this was like a newly-produced computer that had no problems with its hardware, but the creator had forgotten to install a basic operating system on it . This made all the common applications unusable, and the computer could only run itself automatically with zero guidance .
When you looked at it like that, the solution became evident . One simply had to install an operating system . In my case, I would either have to copy one from somewhere or write my own .
Each species of dragon had different natures and natural talents, and their inherited knowledge typically involved knowledge about their racial talents and specialty magics . Using other dragons' inherited knowledge would be inappropriate for the White Dragons . If I tried to forcefully give the White Dragons a Red Dragon's inherited knowledge, I would end up raising Red Dragons with the appearance of White Dragons .
However, since the older White Dragons at Ancient Dragon and above were capable of self-awakening to intelligence, I simply needed to copy a set of their knowledge . Of course, this meant I would need to dissect numerous White Dragons . Yet when considering the White Dragons' terrible lack of popularity with the other dragons, I felt that Dragon City would agree to this requires of mine .
"Once a human's personality is formed, it's incredibly difficult to change it . Habits are forever hard to change . A person with set memories and knowledge can only be slowly influenced to change their way of thinking . A person accustomed to being a beast will be nothing more than an intelligent beast even after receiving memories and knowledge . That will only make the person more dangerous . Only by giving White Dragons inherited knowledge from the very beginning will it be possible to change what they are like from their very foundation . "
I wasn't making any of this up . Except for very few exceptions, the White Dragons powerful enough to become intelligent creatures had terrible reputations . The intelligent White Dragons were infamous for being loyal to the "law of the jungle," making them immensely disliked even by other dragons .
It was obvious to me how I should solve this problem . The critical factor of this problem wasn't a logical one—it was more about how to give a Dragon Egg memories and knowledge without brainwashing it or making it evil . This was more of a test about one's control over memories and the soul .
However, none of this was a problem to me as the critical factor to solve everything was right in front of me . With an expression of great displeasure, she was currently glaring at me .
"So, after all these roundabout explanations, you finally scammed me into becoming your experimental subject?"
"No, no, how could you possibly use a word like 'scammed?' Haven't I explained everything clearly to you? Evelyn, you are the critical piece for solving this puzzle . "
The Evelyns, who were constantly being born, were born with their own personalities, memories and knowledge . From a certain standpoint, they possessed a more complete version of the dragons' inheritance . And they obviously had the capability to evolve their inheritance, as all of them gained more knowledge each time a new Evelyn was born . As long as I could clearly understand the system behind how they worked, I would be able to reverse engineer the technique and relearn this knowledge I'd forgotten .
Cough—cough—I truly didn't have any personal ideas about scamming her to become my experimental subject! I swear in the name of Harloys' honor!
As for the side effect—this surgery would likely bring about multiple personalities—that was, in a way, a good thing . After all, I would receive an endless amount of benefits if I secretly buried a personality that was one hundred percent loyal to me deep within her soul . As for whether it was immoral to leave "backdoors" within the "operating system," didn't a certain major software company from my previous world forever leave backdoors in their operating system as well? Weren't they still very popular regardless of that fact? Shame? Business morals? Was that ever important?
"Oh man, as expected of the past me . Such amazing skills . I give it thirty-two thumbs ups!"
Unfortunately, despite the fact that the deeply sleeping Copper Dragon Evelyn had agreed to be my experimental subject, Blue Dragon Evelyn was vigilantly watching my every move . She wouldn't even let me inspect Copper Dragon Evelyn by stripping her naked . This was an insult to my medical morality!
"Medical morality? You have such a thing?"
"…Fine, I don't have any medical morality, but I have skills! From past to present, plenty of individuals have become famous doctors even without medical morality! Who cares if I'm one of them?"
Rome wasn't built in a day . Research results that came out too quickly wouldn't be considered valuable . I wouldn't even consider giving Dragon City my research results until they offered me an appropriate price . I left the scamming expert Harloys in full charge of the negotiations .
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