Chapter 42 - Nanobots—Blood Cells

'Mana Reactor' passive skill acquired.

With only a few seconds, the Mana Reactor was able to regenerate 10 days worth of physical energy passively without any tampering from MF. Using the overflowing amount of fuel, she immediately did a rewrite on her heart to translate the schematic of 'Heart Of Tarrasque'.

The 'Heart Of Tarrasque' is nothing special by any means, it was only a stronger cardiovascular organ to withstand the complex nanomachine-like blood that will be factorized from the 'Tarrasque Bone Marrow.'

It didn't take long before MF could implant the new heart and marrow. Minutes later, she could feel the sentient army of nano-multipurpose oxygen carriers. The biconcave disk shape of the blood cell had been fully transformed into flexible and adaptable cells.

'Highly Intellectual Blood Cells' passive skill acquired.

MF took a heavy breath right after the modification was done. "As if the pond has become a lake, I can take in more air than usual."

These flexible blood cells didn't have the effect of Poikilocytosis either where the abnormal blood cells within a humanoid body were affecting the host's medical condition.

In fact, it was able to carry a higher amount of oxygen per cell. The 'Heart Of Tarrasque' also made MF breathe and gather oxygen ten times the normal amount that she usually was able to, preventing oxygen toxicity as the smart-blood concentrates the oxygen to reduce partial pressures.

This results in a huge improvement of stamina and endurance. The smart-blood was also implanted with the host's DNA in which it was able to directly intervene with any bodily functions and physical form, especially in healing a severe wound at high speeds without requiring consumption of a high amount of physical energy.

'Regeneration' active skill had branched into 'Blood Healer' passive skill.

"Wondrous! A huge leap in science! Well, my science!"

The pseudo nano-worker blood cells had a lifespan of 1,200 days. It was three times longer than what MF had developed for her blood cells' quality. The human blood cells were only able to live for 120 days, which is ten times longer than an Origis Human!

This means that the bone marrow will use the passive time to develop high quality blood cells, though she could still manually tamper with the marrows if she needed more blood.

MF also rewrote her immune system to focus on her smart-blood to protect her body from foreign substances as any self-respecting immune system would, decreasing the stress that MF usually has to deal with checking on her body manually every second.

Not only does she have reliable physical defenses, MF is able to use her whole blood as a weapon. With the right coding on these multipurpose nano-warriors, MF might be able to control it manually with the use of mana!

This gene implant was the biggest leap that MF ever took. 'All hail the Tarrasque!' is what she chanted in her head.

With the ecstasy of her mortal vessel breakthrough, MF danced around the cold chamber naked as her mind was gushing out every magnificent method of abusing her newfound power.

MF injected all of her blood cells with 'Mana Utilizer'. She also tinkered with some of the bloody nano-tools to add two more features.

One, 'Healing Blood'. She programmed the blood to be ready for taking the sample of the new host's DNA to act like it did within MF's body. This will prove to be useful in the future if she were to strive for a good diplomatic leverage or to enhance her allies in need. Theoretically, MF might be able to revive the dead if the soul hasn't detached its anchor from the physical body.

Second feature, 'Destructive Blood'. In contrast with the 'Healing Blood', MF could command her blood to go berserk and destroy the blood's new host from the inside like a parasitic Tarrasque that would be unleashed into a new world.

All she needed to do was to take a deep breath to fuel her nano-monstrosities with enough oxygen as the unique blood cells utilize the concentrated oxygen it carries or go use the host's physical energy.

But with the 'Mana Utilizer', the destructive blood could endure much longer! That is, if MF fueled the respective cells with mana.

Not to mention, the icing on the cake.

Combining the mana fueling with her strong soul's tentacles aka consciousness strings, MF could turn her blood into a life-size weapon.

She ripped the flesh of her hands apart with her teeth to wound and make an exit in which she could use her blood.

She had enough physical energy to produce a lot of blood three times the amount within her body. MF attached each one of her consciousness strings into the blood cells; she then formed the dangerous red liquid into a spear.

'Anti-Personnel Spear' acquired.

Layering some part of the spear with dense tungsten, even a Usurper at peak Alcazar Establishment would be having a hard time staying alive, estimatedly having a 97% mortality rate against most enemies that she might encounter. If done right, she could even kill an Angel.

With a tepid smile, MF casually stored her blood spear for later use in her pocket-space pouch.

The abundant environment within the cave had significantly given MF 3 months worth of physical energy in a small amount of time. The passive mana gathering might not be as fast as a cultivator in the Alcatraz Foundation stage but it's good enough for her to experiment with spells and formation circuits.

"At last, the tome of Mana Circuit Assimilation that I binged read back then will not be a waste. Fufufu."

Just like a child with a new toy. MF immediately applied numerous theories she made into actualizations, putting the last two gene modifications in the waiting line.

However, she still couldn't do any spell or formation circuit creation due to the unmarked mana to create an assimilation circuit. After realizing it, she immediately sulked and sat on the ground. Her wings enveloped her like a cocoon.

'Huee, whyyyy~'

She then waited for enough energy produced by the mana reactor to do a bigger scale modification. Changing her own bone into that of a 'High Energy Conductivity Bone' from the Avalanche Bringer.. It took her only an hour, surprisingly faster than what she had calculated.