21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 756 - 752 Airou Cat Transformation (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

756: Chapter 752: Airou Cat Transformation (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

756: Chapter 752: Airou Cat Transformation (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

When it comes to cats, most people might picture those furry little creatures with four legs scurrying around, and some peculiar folks might think of cat-eared girls, or even more bizarre, cat-headed beastmen…

But when we talk about the most suitable cat image for mining, it naturally falls to the Airou Cats from the Monster Hunter series.

Hunting, mining, gathering, cart pushing, cooking…

Airou Cats can do it all!

In fact, with the release of new versions, there’s even a saying that Airou Cats are the real hunters, and hunters are just their lackeys.

Indeed, the Airou Cats in the game are formidable, capable of bipedal combat, wielding weapons to fight against Ancient Dragons as massive as mountains, and beyond that, they are octopuses of domesticity, their shadow reflected in all of the game’s auxiliary functions outside of combat.

If there is one species that represents the perfect evolution of cats, the Airou Cats are naturally at the forefront.

Chen Yu himself was once a faithful player of the Monster Hunter series, and naturally, he had a particular fondness for the Airou Cats, having even played that game starring an Airou Cat as the protagonist.

Thus, when he conceived this plan, he already had the intention to transform the stray cats into Airou Cats.

In essence, the Airou Cats still resemble cats, with their fluffy appearance, paws with pads, ability to run on all fours, and to walk upright on their hind legs.

Unable to speak, yet endowed with an omnicompetent nature, they can assist players in all aspects, highly competent in whatever task is at hand, one could say they truly combine the beauty of cats and the intelligence and talents of humans in one species.

So to transform cats into Airou Cats, Chen Yu first faced two issues.

The first, as Xiao Lan mentioned, was that cats have no hands.

Cat limbs are all paws; although their fluffy pads are cute, they can’t grasp anything.

Even when catching mice, they use the retractable sharp claws hidden in their pads to trap and press, not to grasp.

Of course, this isn’t difficult to resolve, a simple adjustment to the bone structure of the cat’s paw, allowing it to grow fingers capable of grasping, would suffice.

Moreover, modifying cats inherently involves adjusting their bone structure, making this a mere corollary.

After all, the skeletal structure of cats is designed for quadrupedal movement, while that of Airou Cats needs to accommodate bipedal locomotion; the two are completely different.

Especially since Chen Yu also required these modified Airou Cats to possess decent strength and load-bearing capabilities, this further escalated the demands on their skeletal structure.

Adjusting this bone structure is not simply moving sliders in a game; it involves comprehensive mechanical analysis of the skeleton as a whole and also requires consideration of the Airou Cats’ habits and actions post-adjustment, taking into account how their skeletal structure will enable them to move.

Though this might sound straightforward, it’s essentially equivalent to redesigning an entire skeletal system, and while there may be ample reference materials, none have the luxury of nature’s million-year timeframe to naturally select the most suitable structure.

This is why many mages or necromancers have the ability to transform a wild beast population into an intelligent species for their service, but they tend to prefer making magic puppets, familiars, and undead servants instead.

Unless it’s for experimental purposes, such an endeavor is simply too troublesome and labor-intensive, not to mention the prolonged time it requires.

Modifying a species is not something that can be resolved with one or two experiments; it demands continual iterative adjustments and modifications across several generations of the species, selecting the most suitable and stable form after multiple generational changes before the transformation can be deemed complete.

Therefore, we seldom hear of mages creating new species; and if there are any, it’s typically only a handful of spirit and monster varieties that mages have tampered with, turning them into assistants and servants.

In the vast majority of cases, even if mages choose to use such beings, they opt for species that already possess basic intellect and humanoid features for enhancement, rather than forcibly transforming a wild beast population into intelligent beings.

Such acts fall within the domain of deities.

However, for Chen Yu as a demigod, he is ready to tackle the work of deities.

And an advantageous aspect for him is modern civilization; humanity has long invented many shortcuts to save time and effort.

For the skeletal system design of the Airou Cats, Chen Yu could certainly leave it to supercomputers to resolve.

Using supercomputers to simulate and calculate the possibilities of species evolution is one of their applications in biology.

What Chen Yu needs to do is simply find a computer, input the content he needs to compute, and then wait for the results.

Although he still needs to conduct physical biological experiments to verify the calculation results, this can still save Chen Yu a tremendous amount of time; at least he doesn’t have to wait hundreds of years to observe his experiment outcomes.

In fact, for the design of the Enhanced Humans, Chen Yu had already employed this time- and effort-saving method.

Otherwise, with twenty-two complete transformations, each involving changes to the entire body of those being transformed, how could Chen Yu have completed the entire process in such a short time without detailed and exhaustive experimental data?

The device Chen Yu used was, of course, not a supercomputer invented by humans, but something more magical—the Tower Spirit.

This is the white sphere of magic runes that Misumi Mikoto saw in Chen Yu’s laboratory earlier.

The Tower Spirit is an indispensable part of a Mage Tower, although not every Mage Tower can possess one.

If the owner of the Mage Tower isn’t strong enough, they won’t be capable of creating a Tower Spirit.

Essentially, the Tower Spirit is akin to a powerful artificial intelligence, somewhat similar to Iron Man’s J.A.R.V.I.S., capable of assisting the mage in handling various affairs within the Mage Tower and holding the second highest authority after the mage himself or herself.

There are different types of Tower Spirits, mainly adjusted according to the mage’s needs to emphasize certain performance aspects, to better serve the mage.

Chen Yu chose a special structure type called the Three Sages.

This type of Tower Spirit has three consciousnesses, boasting more than five times the multitasking ability and more than triple the computational power of a regular Tower Spirit, and the three consciousnesses can each handle different tasks without interfering with each other.

The Three Sages is arguably the most powerful type of Tower Spirit, and, naturally, the cost to create one is equally exorbitant.

Chen Yu dared to undertake the creation of Taling, the Three Sages, only after becoming a demigod.

As for the second problem of transforming ordinary cats into Airou Cats, it concerns intelligence. freewёbnoνel.com