Chapter 51- Restoration Potion Testing

Dubs snickered as he left out the door.

"Alt won't kill them. He knows better than I do that we need people loyal to our cause. I don't want to rely on fear to create loyal vassles, but having some insurance is the safe option...", Dubs pondered.

"On top of that, it is true that those two are at the point in their training where unless they are pushed to the very brink they will not improve. Even if their deaths are merely an illusion, we must create that illusion for the sake of their progress."

Dubs finished his thinking and returned to the lab a bit later where Reagan had a test tube with a purple gaseous substance in her hands.

"Is that the finished product?", Dubs asked.

Reagan looked at Dubs with a wild face, eager to test the substance on the subject.

"Hehehe!! Will my theory prove to be correct, so that we can chop off the limbs of our subject here and regenerate them? Or will my theory prove wrong and the substance will poison him, forcing us to amputate!? Only time will tell...", she exclaimed.

Walking over to the chained subject, who had a gag on his mouth, he began to squirm and appear to beg for Reagan to stop. Reagan showed no such mercy, and grabbed a tray of surgical tools.

On the tray was a number of scalpels, saws, picks, and other tools. She took one of the scalpels and sliced open a cut in the finger of the man. Blood rushed out, but she took a clear paste and applied it to the cut, which stopped the bleeding.

"Hoh? What is that?", Dubs asked.

"After a number of experiments I managed to create a substance that has the form of a paste but the properties of a sponge.. it stops any flow of fluids, whether it be blood or water or anything else.", Reagan explained.

Continuing, she took the purple gas and connected it to a siphoning tool. She placed the tool into the cut and began to pump the gas into the cut.

The man started to shake violently in agony, but there was nothing he could do as he was chained down to each and every joint.

The finger began to turn purple, and the corruption ran up the finger quickly.

"Aha! Looks like weve had a failure in our experiment... oh well, looks like I will have to amputate!!", Reagan shouted, delighted as she grabbed the saw and began to hack off the mans finger before the corruption spread to the hand.

The man screamed as his finger fell off, and Reagan applied the cream to the stub that was left behind, stopping the bleeding.

"Perhaps the reason this was a failure was due to the elements that composed the acid in the first place... Clearly replacing the earthen content with air content made the substance into a mist, and I believe that fire and water when combined in certain proportions create an acidic combination.", Dubs suggested.

"What if we were to remove the fire component and use earth, water, and perhaps something that is more healing based, such as light? If we can find the correct proportions, we might be able to create a restoration elixer."

Reagan smiled and excitedly got to work. "Interesting theory, Dubs! Lets try it out immidiately!"

Meanwhile, the captain had passed out due to the pain.

"But lets give things a rest for the day. I wouldn't want you to overwork, my dear.", Dubs said to Reagan.