After grabbing Celine, Vance and her went to his room, leaving Ryoko in the living room to watch television.
"Celine, we got a few more things to upgrade me with, but I get the feeling that we don't have much time left. So the last ones I think will be, upgrading my healing factor, and increasing my mana regeneration."
"I agree Master. And those two upgrades should carry you through the war."
"Then I guess we should get started."
Saying this, Vance began designing a new gene to introduce to his body. A gene that would modify his healing factor to be extremely fast, and very powerful. He designed it so that even if there was a single atom he would be able to fully regenerate. For a while he was fully immersed in the designing of this gene. He made sure that even without his fully adaptable body, it would be able to properly integrate with his DNA, to avoid having to go through extra pain from his body modifying the gene. He also made it so that his body's matter would always come back together if it was still existing, meaning that unless it was a necessity, he would not simply 'regrow' a limb, rather, he would reassemble unless the matter itself ceased to exist. Soon, he was finished with the creation. In his hands appeared a syringe gun filled with a dark red liquid. It seemed to have a sludge like texture.
"Ugh, this looks so fucking gross. Well then, directly into my body you go."
Saying this, Vance injected the liquid into himself. He shuddered, feeling the liquid begin to merge with his DNA. Inside of Vance, his cells were beginning to vibrate rapidly, seemingly filled with energy.
"Well then, I guess it's time to test out this bad boy."
While saying this, Vance made a knife to cut his hand with. He slit across his palm. The wound seemed to attempt to bleed, but quickly closed.
"Oh god, the next tests I really don't want to do. But better safe than sorry."
Vance then created a sword, held his arm out, gritted his teeth, and swung the sword down on his arm, chopping it off.
"FUCK THAT HURTS!!!"
The chopped off arm seemed to separate into many different particles, and then reattach to Vance in it's normal state.
"That's... pretty cool actually. It'll definitely freak out anyone who sees it too. I wonder how it would be if my lung got pierced or something. I'd rather not test that now, or ever actually."
Saying this, Vance began to experiment a little further with his regeneration, to make sure that he would be able to adapt if one of his limbs got amputated in a fight.