Kerig laughed as the corpse he raised twisted and turned in weird ways.
"So, you have been paying attention, it seems..." Weloss commented, looking at the corpse still twisting and turning, obviously raised inappropriately.
"W-well, I have, I'm just trying things differently!" Kerig claimed, still laughing as the corpse grabbed it's foot from behind.
"Look..." Weloss said, impatiently "If you want to have a stupid doll, theres an easier way to control it. you can do it LIKE THIS!"
That instant, a black thin wire shot itself from Kerig's shoulder. It wrapped itself around a nearby corpse and then began puppateering it.
Two other similar wires shot out and did the same. A fourth one did shoot out as well, but it never reached it's intended corpse.
"Shoot!" Weloss seemed angry "Out of etherium! I need more if I am to expand further..."
Kerig laughed at his partner, but decided to get closer to Kronos and see what he is doing.
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While enjoying their ninth cup of tea, Indher and Elphos jumped when they heared the good old doctor suddenly scream "EUREKA!"
"What is it?" Indher inquired curiously as Vrach put in his final mishmash of ingridients into five seperate bottles.
Vrach didn't answer, but rather signaled fot them to come over. What he showed them was a small chicken running around in the cage. It seemed to be quite hyperactive for a rooster.
"Now watch." he said as he took out one of the five bottles he filled earlier and poured several drops from it into the chicken's bowl of water.
The chicken drank from the water, had another lap around the cage, stopped, and began pecking at it's own feathers.
"It... grew fleas?" Elphos asked, not one bit of sarcasm in his tone.
However, before Vrach could say anything, another pair of wings suddenly burst out below the ones the chicken already had. The chicken's white feathers darkened, and appeared to sharpen, to become blade-like. It became angry, and started ramming at the cage's bars. It's beat grew longer, sharper, darker. Elphos fell over when it started breathing fire at him.
"Now, calm down. I gave him a few drops, not the whole bottle..." Vrach tried to calm him "It will stop in a minute or two."
Several minutes later, the three were enjoying a TENTH round of tea-cups.
"Vrach, you are amazing!" Indher claimed, obviously impressed "How did you do it!?"
"Well, you see..." Vrach scratched the back of his head, probably preparing to run his mouth "I noticed strange enzymes when I looked at the blood through my magnifying lens. They were turning off - and on, some of the cells in the blood. While I couldn't find how they turn them off, I figured they do so themselves when they become 'worn out', you know? But I did manage to mimic the way they make them turn on! Apperantly, the enzymes have the same properties as the boiled extracts of the verbena when turning on. My biggest problem was making it work for anything OTHER than the demon lord cells. The activation doesn't seem to occur without those around, and it only occurs for them! However, by observing the human cells coexisting with the demon lord cells, I figured out the most brilliant way to make the shift universal! You see, I added in some aloe vera extract. Did you know aloe vera makes your skin smooth? Anyway, with the aloe vera extract the activation enzymes activate ALL types of cells! But they still need the demon lord cells around to work at all, because-"
Vrach stopped. While Indher was listening curiously, Elphos has fallen asleep and was drooling all over the table. Fernis realized this and shook him awake.
"Put simply," Vrach said, sighing as he placed four of the five bottles on the table "These will make any latent, untapped and untappable abilities you have work for a while, as well as grant you a little demon-lord type power boost."
Several minutes later, Fernis already had the strange crystal ball ready.
"Thanks again for letting us have all four of these..." she said, smiling at Vrach "You sure you don't want to keep at least one more?"
"No..." Vrach nodded, smiling back as he removed his glasses and stepped away to avoid being cought in the teleportation "After all, it was you who got me the sample."
And with that, Fernis and Elphos vanished yet again, leaving behind an old, tired doctor to wash cups and spoons overused for tea.
"I really need to resupply my tea-leaves..."
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Whoosh
When Zakon regained his senses, he was still in the air.
He was flying towards the sea at great speed, head first, but was still descending slowly.
Whoosh
He looked around, the beach's sand whirled into a collection of bright colors before his eyes.
He could easily just reach out with his hand and touch the sand, probably leaving long straight marks.
Whoosh
The wooshing was now getting louder. As Zakon pondered what was cousing it, he was suddenly hit water from above.
Finding himself drenched in sea water, Zakon spat out a curse and realized the wooshing was coused by waves. He lifted himself from the water to finally be on firm ground. Well, as firm as beach sand is.
Still drenched, he began to steadily walk towards the mountains, as if nothing had happened...
