Book 6: Chapter 18
“It’s time to move on to full testing,” Zeia said as soon as her meeting with Kay started.
They were in one of the many meeting rooms available in the palace, specifically one of the ones deeper in the complex that were easier to secure. The fact that they were working on countermeasures to the vampyr taint wasn’t a secret, in fact it was a useful morale booster to let the news spread, but the details were a little more restricted. Like Kay had told Eleniah, fighting people’s transformation into vampyr by turning them into vampires was a good thing, but many people would refuse to see the benefits or use that knowledge to further their own goals. Someday, if Kay had his way, vampires would be seen as perfectly normal citizen of Torotia, but until the stigma of the vampyr was ripped out the newly rediscovered species was going to face prejudice and distrust.
“It feels like it’s too early for that. You’ve been working with…” Kay’s face scrunched up in a mixture of embarrassment and distaste, “You’ve been experimenting on my bodily fluids for what, a week or less? That’s nowhere close to long enough to determine what’s dangerous and what’s safe.”
“What else would you have me do?” Zeia asked, “Every test I’ve done shows that we can safely transform someone into a vampire using the methods you’ve described from your original world’s folklore. Without actually trying the process I don’t see how else we can proceed. With your unique version of Purify Blood not being passed down to any of your students, even Lauren who also became a vampire, the only way I’ve been able to find that will allow wide spread treatment of vampyr infection is through changing the victims into vampires.”
Eleniah put a hand on Kay’s arm, “Somewhere along the line this became my permanent job, research into different fields can go a lot faster here than on Earth, thanks to Skills and magic. Many researchers have Skills that tell them if certain attempts or theories will be dangerous and at higher tiers there are even Skills that can simulate experiments. No one’s rushing into this without as much preparation as possible.”
Zeia nodded in agreement. “All of my non-combat Classes are research or study based Classes, and all my Skills plus my knowledge tell me that this will be as safe as possible. The only warning I’ve been getting is that allowing large amounts of your ‘venom’ will kill me. Which we already know about.”
“That doesn’t help.” Kay groaned as he dropped his head into his hands. “It doesn’t confirm your theory about the transformation resuscitating the person infected?”
“Ah. Sadly, no. That Class is only tier three and all warnings I get end with death, it doesn’t tell me anything that would hypothetically happen to my body afterward, even if I’d only be a dead body for a few moments.”
Eleniah squeezed his arm.