Chapter 202
I’ve finally found a researcher named Tippet with a sense of fun. He’s a friend of Doosan’s and is helping me with a new pill, under the remote guidance of Elder Song. If successful, it should let Mortals cultivate the Divine infused energy here for a period of time, allowing them to cultivate properly, and likely very rapidly due to the energy density.
Ahra has kindly volunteered to be our test subject. Well, she didn’t cry and run away like the other mortals we asked did, so that’s basically consent. The Researcher is strong enough he should be able to neutralize and extract the pill from her body should anything go wrong, and we’ve got version 1.0 ready now.
"So you have the video ready? Yes. Excellent. Divine Absorbency Pill version 1, test begins now." I pass the pill to Ahra who takes it with shaking hands and swallows it.
The influx of energy is immediate and intense, forcing her to breakthrough in the first few seconds before stabilizing.
"How do you feel? Any pain, nausea, numbness? Can you feel the energy coming into you? Can you cultivate it?"
She answers the questions we ask one by one, confirming no major side effects so far, but great difficulty cultivating. Not in the painful way that divine energy usually burns the system of mortals, but as if it was too thick to push through.
We brainstorm a bit, and I pass off Elder Song’s idea as my own to Researcher Tippet combining it with his ideas and making a second batch of pills. Ahra looks better already now that her body isn’t starved for energy.
Round two is much better to use, the energy flows freely, but it’s got a tingling cold sensation that keeps making her sneeze. She says it’s like the feeling of peppermint on her tongue, but in every cell of her body.
That could be fun for other purposes, so I make a note of the recipe and set it aside in my notes.