Chapter 701 Anatomy

Compared with the property that Gulu brought back, Joan was more interested in the corpse of the choker it dragged back.

Joan performed a "magic trick" to clean the corpse, placed it on a smooth and flat stone platform, took out a full set of surgical tools, put on rubber gloves, and dissected the corpse with a knife.

"Strange" creatures, with all kinds of strange shapes.

The body of the choker is closer to that of a human, and it belongs to a subspecies of the "abnormal" category. Weighs approximately 35 pounds, and stands tall about the size of a halfling.

The internal organs of chokers are similar to humanoids, and the reason why they are classified as "abnormal" is mainly because of their strange limbs.

From the surface, the slender and flexible arms of the choker seem to have no bones, like two long rubber whips that can be easily twisted into a twist.

After the dissection, Joan discovered that the choker's arm actually had a bone-like structure, but the structure was different from that of a human arm, closer to the bones of a snake creature, and more sophisticated, like a series of nested hinges.

The choker's skeleton is wrapped in a layer of twisted muscle like steel wire, and the outermost layer is flexible skin.

This ingenious and perfect limb structure made Joan deeply feel the greatness of the "creator", although he didn't know which god or archmage created the creature like the choker.

The structure of the hands and feet of the choker is also very peculiar.

The palms and soles of the feet have a layer of soft fleshy pads like a cat, which can provide cushioning when jumping and falling, avoiding injuries, and at the same time can eliminate the effect of footsteps. No wonder it is silent when walking.

On the surface of this layer of meat pads, there is also a dense layer of bony spurs, some are very sharp, and some have barbs.

Thanks to these barbs that grow on its hands and feet, a choker can grip almost any surface, and can jump up walls and ceilings effortlessly, flying over the walls as if walking on the ground.

Joan dissected and unfolded the hands and feet of the choker. This scene was really scary.

Just looking at it is enough to make "intensive phobia" patients have nightmares.

Joan didn't have such concerns. While observing the body structure of the choker, he drew anatomical diagrams on the drawing board from time to time.

He was dissatisfied with his drawing skills and always felt that the lines he drew were not precise enough. Just call Holden over and ask the skilled artist to help me draw an anatomical diagram of the choker corpse.

Holden is enjoying it.

As for Audrey and Hylar, the two ladies said that such a bloody scene of disembowelling is very unsightly, and they would rather hide in the distance to chat.

Gulu curled up in the crevices of the rocks next to the campfire, watching in horror as Joan dissected his own kind. His eyes were full of panic, and he was deeply worried that he would end up in the same way.

Joan didn't care about the eyes of others, and was completely absorbed in her own research work.

Swinging the knife open the lower abdomen of the choker, Joan reached out to rummage in the pelvic cavity, and found that the corpse had both male and female reproductive organs.

The special characteristics of the choker are clearly recorded in the "Strange Volume" of "Vares Monster Illustrated Book".

In fact, the reason why "strangeness" is weird is that its special sexual characteristics are a major manifestation.

The vast majority of aberrations are either hermaphrodites or parthenogenetic.

Like human beings, there are obvious physical and psychological differences between male and female, and there are strange differences between husband and wife, but they are very few.

Among these very few, there are even fewer weirdos with the concept of marriage and family.

After completing the dissection at the tissue and organ level, Joan plans to study the choker's physique at the cellular level, and test whether this creature has special blood power.

If the answer is yes, then even after the choker dies, there is still magic left in its uncorrupted flesh.

Now, Joan needs to try to make the magic power that may exist in the corpse of the choker monster manifest for observation.

Ansuz, rune rune number 4, is the obvious choice for this purpose.

Joan used the dagger in his hand as a paintbrush, and engraved the No. 4 rune Ansuz on the cut flesh of the choker.

This approach is like using the corpse as a magic tool to analyze the spell configuration attached to its body.

When Joan drew the last stroke of the No. 4 rune, the corpse of the choker had a faint magical aura as he wished.

This phenomenon shows that there is indeed some kind of magical power in the body of the choker, but unfortunately the configuration presented is very vague, just some incoherent fragments.

Joan stood in front of the corpse, looking intently, and found that the distribution of the magic net around the choker's corpse had changed slightly.

When the lines of the magic net passed through the corpse of the choker, the originally evenly distributed probability was distorted, resulting in many tiny vortexes and nodes.

The scene in front of me seemed familiar.

Joan pondered, and finally found the source of the déjà vu in her memory.

It was during the last summer vacation. On the way back to his hometown of Delin Town, he met Li Yanan again, a mythical fairy, and helped her get rid of her old enemy "Lily Dragon Girl".

Afterwards, in order to express his gratitude to Joan for his help, Li Yanan used the power of the mythical goblin to hold a blessing ceremony called "Blessing of Spells" for him.

After accepting Liyanan's blessing, Joan obtained six "Sid's mana", which is equivalent to an additional spell slot.

Joan still remembers that the blessing ceremony that Liyanan performed for him was actually treating him as a living magic tool, enchanting him, and engraving a magic imprint similar to a "magic configuration" in his body .

These mysterious imprints, closely fused with his flesh and blood, have become a part of his body.

As long as there is a magic net in Qiao An's body, the magic net threads penetrating his body will be pulled by the mark Liyanan built in his body, automatically forming many nodes and vortexes.

All these nodes and vortexes have the function of absorbing magic, and together constitute the source of "Sid's mana".

In other words, if Joan is thrown into a world where there is no magic net, or if the imprint in his body is erased, he will lose the "supernatural ability" of automatically obtaining "Sid's mana" every day.

Supernatural abilities and magical abilities have both similarities and significant differences.

The energy of both comes from the magic net. Without the magic net, neither spells nor supernatural abilities can be cast.

The main difference lies in the structure of the two.

The basis of supernatural abilities is the "magic imprint", and these imprints are closely connected with the flesh and blood and even the soul of specific creatures, and cannot exist independently.

The foundation of magic is the "spell configuration", which can exist independently of the caster. It is precisely because of this feature that the caster can engrave the "spell configuration" on an object and make it into a magic tool.