For the past few months, Desmond and his group stayed hidden on the underground. Felix and his men had a job to go out and kill those beasts, bringing back their corpses for them to eat.


    While Annie and the rest of the girls were responsible for cooking and house designing, at some times, Laura also taught Alice about other spells. Although her progress learning about various spells was a bit slower whenpared to the academy, at least she was safe in there.


    As for Desmond, he built a small room for him to absorb the beasts'' corpses and simultaneously researched about it. The more he absorbed, the stronger he became. He also found there was a bit of simrity between the Ghoul flesh he bought that time and the corpse from those beasts.


    After dismembering and studying those beasts'' organs, the various new knowledge he gained made him have a bold idea.


    While some valuable parts from the beast would store and sell to a small vige that his subordinates would send once a week, while sending the goods, Desmond alsomanded his subordinates to keep intact about the news from the outer world.


    From what Desmond heard, the beast really attacked the North Kingdom, which put the kingdom in turmoil for the past few months.


    Their Grandmaster had lost on his hands, causing them to have no way to resist the attack from the Sky Hunter, which eventually led the king to intervene. As for the rest of his subordinates looking at their rtives for the loved one, they did not evene back, or it seemed dead amid beast horde.


    From the decreased amount of the beasts in the outer territory, it could be said there someone reallymanded those beasts to keep attacking the North Kingdom.


    This news made Desmond was 90% sure that the strange beast that Felix talked about was the one whomanded and might be the protagonist of this world.


    The news about the North Kingdom being attacked by a beast horde made the humans be restless. With the South still battling against the demons, only the Imperial Empire was left.


    However, the rtionships between the human kingdom wereplicated. Even after the beasts attacked the North Kingdom for the past months, Desmond still did not hear any news of reinforcement from the Imperial Empire.


    This matter made all of the humans panicked, but to Desmond, he could not pay extra attention to them as his intention to gather the information was about his parent''s condition.


    Unfortunately, there were not even rumors about them. From this point, Desmond concluded even he could not contact his parent from now or in the future, it seemed he was the temporary leader right now.


    ....


    Inside the hidden base, where the tower of the light or that should be called for now stood tall beside another frozen water where a mansion was seen above it.


    Many frozen stairs were connected to eachnd near theke that eventually led to the pathway to the mansion. The mansion was so big enough to amodate a few rooms.


    However, a shocking sight was seen outside of the mansion. Many beast''s corpsesying on the ground with their body had lost some parts.


    When someone entered the mansion, they would be shocked as most of the room was made by the sses filled with the corpse of the beasts and thick green blood on the floor.


    There was one room with another source of light that flickers along with the hustle sounds among those rooms.


    Inside the room, a young man who looked fifteen was seen holding several sses of potions in his hands while carefully pouring those potions into the big cauldron.


    When the tip of those potions was opened, a disgusting smell spread around the room—scaring those spiders and house lizards on the ceiling.


    The room was vast, with several tables that could be seen. Each of them had a big cauldron on it. Some pot was filled with strange thick blood while the other just had some parts of animals'' organs.


    The young man was Desmond. This year, he just reached the age of 11, but his appearance did not match his age—a full-grown beard and mustache with his long hair tied in a pony tail.


    "One...two...there," After a few months had passed, Desmond had neglected his training and now focused on the experiment about the bloodline. Since he heard about that strange beast, he became curious about another type of beast.


    Even with the help of the system, the ingredient, the recipe, and his self-taught knowledge made his research progress was a bit faster.


    [Cauldron no. 005 have been analyzed!]


    [Saving the data to the host''s mind...]


    [Creating a custom method and new recipe...]


    [A recipe for the Husk King Bloodline has been stored!]


    When these notifications appearance in his view, there was a hint of joy in his eyes. In these past months, he created many recipes for each bloodline, hoping to test on the human body after editing and modifying a bit to suit human nature.


    "The Husk king, Dire wolves, andstly Husk Wolves have the same generation. There is a chance a Husk King emerged from those Husk Wolves and Dire Wolves." Desmond muttered. He just found the origin of Husk King, that there was no knowledge about it in the human library.


    He nced at the cauldron that filled with ghoul organs and some beast organs mixed with it. There was natural energy swirling around it, and the pot was also being heated.


    Desmond used the most traditional and orthodox method he knew, putting all of the organs and blood after being sorted and scanned by the system to the one cauldron.


    [Cauldron no. 006 have been analyzed!]


    Suddenly the cauldron that filled with ghoul organs on it began to tremble let out a loud and whistle sound. Desmond nervously waited for the natural energy to disperse, but as time passed, the natural energy on that cauldron became more unstable.


    *boom*


    A cloud of smoke emerged along with a bang sound. When Desmond used his spell to disperse the smoke, the ghoul organs were still in a perfect state without any scratchying on the ground while the cauldron had already turned into ashes.


    "A failure again," Desmond sighed. There had been many times he failed after selecting the best organs from those beasts. But every time he tried to mix that with the ghoul organs, it would always explode, destroying the other ingredient except the ghoul.


    "Forget it. Now I need to hunt some beast that has a dragon-rted bloodline," Desmond muttered. He spread his arm, making several cauldrons that were in the process of refining stop to work.


    He also tried to recreate the dragon bloodline, but it did not work as smoothly as he did back then. From the several failures, he could conclude this must be rted to that formation.