Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 89 Broken Arm Knight
  This topic is undoubtedly a bit heavy, at least for Samantha. She still can't understand what reasons require Purficott to say that she "has no right to let them live", but she can at least Understand, there is a secret behind this that she is not qualified to know.

So soon, Samantha and Purficott changed topics.

"Your Majesty, Baroness, I heard that your parents were once famous masters of alchemy and were good at refining human bodies. Is that true?" Samantha asked this question a little rudely, with a look in her eyes. With some hope.

Purficott glanced at her, tilted his head and asked, "Does anyone in your family have any health problems?"

Although human body refining has no longer been a taboo in recent years, for ordinary people, this technology is still contrary to the mainstream religious beliefs of the empire. Generally speaking, no one would want to find an alchemist to modify their human body. .

Samantha is obviously an adult woman with sound limbs and a very healthy body. It doesn't look like she needs an alchemist to modify her body.

As for pursuing more powerful power and accepting taboo transformation, this kind of thing is expressly prohibited in the empire, especially for a guard knight like Samantha, it is even more unthinkable.

This is not because the empire rejects high-level combat forces, but because such behavior can easily lead to more disasters.

Just imagine, if a knight accepted the transformation of an alchemist and gained strength far beyond ordinary people, what would other knights who were not as good as him think?
  Will they also go to the alchemist to transform themselves? And is the alchemist who transformed them an upright person with no other thoughts?
  You must know that the refining of the human body was taboo back then, and most alchemists studied it secretly. Although there was a pursuit of knowledge and truth, it was inevitable that some people studied it for other purposes.

If someone has undue ambitions, then some things will be difficult to say.

Not to mention other things, changing the facial skeletal muscles to shape one person's face into another person's face is really not too simple for an alchemist who studies the human body.

That’s why the empire prohibits knights from accepting this kind of human body modification, especially the knights of the guard. Otherwise, any thoughtful alchemist can use this to control the entire knights of the guard, and then secretly subvert the royal family without anyone knowing. .

Because of this, Purficott obviously did not think that it was Samantha who wanted to undergo body modification, rather than that she could only do it for her family.

Samantha nodded affirmatively, and then explained: "It's my younger brother. He has very good talents and would have become a better knight than me. But when he was a child, he broke his arm in an accident and died. You can no longer become a knight.

Although he had been working hard to change all this, the lack of one hand had a great impact on the knight. No matter how hard he tried, he could not break through the shackles and become a real knight.

I heard that your parents were alchemists who were good at refining human bodies, so I wanted to ask you to help them..."

After listening to Samantha's request, Purficott shook his head slightly and said, "You should know that the empire prohibits knights from undergoing any human body refining and transformation. I'm afraid I can't help your brother in this regard unless he doesn't become a knight in the future. , or face the black hyena with confidence.”

The law is often unkind, but if it is not like this, there will always be people who want to take advantage of the law, and once someone starts, there will be no way to stop them.

That's why the empire has such inhumane regulations. It would rather allow the knights to lose their combat effectiveness after being disabled than to allow them to undergo human body modification and return to the battlefield.

This provision does not only cover knights serving in the army, but also any officially registered knight in the empire. If someone violates the rules, in addition to being officially removed from the list, the Knights Association will also send a special hunting team to eliminate these knights who violate the rules.

Of course, the scope of duties of the hunting team is not limited to this. They are occasionally used to eliminate dissidents.

However, this is an internal struggle within the Knights Association and has little to do with the official empire.

The hunting team usually wears black armor, so they are derogatorily called black hyenas.

Purficott had some dealings with them in the past, mainly because the Brandless family itself is a knight family, but her parents are alchemy masters who made human bodies. It is inevitable that the Knights Association would suspect that they were doing some taboo research. .

It's just that the Brandless family still had the blessing of the old Baron Brandless when Purficott's parents were around, so it wasn't a big problem.

However, with the passing of Mr. and Mrs. Brandlis, the influence of the old baron was inevitably reduced, so the Knights Association had some undue thoughts at that time, which made Purficott spend some effort. Get rid of them.

Although Purficott's power is no longer what it used to be, she still doesn't want to mess with such a giant as the Knights Association. After all, those black hyenas are really annoying.

"You can't even do anything?" Samantha suddenly showed a disappointed expression on her face.

As a knight of the guard, if she wanted to find an alchemist who could cure her brother, of course she could find one, but just like Purficott, any regular alchemist would not take this job if they didn't want to get into trouble.

So this was not the first time that Samantha consulted the alchemist on this issue. Most of the people's answers were that they were helpless. A few people who were a little more conscientious or had decent skills even advised her to simply change her brother. Metal prosthetics can at least restore some of the body's functions.

But Samantha took into account her brother's long-standing ideal of becoming a knight and did not do so. Instead, she kept thinking of ways to restore her brother's arm.

However, unless she goes to find those illegal alchemists and makes her brother only an informal knight from now on, there is little hope in this matter.

However, Purficott seemed to have some different views on this. After thinking about it, she asked: "How was your brother's arm broken? Was it a broken bone, or was the entire arm missing?"

"The forearm was crushed by a stone and had to be amputated during treatment. However, there was also a problem with the remaining big arm, which affected his body balance and also affected his limb activities." When Samantha heard Purficott ask this, although she gave up hope, she still introduced her brother's situation to her.

After listening to Samantha's answer, Purficott thought for a while and then said: "In your brother's case, if you insist on becoming a knight, then there is no need to consider human body training. The Knights Association will not agree.

But if I can get around this, I still have a way. After all, the purpose of healing his arm is to make him a knight, right? "

(End of this chapter)