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274. Chapter 274: The Origin of Ghouls! The Mother that Birthed the Dragon!

"Furthermore, by eating, lost kakuhou can regrow. However, the speed of regrowth is determined by the ghoul's individual physique. Some ghouls can recover in a short time, while others may take several months. But overall, Hinami Fueguchi won't lose anything; instead, she'll gain the strength to protect what she wants to protect."

"I... I agree."

As soon as Xia Shang finished speaking, a little girl walked out from behind Ryouko Fueguchi.

The girl looked nervously at Xia Shang on the throne and said timidly, "I want to protect them, so I'm willing."

"Good." Xia Shang raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Dark Knight beside him. "Next, he will take you for a tour of the 20th Ward Underground Detention Center. If that's not enough, I'll figure out other means."

With that, Xia Shang left a clone and walked out of the ravaged Room with Rize Kamishiro.

Coming outside, Rize frowned and said, "What benefit is there for you to turn us into SSS-rank ghouls? I estimate you're already a kakuja. With your strength, devouring more high-quality kakuhou won't give you any further improvement."

"Did the Washuu Clan tell you this?" Xia Shang stopped at a corner.

"You actually know about the Washuu Clan?"

Rize Kamishiro was very surprised. The Washuu Clan was deeply hidden in Japan. Ordinary ghouls and humans, let alone knowing about them, probably hadn't even heard of them.

"Hundreds of years ago, the Washuu Clan, far away in the Middle East, discovered the first natural One-Eyed Ghoul in an Underground Air-Raid Shelter. They spent a great deal of effort researching the abnormal changes in the One-Eyed Ghoul. They yearned to possess abilities that ordinary humans couldn't. This was a huge wealth, wealth enough to rule the world..." Xia Shang said unhurriedly.

Rize Kamishiro listened very carefully, understanding that the other party was definitely recounting the past history of the Washuu Clan, sealed away for centuries.

In Xia Shang's voice, it was as if there were invisible hands wiping away the accumulated dust from an ancient text.

"Later, under their tireless research, the One-Eyed Ghoul underwent even more astonishing changes. With its massive size and terrifying appearance, they called it the King of the Underground. At the same time, they called this process of change Dragonization."

As the ancient text was slowly opened, Rize Kamishiro felt as if she had touched upon a taboo, her heart pounding incessantly.

"Until one day, the Dragonization completely finished, and the One-Eyed Ghoul evolved into what they called the Dragon. However, what they didn't expect was that the evolved Dragon would release a virus, a Dragonling Virus that turned ordinary humans into ghouls. Carelessly, most members of the Washuu Clan, who had built their base on the air-raid shelter, became ghouls who could only survive by eating humans, almost overnight.

The sudden change made the Washuu Clan extremely uneasy, so they used their trump card, killed the Dragon of that time, and buried it in the cave. Centuries later, the Washuu Clan immigrated from the Middle East to Japan. By this time, as the first generation of Infected, their ghoul bloodline was pure, and they called themselves 'Pure-Blood Ghouls'.

At the same time, they did not give up on their research into ghouls. They had discovered in the Middle East that by combining with humans far removed from the ghoul bloodline, the offspring born would be stronger than Pure-Blood Ghouls, which are the so-called Half-Ghouls, One-Eyed Ghouls, and Half-Humans."

The Half-Humans Xia Shang referred to were special ghouls who possessed ghoul bloodline but lacked the unique kakugan and kagune of ghouls. Half-Humans could not generate kakuhou within their bodies, and thus could not use kagune. However, unlike ghouls, Half-Humans could eat human food and possessed the same powerful physical quality as ghouls.

Although it sounded almost perfect, practically like a perfect product between ghouls and humans.

Unfortunately, the creator played a cruel joke; the lifespan of Half-Humans was less than half that of ordinary humans.

"And then?" Rize pressed.

"Thanks to rapidly advancing modern medicine, the Washuu Clan discovered a special type of cells in the bodies of ghouls and humans."

"RC Cells."

"Exactly." Xia Shang paused for a moment, then continued, "But they found that the concentration of these cells in ghouls was much higher than in humans. It was precisely because of this excessively high cell concentration that ghouls were endowed with unique abilities. However, these cells die naturally, and to replenish them, ghouls can only devour humans to maintain the cell concentration. If they want to increase and evolve their kagune, they must turn their predatory means towards their kindred.

But what if there aren't enough kindred?"

The intelligent Rize Kamishiro quickly provided the solution, "Create Dragons, thereby turning more humans into ghouls."

"Clever. That's exactly what the Washuu Clan did. But despite countless experiments using various methods, they were always unable to create a new Dragon. It was at this moment that they discovered a member of their own family had contracted RC Cell Over-Secretion Syndrome. Ghouls suffering from this disease have a much faster rate of RC Cell division than ordinary ghouls.

At the same time, their appetite is enormous. While an ordinary ghoul might only need to eat one or two humans a month, a patient would need to eat three or four humans a week. This sparked intense curiosity in them. What excited them even more was that ghouls suffering from this disease actually had the potential to evolve into a Dragon.

However, to evolve into a Dragon, one more condition had to be met."

"A One-Eyed Ghoul," Rize Kamishiro said coldly.

"No wonder I was imprisoned since birth. It turns out they saw me as the Mother of the Dragon."

Rize's voice was filled with killing intent.

"That's all I wanted to say." Xia Shang pulled his hands out of his pocket. A thin slit vertically split his brow. As the sides of his body stepped left and right, the middle part twisted and deformed like clay. In the blink of an eye, two Xia Shangs appeared in place.

"So you cultivated me, also wanting me to become the Mother that gives birth to the Dragon."

Rize Kamishiro's eyes were instantly covered by a black membrane, her blood-red pupils staring intently at Xia Shang.

"More or less," Xia Shang answered honestly.

To him, the Dragon possessed powerful flesh and blood proliferation ability, which could compensate for his weakness of insufficient stamina. Think about it, once he possessed a physique large enough to wrap around a Building, his stamina would essentially be more than sufficient. By then, Soldier Boy's trump card ability, the Chest Beam, would become a regular method of attack in his hands.

This was the most valuable thing in the ghoul world.

As for kagune and the like, they were just snacks he ate along the way.

Compared to superpowers, Xia Shang paid more attention to his own physical body and mental focus. Of course, if he could become a nebula lifeform, perhaps he could even abandon his physical body, but that kind of thing was too distant for him, even out of reach.

(End of chapter)