Pursuing Knowledge

Campaign: Android Anguish

Chapter 11 / 6-5

Pursuing Knowledge

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Summary

Blaming his body for not being able to handle the blight of wyrmscale, Phares prepares to move his research of the disease into its next stage.

Dialogue

(Wh-where am I...?) (I can't feel my limbs. Can't think. My voice is...) RAAAAAGH! (THAT is my voice? ...Yes, I see. I have finally become a dragon!)

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...Ah. That dream once more. (I have seen it countless times. It used to fill me with fear, but no more.) (Now I am simply filled with curiosity. If anything, I cannot wait for that fated day to finally arrive.) But for now, back to my research. I must see my plan to fruition.

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Hmm? Well, how interesting. How did this book end up here? Just seeing it brings back memories. ...I forgot how worn it had become. (There are very few books on the subject of wyrmscale, so when I first began my research, I searched high and low for anything even remotely of interest.) (This was one such book.)

Wyrmscale is an unusual disease
that afflicts a small number of the
dragon bloodline.

Its origin lies in that bloodline's
especially close ties to dragons.

But occasionally, a child is born
whose mana is nearly identical
to that of a dragon.

As this child's mana develops, they
gradually become less human
and more dragon.

The first sign is the appearance
of scales on the body, followed by
turning into a dragon entirely.

However, the human body is not
capable of completing such a
transition, meaning the afflicted
suffer a prolonged, horrible death
as their status progresses.

This has been the way of wyrmscale
throughout recorded history.

It is a terrifying, terminal disease.

Ha! What a childish analysis. (If we resign ourselves to defeat at the first hurdle and declare the unachieved to be impossible, we will never grow.) (Why does no one even stop to question whether wyrmscale even IS a disease?) (Wyrmscale is not the problem—the frail human BODY is the problem!) I've long since outgrown this book. Others may be content to live in the past, but my plan to move forward is already well and truly underway. (If my body cannot handle the transition into a dragon, I will simply remake it. But to do so, I need a power that is not of this world.) The first phase of my plan was a success: the Other has been successfully revived. Now we move on to the second phase. It is time to awaken our family's secret...