After a long time of being told to prepare and study hard for the ultimate experiment that their boss was prepared to embark on, the 1st Den of Anatomy jolted to life as the time finally came.

  All the anatomists, both those that Sebastian met here and inducted into his team and those that followed from the Anemone Domain were all stoked for the possibly once-in-a-lifetime encounter.

  Getting to dissect a Leviathon was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime encounter.

  The experiment didn't start immediately though. After engaging in what Sebastian termed passive preparation, active preparation finally started.

  The passive preparation was mostly him and his assistants all stacking up their knowledge on Space Beasts and other relevant general knowledge.

  After the encounter in the Anemone Domain, precisely the Aurora Hospital, and adding the knowledge that Eliana revealed to him, Sebastian's knowledge in the anatomy domain about Oceania finally grew to a sufficient level.

  Now, he practically already knew all the theoretical knowledge that he needed to know about a Leviathon and other powerful rare beasts in Oceania.

  With this knowledge, he could finally start his experiment but Sebastian wanted everything to be perfect. Everything needed to be perfect since getting the opportunity to work on a Leviathon was indeed an incredibly rare chance.

  If he screwed up, destroying his Leviathon test subject in the process, Sebastian was not sure if the Clown Empire would be so accommodating to babysit him to hunt another Space Beast.

  Having heard of the powerful beast organization called the Sacred Temple of the Pinnacles, he knew that it was taboo for Beast Empires to wantonly start hunting these pinnacle bloodline predators.

  The Sacred Temple of Pinnacles was such a mighty organization that even the Clown Empire was unwilling to antagonize them.

  Sebastian did not dare to push his luck, he wanted perfection, his test subject must not be ruined which was why this active preparation was necessary.

  The first thing that Sebastian did was call all his assistants to the core anatomy lab of the 1st Den of Anatomy.

  Of course, his Atlantian living doppelganger was the one who did this calling while his main body got to rest. After going nonstop for months, the main body finally earned the rest that it deserved.

  This laboratory was a massively expanded version of the previous one that occupied here, almost 10 times bigger than the anatomy library where Sebastian got to work with Doctor Craban and others in the Aurora Hospital.

  Starting with Eliana and Josephine, once all the assistants that would be directly working on this experiment came, Sebastian addressed them.

  He didn't talk much, first confirming that they were all familiar with the machines that they were about to make use of in this experiment.

  Once he confirmed this, he once again confirmed that all the machines were working well and were in pristine condition before moving to important topics.

  Through remote control, Sebastian presented a virtual projection in the water that was large enough for all the anatomists in the laboratory to see-

  Priority Experiment Targets:

  1.    Research on Mana Cores.

  2.    Alternative Mana Recovery Option.

  3.    Research on Mechanical Implants.

  "This, is our priority for the duration of this active preparation time".

  After finally dissecting and working on the corpse of the Leviathon, Sebastian wanted to start his ultimate doppelganger vessel creation immediately after as that time would be when he would be most inspired.

  This was why he cut out these priority experiment targets from the real main experiment which was dissecting the Leviathon and exploring its anatomy.

  Sebastian's plan for his ultimate vessel was extremely ambitious. He was a potential candidate to become the Ocean Master, once he knew the significance of this title, he simply refused to think small again.

  He was past that level where he needed to scheme repeatedly with contingency plans, and pray fervently for grace just to attack a Blue Tang fish and earn his daily meal.

  Now, he was a powerful purple tier predator who had 2 unique skills. This was something that no other predator in Oceania had ever replicated.

  He was unique and he knew it, so his goals were now also unique.

  After his breakthrough experiment on mana cores, Sebastian took his research data away. Now, he was ready to start tackling this problem again since he wanted to implement it on his new living doppelganger.

  With powerful and knowledgeable assistants like Eliana and Josephine, he did not believe that this was an insurmountable challenge.

  About the mechanical implant, he got this idea after listening to the Chief Councilor of the Anemone Domain. Originally, he was intimidated by the prospects of taking this difficult route but he changed his mind.

  He already got the research data from the Anemone Domain. All he needed now was to finetune it to fit his new living doppelganger body.

  As a living doppelganger that Sebastian created to be his ultimate war vessel, he wanted it to be as overpowered as possible in every possible way.

  His living doppelganger would probably be stuck in battles spanning hundreds of kilometers in the future, where it had to fight overwhelming enemy forces while controlling other doppelgangers to help.

  With so many things going through his head in battle, he theorized that an implant would make things a lot easier. With an implant, his brain would be partly computerized, enabling him to process information at a far faster speed.

  The last of his priority experiment targets was the alternative mana recovery option. Sebastian saw this as the most important priority of them all.

  After the battle encounter with the Leviathon, Sebastian understood the importance of having unlimited mana access even more. 

  Without his ability to keep his mana up to par at all times by stealing the spilled mana of his opponent, he would have run out of mana far faster than his opponent which would have handed an easy victory to the Leviathon.

  He didn't think of this before but after tasting the delicious advantage provided by unlimited mana through his mana control skill, he was adamant to replicate the same with his ultimate war vessel.

  This could be a defining trait of his war vessel in the future.

  It was at moments like this that he loved his Mana Lord evolution route all the more but he couldn't replicate it with his Space Beast living doppelganger, this was because Leviathons had different evolution routes to Megalodons.

  Sebastian didn't have any idea to replicate this, but this was why he called it an experiment. With intellectuals like Josephine, Eliana, and Doctor Craban around him, he believed that they would eventually come up with something.

  Once Sebastian listed his priority experiment targets to his assistants and explained to them what they represented, he finally laid his work plan to them.

  "For the Research on Mana Cores experiment target, I and Jakren will be the lead anatomists of an anatomy team dedicated to this target".

  "For the Research on Mechanical Implants experiment target, I, Eliana, Josephine, and Doctor Craban will be the lead anatomists of another anatomy team that is entirely dedicated to this target".

  "For the last experiment target which is the Alternative Mana Recovery option, I, Eliana, and Josephine will be the lead anatomists of the anatomy team that is dedicated to this target".

  "We're not stopping until we get results".

  "And we'll start our main experiment only when we get conclusive results for all 3 priority experiment targets".

  "Now, let's get to work!"

  "Yes, boss!"