I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 542 Is it a woman?
"You mean, you're an adventurer party from Grandal who stumbled upon a treasure map, and then this... um, the sorceress, through 'divine revelation,' received the ritual to open the gate to the secret realm and came here?"

Fang Yu looked at the five people with a strange expression.

"Yes, yes," Sora answered hesitantly, forcing a smile.

Who exactly is this person?!

How could he have so easily snatched himself back from the clutches of death?
And with just a wave of their hand, they were all back on the ground from that dangerous treasure room!

Even legendary heroes, I've never heard of anyone having such an ability!

Sora suddenly remembered the headless corpse of Mariz that she had seen at the entrance before entering the treasure room.

Did he kill that Mariz?

That's a level 7 monster!

Even the Knights of Turbid Water City would need to send at least a squadron to drive away a level 7 monster!

Moreover, it was only to drive them away, not to eliminate them.

If their squad were to encounter a monster like Mariz, even with the best of luck, they could only hope to leave with a complete corpse.

This powerful monster was killed in one blow, seemingly without even a chance to fight back. Just how strong was it?

How could such a powerful being ask so many questions that lack common sense?
Could it be... that he is the strongest being in this secret realm? The ultimate boss?

Sora was startled by her own guess and looked up at Fang Yu, only to see Fang Yu stroking his chin, deep in thought.

Fang Yu never expected that these people were not from the main plane, but from some unknown sub-plane.

He hadn't expected that these people had no idea they were in an abyss, only that it was a secret realm.

He never expected that this secondary dimension would develop a supernatural system that was not entirely the same as the primary dimension.

Although the various professions in this sub-plane are essentially based on sacrificing spiritual power and faith to obtain extraordinary abilities, they have no temples there, and they don't even know what a temple is!
"Faith is a private contract between an individual and God. Any third party's misinterpretation of God's will is blasphemy against God."

This is common knowledge for everyone at Grandall.

The temple is a third party.

Could it be that there are too few people in this sub-plane, so the legendary mages have switched from a B2B sales model to a B2C model here?
This is totally unreasonable.

Moreover, in this plane, a person can worship multiple gods, but the more gods one worships, the lower the chance of advancing to a higher level in a particular career path.

What surprised him most was the girl who claimed to be a "sorcerer"—Mirdran.

At first, he thought that the girl had been seduced by some evil god and that the girl had set a trap for their team, deliberately leading them to their doom.

After all, for low-level adventurers like them, even if the Abyss no longer has high-level demons, it is not a place they can set foot in.

Even if they don't encounter any monsters here, if they stay for three more days, their life force will be worn away by the abundant death energy in the abyss, and they will die a violent death.

Unexpectedly, the entire team vehemently denied this speculation.

Because a warlock's spellcasting ability is actually innate!

Warlocks are extremely rare, perhaps only one in hundreds of thousands.

They do not need to believe in any gods. They are born with abilities that ordinary people do not have. After awakening for some reason, these abilities will become stronger and stronger as they grow older.

However, the stronger this ability becomes, the more it erodes their sanity and the easier it is for them to lose control.

Once their bloodline awakens, they will be constantly influenced by it and will often "hear" a lot of information from unknown sources.

The voice did not belong to any known deity; it was more like a whisper leaking from the cracks in the universe.

This information torments their minds constantly, and over time, they will begin to go insane and mentally unstable, increasing the possibility of losing control of their magic.

Therefore, few warlocks live past thirty; most perish between the ages of 25 and 28 due to uncontrolled magic.

Mir is already 23 years old; it's no exaggeration to say that he's buried up to his neck in the yellow earth.

As a sorcerer, one of Mir's abilities is—foresight.

This kind of precognition is different from divination; it's more like someone telling Mir directly what to do when she encounters a problem.

Not only can Mir foresee danger, but he can also foresee the conditions for opening a secret realm when he obtains a treasure map of an unknown realm.

In their past expeditions, it was thanks to Mir's precognitive abilities that their team was able to escape danger time and again, making a name for themselves in Grandal.

The power from one's bloodline?
Interestingly, even though the primary plane is already in the Dharma-ending Age, a certain secondary plane still retains the ability to cast spells on its own.

"My lord, thank you for lending a helping hand in our time of crisis. The Eternal Flame will never forget your kindness. These are the spoils we obtained in the secret realm. Although they are not many, they are all we have."

Hefley took out the slime she had collected from the Babboo and the box of purple crystals from Sora's backpack, and presented them to Fang Yu with her chubby hands.

Fang Yu only glanced at it before recognizing that this crystal was a specialty of the Abyss, and also its hard currency, a de facto store of value—the Soul Crystal.

This thing has a similar status to diamonds in the Prime Material Plane; both can be used as universal spellcasting materials.

However, intelligent beings who use Soul Crystals to cast spells will have their spirituality corrupted and marked. After death, their spirituality will not return to the Astral Plane, but will be pulled into the Abyss.

"No need," Fang Yu said casually. "I don't need it. You can keep it. But these things have quite a few side effects on ordinary people, so it's best to avoid them."

Hefley paused for a moment, feeling both relieved and somewhat worried.

Before she could even begin to make her promises, Fang Yu continued, "However, I do have two small requests."

Herfley and Sora's hearts, which had just settled down, were on edge again.

"I need a vial of this sorceress's blood."

"Also, I'm planning to go to Grandal, which you mentioned, to see where the secret realm gate you just talked about is."

Upon hearing Fang Yu's request, the four exchanged bewildered glances, even Mir, who had always appeared vacant and dazed, showed a look of surprise.

Blood? In this world with all sorts of divine arts, handing over your blood is no different from handing over your life.

Going to Grandal again? What if you're actually a monster from this secret realm? Wouldn't that be like inviting a wolf into the house?
But can I refuse?
The group stared at each other, wide-eyed.
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Haixi, College of Life Sciences, National University, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biotechnology.

The lab, which usually had someone monitoring the machines at 2 a.m., was empty except for Fang Yu. Only Youzi was in front of the computer, controlling the Mage Hand and typing away on the keyboard.

"Master! Master! The DNA sequencing results are in!"

The pomelo was shining with a bright white light, clearly very shocked.

"What was the result?" Fang Yu's eyes flashed as he stared intently at the pomelo.

After obtaining the blood and passing through the secret gate to Grandal, he set up an anchor point and immediately switched back to Haixi. He borrowed the National Synthetic Biology Laboratory from Zhang Xinnian and asked the ship girl Han Xiao to help him with blood testing and DNA sequencing.

The blood test results came back very quickly, in half a day.

The results weren't anything to worry about; although most of the indicators were unhealthy, no unknown components were detected.

DNA sequencing is slower, but the national high-throughput sequencing equipment has been installed, and there's no need to wait in line. The entire WGS data output was completed in less than twenty hours.

All that's left is the comparison result. And that's precisely where the grapefruit and orange model excels.

The whole genome alignment and molecular clock simulation, which would normally take more than ten days to complete, were done in less than ten minutes by the Orange Big Model.

The entire human database, evolutionary tree backtracking, STR mutation trajectories... all combined take less than an hour. If parallel tasks are used, the time can even be reduced to less than eight minutes.

"Reporting to Master, Miss Sorcerer's whole genome sequencing is complete, with a coverage depth of 31.2X and a Q30 pass rate of 93.7%. After genome alignment, the Orange Big Model has completed population fitting analysis and molecular clock deduction."

The white light on Yuzu's body flickered slightly, clearly still in shock, her voice filled with complex emotions.

"Like the humans in the prime material plane that we have measured before, Miss Warlock's overall allele frequency is significantly different from that of modern humans."

"STR drift rate, SNP frequency, and interchromosomal LD ​​structure have all completely deviated from the lineage of the modern human main population. But—"

Yuzi paused for a moment, and then a burst of white light emanated from her body.

"However, in a low recombination region of chromosome 9, we found a 2.3kb high-fidelity ancestral fragment containing a complex rare mutation structure at four loci."

"This complex rare mutation structure is highly consistent with modern populations in southwestern Gaul in existing databases, and belongs to a branch of the R1b haplogroup lineage of the Caucasian race!"

Fang Yu's expression changed, and he stood up abruptly.

"Are you sure?"

A flash of white light appeared on Yuzi's body: "Of course I'm sure!"

Fang Yu's expression shifted: "What about the molecular clock calculation? When did her ancestors diverge from the Gauls on Earth?"

The pomelo flashed like a phone's LED flashlight: "There is no differentiation! Master!"

There is no differentiation?
Fang Yu was taken aback.

How could differentiation not exist?

Yuzu's voice was almost cracking: "This structure is simply the mutation structure of modern Gauls! It's not a precursor, not a variant, but a continuation!"

"Based on STR variant accumulation, mutation density in non-recombination regions, and mutation load modeling and extrapolation from the third hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA—"

"Her genome continued to evolve 16,000 years after the timeline of modern humans!"

! ! ! ! ! !
Fang Yu was startled and alarmed.

Yuzu's voice trembled: "Not only that, among more than 1.8 million human samples in the global database, only one numbered sample showed 100% sequence identity with Miss Warlock in this 2.3kb non-recombination region structure, with no missing compound mutation sites, and the fit reached the statistical limit."

"Match number: HM-BF-990204, Adrian Akani, collected from the National Biobank of Gaul in 2010."

really! ! !

"boom!"

Fang Yu's aura erupted uncontrollably, and the powerful airflow he generated shattered the office windows, leaving the desks and chairs inside crooked and twisted, as if they had been bombed.

Fortunately, those experimental instruments weren't here; otherwise, not only would they have lost money, but it would have taken the National University at least a year and a half to rebuild such a laboratory.

The delivery time for the instrument is too long.

Adrian!!!

The legendary first genius intermediate mage in history—Adrian Akani!

That guy who lives off the legendary mage Lysia of the Life School—Adrian Akani!

Adrian Akani, who created his own divine art of wealth and hoped to escape the great calamity by becoming a god before the end of the Dharma era!

This "warlock" named Mildran is actually a descendant of Adrian Akani!

More importantly, Adrian Akani is a human from Earth!
And he's a modern Earthling!

He was still on Earth at least six years ago!

How is this going?

If that's the case, many of my previous guesses will be overturned!
"This is the information I found about Adrian. I'll send it to you... uh..." Yuzu glanced at the office, which was now a mess after Fang Yu's outburst. There wasn't a single working computer left to send the file.

Fang Yu picked up a notebook and used a repair spell.

After restarting, Youzi sent over the data.

Fang Yu opened the PDF sent by Youzi and began to read it intently.

Adrian Akani was born on July 28, 3034, in Gaulreen.

In 3041, Adrian Akani moved with his parents to Montreal, Canada.

In 3052, he was admitted to the School of Engineering at MIT, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

During his studies, he never received a grade lower than A- in any of his major courses and held over one hundred pending or granted technology patents. These patents cover multiple fields, including mechanical design, software development, communications, and energy networks.

3053–3054: Selected for the “CSAIL Young Scholars Program” and the “MIT IUR Future Project”;
Fall 3055: Received early graduation qualification from MIT and directly enrolled in Harvard University's interdisciplinary graduate program;
During his university years, he published a total of 17 papers, including 6 in Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, and ACM SIGARCH, and 3 which were shelved by the MIT Ethics Review Board due to "ethical uncertainty".

In 3057, Adrian disappeared at a party hosted by his classmate in Boston, and has not been found since.

Relationship history: Veronica Le Verrier, a student at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Major: Philosophy (Specialization in Modern Philosophy of Languages)

Minor: Comparative Literature, History of Religion
The two met in early 3053, when Adrian presented a mathematical refutation of the existence of God at a joint Harvard-Massachusetts philosophy workshop, which provoked strong opposition from Veronica.

After that, they had frequent discussions and debates, and their relationship gradually developed.

They officially started dating in the summer of 3053, which lasted for about 9 months. The reason for their breakup is unknown.

The PDF also lists a bunch of Adrian's published papers and patents.

Finally, there are several headshots and casual photos of Adrian.

In the photo, a blonde woman in her early twenties is looking at the camera with a faint smile.

and many more.

A blonde woman?

Is Adrian Akani a woman?

Wait a minute, there wasn't any mitochondrial DNA data for comparison in the DNA data just now.

How could it be a woman?
If it were a woman, mtDNA could be used to determine whether Adrian was the ancestor of that sorcerer lady, so why bother with whole genome comparison?
“Um, Master, I also compared the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) data, and Miss Sorcerer’s mitochondrial DNA is completely identical to Adrian’s.”

Yuzu chuckled dryly twice and unconsciously drifted backward.

What LGBTQWERTYUIOP!

(End of this chapter)