Wizard Alchemist

Chapter 264: Tumor-Transforming Demonic Source
"Evant, how are you?"

Roy looked up at the apprentice with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

There are many apprentices in the Witch Tower with strange appearances, many of which are the result of failed witchcraft experiments or transformations.

He has seen a lot.

But it seems like this is the first time I have witnessed this process with my own eyes.

Except for Andov's blindness and Pimir's broken arm...

"Ah... my head hurts... it hurts so much..."

Ivant responded vaguely, not seeming to be fully conscious.

"Can you still understand me?"

Roy instantly became alert, half curious, half tentative.

But Ivant seemed to be trapped in a nightmare, still mumbling incoherently.

Roy frowned.

Not long after, Ulide and others rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing this scene, they couldn't help but show expressions of surprise and regret.

"Lord Roy, what happened to him?"

Roy explained: "It seems like he has brain damage."

"What should we do then?" Everyone looked at him.

Roy said: "It has come to this, I am afraid there is no cure.

Leave first and seal off the surrounding area!"

……

After leaving the laboratory, Roy returned to his small hut in the camp, took out some information from his space ring and started looking it up.

“In the realm of the gods, there are demigods or false gods.

Being promoted to a formal wizard also has similar...

Known as a half-wizard!

This is a group of flawed people who have power but lack the potential and lifespan to match it.

Ivant should have possessed a wizard's body by now, but his spirit failed to sublimate, and his brain could not withstand the radiation pollution of witchcraft energy, leading to confusion.

What a pity, it was just a little bit off.

If we can overcome this barrier, we might be able to suppress the parasitic mushrooms!"

Two days later, Roy visited Ivant again and found that he still had not woken up.

At this time, Ivant was as fat as a giant elephant with a human head. Active tentacles extended around his body, growing like those mimic mushrooms.

A strange object appeared in the heart.

It was the size of a fist, crystal clear, like a heart made of glass.

"What is this thing? Some kind of magical crystal?"

Roy was secretly surprised when he saw this.

But then he remembered that there seemed to be a kind of existence called tumorous magic source.

He once gained knowledge from [Inspiration] and knew that this should be a product similar to dragon crystal and beast core.

Those things usually grow in an orderly manner guided by blood factors.

The source of the tumor-forming demon is the disorder of bloodline factors, which causes it to grow everywhere.

Compared with normal animal cores, it is extremely unstable and can be said to be a defective product.

But Roy suddenly thought that the elemental meat mushrooms he had researched before might be able to be used for this kind of thing.

"Anyway, they're just temporary consumables, just throw them away after use...

If it can be cultivated..."

However, cultivating this kind of thing is a matter for the future.

The most urgent task is to find a way to control this failed wizard's body, so that it won't go crazy suddenly and hurt people.

So, Roy took advantage of Ivant falling into a deep sleep and placed some secret marks on his body, controlling the key nodes up and down.

……

"Keep a close eye on it while I'm gone.

I'll treat him like a meat mushroom for a while, and I'll figure out a way to deal with him later. If anything goes wrong, and he goes crazy...

The blackening potion is specialized in weapons!
I'll leave you a few bottles..."

After calling Ulide and others together and giving them some instructions, Roy prepared to leave the secret camp and return to Tanlie City.

Before leaving, he made some minor arrangements and took with him new strains of bacteria and cultivation resources.

I also visited Celine again.

At this time, Celine's condition became more serious, even her new body was affected, and she became so thin that she looked out of shape.

Compared to Ivant who died in the pursuit of becoming a wizard, her final achievement was even lower. She was simply in a state of lingering on after past experiments.

"Roy..."

Celine, who has turned into a little girl, has big eyes and looks quite pitiful.

Roy sighed inwardly, feeling a little regretful, but he could only rationally cut his losses.

"Lord Roy..."

After leaving the room, Atidiya followed him out, but suddenly called out, and seemed to be about to say something but stopped herself.

"what do you want to say?"

Roy said a little strangely.

"Lord Roy, you've been carving a statue of Lady Celine lately, as a souvenir, right?"

Atedia asked.

Roy nodded.

Because Celine's life was basically in countdown, he had used his [craftsmanship] to carve a stone statue for her as a memorial.

"I have a request, if I may...

Can you also carve my image and turn it into a chess piece in your hand?"

Atidiya was a little shy, but there was an indescribable enthusiasm in her eyes.

"Not just my appearance, but also my flesh, blood and soul!

Build them all inside!"

You are too radical and too fanatical!

Even Roy, who was asked to do something, couldn't help but feel surprised.

The souls of the deceased are taken into the kingdom of God and live with God. This is something that only gods and above can do.

All he could do now was to refine his soul into the stone statue.

There is a world of difference between the two.

Although it was much better than being tortured by the Soul-Binding Demon Armor, Roy couldn't really kill her to refine her soul.

Roy had to explain to her: "Don't think that being refined into a golem can make you immortal. In fact, it is also equivalent to binding your soul and being trapped.

Things like stone statues are incompatible with human souls. The more residual spirituality and consciousness there are, the more painful it is.

You've seen those ghost servants in the Wu Tower before. If that's any benefit, all the apprentices should be vying for them."

"I know all this, but what if one day in the future I die of old age, or die in battle?
My lord, your life is destined to be long. Even if you said you would remember me, one day, maybe even that will become unclear.

I want to stay by your side forever."

Atidiya's clear eyes were filled with the enthusiasm of a fanatic.

Roy couldn't be sure yet whether her enthusiasm towards him was a superficial obsession with looks or the result of brainwashing from the wizards' education.

Even those beliefs and obsessions that are deeply rooted and even transcend life and death are mostly due to physiological and cultural reasons.

A very small part is the reason for the soul.

However, if it is truly loyalty and faith that penetrates the soul, it is extremely precious even to the gods.

That would be the devout, the fanatic.

Roy thought for a moment and responded seriously, "Okay, then, when you die, I will take your soul.

But you are more useful to me if you are alive, so don't let your imagination run wild or do anything stupid, understand?"

"Yes!"

Atidiya said excitedly, as if hope was burning in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)