Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 3 The experiment was successful and the battery man started!

"Lord Harvey, please, please don't let me die in too much pain..."

Harvey smiled bitterly. This was the third time that the terminally ill lung cancer patient had pleaded with him.

No matter how he explained to the other party, the various strange devices placed in this laboratory still terrified Reiner.

A strange humanoid body constructed of bony human bones and cold metal.

There are several belt clips installed, which are obviously used to tie up the subject to the recliner.

And various other experimental instruments related to necromancy...

Even ordinary people who are about to die still instinctively feel fear towards these mysterious and strange things.

This is normal.

Harvey carefully helped Reiner down from the wheelchair, half hugged and half embraced him to the recliner, and secured him there as gently as possible.

He could clearly feel Reiner trembling with fear and the chattering of his upper and lower teeth.

"Don't be nervous, I won't cause any specific harm to your body during the experiment." Harvey tried to calm the other person down.

"I will first give you a cup of Epiphyllum Juice. After drinking it, you will fall into a deep sleep."

A look of relief appeared on Reiner's pale face, and he murmured, "Great! This way, even if the experiment fails, I will die peacefully in my sleep."

Harvey nodded and held a cup filled with a pale yellow liquid to Reiner's lips.

"Thank you, Lord Harvey. I mean, even if it wasn't because of the experiment, thank you for freeing me..." Reiner tried hard to pull the corners of his mouth, then opened his mouth and drank the medicine.

Seeing the other party drink the sedative potion and gradually calm down on the recliner, Harvey breathed a sigh of relief and began to busily debug the equipment.

The soul extractor powered by magical energy is the focus of his experiment.

In order to build this equipment, he spent almost half of the business investment given to him by his colleagues in the college.

High-quality magic stones produced in the dwarven mines of the dungeons and spell coordinators made by the high elves.

And the metal prosthesis assembled by the Alchemy Exploration Society that can be powered by magic energy.

Harvey conducted this experimental procedure countless times, and various insects, birds, and mammals were used in experimental attempts.

Unfortunately, either direct extraction fails or porting is impossible.

The best time was when the extraction was successful and the tissue was transferred to the alchemical prosthesis smoothly, but the survival time did not exceed 12 hours.

Harvey believes that the soul energy of these non-intelligent creatures is too weak, and most of them are driven solely by animal instinct and cannot withstand the delicate experimental operations at the soul level.

Although Reiner came completely voluntarily, Harvey was unwilling to treat him as pure experimental material like other non-human creatures.

After all, this is someone of the same kind as me, a living person.

……

After finishing debugging the equipment, Harvey took a deep breath to calm his mind.

Inject magical energy and activate the coordinator.

The metal tube connects to the experimental subject, opening the soul transfer channel.

Connect to the soul core and open the alchemical prosthetic inscription device
Although the soul is invisible and intangible, the gradually filling light in the soul core made Harvey clearly know that Reiner's soul was gradually transferring from the dying body into it.

After waiting for the soul core to be fully charged, Harvey summoned the mage's hand and carefully removed it from the coordinator.

Place it firmly into the core card slot that has been prepared long ago on the chest of the alchemical prosthesis.

The prosthetic body made of metal and bones is densely engraved with countless arcane inscriptions, which are the key to transplanting the soul and re-controlling the prosthetic body.

Looking at the inscriptions on the prosthesis, they gradually lit up one by one starting from the core of the chest, until they spread to the entire torso.

"Success!"

Harvey clenched his fists excitedly. In previous experiments, he had never lit up so many inscriptions at once.

As expected, only the souls of intelligent creatures can possess such enormous soul energy.

Before Harvey could continue to observe the progress of the experiment, the eyes of the humanoid alchemical prosthesis, which had a white bone skull partially inlaid with metal, suddenly lit up with two balls of faint blue light.

There was an unpleasant sound of metal rubbing against bones.

"Ha, Lord Harvey? I, what's wrong with me? Am I not dead yet?"

Harvey was startled and took a closer look, only to find that the alchemical head was turning its neck with difficulty, as if trying to figure out the situation.

"Reiner?" "Lord Harvey, I...was the experiment successful?" Reiner's soul, which had just been transferred, was still a little confused and made intermittent sounds.

"It seems to be basically successful at the moment." Harvey reached out and grasped the prosthetic's bony hand, unable to help but sigh.

"Reiner, this might be considered a rebirth for you."

Reiner was visibly stunned, the blue fire in his eyes flickering non-stop. "I, indeed, can't feel the pain in my lungs anymore."

Harvey smiled and stepped forward, dismantling all the clips that secured the Alchemist prosthesis. He said to Reiner expectantly, "Now, try to raise your hand."

Reiner nodded blankly, and the inscription on his chest instantly lit up and quickly spread to his right arm.

He slowly raised his arm, tentatively opened his bony palm, and grasped something in the air.

"Try your other hand."

"Yes, turn your head. Uh, don't turn it 360 degrees, or you'll twist your head off."

"Step out with your left foot and lift your knee."

"Right foot, try raising your knee as well..."

Apart from a slightly poor balance, Reiner quickly adapted to his new body. Harvey became more and more satisfied, and his tone couldn't help but become lighter.

"Okay, now try jumping in place and keep your balance."

Reiner followed his instructions, manipulating the clumsy metal prosthesis to squat slightly and then jump up quickly.

boom!
An accident happened. After jumping up and down, Reiner was obviously unable to maintain his balance. He fell directly to his knees and hit the ground heavily.

The inscriptions that originally lit up the entire body and limbs were instantly extinguished, leaving only the core area of the chest and the head.

Harvey was shocked and quickly turned over Reiner, who was lying face down on the ground and motionless.

The light of the soul core was extinguished!

Could it be that the energy was exhausted and the experiment failed?

I killed a good man...

Before Harvey began to feel sad, the blue fire in the alchemical head's eye sockets lit up again, but it became much dimmer.

Reiner said quietly, "Master Harvey, I don't feel any pain even after falling to the ground like this."

"I was so scared, Reiner, I thought you were dead."

"How do you feel now? Besides the lack of pain, are you feeling anything else?"

Reiner remained motionless, only the blue soul fire in his eyes flickered.

"Master Harvey, I feel like I can't move. It's like I'm completely drained of energy."

Harvey nodded and began to check Reiner's alchemical prosthesis.

He was surprised to find that despite the soul core being extinguished, Reiner was clearly still alive, although only the alchemical inscriptions on his chest and head were still lit.

This means that Reiner's soul has separated from the core and merged into this body.

Thinking of this, Harvey quickly took out another new magic energy core and reinstalled it into the prosthetic card slot.

"Ah! Master Harvey, I can control my new body again! It's amazing!"

Reiner sat up unsteadily, supporting himself on the ground with his hands.

Sure enough, as long as the core made of the Philosopher's Stone was replaced to power Reiner's alchemical body, he could keep moving.

"Reiner, you've become a battery man now." Harvey couldn't help but make a joke.

"What is a battery man?" Reiner symbolically scratched the back of his bald metal head with his bony fingers.

"Uh, it's okay. You get up first and let me complete the subsequent debugging and inspection."

"Yes, Master Harvey."

Harvey quickly split and recorded each piece of data of the alchemical prosthesis in order to ensure the accuracy of the experiment.

After all, this is the first time that human souls are used as experimental subjects, so it cannot be too cautious.

While they were busy, the magic doorbell at the door of the manor laboratory suddenly rang.

Harvey was stunned. Someone was visiting at this time? Could it be a new applicant?

(End of this chapter)