Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 350 "Spirit" and "Soul"

After the Academy of Magical Sciences was officially completed and put into use, the Lambert family and the spellcasters of the Cult of the Necromancer all moved in happily.

Although Harvey nominally promised to hand over the entire institute to them, this group of necromancers actually did not occupy a large area in the institute. After they moved in, more than half of the main building of the institute was still empty and unused.

In addition to the necromancers who voluntarily joined the Spellcaster Academy and served as magic teachers to train apprentices, there were also many mid- and low-level people who were still obsessed with the study of flesh and blood magic, and they worked hard to recommend themselves to serve as magic consultants stationed at the Valley Outpost.

This made Pierce secretly happy for a while. The military could finally openly have their own spellcaster. Although he was only an advisor, the combat effectiveness of the necromancers with abundant corpse sources was not low. With their assistance and the exploration of the zombie puppets, many dangerous and in-depth patrols and raids were carried out, which greatly reduced unnecessary casualties in the outpost troops.

In the end, the total number of necromancers stationed at the Magic Academy was fixed at twenty-eight, including the three high-level necromancers, Patriarch Arturo, Elder Sirius, and Councillor Prall, as well as twenty-five mid-level necromancers.

As for the other fifty or sixty magic apprentices and low-level wizards, those who should continue to study in the Spellcaster Academy will enroll step by step. Those who are not qualified to obtain independent laboratories will join a mid-level magic research group according to their own wishes and participate in the research as assistants.

After learning that the people in the pioneer territory had no discrimination or hostility towards the necromancers, some spellcasters even expressed their desire to join various production and manufacturing departments. Harvey also arranged for Asdalen to recommend and assign them.

Egno's medical hospital and Chris's alchemy laboratory have absorbed several necromancers of this type, which is a win-win situation for everyone.

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"According to a large number of experimental studies, it is shown that there is some unknown... and inseparable connection between the Soul Mark and the Magic Network space."

"And the iron rule that the soul cannot be created out of thin air, nor can it be separated at will, can be completely broken with the attachment and blessing of the magic network's energy..."

"As long as the extracted soul mark is injected with matching pure magic power, it can be guaranteed to be immune to invasion from the alien dimension for a long period of time, and it will not disappear naturally over time. I believe you can verify this from Patriarch Lambert's soul transfer experiment."

Harvey sat at the head of the long table in the large conference hall on the fourth floor of the institute, explaining his research theories to the necromancers gathered around him.

But ordinary spellcasters cannot possess such powerful and strange magic patterns and mental anchors as him, so naturally they cannot freely travel in the magic network and other spaces, and use their huge mental power reserves to repeatedly try to merge the soul imprint with the magic network energy.

So Harvey planned to let them start from scratch, starting with the most basic research projects, and opening up a new research direction that only he was trying at the moment.

"The experimental research project you are currently required to carry out will focus on soul extraction and soul transfer."

Harvey asked the magic apprentice to distribute the materials he had prepared in advance to the three senior masters, and said in a gentle voice: "The energy gathering array in the research institute has been completed, and the alchemical prostheses as soul containers are also very sufficient. There is no need to be too impatient. Start with the soul extraction experiments of ordinary animals and magical creatures." Chief Arturo carefully held up the materials in his hand, realizing that the words and rune graphics on the stack of white paper in front of him were the precious keys to recasting the research direction of the undead spellcasting faction.

"Sir Harvey, we understand your point. For the next period of time, all research teams will simultaneously carry out these two experimental projects and familiarize themselves with the relevant theories in the field of soul research as quickly as possible."

As a high-level spellcaster, he naturally knew that it was not feasible to just conduct experiments behind closed doors. The various soul alchemy beasts that had long been popular could be seen everywhere in the wasteland territory, which meant that this technology had already matured before their arrival. The refining and manufacturing of many alchemy beasts did not even require Harvey himself to take action. The magic military factory only needed senior technicians who were familiar with assembly line operations and worked with working alchemy beasts to achieve self-production and sales.

"Don't be fooled by the fact that the assembly line for refining alchemical beasts in the magic weapons factory runs day and night," Harvey said with a wry smile. "The reality is that the scrap rate is extremely high. If the prosthetic containers weren't recyclable, I simply couldn't afford such a high failure rate."

Whether it is an ordinary animal or a magical creature, the intensity of their soul energy is far inferior to that of intelligent races. If one is not careful, it will be damaged and broken during the extraction and transfer process, and cannot be successfully refined.

This is also the reason why Harvey asked them to imitate the military factory's method and start with animals and magical creatures.

"Once everyone is familiar with the operation of the instruments and the use of runes, we can naturally upgrade the experimental materials and replace them with intelligent biological experimental receptors..." Harvey explained with a smile.

This immediately attracted everyone's eager attention. Intelligent biological experimental receptors... Using humans of the same race for experiments is naturally a cruel and absolutely taboo behavior, but hostile alien races like evil orcs can carry out various experimental projects without restraint.

The reason why the undead spellcasting faction has always lagged behind is because of the scarcity of experimental subjects. Even using a few corpses requires severe suppression from the church and the secular world, not to mention using living people for experiments despite the great condemnation of the world.

"Deal more with the Ministry of Industry's Machine Repair Center. They have a large number of scrapped and damaged alchemical beasts. Although their carrier containers are damaged, the soul imprints of the creatures contained within are intact and can be repeatedly extracted and transferred for use in experimental verification."

Arturo pondered for a moment and hesitated, "Should we coordinate with other departments in the territory ourselves? Will that be..."

"Do you still believe that the kindness and acceptance shown to you by the people of the territory are due to my coercion and orders, rather than equal treatment from the heart?" Harvey asked with a chuckle.

Michelle, the young mage sitting at the table, stood up excitedly and said in a trembling voice, "Speaker, I can prove... prove that the people of the Pioneer Territory do not harbor any hostility or discrimination towards us..."

After he finished speaking, he realized that he had spoken rashly and was a bit rude. He quickly pulled Black and White, who were sitting there in a daze, and said hesitantly, "We were granted permission by the lord to go to the outpost fort in the river valley and fight alongside ordinary soldiers against the fel orcs. They really didn't care about their status as necromancers at all. They ate, lived, and chatted with us happily."

That Commander Duff even took the initiative to make friends with him, and repeatedly came to invite him to play cards at some officers' club... But Michel was embarrassed to say this in front of the leaders.

(End of this chapter)