Wizard's Journey

Chapter 172 The Desperate Experiment

After channeling 1000 degrees of magic power into the Demon Hunter Altar, Grimm glanced at the myna bird happily munching on nuts, and while holding the magic stone in one hand to recover, he used magic power to create a black crack.

Standing on the Demon Hunter Altar, Grimm could easily open the spatial rift in his Demon Hunter Castle's spatial fragments.

Without hesitation, Green walked in.

Above them was still the sky supported by beams of energy, and all around was the rolling sea. In the center of the island covered with black sand and stones, a tree more than ten meters tall grew vigorously.

Using the power of nature, Grimm flew straight to the big tree in the center of the island. Four Dewdrop Flower Spirits fluttered their small wings and flew over, trembling as they bowed to Grimm, extremely reserved and frightened.

Glancing at the two newly born Dewdrop Flower Spirits, the two little creatures, who had not been born for long, were so frightened that they cried out "Ah!" and even forgot to flap their wings, landing on the leaves and branches, trembling.

Green knew that it must have been the two large Dewdrop Flower spirits that instilled terrifying and evil wizarding ideas into the two newborn little ones.

Ignoring the thoughts of these little creatures, Green checked the health of the Golden Ginseng Mother Tree, then took out dozens of Bald Kiron Stones from the dimensional gap and threw them at several Dewdrop Flower Spirits, instructing, "Grind them into powder and apply to the roots of the Mother Tree, using twice the original amount."

"Yes."

The voices of several Dewdrop Flower Spirits trembled violently.

Ignoring the small creatures, Green casually glanced at the few special experimental plants cultivated around the island before flying towards the experimental materials he had previously collected at the Seventh Ring Dark Division Demon Hunter Wizard Headquarters.

Thirty humanoid creatures with black bone armor and skin remained frozen and slumbered, not one more and not one less.

After circling the experimental specimens, Green fell into deep thought.

While the collection of despair is a unique technique for collecting negative emotions developed by dark wizards, in some ways, Grimm's Devouring Abomination is similar to the collection of despair. Both involve the collection and utilization of negative emotions, which can greatly assist Grimm in his research on collecting negative emotional energy and save him time.

Even so, researching and collecting Despair will still take some time for Green to study the annihilation energy, but considering the long-term nature of a demon hunter's career, this time is not too long and is still worthwhile.

With that thought, Grimm's magic surged, and he slapped the huge frozen container with one hand, manipulating the repulsive force of the earth's veins to float the container in the air. Then, he and Grimm disappeared into the fragments of the world.

On the altar atop the Demon Hunter Castle.

Space distorted, and Grimm appeared on the altar, with a huge frozen container floating above his head, which he gently lowered under his control.

"Huh? Young Master Grin, are you planning to select new soul servants from among these creatures?"

The space above Green's shoulder distorted, and a myna bird appeared, observing the thirty alien humanoid creatures inside the container.

"These creatures? Their strength is too low; they're just experimental specimens." Green said indifferently, then casually took out a humanoid creature that was completely frozen and placed it on an experimental table. After thinking for a moment, he used magic to activate the Green Python Thread to fix it in place.

The first step to collecting despair is to feel it!

According to the cruel rules of the Dark Realm in the wizarding world, feeling despair is almost something that every dark wizard is born with; otherwise, he would not have become a dark wizard, but rather a human experimental subject kept by a high-level dark wizard.

The process of a Dark Templar experiencing despair involves two steps: feeling despair through the test subjects and feeling it within oneself, thereby truly experiencing the powerful energy of this negative emotion.

This cognitive process is somewhat similar to Green's observation of annihilation energy at this time.

"Hmm, should we make the test subjects despair? I need to think about that carefully..."

half a month later.

Today is the weakest period for Green's mixed poison body tempering, but looking at his masterpiece on the experimental table, Green is still flushed with excitement. This is an experimental idea that Green spent three days thinking about and more than ten days completing.

At this moment, the head of this dark-skinned humanoid creature had been transplanted by Grimm onto the body of a monkey in the wizarding world. The somewhat crude stitching technique was reminiscent of Peranos's facial art. Fortunately, this humanoid creature was incredibly resilient; even in its frozen, hibernating state, its soul continued to burn within its head, radiating spiritual energy.

As for the humanoid creature's body, Green used wizarding techniques to maintain its normal physiological functions and implanted many "little gadgets" into it.

These little creatures are Green's symbiotic parasites, horseflies.

"Heh heh, if I still can't feel despair like this, then I'll have to change the experimental specimen." Green muttered to himself, then took out two bottles of magic potions and poured them into the head of the otherworldly humanoid creature on the monkey's body. He then began to carefully observe the emotional changes in every bit of the experimental specimen's soul fluctuations.

The black crystal ball floated in the air, beginning to record Green's experiment, its eyes filled with a slightly wicked anticipation.

After a quarter hourglass.

The spirit of the experimental specimen began to fluctuate, which invigorated Green, who quickly walked over to the specimen.

"Hmm? If it's a quarter hourglass, this creature's cellular drug resistance is about four times weaker than that of humans. It seems to be due to its evolutionary process. After all, human wizards have developed and utilized magical potions for countless years, and they have begun to develop extremely strong resistance." Muttering to himself, Green waved his hand, and the crystal ball flew closer.

The facial muscles of the humanoid biological experimental specimens began to struggle and relax, which was a sign that the soul was gradually awakening.

"The recovery period for the calm soul fluctuations takes nine minutes and fifty seconds, which is more than three times that of a human. Does this mean that in the rules of the alien world in which this human creature resides, a day and night is more than three times the length of the wizarding world?"

Green quickly jotted down his thoughts and inspirations in his notebook.

"No, I once read a book about curse magic that mentioned that if curse magic is studied in depth, various branches of academic disciplines will emerge. One of these branches of curse magic is the biological clock branch. Humans in the wizarding world are very strange. Although the time cycle of a day and night in the wizarding world is twelve hourglasses and twenty-four mechanical clock gears turning for hours, humans regulate their biological clocks for twenty-five hours."

rustling...

Green's quill pen moved quickly across his notebook.

"Some wizards speculate that humans were not the original inhabitants of the wizarding world in ancient times, which explains their peculiar biological clock responses. Others speculate that a day and night in the wizarding world in ancient times consisted of twelve and a half hourglasses, but the rules of the wizarding world began to slowly change afterward..."

Suddenly, the experimental specimen's face showed obvious struggle, but Green only glanced at it briefly before falling into thought again.

At this moment, the experimental specimen is still in the awakening stage of its soul. All its memories should be from the time before it was frozen and hibernated. The reason it is struggling now is due to the pain in its memories of that period.

For this experimental specimen, it should be similar to having a nightmare at this moment, and it will take some time to fully wake up.

drip...

A mechanical instrument on the test bench made a slight noise, which Green glanced at but ignored.

This is a vital signs recording device, one of the standard experimental instruments used by wizards. Its purpose is to record the vitality of experimental specimens on the experimental table. The sound from the vital signs recorder just now told Green that the vitality of this experimental specimen had begun to gradually decline as the soul awakened.

This is a normal phenomenon. Putting aside the repulsion between bodies, in terms of energy supply alone, the body of an experimental monkey is far from meeting the soul needs of this alien creature.

Of course, it also involves other, more profound wizarding knowledge.

Green did not disturb the natural awakening process of the experimental specimen, but continued to ponder.

"Theoretically speaking, every human being has a half-hour of the day when they are at their weakest, determined by the characteristics of the human biological clock. During this time, the human biological clock overlaps and folds, and all resistances of the body and soul are at their lowest limit. High-level curse and spellcasting wizards will use this weakness to calculate the absolute weak time of the target and apply the curse. As for graduate students and dark wizards specializing in the mysteries of death, many academic studies also utilize this potential characteristic of the biological clocks of all living beings..."

While pondering and recording notes, Green suddenly twitched his eyelids and looked at the experimental specimen.

At the same time, the experimental specimen, which was struggling violently, suddenly opened its eyes and met Green's eyes. Their eyes locked.

"It has begun, the entire process of despair!"

Green stopped his thoughts and began to observe the humanoid biological experimental specimen with full concentration.

The noseless, black-boned, skin-covered humanoid experimental specimen was stunned for a moment, then a deep fear appeared on its face. Green knew that it was because its wizard appearance terrified it.

Greene glanced down and jotted down a few words in his notebook: "Fear is neither hatred nor despair."

"Giggle gurgle gurgle..."

A series of simple tones. This humanoid specimen from another world should have a language ability far inferior to that of humans in the wizarding world. It could produce very few syllable variations, and its emotional changes were also very direct. Its emotional desire to control its body should be far greater than its rational cognition.

However, through his soul, Green still knew that the general meaning of the experimental specimen's language was cursing, pleading, and fear, because the other party was just an ordinary low-level life form and could not communicate through souls, so Green could not know the specific meaning.

The experimental specimen gradually realized that the terrifying wizard Green would not obey its language at all, and its body began to struggle violently, but it found that something was wrong with its body. When it struggled to look at its bound "body", it couldn't help but let out a series of screams, "clucking" incessantly, its voice somewhat tearful.

"That's not right, there's still no sense of despair. Where is the despair?" Green wondered.

Ok……

"Despair is an emotion that living beings experience when they lose hope in some source of hope for the future. According to records, when developing alien worlds, demon hunters only began collecting despair after the initial defeat in battle against the alien creatures. Could it be that this experimental specimen still harbored hope, expecting to be restored to its original state, thus preventing the manifestation of despair?"

Amidst a series of speculations and contemplations, Green ignored the experimental specimen's struggling and wailing cries, took two steps to the side, revealing the original body of the otherworldly humanoid specimen behind him.

A body with black bone armor squeezing its skin lay quietly on another experimental table, surrounded by numerous tubes inserted into it.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp..." The humanoid specimen screamed, and one could hear a hint of longing in its voice.

This made Green happy that his analysis was correct, but disappointed that the other party did not show any signs of despair.

So...

Green quietly walked to the original black bone-armored body of the experimental specimen on the test table. After his magic surged, he began to control the horsefly implanted in it to frantically stimulate the life code.

An indescribable sense of foreboding swept through the air.

Subsequently, the originally hard black bone armor skin began to loosen, and then gradually began to show signs of mutated independent life forms. With a "poof," a mutated internal organ emerged from the navel...

"Da da da ji ji, da da da ji ji, da da da ji ji!" The experimental specimen emitted a bloodcurdling scream, filled with utter despair.

Green quietly sensed this despair, while the crystal ball recorded all the images and data of this moment.

With a loud bang!

The mutated body shattered into hundreds and thousands of mutated lives. In a dense energy of despair, the head of this alien creature also died completely in despair.

drop by drop...

However, the life signature detector showed that the life force of this experimental specimen had not been completely exhausted. According to the wizard's rules on the supply of life energy, this organism should still maintain considerable life force at the physical level.

However, it is now truly dead!

The only explanation is that the despair had completely exhausted this life energy, dissipating outside the living being, but the life characteristic recorder was unable to record it completely. If the dark wizard collects this despair energy and then uses witchcraft to attack other creatures of the same kind, the base attack power will be permanently increased.

This is the method developed by the black wizard to collect despair.

The first experiment was a success. With a wave of his hand, fueled by Grimm's magic, the Greedy Flame Giant appeared.

The five-meter-tall Gluttonous Flame Giant was incredibly majestic and powerful, its pure black flames radiating a terrifying aura. With a gaping maw, it swallowed the soul of the recently deceased experimental specimen, then swept its massive hand across and annihilated numerous mutated life forms before vanishing with a silent roar.

On the blood-stained lab table, Green focused intently on recording his insights and inspirations, occasionally glancing at the experimental images in the crystal ball.

If this continues, within a few decades, Green should have some initial results from collecting despair, enough to meet the needs of general otherworldly conquests.

After half an hourglass.

After a quick wash, Green came to the dining table and began to eat mechanically, followed by the evolution of his basic elemental energy resistance in the torture prison.

In the Seven Rings Holy Tower Demon Hunter Castle, Grimm's life began to become simple and regular, and he fully began to adapt to the long lifespan of a wizard...

I apologize for the irregular update schedule, but I've been incredibly busy and haven't been able to find the time. I apologize again. There might be a break tomorrow, but I'll make up for it later. If I don't update, it will be very late.

(End of this chapter)