Wizard's Journey

Chapter 222 Shadow Hedgehog

Twelve years later.

In the center of the corpse synthesis array on the experimental table in the grotto laboratory, chunks of flesh, writhing like jelly, emitted bursts of crimson light. Enveloped by hundreds of thousands of dark magic runes, they rapidly gathered together, constantly pressing and squeezing against each other.

These activated flesh and blood are being blended together by the profound truths of life and death within the Corpse Refining Synthesis Array, mutually remembering each other while forgetting the memories of their former life hosts.

In the crimson halo, the gray-white Face of Truth on Grimm's face was reflected, slightly reddening, and his eyes were filled with a deep crimson color. The fat myna bird with red and green stripes on its shoulder was also silent at this moment.

For a moment, a mysterious, ominous, and sinister atmosphere enveloped the laboratory, and the crystal turtle outside the cave couldn't help but tremble.

This is the fear of alien creatures towards the unknown abilities of black wizards who possess the "secrets of life and death"!

The activated flesh and blood tissue, constantly being mixed and squeezed by the corpse-refining synthesis array, resembled a mutated life form. Various tentacles and organs extended from the synthesized flesh and then retracted, gradually turning into a fluorescent green color. The Amonro bone tails twitched from time to time.

Glug, glug...

Suddenly, a powerful heartbeat was heard in the laboratory, and beneath the mask of truth, Grimm's eerie eyes flashed with a frenzied, fiery light—the madness of a wizard for magical knowledge.

On Green's slightly pale, delicate, and slender palm, a heart the size of an infant's head was beating powerfully, radiating a tenacious and vibrant life force, as if composing a hymn to life.

However, at this moment, this hymn to life has been enslaved by evil black magic knowledge.

"Wait a moment!"

The myna bird on Green's shoulder suddenly stopped Green's actions, then twisted its head into a child's drawing and spat a mouthful of fresh myna saliva at the activated heart in Green's hand.

Green's hand holding the activated heart trembled, and his face beneath the Mask of Truth instantly darkened. He said grimly, "What do you mean by this?"

"Oh... dear Master Grin, don't misunderstand! This is what I'm thinking: according to that old bastard, dimensional gaps are wondrous creatures created by protagonists from lower-dimensional worlds who, unwilling to be mediocre, transcend their original worlds and become unacceptable to those lower-dimensional beings, thus entering the imaginary space of higher-dimensional creatures. Over the years, I, Little Eight, have devoured countless lower-dimensional protagonists in these dimensional gaps. I must have acquired some so-called protagonist halo by now, right? With just a sip of my saliva, this chimera might undergo some kind of mutation due to a change in fate, hahaha..."

The myna bird was very proud.

Green scoffed and said, "Protagonist halo? The ultimate destiny in these novels is that the protagonist will always escape danger in any situation; they are truly immortal. Do you think you possess that?"

"Hehe, at least I'm still alive, even after being trapped in the dimensional rift for so many years!" the myna bird said earnestly.

Green shook his head, ignoring the whimsical "unconventional protagonist" myna.

According to the myna bird's theory, wouldn't that mean that any living creature could be the protagonist of an endless world?

Moreover, the protagonist only sees things that exist in a low-dimensional world from the perspective of a high-dimensional being. How could the Endless World, as a high-dimensional world, possibly possess such things?

After a dismissive chuckle, Green continued with his experiment.

Looking at the activated heart beating continuously in his hand, Green took a deep breath and gently squeezed some blood from the heart, letting it drip onto the fused activated flesh and blood.

Squeak!

Like ice water falling into a boiling oil pan, after a loud bang, the numerous tentacles and fragments of activated flesh and blood, which were intertwined together, exploded from the middle, like a blooming flower, showing a tendency to separate into their own bodies and break away from the corpse-refining synthesis array.

"drink!"

With lightning speed, Green shouted and shoved the activated heart into the exploded fragments of activated flesh and blood. At the same time, he placed both hands on the corpse-refining array, his magic power surging as he activated it to its fullest extent.

A buzz.

The numerous black magic runes on the activated flesh tentacles emitted an eerie black light, spreading an unsettling atmosphere. Stimulated by both the activated heart and the magic runes, the activated flesh tentacles let out a squeak like little mice and quickly gathered together again, centered on the activated heart.

A constantly wriggling, fluorescent green sphere was formed.

"Just one last step!"

Green beckoned, and the black crystal ball on the lab table flew over automatically, floating in front of him, with a faint point of light struggling inside.

This is the Soul of the Great Bloodfall Lava Dragon, a natural element that Grimm obtained by chance when he first arrived in the Shadow Mystery world with the Primal Space Fortress.

Even if the experimental synthetic beast Grimm is no longer needed in the future, the natural elemental soul of the Great Bloodfall Lava Dragon that has not been artificially synthesized can still become the material for the next synthetic beast, until it is artificially synthesized by Grimm into a high-level elemental soul.

His magically powerful right hand drew the elemental souls from the crystal ball, and Green waited quietly for the best time to synthesize them.

This elemental soul is the shackle that Grimm uses to control the chimera; it's equivalent to Grimm consuming a soul seed to control the chimera's soul.

After a while.

The myna bird perched on Green's shoulder asked in a puzzled voice, "Hmm? Young Master, something's not right with this activated flesh and blood... The Corpse Refining Synthesis Array seems to be missing some energy components."

Looking at the activated flesh and blood in the corpse synthesis array that could not calm down for a long time, and even some of the life force was beginning to weaken, Green also sensed that something was wrong, and his expression became serious.

It seems that my relatively poor ability to sense natural forces is becoming apparent.

On a sudden inspiration, Green slid his hand through the air, and a dozen or so mystery stones appeared.

With time running out, Green roared, "Wild Instinct Level One, Activate!" A dense layer of tiny black scales appeared on his skin. Then, Green clasped his hands together and slammed them down, turning the Mystery Stone into powder.

With a soft exhale, the fine scales retracted into his body, and Green sprinkled the powder onto the constantly writhing, activated flesh and blood.

In an instant, as if soothed by something, the constantly writhing activated flesh and blood gradually calmed down, leaving only the faint sound of a heartbeat. At the same time, one after another, dense, fluorescent green bone spurs began to sprout from the activated flesh and blood, like a hedgehog.

These bone spurs swayed constantly and flexibly, numbering in the thousands, like the tails of Amonro.

"This is the moment!"

Green pointed at the activated flesh and blood, and the natural elemental soul of the enslaved Great Bloodfall Lava Dragon entered the synthetic beast's body. Like the finishing touch on a painting, the flesh and blood mixture that was inanimate a moment ago actually came to life.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

This glowing green hedgehog is only half a meter in size, but with thousands of exploded tail spurs, it is about two meters in size. A pair of black, glowing eyes on its head slowly opened.

The next moment, the hedgehog transformed into a faint, almost invisible shadow and disappeared from Green's sight.

After a moment of surprise, Green exclaimed excitedly, "Oh? This is the ability of Enigma Amonro to become an illusion in the deep shadows. This chimera has actually inherited this ability."

The crystal ball flew over, and Green carefully sensed the physical attributes and other abilities of this chimera.

A moment later, Green sighed and shook his head slightly.

In terms of physique, this synthetic beast is only Grimm's experimental subject, with a physique of only around 180 and a maximum attack power of around 300 degrees. Compared to Grimm and the Greedy Flame Giant, who have fully honed their physical potential over the years, it is far inferior.

The only consolation is that this chimera has gained super-strong energy resistance from the glowing green Amonro and the shadow-transformation ability of the enigmatic Amonro Deep Shadow.

Through the chimera, Grimm finally learned that the weakness of the fluorescent green Amonro's constitution was that it isolated its own energy. In other words, the fluorescent green Amonro was a biological mutant that could not sense any energy body.

This situation immediately extinguished any remaining hope Green might have had for the fluorescent green Amonro.

Wizards cannot sense energy bodies?

Is this even considered a wizard...?

After a barely audible sigh, Green murmured, "Then let's name this first experimental synthetic beast, which holds such commemorative significance, the Shadow Hedgehog!"

The mynah bird let out a shrill laugh: "Gaga, young master Green, I think this chimera is more than worth your investment. Maybe it's partly due to the magical effect of my protagonist's spittle."

After glaring at the myna bird, Green ignored it, picked up the golden flames he had collected from the tail of the Amonro with the Glazed Fire Physique, left the cave laboratory, and dived into the bottom of Thunder Mirror Lake.

The secret of this thunderous mirror at the bottom of the lake seems to be somewhat unusual.

这一章，补上2014年12月20日的断更，不稳定更新要持续到26日或27日。

(End of this chapter)