Zongman: Evolution Paradise

As the fighting stance changed, Saeko Busujima began to recount her feelings as a guardian spirit.

"For example, the feeling of becoming a guardian spirit is somewhat similar to the feeling of being strengthened by the workshop."

"Hmm... that sense of dependence, that sense of reverence..."

"As for power... it's no different from what you said."

The power she was referring to was the details of the guardian spirit.

Just like the special-Snail Annihilation City textbook, the description of Paradise is as abstract and limited as ever. Whether a skill has any hidden effects besides the surface description can only be discovered through extensive experimentation.

The description of the guardian spirit for Talent-Martial God Body-Four Directions Soul in Paradise is roughly 5 points.

They are:

1: To be able to grow in a paradise.

2: Shared skills, bloodlines, equipment, and items.

3: Combine and sublimate to master form transformation.

4: If the young lord does not die, the guardian spirit will not die either.

5: Guardian spirits are equivalent to skills in Paradise and are not subject to suppression by strength, nor are they restricted by the modes of followers, pets, or monsters.

Saeko Busujima half-covered her face with her forearm. According to her account, she had not yet discovered any power other than these five points since becoming a Guardian Spirit.

After some time, the battle ended with Saeko Busujima's surrender.

Compared to Jolyne's strength, Saeko Busujima's strength was slightly inferior. After only three or four rounds, she was exhausted and could no longer continue.

"Please stop for now."

After letting her mind cool down a bit, Saeko Busujima pulled herself together with a troubled expression and gently nudged Jolyne, saying, "Miss Medea just arrived; you should be spending time with them tonight."

Saeko Busujima felt that if they continued fighting, their relationship, which had finally started to warm up tonight, would break down again.

As a good hostess, she needs to help Jolyne handle this aspect well.

“Saeko didn’t act like that just now.”

Jolyne retorted, earning a reproachful look from Saeko Busujima.

However, the blush on her face had not yet faded, and her eyes were still wet. Her usually dignified gaze had completely lost its effect.

Jolyne felt the temptation was greater.

"Go take a shower first."

After thinking for a moment, Jolyne took out two more vials of bloodline that she had used during the materialization of the Split from the workshop.

Chapter 309 Eternity

That is, Bloodline - Demon Slayer and Bloodline - Monster Cell.

Although the monster cells were eliminated by the workshop before they could show any effect on Ai Jue, the Demon King bloodline placed on Ji Nu was indeed very useful.

Once combined, Jolyne, who gains this bloodline, will immediately lose her physical weaknesses, gain more flesh manipulation, unlimited stamina, Blood Demon Arts skills, and buffs that increase various attributes.

Saeko Busujima obtained the Breath of the Moon, Blood Demon Art: Invisible Sword Aura, and Transparent World from Kokushibo, but she never used the bloodline, and the Veronica Virus was merely an enhancement.

Jolyne chose Saeko Busujima as the first guardian spirit of his War God Body, and now he wants to ask Saeko Busujima for her opinion on obtaining the bloodline.

"Would you like to choose a bloodline?"

Jolyne placed the two vials of bloodline in front of Saeko Busujima, saying, "With the workshop here, you can choose either one and change it at any time if you're not satisfied."

Also because of the workshop, Jolyne didn't care much about who became her guardian spirit.

After all, Jolyne was confident that even with Hanako, an R-rank character, she could be trained to be unparalleled in the world.

Of course, there are only four spots available, so Hanako has no chance of getting one.

For every reason, Saeko Busujima was Jolyne's first choice.

"Then, I'll take this one."

Saeko Busujima picked up the Demon Blood.

Half of Saeko Busujima's power comes from Kokushibo of Demon Slayer, so it's only natural that she chose this familiar bloodline.

Of course, she might simply be afraid that her monster form would be ugly.

After making her choice, Jolyne accompanied her to bathe and change clothes before they went to the workshop to prepare for obtaining the bloodline.

Since Jolyne used the Demon King's bloodline to eliminate the defects of Demon Blood on Enrage, the compensation that Paradise gave Jolyne after clearing Enrage also had no side effects.

Despite trusting the credibility of Paradise's products, Jolyne still brought Saeko Busujima to the workshop to prevent any accidents from happening, despite having faith in the flawless demon blood.

"See you later, Saeko."

"See you later..."

Saeko Busujima closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep, and the demon blood fused with her through the workshop's power.

Demon horns grew from his forehead and then disappeared; his purple hair turned white and then returned to its original color...

Through the connection with the Martial God Body, Jolyne sensed that Saeko Busujima's aura was steadily increasing, which put his mind at ease, and he began to check on the workshop.

The workshop now has three entrances, with the extra one leading to the new territory, Ryudo-ji Temple.

The odds and ends he casually tossed into the workshop were all neatly arranged in the right corner of the workshop.

Hmm... corpses, living people, cars, amusement park equipment and props, and even a golden chest containing starving ghosts are all here.

Because Jolyne threw in all sorts of things, this job was no less difficult than sorting packages late at night.

"By the way, Darwin was a curly-haired baboon."

"Darwin also said that I was a curly-haired baboon."

"Now I've also joined Chiba Zoo..."

Jolyne rubbed his chin, thinking about the players he and Mitsuri Kanroji had seen at the zoo. Luckily, he was an S-rank player and didn't need to stay in a cage to experience the "workplace culture" of Chiba Zoo.

Just then, Ai Haibara came out of the bedroom, rubbing her eyes.

Ai Haibara: "Hi."

Jolyne: "Hi."

After exchanging greetings, Ai Haibara ignored Jolyne and continued with her research.

Jolyne: "..."

This guy is being a bit too perfunctory.

Moreover, the park's operation is basically foolproof, so how come she has so many things to do here?

Why don't you go outside?

Jolyne asked directly, explaining that he hadn't seen Ai Haibara at dinner earlier and had assumed she was out playing with her elementary school classmates.

"Because the workshop has food."

Ai Haibara yawned, stretched out her hand, and a banana appeared in her hand.

Her mental state was quite bad because Anya had dragged them into forming a detective club today, saying they would use the dog's prophecy to challenge the famous detectives in Tokyo and Osaka.

Faced with this kind of situation...

Ai Haibara believes that one day she will become Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog.

"Saeko is strengthening herself? Does that mean you've already left that city called Fuyuki?"

Ai Haibara noticed Saeko Busujima, and only then did she realize that Jolyne's Dragon Ball War had ended.

"You should call her Saeko-neechan."

Jolyne angrily rubbed the little brat's head. "Saeko, is that a nickname you can use?"

"..."

Ai Haibara didn't want to talk. She took out the Snail Annihilation Castle Manual from the corner and asked Jolyne strangely, "What did you do with this thing? It was yelling like an idiot before, but it's become very quiet since you came back."

"...You didn't do anything, did you?"

Jolyne thought for a moment, "Isn't it just that I used this guy to summon Kanoko once?"

"You bastard! You did such a terrible thing to me! And you're pretending you don't know!"

The large white mouth on the cover of the Luoyan City textbook started yelling again, its voice even carrying a hint of crying.

This tearful outburst made Ai Haibara's gaze towards Jolyne become strange.

"So, what exactly is this 'active' thing?"

Jolyne took the Naraka Castle Bible from Ai Haibara's hands and tried to open it, which elicited a sharp and continuous scream from the Naraka Castle Bible.

Ai Haibara covered her ears and said, "I don't know... All we can confirm right now is that this consciousness doesn't have the ability to harm others. As for the origin of this consciousness, it might be an outsider, or it might be a spirit born from the book itself, a book spirit or something like that..."

“...strange things.”

After a brief standoff with the teachings of the City of Desolation, Jolyne withdrew her power before it cried out.

Crying and such are too much trouble.

Of course, the enemy's cries were still quite melodious.

Seeing Ai Haibara put on her rubber gloves again and start directing the workshop to do her research, Jolyne watched for a while and asked in confusion, "What are you researching?"

As the workshop owner, Jolyne has the authority to recruit staff for the workshop.

Ai Haibara then got the job of workshop assistant.

As for the higher-ranking position, it is "researcher".

The workshop notes that an "assistant" must independently complete a valuable research project before being granted the title.

It didn't specify what level of research results would be considered valuable to the workshop.

From the moment she gained access, Ai Haibara would come here whenever she had free time to do her research.

Do you remember APTX4869?

Haiyuan asked sadly.

"Shrinking pills?"

APTX4869, the drug that shrunk Ai Haibara and made her meet Jolyne, was described in the workshop's research report as having powerful lethality and anti-divination/anti-prophecy effects, making it an essential item for various mysterious organizations committing murders.

"Although I am the researcher of APTX4869, I am not the only researcher in the Black Organization. Since we are going to do research, we must be clear about the research direction of the drug. The research direction that the people in the organization require me to carry out is to achieve immortality through APTX4869."

Ai Haibara recounted her ordeal, and Jolyne nodded.

In the original storyline of Detective Conan, the Black Organization's research into drugs was indeed related to immortality.

Chapter 310 The People Tonight

"So, Jolyne, don't you think that immortality is a bit too commonplace?"

Ai Haibara thought for a moment and said, "The Black Organization kept the Paradise a secret from me before. Before I knew about Paradise, I was certain that immortality was the purpose of the Black Organization having us research drugs."

But now the paradise is right in front of us, and the demon blood that Saeko Busujima is using is enough to grant immortality. So... ordinary, tasteless immortality, is there any need for the Black Organization to research it?

With that in mind, I began to try to continue my research on APTX4869 through the workshop.

At this point, Ai Haibara took out a sea turtle and showed it to Jolyne.

"Please look."

Ai Haibara activated the workshop, and a capsule transformed into microparticles that merged into the turtle's body.

After about two or three seconds, the turtle's body suddenly emitted a burst of steam.

"This is... getting bigger?"

Jolyne's transparent world had penetrated the steam, allowing her to see every detail inside the turtle's body.

He thought the sea turtle would shrink like Ai Haibara, but this sea turtle was actually growing bigger.