There was a loud noise beside my ears, and even the glass by the window had slight cracks.

"Cloud...cloud..." A big hole was opened!

The horrifying scene, which happened so close, left Hemer speechless for a moment.

Saria looked out the window with Hemer, but her gaze shifted to another angle.

"When I first heard about Hayden Pharmaceuticals' experiment, I wanted to confront General Manager Christen. If the Flame Demon Project was really done under her instruction, she would definitely not admit her mistake given her strong will. My personal strength is not enough to compete with Rhine Life. Rhine Life is closely related to the country, and there is little power that can be relied on from the law."

"In the end, I might leave Rhine Life, or even leave Columbia, and spend the rest of my life making up for my mistakes, and looking for a way to restore everything to its original order from somewhere else..."

As the director's office, this room has a good view. You can see the lawn outside the dormitory. Now it can no longer be called a lawn. The lawn that was lush and green a minute ago has turned into a muddy ground. A 16-year-old boy and a young girl are standing there.

"But it's different now."

Saria didn't know what Hayden Pharmaceuticals did at the last moment, but two lives that were like natural disasters walked out of the hellfire and returned to the civilized world. They wanted to punish their enemies, and they had to take what others didn't give them.

If he does nothing, these two will go into full-scale war with Rhine Life, more and more people will be drawn into it, the sea of ​​fire will spread in the city, the shock wave will shatter the sky and the earth, and innocent people will die.

Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Or add another zero?

Even just thinking about it made her feel a chill down her spine.

So she will not withdraw from it. She will do her best to destroy the glorious Rhine life in the past and let those sins and her former best friend, General Christen, pay for her mistakes.

To avoid that worse, hellish future.

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"Hmm?" During the transformation process, some situations occurred that were beyond Luo Cheng's expectations.

As the transformation progressed, large amounts of Originium crystals continued to appear in Ifrit's body.

Even with violent means like blood transfusion and excision, the spread of Originium crystals could not be stopped.

"Ore disease." And this kind of severe outbreak has never happened before. Why does this happen...

Although the incident happened suddenly, Luo Cheng did not panic. Not to mention the appearance of Originium crystals, even if Ifrit only had 10/1 of his brain tissue left in his body, he could still save him intact. A mere mineralopathy, a terminal illness in the conventional sense, was not worth mentioning.

So he just tried one different transformation method after another, studying the principle behind this phenomenon through continuous testing.

Finally, he discovered something: "...I see. No wonder the energy of the Originium is so strong that it covers the entire world, but the number of documented super-powerful people is so rare that they are not even common in myths and legends."

Luo Cheng found the chains that limited the power level of this world.

Chapter 12: The Path of the Daoist Ancestor

In the world of Terra, the magic known as Originium Arts has a long history, at least a thousand years old.

During this long period of time, there were not many strong people who were able to attack a city on their own.

The reason behind this is an invisible shackle that limits the upper limit of the power of the extraordinary path of Originium Arts.

The existence of this shackle was realized by the ancients of the Terra world long, long ago.

This shackle is not like the Three-Body Sophon Technology blockade, nor is it the ultimate power in The King of Fighters that requires a strong person to lead others in the world to transition their energy levels... but rather a very simple phenomenon.

High concentration of Originium energy crystallizes.

That is, if the energy of the Originium gathers to a certain level, it will erode other surrounding substances and combine with them to form Originium crystals.

That's right, it's the 'incurable disease' that has been plaguing this land, destroying countless families, creating countless conflicts, and leading to one chaos after another, ore disease!

The energy of Originium is very strong, and the Originium technology accumulated over the years is also extremely advanced, allowing practitioners of Originium skills to reach a very strong level in a very short time.

Many of the famous strong men in Terra are young people no more than thirty years old.

In this extraordinary world where there are many long-lived races that can live for hundreds or even thousands of years, a very magical phenomenon has appeared that does not exist in other worlds.

The general strength of those immortal species is not much stronger than those "children" who are only born in twenty years. Some of them can hardly fight against five people at once.

They did not have the strength accumulated over time to develop the crushing power to turn the enemy into ashes with just a breath.

The root cause lies in the [crystallization phenomenon of high-concentration Originium energy].

The powerful Originium skills and knowledge reserves of the Terra world allow geniuses to reach the limit of crystallization within 20 years. After reaching the limit, every step of continuing to become stronger will increase the risk of suffering from mineralogy.

Once they get sick, their strength will surge again, but this surge in strength is not without a price. The more they use Originium skills, the more serious the Ore Disease will be. Even if they don't use it, the erosion of the Ore Disease will only slow down and will not stop. When the Originium crystals erode important organs, such as the heart and brain, that's when they die!

Faced with this dilemma, the Terrans did not try to solve it.

They generally chose three methods.

The first one is that if the energy level cannot be pushed up, then continue to develop in the direction of application.

Take Saria as an example. Her Originium skill is to control "calcium", which is both offensive and defensive. When she reached the crystallization limit, she began to study the variant of calcium, "enamel", which is four times harder than bone, to greatly enhance the power of Originium skills.

She can punch through a skyscraper with one strike!

This path has great potential, as it is to multiply one's original foundation. However, it is similar to Luo Cheng's initial dilemma. Without breaking through the energy level shackles of mineral disease, the fuel is too little. No matter how extraordinary the skills are, multiplying by 5 or 10 times, it will never reach the level of billions.

The second option is that since the accumulation of Originium energy in the body will cause crystallization and lead to mineral sickness, it is better to transfer this part of the risk to tools and machinery.

Dual chips with different Originium technology circuits recorded on them, Originium energy diversion devices, crystal electronic units for fine control, polymerizing agents to prevent energy volatilization, D32 steel that carries huge amounts of energy... all kinds of materials were created by the Terrans, and they tried to follow a path of 'using tools to enter the Tao and using external elixirs to achieve sainthood'.

It is somewhat useful for improving strength, but the above materials are still not strong enough and cannot create an order of magnitude gap with others.

The third type is also the most extreme one.

Flesh and blood are weak, and since their innate limits mean that they can only withstand so much Originium energy, they might as well change their race. They use biological knowledge to transform themselves into a mythical race that can accommodate more Originium energy, or even into giant monsters made of flesh and blood.

The most extreme among the extremes even think that since the physical body is so troublesome and they will get mineralogy as soon as they practice, they might as well just give up the physical body.

Imprint your will into the energy of Originium, achieve unity between man and nature, and transform yourself into a half-energy, half-soul creature!

Some have engraved their will into the source stone energy between heaven and earth, becoming ghosts or gods wandering the land.

Some choose to carve carefully crafted high-purity Originium, and their bodies are transformed into the "Gundam" they are piloting. The mineral disease crystal stones that would have been fatal have become the body that carries their thoughts.

While transforming Ifrit's body, Luo Cheng also obtained all the data of Ifrit's body, which naturally included... the will of the Flame Demon dormant in the [Flame Demon Fragment] in Ifrit's body!

These fire demons are the ones who take the third path!

Even though they have been dead for thousands of years, their wills still echo in the fragments of the Flame Demon!

It was also during this transformation that Luo Cheng learned why Ifrit had gained such powerful power.

Luo Cheng's blood has a magical effect that can reduce the rejection reaction of those who receive his blood.

Hayden Pharmaceuticals successfully completed the Balrog Project, but was rejected by the Ministry of Defense due to production issues and started a new Balrog Project.

A large number of Fire Demon crystals are inserted into an experimental subject to produce a superman.

The fragments of the Flame Demon are not only crystals of energy, but also fragments of the Flame Demon's thoughts. Generally speaking, different Flame Demon crystals cannot be fused together. The reason why they are so repellent and terrifying is not only because the energy level has become higher, but also because of the conflict between different thoughts.

During the experiment, Luo Cheng's blood not only reduced the repulsion between Ifrit and Originium, but also reduced the repulsion between her and the Will of the Flame Demon, as well as the mutual repulsion between different Wills of the Flame Demon.

The noisy sound she heard continued all night long. It was the process of the Fire Demon's fragments of thought merging with each other.

The remains of more than a dozen fire demons who had abandoned their physical bodies to embark on the third path in the past have merged into one, and their combat power is even far greater than when they were alive.

At the same time, they also possessed Ifrit, the excellent 'Flesh Gundam'. When the two were multiplied, they created a power as powerful as that of a natural disaster!

As for why Ifrit's Ore Disease suddenly worsened, it was because Luo Cheng's comprehensive transformation greatly strengthened Ifrit himself and suppressed the will of the Flame Demon.

According to the level of Originium energy in Ifrit's body, she should have died eight hundred times already. The fact that she is still alive now is entirely due to the Fire Demon's will to constantly and unceasingly manipulate and organize the Originium energy in order to maintain Ifrit's life.

Now that the balance was broken, Ifrit's will was in charge of the microscopic level of the body, and the oripathy broke out instantly.

"I see." After researching and feeling that his understanding of Originium energy had improved a lot, Luo Cheng began to work on solving Ifrit's problem.

Various tiny cells bred from Originium worms entered Ifrit's body.

While remodeling according to the new plan, Luo Cheng was also considering future development.

Ore disease, the incurable disease that shrouds the entire Terra, is not a problem for him.

If I could come up with a method that could be widely used and cure oripathy...

Once the crystallization dilemma is resolved, the technological accumulation of thousands of years can fully support a technological explosion. The world will probably enter a situation of rapid development and fierce competition.

The birth of new technology, the reversal of national strength, unwillingness and greed will inevitably cause the smoke of war to sweep across every corner of Terra.

There will be a reshuffle of power all over the world. The old royal power will be torn apart and devoured, and new strong men will ascend to the Sky Temple... Such a future is foreseeable.

Such a future...

“It’s not good for my development.”

How can his own efforts compete with the technological explosion in the world? If he really takes this path, he will probably be pushed aside by the tide of the times, and at best he will become the leader of an international power.

Since I am the only one in the world who has the ability to cure Originium Disease, why should I make selfless contributions and let this world's extraordinary path follow the existing Originium skills?

It just so happens that the speed at which biological transformation makes one become stronger is getting slower and slower.

It is entirely possible to combine the Originium technique with one's own [Right of Reproduction] to create a new extraordinary system with [Right of Reproduction] as the main element and the Originium technique as the auxiliary element, so as to continue to evolve.

When he realized that he had the ability to create a new world and establish a sect, Luo Cheng immediately thought of whether he could let the people of the entire Terra world work for him, borrow the wisdom of all living beings, and help him develop more possibilities of [Right of Reproduction]!

...You said that, in fact, without practicing the extraordinary system of [Right of Reproduction] that absorbed the Originium technique, it is also possible to cure the mineral sickness?

If Luo Cheng didn't say it himself, who would know about this?

Sincerity means being sincere to your family and friends, not being open-hearted to everyone.

No matter how close you are, disaster is always around the corner.

You doubt it? Then find a way to cure your mineralogy yourself, and don't come to me for medicine.

...No, since the Terrans don't know about the [Right to Reproduction], there is no need for me to risk exposing my abilities and making a group of enemies by doing this.

Wouldn't it be better to secretly mix sand into the Originium skill system and do something deceptive? Then the Terra people will think that they are still practicing Originium skills, but in fact the core is all Luo Cheng's extraordinary system.

Uh... think about it again, is there a better way?

Here, Luo Cheng was thinking hard, constantly perfecting his plan to create a new extraordinary system. Hundreds of kilometers away, a man turned his attention to this city.

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"Pillars of fire shot up into the sky and lava rained down... Wow~ This is, you deserve it~." The soft waist-length hair fluttered in the breeze that passed through the hills, and the verdant light green umbrella blocked the drizzle.

Having just finished today's ecological observation, the beautiful girl, who looked like an elf from another world, glanced gently across the screen of her mobile phone.

The informant planted in the city reported what he saw, and she instantly determined the general cause and effect of the incident.

"Huh, so all my efforts over the past few months have been in vain..." Recalling that after I knew that General Commander Christen had cooperated with the Ministry of National Defense to establish the [Evil Demon Project] project, I had been secretly stealing information and secretly spreading it to the Melander Historical Association that had been chasing after the Fire Demon fragments, in an attempt to disrupt the continuation of the Fire Demon Project.

Unexpectedly, before Melander's men arrived, the Flame Demon Project exploded.

She couldn't help but sigh after wasting so much time and energy, only to find that it was all in vain.

"Come to think of it, Saria seems to be around there recently...I hope she won't be dragged into this."

Given her personality... I'm a little worried.

After thinking about it, she decided to go for a walk.

Muir Seth, one of the founders of Rhine Life and director of the Ecology Department, gathered his coat, left the ecological observation area, and embarked on a new journey.

Chapter 13: First Meeting with Muirseth

Corpses were scattered all over the ground, blood flowed like a river, and cries of pain could be heard throughout the city.

He was laughing, and she was laughing too. The two enemies admired the hell below together as if they were appreciating a work of art...

Luo Cheng, Kristen...

brush!

He stood up suddenly and the quilt slipped off his body.

The wet and sticky liquid sticks to the body, making people very uncomfortable.

Waking up from a nightmare, the Vaifan girl sat on the bed, inserted her fingers into her hair, and kneaded it gently.

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