Become a powerful shadow master in the new world

"I can't trust her. She's too suspicious..."

Shaking her head slightly, Kirasaka Sayaka gave an explanation.

"It's not because of the magic, although it is a bit evil, but it's not surprising when you think it comes from Netheril.

The problem is that the reason she gave for being captured is too ridiculous, and I have thought about it carefully several times. I can be sure that I was careful not to damage the orc's vocal cords. The only one who could have damaged his vocal cords is her..."

Is there a possibility that the magic did not actually come from Netheril, the backdoors had been deleted, and those witches could not have done such a stupid thing, no, it should be said that they did not have that ability.

And why did you believe it when Asagi said that the magic came from Netheril? Didn't you use your brain to think about it carefully? Or is Netheril's reputation just so bad now? It feels more and more like a certain America in the previous life. Damn, if this goes on, Netheril will be doomed sooner or later.

While silently complaining about Netheril in his heart, Sid was very sure that he was not mistaken. The magic used by Lanyu Asagi just now had no backdoor.

What is the difference between the basic magic of the major forces in the world today and the upgraded basic magic from Netheril?

In addition to the well-known points of 30% greater power and 30% less consumption, from Sid's perspective, there is another point that the advanced version has a backdoor, while the basic version does not.

When the Magic Intellectual Property Copyright Protection Act came out, the anti-magic sphere that Netheril used to threaten the Norse pantheon was a product based on this backdoor.

If the advanced version had not been popularized at that time, the blackmail would not have been successful. Unfortunately, there is no if. The group of witches probably thought of this money-making method when they discovered the advanced version of basic magic in the "library", and spent more than a year on it.

The major forces actually lost unfairly this time. After all, who could have thought that someone would plant backdoors in several magic systems? Even though the basic techniques of the entire magic system were upgraded, who could defend against it?

So who created the "library"? He has so much free time that he could kill all the magicians in the world.

When this information gap exists, Netheril's victory is inevitable.

The major forces may initially suspect that Netheril has some conspiracy, but as the first force to take the plunge grows stronger, they will have no choice but to put aside their concerns and update their techniques under the pressure of internal competition.

And when all the major forces have completed the update of their techniques and the upgraded techniques have become completely popular, jumping out to blackmail is a blatant conspiracy, one that will make all the forces spend twice as much in materials plus a huge amount of patent fees.

Now we have to change the upgraded version of the technique back to the previous basic version. Not to mention the materials spent in this process, let’s just talk about the pressure from other forces.

When people from other forces can break their own basic B-level defense spells with a C-level upgraded attack spell, then this force is doomed to be crushed by its own peers.

Perhaps for a while, this force can rely on the top strongmen above it to hold on for a while, but how long can it last?

The intelligence of this force will have no privacy in the eyes of other forces, because of the same learning difficulty and execution, the SS-level detection barrier that you have painstakingly set up can be easily avoided by the other party with an S-level concealment magic.

What determines how much water a barrel can hold is always the shortest plank. What Netheril did is equivalent to raising the upper limit of the magical planks of all barrels at once. If you don't keep up, the amount of water in your barrel will be destined to be less than that of other barrels.

The most important thing is that for Netheril, the wooden board used by other forces' magic has not actually been upgraded. As long as there is a backdoor, they only need to spend a little magic power to make all the upgraded spells used by people other than their own people in the field ineffective.

Therefore, after each major force has withstood the internal circulation of other forces, they still have to spend the same amount of resources to prepare basic version teaching and arrangements to guard against Netheril.

This is very necessary. Even though you are still at B level after learning the basic version and cannot beat the upgraded C level version, at least you still have magic to use. If you don't learn it, when you are fighting with the people of Netheril, the opponent will throw an anti-magic ball at you and ban all your magic.

There is also the patent fee which is extremely high, which is simply an exorbitant price. But the initiative is in Netheril's hands, so they have no choice but to pay it.

I'm afraid that Netheril is making too much money. Not only have they buried backdoors in all magic systems, but they can also openly collect huge patent fees. The basic version is a joke to them. If they can still lose after leading by one version, they might as well commit suicide to avoid embarrassment.

After this wave, the only ones who lost were the major forces and their heirs. They were blackmailed for patent fees, spent twice as much resources to set up the barrier, and had to double the study materials and homework.

I have to admit that Sid was a little curious about which witch came up with this trick. She was really talented to be able to come up with this trick based on the "Bixie Sword Manual joke" he told her.

As for whether anyone can remove this backdoor by themselves, Sid can only say that it is difficult. This is part of the reason why he skipped the basic version and went straight to learning the core.

He was very confident that even the top fifteen strongest people in the world who were immersed in the art of magic could not remove the backdoor of the upgraded magic, because the backdoor was completely integrated with the upgraded system, and the art of magic would be unusable if the backdoor was changed.

But if someone has such incredible talent that he can change the system of the technique without changing the technique itself, then just pretend Sid didn't say anything. After all, if the system that can activate the backdoor is gone, what's the use of the backdoor.

Thinking back to the present, Sid looked at Aoi Asagi in front of him and couldn't help wondering how the other person was still alive.

What Aoki Asagi just used was an upgraded version of the technique without a backdoor, and it was not a magic recorded in the library.

what does this mean?

This means that Aoba Asagi has successfully written a new system that can perfectly match the upgrade technique, and this system can perfectly replace the old system with backdoors.

This means that Naesriel will hunt down Lanyu Asagi at all costs to prevent Lanyu Asagi from destroying their plot and to prevent Lanyu Asagi from writing upgrade spells for other forces without backdoors.

Thinking of this, Sid took a deep breath, as if he knew what Aoi Asagi's secret was.

Chapter 155: The Second Trolley Problem: The Artificial Life Force

The heavy door was opened a tiny crack. Lying in front of the door, Sid saw only darkness. His brows raised slightly. After thinking for a few seconds, he waved to Kirasaka Sayaka and Aoi Asagi behind him to go in.

"Click!"

After pressing the switch on the wall, the light illuminated the dark room. In front of Sid were large glass jars that filled the entire underground space. The tubes in the jars were filled with liquid, and immersed in them were mysterious oval-shaped flesh balls that were wrapped all over their bodies, with only a childish face exposed.

"hiss!"

Seeing this scene, both Himeragi Setsuna, who was lying on Sid's back, and Himeragi Setsuna behind him gasped.

"This, this is..."

Kirasaka Sayaka opened her eyes wide and spoke in a trembling voice.

"The forbidden fusion of artificial life."

After recovering from the shock of this scene, Aiba Asagi gave the answer.

"I know these are artificial life forms, but why are there so many of them here!"

If there were only a few artificial life forms, Kirasaka Sayaka wouldn't have such a big reaction.

After all, although artificial life forms have a short lifespan, their loyalty and strong plasticity are destined to make people continue to produce them.

However, the number of artificial life forms on the field has reached nearly three digits, which is completely contrary to the interests of artificial life forms.

Not to mention how much resources are needed to produce such a large number of artificial life forms, and whether the concentration of these resources will attract attention, the practicality of artificial life forms will be greatly reduced.

Because of their short lifespan, artificial life forms are mostly used as suicide infantry.

Because of the loyalty set by someone, the person who buys it can use all kinds of things on it that have huge side effects but can also bring great power.

You only need to spend a little money and a power that is tasteless to your own people but a pity to throw away, and you can get a subordinate with powerful strength and loyalty that is not afraid of death. I believe most people will be happy to buy it.

It is not uncommon to find items that bring great power but have huge side effects, and this is determined by their particularity.

I won't use it if I have a choice, and I will only use it when I have no choice.

But it can only be said that it is not uncommon, and one or two can be easily obtained. But if you want to have a number that can be used by the artificial life forms that fill an entire underground space in front of you, it will take eight or nine years if you monopolize the entire black market. Moreover, there is a high probability that the large-scale purchase of such props will attract the investigation of a certain force and eventually the force will explode your gold coins.

So under normal circumstances, normal people will only buy a few artificial life forms because they cannot afford that quantity.

"How would I know if you ask me? Maybe this guy has lost his mind."

Pointing at Jia Dexiu, Lan Yu Qiancong proposed a possibility.

"Are you sure it's not you who has a brain seizure?

With the current number of people on the field, Genshin Island will sink at least several times."

Asagi Aoi was silent. She knew very well that what Kirasaka Sayaka said was true. If all the artificial life forms on the field used those dangerous substances that increased their strength, then once these artificial life forms went out of control, the power generated would really be able to sink Genkami Island.

In the face of such danger, it was indeed her mistake to pin her hopes on the terrorist leader's brain being flawed.

"Calm down. The most important thing now is to find the antidote. Don't worry about these artificial life forms for now. They are still the original versions, and nothing weird has been implanted in their bodies."

After comforting the two of them, Sid continued to use the controlled Jadexiu to search for the antidote.

"Sid, you know a lot about artificial life forms?"

Following Sid through the back door, Lan Yu Asagi was a little confused when she heard Sid speak so confidently.

The artificial life forms could not confirm the situation by appearance, because the powers they used were chaotic, and there might be some that could not be seen if they were not used.

"Ah, a little bit."

Thinking of the artificial life form behind Teacher J that he met at the beginning, Sid nodded. That was the first time he encountered an artificial life form.

By the way, why do the faces of these artificial life forms look so familiar?

Following Jadexiu on the way, Sid always had a sense of familiarity when looking at the tender face exposed on the surface of the meat ball in the glass tube.

Ok?

Jade stopped and stiffly took out a syringe filled with green liquid from the cabinet in front of him, then turned around and handed it to Sid.

"Is this the antidote?"

"Aba Aba..."

Jadexiu couldn't give an accurate answer to Sid's question.

"show me."

With Sid's consent, Kirasaka Sayaka snatched the syringe from Judd's hand, held it in front of herself to examine it, and her expression became worse and worse the more she looked at it.

"There's not even a note on it. Do we really want to trust this orc in front of us and inject Xue Cai with something that's obviously problematic?"

"Hey, don't you trust me?"

Feeling that she was being questioned, Aiyu Asagi's face darkened.

Kirasaka Sayaka didn't say anything. It was obvious that Asagi Aoi's previous behavior of destroying Jade's vocal cords had indeed aroused her suspicion.

"Okay, okay, Kirasaka is just being cautious, he means no harm.

...Qiancong, are you sure he is really under control?"

Feeling the atmosphere on the field was getting tense, Sid stepped forward to ease the mood.

"Sure. As long as he is not provoked too much, he will do whatever the outside world tells him to do."

"Okay, Asagi, I believe you."

Nodding, Sid put Setsuna Himeragi down from his back, pulled out the cap of the syringe, and pointed the needle at Setsuna Himeragi.

"Sid, why don't we look for it again? I always feel that this thing is not very credible."

Kirasaka Sayaka stopped Sid.

"But the problem is, this is the only thing we have found now."

"This……"

Kirasaka Sayaka bit her lip and looked at the syringe in Sid's hand hesitantly.

To be honest, if this thing was forced out by Sid or her, she wouldn't stop it even if she was a little suspicious from the outside.

But she really felt that what Lan Yu Asagi found was a bit unbelievable.

Not to mention the reasons given by Lan Yu Asagi, just look at Lan Yu Asagi's previous behavior. It seems like murder to silence the witness. If it weren't for Sid's guarantee, she would have done it long ago. She has seen cases of thieves robbing each other before.

The magic that can make people obedient is just one-sided statement of Aiba Asagi. What if that magic is actually a puppet technique?

"Sayaka, trust your senior's judgment."

When Kirasaka Sayaka was hesitating, Himeragi Setsuna's weak voice was heard.

"But..."

She wanted to say something, but when she saw Sid looking deeply at Himerahira Setsuna, she was silent for a moment, then Kirasaka Sayaka sighed and let go of Sid's arm.

"Ok."

Don't worry, if there's really something wrong with this thing, I can just buy Xue Cai a new body.

Nodding, Sid inserted the needle into Setsuna Himeragi's body.

After the injection was completed, Asagi Aoi next to him also came over and looked at Sid with a complicated expression.

"Sorry, I owe you two favors this time."

Lan Yu Asagi knew that she was behaving very suspiciously, so suspicious that it would be okay even if Sid suspected that she was a companion of this group of orcs, because in a sense she really was, but she was unlucky enough to be bullied by this group of orcs.

It can be said that it is because of her that the suspicion of the antidote in front of him has increased several times.

But even so, she didn't expect that Sid was still willing to believe her. Before this, she always felt that Sid only regarded her as a tool, and never thought that Sid's trust in her would reach this level.

I feel... a little sorry for this trust.

"I always feel like you have made up something incredible in your mind."

With his eyes narrowed, Sid always had a sense of déjà vu when he played role-playing games with Qiying in the past.

"...Don't you doubt me? No, I saw you two together before."

Hearing this, Aoi Asagi immediately suspected that she was overthinking and that Sid didn't actually suspect her. But when she thought about the scene on the way here just now, Kirasaka Sayaka looked at her suspiciously while whispering with Sid, she became uncertain again.

"You mean that? It does have something to do with you, but I don't think you're that kind of person, and..."

"Stand up, Setsuna stands up!"

And does it matter whether you do it?