thirty-seven

However, Natasha, after flipping through it, realizes that she is wrong. As an archmage who was known at the time as having the hope of reaching the end of spells and taking that step, his research notes were beyond the reach of time - otherwise why would there be no archmage on the continent today who could receive the same praise?

While Natasha was immersed in her research notes, Guderian was also pondering over and over again the research notes on the soul. There is no time or night, and the entire underground world is always shrouded in this milky white faint light, like a mythical fairyland. Guderian was hungry for the food left by Fortan Ullis, and was sleepy in his study, and after a few days and nights. It wasn't until Fortan Ullis came back that Guderian knew that more than a week had passed since the day and night were on the surface. During this time, Fortan Ullis prepared a consciousness separation device, and this time he came to ask Guderian and Natasha to help kill the other personality.

When Guderian arrived in the lab with Fortan Julis, Natasha was already there. Because she had been in the Mage Tower, Natasha did not continue to keep the spell of Fortan Ullis in the disguise of the undead, and had changed back to her original appearance and put on her fiery robes. And Guderian, who was fascinated by the research notes, did not remember this incident, and also lost his disguise and changed back to his previous appearance, but he did not take a shower, change clothes and shave for many days and nights, and the whole person looked very sloppy. Fortan Ullis is a lich and many of the functions possessed by the flesh have been lost, so he doesn't care. Natasha was different, the moment Guderian appeared, she frowned and covered her mouth and glared at Guderian.

Guderian was embarrassed to find out about his condition, and the lich looked back at Guderian the moment he saw Natasha's reaction......

"Basement, with water. The lich trumpeted his waist and threw out two sets of mage robes, black and white, and continued, "My mage robes. As the last memories of humanity...... Give it back to me after wearing it. The lich's voice was a little sad.

So Guderian chose a black robe, found a sharp knife in the laboratory, and took a small glass mirror with Natasha, washed and shaved.

After Guderian left, Fortan Julius explained to Natasha the device composed of all the miscellaneous things in the laboratory: "This device will store my consciousness and mental power in a special solution in this glass container. Without the support of the body, you will see two red balls of light connected together in these solutions, the severed souls occupied by my two personalities. The big ball of light is him, and the small one is me. Natasha and Fortan Ullis stood in front of a large glass container erected upright, filled with an unknown blue liquid, one end of which was attached to a strange chair. The chair was similar to the one Guderian had tested his mental power in Gandalf's lab. The container is inlaid with four sets of magic crystals from top to bottom, and each set of magic crystals is a magic circle. The other end of the container is connected to the next similar glass container by a glass tube, except that the unknown liquid is red in color, and a gate is attached to the glass tube. There were two copper wires connected to an outside machine with wheels that had two strange pedals.

"When my soul (the combination of consciousness and spiritual power) attaches to the first terrarium, the other personality awakens. What you have to do Natasha is to activate those crystal circles on the container from top to bottom as soon as possible. The purpose of these circles is to extract the spiritual power from my soul, otherwise another personality will blow up the device. Fortan Julius said solemnly to Natasha.

Natasha glanced at the crystal circles and nodded. Then, Fortan Ulis led Natasha to the second glass container and continued to Natasha: "My soul is only pure consciousness and awake after the mental power is drained. When the time comes, Guderian will control the power generation machine to maximize the power and the machine will light up red, and you just have to turn the gate on the glass tube between the two glass containers half a circle. This terrarium automatically sucks my soul in from the first container. ”

Natasha looked at the instruments under the explanation of Fortan Ullis, and asked a few words about the principle in passing. Fortan Ulis answered them all. Soon after, Guderian freshened up and returned to the lab in his black mage robes.

Fortan Ullis took Guderian to the machine that needed him to operate and said, "Your job is to press these two pedals as fast as you can." Guderian listened, stood on the pedals, and probed the handrail that lay in front of him a few times, but fortunately, it was not very heavy.

"Stepping on it until my soul is pulled from the first terrarium to the second. Fortan Ulis pointed to the two containers. Guderian understood.

Then, Fortan Julius led Natasha and Guderian to the chair: "After my soul enters the second vessel, it has been ionized into countless fragments that will keep these soul fragments alive and will not be annihilated by the fragmentation of the whole consciousness. In this form, I have no way to autonomously fuse my soul into a complete individual. At this point, you need to remove the chair from the first container and attach it to the second container. Then, Natasha, you activate the circle above. Those circles will recombine the fragments of my consciousness into a complete soul, and when you see that the fusion is successful, and then activate the circle on the first container from the bottom up, those spiritual power will flow into the recombined consciousness body on its own. And I was back in this body. ”

Natasha and Guderian nodded.

"Are you ready, then?" asked Fortan Julius. The two nodded again. So Fortan Ullis sat down in his chair and put on his headband, Natasha stood in front of the first vessel, and Guderian stood on the pedal.

"Good luck to me, let's get started. Fortan Ulis activated the circle on the headband, and colorful rays of light shot out from the headband. Then Guderian stepped on the pedal as well, and arcs of electricity flashed on the machine.

In the first container, as the colorful light of the headband on the chair flickered, two red light globulous shadows slowly appeared. Natasha activated the crystal circle on the container for the first time, and the four yellow rays of light swirled into a vortex in the container's azure liquid, pulling two sticky red balls, one large and one small, in the center of the vortex. Frantic screams rippled out of the container, hurting Natasha and Guderian's eardrums. In vain, the screams grew smaller and smaller to nothingness, without affecting Natasha and Guderian for half a point.

Guderian pedaled the pedals into the air, and those flickering arcs grew louder and louder. After the crystal circle on the container stopped shining and the vortex in the container refined, a red light appeared on the machine next to Guderian. So Natasha twisted the gate on the glass tube in half a circle. Then, the two red balls, which had been stationary, were sucked into the glass pipe. When passing through the gate, the two red balls are squeezed through little by little. Arcs of lightning flickered across the gates, and shrill wails rang out from the souls of Natasha and Guderian, making people feel creepy.

The red balls that had already squeezed through the gate were torn apart into little points of light and dissociated in the second glass container. This process lasted more than half an hour, and Guderian was tired and sweaty from just pedaling to keep the machine glowing red. After all the red balls had passed through and been torn apart into countless points of light, Guderian and Natasha removed the chair from the first container and quickly assembled it onto the second container, which Natasha then activated the circle on the second container. This time, it was a swirl of green light, converging the countless red dots into the center of the vortex, gradually forming a large red ball. After the red balls were combined, the green glow stopped, and the crystals on the container shattered. Natasha did as Fortan Julius said, activating the circle again on the first container from the bottom up. I saw four yellow rays of light combine into a huge yellow sphere in the container, and then under the traction of an unknown force, the glass tube rushed through the gate and injected into the red ball, this process lasted for about ten minutes, and then ended in the middle stage of the shattering of the circle crystal.

The red orb faded into obscurity as Natasha and Guderian saw it, and then the headband on the chair's head lit up before it exploded in less than three seconds. Then, in a puff of smoke, Fortan Ullis stood up.

Fortan Ulys's sleaked face had not changed, but his eyes had become a little different from before. As for the difference, Guderian and Natasha couldn't tell.

"Master?" Natasha stepped back a little wary, and Guderian quickly got in front of her.

Fortan Ullis stared at the two of them quietly for a moment before he said, "Don't be afraid...... Although not very successful. But, after all, it is no longer two separate and opposing personalities and souls," Fortan Ullis motioned for the two to relax, trying to squeeze a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying.

"Master, what do you mean?" Natasha and Guderian relaxed, walked in, and the lich looked at him suspiciously.

"The soul has been reunited into one individual, a small part more by the previous tinkering of the other personality, and now it is stronger. But neither personality dies out, but merges back into one personality. Normal personality. This is a little unacceptable to me...... Those sins are actually my own ......," Fortan Julis said hoarsely.

Guderian and Natasha looked at each other, and Natasha said, "As long as the mage finds his original self again, it will be a very successful thing." There is no way for us to change what has happened, but in the future, the master can make up for it, although it is only a kind of self-consolation. ”

“...... That's all there is to it. Thank you. Fortan Ullis sighed and continued, "This device was conceived and prepared by my previous personality when it first awakened. The perception that has been deceiving another personality with autosuggestion has been concealed until now. Before, after your battle woke me up, I immediately had the idea of asking you to help. After I save you, I won't say anything if you don't want to go alone with me back here. But you did help me. Thank you. Fortan Ulis bowed solemnly to Natasha and Guderian.

“...... Masters don't have to be that. Guderian and Natasha hurriedly stepped out of the way and said, "You saved us, and we are just doing something insignificant, which is what I should do." ”

"You don't know, in the underworld, where can I find someone to help? You've seen that kind of Fortan Ulys, Guderian and Natasha. The lich said hoarsely.

Guderian remembered the first encounter and the second encounter, both of which were fought to the death, but now it is you who save me and I help you, and I can't help but feel a little unbelievable - what happened during this period is really incredible.