The second-generation virus allows the infected body to master the secondary elemental energy, which is a huge leap over the first-generation virus, but the third-generation virus envisioned by Adam will not produce this qualitative change, but will make every infected person valuable, whether it is 'alive' or 'afterlife'.

The current infected have the ability to eat the corpses of the remaining infected to replenish their own strength, which is derived from the ability of the creatures of the abyss. A truly fully constituted abyssal creature can devour all energy to promote its own evolution, and Adam's current ability cannot be restored, but he can magnify the most superficial manifestations of this ability.

That's what Adam was going to do next—the mutual devouring of viruses in infected bodies.

If the research of the third generation of viruses is successful, it means that the evolution of the virus has changed from Adam's full control to the uncontrollable and autonomous evolution of the virus, which means that Adam does not know what the infection will become next.

But one thing is certain: the end result of this disordered evolution must be self-destruction.

Because when Adam's eyes and ears spread all over the island of Ceylon, he found that although the virus can spread through the air, the scope of the virus is limited to the island, and none of the countless lives in the sea have been infected, it is obvious that the Fifth Element Holy Tower will not allow this virus to spread unlimitedly, that is to say, the number of infected people is now saturated, and no new creatures will be infected, so when the virus begins to devour itself, the number will only become smaller and smaller.

But it doesn't matter, the knowledge of developing the virus is already mastered, and the consumption of these infected people is not in Adam's consideration.

———

Five days later.

Outside the island of Ceylon, in the War Trial Headquarters hidden in the folds of space, the mages from the Fifth Element Holy Tower felt a headache.

"What should we do with this apprentice named Adam?" asked a male mage, pointing to one of the more than a thousand light curtains that showed Adam in it.

A female mage knocked on the table and said, "He didn't break the rules, all the merits obtained are valid, but..."

"But he disrupted the order of the trial, look at these things," the first mage waved his hand, and after the light curtain changed, he revealed the infected bodies all over the mountain, which caused a catastrophe to ordinary anti-mage apprentices after gaining innate magic, "The trial has become no difficult for him, not only that, we can't even issue special missions, and those key locations that are dangerous to the apprentices have been filled with the lives of these infected people and destroyed." ”

The female mage sighed: "If this continues, this class will be the fewest apprentices who have passed the trial, and I suspect that there may not even be fifty." ”

The light curtain changed again, this time showing an image of a large open space outside Adam's laboratory, and the mage pointed to the infected body on it that had been moved by ants and said, "Fifty of them, have you all known about Adam's information? Do you remember the magic called the Super Electromagnetic Cannon?"

The faces of several mages couldn't help but look at each other, the light curtain was constantly changing under their manipulation, the anti-mage was driven away, the trial apprentice chased after him intentionally or unintentionally, the final destination in the deduction, and the magic circle and metal block prepared by Adam were connected by them.

"He's going to..."

———

In the course of five days, the battle between the anti-mage, the trial apprentice, and the infected entered a white-hot stage, and since the battle between the three major families of Ciel, Lance and Orm was destroyed by the infected, all the apprentices saw that the infected had only one countermeasure, and that was to kill.

But there are too many infected, and every time they fight against the enemy mage, they will be peeped at by countless infected, which forces them to be unable to preserve their strength, and most of the apprentices who suppressed the promotion have become official mages.

"Lilith, if you continue to follow this route, what will be your final destination?" These elites are not stupid, they have already discovered that the infected are guiding them, but they have no way to break the game, and this feeling of being led by the nose makes everyone angry.

Lilith spread out a map full of arrowheads, and she picked up her pen and drew a circle to the left of the center of Ceylon: "Holy Fall Basin, if nothing else, this is it." ”

The War Alliance has been in a state of flux lately, and their credibility is rapidly declining on a celestial basis, and the Trial Apprentices outside the Alliance are dissatisfied with the Alliance's efficiency.

They have reason to be dissatisfied: at first, you asked everyone to join, unified command and unified action, and promised to maximize the results of the battle, so that more people can pass the trial, well, we believe it, but now, except for a few people in your alliance who have earned enough merits, we haven't seen it at all, we know this, instead of cooperating with you, it is better to go out and try our luck ourselves.

Therefore, Lilith and the top brass of the War Alliance urgently need a big victory to stabilize the morale of the army, and at least let some people see real merit points.

"We can't be led. Lilith said categorically.

Everyone looked at each other for a moment, and then someone questioned: "Our people go around to spy on intelligence, but every time the main combat personnel arrive, they will find that the enemy mage has escaped, and as long as the infected body still exists, we can't help but be led away." ”

"Yes, but you can't kill those things. ”

Lilith was silent for a moment, then asked to the side, "Reinhardt, how are you doing over there?"

"These infectees seem to be mining, collecting metal, they're cautious, they will self-destruct if they see someone snooping, we have too few people to track them all," Reinhardt tugged at the map, stretched out his hand, and pressed his fingers in one place, "they're all going to end up in this area." ”

"This is the intersection of the three forces of the Hill family, the Lance family, and the Eternal Life School. ”

"Yes, a huge wasteland, without any supplies, without a town. ”

Lilith thought thoughtfully, "That's why it's better to hide, isn't it?"

The rest of the members who listened to the conversation between the two suspiciously suddenly realized, and then they were all angry: "You mean that the mastermind behind the scenes is hiding here?"

They hated this man so much that he hadn't killed any of them with the infected, but the feeling of being played with and applauded in terms of intelligence was even worse than killing them.

Lilith nodded, "If nothing else, this is it." It seems that we need to solve this problem before we can fight the anti-mage..."