140, the third generation (2)
The devil rushed into Adam's laboratory in a hurry: "Master, it's not good..."
Adam didn't reply, and a thought drove the devil to the wall: "Shut up, whatever happens, wait until I'm done experimenting." β
The third generation of viruses is not so much an evolutionary version of the previous generation, but rather an added self-destruct program to which Adam has added.
The nature of the virus has determined the upper limit of what an infected person can reach, at most comparable to the average mage apprentice. This upper limit will not be broken by the number of individuals devouring the others, so when Adam loosens control of the virus, they will inevitably self-destruct in the increasingly devouring of each other.
That's what the devil saw.
Adam injected the third-generation stock solution into ten concentrated virus flesh at the same time, and then let go of the shackles of the virus, the viruses seemed to have an instinct at this moment, and began to devour each other after a few minutes of mutual temptation, in which Adam threw a small monster into the petri dish, and the viruses immediately gave up attacking each other, and tore the monster apart before continuing.
"Not bad, the priority of the command is higher than self-destruction for the time being. β
After devouring the rest of the virus, the winner became more and more powerful, and the aura that overflowed from the surviving individual completely reached the level of the anti-mage apprentice, but this was already the limit, when it found that there was no devourable individual around it, the virus gene began to die, the infected body shrank inward, and a large piece of flesh and blood became gray, and after ten minutes, it was completely lifeless.
After Adam recorded all the experimental steps, he turned around with the finished product of the third-generation virus and withdrew the telekinetic power that imprisoned the devil, and before he could speak, he heard the devil's frightened voice: "Master, this is the third-generation virus? My Garfield, you promised me that you would not destroy it!"
Adam walked straight out of the laboratory, came to Garfield's side, inserted the syringe into its body in the devil's grief-stricken expression, and pushed it full without hesitation, only then explained: "The third-generation virus is only effective against the offspring, and the mother will not be affected by the tendency to self-destruct, but when the offspring are all destroyed, the mother will also lose the ability to infect, and the virus gene will become an ordinary benign gene." β
The devil didn't understand, but he also heard that Garfils would be fine, and immediately put his mind at ease, and pounced on Garfils with a whoosh, excited and broken.
"After you complete the tasks you told you before, you will be able to spread the third generation of the virus. Also, what did you just come to me for?" Adam asked, looking through the light curtain at the hills of metal minerals on the ground.
"I justβ" The devil was still immersed in the joy of being lost and regained, and was stunned for a moment when he heard Adam's inquiry, and replied for a while: "By the way, master, something is wrong, and that group of trial apprentices seems to have discovered our location." β
Adam's eyes shrank slightly, although he had never underestimated the wisdom of those apprentices, and he had a premonition that the identity of his mastermind behind the scenes would be revealed sooner or later, but at the last moment, he still couldn't help but hesitate.
It's not that I'm afraid of them, but I don't know how to deal with them.
Adam looked at the two magic arrays that were about to take shape, and thought in his heart, the people who came to participate in the trial were all the true elites of the Fifth Element Holy Tower for a hundred years, if he killed them all, would it be a catastrophe?
"How long will it take them to get here?"
The devil thought for a moment and said, "They are too strong, even if I keep luring the anti-mages to the road to stop them, coupled with the harassment of the infected, I can only delay for three days at most." β
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In the folds of space.
"This is the Apprentice Adam Personality Behavior Analysis Report. The female mage placed a document on the table and continued, "According to his previous behavior pattern, if the trial apprentice angers him, then the super electromagnetic cannon will move away from the head of the anti-mage and shoot at the trial apprentices instead. According to the calculations of the past few days, the power of that magic array at full power was enough to destroy all the unpromoted apprentices in one blow. β
"Rest assured, Kretti, no matter what he does, as long as the rules allow us, we have no power to stop it, and the towers have already signed a contract before sending apprentices, so no one will trouble us for this. And hasn't it been reported to Priscia Superdimension? β
"That's true, but the contract doesn't say that all the apprentices died from cannibalism, and if only one person from the Fifth Element Saint Tower is qualified this time, our faces won't look good..."
"Rest assured, there won't be just one person, most of the little guys in the War Alliance already have enough points, and this kind of large-scale devastating magic can't kill them. Another mage said casually.
At this moment, there was suddenly one more person in the headquarters, everyone saluted respectfully, and Priscia's superdimensional clone projected in front of everyone.
"Release the final battle of the mission, go to the Holy Fall Basin to destroy the remaining enemy mages, and double the points during the mission. Priscia Superdimensional commanded directly, releasing the first and last mission in this war trial.
ChrΓ©ti breathed a sigh of relief, so that at least most of the apprentices who lacked merit points would give up on confronting Adam and the magic that was far beyond the apprentice level.
Priscia Chaowei smiled slightly: "Don't care about anything else, no one dares to violate the Holy Tower Contract, don't forget the purpose of the trial, what we need is quality, elite, not quantity." β
"Your will. Everyone said in unison.
The extradimensional projection faded away, and she finally said, "When the trial is over, bring Adam to the Holy Tower to meet me." β
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The devil is very weak-minded, most of the trouble this time is actually caused by its own initiative, in case the master is really besieged because of this, its end will only be more miserable, so the execution of orders has risen again, and the collection of resources and the construction of magic arrays are proceeding rapidly.
Today, though, it suddenly saw a turnaround.
"Master, master! They scattered, quack, as if there was infighting, and only five of them flew towards us. β
At this time, Adam was looking at the meritorious bracelet and was stunned, "The final battle, the Holy Fall Basin? β
The devil looked at the silent Adam and said again, "Master?"
"Resource collection stopped, the third-generation virus began to spread, and the central smelting circle was activated. This trial is coming to an end. β