Chapter 16: Success After Failure
Alcharius' decay came faster than Alex's plan, and his resurrection did not slow down the corruption of his flesh, and if he needed to stop this vicious development, he would have to coat Alcharius with antiseptic potion.
This was not in line with Alex's initial plan. He had taken the result of the corpse's decomposition into account for several external factors that could interfere with the experiment, but he didn't expect it to be even more serious than he expected.
He observed that the tiny community of life that had multiplied on Alcharius had begun to erode the spell runes that Alexius had carved into the surface of Alcharius' skin.
This means that if you don't apply a large amount of embalming potions to each resurrected corpse, they will have a very short shelf life. If you act in the outside world with a complex environment, I am afraid that the speed of decay will increase greatly, which will directly lead to the damage of the rune responsible for the core drive, resulting in a decrease in action power, or even failure.
This is a fatal flaw that is absolutely impossible to tolerate. Alexey, who was anxious to transform the spell to near-perfection, immediately began to think of several possible ways to solve the problem.
Because of the psychological expectations and contingency plan design, Alexei soon came up with the first set of plans that he had prepared, and it was also one of the simplest plans - that is, to apply a sufficient amount of embalming potion to each resurrected corpse, the disadvantages and advantages of this are obvious, the most obvious advantage is that the embalming potion can be at a minimum, ensuring that in most cases, the runes on the surface of the corpse can not be disturbed by corruption for a long time.
However, once the advantages of potions were put on the table, Alexei immediately thought of the disadvantages of embalming potions. If you blindly increase the investment in antiseptic potions in resurrection spells, then this is only an inferior solution that treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
Veto.
As the creator of resurrection magic, Alexey clearly realized that before the resurrection spell was mature enough to allow the deceased to be reborn with pre-life memories, the so-called resurrection spell could achieve no more advantages than two points in the competition with non-living combinations - the first point, the cost was low, and the second point, the material was easy to use.
He couldn't give up his advantage to do forcible spell research and development, if Alexai only wanted to obtain a batch of magical creations, why didn't he turn to research the Golem Combination? At least there was solid empirical evidence to emerge, and after he saw it with his own eyes, it proved that it was feasible to go in the right direction. It can't be compared to the resurrection magic that I can't complete the power installation yet.
The Golem is a success, but the resurrection magic is a half-finished product that needs to be questioned even if it's right or not.
The difference between cloud and mud.
But where is the Golem's success?
Forgive Alexey's shallow knowledge, and he didn't find any spell models and runes on the Golem of Blue Dream that could be used as a reference for mages or that could be used directly in his hands.
None of them, only .......
Alexei thought of the Olmea gem at the Golem's connection, and he picked up one and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look.
Under the effect of clarity, he could clearly observe the almost perfect emerald green surface of the gem-like surface, and there was really not even a single slight flaw on it.
It can be said that it is perfect.
But is it really that seamless?
No.
The fragments alone speak for themselves.
He just hadn't figured it out yet.
Alexei took a drop of Blue Dream blood and dripped it on the surface of the gem-like gem, and he waited for about five minutes, but the Ormea-like gem did not react to the blood with any visible eye.
He miscalculated.
The fragments in front of Alexei were still fragments, blood was still blood, they didn't glow, they didn't soften as they did in the Blue Dream Notes.
The process of studying spells is boring, and Alexey has long been accustomed to the results of failure, but every failure is a foreshadowing of the next success. He believed that his judgment of the information in Lan Meng's diary and notes, her blood, must be related to the Olmea gem.
This is also the key to solving the problem of corpse corruption.
In addition to applying embalming potions, Alexei had already listed another theoretically feasible plan in his mind the moment he placed the key point on the golem - to carve the runes directly on the bones of the corpse.
Since flesh and blood rot, what about bones?
Bones are more resistant to nature than flesh is to hold on.
However, in addition to muscles, Alexei also had to consider where the source of the corpse's strength should come from.
Runes alone are certainly not enough, and at the same weight, the amount of magic left in the bones is much less than in the flesh and blood, and as for how much, Alexei had seen a similar description in a book of biological archmage's notes.
The gap between water and air.
It's huge.
It's hopelessly big.
If you want to increase the capacity of this part of the mana, you will need to use expensive Mithril and real gems.
In this way, we are back in the dead end of the two advantages of cheapness and convenient access.
Also, the corpse with the real gem and Mithril can't move, Alexei has tried, and his level of arranging rune construction techniques is obviously much higher than that of Blue Dream, but Blue Dream's cyber tank is able to move, and Alexey's Alcharius just can't move.
What's the problem?
Is he angry or not?
To be honest, not angry. When it comes to the study of magic, the master comes first.
However, Alexei knows where his savior is, because he knows where the key point of the gap between himself and Lembongong is.
Success, only that step away.
And now, Alexei is about to take this step by donning the iron boots forged by Olmea-like gems and stepping on the last nail in front of him.
All he lacked was a process, a process of learning the methods of Blue Dream and turning the gem-like into his own.
Since this magical substance can be a turning point in the diary of Blue Dreams, Alexei is confident that he can also follow the same trajectory and find the springboard to the smooth road, with a single leap and everything in the palm of his hand.
Thinking of this, Alexei put aside the gem-like gems that had been exposed to the blood of the Blue Dream and re-selected a newborn who had not been baptized by the blood of the old king.
He began to write on his experimental notes.
In the 147th year of the royal calendar, March 12, it was sunny.
There are two experimental materials, one is 160 ml of blood collected from the wound of the test subject, and the blood is referred to as "the blood of the old king". The second is 16 fragments of Olmea gemstones of various sizes, arranged in order from small to large, and marked in order. The fragments and 30 ml of blood with the substitution numbers 1, 8 and 16 were placed in the corresponding utensils to confirm that they had not been disturbed by external factors and met the experimental requirements.
On the first day of the experiment, due to equipment limitations, the experimental objectives were divided into three groups, which were carried out together by the same group, and each observation was limited to 15 minutes.
Alexei drew three lines here, and he was going to record the results of the next experiments by component, so that the results of the failed experiments could be compared more clearly.
Soon, the first fifteen minutes passed, and the fragments and blood in the three vessels were unresponsive.
Alexei then wrote down on a piece of paper: Group 1, code 1, 8, 16 fragment test records are as follows.
Codename 1 attempts the first contact with the blood of the old king, and the volume and weight are as follows (pictured), using the steam method...... Fail.
Codename 8 attempted the first contact with the blood of the old king, and the volume and weight are as follows (pictured) using the immersion method...... Fail.
Codename Sixteen attempts the first contact with the Blood of the Old King, the volume and weight of which are as follows (pictured), using the thermal contact method...... Fail.
.......
Group 4, substitution number 12 attempts the first contact with the blood of the old king, the volume and weight are as follows (pictured), the two sides of the experiment are placed in a glass case, the temperature in the cabinet is gradually reduced, and the reaction is triggered in a low temperature environment....... Fail.
.......
Try the Blood of the Old King to make contact with the sixth group of Olmea gems......
Alexei put the pen down, he looked at the last few drops of blood left under the glass tube, and then at the clock hanging on the wall in the laboratory, it had been an hour and a half since he had been trying various ways to trigger the reactions of the gem-like and blood, and there were only three pieces left in his hand.
The mage was in a predicament where he was making no progress, but he was still confident.
The more times you fail, the more you get closer to success.
"It's almost there, it's almost there. ”
Alexei wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, nervously watching the blood drip into the water, diluting it, and slowly pouring the blood containing it into the vessel containing the shards. Looking at the scarlet water that was so shallow that it was almost impossible to see a trace of scarlet water, waiting, watching, he counted the time, and kept saying: "One, two, three, four......."
"Sixty-one, sixty-two. ”
A touch of emerald green light is like a meteor across the sky, its splendor in the life of the journey is so short, but that touch, but forever.
The surface of the gem-like began to soften, and slowly, after another twenty seconds had passed, began to blend with the blood.
"It took a total of one minute and two seconds for the diluted blood to react with the gem-like body, and the entire melting process took a total of two minutes and three seconds, and the liquid after the metamorphosis was black-green, similar to the color of the celestial sphere. ”
Alexei turned around and hurriedly scribbled down a few strokes in his lab notes, took half of it from a glass tube, and after holding it in an empty vessel, tried to inject magic into the dark green liquid.
After receiving the magic power, the Olmea-like gem soon solidified again, and its liquid surface began to float foamy dots, and then as the mage continued to fill the magic, the foam on the surface of the gem-like gem began to gradually calm down, until the magic power in it was full, and the surface of the Olmea was completely flawless again, and it was once again transformed into a thin round piece, the volume equal to the volume of the vessel.
Holding the round piece, Alexei did several property tests on it, and the hardness of the reverted gem-like stone became quite high, and ordinary smashing and slashing had no effect on its appearance. After applying clarity, Alexei discovered that the Physics Department's attack was on Olmea's surface, and there was not even a small pit visible to the naked eye.
It is also very good at mana, and a small piece can hold an extremely large amount of mana, about four times the size of Mithril of the same size.
However, unlike the Celestial Sphere, the circular disc only absorbs the magic power, and cannot smoothly respond to the will of the mage and solidify the magic power into a spell model.
Why is this happening, and what is the difference between the two types of Olmea? Alexey, who can only use the blood of the old king to get into the mystery of it, can't study it for the time being, and the best way in a short period of time is to ask Lan Meng directly, but these will have to wait until Lan Meng wakes up to think about it.
Putting that aside from this regret, Alexei retrieved half of the liquid Olmea, put on gloves, and drew runes on the surface of Artcharius' bare bones.
The functions of several runes are to control the movement of the torso limbs and receive command signals, and after the joints of the whole body are specific, the runes that run through the whole body will be connected by magic to form a cohesive spell model.
Next, all you need to do is inject mana into the liquid Olmea.
As expected, the runes with the Olmea gem were successful.
It was supposed to be a very pleasant surprise, but Alexei still felt regretful after preparing for it. The two most important drawbacks of resurrection magic remain unresolved, and Alcharius, who is extremely dependent on Olmea's drive, simply cannot reach the base line of universal mages, and even under the same conditions, it is far inferior to combining golems.
But he succeeded.
No matter how much external force is used, it is always good to be able to move, and next, Alexai decided to test the specific performance of the successful product in this failed product first.