Volume I, Chapter 38: Magic and Life

Knife after knife, the pain continued to accumulate, at first, Mick could barely endure it, but later, each knife was several times more painful than at the beginning.

Not to mention continuing to put a knife on himself, even if he doesn't touch the knife at all, he will be tortured by the hot pain that is worse than death.

Mick's chest was already a blur of flesh and blood, and the hideous wound rolled out of the charred muscles, like a roasted sausage that had been sliced.

Fortunately, the flames created by the mixing of blood and magic potions quickly roasted the wound, and Mick did not die from excessive bleeding.

Even so, Mick still gritted his teeth and insisted, he grabbed the Elonine flower that he had prepared for a long time, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, the sour juice quickly poured into his throat, and his eyes, which were gradually clouded by the pain, suddenly cleared, and the pain that followed was magnified several times.

Mick snorted in pain and fell to the ground, his body convulsing and tears streaming down his face.

Elonine is a rare plant, its sap can produce strong stimulation of the nerves, forcing the person to stay awake, almost all drugs with sober effects are added in small quantities.

But Elonine has a terrible side effect, which is that it is extremely addictive, and most people will probably never live without it after using it once or twice.

Moreover, long-term use of this kind of thing will cause nerve atrophy and dull the senses, so when dispensing the potion, the pharmacists will strictly control the dosage of it.

In addition, because the person's sense of pain is extremely clear when staying awake, the Elonine flower is also widely used in torture to force the subject to faint and forcibly endure several times the normal perverted pain.

Many hard bones have fallen under its powerful effect, become traitors, or have been saddled with all kinds of black cauldrons.

As a magical alchemist, Mick knew a lot about the effects of the Eloon flower, but he had no choice.

Because he had to keep his eyes open and carefully observe every detail of his body, missing even the slightest detail could lead to catastrophic consequences.

After a long period of convulsions, Mick was a little accustomed to the pain, he groaned slightly, tried to sit up, and just as he moved, his stomach began to tumble as if a torrent was about to rush out.

Mick knew it was a spasm of excruciating pain. Resisting the urge to be disgusting, he cast the Eye of Insight and took a closer look at his body.

He discovered that the magic potion, after reacting with the blood, burned violently, producing an unknown new substance, which was like some kind of powerful adhesive that seeped into his body, linking his meridians to those deep knife marks.

The remaining magic potions remained in those knife marks, slowly forming magic channels, turning him into a living magic array.

In fact, Mick had seen these changes in Enlucia and the demonized goats a long time ago, but without experiencing them personally, many inexplicable places could not have a deep understanding.

And the most difficult part of this experiment is not to arrange the magic array on the living body, but how to make the magic array perfectly integrate with the living body.

There is a big difference between the living and the dead, the dead is like a blank sheet of paper, which can be written, but the living body is self-contained and has a strong rejection.

If you move an ordinary magic circle to a living body, it will either be like Enlucia and have no effect, or like a demonized goat, it will be burst by powerful mana and turned into a pile of minced meat.

Only by creating a magic circle that can perfectly merge with living beings can Mick's crazy vision be realized.

With the accumulation of countless experiments in the past, Mick continued to improve his magic array, approaching the target little by little, and gradually explored a new magic array system suitable for living organisms, and based on this, he designed the bio-type power source No. 1.

Mick applied this latest achievement to the Demon Goat, and after countless failures, he finally achieved a success.

However, this does not mean that the bio-based power source No. 1 can be perfectly integrated with the human body.

Because, the demonized goat is very different from the human body, the more complex the life form, the more complex its structure, in addition to the stronger the rejection, the higher the possibility of various accidents.

Mick experiments directly on his own body, and the risk is very high, and if he is not careful, he may be blown into a ball of minced meat like those poor goats.

But he still had no choice, because in the short term, he could not find another test subject with divine powers, and the tight time had to force him to take a risk.

Everything seems to be normal at the moment, but Mick does not dare to take it lightly, and as the experiment deepens, Mick also understands a profound truth, that is, "the most terrible failure always occurs when success is imminent".

Mick poured down a powerful healing potion, then picked up the delicate knife and continued to slash at himself.

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Fortunately, he spotted the signs of dizziness in time, and put a handful of Elonine flowers in his mouth, and then resisted the pain of the stormy waves, and twitched wildly on the ground.

In this way, Mick had to stop with every stroke, and with the help of Eloonin, he forcibly did not let himself lose consciousness, and then resisted the unimaginable pain, observing every bit of change in himself with the eye of insight in order to adjust the direction of the next knife.

Even if Mick had arranged a soundproof barrier in the laboratory in advance, there was no way to completely eliminate the pig-killing howls, and sporadic and faint screams would still come out of the laboratory from time to time, causing the nearby neighbors to be suspicious for a while.

As the night wore on, Mick had just made the final slash as the first rays of morning light entered the lab. He followed the pre-planned drawings and referred to the changes in his body to complete the carving of the bio-type power source No. 1.

His chest and left arm are densely carved with intricate and delicate patterns, like those of Maltis on the streets.

But if you can dissect him, you will find that in addition to the surface patterns, every inch of skin, muscles, and even bones on his chest and left arm are carved with a fine magic array.

All of the magic arrays were fused with Mick's bloodline, forming a new biological magic array that was diverse, complex, and three-dimensional, which was the complete form of the bio-type power source No. 1.

The bio-type Power Source One is not just a simple inheritance of Power Source One, but a new magic array tailored by Mick based on his own body, and its appearance is likely to change the course of magic development.

The moment he completed the magic array, Mick's mind suddenly let out a roar of joy, and he was surprised to find that the divine power that had been quietly staying in the realm suddenly seemed to come to life, and they were like a swarm of awakened locusts, rushing out of the realm and running wildly all over his body.

Mick panicked. He remembered a vivid analogy that Andrea once made: "Divine power is naturally more good to gods, but to mortals it is more like poison, like using a wooden barrel to fill molten iron, and the wooden barrel has no other effect than to turn to ashes." ”

At first, he didn't have a deep understanding of this metaphor, but after this magic experiment, he witnessed the bloody scene of dozens of demonized goats being blasted by magic.

Compared to magic power, divine power is a higher-level existence, and even magic power can bring such terrifying consequences, so what if the divine power is out of control?

Moreover, with such a large-scale cast of divine power, even if he is not blown up by divine power, he will immediately become the brightest light in the night, telling everyone the fact that he has divine power.

And Mick is in Maltis, the lair of the Church of Light, once his identity is revealed, his fate may be very miserable!

Mick's scalp was numb, his whole body trembled, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore. He finally understood that the divine power in his body was not only the source of his strength, but also barrels of fiery oil, which might be ignited at any time and blow up his bones.

And now, I am afraid that this moment of despair has come.