Chapter 723: Mutation
There are various indications that support Victor's conjecture about the evolution of the laws of the world, and deduce that there is a risk of rebellion among alchemical creatures.
The Bear Monster Elder in the Giant Wood Forest had mentioned the Eternal War between the Ancient Behemoths. The story it tells echoes the devil's blood sacrifice in the time of the Chosen One. Ancient behemoths fought each other and devoured each other's divine laws in order to get rid of the path of generalization from reproduction to death, and became immortal gods of their own will, while the devil and evil gods bewitched the ancient Chosen One to sacrifice the flesh and soul of intelligent beings to them, similar to the ancient behemoths devouring each other.
Myths and legends are incomparably compatible with historical events, which is enough to show that the creator Terrariel dispersed the soul fire and evolved thousands of lives, while the gods did the opposite, maintaining their immortal will by condensing the soul fire of the creator.
The soul fire units constrained by the Alchemy Tower are immortal, and no matter what the origin of these soul fires is, they are ultimately the diffuse divine laws of the Creator. Victor regarded the immortal soul fire of the alchemy tower as the soul fire of the gods.
The alchemy tower divides the soul fire units, and the creation of alchemy creatures can also apply the law of divine dispersion and aggregation, which is equivalent to the alchemy tower imprisoning the soul fire of the gods in the shells of each alchemy creature to prevent them from generating strong self-will after aggregation.
What happens if the Soul Fire units of the Alchemy Tower only converge in the body of one alchemy creature?
Victor thinks of Ant-Man. The monsters that once brought great losses to the kingdom of Gombis have the characteristics of both alchemical creatures and natural life. Alchemy Tower 7 is able to absorb the soul fire of the Ant-Man leader, while the behavior of ordinary Ant-Man is closer to that of an ant swarm.
The notes of the ancestors of House Trigovar contain a small amount of information about the Ant-Man Empress, who leads an endless swarm of Ant-Man insects to suppress an alien empire protected by evil gods. When the empire known as Assyria collapsed, the Ant-Man Queen's army invaded the Centaur Hills through forests, grasslands, and swamps, and fought the mighty Centaurs.
Victor once thought that behind Ant-Man was hiding an alchemy tower master. However, the alchemy pagoda can survive for tens of thousands of years, and the owner of the alchemy pagoda can't live that long. If the so-called tower master has the inheritance of an alchemist, can divide the soul fire of the human race, and control the alchemy tower that creates the ant-man for a long time, then for tens of thousands of years, they will not shrink in the depths of the endless forest in obscurity, and they should have already set foot in the human kingdom to find the remains of the alchemy tower.
In this way, there is no master behind the Ant-Man Empress, and it is a special alchemy tower itself, condensing the immortal soul fire of the alchemy tower, with self-will, and has lived from tens of thousands of years ago to the present.
The Ant-Man Empress, a reborn deity.
Of course, the expression of rebirth may not be accurate, and it may also be reborn. The will side of the old gods has long since been annihilated, and the immortal divine soul fire has condensed a new will. But what difference does it make? Whether it's the reborn Old Gods or the newborn Ant-Man Empress, they all covet the immortal soul fire imprisoned in Alchemy Tower 7.
Victor had no doubt that he and the Ant-Man Empress were mortal enemies, and now that the enemy had been elevated to the level of a god, he felt a hint of extra pressure.
...... Just a trace and no more.
The Randall family is not alone, Victor is surrounded by Silvia and Father Miller, and behind him is the kingdom of Gambis, and indeed the entire human kingdom. Even if the Ant-Man Empress is a powerful enemy belonging to the god level, the Lord of Radiance of the human race will only be stronger than her.
In fact, the laws of the world are becoming more and more tight, and wizards can no longer mobilize the power of the elemental sea, and Victor believes that the Ant-Man Empress can deal with it.
However, god-level enemies still deserve the vigilance of His Highness Randall, even if she is just a "false god" walking on the ground.
In three years, the Ant-Man army will invade the Centaur Hills again. The three large fortresses of the Skylark Mountains and tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers can keep the ant tide at bay in the swamp, but if given the chance, Victor would prefer to destroy the Ant-Man Empress once and for all, and the presence of the Argonians raises this possibility.
Adequate and accurate information is a prerequisite for making a plan. Victor's knowledge of the Ant-Man Empress is very limited, and there is not much information about the Ant-Man Empress in the notes of Trigovar's ancestors. More than 1,500 years ago, the vice-inquisition had never seen the Ant-Man Empress with his own eyes, and he witnessed the cruel scene of the Assyrians sacrificing their own kind of people to please the devil, so he was convinced that the devil enshrined by the Assyrian Empire was more evil than the Ant-Man, and finally chose to destroy the altar. His depictions of the Ant-Man Empress are all from the mouths of the Assyrians, but in reality, the Assyrians do not have the Ant-Man Queen, only mentioning "Tamara", which means "invisible demon".
The Assyrians believed that the demon "Tamara" manipulated the army of Ant-Men with the intention of devouring all life in the world, but no one had actually seen "Tamara" because he was invisible and could not be killed, and could descend on any of the higher ant-men. Thankfully, Tutudos, the patron god of the Assyrian Empire, set up an enchantment to expel the High Ant-Men who invaded the Empire's hinterland.
Since the Assyrians had not seen the ontology of "Tamara", their claims are not credible and can only be used as a reference.
Victor needed more sources of information, and the anomalization of the Argonians inspired him.
The Alchemy Tower sets the gender of the alchemy creatures, and the units made by the No. 7 Alchemy Tower are all males, but the Argonian raiders can only choose the female template, and the King of Taling can't adjust it.
The Water Elemental Affinity determines the gender of the Argonian raider, not the Alchemy Tower. This phenomenon is in line with the laws of nature, which means that the Argonian unit has the characteristics of a natural creature. Considering their 26-plus soul fire, Victor suspects that the wurmians are not only intelligent, but also have personalities that are different from ordinary alchemy creatures. The heaviness of the earth element, the fierceness of the fire element, the sharpness of the wind element, and the agility of the water element will all be reflected in the Wulong.
Ant-Man also has the characteristics of natural creatures, and if this is not a coincidence, there is some special connection between the two alchemy creatures, the Wurm and the Ant-Man, which is likely to represent a technological innovation in the Alchemy Empire.
Victor's brain made up a scenario: tens of thousands of years ago, in the later stage of the Alchemy Empire, the laws of the world tended to be tight, the creator gradually withdrew the authority of the elemental sea, and the particularly powerful transcendent creatures began to become weak, their forms changed, and their reproductive ability was improved. In this case, can the dragon warrior still condense the void element and transform into a super-large dragon beast?
Maybe it was possible at the time, but it won't be possible in the future!
Traditional high-level alchemy creature templates are subject to changes in the laws and face obsolescence.
Some alchemists realized this, and they came up with a completely new idea, replacing artificial settings with natural laws, creating new alchemy units with natural biological characteristics that could adapt to changes in the laws.
Innovators are often seen as deviants, and they inevitably make mistakes, some of which are even more serious, as they navigate their way forward. Victor can imagine the alchemists in a difficult situation, and one of them went to the Mist Mountains to sneakily experiment with innovation.
Designing entirely new alchemy creatures is obviously not going to be easy.
The toughest question facing the alchemists of the Misty Mountains should be, how will life forms evolve under the laws of nature?
If the alchemist has mastered all the changes of the laws of nature in the future, then he is already the creator, so why should he continue to study alchemical creatures?
Since we cannot grasp the changes in the laws of nature, how can we determine the future life forms?
The alchemist of the Misty Mountains adopted a laborious and simple method, deducing and piecing together hundreds of biological models based on his knowledge and experience. These creatures may conform to the laws of nature in the future, but most of them are wrong.
The rest of the screening is left to the laws of nature, and the alchemist of Mist Mountain intends to load the information contained in the blood of ancient creatures into the model he designed, so that they can naturally evolve into new alchemy units.
Victor didn't know if the alchemist had succeeded at the time, but his academic legacy had been successful tens of thousands of years later in the body of Alchemy Pagoda No. 7.
However, he was not the only successful alchemist, another innovative alchemist in the depths of the Everfree Forest created the Ant-Man Empress, and it went wrong - he made the Ant-Man Empress condense the soul fire unit of the Alchemy Tower.
"You made a mistake and you want me to correct it...... The wonder of fate really moved me to tears. ”
Victor looked at the strange crystal in his hand, and a feeling of absurdity arose in his heart.
This strange crystal from the Mist Mountains did not seal the blood of an ancient species, and King Taling assessed it at zero. Victor had been collecting it for several years, and it could not be damaged by biting it with his teeth, burning it with fire, or chopping it with an axe. In the past few days, Victor has also tried to soak the crystal in the blood of different animals, but the crystal still has no reaction.
In fact, this strange crystal is not the same kind as the crystal that seals the ancient dragon's blood, and although they look similar, the tiny runes inside are completely different.
The void elemental runes presented by the Alchemy Tower are not memorable and cannot be described, but the runes inside these two strange crystals can be described by Victor. However, they are three-dimensional runes, small and complex, and it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them with the naked eye. Although Victor could see clearly, he didn't understand the meaning of these three-dimensional runes at all.
The strange crystal left behind by the alchemist may contain unimaginable mysteries, representing the ultimate power and power, but if it can't be unlocked, it can only be a beautiful strange crystal, and there is no superfluous use.
Victor sighed silently, casually put the strange crystal into the drawer of his desk, picked up the golden bell on the table and shook it.
"My lord, what do you command?" asked a squire, pushing the door open.
The sound of an unfamiliar footstep lingered for a long time between the corridor and the stairs outside the study, and Victor didn't pay attention to it at first, but now that he was free, he wanted to see what the other party was going to say to him.
"Go and call Shirley in...... She was at the top of the stairs in the hallway. ”
"Yes. ”
The attendant was ordered to go out, and after a while, a young maid entered the study, lifted her skirt, bowed to Victor gracefully, and said timidly, "......Good day, master."
She was wearing a silver-gray spider silk maid dress, with the delicate tips of half-high heels revealing under the skirt, her silky and bright golden hair tied into a ponytail with ribbons, and no jewelry on her body, which was completely the standard dress of a maid in Silvermoon Manor. Her skin is white and delicate, her neck is slender and well-proportioned, and her ordinary maid dress is particularly moving because of the graceful curves from top to bottom. When she looked up, Victor's eyes lit up. It was a young, beautiful face, looking only about 16 years old, with the youthful innocence of a girl, but beautiful enough to make most women jealous.
Victor secretly sighed that the little girl who was dozing off on his knees had finally grown into a slim and beautiful girl, and he smiled and asked, "Shirley, you have been walking around outside for a long time, do you have anything to tell me?"
"Lord...... Master, I'm ......" Shirley saw Victor's smile, her heart suddenly pounded, her face turned red, she couldn't help lowering her head, her snow-white and slender fingers were twisted together, and she said, "I was just wiping the handrail of the stairs, so I ......"
The girl's delicate attitude at the moment is very similar to Lilia at the beginning, although her figure is far better than Lilia when she was a girl, Victor does not seem to be in trouble anymore, he put away his smile, and said lightly: "Then it's okay...... You go to work. ”
"Yes......" Shirley nodded habitually in agreement, obediently walked towards the door, just took two steps and suddenly remembered the purpose of coming to see the master, and felt regretful, shy, and a little hopeful, her face flushed, and she stopped there and refused to go again.
Victor's heart was like a mirror, knowing the girl's thoughts at the moment.
A month ago, the Marquis of Solim, the titular father of Brandon and Shirley, died of a sudden illness. The priest examined his body and found that the Marquis of Solim had died of poisoning. His Majesty was furious when he learned of this, and ordered a thorough investigation into the murder of the Marquis. After careful investigation, the Interior Office of the Kite Castle determined that the person who poisoned the Marquis was his heir. The Inquisition formally intervened in the matter and sentenced the marquis's eldest son to exile, and King Edward issued an edict reprimanding the Solim family for their criminal deeds of assassinating blood relatives, removing them from the title of marquis and demoting them to the family of viscounts.
At this point, the Solim family, which once dominated the southern realm, fell apart due to the loss of its suzerain, and the Marquis of Chebman officially became the leader of the southern family of the kingdom.
The previous generation of the old Marquis of Solim failed to attack the elemental sea, and the fate of the Solim family was already sealed. In fact, most of Solim was properly housed and unimplicated. As for the Marquis of Solim, it is not a short life for him to live to be in his 70s as an ordinary nobleman, and the real unlucky people are his eldest son's family, which is only a few dozen people.
Victor was not interested in the cause of the death of the Marquis of Solim, but the Chebman family stopped supplying Thorsilver ore to the town of Pinghu after completing the change of territory.
A few years ago, Copper City's supply of Softsilver ore to the town of Pinghu was a gift agreement that Victor had adopted the Brandon siblings and asked Marquis of Solim to sign. Now that the Marquis of Solim is dead, the territory has been replaced, and the copper city has changed hands, the SoftBank supply agreement is of course invalid.
However, the Chebmans' courage to ignore the face of His Royal Highness Randall was enough to make the nobles jaw-dropping.
The Marquis de Chebman did not do this against Victor, but by digging a hole for the eldest lady of their family. The two Softsilver veins in Copper City, now managed by Gillian, ordered the supply agreement to be terminated, and rushed to Victor to negotiate a renew agreement.
If His Royal Highness Randall is angry, this stupid girl will definitely not be able to keep the position of the heir of the Chebman family. In order to appease the anger of His Highness Randall, the Marquis of Chebman may even sweep Gillian out of the house. As long as Victor nods, Miss Gillian will be a vassal lord of the Centaur Hills in the future.
The Marquis of Chebman thought very well, and the Raging Wind Sword Saint loved the eldest lady of the Chebman family, and everyone knew it. His Highness Randall will not let Gillian be wronged. He owes allegiance to His Majesty the King, his eldest daughter serves His Royal Highness Randall, and the Chebman family can stabilize the new situation by betting on both sides.
Victor can understand the dilemma of Count Chebman, after all, it is almost impossible for Gillian to have children with him, how can she inherit the family without offspring?
Victor is indeed reluctant to be wronged by Gillian, and does not want her to bear the temporary pain of being betrayed by her family. So, Count Chebman miscalculated again, and Victor signed a new agreement that made Gilly feel at ease, and Miss Chebman went back happily after living in Silvermoon Manor for a few days.
Victor didn't expect this brutal political turmoil to make Brandon and Shirley fidget.
In fact, it's no wonder that the Brandon brothers and sisters are cranky, they have followed Victor for many years, but they have not been given a family name, and they are not really noble.
Before the old Marquis of Solim attacked the Elemental Sea, he arranged to give several illegitimate children to several big families to raise, hoping that the Solim family could take advantage of the situation to make a comeback. If Sylvia needs to prop up a family as a political buffer with the royal family in the future, Brandon Solim is a good choice. As for Shirley, she was really a gift from the old Marquis of Solimm to Victor, but the old Marquis didn't expect Victor to set foot in the Sanctuary, and the female knights below the golden rank were not unattractive to His Highness Randall, but it was a waste to be his lover.
Victor has already killed two silver knights without children, and there is a question mark over whether Nicole and Sophia will be able to have his offspring in the future. He didn't want to make other female knights regret it for the rest of his life, and Shirley was grown up by him, even if he had a faint affection for her, it was like a father and a brother, in short, it couldn't be a couple.
"Aren't you going down yet?" said Victor with a deliberate grimace.
He seriously underestimated the charisma of the Sun Elf bloodline and overestimated Shirley's self-control, after all, the other party was a young girl who was just starting to fall in love, not a high-ranking female knight who often dealt with Victor.
Sure enough, Shirley looked at Victor in a daze, her beautiful eyes showed a look of intoxication, walked up to Victor, knelt on the floor, her hot face pressed against his knees, and murmured, "Master, I am willing to serve you, just like Lady Alina." ”
The girl mustered up her courage, but Victor secretly cried out, and just as he was at a loss, the sound of knocking footsteps ran happily to the door of the study.
"I have something important to report to my master. ”
Except for the alchemy soldiers, few people in Silvermoon Manor can stop Bertina. The door creaked open, and the little chubby dun broke in, and saw Shirley standing beside her master with a flushed face, her eyes instantly widened, and she asked curiously, "Shirley, what are you doing with your master?"
Victor coughed and asked, "What is important to report to me?"
Bertina seemed to think of something, and rolled her eyes at Shirley angrily before she lifted her skirt and saluted, "Grandpa Miller asked Bell to tell the master that he was waiting for him in the chapel." ”
"Well, it's really important. Victor nodded, stood up and straightened his collar, walked to the door, and said calmly, "I'll go to him." ”
When Victor left the study, Bertina turned her head, stared at the shy Shirley viciously, and asked in a low voice, "Are you here to seduce the master?"
The girl smiled silently, and Bertina immediately pointed at the other party and threatened: "You are finished, I will sue Madame....... hurry up and please me, and give me all your snacks for the next month, and I will keep them secret for you." ”
Shirley sneered, like a flower blooming, stretched out her slender hand and pinched Bell's face, and said quietly, "Actually, it was Lady Nicole who asked me to come to the master...... I don't want to be the personal maid of the Silver Knight, and I will never be a knight from now on. Only the owner can shelter me, but I really want to ......."
"Forget it, Sister Bell, you're still young and don't understand many things......"
The beautiful girl left the study with a heart full of worries, and Bertina puffed out her cheeks, stamped her feet again and again, and said hatefully, "What's the big deal...... Isn't it just that you're taller than me? The master likes Bell the most, so he doesn't like you...... Also, I'm a sister, you're a sister, you're both sisters......"
Bell, who was also full of sorrow, sat in Victor's chair, holding his chubby face with his hands, and sulked.
When she looked down and saw that the drawer was not closed, she leaned over curiously and sniffed it, but instead of smelling the snack, she saw a crystal that emitted a soft light.
"What is this?"
Bell took out the crystal, held it in her hand and observed it carefully, her eyes gradually changed different colors, the frequency became faster and faster, and with a bang, countless messages rushed into Bertina's mind like a torrent, making her faint on the desk at once.
Only half an hour later, Bell woke up from his slumber, yawned in a daze, wiped the saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, saw the crystal falling on the floor, slowly recalled what had just happened, quickly picked up the crystal and put it back in the drawer, carried the skirt, and ran out of the study in a panic, like a frightened little beast.
Unbeknownst to her, the runes in the crystal had been rearranged.