章節 208: More Advanced Magical Creatures
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After having a direction, Edward immediately began to act. He sent his research on the power of Faith and his theory on divine power to Aarti. After reading and analyzing it, she began to analyze the divine power again.
This time, she focused on detecting mana and faith inside of the divine power. Mana–as the main energy source of the Empire–is well researched. However, very little is currently known about faith.
Based on Edward's short experiments, he concluded that Faith is a very pure form of emotion–just like the ones used to create the Lesser Stones. Once absorbed, it can drastically increase the power of the mind and soul.
However, it can also influence the soul and slowly change the personality and views of the people who absorbed it.
With this information, the three of them began to once again analyze the divine power drawn from Herpo. And it was proven that Edward's theory was partially correct.
Divine power did contain faith and mana but also many different other things. Currently, they could only recognize two things: soul or spiritual energy, and a small part of [Authority].
As Edward watched the result of the past few days, he said: "Alright, it is obvious that discovering the mystery of this power will take a lot of time and energy. So, let's continue with other basic experiments."
Aarti ordered one of her many lab assistants to go get a clone as a sample. Then, a small part of the divine power was injected into the clone's body. However, less than five seconds afterward, the clone's body exploded, sending all his organs and bodily fluid scattered all over the white room.
"This thing is so volatile?" she muttered. After ordering the Tower Spirit to use the Cleaning Enchantments and returning the room to its white and pristine state, she reviewed the data gathered in that explosion.
"This time, use a clone that has been genetically enhanced for the third time."
Previously, the Empire could only successfully accomplish two enhancements, but recently, with the knowledge Edward brought back, technology has rapidly developed and the third enhancement has been developed.
Under Aarti's order, the next phase of the experiment began. A new clone was brought up and the divine power was introduced into his body. Immediately afterward, he dropped on the floor, crying in pain.
Five minutes later, the clone also exploded like the first one. However, Aarti frowned as she was not satisfied with the data she got. So, she send a few more, and they all ended in the same way.
"Send in a clone with [Aura] inside his body."
"Tower Master, we only have Tier 1 and Tier 2 Clone Aura Masters," said one of the assistants.
"Not even one Tier 3?" she asked. She did not ask for higher ones. Currently, there were few Tier 4 Arcanists in the Empire, let alone clones. So, she did ask about them.
"None."
Aarti was a little embarrassed; she did not expect to be so poor as a Tower Master. She could not help it, her previous experiment was very expensive and even went over the limit of the Imperial Grant.
She had to use her own pocket money to make up for it.
"You don't have to worry about resources," said Edward before contacting Morgana to sent a few Tier 4 and Tier 5 Clone Aura Masters. Currently, he is probably the only person with this kind of resource.
During his time in the Full-Metal Alchemist World, he trained many Tier 5 Clones both for battles and in case he needed it for experiments.
After thanking him, Aarti returned to her experiment. She injected the divine power inside the clones. This time, it did not explode. Instead, the divine power absorbed the aura inside their bodies, then proceeded to absorb their life force.
All the clones turned into old people before dying–including the Tier 5 ones.
"The divine power has consciousness?" said Aarti.
"Or maybe just instinct," commented Edward. "Let's test with mana."
A few clones with mana inside their bodies were then used. This time, the response of the divine power was more aggressive. It began to expel the mana out of the clones' bodies as if it was claiming its territory.
And the process was not gentle at all.
"So mana and divine power cannot co-exist together?" muttered Edward. He then remembered that he read a novel in his past life called [The Archmage Returns After 4000 Years].
In this novel, the protagonist's family conducted experiments to allow a body to contain both mana and divine power. If possible, he would like to go to that world and get the information about that experiment.
However, it is yet to be known whether the divine power in his universe is the same as that one.
The experiment continued. This time, a clone with liquid mana was used. The divine power fought for about five minutes before it was expelled out the body.
Finally, when it was the turn of the crystallized mana, the battle lasted for more than an hour. In the end, the body of the clone could not support any longer and fell apart.
The next part of the experiment was still the relationship between divine power and mana, however, this time, instruments were used for the mixture instead of clones.
The result was still the same.
After that, they tested different types of poison and potions on Herpo. During the entire process, the energy-draining enchantments did not stop working.
"So, what is your ultimate plan for him?" asked Rowena.
After a brief pause, he replied: "First, I will dissect him."
"That's it?"
"In a live broadcast to all the people of the Empire."
Rowena's eyes lit up after hearing this as she understood the implication of doing so. Edward has always wanted to change the spirit of the people of the Empire.
And what better ways than to dissect a God in front of all the people?
This act will not only increase his prestige and control over the Empire but also instilled the idea of pursuing the truth and knowledge into the young and impersonating minds of children, but also many arcanists.
They will witness their ruler treating a "God" as an experimental material; all in the names of knowledge and truth.
Another benefit is when the Empire confronts other Gods in the future. If any of these Gods try to spread faith in the Empire, that would be extremely difficult since the people would have long lost any awe to any Gods.
In their eyes, the so-called God is nothing but a more powerful or advanced magical creature.
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Next Chapter Title: Breaking News
章節 209: Breaking News
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"The second step is to gather as much information possible from his mind," added Edward. "However, I can foresee this will be more troublesome."
Based on his recent observation of Herpo, he could tell that the latter was the kind of person who would rather destroy all his memories than let Edward have them.
So, even if he could find a way to read the memories of a God, it might be futile. The best way would be to convince the latter to surrender and hand over the knowledge.
Rowena also figured out this issue, "Your effort may be proven futile."
"True. In that case, I will erase his consciousness and turn him into a Puppet. Anyway, a Tier 8 Divine Puppet would be a great benefit for the current Empire," replied Edward ruthlessly.
Then, Edward continued his basic research. He diluted the divine energy gathered and mixed it with a few magical herbs to neutralize its instinct.
(AN: Divine power will be replaced to Divine Energy)
Then, the potion was tested on animals and clones, both magical and non-magical.
Soon, the result came out. This Divine Potion had many benefits: healing diseases, prolonging life, healing the soul, increasing mana, increasing physical stats, and even optimizing bloodline.
Of course, it can also serve as a poison too. The divine energy of Herpo seemed to contain certain characteristics of his Divinity or Authority: The Power of Death.
So, based on this characteristic is used, the potion created can have both positive and negative effects.
"These Gods are truly the darling of this world," commented Tower Master Aarti as she reviewed the data of the potion. However, she quickly frowned. Based on the data, she discovered some commonality between this God and her Ancestor Summon Magic.
Mainly in the aspect of faith or belief.
As such, she felt that she missed something during the examination of these people who drank the potion. After pondering for a few minutes, she suddenly muttered:
"The Ancestor Imprint. Shouldn't a God have something similar?"
The Ancestor Summoning Magic of the Native American people is very complex magic that involved bloodline, soul, and belief. Without any of these three things, it is impossible for outsiders to practice–including Edward.
He did a few experiments and took out a sample of the bloodline of a Native American to try to summon something but it failed. After many experiments, he realized that this was a form of magic tied only to a person's ethnicity.
And in the Empire, there are a few magic like this. Because of the nature of these magics, he cannot use them no matter what.
However, he was not discouraged. Instead, he wanted to study this system to see if he could recreate the Heroic Spirits from the Fate Universe. It's a shame that he had not succeeded as of now.
Aarti began to search the bloodline and soul of the people who drank the potion. And after a deep investigation of their Soul Dimension, she discovered a weird mark or imprint which was oozing the power of death.
"I was right," she muttered. One of the reasons that Native American Magic is unique is because all of them have a unique Spiritual Imprint in their soul that connected them to their ancestor.
The Imprint will not affect them and can be passed down to their descendants through the bloodline.
Once Edward learned of this, he immediately thought of a Comic Book character from his previous life: Black Panther. He could summon the spirit of his ancestor to talk to them and ask for their wisdom.
He could gain all the knowledge and experience of his ancestors.
So, he suggested that the Native American people developed in that direction, and they succeeded. Because of this, much of the lost knowledge of the past was discovered by them, and even a few secrets of the past.
This knowledge brought great development to their ethnicity as a whole and the Empire.
It's a shame that this magic is not perfected yet and many things or secrets have not been discovered yet.
"What do you think of this Imprint?" asked Edward who was feeling a great deal of satisfaction for choosing the right person to lead this project.
"With one glance, I can tell that this imprint is different from ours. However, I do not yet have any more data to speculate more."
"You should have a theory or some guesses right?"
"Yes," she replied. "I guess that Herpo could use this mark to slowly turn those people into his believers, their souls would most likely belong to him after their deaths.
"And more importantly, he might be able to use it to escape."
Edward pondered for a moment, "In that case, place these people in another pocket dimension during the testing. Be on alert at all times and make sure to dispose of them completely once the experiment is over."
"I will supervise every step with caution."
After nodding, Edward continued: "Found a way to remove the Imprint. This Divine Potion can be of great use to accelerate the growth of the Empire."
The so-called Divine Potion was only a basic potion relying only on the divine energy to have so many effects. If the downside is removed, once the Potion Masters get their hands on it, they can create many wonders.
Additionally, the divine energy was diluted to create that potion. Once it is throughout studied, it can be directly used to make potions. This level of potion will even have an effect on Edward's level and accelerate the speed he reaches higher Tiers.
After Potion Experiment, Edward was prepared to leave and leave the rest of the work with Aarti.
He gave a last glance at Herpo. Right now, the latter could still hold on but it was only a matter of time. The Energy Draining Enchantment could only draw a minuscule amount of divine energy from him.
However, the more Aarti understood this new type of energy, the faster and more efficient the enchantment will become. So, it is only a matter of time before Herpo is drained and becomes helpless.
"Thank you Tower Master Aarti for all your work."
"It was my pleasure."
–Scene Break–
Every citizen of the Empire suddenly received an emergency alert. So, they quickly turned on their television, used their smart-watch to log on into Skynet.
Then, they saw a beautiful Japanese woman appearing in front of their screens. With a calm and solemn tone, she said:
"Breaking News. During a voyage in the Black Wood Star System located 65.4 light-years away, a large fleet of our Imperial Navy was attacked and destroyed.
"According to report, there were no survivors as of now."
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The next world will begin in 10 chapters. In terms of writing, the War Arc was a disappointment to me and became rather short.
Next Chapter Title: Nation Address
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