Chapter 132

The devil didn't believe it at all. In the current situation, Adam clearly wanted to imprison it as a test subject, and even lied to it about helping it solve the problem. It didn't think that Adam would be so kind, but it didn't have the slightest ability to resist. After discovering that Adam had no intention of letting it go, it could only lie limp in the cage in despair, praying to the gods that didn't exist in the mage world to save it.

After comforting the Devil, Adam left the cave where the cage was and arranged the equipment one by one. What he needed to do now was to understand the knowledge he had plundered, and prepare for the final development of the virus based on the flesh of the Abyss.

Although Ceylon Island was a gathering place for anti-sorcerers, the number of ordinary people was equally shocking. Or to put it another way, every anti-sorcerer lived surrounded by ordinary people. In this world, extraordinary people had great power and could do things that ordinary people could not imagine, so the role of ordinary people was neglected time and time again. However, Adam was different from other sorcerers. He felt that the huge number of ordinary people was a force that could not be ignored. As long as he used them correctly, they could solve a lot of problems for him.

Adam decided to find a way to solve the problem of his lack of sources of information from them.

How to control them was the key. Ordinary methods were too time-consuming and exhausting, and the problem of loyalty was very difficult to solve. Furthermore, the weak bodies of ordinary people could not bear even a slightly difficult task, so Adam needed a method that could solve the above problems in one fell swoop.

The flesh of the Abyss creatures had given him great inspiration.

If he could use these highly invasive tissue cells to improve the physique of ordinary people, and engrave Adam's thoughts in their minds through the method of information input, the above problems could be solved once and for all.

But to achieve this goal, Adam needed to develop a biochemical weapon, a virus that spread quickly and easily, and could precisely change the genetic information of the host.

This task was probably almost impossible on Earth, but it was not that difficult to research in the sorcerer's world.

In the apprentice-level potioneering course, there was a section that briefly mentioned the creation of infectious poisons. However, most of the subsequent sections were banned from reading. Adam guessed that there must have been examples in the world of mages where weaponized weapons had caused regional genocide, which was why the rest of the content was banned. However, since Prisia Overdimensional had said that the quest method was completely free, then Adam could do whatever he wanted on Ceylon Island.

Adam did not have much core knowledge, but he still had some understanding of the most basic extraction methods. The mutant creation of the Hill family, the cursed toxin of the Lance family, and the necromancy magic of the School of Immortality were more or less helpful in the research of viruses. With the original virus — the flesh of the Abyss creatures — samples, Adam was very confident that he could successfully develop it.

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Three months flew by in a hurry. In the underground space, Adam surrounded himself with an electromagnetic shield, holding a syringe filled with purple liquid in his hand, and stood in front of a suspended test subject, slowly injecting the virus into the body of the test subject.

With an endless supply of samples and test subjects, the research of the virus went smoothly. Adam spent two months to familiarize himself with the process, and the creation of the first generation virus only took a month. Now, they had reached the stage of live experiments.

The test subject was in a state of suspended animation, his face still showing the fear before he was controlled. With the injection of the virus, every strand of his muscles twisted abnormally, his skin cracked inch by inch, his flesh began to grow wildly, his bones began to grow, and his fangs pierced his lips. His eyes suddenly opened, and his pupils rapidly dilated before shattering. His whole body trembled violently in unconsciousness, showing signs of collapse.

Adam was indifferent to this horrifying scene, and injected the last drop of virus stock at a uniform speed, and then inserted a probe into the top of the test subject's head. He then focused on observing the changes in the test subject, and listened to the instrument's report.

"Virus injection complete. Beginning first live experiment data collection." The instrument issued a cold synthetic voice, recording the data down to the millisecond.

"Immune system collapse …"

"Metabolic cycle accelerating. Cell state is extremely excited. Rapid division and proliferation. Test subject will die in five minutes …"

Adam put Ether crystal into the energy conversion device, and the probe was inserted into the heart of the test subject.

"New energy injection. Cell collapse has been temporarily slowed …"

"Body has begun to change. Physique continues to strengthen. Knight level, grand knight level, beyond level …"

Adam named the physical strength above the level of Grand Knight as Transcendence. When the experimental subject reached this level, he no longer resembled a human at all. A strange energy appeared in his body, causing him to break free from Adam's magic and wake up. He roared in a heart-wrenching manner.

"Critical point reached. Test subject has entered peak state."

Adam looked at the monster in front of him expressionlessly. What he wanted to create was not a monster that had no intelligence and only the instinct to kill, but a 'mutant' that could serve him. However, judging from the state of the test subject, the first live experiment had obviously failed.

"Cell collapse. Gene collapse. Seven minutes. Test subject dead."

The instrument had determined that the test subject was dead, but in front of Adam, the strange monster that could no longer be described with specific words began a new round of mutation. Originally, it could barely maintain a human form, but now its whole body collapsed as if there were no bones. Large pieces of dark purple flesh began to gather, squirm, and eject out tissues, transforming into a new state of life.

However, the meat ball only lasted for less than half a minute before it completely collapsed.

"Diseased tissue has begun to reproduce … Reproduction failed."

Hearing that the first experiment had completely failed, Adam did not show any signs of disappointment. He used ice magic to freeze the remaining tissues, and then entered all the experiment records and the surveillance video into the information box labeled "6". He then left the laboratory and walked to the room where the Devil was.

The Devil had already accepted his fate. He was in a dispirited state. He was chewing on the energy stone, but he ignored the pile of flesh beside him.

"Why aren't you eating?"

The Devil looked at the flesh with disgust and said, "Master, I'm really not a beast. Eating this kind of thing makes me feel disgusted. I can't suppress the Abyss Instinct."

"Suppress? Does that mean you can decide when you want to transform? "Adam asked.

The Devil hesitated, not knowing the meaning of Adam's question, but he still answered honestly, "I can, but I can't control it to return to its original state after transforming."