Chapter 136

The Devil found the whole thing to be very interesting. Toying with humans in the palm of its hand and controlling the situation from behind the scenes was what the noble Lord Garfield should be doing. After gaining Adam's permission, the Devil let loose completely, and every time it rolled its eyes, several vicious plans would appear in its mind.

Adam did not care what the Devil did. He was now addicted to virus production, and new ideas were born every moment. The trial was no longer his focus.

The laboratory was piled with the samples of daemons that Adam had ordered the Devil to collect over the past few days. He extracted special genetic fragments from the bodies of the daemons and injected them into the virus stock that was churning in the Ether petri dish, hoping to stimulate the virus to mutate again.

In the process of dissecting the daemons, Adam discovered something interesting. He used to think that the reason why daemons could use magic was because they had special organs that could contain mana. But now he knew that the reason why they could use magic came from their genes. Their genes were naturally arranged in a set of runes, and the source of their magic was not mana, but a unique biological energy.

Or to put it another way, the ability of daemons was not magic, but an innate ability that they gained in the process of evolution in the Ether environment.

Adam did not have the ability to give the soulless infected beings spiritual powers, to comprehend knowledge and use magic. But if it was just to give them innate abilities, it was simple — all he had to do was to inscribe new genes in the virus mother.

The Devil prattled on for a while, and seeing that Adam was ignoring it, it felt bored and left the laboratory dejectedly, continuing to control Garfields to play its war games.

Seven days later, when the Devil successfully used the infected to destroy three families, it finally could not help but enter the laboratory to ask Adam for credit.

Among the fifteen forces in Ceylon Island, the first to crumble were the three families of Amu, Hill, and Lance. In just a week, they had lost all their cities and towns except for their headquarters. The magic of the three families had limited lethality against the infected. They had no choice but to give up their territories and lead their elites to seek protection from other forces. Their retreat route was also exposed to the eyes of the trial apprentices under the intentional guidance of the demons.

"Master, there's a big deal coming up. If you head to the Misty Forest, the Swamp of Corruption, and the Stony Plains, you'll be able to earn a lot of merit points!" The Devil was burning with impatience. It still remembered how Ignas had come out to pick the peaches. Although he was going against his master, the Devil felt that he did not need to work hard. As long as he dealt a final blow at the last moment, he would be able to reap great rewards. This was simply to his liking. Now that there was such an opportunity in front of him, he immediately came to inform Adam.

However, Adam's reaction disappointed it.

"Got it. I'm not interested." Adam didn't even turn his head, and his feet didn't touch the ground. Psychokinetic Wall surrounded his entire body, and Psychokinetic Tentacles bound an invisible substance, constantly adding it to the virus stock solution.

"Master, but …"

"Alright, no buts. You've done very well. When we return to the Sorcerer's Continent, I'll transfer you a thousand units of complete Ether crystals. You can spend as much as you want in Mayer City." Adam was in a good mood. After seven days of continuous research, the evolution of the virus was close to success. All he needed to do was to inject the mutated stock solution into Garfields' body, observe the rejection reaction, and make some adjustments. After that, he could announce the completion of the evolution.

The Devil was stunned for a moment, then became ecstatic. The prosperity of Mayer City fascinated it. Now that it had Adam's guarantee, with a thousand units and a new body of flesh and blood, it could … "Hehehe."

Adam took out the stock solution and put it into a syringe. Then, he ordered the Devil, "Bring Garfields in."

The Devil had long forgotten about picking peaches. It looked at the stock solution in the syringe that was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws like a living creature. It hesitated and asked carefully, "Master, can you tell me what will happen to Garfields?"

Adam was too lazy to talk nonsense with it. He ordered it to bring Garfields into the laboratory and kicked the Devil out.

Garfields had no consciousness and no soul. Although it was a living creature, it was more like a container, or a mech. After Adam inserted several probes into Garfields' body, he directly inserted the syringe into its carotid artery and quickly injected the stock solution. Then, he waited for the virus to change.

The unexpected compatibility did not happen. The rejection that Adam expected did not happen. The mother virus almost hungrily swallowed the mutated virus. On the monitor, the virus in Garfields' body began to kill each other. A large number of miscellaneous fragments flowed out of the pores in the form of impurities. The high-quality fragments rapidly split and multiplied under Adam's unsparing energy supply. The four common elements of earth, water, wind, and fire formed in Garfields' body. After a short conflict, they coexisted harmoniously. Then, they turned into a genome and were written into the genetic information.

At the same time, Garfields' body was also constantly changing. Its color changed from purple to black. The originally large but less dense muscle tissue began to tighten, and its body shrank. Adam saw that the fusion was going smoothly. He opened the door of the laboratory and let the Devil who was anxiously waiting outside in.

"Master, why did Garfields … become smaller?" The Devil felt a little bitter in its heart. If it became smaller, it would lose its prestige. Would the female creatures from the other plane still like it?

Adam did not care about its thoughts. Although the mutated virus had fused with the mother virus, it still needed the Devil to complete the evolution of all infected bodies.

"Fuse with it and spread the mutation."

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The trial apprentices were divided into three groups. Under the lead of ten members of the war alliance, they arrived at the location mentioned by the Devil to ambush.

Because of the deliberate guidance of the Devil, they had already grasped all the information of the three forces. There would not be any accidents in this ambush. Even if the merit points obtained would be distributed according to the amount of contribution, it would still be enough to satisfy a large number of people.

"Lilith, what are you still worried about?" A true genius of the war alliance who wore an active crystal seal asked the worried Lilith.

Her group was lying in ambush in the Gravel Plains, ready to intercept the migration team of the Orm family. They had four apprentices who could be promoted at any time. Together with more than two hundred elite apprentices, they should be able to guarantee that nothing would go wrong. But for some reason, when she saw the monsters walking on the plains, she felt very uneasy.

"Those things, did they attack us afterward?" Lilith pointed at the monsters and asked.