Chapter 152

Although Adam had made the Devil into a magic wand, he did not restrict it to exist in the form of a cane. When there was no battle, he still allowed it to move freely. Therefore, the Devil played even more crazily. It now had a sense of urgency. It felt that with such a master, its life could leave it at any time.

After the Devil left, Adam locked himself in the clone lab.

This lab had been expanded many times, and the space inside had become very large. The petri dishes were arranged according to numbers on both sides, and there was almost no end to them. Each petri dish had a clone that looked exactly like Adam soaking in it.

The preliminary analysis of the rune group of the Soul Division spell had been completed. Adam found three of the key runes. As long as he made some slight changes to these three runes, he would be able to divide the threads without involving the soul.

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Bang!

With a muffled sound, the head of a clone in front of Adam exploded like a watermelon. Red and white brain matter splashed all over the petri dish.

Adam looked at the clone number 768 and shook his head. He wrote down the reason of failure on the recording device: Unknown.

That's right, unknown. Adam was sure that there was no problem with the modification of the runes. Now, the Soul Division spell could extract some information without involving the soul. However, when the spell was used on the clone, the result was exactly the same.

"What's the problem?"

Adam was very confused. There was clearly some information that entered the clone's body through the modified spell. Why did it explode?

Unable to figure it out, Adam could only stop the experiment. Although the one that died was only his clone, the feeling of personally killing himself was still very strange.

After leaving the clone lab, Adam played all the videos of his experiments from the beginning to the end. Suddenly, he had an idea. He turned off the video and rushed back to the lab.

"The 769th experiment begins. Ready to record."

"Ether environment ready."

"Petri dish unsealed."

"Rune group beginning construction."

The cold voice of the recorder resounded in the laboratory. Adam turned a deaf ear to it. The next scene was the key to the failure of the experiment.

The light of the runes shrouded Adam's head, forming an invisible channel that connected the brain regions of the main body and the clone. A mysterious power shrouded Adam's soul. Then, Adam clearly felt that some kind of information was being stripped and entered the clone's brain region through the channel.

Bang!

"The experiment failed. The reason is unknown."

The clone died once again. This time, Adam did not have any doubts. His eyes lit up unexpectedly. He finally understood the reason for the failure.

Soul Division was a complete set of magic. Although Adam had modified it, the original function of the magic was still the same. The rewriting of these runes made the magic incongruous. The thing that was separated had nothing to do with the soul or consciousness. It was just a spiritual power wrapped in magic.

Although the clone was cultivated with Adam's genes, the relatively weak body and brain region could not directly bear the spiritual power and magic power after the transformation. So, it was inevitable that the clone's head would explode.

It seemed that the experiment had reached a stalemate. There was no way to break the stalemate if it did not involve the soul. But just now, Adam had a new inspiration.

The magic network.

Back when he was still an apprentice, he had doubted the communication method of official mages. The war mages had a huge 'internet' that connected all the souls. So, how could the mages in the tower, who were not qualified to participate in the dimensional war, communicate quickly?

To use a term that Adam was familiar with, it was the 'local area network.'

In fact, he did not need to split so many soul fragments. He only needed to use himself as the main server and the clone as the workstation of the local area network. Then, he could distribute tasks to the clone to carry out independent research. Although he did not have the ability to receive information from time to time, Adam could still summarize the information in the local area network every once in a while.

And this kind of technology was not too difficult with the existence of the magic network. Adam only needed to find Victor The Mage, and there was a high chance that he could obtain it.

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Three days later, Adam modified the tower's magic network technology that he had traded with Victor The Mage and successfully applied it to the clone.

Adam chose to build a tree-shaped local area network. The runes to build the local area network were engraved in his soul and the brain region of each clone. After doing this, Adam himself became the initiator of the network and the information processing center. Each clone was connected to himself through the runes, so naturally, they had the ability to think and process mechanically.

The disadvantage was that they could not exist alone. Only when they were in the network would they have the ability to think. But this was enough.

Through this method, the clones could think independently within a limited range. Adam had changed the direction of his own threads, and it did not affect his computing ability. To Adam, this method was more advantageous than the traditional method of creating clones.

The whole Adam laboratory project could be said to be a success. Adam's next task was to deduce and verify the other two formulas in Maxwell's equations: Gauss's law and Gauss's law of magnetism.

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The days of doing research were the happiest for Adam. Indulging in the laboratory could always make him forget the passage of time. But such peaceful days were finally broken in the third month of the second year after he became a sorcerer.

A text message from the magic network woke Adam up from his crazy state: Sorcerer Adam, arrive at the mission hall on the third floor of the Holy Tower within a day to accept the planar exploration mission.

Adam silently looked at the hundreds of clones that were busy in the laboratory. After setting the research mission, he summoned the Devil through the contract. Then, with a slightly fluctuating mood, he went to the third floor of the Holy Tower.

The mission hall was busy. Adam was wearing a level-one sorcerer's robe, but he did not stand out. Along the way, he kept nodding to the friendly sorcerers. Then, he went deeper into the corridor. There were fewer and fewer sorcerers on the way. Finally, Adam walked into the mission interface under the strange gazes of several sorcerers.

Adam thought that it would be some Hyperdimensional sorcerer who would announce the mission. He did not expect to see the Spirit of the Holy Tower, which he had guessed to be some kind of artificial intelligence.

"Identity verification complete. First-level exploration sorcerer Adam." The Spirit of the Holy Tower's cold voice went straight to the depths of his heart. After the verification, an information box and a few alchemy items floated in front of Adam.

"Sorcerer Adam, you need to familiarize yourself with the exploration mission equipment and the mission content in three days. Three days later, you will arrive at the location recorded in the mission through a vague teleportation circle. Then, you will begin your first mission."

The Spirit of the Holy Tower disappeared, and the Devil laughed arrogantly. "Hahaha, the day has finally come. Let those stupid natives know the horror of my great master!"