Chapter 50

Adam's interest was piqued. "Tell me more about it."

The Devil did not expect Adam to make such a request. It stuttered, "This, this is something I was born with. I don't know …"

Adam realized that there was something wrong with his question. The talents of living beings were sometimes unreasonable. Without enough knowledge, it was too difficult to explain with words alone. So he changed the question. "Can you connect to my mind?"

The Devil shuddered. It could hear the malice in this sentence. It hurriedly shook its head. "No, no, no, my great master, your humble servant would not dare to peek into your mind. I just got some common knowledge from that idiot's brain!"

As it spoke, the Devil became excited. "My great master, I can't believe that I can actually become the servant of a sorcerer! Sorcerer, in my broken inherited memory, the sorcerer's plane is an enemy that should never be provoked. Whether it's the Devil or the Abyss creatures, they can't even find the plane coordinates of the sorcerer's plane! "

Adam caught the words "inherited memory". The Abyss creatures were flesh and blood creatures. They should also have organs and tissues to transmit genetic information. But how could a being with will transmit such information?

"Do you know what you are?"

The Devil changed its appearance. It was vaguely female. It showed an expression of disbelief. "My master, you don't have any desire for the opposite sex?"

Adam narrowed his eyes and whipped the Devil fiercely through the contract. "Answer my question. Don't do anything unnecessary."

The Devil screamed, and its body blurred again. It begged for mercy. "Please stop, master. I won't do it again!"

Adam continued to punish. This kind of creature that relied on deception to survive was not worthy of trust. It must be taught a lesson. Sure enough, soon the Devil could not even scream. Its chaotic form also showed signs of dissipating. Only then did Adam stop.

The Devil collapsed on the ground like a puddle of dirt. It could no longer speak and could only convey its weak will through the contract. "Energy, energy."

Adam threw a dozen energy stones at it, and the Devil greedily devoured them all. Only then did it regain its stability. It no longer dared to play pranks, and said obediently, "I should be a Devil, but I also seem to be an Abyssal creature."

"Should, should?" Adam was very dissatisfied with such an adjective.

The Devil shuddered and continued: "Devil, Devil, I am a Devil, but I seem to have been born from the body of an Abyssal creature. Their damned, chaotic, and foolish beastly instincts have destroyed my inherited memories, and I've forgotten how to sign contracts!"

As the demon spoke, he began to sob. "Master, can you imagine? I actually want to eat blood all the time! Eat those filthy body tissues! "

"Shut up." Adam stopped the Devil's hypocritical crying and continued to ask: "What's the use of you if you've forgotten all the contracts?"

The Devil stopped abruptly. Not only its voice, but even its thoughts were stagnant. After a while, it said awkwardly: "I … I … I don't know …"

Adam looked at it with disdain. Abyssal creatures could provide immediate combat power for low-level mages and apprentices, and the various contracts of Devil were often very useful. However, this hybrid species was really useless. Not only did it have low combat power, it also did not have the will of life. It was simply a piece of trash.

"I think …"

Before Adam could finish his words, the Devil dispiritedly interrupted: "I think the only thing worth studying is the way I was born."

That was what Adam was thinking. However, this would require knowledge of other planes and creatures, and he didn't have a reliable assistant for the time being. Not to mention, he wasn't very interested in this. "Go out. Don't leave the lab." For the time being, he would let the Devil fend for itself. Perhaps it would be useful in the future when he had the ability to study souls.

The Devil floated out of Adam's room dejectedly. It was a creature that instinctively chased after the thoughts of living creatures. It plopped down beside James and Frank, startling them. They instinctively erected their defenses, and the crude Psychokinetic Barrier bounced the young hybrid Devil away. "What is this thing?!"

Adam's voice came from the room: "My slave, a useless Devil."

The two looked at each other. Wasn't that egg an Abyssal creature's? How did it give birth to a Devil?

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The Devil was casually thrown into the laboratory by Adam. William was very afraid of it, and James and Frank often teased it when they were not training. The crude manifestation of desire was useless in the eyes of the prepared apprentices, and the Devil could only endure the bullying of the two in humiliation.

After getting Adam's consent, the two of them gave the construction method of Psychokinetic Meditation to the Devil. Adam was also happy to have someone do all kinds of experiments for him. Perhaps this will give him new inspiration.

On this day, Eliot came to the laboratory again. The moment he saw the Devil, he was very curious. He used all kinds of methods and potions on the Devil's body. Adam did not care, and only asked curiously, "Why are you always the one who comes to inform me?"

Eliot looked at him bitterly.

Eliot brought good news. In the previous mission, Adam killed all the invading Anti-Mage apprentices by himself, preventing the academy from suffering any losses. The academy decided to give him a reward: the opening of the library's third last level.

Only now did Adam know that official mages would not go to the academy's library, because it stored all the knowledge of the apprentice level. The third last level was all rune knowledge, real rune knowledge.

The free rune knowledge course that James was in charge of was just a sham. It only taught the meditation techniques to the rookies. It did not touch on why runes appeared or why they were expressed in such a way.

Adam had also asked this question, and James' answer was that he did not know either.

At that moment, Adam felt that James was ridiculous. He did not have Adam's computational ability, and could rely on a sample and countless complex calculations to forcefully construct a meditation technique. He did not even know why the rune lines were drawn like that, and yet he wanted to create a new path. No wonder he failed.

James responded with a bitter smile, "The top three levels are the core knowledge of the apprentice level. An apprentice with my aptitude is not qualified to read it. Not only me, but all the apprentices in Moldova College are not qualified to enter the top three levels. Only you, the first of the batch of geniuses who died in the War of the Spire."

Amidst their resentful gazes, Adam entered the third floor from the bottom alone.

When Adam saw the titles of the books on the third level, such as "The Extension of Rune Lines", "The Stability of Rune Shapes", "The Application of Arcs and Curves in Runes", he was stunned. "This is geometry?"

He flipped through the books at an extremely fast speed, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. The knowledge described in these books was in the category of Euclidean geometry on Earth, but only from plane geometry to solid geometry. The higher level of space geometry was only described in a few sentences, and was used to combine plane geometry and solid geometry in the mind. As for the more profound and obscure non-linear geometry and differential geometry, there was no description at all. (I'm just a bad student. Top students, just treat it as a show … Those who care about the details are fools.)

But this was enough. Adam was fanatically accepting the baptism of knowledge.

His problem was that the use of his imagination had not reached a level where he could control it with ease. In Adam's way of thinking, the part that belonged to the computer still occupied a dominant position. He was good at analyzing and calculating a problem, but he was not good at creating his own hypothesis and then verifying it.

After Adam returned to the laboratory from the library, he locked himself in his room. He found that the rune group formed by the nineteen runes he created had a lot of redundant parts, and could be reduced to a more optimized structure. It would be more efficient and convenient for the use and extraction of mental power, and the resulting Psychokinetic quality would also be better.

A month had passed. William and the other two looked at each other. They had no idea what Adam was doing in seclusion.

"Master won't starve to death, right?" The Devil muttered, and then shuddered. The two of them had signed a master-servant contract. If its master died, it would have no way to live. "Why don't you go in and take a look?"

William and the other two were also very anxious. They had many questions to ask. They had reached the middle stage of the construction of Psychokinetic, but they found that their Mage Armor was not self-consistent. But no one dared to knock on the door.

"Adam has a portable space. If the apprentice is just maintaining his life, he will only need a little energy. It should be fine for now."

Another ten days passed. The Devil had felt the weakness of the soul on the other side of the contract. It lay on the ground and said, "Is master crazy? Starving himself to death for research? "

William and the other two looked at each other. James stepped forward and put his hand by the door, but then slowly put it down. "Wait a little longer …"

Another seven days passed. There were only five days left before the trial began. The Devil felt that the other side of the contract was extremely weak, and its flame of life was flickering like a candle in the wind. It could not hold it in anymore. "Hurry up and blow the door open. Master is dying!"

William and the other two looked at each other. No one was willing to make the first move. Who knew if Adam was at the most critical moment inside? If they destroyed the research results because of their interference, they would become a great enemy among the Mages.

The Devil's chaotic body trembled and changed into Adam's appearance. It gritted its teeth and rushed toward the door. "Damn it, get out of the way. Let me do it!" After that, it rushed toward the door. It did not expect to break the door open, but as long as it felt pain, its master would feel it.

But it did not expect to pounce on empty air. The moment it approached the door, the room that had been closed for almost two months opened.

Adam walked out with a haggard face. Psychokinetic Barrier flashed and knocked the Devil away. Then, he looked at them and asked calmly, "Why are you all gathered here?"