Chapter 58

In order to find a way to counteract this kind of magic, one must first understand the principle of magic.

This was a process from zero to one, and also the biggest obstacle to eliminating the virus. Adam needed to find an entry point.

At this time, Mage Black's words appeared in his mind, "Anti-Mage needs to torture humans countless times to observe despair and complete the upgrade of the soul …"

"What exactly is despair?" Adam silently muttered to himself. He recalled the feeling of being chased with no path to heaven and no door to hell. He seemed to have understood something, but it was not enough. That kind of despair was not deep enough. Moreover, it was only a kind of emotion that arose from his thoughts under the circumstances. At the time, this kind of emotion was constantly suppressed and shattered by his logical thinking to maintain his calm. It was not strong enough for Adam to engrave it into his memory.

Adam looked at the gray waves in all directions. He used Psychokinetic to protect his body and walked into the waves.

After walking into the waves and coming into close contact with the gray, Adam realized that this magic was not a manifestation of energy, but another concept that he did not know how to define at the moment. Every dot in the gray was a soul. They had no consciousness, no fixed form, but were constantly twisting and changing.

The negative emotions they constantly emitted formed the basis of the gray. Every dot was constantly trying to expand itself and devour others.

Adam was like a drop of water dripping into hot oil, instantly triggering the reaction of the entire pot of oil. Countless souls rushed towards him in a frenzy. Endless despair completely surrounded him, tearing at his Psychokinetic Barrier. Distorted faces showed him the pain of their masters when they were alive. Adam thought of the Abyssal creatures, the chaotic creatures with reduced entropy. Ancient magic simulated the entropy reduction system. No wonder this kind of magic could not be improved. No wonder they were eliminated by the mainstream and abandoned by Ether. This was a system that did not benefit the world or the plane.

Adam realized that this was not very useful. Although he could see the pain of the 'dots', he did not know where the pain came from and what kind of despair it would form.

"Observe despair, or experience it?"

Adam gently extended a bit of his perception, trying to touch those 'dots'. The despairing soul was frantically gnawing at him, completely without reason.

His soul felt pain, but Adam did not care. In the next second, he did something shocking. He dispelled the Psychokinetic Barrier and only maintained his sanity. Then, he allowed Gray to gnaw at his soul.

Adam's soul received countless pieces of information. These pieces of information could not form a complete memory. They were just the deepest and most despairing fragments of the souls before they died.

His home was destroyed before his eyes.

Their parents and children were slaughtered, but they could do nothing about it.

His beloved was insulted and then committed suicide.

A lifetime of hard work turned into a laughable joke.

He thought that hope was right in front of him, but after crossing it, he found that nothing had changed.

Experiencing the harshest torture and suffering unbearable pain.

All kinds of despair washed over Adam's soul again and again. Countless pieces of information raged, gnawed, and devoured in Adam's soul. Gradually, a monster born of despair took shape in Adam's soul.

Adam felt that his consciousness began to have the tendency to distort and self-destruct. At this time, the monster was still very weak. Adam could use Psychokinetic to destroy it, but Adam chose to watch coldly and let it devour despair, letting it grow as a parasite in his soul.

The monster did not have a body, but Adam could still feel its ferocious mouth open and let out a soundless roar. Then, all the gray waves began to converge on Adam.

Adam's soul was divided into two. Generally, half of his consciousness was protected by Psychokinetic, and the other half was the twisted body of the parasitic monster.

It launched its first attack on Adam.

Adam found himself in a dilapidated city. He was wearing clothes that could not cover his body, and there were broken walls around him. Smoke filled the air, and corpses were everywhere. In the dark, many people buried their heads in the corpses. The faces of those who were lying limp on the ground were numb, as if they did not care about their own lives at all.

Adam slowly walked down the street, his feet constantly stepping on the broken limbs of unknown people. Suddenly, Adam felt a deep sense of malice. The eyes hidden behind a wall emitted a cruel darkness. He turned around and walked towards the wall.

The person behind the wall was shocked, as if he did not expect Adam to discover him. However, hunger fueled the madness in his heart. He rushed out from behind the wall, raised his small arms that were as thin as firewood, and pounced on Adam. There was no saliva in his open mouth, but blood from his cracked skin.

Adam stood where he was without moving, allowing the man's fist to land on his body. However, the man was too weak, and was sent flying by Adam's body's automatic defense.

"What are you doing?" Adam asked softly, and then continued to look behind the wall.

The person crawled on the ground towards Adam, and words that did not form a sentence came out of his mouth. "Hungry, hungry, eat, eat …" The person bit Adam's foot, and all his teeth flew out. Blood splattered everywhere. He greedily drank his own blood, and his withered face was filled with perverted satisfaction.

Adam did not attack him, but he could no longer stand up. Adam silently took a few steps back.

The rest of the people hiding behind the wall stumbled out, and crazily pounced on the fresh corpse. They bit with their teeth, tore with their hands, and used all the methods they could to devour the corpse that was still alive.

Adam suddenly felt weak, and a sense of hunger began to form in his body.

He did not care, and continued to walk in the city.

He saw starving parents swapping their children with others, and then eating the children they swapped for. He saw people collecting the broken limbs on the ground and stuffing them into their mouths. He saw strong men picking up bones on the ground and raising flames. They worked together to kill the elderly and children and cook them. They looked at each other warily, snatched the food from the pot, and ate it greedily. Then, they vented their desires on the women behind them.

He saw armored soldiers using swords and spears to drive away the starving people, shouting and cursing. He also saw women who were slightly cleaner being captured and taken away. The mansion in the center of the city was brightly lit, and there was singing and dancing.

As time passed, Adam became weaker and hungrier. So, he came to an empty bunker and sat down quietly.

Then, night fell, and the shrill howls of Demonic Beasts could be heard from all directions outside the city. Then, a flame rose high into the sky and exploded, and the Demonic Beasts launched a frenzied attack on the city.

The soldiers appeared again, and drove everyone out of the city. They formed a human wall, and ignored the Demonic Beasts that tore them apart.

Then, the mage appeared. He sat on a sedan carried by eight people and climbed up the city wall. Those who were not dead looked at him with hope, waiting for the mage to save them.

The mage made his move. A blood-red ball of light condensed in front of his staff, but in the next second, they found that the mage's magic had landed on their bodies. Their flesh and blood exploded, and under the effect of the magic, they attacked the Demonic Beasts.

Adam, who was hiding in the dark, saw the whole scene.

For the whole night, the mage relied on the flesh and blood of the civilians to repel the Demonic Beasts' attack.

The next day, when the sun had just risen, the Demonic Beasts retreated, and the soldiers appeared again, driving the civilians back to the city.

Adam became even weaker.

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The trial would not stop because of the death of a few apprentices. The one-month time limit was set by President Victor. In the entire Moldova Tower, no one could violate it except for the Tower Master. The two mages brought Adam back to the mobile home, threw him aside, and continued their leisurely life.

Suddenly, they stared at Adam at the same time. The fire element mage said, "Kino, it seems that this little guy is dying."

Adam's body began to emit a gray aura. In the mage's eyes, this was the result of the soul being devoured and then assimilated. He regretfully reached out his hand, wanting to completely destroy Adam.

The mage named Kino did not stop him. Only a living Adam could bring him benefits, and a dead Adam was worthless.

Just as the flames were about to burn Adam's body, a change suddenly occurred. Psychokinetic energy with a transparent substance was activated automatically, and bit by bit, it fought for space with the gray aura.

Master Kino waved his hand and blocked the flames with Metal Flood. He said, "Wait, Ryan, he's still resisting."

Ryan dissipated the flames and said, "Although it's only a rat's magic, it's still a big rat's magic. Do you really think that an apprentice can withstand it?"

A stronger and more condensed Psychokinetic energy appeared on Kino's body. It gently lifted Adam and placed him far away. The negative energy made the mage very uncomfortable. He then said to Ryan, "You haven't seen his Psychokinetic Meditation, have you?"

Of course, Wizard Ryan did not. Due to the gap in the accumulation of knowledge and vision, most of the research results of the apprentice stage could only be used as a reference for official wizards. The practical value was very low. Because of this, Wizard Ryan did not understand Psychokinesis.

"Oh?"

"This power is very good. Its purpose is not to use it directly, but to control it." He took out a piece of metal and wrapped it with Psychokinetic energy. The metal instantly disintegrated into a small volume, then became smaller and smaller, and finally completely disintegrated. "See, this is it. This ability is very useful for my research."

Ryan looked at Kino with great interest. If this happened in the laboratory, it would not be amazing. It could be easily done with experimental equipment, but now Kino was doing this with pure spiritual energy.

"Spiritual energy is the power of the soul. The quality of normal apprentices' spiritual energy is low, and they can't resist the Curse of Despair, but maybe this little guy can. And you know, he's an apprentice of the academy, and we're contracted mages of the tower. If he can survive and continue to develop his meditation, it will be good for all the mages of the tower. "

Wizard Ryan shrugged noncommittally and said, "Then I wish him good luck."