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Lin En had already formed a fireball in his hand. Along with the sound of a gem shattering, a transparent vengeful spirit appeared in the secret room, its face distorted and hideous, as if carrying countless pains and resentments.
Probably because the carrier was broken and suffered severe damage, its body was extremely illusory and even not as good as the wizard's apprentice before. The air medium was like a sharp knife, constantly consuming Ladakh's limited strength.
The screams and howls lasted for more than half a minute before they suddenly stopped, and the illusory spirit soon completely disintegrated in front of Lin En...
Lin En finally broke free from the influence of [Soul Scream]. He realized that his guess was right. Since all the controlled people were zombies, Radak must have stored their souls somewhere else.
Something similar to a lich's phylactery.
The target he chose was the azure gem on the experimental table that was used as a searchlight.
I have to say that Ladakh has a very bad taste, using his own soul for lighting.
If he hadn't discovered during the previous experiments that the magical reaction of this thing was very strong, he would not have been able to associate it with this thing.
Under Lin En's control, the blazing white phosphorus fire in the secret room gradually went out, and what remained was a ruin. Hundreds of coffins had been burned out, and the only things that were well preserved were the golem made of mithril and the magic books that filled the entire bookshelf behind the laboratory table.
"Biological Materials and Ectoplasm", "Detailed Explanation of Psionic Magic", "Advanced Alchemy"...
Lynn glanced at the bookshelf. In addition to a large number of books on psionics and potions, there were also many research notes.
However, he did not have the time to look through it, and he did not even have the time to clean up the messy secret room. He used shaping magic to transform himself into the appearance of Ladakh, opened the door of the secret room and walked out.
The castle was in chaos at the moment, and Lin En was not surprised by this situation.
In order to avoid being disturbed when dealing with Ladakh, Lin En took advantage of his position as an assistant and made some changes to the place where the defective products were detained.
Judging from the time, it should have taken effect.
However, the castle guards were more powerful than he had imagined. By the time Lynn arrived at the front hall, the few rioting defectives had already been subdued.
"Lord Radak... Experimental subjects No. 12, 27, and 32 suddenly broke free from their cages. The casualties are being counted. For now, the cause has not been determined."
After seeing Lynn's figure, Coleman and others immediately knelt down and made a report in a trembling manner.
This time the experimental subjects' riot was very inexplicable, and no one could be found to take the blame. Everyone was extremely worried that Ladakh would vent his anger on them.
Lynn glanced at Coleman indifferently, and said in a tone that seemed to be suppressing his anger. "It was Timis who did it! He was sent by the Nordland Magic Workshop as an insider to steal an important research result..."
Although Lynn did not explicitly state the treatment of Timis, everyone could guess that Timis' death must have been extremely tragic.
"I knew there was something wrong with Timis..." Bock shouted excitedly.
Ever since Timis became a reserve assistant based on his previous research achievements, he has been feeling resentful, thinking that he had contributed a lot to the experiment, but all the credit was taken away by the other party.
Now that he heard that Timmis was in trouble, Burke couldn't help but feel a twisted sense of pleasure in his heart.
However, when he saw Lin En's gaze, the excitement on Bock's face stopped immediately, because he suddenly thought of recruiting Timis as an assistant, and it was this adult who personally nodded in agreement.
Fortunately, Lin En ignored him and turned to look at Coleman and spoke again. "Coleman, you keep investigating. Don't let anyone go. I want to see how many mice there are in this castle!"
"I understand, Lord Ladakh," Coleman quickly replied.
Upon hearing this, all the apprentices changed their expressions, and there was a hint of wariness in their eyes when they looked at each other.
This is exactly what Lin En wanted to achieve, to make everyone in the castle fall into a situation of mutual surveillance and suspicion. In this way, even if he behaves in some weird way, no one will suddenly lose their mind and start to doubt whether the Lord "Ladakh" in front of them is the real thing.
Immediately afterwards, Lynn began to arrange personnel to clean up the wreckage and count the losses.
Due to Ladakh's high prestige, Lin En found that he had almost no obstacles in commanding, because no one dared to question his orders.
In other words, as long as his identity is not exposed, he can use everything in the magic workshop at will.
……
After arranging the affairs in the castle, Lin En did not delay but returned to the secret room to start sorting out Radak's relics, especially those experimental notebooks. The magical knowledge contained in them was the greatest treasure.
"Logan flower, requiem grass, witch's claws, the roots of the magic mulberry tree... plus spiritual essence?"
Lynn sat in front of the cold experimental table, flipping through a research notebook in his hand. On it was recorded the formula of [Source of Magic Power]. If those shaping potions strengthened the wizard's body, then [Source of Magic Power] was used to increase the strength of mental power.
This is also the essence of how wizards can cast spells.
In fact, it is not difficult to obtain the other materials. You can buy them by spending magic coins. The most important thing is this spiritual essence...
Ectoplasm exists widely in the minds of powerful magical creatures, but in small quantities. For example, the epicure obtained from killing a fire lion can only make one bottle of [Source of Magic].
This substance also exists in the brains of wizard apprentices and even formal wizards.
Leaving aside the formal wizards, according to Radak's speculation, only the spiritual essence in the brains of three wizard apprentices is needed to gather a set of raw materials, and the probability of promotion is higher...
Chapter 99 Overturning the Foundation of Magic
No wonder the wizarding land guards the formula of the [Source of Magic] so strictly. If it were to be made public, they would probably be turned into werewolves and killed. Those wizard apprentices who lack talent but are eager to be promoted would definitely do anything.
"Is this the meaning of Bloody Thorns?" Lin En immediately felt that the name was very appropriate. Just like the properties of this potion, every official wizard who was promoted within the Bloody Thorns was watered by the blood of his companions.
While thinking, Lin En looked at the remaining manuscripts. Ladak had many research results, which were basically related to psychic magic.
For example, how to use alchemical arrays to extract a person's soul, or how to create corpses and containers to store souls.
The reason why Radak specialized in studying these psychic magics was very simple. That was because he lacked talent and had been unable to reach the realm of a great wizard, so he planned to use some unorthodox methods.
What Ladakh really wants to do is to place his soul into a more gifted body.
However, this is obviously not an easy task, as dozens of experimental records in the notebook all failed.
Radak once tried to extract the soul of an apprentice and directly take over the body, and put his own soul into this body. As a result, there was an extreme incompatibility between the body and soul, so he had to give up.
Then he thought of occupying a living wizard apprentice.
However, Ladakh was unable to find the method to perfectly merge the two souls until his death.
Seeing this, Lin En felt somewhat ashamed. Strictly speaking, he seemed to have done these things when he traveled through time, but he himself didn't even know the reason.
No matter what, the priority is to improve his own wizard level. Lin En soon gave up the idea of exploring psychic magic. Now that he already knew the method of making the [Source of Magic Power], he naturally hoped to break through to become a formal wizard as soon as possible.
In this way, my last shortcoming will no longer exist.
For the entire night, Lin En devoted all his energy to making potions. This was all thanks to the sufficient reserves of potions in the Ladak manor. If he wanted any material, he could just walk out of the secret room and ask a few apprentices to get it.
The only problem was that Lynn's knowledge of alchemy was very limited. Although he had the formula in hand, he could only slowly explore the properties, processing methods and storage time of each potion. In just one night, he wasted materials equivalent to hundreds of magic gold coins.
He was quite open-minded about this, since he was not using his own things anyway.
Potions made by yourself are always more reliable than taking potions made by others.
They worked until the early morning, and the old crucible was already filled with chaotic liquid. The brewing period of the potion was about three days. When the color became completely transparent, they could add the most important spiritual essence, which was one portion of [Source of Magic Power].
Seeing that the opportunity for a breakthrough was just around the corner, Lin En forced himself to calm down and began to brew the second potion.
Of course, before taking it on your own, you need to find someone to be a guinea pig.
If Ladakh changed the formula or did something else, he would be in trouble.
……
While Lin En was brewing the potion, the entire wizarding land had been set off by the new issue of [Magic Daily].
[Overturning the foundation of magic - the law of free fall], [The roar from the Secret Society: The magic theory of the wizarding land is already outdated], [From the sails and the sea surface, the continent under our feet may be a sphere], [The double-sphere experiment of the airship - revealing the shocking omission of Master Yade]
As a professional writer, Roll knew very well how to attract attention. The extra 100,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out in half a day and were soon placed on the desks of every wizard.
“This is simply ridiculous!”
In a magnificent magic workshop, the great wizard Raphael was so angry that he laughed after reading the headline of the Magic Daily.
A three-ring wizard from the outside world dared to say that he had overturned the foundation of magic and questioned that magical theory was outdated. This can only be described as ignorant.
But is that person crazy? How dare he publish such a ridiculous statement?
Raphael felt some doubts in his heart, and then he read it patiently. His expression gradually changed from disdain and sneer to doubt, until he saw the star map on the page, and his whole expression changed immediately.
Perfect, absolutely perfect!
As an architect with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Raphael firmly believed that the truth of the world must be extremely regular and beautiful...
As for the star maps produced by the wizards of the prophecy school, the movement trajectories of the nearby stars can be considered beautiful, but the situation is different for the stars farther away. They can only be described as chaotic, and there are even strange phenomena of sudden jumps in the movement trajectories.
So almost instantly Raphael confirmed that the star map in the Magic Daily was correct.
bang~
Just as he was thinking about it, two huge crashing noises suddenly came from outside the door, accompanied by the sound of cracking floor tiles. Raphael put away the newspaper with great dissatisfaction, opened the door and walked out, and then saw two spheres with a diameter of half a meter hit the floor tiles under the tower in the distance.
Then bursts of noise came from the tower above.
"Really? It's actually true. Two spheres of different sizes fell at the same time."
"Nonsense, I saw it clearly, the ball was clearly slow by 0.3 seconds." A wizard said with his neck stiff. He was watching the whole process with farsightedness and saw it clearly.
"Doesn't it say so? That's because of the influence of air resistance. That's what Master Yade's theory actually says!"
"But why are feathers and paper different?"
"It is said that Master Helram has done an experiment. As long as the air is sucked out, everything will fall down at the same time."
……
A group of apprentices were gathered on the tower, discussing the experiments recorded in the Magic Daily. Many of them had red faces and kept refuting, and they almost got into a fight during the argument.
The moment Raphael saw the two balls, he understood that these apprentices were verifying the law of free fall. Although the height and weight would definitely not match, the result was obviously the same.
"Lord Raphael! Is the continent beneath our feet really round?" The wizard in charge of recording the experiment asked in confusion.
Since the law of free fall has been confirmed, could the so-called planet theory be true as well?
Chapter 100: Ring of the Faceless
How can this be?
Raphael subconsciously wanted to refute it. He was sure that the heliocentric theory was correct, but he had not yet determined whether the continent under his feet was flat or spherical.
It is too arbitrary to rely solely on the sails on the sea!
There are many people who think like Raphael. Compared with the verifiable free fall experiment, the planet theory is the most unbelievable.
No one could create a sphere so large that it would appear flat when you walked in front of it, and it was impossible to even imagine such a thing...
It is even more incomprehensible why sea water would adhere to a sphere instead of falling directly off.