Chapter 215: The Basilisk Named Sadolin
Della spent her Christmas holiday in that sealed room day and night. She basically completed the three-stage experiment on Sadolin, read all the books on the wizard level examination, and began to practice the thorn hourglass according to the textbook of black magic.
Everything was going according to plan, except that she still couldn't figure out the principle of the thorn hourglass.
Three-quarters of the sand in the hourglass had already gone down, but Della was sure that one-quarter of the sand had gone down without her knowledge and had little to do with the magic she was learning now.
“Time is effective when you are exploring desires and proving growth.”
Under the warm light, Della, simply wearing a beige slim-fitting nightgown, leaned on the obsidian table that was gleaming slightly under the light. She held an open black magic textbook in her hand, her pupils slightly dilated, and she whispered what Cockrell said that day, trying to get some inspiration.
Is it that growth as proven through magic is limited, or is it that the desire to explore is more effective over time?
What does that quarter of silent sand have to do with her desires?
Desire, alchemy?
For a moment, that was all Della could think of, but she had a gut feeling that it was the wrong answer.
"Ha-Sa (Can we lift the isolation cloth now)?" Maggie, whose body had grown larger, swam onto the obsidian table. He looked at the human-shaped bulge on the table covered by the white cloth and asked Della while spitting out his snake tongue.
"Wait a minute," Della put down the book in her hand, bent down, opened the drawer under the table, and took out an exquisite box, "Do you want to help Sadolin determine the color of her eyes?"
When Maggie swam over, Della opened the box with a 'click', revealing a pair of exquisitely crafted grey artificial eyes. These were originally to be added during the experiment, but as a magical creature, the basilisk itself has a certain amount of magic power, and most of this magic power serves her unusual eyes. If it is added too early, the magical artificial eyes that adapt to the flesh may also be assimilated.
Della didn't want to create a human-shaped Avada, so she waited until Sadolin's soul adapted to the new body. She also did additional research on the phase diagram to fix her soul. Only after she was sure that there would be no more problems did she dare to give Sadolin a pair of eyes.
"Sea - (dark green, right)." Maggie said without hesitation, just like when Della asked him for his opinion on Sadolin's transformation before, he gave the answer very quickly, as if he had already planned the appearance of Sadolin's body.
If Sadolin's final appearance hadn't looked anything like Ximena or Doreen, Della would have really doubted Maggie's motives.
"Okay, it's just that the dark green doesn't look very green." Della responded. She waved her wand and the pupil of the fake eye changed from gray to black. However, when the light was shone on it, a hint of green would show through the black.
"Haishi-sa (That's perfect for Sadolin)," Maggie swam to Sadolin's side, and lifted a corner of the isolation cloth with his slender and powerful snake tail. He looked at Della, "Haishi (Is it okay)?"
Della nodded, and Maggie lifted the white isolation cloth, revealing the "new" Sadolin who was still sleeping inside. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with fair skin, and lay there quietly in a simple black robe.
Maggie glanced at Sadolin's deep and delicate features with satisfaction. He perfectly avoided all the appearances of the old people and created a beautiful face for his doll.
Maggie acknowledges beauty, but in his eyes, most beauty is meaningless. Can "beauty" solve all problems?
Obviously not, and the so-called romantic love affair of overthrowing everything for beauty is mostly just historical inference. Maggie knows how much explanation power can bring, so he has never believed in it and does not attach too much importance to beauty.
But Maggie does have preferences. Ximena, Doreen and Della are all his preferred beauties. Well... Belinda's temperament is also quite interesting. But precisely because he has preferences, he cannot let this preference show on Sadolin, his pet who will be his face in the future.
So Maggie started preparing as soon as he knew that Sadolin was an experimental subject. He deepened Sadolin's dependence on him through words to ensure the obedience and loyalty of the basilisk. At the same time, he rejected each face that inadvertently carried a familiar aura in his mind, and finally decided on Sadolin's appearance.
However, Maggie did prefer the age of seventeen, so Sadolin was set to be seventeen years old.
Della walked over, pinched Sadolin's elastic body and checked it again, then she opened her sunken eye sockets and put the artificial eyes in. After carefully adjusting the position of the eyes, she gave Maggie a look, and Maggie understood and stepped back like Della.
"【Operate】" Della took a few steps back and pointed her wand at Sadolin, and whispered the rune alchemical spell. After the spell was cast, Sadolin floated into the air, her seaweed-like black hair hung down, and layers of light circles appeared on her body, making her fair skin even more translucent.
Della held the magic wand and carefully walked a few steps around Sadolin in mid-air. Maggie on the obsidian table also moved her snake body slightly to observe Sadolin's situation. When they walked to Sadolin's drooping hair from the left and right, the girl in the air suddenly opened her eyes shining with green light.
At the same time, the halo on Sadolin's body shattered. Della quickly cast a gravity spell. When Sadolin's robe just swelled slightly due to the gravity of falling, the natural gravity was reduced, allowing her to fall steadily back onto the obsidian table.
As soon as she landed on the table, Sadolin, whose body had undergone a major transformation, did not show any curiosity. She immediately curled up her body and subconsciously raised her hands to cover her closed eyes, "Haixia (Don't look into my eyes)."
Della opened her eyes slightly, a little surprised by Sadolin's reaction of inferiority, which she had never seen before. However, this reaction was not a bad thing for her. Comforting people with unstable emotions could make them feel dependent. So she walked over and gently put her arm around Sadolin's tense arm. "It's okay. You can always look at me, Sadolin."
"You are different, ah—" Sadolin just turned half of her eyes to the side, and was surprised that she could speak human language. She exclaimed and covered her eyes tightly again, "Ha-Sa (How can I say)..."
She curled up on the table and twisted her body. She put her bare feet together and swayed back and forth several times. Then she seemed to tentatively separate her legs a little, and just as she separated them a little, she nervously put them together again.
"It's okay, don't worry about anything, Sadolin." Della stroked Sadolin's hair as she had done before when she stroked the snake. Sadolin was still very nervous, but her body rubbed towards Della out of inertia and buried itself in the girl's warm arms.
"Now, relax and feel your body," Della patiently soothed Sadolin. In her gentle and soft voice, Sadolin's curled up body slowly relaxed, her arms dropped, revealing her tightly closed eyes. Della continued, "Then, slowly open your eyes."
Sadolin froze again, but Della reacted faster. She held down Sadolin's arms as she tried to raise them, suppressing the struggling Sadolin. "Believe me, Sadolin, your eyes are no longer the eyes that made you lonely. I promise that no living being will die because of you opening your eyes this time."
Sadolin stopped struggling, and the expression on her face was blank for a second. She opened her mouth and wanted to ask Della, "Do you promise?" But she knew in her heart that the master had no obligation to promise her anything, so she just opened her mouth and said nothing. Just when she was about to follow the order anxiously -
"Haisi-Sa (I promise you this too, Sadolin)." Maggie's low snake language sounded. When she heard this, Sadolin suddenly gained motivation and she opened her dark green eyes.
The first thing she saw was Della's beige nightgown. It was the first time she saw such a soft color, and she couldn't help but reach out and pinch a corner of it in her hand. As the clothes were grasped, her vision became wider. The moment she saw Maggie's blue-gray snake body, she met those clear yellow eyes.
Sadolin wanted to close her eyes immediately, but Maggie's unwavering eyes restrained her. She couldn't even move her eyes away and could only stare at Maggie.
Then, Maggie in her eyes swam towards her, her clear yellow eyes still firm and unwavering, and Sadolin, leaning in Della's arms, couldn't help shedding tears.
Her memory only started from the moment she met Della, but thousands of years of loneliness were engraved in her bones. When she came to this world, she could never look at the world at will, but could only stay in her dark and damp sewer, waiting for a new owner forever.
And for the first time, someone freed her from the endless cycle of loneliness and waiting.