Chapter 28: The Fallen Witch’s Mad Experiment!
Soren ultimately did not agree to the goblin demon sorcerer’s terms of exchange.
One could see the anger on its face as it departed, as if Soren was a completely ungrateful fool. In its threatening gaze, other demons began to revel in Soren’s misfortune, believing that he would not survive for long. To dare openly refuse a demon lord’s request, Soren was highly unlikely to leave Gurenba Arena alive.
As expected!
Not long after the goblin demon sorcerer left, Soren immediately felt that someone was secretly watching him, and nearby the tavern, goblin sorcerers were setting up dimensional anchor magic circles to prevent Soren from using high-level teleportation to escape. Inside Gurenba Arena, the goblin demon lord did not want to easily break its own rules, so it was unlikely that it would directly attack Soren. Its methods should still be confined to the d*ath Arena; as long as Soren died in the duels of Gurenba Arena, the Dragon Crystal would naturally become unclaimed.
Soren’s expression was fearless as he calmly returned to his room after refusing the other’s request.
Because his true body had already arrived at the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss—the Land of Forgotten!
……
Meanwhile.
In Modo, one of the Overseas Islands, an important event was also taking place today.
On this day, Gloria was conducting spell research. After successfully breaking through to the first layer of the Chess Dimension, they had gained a wealth of spell knowledge from the Arcane Empire era, including part of the powerful battle wizard spell, “Bigby’s Hand.” Gloria had been busy memorizing and mastering these spells while also practicing her own melee combat skills.
There was no choice.
The style of battle wizards was somewhat different from her past, and if Gloria wanted to adeptly use “Bigby’s Hand,” she needed to learn some combat skills.
At that moment, the shadow of the Fallen Witch—Corinna appeared outside the laboratory.
The research that the mother and daughter were conducting was separate, as the two powerful witches found it difficult to assist each other. Thus, they each continued with their own research.
All along, the Fallen Witch’s research work had been focused on alchemy.
She had a very persistent pursuit of the technology from the Arcane Empire period, even once giving everything for it.
Today.
The Fallen Witch arrived outside Gloria’s laboratory, her expression somewhat hesitant, and her steps were indecisive. Several times she lifted her hand to knock on the door but then withdrew it again.
Gloria sensed the situation outside, and with a faint light of magic, the laboratory door opened directly.
She looked up at the Fallen Witch outside, puzzled, and asked, “Mother! Is there something wrong?”
The Fallen Witch slowly walked in, her face full of hesitation, but in the end, she gritted her teeth and quietly said, “Daughter, I want to conduct an alchemy experiment again!”
Gloria’s expression immediately changed dramatically upon hearing this!
She firmly shook her head and said sternly, “Absolutely not!!!”
“This is too dangerous.”
“If there’s an error in the experiment! Modo might be leveled to the ground!!!”
Leveled to the ground.
This was not a joke. The elemental fission alchemy experiment that the Fallen Witch conducted back then directly destroyed a large laboratory belonging to the Northern Witch when an accident occurred, annihilating everything in the vicinity and even thoroughly polluting the land and environment, resulting in spatial distortion and collapse. This left the land within dozens of kilometers of the experimental area shrouded in terrible energy radiation. Because of this incident, the Fallen Witch was exiled and imprisoned by the Witch Council to White Horse City, and she was recognized by the Druid Order of this world as the number one enemy of nature!
She was now living in hiding in Modo.
If the Fallen Witch dared to appear on the mainland, the Druid Order would likely pursue her without hesitation. It might even provoke legendary druids to personally capture or even k*ll her.
There was no choice.
The Fallen Witch—Corinna!
The legendary enemy of nature! The destroyer of nature! The environmental devastator! The evil Fallen Witch polluting the earth!
For nearly a century.
Few wizards have caused as much destruction to nature as she has; her name, her appearance, her characteristics have nearly spread to all Druid organizations across the Material Plane.
Gloria could not allow her to do such a dangerous thing, even if the Fallen Witch was her biological mother.
Seeing Gloria’s resolute expression, a hint of bitter smile appeared on the Fallen Witch’s face. She naturally knew how great her past errors were, with countless lives lost directly and indirectly because of her. Even the land where the initial experiment took place was still a land of d*ath, projected to remain unrecoverable for the next hundred to two hundred years.
If an experiment explosion happened in Modo, it would be a catastrophic disaster!
However.
She had already almost given up everything for these experiments and knowledge. The Fallen Witch—Corinna did not want to give up so easily, so she tried to persuade her daughter.
She raised her head to meet Gloria’s gaze, her expression serious as she slowly said, “I know the errors I made back then!”
“So.”
“This time, I plan to conduct some relatively simple experiments, and the experiment will not take place in Modo.”
“It won’t even be in this plane.”
“During my analysis of the Golem Factory in the Chess Half-Plane, I gained a lot of knowledge in alchemical engineering and discovered some special materials. I plan to build a laboratory in this half-plane and conduct some basic research on [Elemental Annihilation]. [Elemental Fission] can easily cause terrible destruction, but [Elemental Annihilation] is much more stable.”
“I plan to start by refining diamonds.”
“This laboratory will be fully open to you, and you can supervise my research at any time!”
“I promise I won’t conduct those dangerous experiments again.”
Without the core knowledge from the Arcane Empire, conducting research on [Elemental Fission] was incredibly terrifying.
The initial explosion.
Almost destroyed everything for her; such an event the Fallen Witch did not wish to see happen again, so this time she planned to start research from the very basics, inspired by some knowledge gained from the Golem Factory. She wanted to start with experiments in alchemy that changed the structure of materials. If she could produce enough diamonds, she would accumulate rich experience and create a Diamond Golem.
Gloria’s expression became hesitant.
After much hesitation, she gently nodded and said, “If it’s just refining diamonds, I can agree to your research, but the experiment can only take place in the Chess Half-Plane, and I will supervise your research progress at all times.”
“If I feel there is an imminent danger, I will forcibly stop your experiment.”
A trace of surprise appeared on the Fallen Witch’s face; she excitedly reached out to embrace her daughter before planting a kiss on her face and somewhat incoherently said, “Thank you!…Thank you!…My daughter!…”
Gloria couldn’t help but let out a sigh.
No matter how great the mistakes the woman before her had made, she was still her mother, and Gloria found it hard to refuse her in this situation.
Now she could only hope that she was truly just researching the alchemy of changing material structures and not conducting the incredibly dangerous research of [Elemental Fission], because even within the Chess Half-Plane, if such a terrifying explosion occurred, the final result would be difficult to predict. If the half-plane couldn’t withstand the terrible explosive force and collapsed due to an accident, Gloria wouldn’t even know how to explain it to Soren.
She was filled with curiosity about the knowledge of the Arcane Empire.
But Gloria also understood that without the core part of that knowledge, any research experiment targeting the top techniques of the Arcane Empire would be quite dangerous.
Thus, she decided to personally follow the Fallen Witch’s experiment.
Indeed, the Golem Factory had a lot of automated alchemical factory technologies, especially the energy structure network of magic power crystal transmission, which could automatically extract the power from the Element Pool and transfer it into the factory. There were various other materials and knowledge, and if applied properly, they might indeed achieve certain research outcomes in alchemy.
……(To be continued ~^~)
