Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

The howling cold wind was mixed with scattered falling snowflakes and ice crystals. The heating in Spark City had just been turned on for less than half a month. Even Harvey's underground laboratory in the castle had already activated the heating water device buried in the wall and the ground.

Even in the daytime with plenty of light, the underground laboratory would continue to keep the illumination magic stone fully lit. Apart from the dozens of defensive alchemy beasts standing silently by the wall, there were only Harvey, Chris and Egno in the huge underground space.

"I say...is this really useful?" This was the sixth time Chris asked. His nagging appearance made Harvey resist the urge to expel him.

"We're just getting started." Harvey stood up helplessly and handed the main operating position of the experimental table to Egno. "This is still the first step, the element separation stage."

The Stone of Life, which looks ordinary and no different from the cold pebbles on the river beach, is now fixed by a metal base and bracket, quietly placed on a flat and wide laboratory table.

Next to it was a row of solution racks filled with test tubes, which contained the magic reducing agents that Harvey extracted from the living demons.

Egno carefully took out a test tube, picked up the glass aspirator and continuously dripped the diluted liquid into the surface of the life stone.

"Tsk... Logically speaking, the diluted reducing agent should be enough to make this magic stone with transformation properties react." Egno scratched his head with his hands, wondering, "Is it because there are not enough variables? We can't soak the whole stone in the reducing agent, right?"

In the past, the three of them had conducted many groundbreaking experiments with the magic spirit extract, but the results were not satisfactory - this magic reducing agent was too unique, and the entire reduction process was uninterruptible like the life stone. Once the reduction reaction began... the final result was that the experimental target object completely precipitated all foreign impurities and became the most original and pure magic energy in the magic network.

Therefore, during the experiment, the reducing agent was repeatedly diluted with liquid magic energy and the solution obtained according to the dilution ratio actually had a miraculous effect - at least in the preparation of magic potions, it could save potion experimenters a lot of time waiting for drug reactions.

"We are starting from scratch, increasing the dosage of the reducing agent little by little. If we use the high-concentration extract without dilution right away, and the Life Stone collapses directly... that would be a direct waste of the precious golden tree heart and earth crystal core."

This is what Harvey earned with his personal reputation and verbal promise. It is just one part and is not inexhaustible.

Chris sighed, walked to the device rack by the wall, and with the help of the alchemist, installed a set of mechanical tentacles on his body. This was the second set of non-human alchemical limbs made by Harvey after Reiner. While ensuring that the body itself is not damaged, it can be successfully installed on the human body through the torso prosthetic connection points. It is relatively lighter and more flexible.

"Your Majesty, if you insist on using reducing agents to change the properties of the Life Stone... For now, we can only use the exhaustive method and try all the ratios..."

Harvey saw what Chris did, nodded helplessly, walked to the recliner and picked up a cup of hot tea.

It is indeed slow and cumbersome for three people and six hands to operate it, so it is more convenient for Chris to have "eight hands" alone. After all, the mechanical tentacles are alchemical creations connected to the spinal nerves. In a sense, they are also the product of soul suturing technology. They are not much different from native limbs in use, and it feels like using one's own arms.

Harvey and Egno completely gave up their operating positions and simply sat aside with a cup of hot tea, watching the octopus-like Chris standing energetically beside the experimental table, completing the repeated experimental processes at a rapid speed.

It can also take into account multiple tasks such as experimental operation, reaction observation, and recording at any time.

Seeing that the diluted extract that was dropped onto the surface of the Life Stone but showed no reaction was consumed more and more, the waste solution was sucked out again by the aspirator and drained into the waste liquid collection tank on the side.

Egno's heart sank to the bottom.

Without a way to extract the natural elements contained in the Life Stone, there would be no way to deconstruct its internal transformation model. The boast he made in front of the pure-blooded elves the day before would not be fulfilled, which would not only ruin his personal reputation... It would also greatly hinder the goal that His Majesty Harvey wanted to achieve, and would hinder the grain production of the entire Spark City.

"That shouldn't be the case... It can clearly absorb the pure magic energy that escapes from other planes, and then transform it through its own unique properties. Since it can absorb it, why can't it release it?"

The hybrid elf didn't bother to maintain his graceful image in front of Harvey. He stretched out his slender fingers, dipped them in the teacup, and began to calculate directly on the clean and flat coffee table.

When Harvey saw this scene, his heart suddenly moved.

"Wait! Chris, stop the operation first!" He stood up suddenly, walked to the central connector, and commanded the alchemy beast, "Connect me to the central energy array. I want to enter the magic network."

Chris, whose experiment was suddenly stopped, looked confused. He subconsciously looked at Egno, who also didn't understand the situation, and hurried forward to assist Harvey in connecting to the magic network.

Put on the metal hood, activate the energy gathering array, and the magic network passage will open instantly...

The familiar feeling of the world spinning around came immediately, giving Harvey the comfortable illusion of being completely immersed in warm water. Ever since he swallowed and fused the magic core, every time he entered the magic net he had a strange feeling of being like a baby returning to the mother's womb, with an incomparable sense of comfort and warmth.

Sure enough! Next to the constantly expanding and contracting, irregularly changing abnormal magic pattern, a ball of blue and white energy light was quietly suspended in the magic network space. A large area of ​​energy pipelines around it was deliberately guided out of the pipelines by Harvey. The living demon spirits that served as the magic pattern defense sentinels, while swimming freely and wantonly, avoided the ball of light hidden near the small pipelines.

The monsters hated this ball of light, or rather, they were afraid of it... Harvey raised his hand and pointed, and gave an order to a monster that had voluntarily swam to his side to approach. The monster paused, and reluctantly swam to the ball of light with its huge tadpole head.

The next moment, the quietly suspended ball of light suddenly extended a tiny bright tentacle, quickly and decisively grabbed the demon spirit approaching it, and slowly devoured it at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Is this... hunting? Is this how the Life Stone transforms pure magic?

It is impossible to absorb a large amount of magic power by just passively waiting for the evil spirits to approach. If Harvey hadn't given the order, how could it absorb a few evil spirits just by waiting like that?

With a lot of doubts in his mind, Harvey extended his mental tentacles again, trying to sense the demon that he had just ordered to "die", but found that the other party was still alive. Although it was absorbed into the light ball... it was not immediately fused and was not transformed from a demon form into natural elemental energy.

But Harvey could clearly feel that the evil spirit inside the ball of light was constantly sending him response signals - lazily, expressing displeasure, praying to be freed, and an inexplicable feeling of helplessness.

The ball of light presented by the Life Stone in the magic net is not an instrument for converting energy properties... but a cage and trap used to entrap evil spirits!

Harvey suddenly realized that it actually relied on capturing and trapping evil spirits, forcing them to do the "work" of magic conversion on its behalf, in order to achieve the generation of natural elements!

No wonder this thing can't control the catalytic process autonomously. It turns out that it is not operated by "me" at all!

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Harvey quickly left the magic network space and returned to the real world.

As soon as he opened the connection hood, he stood up and laughed, "I know the core of the problem!"

Their next experiment does not require "code programming" of the Life Stone, but rather requires issuing repetitive instructions to the demon spirit contained in it - and the Life Stone is essentially just a hardware carrier!