"Alas!" Glenn burst out when he heard "risk", which stopped Sorcerer Norris from talking!
"Hmm?" Norris remained calm.
Glenn hastened to make an apology to Norris about social faux pas, and told him his idea of parasite cultivation.
Norris was amazed at Glenn’s vision.
"See? Glenn just deciphered the way of parasite culture. What a brilliant boy. One thing I always stress on is that creative minds rule!" Norris gave Glenn a praise that he seldom bestowed on anybody. But he provided further information about these Lymph parasites.
"When these parasites settle in your cells, they will make the cell wall thick by the day. And when your body and these parasite reached a state of symbiosis, you would benefit."
"Sorcerer Norris, this lymph is still a kind of toxin, so would my body objects them? Or would I be in danger because of them?" Glenn looked worried.
"You will be in peril until they couldn’t multiply further. And only then, you and these things would live in harmony!"
Glenn looked at this august sorcerer before him, wondering if he cared about his life at all.
"What sort of peril would I be in, then, Sorcerer Norris?"
"First, you are infected, and you will be, of course, weak. Besides, your energy would be consumed significantly while they multiply, and you would then become weaker. Even a knight could easily kill you then, for sure. Thus, to make sure you’re safe, you would be staying in that room for three months." Norris raised his head slightly and threw a look at a room stuffed with sundries.
"I’ve to stay here for three months?" Glenn again lost his cool and said the words in an annoyingly high pitch.
In Glenn’s memory, he had never been grounded. He had no parents, and his adopter Old Ham was tolerant with him. So, on hearing about such a long time of solitary confinement, he was sort of miffed for a second.
"Hah. You don’t really have to stay for now." Norris continued.
Glenn was all ears.
"Because you have a four point constitution! Once infected by these things, you would die soon."
"But that puffer fish I’ve had..."
"The fish will not work until some time later!" Norris smiled.
Glenn got Norris’ joke and returned the smile.
"If constitution is under 5 points, the victims die; between 10-30 points, body festers; higher than 30, lymphs couldn’t live. So, you will soon be in perfect condition to start this this once the puffer fish in your stomach is absorbed."
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Chapter56 Second Stage Evolution
A week later, Glenn was locked in his room, reading a book. He looked skinny and feeble. He even had trouble breathing, and sweats formed and rolled down on his forehead.
Sorcerer Norris was outside of the glass door of the room where Glenn was confined. Glenn’s premature debility had gone beyond his expectation. He said to himself:
"Oral medication seemed to work faster than being infected through the respiratory tract. I didn’t go through these symptoms until three weeks after I breathed the parasites in." Norris recalled the days when he had cultivated the Intoxication Sorcery under his mentor a really long time ago. He then turned his attention to the vial of transparent potion in his hand.
Norris shook the vial in his hand for several minutes. He stopped when he heard a belching noise and steam spewed out of the vial.
The vial of potion was made for Glenn. After he took it, he could feel his essence was being collected and his spirit was boosted a little bit. He then put his hand on the crystal ball, which indicated a 2 point body constitution.
"My constitution value is down to 2 points." Glenn forced a smile to Norris, who was surveying him.
Norris was not perturbed by this anomaly, saying: "There is no need to worry. If you’d been infected by the Lymph parasites out of this Black Tower, you certainly wouldn’t survive a three month period when you’re terribly weak. But now, you’re in my care. Nobody dares to touch you. Just think of it as a sickness, and it will pass."
Glenn nodded a yes and fell asleep on his small bed lying in the corner of the room.
Two months had fleeted by.
Glenn was lying on his bed, dying. His eyes were dim. He struggled to get up several times, but his efforts turned out to be in vain.
Sorcerer Norris frowned.
"It has been only two months. Why has his strength disappeared?" Norris mumbled as he walked into Glenn’s room. He forced Glenn’s eyes open and examined them using a sorcery related to optics.
"His pupils are having little reaction. That’s bad. Letting him take the parasites orally was a mistake! The originally three month adaptation was shortened to two month. So the energy in Glenn’s body required for the reproduction of the parasites was running low. That’s why Glenn is so weakened." Norris whispered in a very low voice that was only audible to his ears.
Norris walked back and forth in his laboratory. Soon, he had an idea.
"Garfield! Come!" Norris shouted.
The black cat, which was named Garfield, arrived before Norris, its tail swinging.
"Pee on him!" Norris ordered the cat..
Garfield gawked, not quite following his master’s orders.
"Hurry! Do it!" Norris continued.
The cat came to Glenn’s room, jumped onto his bed, lifted his rear leg, and wee-weed on his chest.
Glenn sneezed instinctively.
Norris was around Glenn too. He asked Glenn about the pearl which allowed one to breathe underwater. Glenn murmured something. Norris rummaged Glenn’s coat and found it in his inner pocket.
Norris put the pearl into Glenn’s mouth. The next second, Glenn was lifted off the bed about one foot. It was as if the pearl produced some repulsive force against the ground. Glenn eyes were shut. He was so weak that he appeared to have fainted.
Norris moved Glenn towards the large fish tank and soon arrived at the edge of it. As he was going to push Glenn into it, Garfield yelled:
"The fish will nibble him away!"
"They won’t. Glenn has your body scent. It will scare the fish away." Norris looked at the cat, which seemed rather timid. The cat turned around and left.
As expected, the fierce-looking puffer fish dispersed the second Glenn broke the water. They swam to the other side of the tank but stared at Glenn greedily.
Three days later, Glenn opened his eyes and found himself floating in a water tank. He wanted to yell yet he couldn’t. He was too weak.
"Rat, rat, rat!" Three loud and sharp knocks hit on the tank.
Glenn tilted his head and saw Garfield, who grunted to him: "You’re fine. Have some more rest."
Glenn was obedient at the time and closed his eyes.
Glenn had to stay in the tank for two months. The first thing Glenn did after he got out of the tank was to concoct a potion to get rid of the cat’s stinky smell.
Now Glenn had been qualified for learning Intoxication Sorcery. The lymph parasites were in optimal condition in his cells. And he had a constitution of six points, which should have been seven, but one point was lost as a result of the depletion of his energy within a short span of time.
"It seems you’re fully recovered." Norris led Glenn to his laboratory. "Now we will see how to get you poisoned."
Glenn listened attentively.
"This is a stone containing a low potency toxin. But this stone could easily kill a human within 50 meters of it. And even if a human stayed a kilometer away, he/she would also be poisoned." Norris stuck out his hand, and an amber stone was gleaming. "But you have the protection of the lymphs. So you will be fine."
"How exactly would I benefit from being poisoned by it?" Glenn asked.
"Every time you get infected by this stone, your constitution will grow by one point. But don’t get greedy. The process has to take place once a month. So, a year from now, your constitution will be at 18 points." Norris continued, "And
by then, the stone’s toxin will not affect you. We will then get to the real stuff of Intoxication Sorcery."
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Chapter57 Sytematic
It was commonly recognized that sorcerers who cultivated skills using elements were the strongest branch in the sorcery system in the sorcerer civilization. However, it didn’t mean that these sorcerers possessed overwhelming power over others. They had created a comprehensive and systematic demarcation of sorceries and energy levels, and sorcerers of different levels had capabilities corresponding to their particular grade. This dynamic system worked to generate a power strong enough to change the world.
As for sorcerers belonging to systems other than elements exploitation or for the creatures on the Foreign Land, a standard grading system of sorceries hadn’t formed. They took element sorcerer's ability ranking as an object of reference and thus defined their level of power.
For example, at the Krakatoa Harbor, Glenn had met a level four star denizen through the Dark Wells, which came from the Foreign Land. Yet its actual power only equaled to that of a level two sorcerer. There was no watershed dividing two adjacent levels of sorceries.
For the following half year, Glenn stayed at Sorcerer Norris’s laboratory.
During this period, Glenn devoted most of his time absorbing the knowledge of intoxication sorcery—getting poisoned by the stone, and then letting the lymph parasite do its work of detoxification, thus improving his constitution.
Besides, he also worked on element sorcery and had made a considerable progress. Based on the current advancement speed, he believed that he could upgrade the Fire Bird Matrix to the Fire Bat Matrix, and the power would be levered up to ten times of its original raw power, a one point rise.
Apart from the Fire Bird sorcery, Glenn also devoted to the activation of elements, but he was lacking in a motivator. Different sorcerers needed different stimulators because they had different physical qualities, thought patterns, inspirational moments and special opportunities. Occasions like this occurred. For example, the six-star Matrix in a sorcerer's soul had 1024 signs and symbols, yet they had their differences.
When an element creature was successfully summoned by a sorcerer, then this element would be activated. In the Gory Test, Glenn saw a mouse belonging to Belle and a bear which was the property of a girl. They were both element animals. One thing that was missing for Glenn to have an element animal was a stimulator.
Another important thing Glenn did concerned the rare fire element. Glenn had extracted that fire element from the crystal ball he had obtained from the third mirror drop place. The process was difficult because the element was separated from the split souls in the crystal ball. Now he desired to put this element into his already existing basic Element Matrix, taking place of some minor non-essential symbol or sign while at the same time keeping its power in levering up sorceries. However, there was a barrier hindering further progress. The Element Matrix objected this new, rare element. But Glenn was confident that, within half a year, he would succeed in completing the new matrix, and at that time, Glenn would could produce fire that wouldn’t be extinguished and that could compare to Bionna's golden eye.
Glenn was alone with the cat in the laboratory. Norris had gone to the Holy Tower of Seven Rings and would be back in months. Glenn had asked him to get some living "humans" for his experiment.
By experimenting with living subjects, Glenn was confident that he could make breakthroughs in studying the mystery of Life code, an area of study belonging to him and only him.
‘Maybe Dickens has got the fancy microscope for me.’ Glenn thought. ‘Lafite and I haven’ t met for like a million years.’
Recalling Lafite, Glenn's heart quickened. At the time, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
It was a tidy girl with a lunchbox. She was tanned, sporty and sexy.
"It’s yours, Glenn." With a brilliant smile, the girl held up the lunchbox to Glenn’s chest and looked at him eagerly.
Glenn hurried to accept it, saying, "It smells great! Thank you!"
"Of course it smells great! But why are you keeping such a distance from me? Don’t you think I’m sexy?" A blush suffused Glenn’s cheeks on hearing these words.
The girl skipped towards Glenn and the next second, she laid her hand around Glenn’s neck and pulled him to her chest.
"No!" Glenn pushed her away and said, "I have a girlfriend."
"I know. So what? Don’t you want something more exciting? That lovely girlfriend of yours won’t know." The girl tantalized, and put her hand back on Glenn’s shoulder.
"Unless I wanna be dead. Lafite would kill me."
The girl was Liona, a student who came to Black Isotta earlier than Glenn. She delivered food to the 79th floor of the Black Tower. The reason she did that was because she could, as a result, acquire 20 magic stones every month and could visit Norris’s personal library for free.
On the Sorcerer Continent, knowledge had to be bought with magic stones, unless it was given by one’s mentor or was researched and studied by himself/herself. It was their respect for knowledge, and in this way, knowledge would be cherished.
Glenn left her and headed to the Black Tower.
Glenn had a random chat with Varro for a while, and then he went to Dickens, who led him to his private warehouse.
"Look! This is the microscope you ordered. I bought it in the Holy Tower of Seven Rings. It belonged to a top level sorcerer. I bought it with 20,000 magic stones. And these are your share of profits for the Love Vials for the past half year. The 20,000 has been deducted from it." Dickens handed a bag of stones to Glenn.
Glenn walked straightly to the microscope, and tried it.
Glenn seemed unsatisfied with it. He frowned. "Is it the best microscope in the Holy Tower?"
"What? Is this still not good enough? Then I guess we’ll have to resort to the Holy Tower of Sky-City." Dickens was so surprised that he opened his small eyes widely.
In fact, this microscope was merely a little bit advanced than the one Glenn owned now. Considering the current situation, Glenn might have to rely on the Gadflies for further study of the Life Code.
Glenn then left the Black Tower for his dormitory. He tried to contact Lafite through his crystal ball but failed. Attempts at trying to reach Chris and Robinson also failed. The crystal ball couldn’t even detect their rough positions.
"Where have they gone? They must not be in the school!" Glenn wondered.
Being a little disappointed, Glenn walked to the school’s library for a possible answer to the Life Code. It was different from Norris’ library. Books in Norris’ library were collected and arranged according to his personal hobbies, while in here, books were stored systematically.
"Books might give me some ideas to verify my hypotheses about the Life Code."
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Chapter58 Ancient Memory
Along with Chris, Nina, Robinson and Robin, Lafite had been on a field trip, in exploration of magical stones and other treasures. They returned a month later.
Glenn and Lafite met at Lafite’s dormitory.
Prying into a sorcerer’s privacy was a taboo on the Sorcerer Continent. But as Lafite’s boyfriend, when he saw a vibrant strap on her back, he couldn’t help asking in a careful voice:
"Since you’ve got a sorcerer to teach you stuff, why do you have to take risks by going into the wild instead of focusing on sorcery learning?"
Lafit gave him a snort.
"You think all students have your wisdom, your magical stones plus a good mentor? My mentor has 22 students; how do you expect him to give me much attention? However, we explored the ancient spot my father talked about, and it paid off! "
Glenn noticed that she was playing a gold key in her hand, and there was excitement all over her face, so he didn’t say anything further and instead pulled her on
to his chest gently.
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Sorcerer Norris had returned from the Holy Tower with three humanoids. They were brought back for Glenn for his experiments.
These humanoids had no expressions. Two of them seemed to belong to the same race. Both of them were over 7 feet tall, slim, pretty-looking and had no clothes on. Glenn circled around them twice and could tell that one was a male and the other was a female. Judging by their appearance, their difference from a human being were their huge ears, like a rabbit’s. Besides, their hands were also strange. Each hand had six fingers protruded from the palm, and each finger was separated by five joints. Therefore, it seemed that their hands were more flexible.
"They’ve been earmarked by the Holy Tower. So you won’t be judged as a Dark Sorcerer for using them. And I’ve suppressed their mental strength. You can find me when you need it lifted." Norris was sitting on the chair, trying to contact someone through a crystal ball as he talked to Glenn.
"Got it."
Giving Sorcerer Norris a simple reply, Glenn then turned his attention to another humanoid. Glenn could tell that it was a female, but he couldn't discern any difference between her and a human. So he asked Norris about it.
"It’s a demi-human, borne from a species living in the foreign lands which had been conquered by sorcerers. Some lower grade sorcerers couldn’t check their lust and thus likely produced new species with local creatures. We call these kind of hybrid as demi-humans."
"Demi-humans? Then do they have their basic rights there?"
"Ha, we weren’t taking over lands to propagate culture and knowledge. Basic rights for them? What a naive question! We ransack and plunder what they have, what they treasure and what they hold dear, as long as it satisfies our own needs. It may sound cruel but it’s an aspect of advanced civilization. If we would decline someday, then their destiny today would be ours in the future. Don’t you ever think that we would live in harmony!" Norris seemed vicious when he explained this, as if brutality defined sorcerers. "Eviscerate her, and you can see that she’s different from us!" added Norris.
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