Chapter 553: Chapter 363: Understanding
The moon reached its zenith, casting a bright glow.
It was late at night, and Neustadt City lay in silence, its streets deserted, with the occasional hurried figure passing by after a long interval.
In the laboratory of the True Knowledge Society Castle.
Before Colin, the body of the summoned Ice Elent had crumbled away substantially, leaving only the upper torso and a fragnted right arm.
A chill hit him, yet beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Colin was exhausting all his efforts to maintain the integrity of the Ice Elent before him, observing to pinpoint what caused its disintegration.
Crack.
However, the energy within the Ice Elent, akin to boiling water, overpowered Colin’s magic, and in a mont, the recently modified Ice Elent shattered completely, its remnants scattering on the floor.
Colin withdrew his right hand from the Ice Elent, and as he exhaled lightly, he ticulously reviewed everything he had just experienced in his mind.
“The energy fluctuations are strange, although the Life Cycle Core has already transford all Magic Power into Ice Elental Energy. There shouldn’t be any conflict… Could it be that the transford Ice Elental Energy still differs slightly from the Ice Elent’s inherent energy?
But that’s not right either. The energy transford by the Life Cycle Core is identical to the ‘Ricker Summoning Ice Elent Magic’—the standard for Ice Elental Energy. I have verified it myself; there is no difference…”
Monts later, unable to find the answer, Colin recited another incantation and summoned another Ice Elent, swiftly modifying it to prepare for another test.
The moon gradually descended from the black treetops, and ti moved on.
Woosh.
As the Ice Elent broke down into pieces again, Colin pulled out his pocket watch for a glance.
It was already past two in the morning.
He would usually have left the True Knowledge Society by this ti at the latest to go ho and rest.
Colin looked at the gradually dissolving pieces of the Ice Elent on the ground, furrowed his brows, snapped his pocket watch shut, took a breath, and then channeled his Magic Power to summon another new Ice Elent.
With each inspection, the problem within the Ice Elent beca clearer. He felt he was on the verge of discovering the cause of its disintegration, and he chose to continue his research rather than going ho where he knew he would not sleep well.
The Elental Puppet made by Ricker’s Summoning Ice Elent Magic represented the standard among those created by wizards to imitate Ice Elents. It shared no particular bias and was standard and popular, much like Colin’s current mastery of Summon Fire Elent.
Thanks to its popular nature, Colin had a wealth of resources for reference.
Generally speaking, Ricker’s Ice Elental Puppet, a wizard’s synthetic standard form of an Ice Elent, consisted mainly of an energetic state of Frost, also possessing various icy attack abilities of an Ice Elent and immunity to most physical attacks.
The main difference lay in the core. The core of a natural Ice Elent not only housed a spirit but was also structurally much more complex than a wizard’s crafted Ricker Ice Elental Core.
The wizard-crafted Ice Elental Core, which was the control center, after all, was an artificial creation, its functions limited to only the essentials, such as combat and spirit linkage.
“I wonder if there will be any structural changes to the body of a Miracle,” Colin suddenly thought.
Although Isidore always maintained that there was no structural difference between a Miracle and an ordinary Ice Elent.
Clearly, this was a fallacy. As Isidore had said, if a Miracle possessed self-awareness and potentially a soul, it would naturally manifest in its physical form.
Especially after these days of study concerning the soul, Colin understood that it could not exist independently.
The soul could not exist on its own; it needed sothing to depend on.
Things like ghosts and specters had nothing to do with souls; they were soulless beings that in the strict sense were rely residual thoughts from before death combined with post-mortem influences.
Therefore, in actuality, the soul and its host influence each other, these influences inevitably reflected in the material world.
For humans, that is reflected in the physical body, and for the Ice Elent, it naturally also lies in the body structure.
Even if we step back and assu that a Miracle doesn’t truly have a soul, but rely intelligence, that still signifies that it is different from a common Ice Elent.
After all, a common Ice Elent doesn’t possess intelligence… it’s just that this difference may not be as significant as the presence of a soul would be.
In fact, during these days, Colin also attempted to persuade Isidore to let him have contact with Miracle.
But unfortunately, it was to no avail.
Colin found it hard to describe Isidore’s attitude towards Miracle, but his attempts weren’t completely futile.
Isidore gave him so test data, like energy composition and structure—claiming it was Miracle’s.
Upon careful examination, Colin found that it indeed didn’t differ from a common Ice Elent—if the data Isidore provided wasn’t falsified.
This only made Colin even more curious about Miracle.
How did Miracle’s self-awareness co about?
Does she truly have a soul?
Even though Colin didn’t believe that Miracle really had a soul, what if she did? That area was, after all, related to the domain of the right to life, a realm yet unconquered by Wizards.
If Isidore spoke the truth, then no Wizard would be able to curb their curiosity!
Colin’s hands paused slightly, moving away from his current task.
The Ice Elent in front of him had been reford once again, and he silently thought as he gazed at the blue figure.
‘Once I figure out a thod for treatnt, and the ti cos for to make modifications, Isidore surely won’t keep from contacting Miracle again…’
With this thought, Colin renewed his vigor. Before it was for five hundred thousand Magic Stones, but now a part of it was also to satisfy his own curiosity.
And so, the moon gradually dimd, and the pitch-black night sky first turned deep blue, then was suddenly pierced by a streak of orange from the far horizon. Those deep blues swiftly lost their color, revealing the azure Sky.
Inside the True Knowledge Society laboratory, Colin was busily scribbling on a table covered in papers, with remnants of Ice Elent debris scattered at his feet yet to dissipate.
After who knows how long, Colin suddenly stopped his writing, raised his head, and muttered,
“The control center of the Ice Elent and the newly added Life Cycle Central are experiencing a compatibility issue…”
After relentless effort, he had finally pinpointed the reason behind the disintegration of the Ice Elents.
Within the body of an Ice Elent, whenever the Life Cycle Core began to function and absorb external Magic Power to transform Energy, it would cause the Ice Elent’s original core to produce a strange “resonance”.
This peculiar effect was the direct cause of the Elent Core’s instability and subsequent collapse, which naturally also led to the demise of the Ice Elent.
It is worth ntioning that both occurrences almost happened simultaneously, making Colin initially unaware that it was the Ice Elent Core that collapsed first.
Gathering up the analysis data scribbled on his draft paper, Colin waved his hand to clear the debris of the Ice Elent at his feet, twisted his neck, and without further study, turned and left the laboratory.
‘Perhaps, I could attempt to combine the Ice Elent Core with the existing Life Cycle Core? Although the presence of the Life Cycle Core alone negatively impacts the Ice Elent Core.
Its function is sound, indeed capable of replenishing Energy for the Ice Elent. The peculiar “resonance” now seems more like a design flaw in the original structure of the Elental Puppet—if there is another structure coexisting with the core within the body of the Ice Elent, it’s likely to trigger the collapse.’
“To avoid this kind of collapse, I probably need to integrate the added Life Cycle structure with the Ice Elent’s original core.”
Colin walked towards his ho, his mind flooding with thoughts,
‘Perhaps, the original Ice Elent Core could also be upgraded? I could add a structure for the Life Cycle function to its existing structural basis, modeling it after the core of a true Ice Elent, since a true Ice Elent’s core possesses the function of a Life Cycle…’
After identifying the cause, the subsequent work beca clear and straightforward.
Colin had a premonition that the day he would successfully complete his commission wasn’t too far off.
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