Chapter 318 Curiosity

Chapter 318 Curious
Sol froze in place, not daring to move a muscle.

He didn’t have the surprise of pie in the sky at all, only the creepiness of the infinite cloud over his head depressing him.

Before Saul could make a second reaction, he heard another soft laugh from Golza across the room, his silver eyes curving up and narrowing.

“No need to be so nervous, maybe you’ll be dead before the day comes?”

Then I’d rather choose to inherit your legacy, thanks!
Thor didn’t dare to actually spit, and could only keep his head extremely low.

“Getting down to business, what did you find out?”

Saul took a deep breath before continuing to start his story, “After I returned to the second storage room, I put the puppet on my body as you requested, but when I went to check on the corpses, the puppet’s eyes suddenly turned black.”

“Is there a problem with the new corpses that were brought in?” Golza guessed at once.

“Yes. I carefully inspected Nick’s corpse and realized that a hidden spiritual power fluctuation appeared on him. If the puppet you gave me, Mentor, hadn’t indeed appeared to have changed, I might have mistaken it for a slight fluctuation generated by the sorcery spell in the sarcophagus.”

Golza leaned against the wall and did not feel too surprised “Interesting, while we are defending ourselves against a lurking enemy, the one who is really going wrong is the corpse that appeared around you following the process.”

He looked down at his hands, the pink bandage on one of his fingers seemed to loosen, but then suddenly tightened again before Sol noticed.

“If the corpses are being used to make a suggestion to you, the instruction must be very simple.”

“I made a note of the mental fluctuations. Mentor, do you think it’s possible for us to deduce the meaning?”

Saul handed Golza the notes he had been keeping close to him, who knew that the other party would just glance at them and return them.

“Without access to the adapted language, without an understanding of the underlying logic, and with multiple possible scenarios for reverse extrapolation, there is no value.” Golza said, “But I can check on the person who moved the body. You can leave this matter alone and get into a new experiment as soon as possible. I heard you applied for a subject for the soul infusion experiment?”

“Yes,” Saul said in a rush, “but I just asked them to be assistants and cooperate in recording some specific reactions.”

Who knew that Golza waved his hand, “It doesn’t matter, the soul infusion experiment will soon be discontinued. It has been proven that people who rely on themselves and cannot even advance to the second level are useless even if they get a second level body. You can just use them as normal consumables.”

“Uh, I see.”

This was the Tower Master’s way of letting Saul conduct his experiments without having to care about the lives of his experimental subjects.

The room was silent for a few moments, and Saul thought he was going to be sent out next.

Who knows, Golza sighed softly and talked about another matter, “The specific division of labor and progress of the experiment, Kaz should have already told you. I think it’s also time to talk to you about the background from which this experiment arose.”

Golza had considered telling Saul last time, but because of his unstable physical condition at the time, he had not said much to Saul.

“The cause of the resurrection, well, naturally, is that someone died. But Yura’s case was different, she was one of those who took the initiative to die.”

Actively going to her death?

To die?

Thor’s eyes widened, then he suddenly thought of something, “Could it be that experiment on whether or not the soul can exist independently of the body?”

“That’s right, it’s for that conjecture ……”

Golza’s thoughts gradually drifted back in time.

At that time, he took the initiative to go to the Kemah Duchy for marriage, just to find someone to help him manage those territories that were sent to him by the other party of his own accord.

He was a sorcerer and not a lord, much less one of those wastrels who had long since lost hope of advancement and could only paralyze themselves in worldly power and enjoyment.

Therefore, who would be tired of personally governing the territory? Of course, it is better to find a helper, and the best helper is naturally the current administrator of this territory.

That’s why Yura was only chosen by Golza because her dedication to knowledge made her look at her differently. But a few years after the marriage Yura revealed her true character, which was that besides being stubborn she was also particularly bold, daring to experiment with anything.

Especially after Golza opened up the material library to her, some of her wild ideas got off the ground, and she began to experiment even more wildly.

Witches who majored in dark attribute sorcery were always particularly interested in corpses and souls, so Yura’s experiments were mostly related to those as well.

Golza didn’t feel bad about it, but instead felt that this was the quality a sorcerer should have, and instead appreciated Youra even more because of it.

It’s just a shame that the story doesn’t end up towards a sweet and spoiled ending.

One day, when Golza returned from an outing, he saw his young wife, whose head had been cut in half, and her soul body, which was so excited that it floated around in the air.

Can a soul exist independently of a physical body or not?

They had explored this question long ago, and at that time Golza had dismissed Yura’s conjecture, not realizing that this woman had used herself as an experiment, in turn proving to Golza that her point of view was the correct one.

Golza asked Youra in disbelief why she had to kill her body and seal off all retreats when it was clear that she could already stabilize her soul out of her body.
Instead, Yura says that the experimental data without a complete detachment from the body is inaccurate.

Speaking of which, Golza shakes his head with a sigh, “That was the day I completely realized my wife’s madness.”

Thor was also dumbfounded as he listened from across the room.

For the sake of a guess that had yet to be verified, one would even give up one’s own life.

“After the soul leaves the body, the most important point, naturally, is to keep the soul pure and uncontaminated.” Golza continued, “Yura wasn’t unprepared, she prepared many temporary places for herself to land, namely those standing corpses you saw in the storage room.”

“Before Yura officially killed herself, she had her soul leave her body and possessed them one by one to make sure there were no problems, and assumed it was foolproof.”

Yet things had taken an unexpected turn; having been careful not to get any contaminated radiation, having gone into one of the bodies to rest every now and then, Yura’s soul had still alienated.

The first symptom was that Yuura began to feel like she wasn’t Yuura herself.

Golza took over Yura’s experiments and kept removing the contamination from her spirit, but the contamination came back again and again.

Golza immediately announced the suspension of the soul independence experiment.

He began to create a stable body for Yura.

However this experiment didn’t go well either, no matter what kind of body he created, even if he created a near-identical Yura out of Yura’s flesh and blood, it wouldn’t be able to hold its soul for long.

After several failed possession experiments, something even more terrible began. Yura gradually forgot her memories and insisted that she was just a replica of a test subject created by Golza.

She takes the image of Golza handling the replica Yura as proof of Golza’s memories of killing her.

“It’s very difficult to create a vessel that can permanently accept Yura’s soul.” Golza let out an exclamation, “Since then, I gathered a group of sorcerers and recruited a large number of apprentices, and opened up resurrection experiments in terms of both purifying souls and finding suitable flesh.”

“But decades have passed, and we still haven’t found a suitable vessel that can hold the same amount of protection for the soul from contamination as the original body.”

Saying this, Golza suddenly raised his head and stared straight at Sol.

“So yeah, Saul, how the hell did you do it?”

Saul was creeped out, his head buzzing.

Gortha’s body slowly leaned forward, his silver eyes almost bulging beyond the bandages, “How in the world did you manage to take over someone else’s body and yet still be alive and well, without the slightest sign of out-of-control contamination?”

“I’m really, really curious.”

(End of chapter)