Chapter 333: Worthless?
Chapter 333: Worthless?
After spending the night, by asking the Nightmare Butterfly and intermittently reading the notes, Saul slightly clarified the Nightmare Butterfly’s current situation.
Haywood’s notes said that the egg of each Nightmare Butterfly was not their child, but their new body. If there were no surprises, Nightmare Butterflies could rely on transferring their body of consciousness into their eggs to gain a new life.
From this, they could also inherit their former memories, the history of their mouths.
But this way also seems to go wrong.
Because Haywood had learned from the tower master’s mouth that the process of the Nightmare Butterfly’s transfer was also their most vulnerable moment.
It was said that there were some official wizards – here Haywood labeled “at least second-order wizards” – who would specifically focus on this process to capture the nightmare butterflies.
Of course, the nightmare butterfly’s deathly outburst is also terrifying. It’s not as if there are no high-ranked sorcerers who have died on this.
At the same time, notes recording the transfer of Nightmare Butterflies often required the use of dreams, and the stronger the mental body, the better the dreams of the person.
This could greatly shorten their weakening period.
“So Penny originally wanted to borrow my dreams to be reborn?”
“Yes. And in order to gain power from your history, she also observed you.”
Thor: “…… No wonder, at the time, she would have recognized her mistake with me.”
His history can involve traveling between worlds. It wasn’t just the normal big world to small world kind of traveling. Rather, it was a traversal between worlds where the underlying rules were all a lot different.
Even he himself had almost gotten caught up in it while trying to observe his self’s history, so how could he possibly have any energy left to save anyone.
“Do you remember the observations?”
The little butterfly fluttered its wings, “If I remembered, it would be me who didn’t exist.”
“Okay.”
Saul was a little saddened, if he could have taken this opportunity to know what happened when he crossed over, wouldn’t it have been a chance to find out if there had been any mutations on his soul.
But after an indefinable crisis Saul had not been able to figure out whether he had experienced any special events when he crossed over or not.
And Penny the Observer peeks in just a little bit, and loses part of her own history as a result, turning into a prissy little butterfly.
“Why does it feel like I’m turning into a bomb myself?” Saul shook his head, exploring the mysteries of traveling through was more dangerous than he thought.
“That’s why I should still focus my resurrection experiments on the idea of disarming the vessel’s rejection of the soul. I may not be able to get any results from studying the special characteristics of my own soul. If I end up letting Mentor Golza do the research ……”
Saul knew all too well what would happen if he became someone else’s experiment. Hayden and Herman were living examples.
Life and death are not by one’s gender.
Thinking of this, Saul looked at the Nightmare Butterfly.
“Still have the ability to observe history?”
“No!” The little butterfly replied dryly.
“What about the ability to change other people’s memories?”
“No!”
Saul hugged his arms, if it was before, he naturally didn’t want the Nightmare Butterfly to have this kind of cognition-altering ability.
But now that it had turned into a bookmark, Saul naturally preferred his pet to be stronger.
But on the flip side, if the ability of the Nightmare Butterfly in front of him was still as powerful as it was originally, I’m afraid that Saul would not be able to recover it with his current strength.
He simply asked, “Then what other abilities do you have now?”
“I don’t know alas!”
Saul sighed, and was about to retrieve the Nightmare Butterfly, who knew that the little butterfly seemed to sense his intentions and suddenly flew up, saying pitifully, “Brother Saul ah, can you not receive me into that dark place?”
“Don’t go back? Can you stay outside for a long time?”
“Why not? I’ve always been outside.”
Sol pondered for a moment, the Nightmare Butterfly was originally a special life existence between a witch body and consciousness.
Perhaps she was different from the souls of sorcerer apprentices and could act outside alone.
Thinking of this, Saul agreed to the Nightmare Butterfly’s request, ”Then you can stay outside for now. If you feel anything unusual and want to go back, you can call me at any time.”
“Thank you brother Saul, you’re so kind!”
The Nightmare Butterfly spun around in the air, then landed on Saul’s cheek, its tentacles gently touching Saul’s face. Saul only felt a slight coldness.
“Nightmare Butterfly …… Forget it, let’s call you Penny from now on, although you forgot your history, you should still be her.”
“Good oh, I like the name Penny!” The Nightmare Butterfly that had lost part of its history didn’t have the slightest resistance to the name and readily accepted it.
“Penny, how is it that your consciousness can exist separately from your physical body? Conscious bodies are supposed to be very fragile, and without a body, it’s hard to resist the contamination and alienation that can happen at any time.”
“Because I have history, knowing history allows me to confirm my existence, and the more history I know, the more solid my power becomes. Even if I get hurt once in a while, I can still find myself in looking back at history oh.”
“But you’ve lost most of your memories now, will that be dangerous?”
“Normally it would, but right now I’m in a special situation.”
“Are you saying that your connection to the diary will protect you?”
“So that pitch-black place is called a diary, what a strange name.”
Saul didn’t explain, and Penny didn’t need to know about the diary.
In short, the way the Nightmare Butterfly’s independent consciousness body survived did not apply to wizards.
Saul stops studying Penny for the time being as he puts the notes back in the sealed lead box and returns to the lab area to clean up the mess.
He hadn’t yet discovered why Herman’s sudden anomaly had occurred when he entered the female body.
That afternoon, when Hayden came to see Saul as usual, he realized that the tall man who had followed him was gone.
Before he could ask questions, he saw Herman standing in the middle of the corpses with his eyes closed at the far end of the second vault.
He immediately revealed a trace of panic, “Lord Saul, Hull she ……”
Saul followed Hayden’s gaze and looked over, his heart was clear, but his mouth only said indifferently, “Something went wrong with the experiment.”
A trace of trepidation immediately rose in Hayden’s heart. He followed behind Saul with anxiety.
Hull’s “death” made Hayden nervous, and he didn’t expect Saul to consume an experiment so quickly.
Although he took the risk of participating in the spirit body infusion experiment, Hayden had already prepared himself mentally for being studied in various ways. Before he came to find Saul, he also knew that he would already be studying himself, after all, even a normal sorcerer apprentice will either voluntarily or forcibly become the experimental body of the tutors.
However, when he really saw an experimental body being consumed, a huge fear still rose in his heart.
When Hayden walked to the experimental area with a much slower speed than usual, he was stunned by the apparatus that appeared before him.
“An inductive chair?”
In an instant, the time when he had just become an experimental body resurfaced in Hayden’s mind. The sluggish senseless feedback of his new body and the agonizing experiments that took place day and night caused his heart to palpitate.
Hayden stood still, unable to take another step forward.
The fantasized electric current struck his entire body, and he thought his sweaty hairs exploded all over his body, but in fact, only his eyelashes fluttered slightly on his body.
Hayden knew there was no way he could disobey Saul’s orders, and even if he was going to die in the next second, he had no choice but to cooperate.
But knowing what she knew, her body was honestly standing still.
Saul walked over to turn on the inductance meter, he sensed Hayden’s trepidation, so he explained the content of this experiment beforehand, so that he wouldn’t be so nervous.
“Today we’re going to study the repulsive power of corpses on souls. In a moment you will sit on it and your consciousness will try to break free of the body and I will record the reactions from various parts of your body.”
Saul adjusted his chair and looked back at Hayden.
See, it won’t electrocute you.
But Hayden remains frozen in place, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
Saul frowned, “What are you concerned about?”
The pupils of Hayden’s trembling eyes moved a little bit from the inductor to Saul, she opened her mouth, but no words came out.
However, just as Saul was about to forcefully order him to start the test, Hayden in front of him suddenly shuddered.
The aura of fear in her body faded like a tidal wave, and when she looked up again, her eyes were already filled with determination and a hint of madness.
“He wouldn’t dare, I would, my lord.” Hayden’s second personality slowly pulled a stiff smile across her face.
(End of chapter)