Chapter 322 Preliminary tests

Chapter 322 – Initial Detection

Saul admitted that there were many things that could shock him.

The truth of Lady Yura’s death, the inheritance of the Sorcerer’s Tower, the origin of the initial puddle of cursed blood ……

But none of them could make him sputter straight away!

“Ahem, Hayden, you, how did you choose to participate in the soul infusion experiment?”

By now Saul couldn’t calm down.

147, ah no, it was Hayden who raised his head and looked up at Saul, unable to control his facial expression well, causing the whole person to look surprisingly innocent.

“My lord, at first you told me that an apprentice who is less than 30 years old at the third level is likely to be contaminated and alienated in a short period of time, but I am already 28 years old. Even if you can help me, with my qualifications, there’s no way I can enter the third level before the age of 30.”

“So you took the risk of signing up for the soul infusion experiment?”

“Yes my lord, it’s the fastest way I can think of to enter the second level, and with the strength of the second level, I’ll be able to help you on more experiments as well.”

Saul held his forehead, he had always known that in soul infusion experiments the gender of the soul had to be inconsistent with the body container, so he didn’t have the slightest extra thought when he saw the beautiful experiment, it was like looking at the corpses in the storage room.

However, when he knew that the soul inside came from an acquaintance, it more or less broke his defenses.

“So your leaving the tower early in the first place was just a cover.”

“Yes.” Saying this, Hayden bent his body down again, his forehead pressed against the ground, “This matter is known only to you, my lord, besides Mentor Rum. Please my lord …… don’t tell anyone else.”

Saul nodded, then teased, “Do you have the courage to participate in the experiment and not the courage to disclose your identity?”

Who knew that Hayden honestly said, “No my lord. In fact, even the courage to participate in the experiment is not mine.”

“Oh? Did anyone else help you?”

“Actually ……,” Hayden straightened up and looked up so Saul could see his face clearly.

Suddenly, an even stiffer smile pulled at his stiff face, “It’s me, actually, my lord. I apologize for only meeting you formally now.”

Saul narrowed his eyes at the man in front of him.

Though her features hadn’t changed, her voice hadn’t changed, and her expression hadn’t changed much, her eyes were different.

Compared to the somewhat hesitant, somewhat cowering eyes just now, this one was bolder and more resolute.

“Who are you?”

“Actually, I’m Hayden as well, only I appeared later. According to academia, I’m Hayden’s second personality.”

Saul immediately narrowed his eyes and ran the meditation program.

And in his eyes, Experiment 147 remained the same as before, and there was nothing different.

It seemed that normally, Hayden’s spirit body was firmly locked inside this container, waiting for the test to be conducted later, he could observe Hayden’s spirit body again for any abnormalities.

“Does a split personality manifest itself in the soul? Does it manifest as one body and two souls, or one soul and two consciousnesses?”

“This ……” The person in front of her clearly changed back into the cowardly Hayden, her straight back collapsing slightly, “I haven’t studied my own soul, and I’m afraid of uncontrollable changes midway through. ”

“That’s true.” If there was no diary guarantee, Saul wouldn’t have dared to study his own soul at will.

And it was true that Sol’s spirit body was both malleable and adaptable, so perhaps this was the specialness that Mentor Golza had talked about.

And this specialness most likely came from the changes brought to him by the experience of crossing over.

It was just that Saul still had no memory of this experience of crossing over.

Even if he tried hard to recall it, he could only see a patchwork of darkness.

“The other personality appeared later, was there any change that caused it?” “Yes. When I was a child, the territory where my family was located experienced an abnormal tide of evil spirits, and I was the only one of my entire family who survived. That’s when the second personality appeared. It was he who helped me survive.”

“Are you sure it’s the second personality and not a second person’s spirit?” Saul signaled Hayden to go lie down on the lab bed.

Hayden was obviously mentally prepared to cooperate with some of Saul’s actions before he arrived and climbed onto the lab bed without any hesitation.

Because the clothes for these experiments were specially made, they would once again leave the same opening in the back as the front flap, making it easy to check the special spells on their backs.

Saul walked over and undid the clothes on Hayden’s back – after entering the experimental state, he had stopped paying attention to whether the person in front of him was male or female.

They were all experiments anyway.

There was also a spell drawn in golden runes behind Hayden’s back, and this spell was specifically used to confine and bind the souls of first level apprentices.

Right now this soul was vaguely composed of Hayden’s likeness, but it would probably be hard to recognize it without being reminded.

A gray shimmer emerged from Saul’s fingertips and tapped on the spell formation.

Hayden’s body did not make any movement, but the human face pattern formed by the spell suddenly struggled.

Saul said indifferently, “No need to restrain, I want to see your normal reaction.”

After saying that, he once again loosened the seal behind Hayden’s back.

As soon as the seal was released, the spell deformed even more severely! In the end, the entirety of Hayden’s skin began to bulge upwards, as if something was about to burst through the flesh and burrow out of the blood and flesh.

Sol immediately narrowed his eyes and stared at the continuously deforming skin.

He saw a twisted, gray, translucent face that was desperately pushing its way out, the pain and insanity on its face very obvious.

“Why is the soul essence acting in such pain when it can clearly talk to me calmly? Could it be that someone utilized a spell to deliberately cut off the transmission of some painful emotions? Is that also why their emotions are internalized and their micro-expressions are lost, just like certain female celebrities who have failed plastic surgery?”

Saul didn’t stop and continued to apply pressure on the spell, and as he did, Hayden’s spirit body became more agonized.

But at that moment, a moan came from the bed.

Saul paused his pressure on the spirit and leaned over to scrutinize the expression on Hayden’s face.

“The more pain the soul is in, the more restful the vessel is. The two manifestations are diametrically opposed. It means that the body’s own rejection of the spirit body has not changed, and it is only by relying entirely on this spell that binds the soul that the spirit body is linked to the body.”

“Quite a crude way, no wonder there hasn’t been any substantial progress in all these years. Can’t Mentor Rum discover this problem? Is he unwilling to improve it, or is this already the method with the least side effects?”

Saul stopped torturing Hayden and pressed one hand on the gray spirit that was almost breaking through his skin.

The skin on his hand likewise became slightly transparent, then his wrist exerted force and directly pressed the spirit body that was about to run out back into his body.

This preliminary testing experiment ended here.

Saul told Hayden to take a break and get up on his own, while he returned to the experimental table to record his findings.

“It is indeed a second personality, the soul essence has not seen any mutation, but rather a lesion in the consciousness. But I’m not a psychiatrist either, unless it’s not impossible to seal Hayden’s spirit in the pages of a book …… directly with a soul drape.”

As Saul wrote, it suddenly seemed to him that Hayden in this mold was similar to the four conscious bodies in his diary as well.

He had already gone through the entire information on soul infusion before and found that most of the experiments had a lifespan of less than three years. And the ones that had mutated and contaminated were all the spirit bodies in them.

Once those spirit bodies were contaminated, Mentor Rum would commission Mentor Kaz and the others to help clean up the contamination, rewash the container, and wait for the next first level apprentice who volunteered to participate in the soul infusion experiment.

The first level apprentices who had no hope of promotion chose to take the tricky way to become second level apprentices, but they still couldn’t survive the fate of being contaminated.

It was as if despair was never far away.

(End of chapter)