Chapter 387 The Madman of a Genius

Following Viola, the three flew over the war zone where sporadic fighting was still taking place.

Finally, we arrived at a seemingly ordinary, vast grassland with lush green grass.

As soon as he got close, Jemin keenly sensed an extremely subtle mental fluctuation permeating the air.

This subtle mental fluctuation acts like an invisible barrier, silently guiding the perception of outsiders and causing any creature that inadvertently approaches this grassland to subconsciously want to stay away from this area.

"A crude form of psychological suggestion, an old trick."

Viola snorted and, without even Anya's guidance, landed easily on a spot in the grassland. She stretched out her fair palm and gently pressed it against the seemingly empty air.

Buzz...

With a slight tremor, Jemin saw the air in front of him ripple like water, and a door with silver runes flowing along its edges appeared out of thin air.

Beyond the door lay no longer a grassland, but a bright passageway leading to the interior of a solitary tower.

Anya was stunned: "There's actually another passage here?! I didn't even know that!"

“Little one, there are many things you don’t know. Let’s go, this guy’s lab security is too troublesome. Remember to stay close to me and don’t stray too far,” Viola said.

Jemin nodded and stepped into the passage with Anya.

The group quickly entered, and Viola turned her hand and the air door closed silently, restoring the grassland scenery outside to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

The tower's interior is not a traditional structure, but rather filled with various sophisticated and complex magical instruments and energy conduits.

Jemin could clearly sense that on the path they were traversing, there were several kinds of strict checks, some overt and some covert, that detected energy characteristics, soul fluctuations, and even the activity level of thought.

Fortunately, with Viola by their side, they arrived at a core area without any hindrance.

This is a vast room paved with pure silver-white metal, simple and cold, with only several huge 3D projection screens suspended in the center of the room.

The screen displays a waterfall of complex data and dynamic models, depicting the real-time battle situation of the "rebellion" in the outside world and the energy and spiritual parameters of various creatures.

And in front of the light screen stood a figure.

It's no exaggeration to say that the figure in front of you perfectly fits the "classic high-level wizard template".

She looked like she hadn't taken good care of herself in a long time; her hair was fluffy and slightly messy, with a few strands sticking up unruly.

His eyes were bloodshot from excessive focus, and although his wizard robes were made of extraordinary material, they were worn crookedly, with traces of what appeared to be energy liquid visible on the cuffs.

“Grandmother,” Anya stepped forward and called softly, “the wizard Viola and the wizard Jemin she invited have arrived.”

The wizard, who had been immersed in the sea of ​​data, suddenly snapped out of his daze, turned his bloodshot eyes to Viola, and gave a belated nod as a greeting.

His gaze then swept past her and landed precisely on Jieming.

In an instant, those previously tired eyes burst forth with a fervent light comparable to a searchlight!

Jemin only felt a blur before his eyes as a powerful energy wave swept past, and the disheveled wizard appeared in front of him as if he had teleported, his hands even showing a hint of impatience as he reached out to grab him.

Seeing this, Jemin felt a chill run down his spine and instinctively assumed a defensive stance.

"stop!"

Fortunately, Viola was experienced and anticipated her actions almost the instant she moved, and reached out her hand with practiced ease.

He grabbed her by the back of her wizard's robe with the precision of lifting a kitten, stopping her halfway and holding her in his hand.

"Starfall, calm down!" Viola said helplessly. "You're scaring the children. Don't rush, take it one step at a time."

Then she turned to the somewhat surprised Jemin and introduced him: "Jermin, this is my friend, a level six wizard, 'Starfall'."

She shook the wizard, who was still struggling in vain, in her hand again: "Starfall, this is Jemin, the person you want to see."

“Starfall?” Upon hearing the name, Jemin raised an eyebrow in surprise and looked at Anya Starfall beside him.

He had previously heard Anya refer to her as her grandmother, assuming it was just a normal blood relationship. He never imagined that this level six wizard was the origin of the name "Starfall".

In the wizarding world, only nobles have surnames, and nobles' surnames are generally derived from the names or titles of their founders.

To be able to establish a wizarding family with one's own title and pass it down as a surname represents both great strength and a long-standing heritage.

Interrupted by Viola, the wizard named Starfall seemed to have snapped out of his frenzied research state.

She struggled to her feet from Viola's grasp, somewhat embarrassed, smoothing her frizzy hair and frantically trying to smooth out the wrinkles in her wizard's robes.

After taking a deep breath, he gave Jemin a standard and solemn wizard's salute, his voice slightly hoarse from not speaking for a long time: "Excuse me, wizard Jemin. I am Starfall, and I am glad you could come."

Suppressing his surprise, Jemin returned the greeting with equal solemnity: "Lord Xingzhui, it is an honor to meet you."

After the initial introductions were completed, the atmosphere finally became a little more normal.

The Starfall Wizard invited the group to sit on chairs made of condensed energy on one side of the room, and only then did the formal conversation begin.

As soon as Viola sat down, she launched the first attack, pointing to the intense battle on the surrounding light screen: "What's going on with this 'extraordinary' scene outside? Did your 'little experiment' go wrong again?"

A hint of embarrassment flashed across the Starfall Wizard's face, but more than that, there was an irrepressible excitement: "Yes... this was indeed caused by my experiment. However, I didn't go too far. The main reason is that I've recently made some crucial breakthroughs in my research on the laws of 'spirituality,' and then... accidentally, the scale and effects of the experiment slightly exceeded expectations..."

“A key breakthrough?” Jemin caught the word and, recalling the other’s eagerness when he saw him earlier, a guess formed in his mind. He then asked, “May I ask what kind of breakthrough Lord Starfall is researching? It seems to be related to my ‘Imaginary Element’?”

“That’s right! Exactly!” The Starfall Wizard’s eyes lit up again when the research was mentioned, and he spoke rapidly, “Wizard Jemin, the properties of the Imaginary Element you created are simply amazing!”

"My research has revealed that this element itself is not an inanimate object; it contains an extremely pure and special 'potential spirituality.' This spirituality is like a blank sheet of paper, yet it possesses extremely strong adaptability and guiding power!"

She waved her arms, looking very excited: "It can subtly guide the life forms that come into contact with it to 'optimize and evolve' in a more perfect, more coordinated, and more promising direction! More importantly—although it does not have fully formed intelligence itself, I have found a way to use it as a 'spiritual spark' and 'cognitive template' to forcibly 'ignite' the fire of wisdom in those life forms that originally lacked intelligence!"

A look of amazement and admiration appeared on Jemin's face at just the right moment: "Guiding evolution... igniting intelligence, this is truly incredible!"

However, despite the slight surprise on his face, his heart was already in turmoil.

Having the identity of a cultivator, he understood the situation even better.

Enlightenment!

This is the art of enlightenment!

This fallen wizard, through only a few decades of research on "imaginary elements" (spiritual energy), actually touched upon a method that can be considered a great supernatural power in the cultivation world—enlightening living beings and awakening their intelligence!

In the world of cultivation, this is usually something only those immortals with profound cultivation and a deep understanding of the laws of heaven and earth are capable of performing.

Even with his vast knowledge of the Great Dao Library, Jemin himself couldn't guarantee that he could reliably master this technique, which involved the essence of life and the origin of the soul, when he reached the sixth level of wizardry.

He couldn't help but marvel once again: the wizarding world's seekers of truth are simply too outstanding in terms of research ability and efficiency in translating theory into practice!

The fact that she was able to achieve this in such a short time shows that her "expansion" and "deepening" of the "spiritual" laws has reached an astonishing level.

I'm afraid... this Starfall Wizard isn't far from advancing to a level seven wizard!

Just as Jemin was deeply shocked, Viola, who was standing next to him, thought of a crucial question.

She stared at the falling star, her tone tinged with disbelief: "So... after discovering this characteristic, you couldn't wait to experiment on your 'stockpiles' in your dimension? What race did you endow with intelligence?!"

Xingzhui nodded excitedly, like a child showing off his masterpiece: "In order to test the universality and limits of this 'intelligence ignition' effect, I chose two very different bases!"

“One type is the ‘Iron Wire Devouring Vine’ that I can see everywhere in my garden. It’s just a plant with only basic life reactions! The other type is the ‘Radiant Aggregate’ formed by the aggregation of energy released from the laboratory. It is essentially a mass of highly concentrated unconscious energy!”

She spread her hands, her face beaming with the joy of success: "You've all seen the results! They all succeeded! They've developed basic intelligence, formed the rudiments of society, and even started fighting for resources and living space!"

"These data are perfect! I originally wanted to try to make ordinary soil or rocks come to life, but unfortunately the experiment failed, and I've also run out of the remaining imaginary element materials..."

Listening to her describe her groundbreaking experiment in such a relaxed tone, Jemin and Viola exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of helplessness in each other's eyes.

Fortunately... fortunately, the attempt to transform the soil and rocks failed.

If even stones could become sentient, when they were teleported here, they probably wouldn't just be facing plants and orbs of light, but also an overwhelming army of stone men shouting "Kill the flesh monster!"

This Starfall Wizard's research constantly teeters on the edge of creating miracles and causing disasters.

(End of this chapter)