50. Devil
Adam became interested: "Tell me carefully."
The devil didn't expect Adam to make such a request, and suddenly got stuck. He stammered: "This, this, this is what I was born with, and I don't know..."
Adam realized that there was something wrong with his question. The gift of living beings is sometimes unreasonable. Without sufficient knowledge support, it was too difficult to explain by language alone, so he changed his question: "Can you connect my thinking?"
The devil shivered, and he heard the malice from this sentence, and hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, no, respected great master, how dare your humble servant peek at your thoughts? I just got some common sense from the mind of that idiot!"
As he said that, the devil became excited: "Great Master, I can't believe that I can actually become a servant of a mage! Master, in my broken memory of the inheritance, the mage plane is an enemy that must not be provoked. Whether it is a devil or abyss creature, even the plane coordinates of the mage world cannot be found!"
Adam captured the word inheritance memory. Abyss creatures are flesh and blood creatures. They should also have organs and tissues that convey genetic information, but how can the will and life convey this information?
"Do you know what you are?"
The devil changed his appearance and could vaguely tell that he was a woman. He showed an incredible expression: "My master, do you actually have no desire for the opposite sex?"
Adam narrowed his eyes and whipped the devil through the contract: "Answer my question, don't do extra things."
The devil screamed, his body blurred into chaos again, begging for mercy, "Please stop, master, I dare not!"
Adam continued to punish, and this creature that relies on deception to survive is not worth believing, and it must be taught a lesson. Sure enough, the devil could not even scream, and the chaotic body also showed a tendency to dissipate, and Adam stopped.
The devil collapsed on the ground like a stain. It could no longer speak and could only convey a weak will through the contract: "energy, energy."
Adam threw more than a dozen units of energy stones at it, and the devil greedily swallowed it all up, and then he returned to stability. He did not dare to make pranks and said in a regular manner: "I should be a devil, but I seem to be a creature of the abyss."
"It should, it seems?" Adam was very dissatisfied with such adverb modification.
The devil shook all over and continued, "Devil, I am a devil, but I seem to be bred through the bodies of the abyss creatures. Their damn, chaotic, stupid beast instincts destroyed my inheritance memory, and I forgot all the ways to sign the contract!"
The devil started to cry as he spoke: "Master, can you imagine it? I always want to eat blood! Eat those dirty body tissues!"
"Shut up." Adam stopped the devil's hypocritical cry and continued to ask, "What's the use of forgetting all the contracts?"
The devil came to an abrupt end, not only his voice, but his thinking stopped. After a while, it said awkwardly: "I...I...I don't know either..."
Adam looked at it disdainfully. Abyss creatures can provide real-time combat power for low-level mages and apprentices. Various contracts of the devil are often of great use, but this hybrid variety is really useless. Not only is it low in combat power, it also does not have the magic of willful life, and it is simply a waste.
“I think…”
Before Adam finished speaking, the devil spoke in dejectedly: "I think I only seem to be born, which is worth studying."
That's what Adam thought, but this requires ectopic knowledge and biological knowledge. He has no channels to obtain and a reliable assistant for the time being. Besides, he is not very interested in this area. "Go out and don't leave the laboratory." Let the devil die for the time being, and maybe it will be useful when he has the ability to study the soul in the future.
The devil floated out of Adam's room dejectedly. It was a creature that instinctively chased the mind of living creatures. It lies beside James and Frank, which scared the two of them. Instinctively raised up their defenses. The rough mind-powered barrier suddenly bounced away the juvenile hybrid devil: "What is this?!"
Adam's voice came from the room: "My slave, a useless devil."
The two looked at each other. Isn’t that egg from the abyss creature? How could a devil be born?
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The devil was thrown into the laboratory by Adam at will. William was very afraid of it, while James and Frank often teased it while practicing. The rough desire transformation had no effect in the eyes of prepared apprentices. The devil could only humiliately endure the bullying of the two.
After obtaining Adam's consent, the two handed over the construction method of the meditation method to the devil. Adam was happy that someone would do various experiments for him. Perhaps this will and life would give him new inspiration.
On this day, Elliot came to the laboratory again. When he saw the devil, he burst into great curiosity. He kept using various methods and various potions to act on the devil. Adam ignored it and just asked strangely: "Why are you the ones who come to notify me every time?"
Elliot gave him a resentful look.
Elliot brought good news. In the previous mission, Adam killed all the invading enemy mage apprentices on his own, avoiding the college's losses. The college decided to give a reward: open the third-last floor of the library.
It was not until now that Adam knew that formal mages would not go to the academy library, because they stored all the knowledge from the apprenticeship stage, and the third to last floor was all rune knowledge and real rune knowledge.
The free rune knowledge course that James is responsible for is just selling dog meat with a sheep's head, and is only given to the rookies to meditate. There is no need to mention why runes can appear and why they should be expressed in this way.
Adam also asked this question, and James' answer was that he didn't know either.
At that moment, Adam thought James was ridiculous. He did not have Adam's computing power and could forcefully build a set of meditation methods based on a sample and countless complex operations. He didn't even know why the rune lines were drawn like that, so he wanted to create a new path. No wonder he failed.
James smiled bitterly: "The upper third floor is the core knowledge of the apprenticeship stage. Apprentices with my qualifications are not qualified to read. Not only me, but all the apprentices at Moldo Academy are not qualified to enter the upper third floor. Only you, the first one after the death of those geniuses in the Tower War."
In their resentful eyes, Adam entered the third to last level alone.
Adam was stunned after seeing the names of books in the third layer such as "Extension of Rune Lines", "Stability of Rune Shapes", and "The Application of Arc Curves in Rune", "Is this, geometry?"
He flipped through books at a very fast speed, his eyes getting brighter and brighter. The knowledge described in these books is the category of Euclidean geometry on the earth, but only knowledge from plane geometry to three-dimensional geometry. There are only a few descriptions of higher-level spatial geometry, which are used to combine plane geometry and three-dimensional geometry in the spirit. As for the more profound and obscure non-geometric differential geometry, there is no description. (I am just a poor student. Academic masters should watch the fun... Those who care about details are fools)
But this was enough, Adam was fanatically baptized by knowledge.
His problem is that the application of imagination has not reached the level of arm-driven. In Adam's way of thinking, part of the computer still dominates. He is good at analyzing and calculating a problem, but he is not good at creating hypotheses independently and then verifying them.
After Adam returned to the laboratory from the library, he locked himself in the room. He found that the rune group composed of nineteen runes he created had a large and complicated part, which could be completely reduced to a more optimized structure, and the use and refining of mental power is more efficient and convenient, and the quality of the mind power produced will be better.
A month passed, and William and the other two looked at each other in a ghost. They had no idea what Adam was doing in seclusion.
"Master will not starve to death, will he?" the devil murmured, and then shivered. The two of them signed a contract for master and servant. If the master dies, it will have no way to survive. "Why do you go in and take a look?"
William and the other two were also very anxious. They had many questions to ask. They had reached the middle stage of the construction of the mind power, but they found that their mage armor had an inconsistent tendency, but no one dared to call the door.
"Adam has room for his portable life. If the apprentice only needs a little energy, it should be fine for the time being."
Ten more days passed, and the devil had already felt the weakness of the soul from the other end of the contract. He lay on the ground and said, "Is the master a lunatic? He starved himself to death for research?"
William and the other two looked at each other, James stepped forward and placed his hand by the door, but slowly put it down, "Wait a little longer..."
After seven days again, there were five days left before the trial began. The devil felt that the other end of the contract was extremely weak. The fire of life was like a candle in the wind. It could not help it anymore: "Rare to blow the door open, the master is going to die!"
William and the other two looked at each other and no one was willing to move first. Who knows whether Adam inside was at the most critical moment. If the research results were destroyed because of their disturbance, it would be a great revenge among the mages.
The devil's chaotic body stirred for a moment, changed into Adam's appearance, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet towards the door: "Damn it, get out of here, let me do it!" After that, he buried his head and rushed towards the door. It did not expect to break the door, but as long as it felt pain, the owner would naturally feel it.
Unexpectedly, the room that had been closed for nearly two months opened as soon as it approached the door.
Adam walked out of it with a haggard appearance, and the thought power barrier flashed and bounced the devil away. Then he looked at them and asked casually: "What are you doing here?"
Chapter completed!