The Wizard's Pursuit of Truth

[Particle Energy: 10 units]

[Wizard Meditation Method: Basic (Nine), Advanced (Three)]

[Magic Stones: 2,200]

[Extraordinary Cultivated Creatures: Harak]

[Mastered Witchcraft: Fear-Burning Fire, Crimson Heat, Fire Elemental Particle Energy Shield, Sensory Deprivation, Fear of the Flame Demon (Incomplete)]

[Witchcraft Artifacts: Shadow Slayer Blade, Silver Bracelet, Face of Residual Dreams, Force Field Gemstone]

In three months, Wang Ya had managed to outline three runes for the Advanced Meditation Method.

The only slight regret was that the increase in his Physique value was getting smaller and smaller. The beneficial Particle Energy radiation driven by his Spiritual Power could no longer produce the significant increases to his Physique that it once did.

The Physique value of an Extreme Wizard Apprentice was probably around twenty.

He estimated that improving his Physique would become even more difficult later on. After all, no matter how beneficial the radiation was, there was a limit to what his own flesh, cells, and genes could withstand.

Unless, like a Bloodline Wizard, he implanted an Extraordinary Bloodline to alter his cells and genes. That would allow for greater improvement.

He had consumed about another three hundred Magic Stones to cover his daily living expenses.

As for Extraordinary Potions, he had used one bottle of Clear Heart Potion.

Based on his calculations, with the remaining Extraordinary Potions and his Meditation practice, Wang Ya estimated he could raise his Spiritual Power to the threshold of 20—the level of a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice—within the time left in the Secret Realm competition.

The further he progressed, the slower the improvement would become. Wang Ya couldn’t be certain he would advance before the time was up, but he could only do his best.

「In the laboratory.」

Wang Ya first went to the lab monitoring the fusion progress of subjects one and two.

He had already used the Eye of Truth to calculate the timing. The fusion should be complete about three days after he finished his quota.

The margin of error wouldn’t exceed a day, but just in case, he had prepared more than enough nutrient solution.

A block-like mass of congealed, gray-black flesh had formed. The mottled markings on its surface bore the characteristics of Harak’s bloodline.

A shockingly blood-red, liquid-like flesh with astonishing vitality was clinging to the gray-black mass. It was slowly enveloping it, much like a snake swallowing its prey.

Looking closely, one could see tiny red buds of flesh gnawing at the surface of the gray-black mass. They weren’t microscopic—in fact, they were much larger than microorganisms.

The gray-black mass of flesh was not without a reaction. After being gnawed upon, some of the small red buds would turn black.

This was a measure Wang Ya had taken. He had extracted an Extraordinary Essence from a special plant called ”Shadow Grass.” It was perfectly compatible with the Shadow-Feathered Crow bloodline but possessed an infectious quality.

This compensated for the weakness in Harak’s flesh. In a conflict between Extraordinary Properties, if one side was losing, you simply had to strengthen it. A balance could always be achieved.

The actual experiment would need another two days to yield a result. Hopes were high this time, as the process had already lasted for about five days.

In previous attempts, it had always been quickly devoured by the Gendas Flesh, evolving into a grotesque, fleshy creature that was highly unstable and lacked any organs necessary for survival.

’How to describe it...’ Wang Ya thought it was just an oversized mass of flesh buds, exhibiting only the desire to devour and proliferate.

It seemed incapable of forming a new Gundas’ Dog, as if it was missing something that could maintain its overall form.

This was likely the key to the balance between the illusory and the real. It lacked spiritual guidance to shape it.

Wang Ya walked out of the laboratory. At the end of the corridor was a mechanized door that slowly opened after confirming his identity.

Inside a massive nutrient tank filled with a pale yellow liquid, the bodies of two completely nude women with fair skin and curvaceous figures were slumbering.

[Notice: Implanting Gendas Flesh into a Night Moon Elf has a 60% chance of creating a Gundas’ Dog. The probability of it maintaining its own free will without being influenced is 53%.]

[Warning: During the implantation and adaptation process, providing a large supply of fresh flesh and Biological Energy will increase the success rate by 10%.]

These two Night Moon Elves were arguably Wang Ya’s most important experimental subjects.

He had previously considered excising all the flesh buds from a Gundas’ Dog for an implantation experiment.

However, the concept of balance described by the Gusai Wizard led Wang Ya to reject this idea, as he had discovered a potential pattern.

A Gundas’ Dog was itself a product of a host and the Evil God’s influence, having achieved a balance between the illusory and the real through some unknown means.

Introducing it into a new host would clearly cause major problems. Either the balance would be broken, or the new host would simply be devoured by the Gundas’ Dog.

He could only start the cultivation over, creating an experiment to balance the illusory and the real.

Perhaps Jones’s corpse was the greatest treasure of all.

The Gundas’ Dog within it had already detached, and after being separated from the main body for a long time, the remaining flesh buds had begun to seize the flesh of Jones’s corpse.

Each filament of flesh possessed cancer-like properties, with its own individual autonomy.

So, Wang Ya thought of using some theoretical knowledge from his previous life to conduct an experimental attempt.

To cultivate a new Gundas’ Dog—one under Wang Ya’s control.

A strange thought occurred to him. ’Could this be considered usurping the power of the Evil God Gendas, its authority over flesh and blood?’