"I'm back in this place, huh?" Mentally grinning, he began to examine his surroundings. I again found myself in a dark space, but not alone. A sphere of light appeared before my eyes, what alerted me was its color.
A shade of red with green and a very dangerous aura surrounding her "Ominously, I'd better hold it....." before I could finish, a terrifying pain shot through my entire soul. The sphere quickly flew into my soul and began to "transform" it.
"Not even a headache compares to that one, shit..." and at that moment, I passed out.
POV: Dr. Keely
- It's... It's... wonderful! His soul survived the ha ha ha ritual. This is a huge progress in the research - I could not help smiling "after the ritual, I need to go collect the necessary data to send the results" I thought, and began to follow the object 003 further.
"The Transformation Ritual is an ancient magical soul transformation technique. It is used to 'smooth' the personality and thereby completely erase it, leaving the soul without a personality." scrolling through this information while still watching the object "there are also a number of conditions for it to be successfully noticed: 1-subject must be constantly in pain, 2-subject must have a strong soul in order to withstand the ritual, 3-the creature must be in its mind and Finally, to have it happen every 10 days."
While I thought the subject had already opened his eyes, what really surprised me was the way he looked at me "he hates me, although it does not bother me at all." I look back at him in his eyes smiling "it's time to conduct special tests" having already mentally drawn up a test plan. I took out a communication item and poured mana into it, in response it softly rang and lit up "link established" a voice rang out in my head.
-Reggie, I need you for a new stage of testing object 003 - after sending this message, I put the item back and began to study the object further. "Outwardly, he has not changed, but inwardly ..." I could not help smiling broadly and it literally reaches my ears. "No reaction, but his soul has changed!" he internally exclaimed with happiness, then that the ritual was a success!
"This is a huge progress, otherwise I'm already tired of breaking the souls of ordinary people" still not taking his eyes off my work. Soon I heard a noise from behind the door "hmm, he's already come. Pretty fast, I think he wants to study the object too" I thought, turning around and went to the exit to open the door and go out.
A rather tall and handsome man appeared before my eyes. Blue short hair, emerald eyes and a slender body that radiated an aura of nobility that infuriates me "damn nobleman!" sighed to himself, but kept it to himself. If not for his support, then I would not let anyone into this project.
"Dr. Reggie, thanks for helping me with the experiments," I said, feigning all the benevolence I could muster. Reggie looked at me and slowly nodded to me, then he looked at the huge two-story vessel. The first was a dark green liquid with a bunch of pipes of different sizes and thicknesses, and on the vessel was a metal room with magical runes. These runes have many purposes.
- How is the object stable? Reggie asked in a flat tone, almost expressionless, if it wasn't for his excitement I would have thought he was a zombie or something.
- Yes, he is more stable than others and there are also changes in his soul. I answered, passing on the data about the experiments. Reggie took them and started looking through them. After about 10 minutes, he finished and returned the data to me.
"Ugh, more humane methods of obtaining data could have been used," he said with slight disgust. To which I simply shrugged my shoulders and replied to his words:
"Hmm, Dr. Reggie is the only way to get the most reliable data and we're not here by chance, do we look human?" And everyone has their own methods - I said almost annoyed, to which Reggie shrugged.
- Come on, Dr. Reggie, did you bring the necessary materials for our experiments? I asked curiously.
- Yes, Dr. Keely, I brought everything you need - he answered in the same tone. - Then let's start! - I said with excitement and went to the control panel of the vessel. Pressing a couple of three buttons and introduced "his" mana to allow experiments to be carried out on the controlling vessel.
- Dr. Keely, access to object 003 for testing outside the vessel is permitted. A dispassionate voice sounded in the laboratory, notifying everyone who had the necessary permission, namely me and Dr. Reggie. And in the next second, the door from which Dr. Reggie came from was locked and covered with many barriers: protective, soundproofing, attacking, detecting. "This is the first time I use this function, because many simply do not live up to this moment" thought dejectedly and immediately cheered up "BUT I have the most precious and valuable treasure!" I could not help smiling and laughing "finally I have come close to my goal!", but the next statement made me cool my ardor.
"Dr. Keely, please control yourself," Dr. Reggie said, and I suppressed my emotions with an effort.
"I'm sorry Dr. Reggie, I'm just too excited." He replied in a calmer tone, but with hints of joy, he squinted his eyes, but quickly turned his attention to what was happening next. The second floor of the vessel went out for a moment, and then some runes lit up in a certain order, and after that, the vessel teleported to us.
Dr. Reggie didn't seem to be surprised and he got out a table and some chairs whereupon he pulled out a suitcase marked "for experiments" out of nowhere and opened it. There were several daggers with different runes, some low grade magic cores, some kind of spell scroll, and some healing potions.
I was a little alarmed that he brought the spell with him - Dr. Reggie, why did you bring the spell - I asked him. "Doctor Kili, this is a low-ranking spell and I wanted to check if the object can learn, especially since I received permission," he said in the same roman tone. To which I could not refute, but this is his permission in his hand.
- Okay Dr. Reggie, let's get started! Object 003 get out - I said using my power on it. Then there were small, barely audible steps, and then a roar, and I decided to go and see what the problem was. "Hmm, this is probably the first time an object walks, I'll cast a spell. Weak enhancement (legs)."
- Get up and follow me - I ordered and he got up and followed me with slow steps. "Dr. Keely, you didn't say the object would look like this," Reggie said in a strange voice as the object appeared behind me.
"Yes, but I don't remember, but I accurately described it, you must have missed that part of the data," I answered in an ignorant tone, to which he frowned, but after a second he looked at the object.
- Let's start! With these words, I began a series of experiments. And Reggie just nodded without taking his eyes off the object.
author's note: here's a new chapter :)