Chapter 230 – A New Body
Who else could freely enter the second storehouse?
It didn't even need to be thought about.
Unexpectedly, two of the top existences of the Sorcerer's Tower had come to gather around Saul's sorcerous body transformation.
This made the young apprentice somewhat "flattered".
However, after being surprised, he felt that he deserved it.
As the carefully nurtured shoots grew again, it was natural to be careful that they did not grow out of shape.
And Saul's transformation of the witch body wasn't a secret to those two existences, so he looked at it.
Saul climbed out of the sarcophagus, "Did you put me in here?"
Algae nodded his tentacles.
"Good boy."
Saul sat back down at the lab table, looked at his "restored" hands, and returned his thoughts to this transformation experiment.
Saul took out a pen and paper and recorded the changes before and after his transformation.
First of all, the skin was no longer translucent and visible to the bones, but it still appeared a pale light gray color.
More like a corpse than like a living person.
When Saul clenched his fist and gently tapped the back of his hand, he could even see the veins gently bulging out.
"The veins under the skin are real? My arm seems to have grown back as I originally intended it to because of the effects of blood and flesh sorcery."
Saul picked up a small knife and wanted to cut into the skin to observe whether the internal tissues were fully restored or a mimetic disguise under the sorcerous body modification.
However, when he gripped the knife and gently exerted force, the grayish-white skin sank slightly with the tip of the knife, and no wound appeared.
Saul exerted force again.
The left hand that was cut was still not cut even though he felt pressure, and even he did not feel much pain.
"There is tactile feedback, but the pain is rather dull."
Instead, it was the small knife in his hand that couldn't stand the pressure, and the blade began to bend and deform.
Saul gave up the knife in his hand and directly cast an "Arrow Art" on his skin.
However, the magic-enhanced arrow shattered the moment it hit the skin, and the tip of the arrow even snapped and flew out.
Saul still only felt a dull pain, but it wasn't very noticeable.
He picked up the tip of the arrow and pinched it with force, and the tip of the arrow immediately changed shape.
"The power is greater than before, and the skin is many times tougher. The sensitivity of the fingers remains the same, but the touch is dulled, so it needs to be readjusted to adapt."
Suo remembered to observe the change in the cross-section of his elbow when he was remodeling, and hastily rolled up his sleeve to check.
However, when the cuffs were pulled up above the elbows, the skin exposed remained the same as Sol's current hands.
It was all grayish-white.
He hurriedly felt along his arms to his shoulders and chest, and the tactile feedback made him giggle in his heart, so he simply took off all of his outer robes and tops.
The scene in front of him made Saul directly dumbfounded.
The upper half of his body had turned grayish-white.
He hurriedly jerked up his pants leg, and undid his belt without dying, and looked down, "How come his whole body has changed?"
Saul somewhat confused to put on the clothes, from the experimental props to turn out a mirror, to look inward ...
As expected, the skin on his face was not spared.
Now Saul's skin all over his body had turned light gray, with only his hair and eye pupils still black.
Although after seeing the gray solution corroding the skin and integrating into the blood vessels, Saul had a vague premonition that his entire body would be affected, but he didn't expect it to be so thorough.
"This should be the devouring transformation instinct that belongs to the flesh and blood sorcery. I didn't expect that the first person it transformed was myself."
Sol also noticed that his arms and body were not as thin as the original. The original owner's long years of malnutrition and lack of sleep due to fear had caused Saul to not make up for the gap in growth and development so far.
Looking at it after the transformation seemed to be a bit stronger.
Especially at the biceps and triceps of the arms, a light layer of muscle could already be seen.
"The new gray solution didn't just integrate into my blood, it also boosted my physical quality. Just what is the basis for this enhancement?"
Saul stood up and took a closer look at his pants.
It had gotten tighter and a little shorter.
"I've grown at least three centimeters taller after this transformation."
It wasn't quite tall, but at least it caught up with people my age.
"It's hard to say if this change is a one-time thing or if it will last for a while. From now on, just record your data every day."
In order to verify his suspicions, Saul measured the data of his entire body and observed it regularly.
He returned to the lab bench and picked up his transformation formula, analyzing the reasons for such changes.
Already having the correct answer, working backwards to the solution made it easier than solving the problem directly.
"The changes in the skin and body tissues are mainly the formula's blood and flesh sorcery at work. And what effect did the plastic bones have in it?"
Examining the toughness of the skin once again, he took out a very sharp steel needle and used seventy percent of his strength before finally piercing his palm.
At once, a little red bead of blood oozed out from under the skin.
The pain also became noticeable. When Saul squinted his eyes and mobilized his spiritual energy to look over, he saw a kind of gray fine particles in the blood bead.
This particle could not be seen with the naked eye, but it was very obvious under the enchantment of the meditative thoughts.
They were evenly distributed in the blood.
Saul spoke the drop of blood and brought it to the instrument to do an examination, and found that the properties of the blood didn't reveal too much change, only that the life activity had become a bit more active than before.
The specific manifestation was that when Saul lowered his head to take a little more blood, he found that he couldn't even find the wound anymore.
"The recovery ability has also increased, not bad, the results of the transformation obtained so far are all on the good side. However, I don't have any soul fragments in my hand for the time being, and the change in the properties of the spirit ester in the plastic bone can't be verified yet."
But this was not urgent, he still had a lot of time.
The next step was to check the most important, whether the fit between body and soul had improved.
Saul closed his eyes again and began to meditate.
As the spiritual power began to flow, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his body was very attuned to the inflow of spiritual and magical power, and would even actively help with the transfer.
This feeling was very novel.
When Saul used to meditate as well as cast spells, although his body would not resist, it had never been as cooperative as it was today.
If I were to compare it, it would be the same as before when Saul entered a cold, empty house, but today there were more moms and dads in the house, and as soon as you came home you were urged to change clothes and wash your hands, and then there was a steaming meal set out on the dining room table.
It left Saul flattered and inexplicably touched.
"This body only seems to have accepted my soul completely after the transformation."
Thinking about the gray particles in his blood, Saul gradually had a guess.
"The key step in this remodeling was when I penetrated my spiritual power deep into the potion. This caused the potion to produce a certain change that I hadn't designed."
"The new gray solution has an additional raw material, my mental power. It was my mental power, or soul, that activated the complete reaction of the potion. So when the transformation permeated the entire body, this body naturally took the shape of my soul."
It was thought that the tower master was clear about this point, which was why he had asked him to refer to flesh and blood sorcery to solve the problem of incompatibility between spirit and flesh.
The reason why Ralph had devoured other people without losing himself before he was teased by Kismet was because he had used his own soul as the basis for the entire potion.
As long as the inner core remains the same, no matter how many people he devours and how much his flesh changes, it will not affect the essence of his Ralph identity.
On the contrary when something went wrong with his spiritual body, his body was turned into strange shapes by Kismet.
"Then, the problem of the spirit body going out of body ... has been solved by this?"
Saul immediately made it to the chair and began to actually verify it.
The method of verification, of course, was to actively perform an out-of-body experience of the soul.
He closed his eyes and operated his mental body, mimicking the erosion diagram, getting up and walking.
At first, the spirit body didn't react at all, staying peacefully in the body.
It wasn't until Saul intensified his meditation that he felt a sense of stickiness.
Then, he clearly felt that the spirit body was slightly misaligned with his body and seemed to be about to leave his body, but there was a pulling force coming from within his body that seemed to be very reluctant to let Saul's spirit body leave.
Saul sensed that if he persisted, he would still be able to leave his body. But instead of trying again, he complied and returned to his body.
"Sure enough!" Saul opened his eyes, "Once the body is transformed into the soul's likeness, it is no longer so easy for the soul to leave the body."
In the past, Saul's soul leaving his body was like taking off his jacket, but now he had to "tear a layer of skin", so the two were naturally very different.
"In this way, the problem of souls leaving the body from time to time is solved!" Saul smiled with satisfaction.
The only thing that made Saul uncertain was that he did not find any trace of the original soul in this transformation.
"Did I guess wrong, or is it hiding too deep?"
Saul sat back in his chair and kept turning his pen in his hand.
"I think I was off before. How could an ordinary human soul last so long."
Saul suddenly remembered the spirit infusion experiment he had once participated in.
In that experiment, the spirit body of a level one apprentice was stuffed into the body of a dead level two apprentice.
This situation was actually very similar to him.
But their soul-body fit was much too different. So much so that even the transmission of perception was worlds apart. Even the gender of the soul and the physical body couldn't be the same, or neither could enter the new body.
In comparison, Saul's problem was much smaller.
"Maybe someday I can take another look at the experimental records of the spirit body infusion. It might be possible to find the real reason why my soul and my original body don't fit together. Uh... might even be able to help them solve the biggest gender problem in spirit body infusion."
Putting this matter aside for now, Saul continued his testing.
This returned to the moment of harvest – the test of magic and spiritual power.
He picked up the black crystal ball and infused magic power at maximum intensity.
Calculating based on the changes displayed by the black crystal ball, his magic power value ... broke through one hundred!
Any higher than that would be beyond the range that the crystal ball could accurately measure, and it would be necessary to change to a quarantine instrument or go to the registration room for a more accurate measurement.
"It's only been two months since I entered the second rank." Saul couldn't hide his smugness, "Turn around and tell Kerri the good news."
He could already imagine the change in Korie's demeanor from dumbfounded, to unbelievable, to furious, and finally to slatting her condescending little chin and swearing that she would definitely bounce back.
Thinking about it put Saul in a better mood.
(End of chapter)