Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 209 Jia Xiu Needs Demon Clan Guinea Pigs
Although the spells designed by the tentacle monsters to create vampires are different from human spells in terms of their casting methods.

However, after Jia Xiu's study and research and Elizabeth's personal verification, it can be basically confirmed that this spell, which looks different from the Transfiguration spell at first glance, is indeed a Transfiguration spell.

The "transformation" effect is indeed limited to teeth growing in the mouth and skin turning white, but it does not affect its essence.

Let's just say it's "deformed".

If something doesn't become less, then it hasn't changed.

Similar to human polymorphism, it achieves the same thing in a different way.

Moreover, this spell was originally developed for use by demons, so there's no need to worry about it not working properly on demons.

Due to racial differences, some human spells may not have an effect when used on demons.

For example, the blessing spell, which relies on the blessings bestowed by gods through human faith, cannot bless the demon race.

Justina completely understood what Jasshu wanted to do.

"As long as we treat the vampire-transforming spell as a kind of test, and find a way to confirm that signal, we can then carry out anti-demon infiltration activities in various places, and so on!"

Justina suddenly realized.

"If it's a transformation that's incompatible with a different system, then it won't be effective and won't generate a distinguishing signal. Wouldn't that mean that people who don't have shapeshifting abilities to begin with would be turned into vampires if they underwent this test?"

"It's not impossible."

Jia Xiu thought for a moment, what if everyone became a vampire, and then everyone underwent some kind of modification?

We're unbeatable! Our business has grown to an enormous size and become incredibly successful...

"That won't do!"

Justina even seriously considered the problems that would arise if everyone turned into vampires.

"Then what's the point of fighting the demons? The flashbangs you invented are enough to wipe out the entire population!"

"Um... I was just joking. According to what the tentacle monsters left behind, there is a process to transform into a vampire. The detection signal is generated the instant the spell is cast. There is a time difference in between. If you stop the transformation after the signal is generated, you won't become a vampire."

Jia Xiu explained very seriously.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm pretty sure. I've tested it on many targets in the dark room. To be honest, the process of turning into a vampire is really gruesome. There are convulsions and bleeding. It's a pure mutation. There's about a ten to fifteen minute interval between the start of the mutation and the start of the mutation. That's more than enough time to detect the signal."

According to Jia Xiu's observations of the simulated mutation process, Chun Chun's transformation into a zombie is similar to that in the movies.

It wouldn't feel out of place in a horror movie at all. I feel that if those bards had observed the process of becoming a vampire up close, they wouldn't have been able to write those tragic and fatalistic love stories.

I bet they've all gone on to write vampire hunter stories.

Ah, thinking about it this way, no wonder the vampire clan has its own internal vampire transformation ritual. After giving the blood of the derivative vampire, they lock it in a coffin to complete the transformation.

I originally thought it was a tribute to the transformation process of the original vampires.

They were all captured by the tentacle monster's tools and locked in coffin-shaped devices to complete the transformation.

Now I feel it's more likely because of saving face.

The transformation process was so gruesome that it was best to complete it inside a coffin to avoid seeing or hearing about it.

After Jassiu explained, Justina was relieved.

"What about the detection signal? How do we obtain the spell to detect that signal?"

she continued to ask.

Being able to eliminate the numerous demons hiding on the continent would definitely be a great thing.

She felt obligated to offer help as much as possible, even though she didn't know what kind of help she could offer.

Moreover, the result Jia Xiu has obtained is practically the most ideal outcome.

He has made some progress in studying the divine magic of the Holy Light and has also figured out some of the rules.

It satisfies curiosity and brings value.

However, he has not fully understood the Holy Light spell yet, and his current plan is to imitate it in other ways to achieve a similar spell effect.

What does this prove?
This proves that the divine magic of the Great Holy Light is indeed beyond the complete comprehension of mortals.

The Holy Light is ultimately different from those of lower-ranking gods.

Holy light is holy light.

Justina's crumbling edifice of faith was slightly reinforced, though she did it herself using her imagination.

She didn't know that Jia Xiu's inability to fully comprehend the divine art of Holy Light wasn't due to the uniqueness of Holy Light, but rather because Jia Xiu's numerical value was insufficient.

If Jia Xiu becomes even more powerful in the future, will he be able to use the exact same Holy Light Divine Art?
Justina was vaguely aware of this, but she chose not to think about it.

As long as you don't face the problem, you can pretend it doesn't exist.

"Well, detecting signals can be troublesome in some ways, but it's not troublesome in others."

"What are you going to do, just leave it there?"

“To be specific,” Jia Xiu began to explain his somewhat contradictory words, “the spell for detecting signals is not difficult to implement.”

For Jia Xiu, this "code" was too easy to write.

"The main problem is that I'm not sure what the signal looks like if it's detected as a demon."

"what?"

“What we just looked at was Hannah. It’s a human being with no other deformities, so the signal that came back was from this structure.”

Jashu pointed to a string of characters that Justina couldn't understand and explained.

"I can tentatively define this form of signal as a signal without problems, but I don't know if there is only one form of signal that indicates no problem."

“Um…” Justina tried to understand, “Then why don’t we just find out what the problematic signals are like? Who cares how many kinds are not problematic?”

"The bigger problem is that I can only understand this part and this part."

Jia Xiu adjusted the timeline.

It's the part where the Holy Light Divine Magic is about to end.

"It seems the encoding here is..."

What encoding is used for display?

Justina couldn't keep up with Jasshu's pace at all.

"It's not important. It's just my way of understanding magic. You can think of it as something more specific than runes."

Justina couldn't understand it, but reluctantly accepted it.

Is this the world of genius?
She had heard before that some geniuses would associate runes with other things when they were learning them.

For example, color, sound, and taste.

This will allow them to identify and master runes much faster than normal people.

But what does "encoding" even mean?

Indeed, there are geniuses whose ideas are even more abstract than those of ordinary geniuses.

"In short, the encoding here indicates that there are several types of signals that will be triggered as a bell, which is the warning sound of the demon race that you can hear, but I can't tell exactly what it is."

"Then why don't you give it a try? Isn't this... a dark room?"

For some reason, Justina always felt a little ashamed to say the name "little dark room." It always sounded like she and Jasmine were doing something shady there.

“Good suggestion. You’ve found the key to the problem. In the current dark room, there are human targets and demon targets, but there are no demon targets disguised as humans. We lack experimental conditions.”

"Then...then can your sect leader update the functions of this little dark room? Let's discuss whether it's possible to update it."

In Justina's eyes, Jashu's patriarch is now basically omnipotent.

"I asked, and the sect leader doesn't know how."

"what?"

"Indeed, no. That's what the sect leader said. They don't know the disguise and transformation magic of the demon race, so they can't create an identical experimental target. This has never happened before. I also thought the sect leader knew everything, but it's good news for you."

"Huh? What good news is this for me?"

Justina didn't understand why she was suddenly brought up.

"At least it proves that the sect leader is not omnipotent, right? At least it confirms that he is not an invincible omnipotent god, and he doesn't seem to be at the level of the God of Time."

"No, what? Almighty God is Almighty God, but I... I have good news..."

As a demigod with a rather simple mind, Justina becomes incoherent whenever her thoughts are read.

Moreover, their thoughts are easily reflected on their face.

Just now, when the topic of gods, holy light, and divine magic came up, Jia Xiu, if he wasn't blind, could see the troubled and conflicted look on her face; she looked utterly miserable.

It's hard not to guess what she's thinking.

Nine times out of ten, the position of the holy light in their hearts has been slightly shaken, and they have begun to have some "blasphemous" thoughts about the existence of the gods. Perhaps even their faith has become less firm.

A demigod has started questioning the faith in the gods; look how this has gotten into trouble.

What a rare observation sample!

Justina stammered for a moment before realizing what was happening.

This kid's "wicked heart" that shakes her faith is still alive.

No, I can't go along with his train of thought; if I keep going, she'll definitely be led astray.

Justina quickly changed the subject.

"Now that there are no disguised demon targets, what should we do?"

"Well, there are solutions. I have two ideas that are not quite mature yet. I would like to trouble you with the first one."

Justina shuddered.

The fact that this kid used honorifics at the beginning probably means something bad is going to happen.

However, as a dignified knight, she also had her pride, and she certainly couldn't back down from something that would benefit countless people.

"No matter how troublesome it is, I will do it if I can."

"It's actually quite simple, just time-consuming. You can continue your previous work of checking everyone with the 'high beams'. After discovering the demon spy, don't disturb it or break its disguise. Then I'll go to the scene to check the entire identification process. I should be able to capture any problematic signal patterns."

Justina sighed.

This method is actually okay, but it hurts my eyes.

"However, this method has a problem. First, we don't know how many days it will take to encounter the demons. Second, we are not sure how many forms the demons can disguise themselves. So, it may not be enough to just find one or two. We don't know how long it will take. If we need to search many places, then we have to go back to what we mentioned before: what if the demons get the news and run away in advance? In short, the idea is good, but it is difficult to implement. It can only be used as a backup plan."

Justina was completely bewildered.

That's how things always are. Everything seems fine at first, but once you start implementing it, problems just start popping up one after another.

"Since this is an alternative, what's a better method?"

"Find the Ukmark people. I still have a few acquaintances in the Ukmark Empire. Didn't they seal up a lot of demons as experimental subjects?"

"Who is your acquaintance in Ukmak...?"

A few minutes later, in front of the communication crystal ball.

"No, you're sending a text message to someone at this hour, it's still the middle of the night."

Justina was puzzled by Jashu's decision to contact the Ukmak people at this particular time.

"Are you stupid? The Ukmark Empire is to the east of Larvin. The capital is far away from here. There's a time difference. When it's midnight in Larvin, it's already morning there."

"I……"

"What do you mean, demigods don't just fight and kill. Demigods have to use their brains. What if you have more followers and they are more widely distributed? What if you agree on a time to give God a gift, but you send it at the wrong time? Wouldn't that be a disgrace to God?"

Justina was speechless.

As a demigod, she also has an advantage: she is reasonable and usually won't do things like "whoever has the bigger fist can call a deer a horse".

So she silently noted down the time difference, and planned to memorize the times for all countries later, because she really couldn't let God send her the wrong time.

The ambition of a demigod.

Not long after the communication crystal ball was activated, a familiar face appeared inside the ball.

"Long time no see, Justus."

What Jia Xiu was looking for was Justus, who, despite being badly ravaged during the Five Great Schools competition, had come to admire Jia Xiu because of the national atmosphere of worshipping the strong.

Prestigious university, aristocratic family background, family members working in research institutes.

Asking him this question is the perfect thing to do.

“Senior Jashu,” Justus replied. Although he was older and of higher rank than Jashu, seniority was based on strength, and that was the way of the Ukmark. “What can I do for you?”

"So, your research institute stores a lot of demons, right? Is there any way to make a connection? I have a collaborative project related to demons, sealed demons. It doesn't involve any secrets, right?"

Jia Xiu said this without directly stating what he was going to do.

Who knows how many demons are inside Ukmark?

"Of course, the Empire has always believed that fighting against the demons is a cause for the entire continent. We welcome all people with ideals, ambitions, and abilities to participate in the research on the demons. However, since the number of sealed demons is still quite limited, they will be allocated according to the importance of the project. Could you give a general idea of ​​what type of project it is?"

"It's a project about demon disguise."

Upon hearing Jassi's words, Justus looked troubled.

After thinking for a while, he replied, "It might be difficult for demons to disguise themselves."

"what?"

This was something Jia Xiu hadn't anticipated.

"Isn't the demon's disguise important enough?"

“It’s not that they’re not important enough, it’s that we don’t have any demonic experimental subjects in disguise. All the demons we’ve sealed are in their original state, so we can’t make them disguise themselves. As you know, they’re inherently willing to die and aren’t afraid of death, so all threats are useless. We can’t force them into a disguised state.”

Jia Xiu frowned.

That makes sense.

Yes, demons are a bunch of people who can go back to their hometowns when they die, so they wouldn't cooperate with the experiment.

"hiss……"

At this moment, Justus changed the subject, "However, I don't know exactly how you intend to conduct this research, senior. If it's just about finding demons in disguise, then it's not impossible..."

(End of this chapter)