Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 101 Jenna's Experimental Manuscripts

The surface was scrawled with the words: Jenna's Experimental Manuscript.

Out of curiosity, Richard opened it and found that it contained a series of experiments that Jenna had conducted while studying in the North Ring. For each experiment, Jenna had written down the specific purpose, experimental method, key points, conclusions and analysis, as well as whether it could be improved. Her thinking was clear and her organization was well-organized, which Richard found very helpful.

Richard then discovered that Jenna was not only schizophrenic, but also a top student!

Seriously, don't underestimate Jenna just because she's only a second-level wizard apprentice. She has a wealth of experimental experience. She has dissected hundreds of bodies of men, women, and children from different regions. Later, she even personally transplanted powerful tissues or organs from orcs and gnolls into wizard apprentices for limb modification.

Recently, she also independently completed two bloodline transplants, one werewolf bloodline transplant and one barbarian bloodline transplant.

In addition, Jenna also cooperated with a third-class wizard apprentice in the bloodline transplantation of the Slit-Mouthed Monster. It was that experiment that made Jenna extremely interested in the Slit-Mouthed Monster, and ultimately, she chose to have the Slit-Mouthed Monster's bloodline and mouthparts implanted into her own body.

Richard felt nauseous just reading about the detailed experimental process. He never expected Jenna to have such amazing perseverance and be able to endure such inhuman pain in order to successfully transplant the bloodline of the Slit-Mouthed Monster.

Indeed, the strength of every powerful individual is hard-earned.

Even though I have the Inspiration Panel, I have achieved my current strength through my own hard work time and time again.

However, after looking through some of the experimental materials, Richard didn't want to continue. The experiments were too bloody and cruel, and it was really disgusting to look at.

Hmm, when he casually flipped to the last few pages, something caught his attention.

It actually contains a detailed guide on how to make a mutated Frankenstein monster, and not just any ordinary Frankenstein monster, but the kind that has been implanted with a barbarian's heart and can use berserk abilities. According to Richard's previous life, it is the process for making a mutated Frankenstein monster with Jenna's independent intellectual property rights.

Recalling Jenna's original stitched monster strength, although he had never directly fought her, Richard felt from the battle he had just observed that she was at least comparable to an ordinary level two wizard apprentice.

This greatly appealed to Richard. If Jenna's stitched-together monster hadn't died at the hands of the dual-wielding merman warrior, he would have had to put in much more effort to deal with Jenna.

Richard hesitated for a moment, pondering whether to take Jenna's experimental diary with him. He was mainly worried that there might be something in it, such as Jenna's aura, that would lead to him being found by the wizard behind Jenna.

Seemingly noticing Richard's predicament, Ophelia handed him a crystal.

"What's wrong? Are you worried about being tracked down after you take the book?"

"This is a recording crystal. You can use your mental energy to input the contents of a book into it in the form of images. Although the amount of content it can store is limited, it is more than enough for one book."

Richard was overjoyed. He took the prismatic recording crystal and saw that it was indeed very similar to the crystals distributed to everyone by the school. However, Ophelia's crystal was much larger, so its storage capacity should be greater.

"I'll write this down first, and we can study it together later." After saying that, Richard began to input the parts of Jenna's experimental manuscript that he was interested in into the crystal.

On the short girl, Richard found the same bag of dark crystals, dozens of magic stones, and an old parchment scroll—the walking corpse transformation ritual.

The dark crystal, as identified by Ophelia, is a raw material called blood amber, which is generally used in special zombie conversion rituals and limb modification. The main components of blood amber vary depending on the type of blood collected.

Simply put, the more precious the blood, the more precious the blood amber made from it will be.

Subsequently, Richard found a rare level zero spell on the tall, thin boy, in addition to dozens of magic stones. This gave him great joy, as the Ignis School's library did not have this level zero spell.

Richard then recorded Jenna's experimental manuscript, the ancient parchment scroll—the walking corpse conversion ritual, and the rare level zero sorcery scroll of the Necromancer's Vision—into the crystal.

Finally, three witchcraft items remained. After examining them one by one, Richard discovered that two of them were intermediate-level witchcraft items, while Jenna's was an advanced-level witchcraft item.

After much deliberation, Richard finally decided to put all of Jenna and the other two's belongings back in their original places, including witchcraft tools, hundreds of magic stones, two bags of unknown dark crystals, and a large number of raw materials such as fish-man eyeballs and dorsal fins that he had collected before.

He then shared his new plan with Ophelia and Andrea, who were immediately intrigued.

After all, no wizarding apprentice truly wants to be targeted by a formal wizard, as they could very well die an unexplained death at any time.

Since Li is now 90% confident that he can make the people behind Jenna misjudge the situation, then taking less spoils is insignificant.

Since they had reached an agreement, Richard and his two companions altered the entire battleground to make it appear as if Jenna and her two companions were no match for the fish-men and were killed on the spot. However, the process of concealing the battle marks on Jenna and her companions required considerable effort from Richard and his team.

Finally, regarding the loot from the merman, the group could only suppress their heartache and refrain from collecting it.

After doing all this, Richard immediately took the Soul-Devouring Spider Egg from his pocket and placed it among the corpses.

This is a crucial part of the process. The Soul-Eating Spider will devour the souls of all the dead here, which will render many spells ineffective, such as the inability to summon the dead or allow them to tell the story.

In that case, unless a very meticulous and formal wizard comes in person, no one will suspect the three of them, for three reasons.

First, all of Jenna and the other two had their magical artifacts, magic stones, and spoils still on them. This gives the initial impression that they were killed by mermen, rather than by other wizard apprentices.

Secondly, there were high-level and several mid-level murloc warriors present, so Jenna and her group's defeat was logical. Furthermore, the murloc eyeballs, especially those of the high-level warriors, are extremely valuable, yet no one has collected them.

This situation strongly confirms once again that Jenna and her two companions were not killed by the wizard apprentices who participated in the mission, because if they were killed by the wizard apprentices, they would have collected merman eyeballs, dorsal fins, and other loot that could be exchanged for points.

Third, if the wizarding apprentices or professional wizards who come to investigate fail to summon the dead through witchcraft, they will most likely give up on the investigation. Everything at the scene points to the three being killed by the fishmen, and there is no reason to continue the investigation without special circumstances.

After all, it comes at a cost; hiring a formal wizard specializing in divination to conduct the investigation personally is quite expensive.

Having figured all this out, Richard comforted himself with a famous saying from his past life, even as he watched a large amount of spoils slip away. "A small act of impatience can ruin a great plan." After all, he wasn't a formal wizard yet, so he had to be careful and cautious most of the time.

As for the Soul-Devouring Spider, Richard had a premonition that, with so many powerful souls feeding it this time, there was a high chance that the Soul-Devouring Spider would successfully hatch.

I wonder what kind of surprise it will bring him.

(End of this chapter)