Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 318 Curiosity

Thor stood frozen in place, not daring to move an inch.

He felt no surprise at the unexpected windfall, only a chilling sense of impending doom.

Before Thor could react, he heard Gorsa chuckle again, his silver eyes narrowing into crescents.

"Don't be so nervous. Maybe you'll be dead before that day even comes?"

Then I would rather inherit your estate, thank you!

Thor didn't dare to actually complain, and could only keep his head extremely low.

"Let's get down to business. What did you discover?"

Thor took a deep breath before continuing his story: "After I returned to the second warehouse, I put the puppet on my body as you requested, but when I went to check the horde of corpses, the puppet's eyes suddenly turned black."

"Is there something wrong with the newly brought-in body?" Gorsa guessed immediately.

"Yes, I examined Nick's body carefully and found a subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy on his body. If the puppet you gave me, Master, hadn't actually changed, I might have mistaken it for a slight fluctuation from the magic circle in the stone coffin."

Gorsa leaned against the wall, not feeling too surprised. "Interesting. While we were on guard against the hidden enemies, the real problem was the corpses that appeared around you according to procedure."

He looked down at his hand, where the pink bandage on one of his fingers seemed to have loosened, but it suddenly tightened again before Saul could notice.

"If the corpse is being used to give you a hint, the instruction must be very simple."

"I've noted down the fluctuations in mental energy. Mentor, do you think it's possible for us to deduce the meaning behind it?"

Thor handed over the notebook he always kept close to his body to Gorsa, but the latter only glanced at it and returned it.

“Adapting a language we haven’t encountered before, without understanding the basic logic, could lead to many different outcomes if we try to reverse-engineer it, so it’s pointless,” Gorsa said. “However, I can investigate the people who moved the corpse. You don’t need to worry about this matter; get to work on your new experiment as soon as possible. I heard you applied for a subject for the soul-infusion experiment?”

"Yes," Saul said quickly, "but I only asked them to be my assistants to help record some specific reactions."

To everyone's surprise, Gorsa waved his hand and said, "It's alright. The soul infusion experiment is about to be stopped. It turns out that people who can't even advance to level two on their own are useless even if they get a level two body. Just use them as normal consumables."

"Uh, I understand."

The tower master is allowing Thor to conduct experiments without worrying about the lives of the test subjects.

After a moment of silence in the room, Thor assumed he was about to be sent out.

Unexpectedly, Gorsa sighed and brought up another matter, "Katz should have already told you about the specific division of labor and schedule for the experiment. I think I should also tell you about the background of this experiment."

Gorsa had considered telling Saul last time, but because his physical condition was unstable at the time, he didn't say much to Saul.

"The reason for the resurrection is naturally that someone died. However, Yura's situation is different; she chose to die."

Willing to die?

seek death?

Thor's eyes widened, then he suddenly realized something. "Could it be that experiment about whether the soul can exist independently of the body?"

"That's right, it's because of this hypothesis..."

Gorsa's thoughts drifted back to the past.

He took the initiative to seek a marriage alliance with the Principality of Kema because he wanted to find someone to help him manage the territories that the other party had offered to him.

He was a wizard, not a lord, and certainly not one of those useless people who had long lost hope of advancement and could only numb themselves with worldly power and enjoyment.

So who has the patience to govern a territory personally? Of course, it's better to find a helper, and the best helper is naturally the current manager of this territory.

Therefore, it was only because of Yura's dedication to knowledge that Gorsa took a different view of her and ultimately chose her.

But a few years after her marriage, Yura revealed her true personality: besides being stubborn, she was also extremely daring and would experiment with anything.

Especially after Gorza opened up the materials library to her, some of her wild ideas became possible to come to fruition, and she began even more outrageous experiments.

Wizards who specialize in dark magic are always particularly interested in corpses and souls, so Yora's experiments are mostly related to these.

Gorsa didn't find anything wrong with it; on the contrary, he felt that this was the quality a wizard should have, and he appreciated Yura even more because of it.

Unfortunately, the story did not ultimately develop into a sweet romance novel ending.

One day, when Gorsa returned home, he saw his young wife with her head cut in half, and her excited, floating spirit body in the air.

Can the soul truly exist independently of the body?

They had discussed this issue before, and Gorsa had rejected Yura's conjecture at the time. Unexpectedly, this woman used herself as a test subject to prove to Gorsa that her point of view was correct.

Gorsa asked Yura, puzzled, "If you can already stably separate your soul from your body, why do you still want to kill your body and block all escape routes?"

Yura, however, said that experimental data that did not completely detach from the body was inaccurate.

At this point, Gorsa shook his head with a sigh, "It was on that day that I fully realized my wife's madness."

Thor, listening from the other side, was also dumbfounded.

He was willing to risk his life for an unverified hypothesis.

"After the soul leaves the body, the most important thing is naturally to keep the soul pure and uncontaminated," Gorsa continued. "Yura wasn't unprepared either; she prepared many temporary places for herself, which are those standing corpses you see in the warehouse."

"Before Yura officially killed herself, she had her soul leave her body and possess one of the other bodies to make sure there were no problems, thinking that everything was foolproof."

However, things took an unexpected turn. Despite being extremely careful to avoid any contamination from radiation and frequently entering other bodies to rest, Yura's soul still underwent a transformation.

The first symptom was that Yura began to feel that she was not herself.

Gorsa took over Yura's experiments, constantly trying to remove the contamination from her spirit, but the contamination kept returning.

Gorza immediately announced the suspension of the experiment on the independence of the soul.

He began to create a stable body for Yora.

However, the experiment did not go smoothly. No matter what kind of body he created, even if he created an almost identical Yura using Yura's flesh and blood, it could not contain her soul for long.

After several failed possession experiments, something even more terrifying began. Yura gradually forgot her past memories and insisted that she was just a cloned test subject created by Gorza.

Furthermore, she took the footage of Gorza handling the clone Yura as evidence that Gorza had killed her.

"It is extremely difficult to create a vessel that can permanently contain Yola's soul," Gorsa sighed. "Since then, I have gathered a group of wizards and recruited a large number of apprentices to begin resurrection experiments, focusing on two aspects: purifying souls and finding suitable bodies."

"But decades have passed, and we still haven't found a suitable container that can hold and protect the soul from contamination, just like the original body."

At this point, Gorsa suddenly raised his head and stared intently at Thor.

"So, Thor, how did you do that?"

Thor was startled, his head buzzing.

Gorza's body slowly leaned forward, his silver eyes almost bulging out of his bandages. "How on earth did you manage to survive after taking over someone else's corpse, without showing any signs of out-of-control contamination?"

"I'm really curious."

(End of this chapter)