Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 400 Radioactive Toxin

Gu Duo's laboratory is very large, and he has many apprentices under his tutelage.

When Thor entered, he found the place quite lively. It seemed that all the apprentices with some skill had been summoned by Gudo.

This is a scene that is rarely seen in Kaz's mentor's lab.

Even when Kaz called all of Thor's apprentices to the lab, they would just do their own thing, and it was considered a good relationship if they could have one or two exchanges with each other.

Unlike Gu Duo's place, it's more like... students who have just finished their exams gathering together to check their answers.

Thor's arrival did not cause much of a stir.

He stood at the door, deliberately minimizing his presence, and then used his mental energy to eavesdrop on the apprentices' conversation.

These people, following their mentor Gu Duo, seem to have incorporated some kind of toxin into their current research projects, regardless of what element they originally majored in.

Take Claire, for example. She was doing a great job researching metallic properties, but then she insisted on researching the toxicity of metals, and with Saul's suggestion, she actually discovered radioactivity.

Keli was also among this group, at the very back of the room, enthusiastically preparing the potion.

"I'm really getting more and more addicted to this," Thor thought to himself.

During his observation, Saul also noticed that Claire was showing signs of becoming a boss.

Although she was only a level two apprentice and had not yet been promoted to level three, many people obediently followed her commands and instructions.

Wizards value strength, and knowledge is also a form of strength.

The person who was almost equal to Claire was a third-level apprentice whom Thor was not very familiar with.

This was somewhat strange, because Saul also saw Billy sitting alone and somber in the corner of the room.

There are many powerful level three wizard apprentices in the Wizard Tower. Billy may not be number one, but according to Thor's observation, he is at least in the top three.

But why is he sitting alone in a dark corner of the room, seemingly exiled?

At that moment, the busy Claire looked up and finally spotted Thor at the door.

Actually, others had spotted Thor before her, but none of them dared to approach, instead silently watching him.

"How long have you been here? Why are you just standing at the door and not coming in?"

"I saw that Lady Keli was busy, so I naturally dared not disturb her."

Claire rolled her eyes. She knew Thor was joking, so she didn't ask him why he had been standing there for so long.

"Come in. We're about to start preparing the adhesive for our mentor. You can come and watch."

Claire pulled Thor inside, completely ignoring the expressions on the faces of those who saw him. The two stood on a laboratory table piled high with materials.

"I've already spoken to Instructor Gudo, and he said you can come with me, as long as you don't deliberately waste the potions. I told him I won't, or I'll beat you up."

As Claire spoke, her hands never stopped moving. She skillfully picked up test tubes, beakers, crucibles, and other equipment and began preparing the potion in front of Thor.

"What I'm doing now is optimizing the adhesive... Sigh, my supervisor didn't even give it a name, it's just sitting here. What if there's a further optimization plan later? Should we call it 'Further Optimized Adhesive'?"

Claire was clearly happy, and she became much more talkative. So much so that several wizards around the laboratory cast surprised glances at her—including Billy in the corner.

"Then let's call it Superior Adhesive," Thor agreed with Claire.

"What about the third optimization?"

"Excellent adhesive".

"The fourth time?"

"Optimal adhesive".

The two joked around as they finished the initial processing of the adhesive.

Finally, Keli held up a glass of bubbling, sticky, glue-like liquid and said, "Actually, what I just held was a semi-finished product. It takes a long time to ferment from the initial raw materials to the semi-finished product. You can just look at the notes for the steps. I believe you can understand them."

She carefully carried the beaker and led Saul to the end of the room, with people on either side carefully avoiding Claire along the way.

Or rather, avoid the beaker in her hand.

"I see that there seem to be a lot of toxic substances in the materials you're processing into semi-finished products?" Thor followed leisurely behind Keli, almost strolling around with his hands behind his back.

"Of course, although it's called an adhesive, it's actually... as you know, something that forcibly fuses the spirit and flesh. It's very domineering, and naturally contains a lot of toxic substances. If you haven't seen these things before, there's a list hanging on the lab table just now; you can take a look."

Thor had never seen most of the materials Clare used in her experiments before. Although he had read many books on materials science besides "Basic Cognition of Everything," most of the items here were semi-finished products undergoing further processing. There were so many that even the apprentices here had to keep a list and notes to avoid accidentally confusing one thing with another.

At the far end of the laboratory are two enormous spherical glass domes. The two domes are suspended above a metal control panel the size of a table.

The control panel was decorated with rather complex magical arrays. Thor glanced at it briefly and deciphered runes that, in addition to levitation, could also seal, open, and even explode.

"This is a magical safe," he thought to himself.

The two spherical glass domes on the control panel, one one meter in diameter and the other no bigger than a soccer ball, each contained an irregularly shaped piece of bronze-colored metal about the size of a thumb.

The outer spherical glass dome is also engraved with complex magic circles. Because it is engraved on a sphere, the runes and diagrams of the magic circles are obviously distorted. If someone who is not good at magic circles comes to see it, he probably will not be able to recognize the contents.

Thor was quite knowledgeable in this area, and he immediately recognized that the magic circle was an enlarged version of the Alpha necklace that Claire had given him.

Sure enough, Keli pointed to the smaller one first.

"alpha."

Then she moved her index finger toward the large glass dome.

"A weakened Alpha." She shrugged, but her arm remained holding the beaker. "Okay, I'm not good at naming things either. Why don't you give it a name?"

"Actually, I'm not good at naming things either, and the weakened Alpha is easy to understand."

Look over here, Claire.

"Okay, if you want, then let's call her Beta." Seeing Claire's eyes darting around, Thor quickly raised his hands. "We can't get up any more, the others can't take it all. If we do, it'll just be Shuk, Tom, and Jerry."

"Okay—" Claire drawled, abandoning her idea of ​​having Thor name all the poisons she created.

Then she turned around, still steadily holding the beaker that was bubbling more and more vigorously, and called out to everyone with her back to them, "Opened!"

Solton sometimes gave me the feeling that "the tree has fallen".

He then noticed that some of the wizard apprentices around him took two steps back.

People who were doing fine machining work also stopped what they were doing.

Thorn felt a tingling sensation down his back, but he resisted the urge to retreat—after all, Claire was right in front of him—and instead focused his mental energy on his Spirit Armor spell, ready to activate it at any moment.

Under Thor's gaze, Claire extended her little finger and drew a rather intricate pattern along the lines of a magic circle on the glass dome of the weakened Alpha.

The glass dome trembled alarmingly for a moment, then stopped and quickly turned red again, with gurgling water bubbling from the top, as if it were cooling down.

Keli quickly withdrew her finger and placed the beaker she was holding in her other hand over the spot where her little finger had last rested.

The next second, a small hole appeared there.

Saul then noticed that the mouth of the beaker was not flat; when it was placed on the glass cover, it perfectly matched the curvature of the sphere.

Although the beaker was tilted, the gelatinous liquid inside only flowed downwards at a very slow speed.

Meanwhile, Claire moved her little finger to another spot and began drawing patterns again.

As soon as she stopped pointing, the small hole exposed in the glass dome began to close rapidly.

Keli waited a few more seconds to make sure there were no gaps in the glass dome before taking the beaker off.

She then held up the solution, which appeared to have changed little, and shrugged at Thor. "That's just how troublesome it is to use radioactive toxins."

The next chapter, well, it's still tonight.

(End of this chapter)