Witch Redemption

After a brief conversation, Li Lan began to mention the secrets related to the magic book and instructed the girl not to let anyone else know about it.

Chapter 71 The Transformation of Life

On April 27, 10003 (Gregorian calendar), a week had passed since returning to Mori from Dawn City.

Having barely emerged from the shadows, the witch codenamed 013, Della Bertie, seemed to have become a different person after separating from Li Lan and the others. She spent every day frantically hunting down mimicry Chaos in the monster area, and her dedication even made Lana and the others envious.

Perhaps this is something to be thankful for. If it were an ordinary person who encountered such a series of tragedies and whose faith collapsed, it would be strange if they didn't commit suicide in the end.

In addition, after separating from Lana and Lolina, Li Lan has been acting alone these past few days and has not met with them.

For the past week, he has been spending the night in an abandoned building in the slums every day after returning from the monster area.

It must be said that the great migration from Dawn City a week ago has made Mori City much more lively than before.

Even now, standing in this open ruin, he can hear distant noises.

"It's really strange, the more people there are, the less safe I feel."

While listening to the sounds of the bustling crowd in the distance, Li Lan took out many items from the magic book and placed them one by one in the center of the ruins.

After collecting materials for some time, Li Lan has finally gathered enough and is now planning to conduct experiments related to the "Creator of Life".

Name: Karen Elf

Race: Elf

Occupation: Pastor

Secondary Profession: Life Creator Pharmacist

Level: LV4 Experience: 20004

skill:

First Aid LV1

Prayer LV2 Proficiency: 10012

Blessing LV2 Proficiency: 10012

Courage LV1 Proficiency: 4100

Guardian LV1 Proficiency: 5213

Faith LV1 Proficiency: 16

The information on the left side of the spellbook shows that Li Lan has upgraded the spellbook to level 4 and has also learned a new job skill, "Faith".

This skill was exactly what Li Lan expected; it was yet another seemingly useless class skill.

Faith: Increases a priest's devotion to the gods. The more devout a priest is to the gods, the more power they can draw upon.

This is the explanation of this skill in the magic book, but Li Lan almost fainted from anger when she saw it for the first time.

Gods? All the gods are long dead. This useless skill is basically just daily chanting of the gods, like a religious mass. It's completely useless in battle.

In addition, Li Lan was a communist successor who only believed in the hammer and sickle in his previous life, and he didn't really have much interest in so-called religious beliefs. So after trying it a few more times and finding that the skill was useless, he put it aside.

Ultimately, the profession of priest is completely unreliable. If Li Lan really wants to survive in this world, she might have to think of another way.

I clicked on the magic book and it automatically flipped to the page for the sub-profession "Life Creator". The left side of the page showed the name of the sub-profession and three branch skills, while the right side of the page had several small icons.

"Life Element", "End Flame", "Origin Flame", "Source of Magic", "Source of Flame", etc., all display their own clear icons.

"First, we need to create an imprint of faith."

Li Lan clicked on the relevant skill on the left side of the magic book, and the magic book lit up with a faint light. Then, all six magic cores stored in the magic book appeared on the top of the magic book.

Without his deliberate guidance, the six magic cores suddenly shone brightly. Whether it was the green magic core of the low-level mimicry chaos or the deep purple magic core of the mutated mimicry chaos, they all lost their original color in the burst of light and turned into pure white.

The burst of intense light lasted for about a minute. After a minute, the radiance gradually dissipated, and the six rhomboid magic cores on the magic book were left with only a faint glow, flickering at a low frequency like a heartbeat.

Li Lan curiously grabbed the largest magic core among them, and suddenly had the illusion that this magic core was a part of her own body, as if she were holding her own heart in her hand.

There was fear, afraid of accidentally crushing this heart; there was surprise, astonished that the so-called imprint of faith would manifest in this way.

"How amazing!"

With some excitement, Li Lan placed the largest magic core back onto the spellbook and ended the use of the "Faith Imprint" skill. The next moment, all the seemingly "purified" magic cores returned to the spellbook, and the icons changed.

"Next, we will proceed with the life-transformation."

According to the description of the secondary profession skill, "Life Forging" requires one End Flame, 500 grams of Life Element, and 45 kilograms of Flame Source. Before using this skill, you must first arrange a specific array using Flame Source, and then place the End Flame in the very center of the array.

While trying to decipher the relevant information, Li Lan awkwardly began to operate the device.

The so-called "source of fire" is actually the corpse of the simulated chaos, which Li Lan is storing in a subspace cargo bag. It weighs about 150 kilograms, enough for him to conduct three experiments on life refinement.

The open grimoire emitted a faint, pure white light, which spread across the flat ground of the ruins as if covered with a thin film.

Following the instructions of the magic book, Li Lan instinctively pulled open the black rope sealing the subspace cargo bag, and slowly tilted it onto the ground.

However, the dark gray liquid of the mimicry of chaos did not make a corrosive sizzling sound after landing. Instead, it miraculously remained on the ground as if it had solidified.

Ten kilograms, twenty kilograms... forty-five kilograms, that's enough!

Bound by the black ropes that sealed him, Li Lan finally saw clearly what he had just done. It took him a full half hour to lay out a very familiar array on the flat ground of this ruined room.

The array, composed of corpses mimicking chaos, was shaped like a six-pointed star, nested or surrounded by numerous rings. In addition, it was filled with a large number of strange characters. Li Lan couldn't understand what these characters meant. He only knew that at the moment the array was completed, he felt dizzy and an indescribable fear surged into his heart.

It was as if he were being watched from afar by some strange and powerful being, making his heart tremble.

"what happened?"

Coming to his senses, Li Lan found that cold sweat had unknowingly soaked his back, making him mutter to himself, "It seems that the so-called life refinement is like a taboo; perhaps there are risks every time it is used?"

In fact, Li Lan's guess was not wrong. The so-called "life alchemy" was indeed a forbidden evil god ritual. However, he did not know that when the great being in the sky was spying on the person who used the forbidden technique, it was his magic book that isolated this thought from him, preventing that unknown great being from locking onto his specific location and identity.

"Alright, next we will place this End Flame in the center of the array."

The so-called End Flame is the core of the demon's intelligence. After thinking for a moment, Li Lan took out the core of the mutated, mimicking chaos.

After such a long time, the dark red, human-head-sized intelligence core that had been thrown into the grimoire had long since lost its activity, could no longer secrete any corrosive fluid, and had become completely dull.

Li Lan carefully took it out, feeling the terrifying sensation in her hand, and placed it in the center of the six-pointed star with great disgust before hurriedly withdrawing from the array's range.

Immediately afterwards, the entire array seemed to come alive. The patterns and characters formed by the simulated chaotic corpses began to writhe wildly, slowly moving closer to the dark red core of intelligence.

"Click—"

Just as the bodily fluids came into contact with the dark red intelligent core, they suddenly transformed into a terrifying, fluid-like monster. It opened several large mouths with serrated fangs and frantically devoured the dark red intelligent core, making Li Lan's scalp tingle.

"..."

This must be a cult ritual, right?

Who can stand this!

Horrifying, truly terrifying. Li Lan stared blankly as these "alive" corpses relentlessly devoured the core of intelligence. In the end, he couldn't help but grab the Libra Cross Greatsword beside him and become wary.

In half a minute, the dark red intelligence core, the size of a human head, was gnawed down to a piece the size of a fist. Li Lan could clearly see that the undevoured piece of the intelligence core was actually a cube, and it was golden in color.

"Why do I feel like I've seen this somewhere before?"

The golden cube has regular stripes on it, making it look like a small Rubik's Cube, but it has lost the crazy feeling that a monster should have.

"Wait, this couldn't be..."

Li Lan never expected that this mutated, mimicking chaotic intelligence core would hold such a hidden secret, and after being refined through life, it actually exhibited a state similar to the intelligence core of the archangel Angel.

The moment the golden cube appeared, the dark gray liquid that formed the array began to lose all its dark gray color, turning into a clear azure blue, and began to swirl around this new core of intelligence.

Another half minute passed, and the liquid, now free of all its dark gray impurities, clustered in the very center, forming a human-shaped, flowing object...

Wait, wait, wait! What kind of weird thing did my life-forging process produce?

Li Lan stared blankly at the blue, humanoid, fluid-like object, unsure whether to call it "mimicry chaos" or "slime"? In any case, it was definitely not a person!

"Did it succeed?"

Just as this question arose, Li Lan's magic book suddenly shone brightly, all the information on the page disappeared, and then a few small paragraphs of text appeared on the left side of the page.

"Life is successfully forged"

Please empower the Servant and bestow upon them a true name.

"Give it power?! Bestow a true name?!" Looking at the information on it, Li Lan suddenly realized that two steps were missing: one was to infuse this strange creature with life elements, and the other was to infuse it with a magic core representing the imprint of faith.

So, Li Lan stepped forward and, following the instructions in the magic book, instinctively took out the life element and the pure magic core that belonged to the mutated, mimicking chaos.

Upon contact with the blue humanoid liquid, the emerald green life element was instantly absorbed and emitted an emerald green light, transforming into numerous veins that spread throughout its body. When the fist-sized magic core touched its chest, the light of these veins intensified, causing them to tremble like a power furnace.

"Coo-coo—", "Coo-coo—"

The flowing, humanoid object emitted eerie sounds, its entire body convulsing for a full minute. When it returned to normal, it gave the impression of being asleep.

"Okay, now it's time to choose a name. What should we go with?"

Li Lan had never been a father before, so he was completely clueless when it came to naming things. At this moment, some extremely low-class names came to mind, like "Li Gou Dan" (Li the Dog Egg). Of course, he couldn't exactly call this guy "Li Gou Dan," could he? The name had to conform to the normal aesthetic standards of this world!

Ugh! This is too much trouble!

A somewhat frantic Li Lan scratched her head, deciding to stop thinking about it and just leave it at that. "I bestow upon you your true name, Slime Elf."

As soon as he finished speaking, the grimoire shone brightly once more, and a series of information began to appear on the left side of the page.

Chapter 72 Servant Number One

On the page for the "Life Creator" secondary profession information, in addition to the three skills, a new section has been added.

Servant: Slime Elf

Race: End Demon

Level: LV1 Experience: 0

天赋：信仰LV1 熟练度：16；高速再生LV1 熟练度：0；化形LV1熟练度：0。”

The unexpected information made Li Lan wonder if she had misjudged the situation. She read it several times before she was sure what was going on. It turned out that even monsters that had successfully forged life could be registered in the magic book.

Furthermore, judging from the description in this grimoire, Li Lan can actively choose whether to keep this Servant in the real world or keep him in the grimoire. To some extent, this can indeed reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble for Li Lan.

Just as Li Lan was busy confirming the information in the magic book, the humanoid liquid monster finally woke up...

It was like having a long dream, a dream that involved past lives and present lives, and a crazy, destructive nightmare.

When it awoke, the hazy dream vanished like smoke, and the innocent creature began to curiously sense the fresh air around it and get to know its new body.