Diary of a Dead Wizard

After spending a whole night, by asking the Nightmare Butterfly and reading notes intermittently, Thor clarified the current situation of the Nightmare Butterfly.

Haywood's notes said that the eggs of each nightmare butterfly were not their children, but their new bodies. If nothing goes wrong, the nightmare butterfly can obtain a new life by transferring its consciousness into its own egg.

In this way, they can also inherit the memories of the past, which is the history in their mouths.

But this approach also seems to have problems.

Because Heywood once learned from the tower owner that the transfer process of nightmare butterflies is also their most vulnerable moment.

It is said that some official wizards - here Heywood marked "at least second-level wizards" - will focus on this process to capture the nightmare butterflies.

Of course, the Nightmare Butterfly's death burst is also terrifying. There are not many high-level wizards who died here.

At the same time, taking notes to record the transfer of nightmare butterflies often requires the help of dreams. People with stronger mental bodies have better dreams.

This can greatly shorten their period of decline.

"So Penny originally wanted to use my dream to be reborn?"

"Yes, and in order to gain power from your history, she also observed you."

Saul: "...No wonder she admitted my mistake at that time."

His history may involve traveling between worlds. It's not the ordinary kind of time travel from the big world to the small world. But the underlying rules have many different worlds to travel between.

Even he himself almost fell into it when he tried to observe his own history, so how could he have the energy to save others?

"Do you still remember what you observed?"

The little butterfly fluttered its wings, "If I remember, the one who doesn't exist is me."

"Ok."

Thor felt a little regretful. If he could take this opportunity to know what happened when he passed through, would he have a chance to understand whether any changes had occurred in his soul?

However, after experiencing an unexplained crisis, Thor did not find out whether he experienced any special events while traveling through time.

Penny the Observer only peeked a little, and thus lost part of her own history and turned into a tsundere little butterfly.

"Why do I feel like I've turned into a bomb?" Thor shook his head. Exploring the mystery of time travel was more dangerous than he imagined.

"So I should still focus on the idea of ​​​​resurrection experiments to remove the rejection of the soul by the container. I may not get any results by studying the uniqueness of my own soul. If I let Master Gorsa do the research in the end..."

Thor knows all too well the consequences of becoming someone else's experimental subject. Hayden and Herman are living examples.

Life and death are not up to one person, and neither is gender.

Thinking of this, Thor looked at the Nightmare Butterfly.

"Do you still have the ability to observe history?"

"No!" Little Butterfly replied simply.

"What about the ability to change other people's memories?"

"Not even!"

Thor crossed his arms. If it were before, he would naturally not want the nightmare butterfly to have this ability to change cognition.

But now that it has become a bookmark, Thor naturally hopes that his pet will be more powerful.

But thinking about it on the other hand, if the ability of the Nightmare Butterfly in front of me is still as powerful as before, Sol may not be able to regain it with his current strength.

He simply asked, "What abilities do you have now?"

"I don't know!"

Thor sighed and was about to take the nightmare butterfly back. Unexpectedly, the little butterfly seemed to sense his intention, suddenly flew up, and said pitifully: "Brother Thor, can you not take me to that dark place?" place?"

"Not going back? Can you stay out for a long time?"

"Why not? I've been staying outside all this time."

Thor pondered for a moment. The nightmare butterfly was originally a special life existence between the witch body and consciousness.

Maybe she has a different soul from the wizard apprentice and can act alone outside.

Thinking of this, Thor agreed to the Nightmare Butterfly's request, "Then you stay outside first. If you feel anything unusual and want to go back, you can call me at any time."

"Thank you, brother Sol, you are so kind!"

The nightmare butterfly spun around in the air, then landed on Thor's cheek, and its tentacles lightly touched Thor's face.

Thor only felt a little cold.

"Nightmare Butterfly...forget it, let's call you Penny from now on. Although you have forgotten your history, you should still be her."

"Okay, I like the name Penny!" Nightmare Butterfly, who had lost part of its history, had no objection to the name and happily accepted it.

"Penny, why can your consciousness exist alone without the body? The conscious body should be very fragile. Without a body, it is difficult to resist the pollution and alienation that may occur at any time."

"Because I have history. Knowing history allows me to confirm my existence. The more history I know, the more stable my strength will be. Even if I am occasionally injured, I can find myself by looking back at history."

"But you have lost most of your memory now, will this be dangerous?"

"Normally, I would, but now I am in a special situation."

"You're saying your connection to the diary will protect you?"

"It turns out that dark place is called Diary. What a strange name."

Thor didn't explain, and Penny didn't need to know about the diary.

In short, the way the nightmare butterfly survives as an independent consciousness does not apply to wizards.

Thor temporarily stopped studying Penny. He put the notes back into the sealed lead box and returned to the experimental area to clean up the mess.

He has not discovered why Herman suddenly went abnormally when he entered the female body.

That afternoon, when Hayden came to see Saul as usual, he found that the tall man following him was missing.

Before he could ask any questions, he saw Herman standing among the corpses with his eyes closed outside the second warehouse.

He suddenly showed a hint of panic, "Lord Thor, Hel..."

Saul followed Hayden's gaze and looked over, understanding in his heart, but he only said lightly: "There is something wrong with the experiment."

A sense of panic suddenly arose in Hayden's heart. He followed Thor anxiously.

Hale's "death" made Hayden nervous. He didn't expect Thor to consume an experimental subject so quickly.

Although he took the risk to participate in the spirit infusion experiment, Hayden was mentally prepared to be studied in various ways. Before coming to Thor, I knew that he could already study him. After all, even normal wizard apprentices would voluntarily or be forced to become the experimental subjects of their mentors.

But when he actually saw experimental subjects being consumed, he still felt huge fear in his heart.

When Hayden walked to the experimental area at a much slower speed than usual, he was shocked by the equipment that appeared in front of him.

"Electric chair?"

For a moment, the time when he just became an experimental subject came to Hayden's mind again. The slow, insensitive feedback of his new body and the painful experiments day and night made his heart palpitate.

Hayden stood there, unable to take another step forward.

The electric current in his fantasy hit his whole body, and he thought all the hairs on his body were exploding, but in fact only his eyelashes trembled slightly.

Hayden knew that he had no way to disobey Thor's order. Even if he would die in the next second, he could only cooperate obediently.

But knowing that she knew, her body was standing there honestly.

Saul walked over and turned on the inductor. He noticed Hayden's fear and explained the contents of the experiment in advance so that he wouldn't be so nervous.

"What we are going to study today is the repulsion of the corpse to the soul. After a while, you sit on it and your consciousness tries to break away from the body. I will record the reactions of every part of your body."

Thor adjusted his chair and looked back at Hayden.

Look, I won’t shock you.

But Hayden still stood there blankly, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Thor frowned, "What are you worried about?"

Hayden's trembling eyes moved from the inductor to Sol little by little. She opened her mouth, but couldn't speak.

However, just when Thor was about to forcefully order him to start the experiment, Hayden in front of him suddenly shook his whole body.

The fear in her body faded away like a tide, and when she looked up again, her eyes were filled with determination and a hint of madness.

"He doesn't dare, I dare, sir." Hayden's second personality slowly pulled a stiff smile on his face.