Quadruple split

Merlin doesn't like undead creatures, not because he agrees with the mainstream statement propagated by many knowledgeable people, that is, 'the existence itself is a blasphemy to life', but after consulting a large number of files, he believes that those so-called' The Immortal's deviation is too far from his own major, and his compatibility is shockingly low.

In other words, the upper limit is extremely low.

It's not that the upper limit of undead creatures is low, but that Merlin's compatibility with this knowledge is too low. To give an example, it is equivalent to asking a world-class Magic player to play Yu-Gi-Oh from scratch, even though the player's personal quality is extremely high , but it is also difficult to replicate one's past achievements in new fields in a short period of time.

So even though Arthur directly ordered all the first and second sequence warriors of the [Tibetan Front] in front of him to commit suicide, the purpose of this 'alienation' was by no means to turn them into immortals.

The only reason why those people were told to 'die' was to allow their so-called [souls] in the current worldview to appear undefended within the scope of the radiation tower's influence.

This is a kind of mysterious and mysterious logic. If mainstream scholars see it, they will most likely think that the person who proposed this idea is crazy. However, Merlin has forcibly completed its core theory through a large number of experiments that are contrary to humanism. The proof is that——

'When an intelligent life with strong beliefs dies, a certain quality (experimental appendix F25, Section 2: tentatively named: soul/soul) will not disappear simultaneously with the disappearance of vital signs, but will briefly leave the body and appear. It will appear in a highly active state, and in the process, the repulsion between this trait and its body will increase at an extremely rapid rate until it is completely independent and then slowly collapses. ’

Combining the knowledge provided by Osiris and Garros, Merlin concluded that this phenomenon should be the reason for the birth of the natural undead.

However, after various researches, it was proved that this rule does not apply to the members of the [Zangfeng] war group, because the vast majority of natural undead without external interference are those with extremely strong obsessions, full of regrets, and extremely resistant to death. existence, and these soldiers who died because of executing Arthur Bohe's orders and were perfectly loyal had no regrets.

Not only that, the probability of natural undead being born is also very low. Even if you meet the conditions, you must have the right time, place and people to ensure a certain success rate, such as two undead archmages squatting next to you or being in a specific environment such as a large cemetery. of.

All in all, this path that Merlin did not intend to take was actually unworkable from the beginning.

It is true that Arthur did directly give the order of 'suicide', and the soldiers faithfully carried out this order, but this was not irreversible death, just 'no hope' at the common sense level.

According to Merlin's experimental report, when the human body enters the concept of "hopeless" at the common sense level, the so-called soul will begin to leave the body, and only when the repulsiveness mentioned before reaches its extreme in a short period of time, the so-called soul will begin to leave the body. Only after the soul becomes completely independent will the state of 'death' be completely fixed.

In other words, death at the common sense level can be rewritten if done in the right way.

It's like you were shot through the heart. Even if you are still alive, you are dead from a common sense perspective because you can't be saved.

But what if there was a device that could replace the heart and was carried in your pocket?

Even in the reality of 2049, this kind of thing is somewhat outrageous. The same is true in the Realm of Innocence. This kind of damage that can directly cause a [death] effect from the player's perspective is basically equivalent to hopelessness.

However--

The [Trial Alienation Radiation Tower MII] that is now in operation can effectively solve this problem.

The first is the most difficult step, which is to forcibly bind those so-called 'souls' through the 'field' formed by the radiation tower before their repulsion from the body reaches a certain threshold, and at the same time perform an extremely slight of 'pollution'.

This step is the most likely to go wrong, because the souls repel each other too quickly, and the radiation tower's start-up delay is too high due to its special structure. If the 'field' completes its expansion before the soul leaves the body, then it can be almost directly Declared a failure, because the risk of alienating a 'living person' is much higher than alienating a 'soul'. In fact, it cannot be called alienation at all, but a step into the second level of rarity called Superior Super Rare. In the case of original sin, it would be good if there were three figures of people able to hold on to more than 10,000 warriors.

If the 'field' is launched too late, it is very likely that when the alienation is completed, the soul and body will be severely repelled and unable to reintegrate into one. Although the loss is smaller than the former, it will also cause a large area of ​​waste. .

However, since there was no third option, we finally decided to launch the radiation tower later, which was a relatively cost-effective solution. The remedy was for Mo, who had absolute control over the concept of 'sin', to be a normal soul. Regardless, if it is a soul contaminated by sin, according to Merlin's theory, Mo is still very likely to push it back into the body under high repulsion.

This is why everyone must wait until Mo comes online before they dare to start executing the plan.

And Mo did not live up to the expectations that Mr. Merlin had for him. In fact, he did far better than Merlin imagined.

For example, before relying on his control over 'sin' to push back the alienated souls, he used some means to push the perfect success rate, that is, the initial probability of everyone's survival, to 99% from the very beginning.

That was the moment when 16,000 soldiers had completed their suicide, their souls had left their bodies and the radiation tower had not yet started operating, causing those souls that should have started to have rejection reactions at the moment of leaving their bodies to freeze for a moment.

That was a moment when many souls had not yet been infected by sin, but even so...

【That was it just now! ? 】

Ji Xiaodao suddenly turned back to look at the man who had just put the mask named [Senior Seal] back on his face and stood quietly in mid-air, with a look of horror in his eyes.

Just now, she felt a pressure that almost made her breathless pass by behind her. It was a 'power' that Merlin and Gawen were currently far beyond their reach, or even aware of.

But Ji Xiaodao could feel it, not because she had a close connection with the man behind her, but because she had touched the threshold of that power after the brief fight with Gu Xiaole not long ago...

She would also visit the forum occasionally, and often listen to Kang Lan and others' discussions about the power levels of the Innocence Realm in the group. She could even freely read a large amount of information collected by Jiawen through various channels, so she was very interested in it. Merlin and Gawen were unaware of the power just now, and only he was vaguely aware of it, and already had a vague guess——

field!

Nine times out of ten, that is a domain power that only extremely talented people can master, and even many legendary powerhouses have not been able to obtain it throughout their lives.

We have mentioned many times that Ji Xiaodao is an undoubted combat genius. It is true that she has huge resources that most players cannot match, but this does not mean that she ranks third in the personal combat power rankings. What moisture is present.

To give the simplest example, many clubs and studios headed by Red Constellation have no less resources than here after officially settling in the World of Innocence, at least no less than what they have been hiding before the showdown with William Bohe. There are less ones tucked here.

If Ji Xiao Island has it, Awakening Dragon will definitely have it, and it will only be more and better.

However, under such circumstances, Xinglong has never succeeded in breaking into the top three of the personal rankings. His current fourth place is already the best result in history.

Even if we can know from God's perspective that the two at the top are indeed a bit abnormal, Ji Xiaodao definitely belongs to the normal category of players. After all, others have advantages such as resources.

Therefore, her strength is only indirectly related to the fact that she is in this camp and has a higher status, and has no direct relationship.

For example, now, although Xinglong has squeezed his role, skills, talents and other elements to almost the limit, he has a dominant strength in the high-level peak field, and even encounters individual half-step epic or epic heroes with the same ability. The ability to fight, but he still failed to touch the concept of 'field' after all.

And Ji Xiaodao, obviously not as hardworking as Awakening Dragon (Ji Xiaodao works very hard in the game, Awakening Dragon works hard both inside and outside the game), but he has touched the threshold of the field first.

Although it was only to the extent that it could not be used in battle, even so, she still surpassed Marshal Galahad, the only legendary powerhouse in the camp, to a certain extent.

But just now, Ji Xiaodao could swear that he felt the real 'field', not the ambiguous thing he perceived, nor the 'foreign land' that Gu Xiaole developed through some means, but the real field!

[If this continues, you really won’t even be able to see that person’s back...]

The girl sighed silently and clenched her hands that had become cold at some point.

On the other side, after Mo Na's power, which Ji Xiaodao determined to be the 'domain', disappeared in a flash, the first step of 'alienation' also ended perfectly.

I saw the alienated radiation tower in front of Merlin suddenly emitted a series of harsh buzzing sounds. Those souls that were invisible to the naked eye but had indeed been separated from the body and implanted with a ray of 'sin' were suppressed back into their bodies at the same time. The corpse shook at the same moment.

At this point, the second step was successful, and all 16,000 contaminated souls returned to their original bodies without exception.

This link may seem simple, but it is actually an extremely important foreshadowing and the essence of the entire 'alienation' process. According to the conclusion drawn by Merlin, it is to perform a translation through the means of '(sin + soul) + body', so that the original The influence of the secondary original sin is further weakened, and then the soul is allowed to infiltrate into the body with zero pollution, thus achieving a delicate balance.

finally--

"Uh-huh!"

At the front of a certain phalanx, a warrior who had lost his life suddenly began to tremble violently. The hideous wound on his neck began to heal strangely, and his closed eyes suddenly opened.

It was a pair of extremely weird pupils. To put it in a nutshell, the pupils, iris, cornea, and sclera were all dyed lifeless black by some unknown force, which looked particularly scary.

"Haha, hahahahahahaha, it's effective! It's effective, it's effective!"

Merlin, who was standing behind the Alienation Radiation Tower, couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene. He danced and screamed: "I knew it! I knew there was a trace of this! I knew that person was so simple that it was so annoying." The model of people laughing is correct! Get up! Get up, everyone! In the name of science, get up and witness this absurd truth!!"

Although no amplification method was used, the 'corpses' seemed to have heard Merlin's impatient scream, and they opened their eyes while moaning unconsciously. They looked like they had recovered, but sounded like necrosis. There were bursts of low moans coming from his throat, it was creepy!

To be honest, although these people who have regained their 'life' are not undead creatures, judging from their performance at this moment, they seem to be worse than undead creatures.

This is the last step, that is, after the body and the infected soul are integrated, the process of compromise from the state of 'death/infection' to alienation, and in this process, the ray of power brought back by the soul The body will be repaired at high speed, so that these warriors who are in principle infinitely close to death will be rejuvenated.

According to Merlin's calculations, 30% to 50% of that power will be consumed during this period, and the remaining power will not be so easy to pollute a healthy mid-level physics professional to 'sin' , then it will enter a long dormant period.

As for whether they will die, collapse, or become SSR after the dormant period is over, it all depends on the fate of these people.

But theory is theory. Merlin never thought that all of these people could survive the 'dormant period' safely. After all -

"Ah! Ahhhh...ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Hysterical howls suddenly sounded, and a soldier who was like a zombie like the others suddenly stood up unsteadily, and staggered forward while letting out a shrill scream, and his body continued to tremble in the process. The ground melted, and a large amount of plasma and thick water would even spurt out from the gaps in the armor from time to time. Finally, about ten seconds later, the man 'exploded' on the spot, leaving only a set of blood-stained armor. With lots of distorted bones.

[Tsk, tsk, the first category of unsuitable people, whose soul strength is too poor and unable to withstand the lightweight ‘sin’ that has been consumed by nearly half, will definitely die...]

"Uh-huh——"

After a while, a warrior whose eyes had regained clarity and the blackness outside his pupils had almost dissipated. In other words, the warrior who was infinitely close to the success of 'alienation' suddenly trembled and his whole body suddenly grew nearly eighty centimeters taller. , the muscles in the whole body expanded almost three times, bursting the armor with harsh sobbing, and turned into a deformed and twisted monster!

[Well, the second type of maladaptive ones are those whose will is too weak and are swallowed up by the pain of alienation, which leads to annihilation of consciousness and loss of physical control. Let’s throw them into the Original Pardon Legion...]

The old man smiled happily while appreciating the 'typical cases' that were constantly playing out in front of him, enjoying the sense of accomplishment of controlling all possibilities——

"After one hour, all the rest will be adaptors~"

Chapter 1567: End