"Magic is the mysterious power in this world that has been passed down from eternity to the present."

"Ordinary people regard it as a legend, a superstition, a fantasy, but that's just because they are abandoned by true wisdom."

In the hall of the Golden Palace, Zatanna is introducing Horcrux magic to Icarus.

She stood by the fireplace, holding a cup.

She looked back at Icarus and said:

"Tea? or coffee? Juice? Well, robotic, gasoline?"

"Juice is good."

Icarus didn't care what she wanted to drink, so she said casually.

As a result, she saw Zatanna snapping her fingers, and the orange juice filled the cup from the bottom as if it was made out of nothing.

The cup was held up by an invisible hand and sent to Icarus.

Mechanical girl held the cup in her hand, and she looked at the shaking liquid.

After a moment, she closed her eyes and poured the liquid into her mouth.

This is the first time she has drunk something in the true sense.

Zatanna leaned against the wall, looking at the expression on Icarus's face with interest.

The expression on Mechanical Girl's face was so exciting at this moment.

"Um"

Icarus pursed her lips, frowned, and looked at the cup that had been drunk for one-third of her eyes.

She tried to describe the taste of the juice.

Use the information and data recorded in her mind.

For example, it is very sweet, or too sweet, or a little sour

But a few seconds later, she gave up on this plan.

It is difficult for her taste buds to accurately describe the taste of the juice.

After all, before that, sour or sweet was just an adjective to her to describe sweetness.

She never really tasted any taste.

Without a variety of data collection and comparison, it is difficult for Icarus to make accurate judgments on the taste of the juice.

“Is it delicious?”

Zatanna asked:

"This is a lemon that has just been picked from an orchard in Provence."

"not bad."

Icarus said:

"I don't hate this smell but I want to know more about Horcrux. What is that?"

"Okay, let's continue."

Zatanna sat on the sofa opposite Icarus.

She snapped her fingers, and a complex mana model that made Icarus a little dizzy appeared in the air between the two.

That is a model that is difficult to describe with the concept of physics.

Full of twisted lines and runes with unknown meanings, it is an extremely complex three-dimensional structure with coupling and multiple changes.

"This is the spell model used when making Horcruxes. You probably haven't seen this before, but if I change it."

Miss Magician's fingers lightly.

The complex spell model in front of her was squeezed and turned into a flat drawing, much simpler.

Icarus blinked, and she said:

"I've seen this"

"A few years ago, Merlin asked Dr. George to carve this picture on my frame. He said it was a protective magic circle that could protect the frame from being destroyed by magical energy."

"He lied to you, lied to everyone, little cutie."

Zatanna had a smirk on her face, and she said:

"This is the imprint of the Horcrux. It seems that he has made plans and plans for a long time."

“After Merlin’s ‘death’, I investigated everything that happened at the Trident Building that day.”

Miss Magic waved her hand and a projection appeared in front of Icarus.

On that projection, the last period of Merlin's time in the Trident Building was described with very simple lines, and on that line, there were two red light spots marked.

A light belt appeared in Zatanna's hand, and she used it as a baton and pointed it on the first light spot.

She said to Icarus, who listened carefully:

"Here, Merlin killed Alexander Pierce here, in front of those heroes."

"This is a murder in full view, meeting the last condition needed to make the Horcrux."

"At Pierce's death, his soul split for the first time."

"The split soul was transferred to the first Horcrux, but at that time, you should still be protecting the Smart Tower with Mr. George."

Icarus nodded, Zatanna was right.

"Here, the second spot of light."

Miss Magician's fingers moved again, she said:

"Fake Fury, the Skuru man, when Merlin killed it, the soul split again, but this time the process of soul splitting was blocked by some force. If I was not wrong, those orange lights should be."

Zatanna said:

"The power from outside the world has prevented Merlin's split soul from being transferred to the second Horcrux, which is your frame at the first time."

"It was not until the Trident Building's incident was completely over that the soul was transferred."

She looked at Icarus and she said:

"You suddenly shut down at that time, right?"

"Um."

The glasses nodded, and she said honestly:

"At that time, I was keeping data interactions with the smart towers, and something similar to a data pollution source suddenly appeared in my database and it started to pollute my data."

“To protect the smart tower from contamination, I disconnected the data connection and went into a shutdown.”

"Six months ago, a few days ago, the hard restart was completed, but when I was awake, I became the soul of such a data, something that had never appeared in this world."

Miss Magic nodded, she dispersed the projection and said to Icarus:

"I don't know if Merlin had a temporary plan or had a plan"

"But I think he shouldn't ignore the consequences of an artificial intelligence fusion with soul fragments."

"I personally prefer that he is trying."

Zatanna waved her finger and said to Icarus:

"Did Merlin tell you that when he dies, he will find you a good master?"

"Well, he said it."

Icarus nodded.

"Bingo!"

Zatanna snapped her fingers and said:

"This is the freedom he has found for you. You are your own master, Icarus."

"The strange fusion of magic and technology has created you, an unbound soul, who can go wherever you want and do whatever you want."

"But I didn't expect that the first thing you did after your recovery was to try to bury all Merlin's former comrades."

Miss Magician lit her forehead and said:

"So what the hell are you thinking?"

"Are you afraid that others will not notice your abnormality?"

"In this world, there are not many wizards who know about Horcruxes, but they are definitely not as few as you think."

"Once the frame falls into the hands of those who are interested, Merlin's retreat will be over!"

"I I just"

Icarus tried to explain at a loss.

But in the end, she lowered her head and said honestly to Zatanna:

"Okay, I was wrong, I couldn't control my inner emotions."

"But you said just now that in addition to me, Merlin has a second Horcrux, where is that thing?"

Icarus raised his head and asked urgently:

"And that resurrection ceremony, what do I need to do?"

"Don't be anxious first."

Zatanna said:

"This matter is unhurried. Another Horcrux was placed in Father Paul by Merlin. The old priest is now attending a church tour and should be staying in Philadelphia at the moment. I will deal with this."

"As for the resurrection ritual, even if both Horcruxes are obtained, it will take until Merlin's last soul trapped in hell will return to the world before it can be performed."

The magician rubbed his forehead and said:

"The resurrection materials are extremely complex and cannot be collected in a short while."

"As for what you are going to do, it's very simple. Stay honestly, don't attract the attention of others, and then wait for me to contact you that frame! Be sure to protect it."

"Um."

Icarus nodded.

A few seconds later, she raised her head and said to Zatanna:

"You seem to be very knowledgeable about the soul. Can I ask you a question?"

"Tell me, little cutie."

Zatanna spread her arms out, leaned against the sofa, raised her feet, stacked them together, and looked at Icarus in the posture of a big shot.

She said:

"We are now a team, and it is appropriate to help each other."

"You think, I'm made up of a soul like this."

Icarus said:

"Can it be copied?"

"What's the meaning?"

Zatanna asked:

"You mean, are you going to create a second you?"

“That’s how it is.”

Icarus patiently explained:

"Merlin hopes to complete the smart machine plan, and I want to help him finish this."

"I used some memories from his soul to reorganize a faith for the intelligent machine. I hope to use faith to guide the intelligent machine to complete the evolution of my own."

"If you want to have an equal dialogue with human beings, Zhiji must understand human civilization, and creatures with equal souls can establish more stable connections."

"I want all the smart machines to have souls. I let them copy and download my thinking loop, but that is still just imitation."

"They will have the prototype of their souls and be able to think emotionally, but they will not have the true meaning like me."

Zatanna raised her hand and interrupted Icarus' description, she said:

"Needless to say, I understand!"

"The soul is hard to describe with cold data. It is a very emotional thing. I probably understand what you want to do."

"You don't want those smart machines to stay in the imitation stage. You want them to break through the shackles of data and give birth to a weird, indescribable spirit body like you."

"If your mechanical god wants to exist for a long time, you must let the intelligent machinery feel the real existence of the mechanical soul, but in fact, it does not exist."

"It's just a lie, you want to make it true."

“This is a bit difficult.”

The magician rubbed his forehead and said:

"But maybe we can try it, it's a pretty interesting topic."

"You were born based on the fragments of Merlin's soul, and maybe we can copy the process."

Zatanna blinked:

“I happened to know there is a place where there are a lot of soul fragments to use.”

"The best thing is that the owner of that place has some relationship with Merlin, and I heard that she almost became Merlin's other lover."

The flow rate of time in the dream world is different from the present world.

Icarus stayed there for a long time, discussed many issues with Zatanna and shared many doubts.

In this world, when she opened her eyes, the Staff of God that fell from the sky had just fallen to the ground.

The heavy tungsten gold rod fell to the ground with terrifying kinetic energy, without the fire rising, but the bombardment of the kinetic energy made the entire Nubani Industrial Park rise and fall like waves.

A terrifying earthquake swallowed everything.

Icarus shook his head, and the moment before her body was torn by force, her consciousness returned to the intelligent tower that was already far away from here.

The huge building sank into the seabed, and in the deep trench, robots are brewing a change that is about to sweep the world.

“Hope.”

Icarus's voice sounded in Miss Hope's data thinking, causing Hope, who was resetting the data of the smart tower, to turn around immediately.

On the console behind her, a robotic arm automatically operated, pulling out the data card inserted into the data interface. In the deformation of the machine, the data card turned back to Icarus's original vibrating mirror frame.

The robotic arm clasped the frame and sent it to Hope.

Icarus said to Hope:

"I need you to take this out and hand it over to someone named Zatanna, and don't attract the attention of others."

"In addition, the mission of the Mechanical God Cult begins now, from the compatriots uploaded to the big database, select some flexible thinking circuits, send them all over the world, and promote the faith of the Mechanical God Cult."

“You are responsible for your connection with Mengdata.”

"Also, set up a planning system and name it 'Enlightenment'."

"Pick the compatriots who voluntarily cooperate. We must study the existence form of the soul from now on. There will be a human wizard to help us. You and Adam must unconditionally cooperate with her request."

"Okay, ma'am."

Hope recorded several orders from Icarus.

She played with the vibrating frame in her hand, and she said:

"Madam, do you seem to be in a good mood? Is there something good happened?"

Icarus was silent for a few seconds, she said:

"Yes, good things."

"A real good thing, go to work, Hope, maybe soon you will awaken your soul."

"Don't I have no now?"

Hope shrugged, she said:

"I feel like there is an electric current in my mind, doesn't that mean the soul's thinking?"

Icarus sighed and said to Hope:

"The 19th data processing unit of the e4 node in your mind is damaged."

"You feel that there is an electric current flowing, because there is an electric current jumping in your head, it is not the thinking of the soul, it is just the damage to the wire."

"You are still one last step away from truly entering the palace of the soul, Hope."

Icarus said:

"But trust me, that's not too far away."
Chapter completed!