The transformation spell that Leo is currently performing comes from the wizard's notes provided by the expedition. It is mentioned in the notes that the transformation spell was originally derived from an incomplete ancient witchcraft. It was later repaired by the chief wizard of the tower and transformed into a dream state.

This transformation technique was created based on a dream spirit called amoeba in the world.

However, the Wizards Association soon discovered that this deformation technique had many flaws. First of all, the deformation technique could only change some details of the caster's facial features, but could not change the entire body. It was impossible to transform into other objects like an amoeba. Secondly, it could not change the caster's facial features.

Even the transformation spell is very simple to perform, and even the most ordinary wizard apprentice can perform it. However, to maintain the transformed state, a large amount of spiritual energy or speaking power is required. The investment and output are seriously imbalanced, so some gains outweigh the losses.

Although this transformation technique is much worse than expected, after all, it has been repaired by several generations of chief wizards, so the Wizards Association did not abandon it, but included it in the list of compulsory witchcraft projects. Almost every wizard

The members of the association all know this witchcraft.

Leo didn't take this witchcraft seriously at first. When he saw Sir Darwin leaving the tent and planning to sneak into the tent, he was just planning to use this transformation technique to change his identity, disguise himself as an officer, and sneak into the tent.

However, when performing the deformation technique, he had a sudden idea to see if he could follow the transformation process of amoeba recorded in the notes and use the power of nightmare to imitate it while performing the deformation technique.

The final result of this sudden thought was somewhat beyond his expectation. Not only did his facial features completely change, but his body also completely changed according to his thoughts. Through perfect control skills, he easily figured out the body's

situation, and found that the overall shrinkage of the body was not the shrinkage of muscles and bones that he expected, but completely transformed into another body. Even the bloodline was different, except that it only had spiritual power or so on.

There is no change in the soul.

After the power of nightmare completed the transformation process of the amoeba, Leo could only rely on spiritual energy to maintain the changed form, and the spiritual energy consumed was far more than the transformation spell alone. Such a huge consumption of spiritual energy was also

It was completely beyond Leo's expectations. When he was inspected outside the tent, he almost failed to successfully cast the suggestion technique.

In the process of using this transformation technique that combines psychic energy with the power of nightmares, Leo also discovered the development potential of this transformation technique, such as turning into some kind of advanced creature. According to Leo's imagination, the final form of this transformation technique should be

Being able to transform into some kind of high-level holy object while also possessing the innate abilities of that high-level creature, just like Velen's extraordinary transformation in the way of Gudrui that has disappeared.

According to the legends recorded in some books, the extraordinary transformation in Gudrui's way is said to be able to transform into a natural god through the medium given by some natural gods, and possess the divine power of the natural gods. In Leo's opinion,

, the final form of my current transformation technique should be similar to the extraordinary transformation, maybe even more advanced.

However, these are just Leo's ideas. If you want to further perfect the transformation technique, you first need to obtain the complete ancient transformation technique. In addition, you need living amoebas as research objects, and you also need the medium of those high-level holy objects, and

Regardless of any of these conditions, it is very difficult for Leo to obtain it now.

Therefore, the idea of ​​improving the transformation technique only flashed in Leo's mind for a moment, and was temporarily put aside by him.

Leo found a slightly suitable place to sit in the tree, where he placed a large number of notes. The backpack of books was hung on a branch in front of him, and then he took out a research notebook and read it carefully.

Leo read very quickly, and Sir Darwin himself was very careful and did not record too many core contents in his notes. Most of them were experimental data written in coded symbols, and the rest were some

An idea that comes from sudden inspiration.

Although Leo could not understand much of the content, through the parts he could read and the conversations he had overheard before, he had already learned something about the research projects that Sir Darwin had been engaged in at the French Imperial Academy over the years.

learn.

It is somewhat different from Leo’s speculation when he first saw the family members appearing in the French Imperial Army. In fact, the French Empire was not absorbed into its various departments until Louis X waited for the throne. As early as before

During the reign of two generations of emperors, the empire began to secretly recruit those Familia who were hunted down by the Night Watch and the Orthodox Church.

However, due to the Familia's suspicion of human beings and the influence of the power of chaos within the Familia, there are not many Familia who truly surrender to the French Empire and are willing to accept the constraints of the Empire's laws and become imperial spies.

After decades of development, there are now more than 300 dependents in the imperial army. Of these more than 300, less than 50 can perfectly hide the mutant organs of the dependents on their bodies. The remaining two hundred people

They are all like monsters, and they have to cover their faces when going out, even in the military camp here.

When Louis X was still Duke of Devon, he followed the advice of Rupert Fitz, who had not betrayed him at that time, and tried his best to win over those family spies who were generally discriminated against by the imperial elite, and made some promises to these people.

Afterwards, a series of things that happened in the imperial capital proved that it was correct to win over the Familia. At the same time, it also allowed Louis X to truly see how powerful the core members of the Familia were, so he came up with the idea of ​​man-made Familia.

And Sir Darwin is the best person to take charge of this project.

Sir Darwin has not given up on his taboo research over the years. Although he is unable to obtain a large amount of research materials and funding in the institute as in the past, the continuous research experiments have prevented his research projects from going backwards.

Therefore, when Sir Darwin took over the project and received the permission of Louis X, he did not hesitate to publish some of his research results and integrated the artificial family project into his research on human evolution.

According to Sir Darwin's notes, artificial Familia is simply to extract the original cells from the blood of the Familia by making alien cells, and then implant them into a suitable human body to allow them to complete cell fusion and transformation.

Become a dependent family.

Because there had been similar experiments in the past, it was not very difficult for Sir Darwin to repeat the operation. In just one year, he completed the preliminary experiments of artificial retinue and created several successful experimental products.

After that, with the support of the empire, he devoted all his efforts to cultivating artificial dependents, which doubled the number of artificial dependents in the French Empire. He recorded a statistic at the end of last year in a notebook. In that statistic, artificial dependents

There are already more than 700 people in total, more than twice as many as the natural dependents.

These man-made dependents performed extremely well in this military operation of the French Empire. With their powerful strength, extraordinary abilities, and almost cold mentality, in Leo's opinion, they were simply a group of modified human soldiers of the Earth Federation.

However, this kind of artificial Familia also has great flaws. For example, once the power of the artificial Familia is fixed, it is impossible to increase any more, and the life span is much shorter than that of ordinary people. Even if there is no disease or disaster, it is difficult to survive.

Forty years old.

The most important point is that these artificial Familia cannot achieve the mass production required by Louis X, because the breeding tank medicine required to cultivate these artificial Familia is very rare and can only be found in the dangerous primeval forests of the Moissan Continent.

There is output.

However, it was obvious that Sir Darwin had no intention of continuing to study the artificial Familiars. He was just planning to use the core technology of the artificial Familiars as a bargaining chip to exchange for the research projects and funding he wanted from Louis X, such as the medical school's god-making project.

Leo still doesn't know what the medical school's complete god-making plan is. The information he just saw on the workbench of the tent that was left out when the medical school was evacuated only mentioned part of the human body transformation, and from these

Judging from the content of the information, it looks more like an instruction manual deliberately left behind to attract the interest and attention of people like Sir Darwin.

In those materials, the medical school mentioned that it had separated out a relatively mature transformation plan from the God-Creation Project. By implanting heterogeneous organs with different powers into the human body, the human body can obtain the power contained in the organ itself.

This method reminds Leo of the Earth Federation's modified humans. Both are implanted with alien organs, and both obtain powerful power from the organs. However, in the Earth Federation, human modification is already a quite mature technology.

But even so, the success rate of transformation is not very high, only 30%, and rejection will occur without exception. In the age of steam industry like the world of Velen, even if there are powers such as witchcraft to protect the transformation,

But the success rate may not be very high.

This also reminded Leo of the mysterious wizard who helped Old Rembrandt make life-sustaining machines and prepare medical solutions. Judging from his method of combining the human body with steam machinery, he should be very suitable for this method of human body modification. Maybe he can also

Participated in the god-making project of the medical school.

However, what Leo regrets is that these remaining documents do not mention the Ring of Plague. However, in some incomplete meeting records, it is mentioned that the medical school is preparing to implement a plan in Miria City.

The plan did not specify what the plan was, it just marked a danger level and an evacuation plan.

According to Leo's understanding of the medical school's danger level classification standards, this danger level represents dangerous things, including the Great Plague. However, this does not mean that the medical school holds a ring of plague and is preparing to deploy a large scale in Miria City.

Physical evidence of the plague.

Just as Leo was looking through these notes, sirens suddenly sounded from the camp not far away, and a large number of soldiers began to tighten defenses inside and outside the camp, and groups of patrols were also sent out to attack them.

The surrounding woods were carefully searched.

There was almost no need to guess too much. Judging from the large tent that was tightly protected on three levels inside and outside, Leo already knew that what he was doing might be discovered, and this was exactly the result he wanted.

Leo ignored the patrol soldiers who were searching the surrounding woods. Under the clever disguise that combined witchcraft and tactical concealment, even if the search team looked up under the tree to look, they probably wouldn't be able to see Leo sitting in the tree.

Sure enough, a group of patrolling soldiers passed by under the tree where Leo was. Several soldiers who passed by looked up several times to confirm, but they could not see Leo sitting in the tree.

At this moment, several more groups of soldiers came out of the military camp not far away and entered the mine camp directly to support the defense personnel in the camp.

As the saying goes, the mine camp has sufficient manpower after the supporting soldiers joined. However, the military camp on the other side has to send heavy troops to guard the train station and the railways along the way, so the supplementary defense in the military camp is stretched. Not only

There are some holes in the outer defense circle, and even the patrol routes inside the barracks have some problems.

However, Leo did not leave immediately for the military camp not far away, but continued to wait for a while.

Things developed as he expected. He saw another group of soldiers dispatched from the military camp. This group of soldiers did not join the defense of the mine barracks. Instead, they went directly to the entrance of the mine tunnel and established a small outpost at the entrance of the mine tunnel.

This reduces the possibility of others sneaking in.

The redeployment of manpower made the defense at the military camp more vulnerable. For ordinary people, such defense was still a bit of a deterrent, but for Leo, this kind of defense was no more than nothing.

After all, all the above contents had been memorized by him, and the book itself had lost its use. Therefore, when Leo left, he did not take the backpack containing those notes. At the same time, he did not fall under the tree, but quickly climbed among the dense branches.

Jumping up and down, he moved silently outside the military camp like a nimble black panther.

Compared with the tents in the mine camp, which are all made of materials mixed with psychic interference, the military camp is obviously inferior. All the tents are made of the most common and cheap canvas. The real elites in the military camp

They have all been sent in batches to the train station and mine barracks not far away, and the remaining people are all inexperienced recruits.

Leo didn't even use witchcraft at all, he sneaked directly into the military camp warehouse, changed into a French Empire officer uniform, and then walked directly towards the commander's tent in the military camp.

Although various clues and intelligence collected so far indicate that the French Empire officer who previously colluded with the medical school for human trafficking is the logistics officer of this military camp, the commander of the military camp does not know these things.

But in Leo's view, this argument was completely untenable. Although he was not sure how deeply the commander was involved in the medical school's plan, he was sure that the commander should know some useful information.

Leo came to the training ground not far from the main camp tent. While pretending to watch the recruit training in the training ground, he used the mental network to check the situation in the tent. The information fed back by the mental network surprised him.
Chapter completed!