Chapter 156: Exchanging for Ancient Blood
Every civilization has its own logical thinking. As more symbols were deciphered, the deciphering speed became faster. When the progress value was about to be full, the deciphering was finally completed, and the unknown program inside the crystal ball finally unveiled its mysterious veil.
“Number 133 Bloodline Inducer?! What is this thing?!” Owen was stunned when he saw the deciphered information displayed by Flame Empress.
Fortunately, the unknown program had already been deciphered and controlled by Flame Empress, and the bloodline induction function was not activated. Owen didn’t have to worry about himself mutating. In fact, after lacking emerald as a medium, the function of the Bloodline Inducer was not that powerful, or rather, it didn’t have an immediate effect.
Owen, with full curiosity, read it from beginning to end and found that he had really underestimated that ruin.
The program inside the crystal ball didn’t have specific information about the ruin; instead, it had records and progress of bloodline induction experiments.
This allowed him to discover the identity of the ruin’s owner: a wizard.
Owen couldn’t understand how wizards thousands of years ago had the ability to build such a large ruin and conduct such a high-level experiment. After all, no matter what creature was in the hands of a wizard, they could all be transformed into a feminine form, each conforming to aesthetics. This was a bit magical.
Speaking of which, did wizards play so wildly back then?
Owen was originally anxious about his increasingly declining bottom line because he not only missed Charle but also had various thoughts about Ai Mi Er and Bella. Unfortunately, due to model incompatibility, his bottom line remained at the alert level.
However, after seeing what the wizards had done, Owen immediately felt relieved and no longer anxious about his bottom line. After all, compared to the wizards back then, he was simply a saint.
Beast-eared girls, centaur girls, these were all things wizards had played with in the past. If the protagonists of the otherworldly custom girls he had seen in his previous life had met the wizards, they would probably have bowed and respectfully called them “teacher.” They wouldn’t dare to say they had completed their studies without ten or eight years of further education.
Owen’s eyes widened. Although he really wanted to slowly appreciate it, now was not the time to do these things. His mind was full of ideas and inspirations waiting to be verified one by one, and he couldn’t be delayed by these matters of the flesh.
After changing his clothes, Owen entered research mode. With Flame Empress, things were much easier.
The carefully selected crystal balls, after being injected with subroutines, were tried by Owen to be installed in the mechanical puppet manufacturing plant and the Synthesis Furnace as intelligent programs, and it was actually feasible.
Combined with the puppets controlled by Flame Empress, it perfectly achieved self-sufficiency.
Theoretically, as long as Flame Empress was given enough time, she could completely become like Skynet.
Unfortunately, this was not realistic. The existence of gods was a dimensionality reduction attack. Without the same level, everything was futile, so it was not yet time for Flame Empress to appear in the world.
When Owen came out of the dungeon, there was a strange construct floating beside him. It looked like a big eyeball with wings. In fact, this was a clone specially created by Flame Empress for Owen, a simplified version of Flame Empress.
Compared to the comprehensive main body, the clone focused more on assistance and analysis and could become Owen’s good assistant, nicknamed “Warm Baby” by him.
As for why it had such a name, it was mainly because it would emit heat when operating, and its football size was just right to be held in his arms, so Owen named it Warm Baby.
There were several similar clones, which Owen distributed to Maya and the others as personal computers. In this way, the entire territory was connected to a network, and electronic office work could be fully realized. The efficiency was improved by more than a little bit, and even Maya felt much more relaxed.
After spending a few days dealing with the affairs of the territory, because it was winter and there were few people, it didn’t take much time. As the progress value was full, Owen returned to the castle again to prepare for further enhancement.
Forty progress points, it was the first time Owen had been so wealthy. The problem was that what to exchange for became his biggest headache.
He didn’t lack equipment, and there were countless skills to learn. After thinking about it, Owen finally decided that he still needed to continue strengthening himself. Relying solely on the T-Virus enhancement was far from enough.
Looking at the carefully selected bloodlines in the system, Owen didn’t know whether his choice was right or wrong, but in terms of potential, the Ancient Blood from the Witcher series was indeed the most potent bloodline currently.
The Ancient Blood originated from elves, so it would gain the beauty and longevity of elves, as well as a powerful magic bloodline.
However, these were just incidental. The real power of Ancient Blood lay in two characteristics: prophecy and time and space travel.
The ability of prophecy gave the possessor of Ancient Blood the potential to become a sage and a prophet, while the ability to travel through time and space was even more outrageously strong, even to the point of being unreasonable. After all, for the possessor of Ancient Blood, crossing over to another world was nothing. Traveling through the past and the future was the truly frightening aspect.
Such a powerful bloodline only required forty progress points. Owen didn’t know how the system evaluated it because he felt that ordinary gods probably didn’t have the ability to travel through time and space.
Regardless of how the system evaluated it, the potential and abilities of Ancient Blood were a temptation that Owen couldn’t resist.
Coupled with the fact that he didn’t know when the system would break through the progress value limit again, Owen decided not to wait any longer and directly exchange for Ancient Blood.
The Ancient Blood was really beautiful. Faint blood-red particles were surrounded by light spots like the sands of time, forming a special galaxy that merged into Owen’s body.
Surprisingly, the fusion of bloodlines was not as painful as Owen had imagined. Because the power of the system had already surpassed the spirit and body, the moment he chose to exchange, everything about him was changing, so naturally, as if it were innate.
As the Ancient Blood continued to merge, a powerful wave of magic gradually emerged within Owen. This was the magic bloodline brought by the Ancient Blood, so powerful that even Owen was shocked.
After obtaining the magic bloodline, Owen could henceforth be classified as a wizard.
However, unlike the risk of losing control faced by wizards and witches when their magic awakened, Owen had powerful mental power and was good at control. The moment the magic was born, his pure mental power wrapped around it, merging with the magic and combing it into order.
Owen had the inheritance of professions such as Puppeteer, Alchemist, Wizard, and Mage, as well as meditation techniques and mysticism, so the newly born magic continued to rise but could never escape his control.
The problem was that Owen forgot that Ancient Blood also had two characteristics. Prophecy was unpredictable, which didn’t matter, but time and space travel was a time bomb. Therefore, when he realized something was wrong, it was already too late.
Before traveling through time, Owen helplessly left a message through Flame Empress and disappeared, leaving only an unshattered sigh.
