Chapter 105: Perverted Scientist

To be honest, if it weren't for the huge side effects of the Soul Seed, Murphy wouldn't be sure if he had the determination not to use the Soul Seed frequently.

If it could just make people obey unconditionally, who could refuse to use it?

Think about that scene.

Give everyone in the Ministry of Magic a Soul Seed, give everyone in the Muggle government a Soul Seed. Wouldn't he rule the world immediately?

Wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wanted?

Let the whole world work for his dreams, support one person with the power of the world, and rely on the efforts of these billions of people. Isn't becoming a god much faster than sneaking around now? And much more comfortable?

This is probably the reason why the Herr family was hunted down to extinction. No one wants to suddenly have a master for no reason.

From this effect, the Soul Seed is a spell far more powerful than the Killing Curse. The Killing Curse only makes an opponent permanently offline, but the Soul Seed can make the other party your die-hard fan.

Such a powerful tool, no one can refuse to use it.

Selica thinks this spell is terrible, mostly because she saw the damage caused by the spell, such as making people or animals go crazy.

But in fact, a Soul Seed without this negative effect is the most terrifying magic.

"Selica, you can use this spell now. Will you rely on it? For example, use it on these two, make them never hurt animals again, or use it on me, make me never touch Black Magic again?"

"Of course not! Controlling others like this is too evil!" Selica answered without thinking.

She now somewhat regretted helping Murphy find this magic. At the time, she only thought this spell could help Murphy make people keep secrets, thereby replacing the punitive Thorn Oath. She was single-mindedly focused on helping Murphy and hadn't thought too far ahead about the harm this spell might cause.

But having experienced the things in the village and read Joachim's diary, she is full of vigilance against this spell.

"Hmm," Murphy nodded. "But this may be because neither of these two targets has much significance to you."

He thought for a moment. "What if I use the Soul Seed on me to make me like you?"

Selica was shocked. She hadn't even thought of this aspect.

Then her face flushed rapidly. This guy actually said this in front of others. Doesn't this mean telling everyone that I like him?

She was a little angry, but Murphy's words still scared her a bit. Making the other party like herself seems really good, but immediately, the appearance of those animals tortured to death by the Soul Seed appeared in Selica's mind.

"No! I will never use this spell on you!"

Love Potion is better than it!

And since Murphy could say such things, it shows that he really doesn't treat her as a possible romantic interest at all.

This made Selica a little disappointed, but also a little sulky.

Murphy laughed. "Look, you've used this magic so many times, and it hasn't eroded your mind. Why worry that I will be eroded by it?"

"..." Selica was speechless.

"However, it, it is too evil..."

"So, aren't I researching a way to make it more gentle?"

"..."

Seems to make sense?

Selica was confused again. What's going on? Why can't I win an argument with him?

"Then, then if it becomes gentle, you will still use it, right? You will still be accustomed to enslaving others, just like you said just now!" Selica finally grasped the point again.

"This..."

Murphy didn't know how to argue for a while. He originally wanted to say that he would only use this spell when "necessary," but what is "necessary" is not up to him to decide?

At this moment, Omid Abbott, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, relieving him.

"Director, Professor Selica, in fact, this magic may not be as powerful as we imagined."

"Oh?" Murphy was stunned and hurriedly followed the topic. "What do you mean?"

"Through recent research, we have also found some patterns of this spell," Omid said.

"We discovered that this spell is actually not necessarily successful."

"First of all, because most animals do not have logical cognitive ability, they cannot understand or execute some commands related to abstract concepts, so the spell will not take effect."

"Secondly, for some animals with primary thinking ability, such as crows, monkeys, etc., we discovered that they seem to be able to resist some commands that are contrary to their strong will."

"For example, we starved a monkey for a few days and then gave it food. At this time, using the spell on it, ordering it not to eat, the probability of success is less than 20%."

"We carefully analyzed those data again and discovered that in cases where the spell was successful, either the monkey was not too hungry, or the monkey was already dying of hunger. And when the monkey was hungry for a day or two, in extreme hunger, but not yet very weak, the spell never succeeded."

"This perhaps shows that the spell can be resisted! Perhaps the reason why those spells were successful was because the subject did not resist the spell too much, or was in a very low-energy state of mind, making it difficult to resist the control of the spell."

"Hmm?" Murphy was stunned. "Can the Soul Seed be resisted?"

Then what is it for?

"We are not sure about this point yet, but we studied Joachim's diary and discovered that the reason he was able to successfully use the spell on the villagers and himself was likely because they were all willing."

"The villagers hoped that they could get better and were willing to believe that Joachim could cure them. Joachim was also willing to let himself believe this point, so his spell did not encounter resistance."

"We suspect that the mechanism of action of this spell is very different from the Imperius Curse."

"The Imperius Curse can be used on unwilling targets and is difficult to resist, but when the Imperius Curse fails, the subject's thoughts will return to freedom. But the Soul Seed is difficult to use on targets with strong resistance, but once successful, it is permanent, and it will remain in effect until the conditions set by the spell are completed."

"Of course, we don't have enough evidence to support this conjecture yet."

"We want to have Professor Selica use some harmless commands on me and Funes, such as writing a thousand words, completely obeying orders within an hour, etc. These restrictive spells have been proven by our experiments not to have long-term effects, but... Professor Selica refuses to use spells on us..."

Selica: "They say it every day, and they come to beg me dozens of times every day... I think they have gone crazy... otherwise they are perverts..."

Murphy imagined the scene. Two big men chasing Selica and shouting "Enslave me, enslave me..."

It's really perverted enough.

"Director, we have done a lot of animal experiments, but the animal's brain is far from human, and more importantly, we have autonomous consciousness and logical thinking. Our thinking mode and psychological mode are also different from animals, and this spell clearly relies on this kind of mechanism, so we apply to be able to conduct human experiments."

"Of course, we can start with ourselves..."

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