Chapter 311: Research Results and Unease

Inside the Time-Law Chamber, the tenfold time acceleration allowed research to deepen, yet it also made the war preparations outside seem exceptionally urgent.

By the time Gao Jie Ming and the other logistics-specialized wizards finally emerged from their state of obsessive research, more than half a month had passed in the outside world.

Intelligence reports from frontline reconnaissance units were becoming increasingly dire—the Giant Spirit Realm's armies had completed their mobilization, and a new round of total war could erupt at any moment.

During this accelerated time, the logistics wizards lived up to expectations, producing a variety of research results.

Although the rushed timeline meant many spells or creations lacked refinement and possessed a certain "good enough" crudeness,

with the shackles of destruction limits removed, every single result radiated an unsettling, dangerous aura.

Some wizards continued traditional lines of thought, starting from the elemental level to develop disintegration spells specifically targeting the semi-fluid, viscous structures or the specific elemental compositions of the Giant Spirit Realm natives' soul cores.

Once they hit their mark, they could trigger a chain reaction of disintegration spanning from matter to energy, and even the soul.

Others, targeting the Giant Spirit Realm's reliance on machinery, developed wide-area electromagnetic pulse storms, metal fatigue curses, or logic-virus spells capable of infiltrating energy circuits to trigger overloads.

Still others, with unconventional thinking, cultivated a special type of biochemical beast.

These beasts appeared ordinary, but their bodies were embedded with mind-twisting spell models.

Once captured by a Giant Spirit Realm native attempting symbiosis or research, they would quietly release mental pollution, causing the operator to fall into madness or suffer cognitive impairment.

Among these, one of the most eye-catching results came from the Tier 6 wizard Balza.

Drawing on his profound understanding of sound wave and vibration laws, he developed a bizarre "Resonance Disintegration Wave."

This vibration wave did not cause direct damage; instead, it stimulated the Giant Spirit Realm natives' bodies at a specific frequency, inducing an uncontrollable "stress evolution" response.

This forced evolution caused the delicate balance between the native and their symbiotic mechanical or biological limbs to break, resulting in violent rejection reactions and internal self-disintegration.

Even more terrifyingly, the natives who died from this spell would have their remaining internal energy guided by this specific vibration frequency to surge out of control, spontaneously generating and spreading the same "Resonance Disintegration Wave," forming a death ripple capable of sustained transmission.

Once revealed, this spell was immediately favored by many frontline wizards for its efficiency and chain-reaction properties.

In contrast, the speed of Gao Jie Ming's output was glacial, making him nearly the last among all participating wizards to complete his task.

His research direction was somewhat similar to Balza's, both targeting the natives' core "symbiosis" ability.

But Gao Jie Ming's path was far more circuitous.

He had initially attempted to directly trigger rejection reactions, but after countless attempts, he discovered that the Giant Spirit Realm natives' symbiotic system, honed by countless years of natural evolution and active technical modification, was unimaginably stable.

Trying to force a rejection reaction from the outside was extremely difficult, and efficiency was hard to guarantee.

Stuck in a bottleneck, Gao Jie Ming quickly found a completely different path through reverse thinking.

"Since I can't make them 'reject,' why not make them 'over-accept'?"

Through deep dissection, Gao Jie Ming discovered that the symbiosis ability of these slime-like creatures relied on a special "pheromone enzyme" secreted by their core.

This enzyme could read the "life information" or "structural information" of any limb it contacted, then guide its own cells and energy field to imitate and adapt, eventually achieving perfect symbiosis.

Their excellent adaptability to metal also stemmed from this enzyme's ability to guide cells to undergo corresponding changes.

Gao Jie Ming's train of thought became clear: since he couldn't trigger a rejection reaction, why not stimulate the opponent's core to cause an uncontrolled, excessive secretion of this "pheromone enzyme"?

In the laboratory, Gao Jie Ming looked at a Giant Spirit Realm native trapped in a high-intensity containment field, who was currently symbiotic with a mechanical arm and two different biological limbs, a smile of impending experimental success on his face.

The spell's effect was better than expected.

Under the continuous stimulation of a specific frequency energy field (the spell he developed), the pheromone enzyme secretion within the native went completely out of control.

Under the terrified and desperate gaze of the native, its body began to undergo uncontrollable, violent changes, frantically imitating the characteristics of the three different limbs it was symbiotic with.

The slime-like base body twisted and writhed, with the grey hardness of metal, the scarlet of flesh, and the bizarre patterns of the other biological limb chaotically intertwining and protruding on its surface.

Finally, with a mental wail filled with despair and fear, the Giant Spirit Realm native turned into a twisted, writhing, indescribable mass of metal and two types of flesh randomly stitched together.

When its body was completely torn apart by these three distinct, conflicting characteristics and lost its unity, the rejection reaction that had been forcibly suppressed finally erupted in its most violent and chaotic form!

Its death was swift and miserable.

"Success—but the time it takes to take effect is too slow." Gao Jie Ming evaluated coldly.

From casting to the target's complete collapse and death, it required a significant amount of time, and one had to ensure the target remained within the spell's influence throughout the process.

On the ever-changing battlefield, this was a nearly fatal flaw.

So next, he needed to solve two key problems: how to make this spell take effect quickly, and how to make it spread on a large scale.

Gao Jie Ming turned his attention to the biochemical field.

Centuries of accumulation from dissecting Void Plane creatures had provided him with a vast reserve of life-related knowledge.

And the research and development of the Black Giant and the Patrolers had made him adept at biological modification and the fusion of xenogeneic tissues.

Gao Jie Ming first extracted a type of microorganism that naturally lived in symbiosis within the Giant Spirit Realm natives, which was regarded as "beneficial bacteria."

Then, he combined it with the genes of a tiny insect from the Void Plane capable of driving away natural enemies with specific energy fluctuations.

Finally, he etched an extremely simplified spell model, capable of stimulating the excessive secretion of pheromone enzymes, into the life core of this brand-new bacterial strain.

The modified bacterial strain's outer shell remained the "probiotic" familiar to the Giant Spirit Realm natives, allowing it to easily bypass the host's immune recognition and settle in safely.

Its inner core, however, continuously radiated the modified energy fluctuation—no longer the energy fluctuation that drove away natural enemies, but a constant release of that lethal "over-symbiosis" stimulation signal!

Of course, because this spell was extremely simplified, its effect was significantly weakened, further lengthening the time it took to take effect.

But that was not a problem, because once this bacterial strain entered a Giant Spirit Realm native's body, it would become a continuously active "spell transmitter," fundamentally solving the problem of slow activation.

As for spreading?

Gao Jie Ming further strengthened the reproductive capacity of this bacterial strain and loaded it with a high-efficiency energy absorption system derived from the Black Giant.

They could frantically absorb energy within the host's body, reproducing at an exponential rate.

When the host died due to "over-symbiosis" and the body disintegrated, the massive amount of bacteria would naturally spread into the environment to find new hosts—and because of the energy absorption system, these bacteria had an incredibly exaggerated survival capacity.

Not to mention in the air; even in harsh environments with high or low temperatures, they were barely affected.

Due to the three rounds of precise biochemical modification and fusion, Gao Jie Ming nearly hit the final deadline to complete this project, named "Symbiotic Disaster."

He was well aware of the biggest flaw in this technology: it could not eliminate the enemy instantly; it required time to ferment and form a plague-like effect.

When all the logistics wizards gathered before the Tier 7 wizard Dixon with their results, the fate-specialized wizard's gaze swept calmly over everyone and the creations or spell models they held, which were all different in form but radiated an ominous aura.

His gaze lingered for a moment on Balza's "Resonance Disintegration Wave" model, then swept over the seemingly harmless grey bacterial colony in the special crystal jar in Gao Jie Ming's hand.

"Reconnaissance shows that the enemy's legions have begun to move." Dixon's voice was low, yet it clearly entered the mind of every wizard. "Your research is both the spearhead and the shield. Next, the battlefield will be the final testing ground."

"The merit and rewards you can obtain depend on how brightly your methods can bloom in the coming storm of steel."

"Submit your results to the military supply department for filing and mass production. Then, prepare yourselves. The war is about to begin."

His words were plain, yet carried the heavy pressure of a storm about to break.

Giant Spirit Realm, deep within the Royal City.

Koge's massive semi-fluid body writhed restlessly around the throne, its three pairs of compound eyes flickering with unease that refused to subside.

Ever since that time it had expended the precious Thousand-Soul Gold Crystal to communicate with the "Light Chaser," the other party had vanished like a stone into the sea, without any further response.

It had tried multiple times to restart the cross-boundary communication array, but no matter how much energy it injected, the other side remained in dead silence, with no will responding to its call.

"Could it be—that guy really ran off with the money?" An absurd thought swirled in Koge's mind.

Of course, it also knew that although the other party had scammed it on the communication array, it hadn't yet paid the "intelligence"

balance—that was the big part.

But the "Light Chaser" was known for its reputation; it shouldn't be like this.

Unease, like cold slime, permeated its core.

Unknown enemies, a missing intelligence merchant—everything felt bizarre.

However, time waited for no one.

The pressure from the border was growing day by day, and the massive war machine was already running at full speed; legions and powerhouses summoned from various vassal planes had all gathered.

The arrow was on the string and had to be fired.

Koge forcibly suppressed the doubts and unease in its heart, pouring all its energy into the deployment of the war.

Regardless, it had to first repel these invading "wizards"!