Diary of a Dead Wizard

Royer naturally noticed Saul’s gaze and smiled at him. “I’ll go first. If this fails, then you can try.”

Saul directly spread his hands. “Give me a sample to study first.”

Royer felt awkward. “Aren’t you going to watch how I operate?”

Saul patted the iron experimental table. “I used to work in morgues—I’m best at human experiments.”

“Fine.” Royer saw Saul’s confidence and could only first extract a sample of bloodline to hand to Saul.

Saul took the bloodline and, ignoring Royer’s progress, directly returned to another experimental table and took out various instruments to begin observation.

He now had obtained the Water God’s mermaid bloodline, the mermaid bloodline from Pearl’s body, and now the original mermaid bloodline.

He had kept a portion of each.

It wasn’t that he wanted to research mermaid modification, but mainly to study the principles of bloodline inheritance through the differences and changes in these bloodlines.

So-called bloodlines weren’t just as simple as blood and the cells within—otherwise there wouldn’t be situations like puppet emperor Sander sowing seeds monthly only to end up with nothing.

While observing, he suddenly heard Royer “tsk” from his side.

Only then did Saul look up. “Failed?”

Royer turned back, his expression already restored to calm. “Yes, the bloodline became polluted, but I removed it in time.”

Only then did Saul stand up and go over, discovering Harry’s entire right arm had been severed. The severed arm was now lying quietly in a crystal tray, its skin developing needle-like holes at a visible rate.

These holes were continuously growing larger, from less than a millimeter in diameter to a centimeter in diameter. The entire arm was covered with holes, looking so disgusting it made one’s skin crawl.

Saul didn’t rashly use tentacles to absorb the pollution. He had methods for dealing with black tide pollution, but unknown bloodline pollution still required caution.

Even having reached third-rank, he couldn’t just charge into everything.

Finally, that left arm turned into a honeycomb-like hollow frame under the observation of two third-rank wizards. The blood and bones inside had completely disappeared.

“The original mermaid royal bloodline is too domineering, so it directly devoured Harry’s body. Fortunately you acted quickly, otherwise his entire person would probably be gone.” After watching the arm’s transformation, Saul seriously analyzed the reasons for experimental failure.

Royer had long known that bloodline fusion experiments weren’t so simple, so the first failure didn’t exceed his expectations.

“This time… why don’t you try, Saul?”

“Alright.” Saul didn’t decline either. He directly took the liquid Royer had prepared and worked on Harry’s other arm.

Because the previous attempt had resulted in Harry’s arm being directly annihilated due to the mermaid bloodline being too domineering, Saul chose much more cautious measurements than Royer this time.

But even being very cautious, Harry’s body still couldn’t withstand the mermaid bloodline. Even after the bloodline was diluted through bonding agents and injected into veins, it immediately caused flesh and blood to lose vitality.

Although it didn’t develop the strange honeycomb appearance from before, it became like withered tree branches, losing all activity.

Saul wasn’t surprised by his own failure. His emotions didn’t change at all as he continued seriously recording experimental reactions and data.

Royer had been watching from the side. Seeing Saul also fail, he somehow felt relieved.

He had invited Saul naturally because he acknowledged the other’s abilities. But if he, who had researched for so many years, was surpassed by Saul in one attempt, that would be somewhat embarrassing.

Saul didn’t pay attention to what Royer was thinking. He took his recent experimental data and began comparing it with Royer’s first experimental data.

As he looked, his brow gradually furrowed.

Royer was also analyzing data. Seeing Saul motionless for a long time, he stepped forward. “I’ll proceed with the third attempt.”

Saul retreated to the back, yielding the position.

Next, Royer conducted third and fourth experiments. However, each attempt failed.

Now, even though Royer had prepared for several failures, his expression didn’t look so good anymore.

Before conducting experiments, he had done careful calculations, yet still couldn’t see the dawn of success!

Other materials were one thing, but the original mermaid royal bloodline wasn’t plentiful. Having failed four times already, Royer didn’t want to conduct a fifth attempt.

He followed Saul’s example, taking the four sets of experimental data to analyze.

At this time, Saul put down the materials in his hands and came to Royer’s side to unceremoniously copy a set.

“Let’s stop here for today,” Saul said flatly. “If we can’t find the specific reasons for failure, consuming more bloodline would just be wasteful.”

Royer exhaled. “You’re right. There’s clearly a problem with the experimental design approach. If we can’t find the fundamental cause, there’s no point in continuing experiments.”

Saul pointed at Harry on the experimental table, who no longer looked human. “Will you handle him?”

Royer sighed helplessly. “The current royal bloodline only includes him and Alexandra. We can’t let him die yet. You go back—I’ll heal him.”

“Fine, but even if you heal him, getting him to recover mentally and clearing residual pollution will probably take half a month,” Saul reminded him.

Royer calculated the time. “I know. Before the black tide arrives, there’s only one experimental opportunity. If it still can’t succeed, I’ll go back to strengthening Red Sea Trees.”

Regarding temporarily enhancing Red Sea Trees’ pollution absorption capabilities, Royer was still quite skilled.

Saul nodded and left directly.

After Saul left, Vanessa, who had long been awakened, appeared at the laboratory door.

She immediately saw her son lying on the experimental table, no longer human in form. Her eyes instantly filled with tears.

But she only cried silently without speaking to stop Royer from continuing experiments.

Royer naturally noticed Vanessa’s appearance. His mood wasn’t as calm as when Saul was present.

Continuous failures, with completely no experimental data showing any approach to success, made his heart extremely irritated.

Seeing Vanessa, he directly spat out one word.

“Scram!”

Vanessa covered her mouth, not daring to make a sound, and hurriedly turned and ran.

Just as Royer was preparing to heal Harry, an unremarkable candlestick in the laboratory corner suddenly lit up.

The warm yellow light sphere wasn’t very bright—it didn’t even illuminate its corner—but Royer immediately put down his tools and hurriedly turned to look.

“Did he act?” A low voice sounded within Royer’s soul body.

“No,” Royer answered respectfully.

The voice from the candlestick showed no change. “Next time bring him to conduct mermaid modifications.”

Royer was stunned, instinctively wanting to explain his bloodline fusion experiment, but the words at his lips became, “Yes.”

“Hiss!”

The candlestick extinguished.

From beginning to end, the voice in the light source never asked a single question about bloodline fusion.

Royer’s fists slowly clenched.

This feeling of not having expectations for him really wasn’t pleasant.

He temporarily didn’t want to deal with Harry. Leaving him out for a night wouldn’t kill him anyway.

He wanted to find some diversion. It couldn’t be Vanessa—she was still useful and couldn’t die.

Several hours later, Royer got up from a bed full of severed limbs, gently sucking his blood-stained fingers.

By now his mood had calmed down.

“Alfonso, Alfonso, I’ve already helped you this much. You mustn’t really walk down that path of no return!”

(End of Chapter)