Chapter 1357 - The Second Door (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren had a shocking conjecture after he read the notes.

Firstly, the Ancient Magic Empire not only used advanced biochemical technology but also divinity when it created the demon hunters, who were also the Ancients. Hao Ren believed that the magic empire in the past did not have enough ability to harness the real power of the gods. What they were exposed to should be the product of the further decay of this power. Nonetheless, it was enough to show that the mage emperors were indeed carrying out studies on divine power. They called their research outcome the Divine Cells, which they could manipulate and reproduce.

Secondly, their research turned out to be under God’s decree!

The last paragraph of the note was not some balderdash. Those who left these records had mentioned the divine decree and the goddess of creation and even said that it was under the blessing of the goddess that they could make progress. It confirmed Hao Ren’s earlier speculation that demon hunter was not a product of blasphemy but created on the premise of having faith in the goddess. The revelation greatly exceeded Hao Ren’s expectation.

The mage emperors not only created the demon hunter with their firm belief of the goddess, but even the goddess of creation ordered for the project to be carried out?

Did the goddess ask them to make these “perfect creatures”?

“Let me see, let me see!” Lily saw Hao Ren was in a daze, she could not hold back her curiosity. Taking the notes from Hao Ren, the husky maiden quickly flipped through the papers and finished reading them in one minute. She was wide-eyed.

“That means the goddess of creation ordered the making of the demon hunters?” Lily caught on as well. The husky maiden might be a little dumb, but her judgment and observability were better than others. After all, these were her instincts. “The notes clearly mentioned the process of making a demon hunter. Wait a minute, Mr. Landlord! Something’s missing here!”

“What’s missing?” Hao Ren was startled. He did not see it. Instead, it was Lily who found a clue.

“This ruin is the location of the R&D of the demon hunter, right? Time here had stood still and only resume flowing recently, right? The equipment here is only a semi-finished Sacred Relic of Origins, and there is no way to successfully create the demon hunter, right?” Lily asked a series of questions without expecting answers. “And look at the notes, at the moment when the place shut and time stood still, those guys had not been able to successfully create a demon hunter.”

Hao Ren had understood the meaning of it before Lily finished.

“That means this is not the place of the final creation of the demon hunter, but just an experimental base in the early stage of the project.” Hao Ren looked at the tidy laboratory equipment, his brows gradually knit together. “The project reached its most crucial step, which was the successful synthesis of stable ‘divine cells.’ But it was suddenly abandoned, and the entire experimental base was frozen in time. Those people evacuated with the test data and transfer the final part of the project to another place before they finally created the first-generation demon hunters aka Ancients.”

“That should be the case,” Vivian said. “I didn’t expect Doggie to have such a sharp observation.”

“I’m smart, aren’t I?” Lily had gotten used to the nickname Doggie a long time ago. The husky maiden wagged her tail, and her beautiful pointed ears flicked.

“Then please explain why they suddenly gave up this place,” Vivian said with her eyebrows arching. “Why did they abandon the place when the experiment was going smoothly? The entire experimental base looks intact.”

“That I know,” Lily said. “Maybe it an order from above stopped the experiment. Anyway, it was 10,000 years ago. Who should I ask?”

“There are some details that I don’t understand,” Hao Ren said. His eyebrows still pulled together. “The experimental projects here seem to have suddenly stopped. The still-running magic circles and alchemy containers that Master Hymer saw could confirm it. But there seemed to be sufficient time when those people evacuated—they took all the research materials and left us with only those irrelevant notes. How do you explain this?”

Hymer, who was silent all this while, began to speak. He was still confused by the ancient secrets that Hao Ren and others mentioned, but it did not prevent him from sorting out the information and coming out with his conjecture. “Those people took away the research data means that they had reaction time. Or perhaps the experimenters had received the evacuation order several hours beforehand. Leaving the reaction vessels and magic circles that were still running because it was not easy to stop them abruptly. You may not know; some experimental magic equipment with chain reactions could not stop instantly because most magic circles have a self-sustaining feature during the operation. Forcing them to stop suddenly could easily cause an explosion and bite back on the spell caster. As long as the personnel evacuated and took the research materials with them, it was irrelevant whether the equipment was still running. Those machines would stop after exhausting the energy. Of course, letting those things run without supervision was dangerous, but compared with the consequences of forcibly shutting down the equipment, it was a choice much easier to live with.”

Having an expert on Holletta’s magic to do the explanation, things quickly became evident. Hao Ren nodded in amazement as he listened. “But leaving the experimental equipment running doesn’t sound like what a sophisticated magic lab would do.”

“But if there was an emergency, then it was a forced choice,” Hymer said. “There must be some unexpected event that happened. The experimenters could only gather the research materials but had no time to wait for the equipment to stop.”

“What kind of change would it be?” Hao Ren said as he looked around the buildings. From the surface, it was hard to know what could force the total evacuation from the experimental base.