Chapter 1365 - A False Oracle (2/2)
The goddess could not have given the tablet without thinking about it, so the mage emperors soon discovered that those who could serve as the “carriers of origin” were actually on the planet, and that was them.
The particularity of the ancient civilization of Holletta determined that the mage emperors were the most powerful individuals among mortals, and the tablet granted by the goddess was obviously designed according to this strongest standard.
After confirming this fact, instead of risking their lives, the mage emperors decided to “build” a standard carrier to replace them.
A clone of Lorrisa was born in this situation and was the only successful individual to survive steadily.
Holletta’s clone technology, which gave clone the same power as the original, had had a very low success rate. Even if several magic empires combined to conduct research on a national level, only one clone succeeded, therefore, they had high hopes for Lorrisa’s clone from the very beginning. Even when the mage emperors later discovered that she had accidentally inherited some of the memory and personality from the real Lorrisa, they weighed in and chose to keep the clone.
As the inherited memories and personality were not complete, and lacked “embedding”, although it would affect the clone’s self-cognition to a certain extent, it was not as stable as its own memory and personality. Through the acquired guidance, the mage emperors believed they could get the clone to cooperate, and Lorrisa did the same. Of course, in order to make the clone more compatible with the experiment, the mage emperors also made a series of promises to her, such as freedom or the strong power that could be retained after “enduring the goddess’ grace”… These things were appealing, but for Lorrisa, they did not really matter.
The reason being, in a way, she was kind of half a mage emperor, having inherited the memory of the real Lorrisa. As for the exploration of the mysterious field, her interest was no lower than that of other people. Since there was no choice, it seemed very interesting to feel the mystery of the Tablet of Commandments by herself.
As the project progressed to its substantive phase, she underwent the lead-in experiment of “oracle power.”
“Here’s their plan: the experiment has two parts. One part is to extract the original material from the lifeblood and synthesize blank ‘divine cells’ artificially. The other part is to channel the power of the Tablet of Commandments into a mage emperor or a clone like me so that this power can be transformed into controllable energy. Eventually, they fused the two and created truly activated divine cells,” Lorrisa explained slowly. “I fell into a state of dizzy and sleepy after the ‘lead in’ experiment and soon lost myself completely. But according to you, it looks like they finally got the rest of the work done while I was unconscious…”
“You can transform those divine powers without being conscious?” Hao Ren asked curiously.
Lorrisa raised her right hand, and suddenly her hand was burning with a holy flame.
Then she waved away the flames and said, “It seems that the transformation of divine power on me has been completed. This process should be guided by the Tablet of Commandments, and has nothing to do with my personal will.”
“Can you describe what you ‘saw’ during your unconscious state?” Vivian suddenly asked. “What did you see in the depths of the oracle?”
“The language of mortals cannot describe it.” Lorrisa shook her head. “It was a super-sensory experience. I was vaguely in contact with a vast, twisted consciousness, or probably I was just passing through it, but I was sure it had a dark, evil nature. This consciousness mimics the power of the goddess. And because it is so powerful, ordinary people can’t spot its disguise. Only people like me can detect the truth with their own eyes. All in all, there’s one thing I know for sure: it was definitely not the true power of the goddess. The whole thing was a lie from start to finish.”