Chapter 1 You're Awake?

"You're awake?"

Suren opened his eyes, a soft female voice asked.

This was an alchemical workshop, with a very high ceiling, about seven or eight meters.

The room's decoration had a strong classical style, with a golden, aristocratic elegance, and the mysterious atmosphere unique to alchemical workshops.

Various classical magic lamps were suspended in the air, round, square, rhomboid... illuminating the room brightly.

One wall of the room was a bookshelf, densely packed with various alchemical texts.

The glass jars filled with pale yellow liquid contained various biological materials, eyeballs, brains, organs... strange biological materials, most of which did not appear to be human body tissues.

Everywhere on the alchemical workbench were various bottles, jars, and materials.

Test tubes containing potions of various colors were neatly arranged on the shelves. In a beaker being heated by a purple flame, a viscous green liquid was boiling and bubbling, and a faint medicinal fragrance filled the air.

A woman wearing a long white palace dress was engrossed in tinkering with this potion.

Most striking were the eight crystal-clear spider lances on her back.

Unlike the dark gold spider lances on Suren's body, her spider lances gave a sense of returning to simplicity, not at all ferocious. But upon closer inspection, one would find that they flowed with various profound runes that were difficult to look at directly.

The spider lances were like her arms, skillfully and precisely taking various potion test tubes from the shelves, even without precise measurements, casually dripping a few drops, adding two spoonfuls of powder, and a few solid particles...

Just by looking at this refining technique, Suren knew that she was refining a very advanced potion.

In his current understanding, an alchemical process that uses eight materials simultaneously reacting is something that even "master-level" apothecaries in Old Lingdun cannot do.

Suren had been to this [Dawn City Central Prison] eight times, but this was the first time he had entered this room.

However, this gentle woman with eight spider lances was not a first-time meeting.

She was naturally Suren's target, the founder of the Puppet Master profession, Sir Isaac's wife, Pestoia's mother, Lady Sereia.

........

"Hello, Lady Sereia."

Suren responded.

He was awake, but found that he could not move anything except his eyeballs.

He had lost all sensation in his body.

His mind quickly recalled the previous battle. He understood that most of his muscles and body tissues had already collapsed.

And glancing at the alchemical array runes on the floor where he was lying, the appraisal showed that this was a sixth-tier life alchemical array.

Lady Sereia seemed to have timed it perfectly. Just then, the last material was put into the beaker, and a magical reaction occurred. The viscous green liquid gradually became clear, completely turning into a qualified potion.

She walked towards where Suren was lying and poured the potion into the alchemical array.

In an instant, a great surge of green light.

Suren immediately felt a vast vitality drilling into his body.

Like a withered tree regaining life, those broken muscle fibers and various failing organs were recovering with an exaggerated efficiency.

While pouring the potion, Sereia said, "Your brain domain development is not bad, about a 5% increase. This is already very rare."

After a pause, she added, "Your talent is very good. You are indeed suitable for the 'Puppet Master' profession."

Hearing this, Suren felt relieved and said, "It's all thanks to your ladyship's teaching of the secret methods..."

This increase was also within expectations.

The average person's brain domain development is 2% to 8%. The top scientists in Suren's previous life mostly only used about 12%.

This data will have a slight increase through some acquired training and learning, but the general lifetime increase will not exceed 2%.

Suren is now about 16%. Don't underestimate this little bit of data improvement. At some levels, it is the difference between a test score of 59 and 60.

That knowledgeable Mr. Black specifically looked for advanced materials, and only had about 18%.

"Yes. This secret method does seem to come from my hand. After all, besides me, no one else should know..."

Sereia's face always gave a feeling of gentleness and wisdom.

Like looking at Mr. Black, it was a kind of clarity brought by erudition, as if there were no secrets in the world that could be hidden from her.

She glanced at Suren, "Now, you can tell me, what was the deal with that letter you gave me earlier? Also, your intention."

Suren said directly, "Do you know that the current central prison has become a 'cursed space'? My name is Suren, and I came in from a thousand years later..."

Saying that, he briefly stated his intention.

Before entering the cursed space, he had spent a little time handing the lady a letter he had written to "herself."

This was obtained during the exchange for trust when he came in before.

The plan was to try the secret method that Lady Sereia personally told him about, which could improve brain domain development.

He didn't dare try it anywhere else. Without anyone controlling the limit, Suren would undoubtedly die if he completely released the suppressed emotions in his brain.

.......

This Lady Sereia had a very high degree of intelligence.

If it were other cursed spaces, the NPCs would definitely choose to selectively ignore Suren's words.

It's like someone time-traveling and holding a piece of paper with your handwriting, telling you that it was written by you in a parallel world, and you should believe them.

It would be difficult for a normal person to accept.

But this remnant of Sereia easily figured it out and accepted reality.

Just like the previous times.

She murmured to herself, "So I'm already dead..."

Hearing this, a very strange feeling rose again in Suren's heart, as if the person in front of him was a living being.

It is impossible for an NPC to recognize that they are already dead, and that they are an NPC in a cursed space.

Suren had previously thought that she, like Pestoia, was a special existence.

But she herself said that she wasn't.

She was still a remnant NPC in the cursed space.

As before, Suren asked again, "Can you recognize that you are dead?"

He wanted to hear if he could get any different results.

Lady Sereia did not show any unusual emotions because she realized she was already dead, "Actually, it's not difficult to understand. When you are alive, you foresee this destined ending of death, and many things can be understood. Your arrival means that the disaster has happened."

Suren listened and fell into contemplation.

He had heard the same words three times.

But he still couldn't quite understand.

Sereia easily believed Suren, smiled, and directly got to the point, "You must have something to ask me today. For example, give me some tokens? Need me to refine something?"

"Yes, that's right."

While saying these few words, Suren found that his body was usable again.

He opened his storage space and took out the golden card and the sealed box.

Seeing this ability, Sereia raised an eyebrow, "Space ability? Indeed, it's quite suitable for a Puppet Master. But the level of the law you understand is too low. It's easy for higher-level professionals to target your space with law-based methods."

"..."

Hearing this, Suren's expression was slightly strange.

He wanted to say in his heart that this was no longer Dawn City a thousand years ago when there were demigods.

Now the strongest professionals on the surface of Old Lingdun are only at the third tier, which is the level of the prison warden on the first floor of this prison.

At least Suren hadn't met the kind of "high-level" person she was talking about yet.

Sereia took out the golden card and looked at it, and seemed to read the content on the card using some special encryption method, and her eyes became complicated.

Like seeing an object and thinking of a person, seeing the card, her eyes showed a touch of tenderness and melancholy.

After pondering for a long time, she murmured to herself, "So that's how it is..."

Saying that, Sereia condensed a術式印(jutsu style seal), and lightly shouted, "Release!"

The runes engraved on the sealed box suddenly lit up, and layers of golden sealing formations lit up. They were like chains, wrapping the secret box tightly. With this release術式(jutsu style), they collapsed layer by layer.

.......

Suren had taken out this box several times before.

But none of them were opened.

Sereia said that once it was opened, this cursed space would no longer exist.

The two major families were pitted to death, and that "Forensic Doctor" Servis Gerrard had also died.

Suren's brain domain development was also completed, and now the goal had been achieved.

Naturally, it was time to take the last step.

He had previously appraised the runes on the box, which showed "Super", and also knew that they were at least sixth-tier runes.

Now, looking at it, it was indeed so.

But upon closer inspection, it was not quite the same.

The runes he knew were flat, but the runes that lit up on the secret box were disembodied structures.

Seeing that Sereia's expression was very relaxed, he thought that it wouldn't be bad to ask.

He directly asked, "Madam, what kind of runes are these? Why do they feel different from ordinary runes?"

Sereia explained casually, "These are 'Rune Runes', also called Alchemical Magic Runes. They are roughly equivalent to the 'profound meaning' in術式(jutsu style). This is a rune system created by alchemists in the mythical period. Later, after the improvement of countless alchemists, it became a vast knowledge system. Saying it is a system is more like a way of thinking. It abandons the rigid rune routines and studies the variations and extensions of runes. It is very complicated, and the difficulty of research will double. But if you study it thoroughly, the power will be several times that of the same tier, and there will be some unexpected effects..."

Suren understood.

The difference between Olympiad math and ordinary textbooks.

They are all questions for the same grade, but the difficulty is not the same.

The most important thing is not the rune itself, but the kind of divergent thinking direction.

Suren listened with envy, "Madam, what are the requirements for learning Rune Runes?"

He had harvested so many fragments of such powerful runes, but he had never even heard of them.

If he really learned it, the effectiveness of the third-tier Rune Runes might be comparable to that of the ordinary fourth tier, which would be very useful!

Puppets, weapons, armor... the third tier has the effect of the fourth tier, wouldn't that power go to heaven?

This is the true meaning of the phrase "knowledge is power".

Sereia seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and smiled gently, "This is generally advanced rune knowledge that only professionals with extremely high talent can come into contact with. On the third row of the bookshelf, there are a few introductory books. If you are interested, you can take a look. Your brain domain development is very high, so it will be easier for you to understand that level of knowledge than others."

Hearing this, Suren was overjoyed.

"Learning talent" is, in a sense, equal to brain domain development.

Speaking of which, Sereia suddenly thought of something again, and said, "Speaking of which, this rune is also related to your [Omniscient Eye] talent."

Hearing this, Suren's eyes froze: related to his talent?

Sereia asked, "Aren't you very puzzled, why can you understand those things you don't know when you awaken [Omniscient Eye]? Where does the knowledge required for cognition come from?"

Suren didn't think that his dual talents could be hidden from this lady.

Moreover, this was indeed a question he was puzzled about.

This is not a game world, but a real world, where does the "database" come from?

Before he could think too much, Sereia explained, "'Rune' in Old Norse originally means secret, mysterious, representing 'the secret of the universe'. [Omniscient Eye] also has another name in the mythical period, called 'Akashic Records'. You may be unfamiliar with this term, but it also has a name known to everyone in the alchemical academic world, called 'Primordial Matter'. It is the original substance that created everything in the universe. It contains all the secrets of the world, past, present, future... and everything else."

Hearing this, Suren frowned.

Suddenly realized that he seemed to have heard very high-end knowledge.大风小说

If it were before, he felt that he definitely couldn't understand it.

But now, after brain domain development, he vaguely felt that he had touched something.

Sereia glanced at Suren and said, "Have you encountered something you can't understand? For example, the thing in this box?"

Saying that, she took out the thing in the rune secret box, which was a glass jar containing a heart.

A black gold heart that was still beating!

Suren was not surprised to see this thing, after all, he had guessed it before.

Being able to extract "x serum" must be biological limbs or some kind of organ.

Although he didn't expect that this heart was actually still alive.

After appraising it, it showed the expected: Abyss Creature ***'s heart.

He asked, "Why?"

Sereia said, "[Omniscient Eye] can see through all the secrets of the world. The reason you can't see it now is first, your talent awakening level is too shallow, some you can't see, some you see, but you can't understand. Second... because, it is protecting you."

After a pause, she pointed to the heart in the glass jar and asked, "Do you know what kind of heart this is?"

Suren had already guessed and tentatively said, "The legendary 'God Tier'?"

"Yes."

Sereia nodded, confirming this statement, "This is the heart of a God Tier creature. The information of 'Gods' is not just a few words, but contains unspeakable laws for humans. The law level of Gods is not something that low-level creatures can covet. Your Omniscient Eye directly saw that layer of law, but because your cognitive level is too low, it protects you. If you forcibly instill that kind of high-level cognition into your brain, your spirit will immediately collapse."

She showed a wise smile and said, "If I said this heart is the heart of a 'Fallen Angel', would you take another look?"

Suren took another look, and sure enough, the words [Fallen Angel's Heart] appeared in the appraisal.

Sereia's words "defined" the group of incomprehensible laws, expressing them in a way he could understand.

But at the same time, Suren was also shocked.

Angel?

A god with wings?

The existence of mythological legends?

No wonder "x serum" injections make people look good, the genes come from angels.

Suren thought of something and asked, "Madam, is the source of talent awakening bloodline?"

"Yes, but not entirely. There is a legend circulating in the market that humans are the descendants of the gods, and bloodline inheritance is the inheritance of a part of the law power of the ancient gods, such as the elemental talents of earth, wind, water, and fire... but in fact, this is an inaccurate statement."

Sereia slightly curved her eyebrows, correcting this statement, "Bloodline is just one of the carriers. For example, your [Death Harvester] talent, its carrier is the soul. In fact, the essence of talent is still the universe 'Primordial Matter', and God is just the beneficiary..."

"..."

Sure enough, she knew he had dual talents.

Since they were talking about this topic, Suren simply asked all the questions, "What is the difference between S-level talents and other talents?"

Sereia replied, "S-level talents represent the universe's major supreme laws. Your [Death Harvester] represents the 'Law of Death', [Omniscient Eye] represents the 'Law of Wisdom'... Legend has it that we alchemists want to become gods, and understanding these laws is a necessary path."

Her tone suddenly became very serious when she said this, "The essence of alchemy is to understand and decipher the truth of this world. We alchemists are also on the path of pursuing this truth in our lives. From material structure to the understanding of laws, from simple to complex. You can only create equivalent exchange alchemy as you wish if you master it. Therefore, alchemists must be knowledgeable. You already have the qualifications to become a top alchemist and peep into the ultimate secrets of this world..."

Speaking of which, Sereia suddenly said, "Although I am dead, I want to accept you as a disciple."

Hearing this, Suren endured the stinging pain all over his body and got up expressionlessly.

He bowed and saluted,

His expression was calm and solemn as he said, "Teacher."

ps. There will not be many updates recently, and may not be regular. I also found that I have entered a writing misunderstanding, let me think about it carefully. If it is written badly, it is meaningless to update more.