Chapter 983: Target is the Queen

Although the Stargate Council had invited Saul to visit, they weren’t yet ready to let Saul and Douglas take over any experiments or maintenance related to the queen.

Saul naturally knew it wasn’t time yet, so he didn’t insist. Following the guidance of other wizards, he left the underground base.

“What a pity.” Douglas sighed while crossing his arms.

“Please rest assured, once the queen’s condition stabilizes, we’ll invite you both to visit again at the first opportunity.”

Douglas smiled without saying anything.

Saul watched from the side, feeling that Douglas wasn’t regretting not being able to visit the red worm, but rather regretting… not being able to study Corey’s mental power.

After all, Corey was now the main wizard stabilizing the red worm and couldn’t possibly leave with Wizard Douglas.

“I’ll head back first.” Although Saul hadn’t been able to observe the queen up close, he had gained some important information and planned to go back and share it with Byron and the others.

After polite farewells, Saul’s figure immediately disappeared.

The next second, Saul returned to Byron’s residence.

Byron and the other consciousness bodies hadn’t left, waiting in the room.

They knew Saul would be participating in the Stargate Council’s migration experiment today, so they had been waiting at home for Saul to bring back firsthand information.

So when Saul’s figure suddenly appeared before Byron, Byron immediately stood up and asked, “How did it go?”

“The experiment is feasible, but the soul body inside couldn’t last long before mutating. I tried to clear the pollution on the shell, but failed.”

Saul briefly explained the migration experiment’s contents, then shifted the topic to the visit to the red worm queen.

“After this successful experiment, the Stargate Council people indeed gave us a little sweetener. Meurich proposed visiting the queen. The location is beneath the white warehouse in the underground base that Agu visited. However, just as I saw the device containing the queen, she suddenly rioted and the visit was forced to end.”

Hearing news about the red worm queen, Byron was indeed excited. He frowned, “Why would the queen suddenly riot?”

“It might be related to me. But I can’t be certain yet. However, I’ll strive to see the queen again as soon as possible. When that time comes, I’ll bring you along, and you… bring the half-elf.”

Byron was stunned. “You want the half-elf to enter the queen’s body?”

The red worm on Byron’s body, which was taller than him, was a body he had prepared for the half-elf.

But he hadn’t expected Saul to want the half-elf to enter the queen’s body.

“Wouldn’t that be too risky?”

“Our current situation doesn’t allow us not to take risks. Moreover, if red worms have a queen, they might also obey the queen’s commands. Rather than using safe methods, it’s better to be more aggressive, since our enemies won’t wait for us to develop slowly.”

In the dream’s apocalypse, even Iskaper had fallen into the abyss, so the fate of the other two continents probably wasn’t much better.

And the Saul and others in the dream had definitely made tremendous efforts to resist the black tide apocalypse.

Even so, they ultimately failed.

This meant their preparations weren’t enough – not enough to keep them all alive.

Then they needed to be even more extreme.

What deactivated red worms – creating them still required wizards’ lives and considerable time. The quantity would definitely be unsatisfactory.

So add non-deactivated red worms too. This way the number of red worms could at least double.

Although non-deactivated red worms might not obey his commands, Saul only needed these cannon fodder to consume the black tide’s powerful pollution – he didn’t need them to be very obedient.

The deactivated red worms could be used for fine-tuning, executing more detailed tasks.

Seeing Saul’s expression suddenly become somewhat heavy, Byron didn’t say more this time and nodded directly, “Then I’ll follow your lead.”

After a pause, Byron added, “I’ll talk to the half-elf.”

But as soon as he finished speaking, Byron tilted his head as if hearing something, then immediately continued, “He agrees.”

Saul smiled.

It seemed the half-elf also understood that if he truly wanted to save those elf consciousnesses trapped in the world barrier, merely parasitizing a small red worm wouldn’t be enough.

To want greater benefits naturally required taking greater risks.

With everyone in agreement, Saul summoned all the consciousness bodies.

“From now on, you’ll need to prepare to get busy too.”

Beth, Wind Sprite, Agu and Herman all nodded in unison.

“Yes, Master.”

Saul’s gaze swept over the first two.

This time, even those two were unreservedly calling him “Master”?

But he said nothing, simply nodding briefly, “Go.”

The four consciousness bodies immediately left in four different directions.

When Saul closed his eyes, he could feel their fate lines dancing before him.

“Time is a bit tight… we still need to make the Stargate Council’s actions even faster.”

A month had passed since the first failed visit to the queen. In one experiment, Saul suddenly found the problem in combining red worms with Faceless One materials, directly transforming the originally egg-shaped carrier into worm-shaped.

That is, he had turned the red worm into a flesh-colored worm, much like the harmless vegetable worms in gardens.

But this change in external form directly raised the fusion level between the carrier and wizard soul by a whole step.

Even Alick couldn’t help looking at Saul with surprise several times.

“This improvement looks like just changing a very small parameter in the fusion, but in fact, this requires thousands or tens of thousands of attempts to hit one effective improvement. How did you manage to find this parameter within a month?”

“Good luck.” Saul said honestly.

He certainly wouldn’t say his good luck was trying it out in the diary for half a month.

Douglas’s mouth corner slightly curved, then quickly flattened.

Alick knew Saul didn’t want to reveal the real reason, so he didn’t pursue it further.

If time wasn’t so tight, giving the stargate several years or over a decade to slowly experiment, they could also find this parameter, so the process of how Saul found it wasn’t that important.

“Your luck has always been good.” Alick replied meaningfully.

“When will the third-rank wizard practical experiment begin?” Saul asked.

He was accelerating progress naturally to make the stargate migration experiment’s overall progress faster, so he could get red worms sooner.

“Naturally, we start now.” Alick didn’t dawdle either, directly having Meurich bring the previously designated third-rank wizard.

That unlucky third-rank wizard had already prepared for soul separation.

Although he was pale-faced when first designated, a third-rank wizard’s mind naturally wouldn’t be particularly fragile. These past days he had adjusted his state, preparing to face the experiment in his best condition.

Only this way could he increase the probability of returning alive.

The stargate wizards acted with particularly high efficiency. On the very afternoon Saul completed the improvement, they had all materials and facilities for the second practical experiment prepared.

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Everyone once again came through teleportation arrays to the stargate’s location at extreme high altitude – using teleportation arrays was also the Stargate Council’s method of hiding the stargate’s location.

The third-rank wizard who had completed initial adaptation to the new carrier suddenly manipulated his flesh-worm-like body to turn back and request of Alick, “Chairman, if I lose control and mutate like the last experiment’s wizard, could you save me once? I’ll try hard to recover my sanity.”

Alick didn’t even look at the test subject, replying coolly, “Yes.”

(End of Chapter)

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