Chapter 207 Mother and Replica

Nightingale watched the magic changes of the witches in the mist.

In the world of black and white, it is rare to have the opportunity to see so many brilliant colors. Compared with the memory of searching for the holy mountain, the magic power in their bodies has increased a lot, and the continuous practice every day has also made their ability to control the level increasingly lean. But what moved Nightingale the most was the expressions on their faces.

In the Mutual Aid Society, although there was Wendy's gentle encouragement and Hakara's firm actions, everyone never really slept peacefully when they were hiding. Any slight disturbance could wake the sisters out of their dreams. The pursuit of the church and the suspicious eyes of the masses made them breathless. Even if they went deep into the Impassable Mountains, this sense of oppression was not released much. No one knows whether they can really reach the holy mountain and find a place to live. At that time, the atmosphere in the camp often became very low, and most of the sisters' faces were blank and numb.

Now, they no longer need to suffer from hunger or worry about being hunted by the church, and everyone has an unprecedented look on their faces. Seeing everyone's relaxed and natural smiles, Nightingale felt the same way. After all, there is a holy mountain, but it is not in the wild land, but in this border town.

At this moment, she felt a shock of magic power.

A cloud of purple mist began to rotate, and magic power was constantly being introduced into it, like a miniature storm. But only Nightingale could see this shock. After recovering from the shock, she widened her eyes and held her breath, not wanting to miss any details. Compared to Anna and Soraya's hindsight, this was the first time she witnessed Condensation of magic power.

The center of the storm is Lily.

She was completely immersed in the microscopic world under the microscope, and did not notice any qualitative changes in the magic power in her body.

The mist became thicker and thicker, and as the rotation speed continued to increase, it became solid, and at the same time, the outline also fluctuated, no longer presenting the original vortex shape. In the end, the magic power condensed inward and gradually stopped.

Her new magic was neither hard and smooth like Ana's cube, nor Soraya's soft satin. It is only the size of a fist, its main body is round, and there are eight pairs of wriggling tentacles around its body, four pairs pointing downwards and four pairs facing upwards. At first glance, it looks like a... bug.

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Roland didn't expect that the first natural biology class would be effective, and the first witch to evolve was actually Lily.

Since her previous ability was to preserve fresh food, Roland didn't give her other tasks besides daily practice, and didn't know much about her. After listening to Nightingale's report, he nodded calmly. Lily was left alone until after the class was over.

"What, you said my ability has evolved?" Lily also looked surprised, "I haven't seen the little ball you mentioned."

"Of course I won't see it," Roland smiled and shook his head. "The small balls are thousands of times smaller than microorganisms. Even if you use the optical microscope to the limit, you can't see the small balls that make up the substance."

"Really, I thought you had to understand the ball theory to evolve your ability," she muttered, "I don't believe that everything in the world is made of small balls. If something as solid as rock and steel is really a A lot of small balls stacked up will just collapse into a puddle of loose sand."

So, he thought, it seems that microscopic particle theory is not the only way to promote the evolution of abilities, "So what do you see?"

"Hmm..." Lily thought for a while, "Several purple bugs, I think they should be summoned by magic power, it can turn all the creatures you mentioned into the same appearance."

"Bugs?" He was slightly taken aback, "Is it as big as a microbe?"

"It's about the same," she nodded, "Anyway, if you look at the drop with your eyes later, it's still transparent and colorless."

"Then... let's actually test it."

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Since Lily's ability cannot be directly observed with the naked eye like Anna and Soraya, it is much more difficult to test.

Roland was also taken aback when he saw such neatly arranged microorganisms under the microscope for the first time. They seemed to have a collective consciousness, showing amazing synergy and consistency.

Next is the sub-test, including its function, effective time and the impact of the magic stone on it.

The test lasted for three days. Although the little girl usually likes to argue, but complaining is nothing but complaints. She still carried out Roland's instructions meticulously.

Through a large number of sample comparisons and discussions with Anna, he roughly figured out how Lily's new ability works.

Among these purple mutant swarms, they are clearly divided into two categories: mothers and replicas.

The microorganism that mutated first when Lily released her magic power was the mother.

The characteristics of the mother body are similar to black fire, as long as there is a supply of magic power, it can always exist. The distance from the creator must not exceed five meters, otherwise it will disappear by itself. At the same time, as a summoning object, it is affected by the God's Stone of Retaliation, and within the range of the stone, the mother will be instantly dispelled.

When the mother body exists, the microorganisms around it will be assimilated into replicas in a short time. To Roland's disbelief, the clone was actually the "result" of the ability, just like Soraya's coating, no longer bound by God's Stone of Retaliation. To put it simply, the magical mother worm created by Lily transformed the microorganisms into a brand new life form, and this life form is real.

The replicated microorganisms have the assimilative properties of the mother body and will actively erode other microorganisms, but the test results made Roland feel very confused. The assimilation process does not seem to be endless. In some samples, the same amount of replicas were dripped. In the aqueous solution, some microorganisms are completely transformed, while some can still see the coexistence of replicas and unmutated microorganisms.

Due to the lack of more sophisticated observation instruments, this part is obviously only guesswork.

After discussing with Anna, Roland got a preliminary idea that the number of assimilation times of the replica is related to its own size.

Lily's ability obviously cannot distinguish the types of microorganisms, so among the large number of replicas produced by the mother, there are unobservable viruses and bacteria, as well as protozoa and single-celled algae that can be seen with a microscope. The body of these replicas determines its assimilation ability, the bigger the body, the more assimilation times after being transformed into a replica.

In addition, the replicas cannot continue to live in the form of division and reproduction. When the number of assimilations is exhausted, the last batch of replicas can only survive for about a day. Boiling water also kills most of the replicators as emerging life, they are not much different from other microbes.

But the interesting point is that when there is a mother around, these replicas will gather around the mother like a swarm, and arrange them in a neat queue, like soldiers waiting for orders.

Limited by the means of observation, Lily's new abilities still have many unknowns, such as whether the mother body and replicators can have various impacts on life like bacteria and viruses, or replace various fungi in chemical and food production ? It's a pity that the little girl is currently completely clueless about these concepts, let alone instructing them to complete the corresponding instructions.

Even so, replicants have shown great potential for medical development. Even if you don't do anything, as long as you assimilate all the deadly bacteria or viruses, you can quickly reduce inflammation and kill bacteria. This unreasonable drug obviously paved the way for the development of medicine in the territory. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)