Chapter 2533: Inheriting Father’s Legacy
“Sister Parul, that’s the only memento Father left me. It was just because I couldn’t control my Inner Eye before that I kept seeing unspeakable terrifying scenes. But if I can endure it, I can inherit Father’s legacy and become a chemist,” Lorna said slowly.
“Have you studied your father’s manuscripts?” I asked with a frown. I had also studied Pierce’s manuscripts, and they were indeed profound and extensive, activating a lot of dormant knowledge in my brain.
Some of the items now available in the magic shop were chemical products recorded in Pierce’s manuscripts, not potions or alchemical elixirs, such as the freezing potion I used before.
For example, the explosion bottle, where two liquid medicines are divided into two parts by a partition. When used, it is thrown out and smashed. The two medicines will directly detonate. As long as the dosage is sufficient, the power can reach that of a mid-tier fire spell.
There is also the hot-cutting pen. When encountering doors or boxes that cannot be opened in the dungeon, draw a line with the hot-cutting pen. It will produce extremely high temperatures when exposed to air, enough to cut through spiritual metal with a low enchantment level, and it does not produce light or smoke. Older Brother Jayad gave this item a very high evaluation.
These are all small products developed by me after absorbing Pierce’s chemical research results and combining them with the knowledge in my brain.
But in reality, the true value of those manuscripts is not just in these items. Large-scale chemical factories can maximize the value of the legacy left by Pierce. Even ordinary people who cannot use magic can manufacture very practical goods. I have recently considered opening a factory after I settle down.
Lorna sighed and said, “I have indeed read the manuscripts left by my father, but my brain aches every time I read them. That empty space and the residual nerves are stirring. Moreover, my father’s manuscripts are too profound, I can’t understand them at all, and I can’t inherit Father’s legacy.”
I knew she had looked at them. Unlike the seal of the Nagash scroll, I had never forbidden them from looking at Pierce’s manuscripts. Knowledge is power, after all. Although some of that knowledge was taboo, it was not so dangerous as to be unacceptable.
It was also normal that Lorna couldn’t understand. She died too young. Even if her father wanted to pass something down to her, how could he teach her without laying a good foundation for inheritance? Moreover, Pierce was already insane.
“I’m thinking, Father could reach this height because he had the Inner Eye, right? As long as I can re-transplant the Inner Eye and master it, I will be able to understand those profound chemical knowledge,” Lorna said.
“You’re wrong, Lorna. That’s not understanding knowledge; it’s a kind of infusion. Infinite knowledge will drive you mad. And your father didn’t become a chemist because of the Inner Eye. It was his wisdom and knowledge that condensed into that Inner Eye.”
“Sister Parul, I also believe that Father didn’t become a chemist because of the Inner Eye. But I don’t have his prodigious wisdom. I can only rely on that eye. I have experienced the feeling of knowledge being infused by the Inner Eye. This will surely allow me to follow in Father’s footsteps, after all, that’s what Father left behind.”
“No way! I even… forbade you from using the Five Eyes mutation before, and it took all my effort to suppress the eye nerves that invaded your brain. If you come into contact with the Inner Eye again now, won’t all our previous efforts be in vain?”
“It’s too late for that, Sister Parul. It’s not that I don’t use the Five Eyes mutation, and the nerves of the Inner Eye won’t be obedient. Don’t you find it strange that I am learning Undead Magic? And it’s the magic of Supreme Doom, which has the most side effects. This actually has nothing to do with the Inner Eye.”
“Wait, could it be?!” I suddenly thought of something and opened my God’s Eye to look at Lorna’s brain. There was an empty space there, the position where the Inner Eye had been cut out by Giselle.
There were many eye nerves there, intertwined, and completely fused with Lorna’s spirit body, making it difficult to remove. I had tried many methods, but could only cause the ends of these nerves to necrotize and stop growing.
Now, they had grown again and were entangled in the vacant spot, seemingly trying to give birth to a new Inner Eye. However, these intertwined nerves seemed to have necrotized again.
After I caused these eye nerves to necrotize, I forbade Lorna from using the Five Eyes, thinking that this would stop her mutation. Now it seemed I had been too optimistic.
“You are learning Undead Magic by using the side effect of flesh necrosis to inhibit the development of eye nerves? When did these nerves start to revive?” I asked.
“It was when I read Father’s manuscripts, especially when I saw the knowledge related to Alien Parasites, that the nerves would grow rapidly. I was afraid Sister Parul would worry, so I found a solution on my own, and that’s how I found Undead Magic.”
I could understand what Lorna said. After all, many of these manuscripts were related to the Inner Eye. Pierce’s becoming a chemist was indeed not because of the Inner Eye, but he could reach that height, and the Inner Eye must have played a role in adding the finishing touch.
That’s why she said her brain would ache when she read Pierce’s manuscripts. Naturally, learning knowledge developed through the Inner Eye would re-activate the residual nerves of the Inner Eye.
But I wouldn’t blame it all on her reading the manuscripts. I knew from the beginning that those nerves remained in her brain, and the hidden danger had never been completely resolved. There was always a risk of a comeback.
Even if Lorna didn’t read Pierce’s manuscripts or come into contact with the Inner Eye, as long as she accidentally saw something unspeakable, learned magic in the field of Occultism, or even just learned some new knowledge, the residual nerves might develop again.
Pierce’s manuscripts could only be considered an trigger at most. Her brain had always held a time bomb. Once the eye nerves continued to mutate and develop, a new Inner Eye would be born in Lorna’s brain.
Using the side effects of Undead Magic to clear mutations was a common practice. The price of using Undead Magic was the necrosis of one’s own flesh and blood. But since Lorna was a Spirit Body, the parts that would necrotize first would definitely be the most active, growing brain nerves.
Older Brother Jayad had also used a similar method before, using the side effects of magic to suppress his Angel mutation. Lorna must have thought of learning Undead Magic by referencing this experience. She was quite smart.
“Since your condition has recurred and worsened, why would you still touch the Inner Eye? Isn’t that courting death? You haven’t forgotten your father’s madness, have you?” I warned her sternly. This was no joke.
