Chapter 529
Darius began work immediately. He focused on a huge slab of stone he brought to his lab and cleaned it to perfection.
It had much more mass and density than a human did, because while Darius could use the spells Flesh to Stone and Bones to Stone, he hadn't mastered them.
This meant there would be a significant margin of error on his first many tries, so the goal right now was to perfect himself until he achieved what he needed to do.
First, he worked on Flesh to Stone, turning the rock slab's various parts onto living flesh before turning it back into stone. After all, with how most Material element spells worked, there was no need to always replace used material with a new one.
You could just change it back with a little bit of mana to its original state and then re-do whatever you made before. This was actually one thing the Material element had over Transmutation.
Darius worked on this non-stop for 30 days, an entire month!
In this time, he had felt his magical circuits become sturdier and sturdier, likely able to withstand more taxing Master grade spells.
Alas, this meant nothing to him outside of this mental world as he would go back to the tyranny of the Supreme System.
Nevertheless, in here the benefit was, that it took him merely 12 days to master the Bones to Stone spell using the same resources.
It was generally twofold. One aspect was that his magic circuit had become stronger, and so the flow for the Master grade spells had become smoother as well. The other aspect was the fact that Darius was getting more and more proficient with Master grade spells and the Material element in general.
Darius now stood before his work table, wearing a solemn expression. He had carved out a perfectly human-shaped slab of stone, and it lay there waiting for work to be done.
Darius sighed and nodded, prepping himself up. He then cast Flesh to Stone and Bones to Stone at the same time!
Well, it was obvious that if he was going to build a living and working human body, he would need to transform everything at once. If he did it in pieces, the flesh would exist, but it would be dead or would die in seconds.
His mind was more than enough to handle this task, with 700 points of Intellect.
(Author's Note: It was brought to my attention that in a , I put a wrong value for Darius' Int. It's not 460 points, but rather 700, sorry about that.)
In a matter of seconds, Darius had created a human body as perfectly as he could. It was a generic female body of a random woman he saw in Andrato, a woman by the name of Genevieve Kirlio.
She was attractive enough and had noble genes, so she was the perfect specimen for his repopulation plan. Darius then pressed his hand to the heart of the Genevieve clone and used a bit of electricity to shock it.
Using defilibration, he eventually got her to gasp and awaken, her eyes bursting open. However, even though she did so, she simply lay back with dull eyes as she looked around the room.
After all, though her brain was technically perfect and fully functioning, she still lacked a spirit or soul, which meant she couldn't use magic or acquire any form of powers, nor would she be sapient.
Darius frowned. He raised a hand and passed it over her face, to which her eyes followed as she breathed in and out deeply, yet did not make a move to touch him.
When he took his hand back, she simply gazed at him with blank eyes before looking straight up to the ceiling, breathing steadily.
Darius' expression was extremely strange at this point. He had expected many things according to his knowledge and theories, but this... this was different.
This was neither a total catatonia nor partial catatonia. She seemed fully awake and sentient, just not exactly sapient. No, she was definitely sapient, just without memories, a will, or emotions.
She... she was just like a robot!
The moment he realized this, Darius' mind exploded!
He was not on Pan, where the Immortals there tried to comprehend the DAO and would have random enlightenments, but he experience something similar for the first time in his life.
His eyes went blank as all of his 700 points of Intellect went into overdrive, processing something profound beyond the understanding of normal mortals.
Darius' mind was overclocking itself to digest all that he was processing, and his head soon became red hot as if a furnace was in his skull. His high Endurance saved him from having his brain melt his skull, but the heat was building up.
Luckily, Darius' soon cooled down as he finished processing what he had discovered. He then noticed the state of his body, and that the woman he created who was still lying on the table was sweating profusely from the intense heat he had created.
Darius cast the Cleanse spell on her body to remove the heat and poured water over his head, after which a sizzling sound occurred as it was immediately turned to steam.
Darius could only smile bitterly. A head so hot it released steam was something his nephews and other children would laugh at when they watched cartoons, symbolizing that a character was livid, yet something like that actually happened to him in reality!
He chuckled at the thought, something which made the Genevieve clone turn to look at him, before looking away. She then opened her mouth and attempted to mimic what she saw him do, coming out as a stiff and inhuman sound.
Darius was not bothered by this, as he had come to understand a great many things thanks to his epiphany. Before talking about what manner of gains it brought him, he deduced to finish this phase of his plans first.
He placed a finger on the forehead of his creation, then used his Advanced Psychomancy to channel information into her head slowly. The clone closed her eyes and received the information quietly, causing the lab to descend into a weird silence.