“What is it?”
Antariel warmly welcomed me to my sudden visit.
“Are you still in shock?”
“What do you see me as? Ben’s death was sad, of course, but it was a friend who went when it was time to go, and it was his own will. It’s not polite for me to be sad for a long time.”
Until now, I thought I was living a reclusive life out of grief over the death of Ben Bezalel. No matter how much you watch as an alter ego, there is this blind spot. You can’t see into people’s hearts.
“Then why did you leave the lab?”
“For the research I have to do from now on, I think it would be more comfortable to be alone.”
“Is this a study on life extension?”
“Yes. To be precise, I thought that it would be difficult to stay there because there would be more radical experiments than the research on immortality so far.”
Immortal, I’m a little interested in that too.
“You won’t be able to achieve immortality by modifying or strengthening the human body.”
“The impossible is something until someone realizes it. Ben and I did it.”
This is what Antariel said. Antariel and Ben are people who realized what everyone said was impossible.
“you are right. admit that part To correct it, I think it is very difficult to attain immortality by human body modification.”
“The grounds?”
I took out the research materials of Alchemist Fulcan Nelias and the results of my research on the Elixir of Immortality and showed them to Antariel.
“Right. You, too, have been researching immortality.”
Antariel looked at the research materials I had brought out with terrifying concentration.
“Nearly all of them were researched by Fulcan Nelias. I only added a little more after his death. And now it is on hiatus.”
“Why is that?”
“Because it was judged that the elixir of immortality could not be made with the substances existing in this world.”
Antariel rested his hand on his chin and lost himself in thought. These days, it seems that there are many people who are suddenly enlightened in front of me.
While waiting for Antariel to wake up from his thoughts, I started looking at Antariel’s research journal.
Combining Ben Bezalel’s research with the existing research of Antariel, this was showing the end of maximizing the functions of life beyond the human body.
Following the advice of Setas, various theories were put in, and in a way, it looked more like an infinite power engine rather than a life form. However, this cannot be called immortality either.
Even institutions are bound to come to a standstill at some point. Of course, it is possible to increase its lifespan semi-permanently by replacing parts, but can it be called immortal?
It took quite a while for Antariel to wake up. In the meantime, I spent time cooking myself in the cave, eating and recording.
Antariel’s cave is not much different from an ordinary house as it was decorated by a skilled person for a long time. In some ways, it was even better than the mansion.
After the meal, while drinking a cup of tea and recording, Antariel came to his senses. It wasn’t like going over a wall or anything like that. However, as a researcher, it seemed that he had gained a great realization.
“Thanks to that, I was able to get a clue about immortality.”
what? Did I say something important like that?
“What did you realize?”
“There is no need to be bound by this body.”
Are you trying to become a soul like me? But the soul is not immortal either. The soul also perishes. Rather, there is a weaker part than the body in that part. Since it does not die of aging, it may seem immortal or immortal, but it cannot last forever without any action.
Otherwise, there would have been countless ancient souls wandering around the world.
Even myself, during my time as a spirit, I periodically absorbed other spirits or demons to maintain my form.
“Is it a method of exchanging bodies?”
“similar. I don’t know if you can call me a human, but yes, a creature, a creature of this world. I am trying to complete immortality in the way that only creatures of this world can do.”
I didn’t ask it in detail. You’ll find out anyway if you watch. But Antariel’s face was more confident than any I had ever seen.
“Rather than that, I came here because I had something to ask of you.”
From the beginning, I came to analyze the corpse of the underground demon. When the corpse of the underground demon was taken out, Antariel frowned.
“Where do you get these things from?”
“Are you going to do it?”
“good night. I was thinking of going back to the lab anyway.”
While doing so, he moved Antariel to the lab and left the body. As for the hot spring water, I thought to analyze it myself. Alchemy is probably better for me.
He also met with the Dwarf captain and gave him a few pieces of organs and entrusted him with the skin of an underground monster. The Dwarf Captain saw the beast’s skin and his eyes began to shine. It shouldn’t have been a long term.
Back at the estate, a peaceful daily life continued. The effect of the hot spring water that we started analyzing was very surprising. Although it was nothing compared to healing magic or divine power, the hot spring water had a very good healing effect. But on the other hand, that was all.
If I didn’t have money, I would have started a business by digging hot spring water underground, but unfortunately I had enough money to not have to do such a troublesome thing.
Surprisingly, even the dwarves expressed their opinion that processing the shells entrusted to the dwarves was difficult. It can be made to a level that can be used somehow, but it is said that it will not be made in such an ugly shape.
However, the beast’s skin was discovered to have amazing performance during the processing process. The ability to repel more strongly than the force applied by physical force was discovered. With that ability, it was understandable that he deflected Argin’s sword several times.
The Dwarves, who confirmed the shell’s abilities, clung onto it by the legs and asked for more time to study it, so I left it as it was. Even if I retrieve it, it doesn’t mean I don’t really have a use for it.
Someday, if a new technology that can process the shell is discovered, I wonder if a great armor will be made.
The analysis of bodily fluids and flesh entrusted to Antariel was over. The green bodily fluid, which looked so dirty that Howard refused to eat it, also had an unexpected effect.
“The blood of this monster has the effect of strong mental defense ability.”
“Surprisingly.”
The efficacy of the blood was surprising even to me. Why do underground demons have mental defense abilities?
“Have you ever lived alone underground?”
“No.”
Although I lived in Drakan’s Lair for over 80 years, I was not alone.
“It is very forlorn and lonely to live alone underground.”
The cave expert said so, so it’s persuasive.
If you think about it, since you’ve lived alone underground for a very long time, even an unintelligent Witchbeast must have been lonely. If you think about it like that, it wasn’t that I couldn’t understand that I had mental defense ability.
“Can you give me the blood of this demon?”
“Is it necessary?”
“I want to finish something I couldn’t do before.”
“Mr. Lily’s charm?”
Antariel is still unable to defend against Lily’s fascination. In a situation where the research could not be completed, he joined and conducted another study.
“Yes.”
“Isn’t that an artifact now?”
“Still, since I touched it once, I want to complete it.”
I want to do it, but I don’t mind deliberately stopping it. There was no place to use the monster body fluid elsewhere, and the amount was sufficient, so I decided to just give it.
“Do you have enough to use?”
“The amount I have now is enough.”
“Then do it”
Antariel took the Beast’s bodily fluids and synthesized them back into his own blood and began to remodel his body.
This renovation didn’t take as long as I thought. In the meantime, it was because his knowledge of modification had increased significantly when he was with Ben Bezalel.
However, after Antariel, who was said to be conducting research on immortality, increased his mental defense ability through blood remodeling, he stopped at the tavern run by Lily and did not conduct other research.
At first, I wondered if it was to check the research results, but that time was quite long. He didn’t even come into the lab except for sleeping time and started wandering all over the new continent.
He snooped in the dwarves’ workshop and was kicked out, and he also participated in the hunting of beastmen and stole their prey. Of course they were kicked out of there too.
Then, he joined the elves in growing trees and started growing trees together.
I thought for a while whether it was collecting data for the study of immortality, but looking at what it was doing, it seemed to have nothing to do with it.
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Not knowing what he was thinking, he decided to leave Antariel alone. He is a man who has been buried in research for decades. I thought it wouldn’t be bad to take a break like that for a while.
It’s been a long time since I visited Setas. Setas has grown so much that it’s a little awkward to call him a kid anymore.
While staying in the Tempest Territory, Setas helped Argin from time to time and was in the process of reproducing military weapons from the world he lived in in order to make something similar to the twig sword Mystyltein, which had the power of killing, given to him by the World Tree as a gift.
I came because it seemed that the results were starting to come out.
The size and design of Setas’ production equipment were terrifying. Even at a glance, you could see that it was not a technology of this world.
Setas assured me that even if someone saw this, no one would understand that it didn’t require any particular security. And that’s right as far as I can see. Because the part I couldn’t understand was the placenta.
However, it was not without countermeasures, and although Setas made its own security devices, most of them did not block intruders, but tracked intruders who entered and left.
However, despite that contrast, there have been no intruders for several years. Even to the spies infiltrating the Tempest Territory, it seemed that Setas’ research was not worth stealing.
“A prototype came out?”
I came suddenly, but Setas was not surprised. It seemed like he thought he would come.
“You are welcome. A prototype came out.”
What Setas held out in front of me was nothing more than an iron rod.
“Is something firing from here or something?”
“no. It’s just a stick.”
Are weapons with the ability to kill God originally like that? Mistiltein was just a tree branch, but Setas was also just an iron stick.
“By the way, do you have the ability to kill God?”
“Um, that’s ambiguous. It’s probably because of the difference in technology. At least it should be able to inflict more damage than a normal weapon.”
“Then why the iron rod? Is it to induce distraction or something?”
“no. Because this is the easiest shape to make. I don’t have the skills like a dwarf, so I don’t need to make a shape.”
You are right, but something is strange.
“Then shouldn’t we make some swords for the dwarves from scratch and give them abilities?”
“It’s a little bit problematic.”
“What problem?”
“If it’s a sword, how should I use it?”
“It will cut or stab.”
“It is. It will cut or stab. Unknowingly, you become entangled in the ceremony. It doesn’t make any sense when you’re against God.”
“Then you get stuck in the idea of hitting sticks too.”
“Yes. But anyway, I had to give it a hit. In that respect, the stick shape is the most suitable.”
It feels like something is being held back, but this is also what an expert says, so I just decided to believe it.
“Anyway, good job. Is it possible to improve this performance?”
“A lot is difficult, but a little is possible.”
“Then what about mass production?”
“Are there many people who can use this?”
That’s it. Even if you make a lot of people, there are quite a few people who can be taken to a place where you fight with gods. Even if you make dozens of them, no one will use them.
“Not too expensive”
The money spent on making one of these ugly iron rods, including research facilities, could buy quite a few dukedoms.
“It is. I’ll just make three more for now.”
With me, Howard, Argin, and Setas, it’s only four sacks. Right now, there is no one other than the four that can become a force. In fact, Howard doesn’t use a weapon either, so there’s one left.
“Let it be”
“After this is over, can I do the research I want to do?”
“What do you want to do?”
“Phase-dimensional studies.”
That’s what I want to do research with. And if you can create a topological dimension, it seems to be of great help.
Even in the dimension where Setas lived, it was said that it would reduce the damage of the original dimension by fighting foreign gods in the phase dimension. Maybe it’s what this world needs most.
“Let’s do that together when the time is right.”
“yes”
As the conversation with Setas came to an end, Bastet, still living above Setas’ head, let out a shrill cry.
[The stupid monster is doing something reckless]
Howard? Howard is now out of sight of the alter ego. It was because he was watching the game by sending the alter ego he had placed to Howard to a place where large monsters were fighting for territory nearby.