Chapter 619 The Visit
Chapter 619 The Visit
More than a decade later.
Jemin stood in the center of the laboratory, in front of a pool-sized gel-like organism.
It is translucent all over, with a faint blue glow, and its surface is constantly wriggling, like a pool of living jelly.
It was Jemin's naval cannon fodder unit, the "Nest".
Clearly, Jemin was no longer satisfied with the temporary modifications he had made to the nest, so he carried out another modification operation.
The surgery has been going on for seven days and is now at its most critical stage.
Jemin's hand hovered above the gel, his mental energy transforming into countless fine threads that probed into its body, weaving new energy circuits little by little. At that moment, the laboratory door was suddenly pushed open.
But when the door was suddenly pushed open, Jemin didn't even look up.
"Senior sister? You're here? Wait a moment, you'll be ready soon."
His tone was as calm as if he were saying the weather was nice today. His hands did not stop moving, and his mental power remained firmly in control of the translucent gel-like creature.
Viola stood in the doorway, her expression somewhat subtle.
She had already prepared her greeting, but Jemin's "I knew you were coming" attitude made all her prepared words get stuck in her throat. She walked into the laboratory, her gaze sweeping over the creature being modified, then over the neatly stacked documents in the corner, and finally landing on Jemin.
"You don't seem surprised at all."
Jemin casually replied, "After all, you just applied for spatial teleportation."
Viola didn't answer, her expression somewhat strange.
Jemin didn't notice her expression; all his attention was focused on the surgery in his hands.
Time passed second by second. When the last energy circuit was successfully connected, the gel-like creature trembled violently, and the blue light on its surface stabilized, like a sleeping heart beginning to beat rhythmically.
Jemin let out a long breath, withdrew his hand, and turned to look at Viola.
"So... Senior Sister, what brought you here?"
Viola's expression remained strange.
She walked up to Jemin, looking him up and down as if he were something unusual. "I got here a little too easily."
Jemin was taken aback: "What do you mean?"
"My teleportation request was approved as soon as I submitted it," Viola said, her tone slightly unreal. "It's like they've been waiting for me all along. After I teleported here, I just stepped out of the teleportation room when a black giant walked in and told me I was here. It didn't even ask who I was looking for." Jemin blinked, a barely perceptible smile playing on his lips. "Isn't that great? Saves you the trouble of looking around." Viola stared at him for a few seconds without replying.
Jemin's gaze drifted as he changed the subject: "You still haven't said why you came here? Have you finished dealing with things with your mentor?" "No... you remember that living dimension of Starfall, right?" Viola shook her head upon hearing this.
Jemin nodded. "I remember. What's wrong?"
"It has completed its wizard apprenticeship and has been promoted to a full wizard." Viola's tone was somewhat complicated. "Now it is participating in the interdimensional war according to the contract. Its mentor went with Starfall to record relevant data."
Jemin nodded knowingly, then his expression turned somewhat strange.
Starfall... The witch who used his spiritual energy as inspiration to create the Enlightenment Spell and revitalize the plane she controlled.
Judging by the timeline, it has been almost a thousand years since her living dimension was successfully activated.
After such a long time, the consciousness of that plane has finally developed from its initial ignorance to its full maturity.
However, by the standards of a living plane, this speed is already quite fast.
But that's not the key point.
Living planes are powerful beings that are born with the ability to overpower regular level seven wizards.
Even with only a level one wizard rank, the increased power derived from knowledge would likely make him a formidable opponent among level seven wizards. Someone of this caliber participating in the interdimensional war specifically for newly minted wizards…
"I hope the person on the other end is alright," Jemin said sincerely.
Viola rolled her eyes and didn't respond.
Jemin understood: "So you're temporarily free?"
Viola shrugged: "Yeah, we ran out to play."
She paced around the lab a few times, looking here and there, appearing utterly bored.
Watching her dart around in front of him, Jemin couldn't help but say, "I don't have much for you to play with here."
Viola did not answer.
She continued pacing, her pace quickening, her brow furrowing more and more deeply.
Just as Jemin noticed her unusual behavior and was about to ask her something, Viola suddenly stopped and her expression changed drastically.
"My fate has been touched."
Jemin raised an eyebrow.
Viola whirled around, her gaze piercing him like a knife, her shock almost overflowing. "It's you?!"
Looking at her horrified expression, Jemin couldn't help but feel a little smug.
He tried to keep his expression calm and nodded reservedly.
"That's right. A few years ago, I finally got the basics of knowledge about fate."
The laboratory fell silent for a moment.
Viola's mouth hung open, like a fish that had been slapped ashore; she couldn't utter a single word.
Looking at her, Jieming felt even more smug, but he still maintained a calm smile on his face—he had been practicing for several years, all for this moment!
He has been studying the knowledge of fate for hundreds of years since he acquired it.
Even after returning from the information dimension, he still didn't give up on tackling this tough challenge.
Knowledge of the destiny system, information about parallel worlds, occasional guidance from mentor Clark...
In order to get started with the knowledge of fate, he learned and tried everything.
But without insight, one cannot even begin to grasp knowledge about destiny.
For a time, Jemin almost gave up.
Then he advanced to the Void Refinement Realm.
The essence of the Refining Void Realm is the transformation of life forms towards becoming information-based organisms.
In this realm, Jemin hasn't yet experienced other advantages and disadvantages, but there's one thing he's quite clear about: his understanding of information-related knowledge has increased dramatically.
Information is the underlying language of destiny; understanding information is to touch the threshold of destiny.
Several years ago, on an ordinary night, he was browsing through the Destiny Department's information as usual, and as he looked at it, he suddenly understood it.
Things he had known for a long time but didn't understand suddenly became clear.
It's like looking at the world through a layer of frosted glass, and suddenly someone takes that glass away.
"You're only at level five!" Viola's voice changed.
Jemin said unhurriedly, "It's not exactly just now. I've been at level five for seven or eight hundred years."
Viola grabbed her long, silver-gray hair and yanked it without a care for her image, her eyes wide with disbelief: "Even I, the old man, only entered the gate after advancing to level six! How come you entered it at level five?!"
Seeing her frantic state, Jemin couldn't help but smile.
He tried to press down, but he couldn't.
That smug look seemed to grow legs, spreading from the corner of his mouth to the corner of his eyes, and from the corner of his eyes to his entire face.
Viola was so angry that she trembled when she saw his smug yet pretentious expression.
"you……"
She pounced on her.
Before Jemin could react, he felt his head being tightly held by two hands, and then... a bite came down on him!
The seemingly ordinary bite caused Jemin to feel a burst of pain from the top of his head, like an electric current coursing through his entire body.
Jemin screamed in agony, and his body-strengthening technique activated automatically in an attempt to resist the pain, but to no avail.
The pain penetrated all defenses and acted directly on his nerve endings.
"Ouch! It hurts! It hurts! Let go!" Jemin dragged Viola, who was hanging from his head, around the lab. Viola was like a mad cat, biting his head tightly and kicking her legs wildly in the air.
The "nest," fresh from surgery, huddled together in fright at their commotion, and the documents piled in the corner tumbled to the floor. "Relax!"
"Waaah!" (They won't let go!)
"Senior sister, I was wrong!"
"Waaah!" (Too late!)
After running more than ten laps, Jemin finally found an opportunity to reach out and grab Viola's waist, pulling her up forcefully.
With a pop, his head was pulled out of Viola's mouth.
He touched his head, his hands covered in saliva, and there was a deep ring of teeth marks on his head.
Despite his physical strength honed over a thousand years through body tempering techniques, he was still bitten and left with marks.
Jemin touched the ring of teeth marks and gasped.
He had experienced that feeling of "feeling pain no matter what".
Not long ago, when he was brutally beaten by his mentor Clark at a parallel world wizarding gathering, he had this feeling.
I didn't expect Viola to learn it so quickly.
He truly deserves to be called a genius who specializes in the laws of pain.
Jemin rubbed his head and looked at Viola.
She had calmed down from her rage and was leaning against the lab bench, panting. Her silver-gray hair was a mess, as if it had just been swept by a tornado. A trace of anger still lingered in the corners of her eyes, but the corners of her mouth had begun to turn upwards.
"You're something else," Viola snorted.
Jemin smiled but didn't reply.
He looked at Viola's face, which was slightly flushed with excitement, and suddenly thought of something.
He barely managed to reach the threshold of the Fate system thanks to the enhanced understanding of information-related knowledge gained from the Refinement of Void Realm.
Therefore, Jemin knew very well that his current achievements were actually due to cheating.
And Viola...
The Law of Pain is an even more obscure field than the Fate system.
She didn't have any cheat codes; she mastered it all through her own understanding and perseverance.
Clark's mentor said every day that she was too stupid, too slow, and couldn't even learn this little thing.
But Jemin knew that it was just that his mentor Clark's standards were too high.
In fact, Viola's research on the Law of Pain has reached the top level among wizards of the same rank.
Not only that, she leaped from level three to level six, filling in the knowledge gaps that resulted in her advancement in just over a thousand years. What else could this be but genius?
Jemin suddenly felt a pang of emotion.
He transmigrated here and relied on the cultivation system provided by the Great Dao Library to get to where he is today.
Viola, on the other hand, had nothing and relied entirely on herself.
She is the one who truly deserves the title of "genius".
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