Chapter 210: Possibility of Extending Lifespan

Ace was startled by the mirror image’s shouting. He almost dropped the Grimoire in his hand. He hurriedly caught the Grimoire and walked quickly toward the mirror image.

Passing by the Mana Crystal weapon pinning the elderly Spike-Headed Marmot, he fiercely knocked the marmot on the head with his fist, which was reinforced with solidified Mana Crystals.

The elderly marmot saw stars and felt dizzy, seemingly asking: Where am I? Who hit me? Who am I?

Ace felt a little better. He ignored the elderly marmot and observed the mirror image casting spells.

He saw the mirror image construct a simple Spell Model in the air and activate it. Poof! Mana pulsed, but there was no substantial effect.

Ace looked at the fleeting Spell Model of the mirror image, muttering: “Lesser Life #1, Lesser Mana #4, Lesser Nourishment #2…”

He suddenly realized and said: “The auxiliary runes of Elemental Runes can be combined with Life Runes? Does the Life Rune replace the function of the Water Element Rune here? But why is there no substantial effect? Or has the expression of the rune structure in this combination shifted or changed completely?”

Ace had tried combining several other Elemental Runes with auxiliary runes like Nourishment.

Some effects were good; for example, combining the Pressure Rune and the Wind Element Rune could create extremely strong air pressure. Others could not be combined; for example, combining the Fire Element Rune and the Nourishment Rune would cause the rune structure to explode directly.

However, since the Life Rune could be combined with auxiliary Elemental Runes, it meant that the Life Rune had at least partial elemental compatibility. This would greatly expand the future space for Life Runes and Life Magic.

Ace was thinking, but his hands did not slow down. He also tried to construct a simple Spell Model and then tried adding runes.

“Perhaps I can add Lesser Nutrient Siphon #1.” He traced a Lesser Rune, embedded it into the rune structure, then looked at it and said: “Lesser Nutrient Siphon #1 requires a nutrient source. From a casting perspective, it requires a Casting Material. If I use this piece of raw meat as a Casting Material…”

Ace snatched a piece of raw meat from beside the elderly marmot and placed it near his Spell Model.

The elderly marmot had just recovered from seeing stars and was about to take a bite of meat to comfort itself.

Just as it was about to take a fierce bite of the raw meat, the meat was snatched away by Ace. It bit empty air, its teeth making a cracking sound, and it seemed one tooth broke off.

The elderly marmot, pinned by the Mana Crystal weapon and unable to move, turned its head to look at Ace, shedding tears of shame and pain.

Ace did not care about the elderly marmot’s feelings.

He directly activated the Spell Model. Mana from the surrounding environment surged into the Spell Model. The effect of Lesser Nutrient Siphon #1 activated. The piece of raw meat very close to the Spell Model had its nutrients directly absorbed by the Spell Model, turning into a pile of dried meat residue.

Ace sensed the state of the Spell Model. It should work, he thought.

With Ace’s command, the target of the Spell Model locked onto the elderly marmot. The marmot, tears streaming down its face as it recalled its humiliating rat life, was caught off guard and hit by Ace’s spell.

Under the conversion of Lesser Nourishment #2, the nutrients from the raw meat turned into a powerful nourishing mist with a meaty smell, surging into the open, wailing mouth of the elderly Spike-Headed Marmot.

The elderly marmot was wailing when Ace suddenly stuffed its mouth with the meaty nourishing mist. It smacked its lips. The taste seemed a bit strange, but it felt not bad.

Nourished by the mist, visible changes occurred in the elderly marmot’s body. It seemed to slightly repair its damaged life force, becoming a little younger.

Ace’s pupils constricted slightly, revealing a longing in his eyes.

Although his initial purpose was to explore how to use Magic to quickly build wooden sailing ships, this surprise seemed too big. It was uncertain whether it could extend life, but this spell seemed capable of repairing life damage.

At this moment, he dearly missed the high-magnification microscope from his past life. If only he could observe the changes in the marmot’s cells, mitochondria, and chromosomes under a microscope—assuming this world had such things.

Ace said solemnly to the mirror image:

“It is necessary to conduct human experiments to test the effectiveness of this spell on humans!”

For comparative experiments, Ace and the mirror image found several elderly Sin-bearing Slaves, settled them aside, and then began to extract nutrients with spells.

Ace planned to create specialized nutrients as Casting Materials.

Following the principle that the Casting Material for a Lesser Spell is generally a Monster of the same level, Ace dissected several young marmots, taking their hearts, and used their fresh hearts as one of the nutrient sources.

Then he used the Luminous Spell, a variation of the Controllable Light Orb, to shatter the spirit bodies of the young marmots, turning them into silver soul powder. After corresponding filtration processing, he obtained pure Lesser Soul Powder, wrapped in treated Monster hide.

Using a pure Nutrient Siphon Spell Model, he extracted the nutrients from the hearts, forming a viscous red fluid, which he placed in a ceramic jar.

Ace already knew that the Water Element Nourishment Spell using pure Lesser Soul Powder as a Casting Material had the effect of nourishing the soul and strengthening mental power.

So he mixed the silver pure Lesser Soul Powder with the viscous red fluid in a 5:5 ratio, then cast the spell on an elderly Sin-bearing Slave. Accompanied by the spell’s effect, the dim-sighted Sin-bearing Slave actually became younger.

According to Ace’s observation and the slave’s own account, he was about 65 years old. Long-term hard labor had aged him rapidly, bringing him close to the edge of death.

After being cast upon, this elderly slave felt his spirit and body improve significantly.

In Ace’s Mana Sensitivity vision, the slave was shrouded in gray-black. After the spell was cast, some of the black was removed, and the gray increased slightly.

Ace cast the spell multiple times. Finally, after the slave appeared about ten years younger, the spell lost its effectiveness.

After testing on multiple people and multiple Monsters, Ace finally concluded the appropriate Casting Material ratio and spell effectiveness.

A 4:6 ratio of soul powder to viscous fluid was better. Ace called this prepared Casting Material the Original Lesser Youth Potion, and its formula the Original Lesser Youth Potion Formula.

This formula was only the most primitive version, just as this Spell Model was only a primitive version. There was great room for improvement and upgrading.

In the future, better potions and Spell Models could be improved, and the spell level could be upgraded by reverse-engineering Soul Runes to obtain greater effectiveness.

Ace named this spell, composed of the Life Rune, Nourishment Rune, and Nutrient Rune as the core, the Lesser Rejuvenation Spell.

The effectiveness of this current spell was diminishing. The first use could rejuvenate by about five years, the second only two or three years, with the effectiveness gradually decreasing. After rejuvenating by about ten to twelve years, the spell would completely lose effectiveness.

Ace recorded this information in his Grimoire. This was his foundation, and even more so, the foundation of the Wizard collective. In the future, allowing more Wizard Apprentices to join this research would surely yield fruitful results!

Just as Ace was imagining this, the mirror image made a new move. The mirror image manipulated a piece of wood with a strange spell. Under the effect of the mirror image’s spell, the wood slowly squirmed and transformed, turning into a wooden ship plank.

It hopped and bumped into other ship planks. Clatter. The two ship planks seemed to fail to merge and fell over.

“Where did it go wrong? Theoretically, as long as the wood is activated by a spell and granted the ability to proliferate, it should be able to reproduce and proliferate on its own, and should be able to graft and grow together.”

The mirror image scratched his head and said somewhat puzzledly.

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