The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　Dak hadn't really wanted to ask anything, but since Lily had said so, how could he not give her face?

　lost memory.

　Or lose your life.

　If he had to choose between the two, he would find it difficult to decide.

　Lily said in a light tone, "If it were Kazel, he would most likely do that. Although those monsters are not the same entity as the original body of the memory, they do possess the original body's memories. If the original body's memories are not so pleasant, removing them is the best method. Of course, this will be very troublesome."

　In other words, if it weren't for Kazel, perhaps a simpler, more convenient, faster, or even more permanent method would have been used.

　After understanding, Dak did not ask any further questions.

　After handing Lily a glass of apple juice, Dak asked again, "Actually, I'm really curious to know what you and Professor Cazell did to that golden mermaid?"

　“Ah ha.” Lily took a sip of apple juice and said casually, “It’s nothing really. It just helped it develop a temporary personality, giving it golem-level sensitivity and temporarily restoring its ability to cry. After all, tears only work when they flow naturally. Physical methods of inducing tears are not recommended.”

　Recalling Professor Cazell's embarrassed appearance, Dak couldn't help but ask, "So what kind of personality did Professor Cazell create for it?"

　However, from the academy's perspective, the professors could not allow a monster carrying the memories of the Plague Lord to live a normal life.

　Simply erasing its memory is already their greatest act of kindness.

　Materials such as someone's tears often possess a special power derived from the power of the mind.

　Therefore, guiding emotions is very important.

　The monster bosses in the dungeon possess all the physical structures of any living creature, except for their lack of independent consciousness.

　Lily, her little feet trembling, said, "Look at that golden mermaid, doesn't it look like a little tearful girl?"

　Dark touched his nose and said, "Indeed."

　“That’s it,” Lily said. “It looks like a crybaby, so Kazel created a crybaby personality for it based on that and made it believe that Kazel was a kind old father. Then, it made it witness its father’s death in its mind.”

　It was already extremely restrained that it didn't call Professor Cazell "Dad" on the spot.

　Upon learning the truth, Dark opened his mouth in surprise and said, "No wonder Professor Kazel has always been unwilling to look at it directly."

　Professor Kazel transplanted a virtual personality into the Golden Mermaid's brain through his research, but he did not expect that the Golden Mermaid's self-awareness had already begun to grow.

　Looking back now, it's possible that the Golden Mermaid Esalia Patus's current personality is still influenced by that virtual personality and retains memories of that experience.

　But that memory may bring it a deeper level of fear.

　Dark waved: "See you tomorrow."

　Professor Lily then passed through the wall and flew silently out of the tower of the noble house.

　Given her personality, she would definitely have flown into the dense forest by now.

　"Alright, I should go now." Lily finished the last sip of apple juice and licked her lips with a lingering sense of satisfaction.

　Dark took the cup from his hand and said, "Go on, goodnight."

　Lily chuckled and then flew up: "Goodnight, see you tomorrow."

　The dense forests of St. Marian Academy were originally home to a large number of powerful species.

　The arrival of only fifty monster bosses is far from enough to change the ecology of the dense forest.

　However, finding suitable land for them to live in the dense forest and building complete facilities is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

　Dark walked to the balcony and watched her leave, then returned indoors to Summon Paradise, and had the Magic Secretary summon the magical spirits one by one.

　He, on the other hand, casually picked up a book and soaked in the bathtub.

　Those monster bosses were still very attractive to him.

　The night passed.

　But if this continues, these monsters will eventually be assimilated into St. Marian Academy.

　If all goes well, we might even be able to build a unique place that is different from the Traveler's Street.

　Darke mentally estimated that he would wait until the monster bosses calmed down before finding an opportunity to go in and take a look.

　Besides the clown mask, there was this bronze mirror.

　In addition, items such as gravity boots, although lacking practical use in magical duels, can still be attempted to be crafted for daily training.

　However, bronze mirrors were clearly of higher priority.

　After waking up, Dak took out his notebook and slowly recalled and recorded the experiences of the past two days. He then slowly reflected on them, pondered them, and gradually sorted out his thoughts. He then extricated himself from those matters that were beyond his control and temporarily returned to his normal study routine.

　Afterwards, he took out three thousand items and eight thousand refining methods and began to search for the refining method related to the bronze mirror.

　There are very few items left that can be used to create item cards.

　The Wisdom Mirror, on the other hand, is a mirror adept at lying. It skillfully deceives its owner, showing them a beautified version of themselves and showering them with praise that aligns with their desires, thus immersing them in a false sense of "perfection" and ultimately leading to their self-destruction.

　After careful consideration, Dak decided to try combining the refining methods of the two items and applying them to the bronze mirror.

　I'm not afraid of failure anyway.

　Among the three thousand props and eight thousand training methods, there is no prop similar to this bronze mirror.

　But Dark's divergent thinking led him to discover a method for refining the cursed mask and the mirror of wisdom.

　A cursed mask is a mask with a curse effect that can cause the wearer to lose their rationality and then gradually petrify in a rage.

　However, combining the two methods proved to be much more difficult than he had imagined.

　From morning to afternoon, he studied the material carefully, except for the occasional moment when he was distracted, but progress was very slow.

　As evening approached, in order to prevent a shortage of materials after the experiment began.

　Successfully made a fortune.

　Everything is for the sake of progress.

　When Aurora knocked on the door and entered the house, he could almost see the finish line.

　"Are you researching the creation of item cards again?"

　Aurora placed the nourishing soup on the table and asked curiously.

　Dak had to go to Traveler's Street to buy some of the materials he might need.

　His recent expenses have been increasing, and his academic credit reserves are visibly decreasing, finally making him feel a sense of crisis.

　After returning and sitting down again, he picked up the documents and, as if suddenly enlightened, his inspiration flashed continuously, and he made a significant leap forward in the entire process.

　Unable to contain her curiosity, Aurora asked, "Didn't you pass through the access control? How did you get in?"

　Dark laughed, "The access control doesn't apply to professors."

　"Oh." Aurora thought for a moment and said, "Let me guess, it's Professor Lily?"

　Dak put down his pen and sighed, "It feels like something's missing if you leave things lying around without studying them. You always want to make the most of everything."

　Aurora smiled and said, "Then let's eat something first before continuing our research. When did you get back?"

　“Two in the morning,” Dark said.

　Dark looked up slightly and asked curiously, "How did you know? I shouldn't have said that."

　Aurora covered her mouth and chuckled: "Someone saw you. Do you know how much attention you're getting?"

　Dak recalled that he had indeed encountered a group of three, and couldn't help but smile helplessly.

　"You guessed it right away." Dak picked up the bowl, ladled out some soup, took a sip, and felt completely refreshed.

　Seeing how comfortable he looked, Aurora felt relieved as well.

　She said, "You went into the dungeon with the professors this time, right?"

　22/127

　My family suddenly brought over a blind date number, but they got the name and number wrong. It caused a lot of trouble and wasted a lot of time.

　"Do you know about the Smart Mirror? You are like my Smart Mirror."

　But I still managed to write 10,000 words. Keep it up!

　I'm begging for monthly votes, and I'm also begging for death threats!

Chapter 619 Darkdemon's Petrifying Gaze (5k)

　Two days later in the evening.

　Based on the refining methods of the Cursed Mask and the Mirror of Wisdom, Dark finally developed a seemingly feasible approach.

　Although he couldn't make mistakes due to having only one bronze mirror, he conducted simulations based on various data and basically confirmed that it was correct.

　After everything was ready, he chose to conduct the experiment on Tuesday evening!

　The bronze mirror is essentially a replica of the Medusa Mirror.

　Medusa was the Gorgon with snakes for hair.

　Its upper body is human and its lower body is snake. Every hair of its is a long, thin snake, which is why it is called "Gorgon".

　According to legend, Medusa was born with the power to petrify.

　The chicken-like creature's eyes can shoot out gray petrifying rays that turn targets into stone.

　However, the petrification abilities of the Ceratosaurus and Medusa are worlds apart.

　Anyone who looks into its eyes will be petrified.

　Other monsters with similar abilities include the chicken-snake beast, which is quite common in dungeons.

　Even if you are accidentally petrified, you can use the saliva of the lime toad or a petrification cure to remove the petrification caused by the chicken-snake beast.

　The petrification cure is not difficult to prepare. Its core ingredient, the Snake Tongue Flower, can be found around the Medusa Statue, a magical marker on the tenth floor of the dungeon.

　The two are not even in the same league.

　If a mage takes precautions beforehand, they can avoid being petrified by the chicken-snake beast by using something like cloth to block the petrification ray.

　Of course, the bronze mirror is only a replica. After testing, its petrification ability is only slightly stronger than that of the chicken-snake beast, and it can also be neutralized with a petrification neutralization potion.

　Dark's goal is to further enhance the petrification ability of the bronze mirror during the process of refining it into an item card.

　To test the petrification ability of the bronze mirror, Dark prepared a considerable amount of petrification-removing agents in advance.

　Medusa's petrification, however, was almost impossible to reverse.

　He also can't be too stingy.

　Therefore, he referenced the method of creating the cursed mask and prepared to add three points of greed to the process.

　I can't bear to let the child catch the wolf.

　He used the magic of the underworld to quickly calm himself down, and then focused his attention to begin the experiment.

　The softener for the bronze mirror was formulated using the softener for the smart mirror as a template.

　Saturn is the symbol of greed, and its main attributes are rock and ground, which at least aligns with the ability to petrify.

　Whether it will actually be useful remains to be seen after the experiment is over.

　Claire used that line of incantation to activate the bronze mirror, causing it to exhibit petrifying power.

　Dark wrote down the activation incantation after that, and now it comes in handy.

　The "ink" used to write magical language was actually a cursed mask used as a reference.

　The most important magical language was finally completed after combining the two items and adding the activation incantation of the bronze mirror.

　He added the auxiliary ingredients while observing the reaction of the No. 4 transmutation array.

　To ensure that the petrification ability of the bronze mirror was not reduced, Dark used a large amount of chicken-snake beast materials in the selection of auxiliary materials, and focused on referring to the alchemy method of the cursed mask.

　With softener, ink, and magical language, the experiment got on track.

　After a full three hours, Dak finally moved the experiment to the stage of smelting materials.

　In fact, this is the most crucial step.

　Whether the entire refining plan is correct depends on whether the refining array can successfully refine the bronze mirror completely.

　The transmutation array reacted relatively smoothly, and the materials gradually merged into the light array.

　Afterward, Dark finally placed the "softened" bronze mirror into the transmutation circle.