Chapter 759: Second Transformation


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    The next day afternoon, Rnd received Sharon’s ability report.


    "That’s fast." He raised his eyebrows as Wendy handed him the test sheets. "Has she epted that she’s now a witch?"


    "Yes, and in a calmer way than we’d expected." Wendyughed as she recounted the meeting from the previous night. "I’ve to say, her parents have brought up a fine child."


    "Hmm..." Rnd was rather impressed himself. In this era, someone who could make such far-sighted considerations would already be considered a pioneer. Perhaps, this was how history had always been driven. As a belief was passed down the generations, more and more people were imbued with the same aspiration, and when the numbers reached a certain level, the world would undergo an extraordinary change.


    As they say, a little spark can kindle a great fire.


    Perhaps, Mankind had reached civilization by taking small steps like this.


    He examined the details of the test, particrly the evaluation of magic power. As a witch who was awakened at the young age of 15, Sharon’s magic cyclone ability was of an above-average standard. It was even noted in the report that this wasparable to adult witches in Taqu. Evidently, Phyllis was present during the test - among the witches in Neverwinter City, she was often the one who was most receptive to the arrival of new witches.


    Sharon’s ability was to generate electric currents. However, Wendy’s write-up on this section was rather vague, perhaps because the study of electricity was one of the more difficult topics within elementary physics.


    When she increased the intensity of her electric currents, the consumption of magic power would rapidly increase, but her electric currents would be strong enough to break wooden nks and melt iron. At a weaker intensity, she would need to touch the object to produce an effect, such as lighting a light bulb, albeit she was prone to burning the fment.


    As Sharon had only recently awakened, her control of magic power was very unstable. Wendy’s conclusion was that she was most suited to be abat witch, while also having potential to assist in production.


    Rnd had no ns to do a retest. After all, he had no tools to measure electrical voltage and current, and therefore would not be able to obtain exact values.


    Furthermore, Sharon would have to expend a lot of magic power to release high-voltage electric current. Her ability to maintain the transmission of electricity was obviously not as good as Mystery Moon’s Dawn I, let alone an electromaic gun.


    But most importantly, all effects that were produced by magic power, whether it be Anna’s ckfire or Sharon’s electric current, did not necessarilyply with the rted theories. Only when the abilities were transformed for a second time into other effects would they correspond with the knowledge he had.


    In sum, it was already clear that Sharon’s ability had a lot of potential. Rnd was certainly eager to know what kind of progress could be made when the essence of electric current was fully understood, as well as to see how much Sharon’s magic power would improve by as she grew older. But for now, it was best to follow Wendy’s rmendation to allow Sharon to practice on her own and focus on her studies, in which she had some catching up to do.


    Rnd thought about her strong sense of justice, and suddenly had an idea to admit her into the judiciary one day.


    "An electricity-generating youngdy patrolling the streets and arresting criminals... this seems to be exceptionally familiar."


    Without revealing his thoughts aloud, he nodded at Wendy and said, "We’ll do as you’ve rmended, many thanks."


    "My honor, Your Majesty," Wendy bowed.


    ...


    When Rnd returned to his office after dinner, he discovered that Lily and Mystery Moon had joined Nightingale in the room. The trio were gathered around the desk and seemed to be in an argument.


    "Take a look at this." Nightingale gestured towards Rnd. "My goodness, they look so real!"


    "What is it?" Rnd walked up to the desk curiously, and only then noticed the two pots of bird beak mushrooms ced on the table.


    "Eh... what’s with these mushrooms?" One pot of mushrooms seemed rather shrivelled like kitchen stock, while the other was much fresher and juicier. He pinched a mushroom stalk from thetter, causing its sap to gush out immediately. "This is quite fresh. Were these recently picked by Lightning?"


    Nightingale and Mystery Moon turned to look at Lily in unison.


    Lily shrugged her shoulders. "I used my magic power to create them."


    "Oh... magic power?" Rnd casually replied before he startled violently. "Wait... what? You used magic power to create them?"


    "Your Highness, her cohering ability has changed somewhat," Nightingale exined. "If, let’s say, it was only a purple worm after the first evolution, it has now added patterns on its back. Her magic power capacity has also increased." After a brief pause, she continued, "In other words, Lily’s ability has evolved a second time."


    "But still, they’re worms!" Mystery Moon chimed in. Of course, this provoked a look of disgust from Lily.


    "Is this so?" Rnd joyfully picked up another mushroom and examined it carefully. He quickly understood how she had created them. "You’re now able to make a magical swarm of worms turn into a particr form that you want?"


    "Yes. But they must at least be visible through a microscope, and a suitable target must be found, before the next step of assimtion can be transacted." Lily nodded. Although she acted very calm, the glimmer in her eyes gave away her inner delight. "Because the worms produced by bird beak mushrooms are rtively easier to observe, I chose them for this experiment."


    She was most likely referring to fungal spore, which was also the building block of fungi. Rnd started to feel excited. Perhaps, to Lily, organisms which were invisible to the naked eye, such as microscopic bugs, could now be controlled.


    "Excellent!" He reached out his hand and caressed her forehead.


    Unexpectedly, Lily did not move away or roll her eyes at him. Instead, she lowered her head and epted hispliments.


    "How is that any good." Mystery Moon grumbled. "Your Highness, my bedroom is no longer inhabitable! There are bird beak mushrooms everywhere, even on my bed, which now resembles the Misty Forest after a rain!"


    Lily’s cheeks suddenly reddened. She nced at Mystery Moon and said, "I... I don’t know why it would be like this either... At first, the worms couldn’t turn into bird beak mushrooms at all, and I even thought that there was a problem with the parent I was using. After I changed the parent, I didn’t imagine that the whole house would grow full of mushrooms."


    When Rnd understood the whole story, he could not help butugh aloud. From the little knowledge of biology he remembered, unlike a seed which could grow into arge tree, a single mushroom spore could not grow into a mushroom, no matter how much assimtion was done. Only after the parent mushroom was changed, two spores mightbine and grow into mushrooms. The reason why they grew everywhere was likely to be because the parent was discarded within the room, where it drifted around and assimted bacteria into bird beak mushroom spores.


    "We shall have a mushroom feast for lunch tomorrow." He announced gleefully.


    Indubitably, after Lily’s second transformation, her ability was no longer limited to sterilization and disinfection. Any observable thing could be wholly transformed for next to no cost, and could be multiplied and expanded like a regr microbe, so as to form aplete ’microscopic’ army of its own. Whether it be food production or war preparation, she would be able to y a great role from now onwards.