After leaving the Charms Laboratory, Murphy went to the Mind Magic Research Group.
"As for the Seed of the Mind, I believe Serika should have already told you a little about it. You've all read Joachim's diary too. Any thoughts?"
Standing before Murphy were the two leaders of the Mind Magic Research Group, Funes Bachmann and Omid Abbott.
After the Isaac incident last time, Murphy had approved the two of them establishing this research group. At present, besides them, there was also a cognitive psychology expert and a neurological medicine expert.
Naturally, he had come to them for the Seed of the Mind.
Although he had obtained the Seed of the Mind in the village, Murphy did not dare use it at all.
This spell was too powerful—so powerful that even Murphy felt a little afraid of it.
If he used the Seed of the Mind on someone and turned them into a zombie or ghost lackey, that would be one thing. But if it turned the roundworms in their belly and the bacteria in their intestines into his followers too, all of them thinking every day about burrowing into his stomach to share his worries and solve his problems, then what the hell was he supposed to do?
It was not enough for magic merely to be usable. Murphy at least had to confirm that this black box was basically safe and reliable.
He did not want to be like Crabbe in the original work, dying from a spell he could not control. That would be way too damn embarrassing.
"Based only on your and Serika's descriptions, as well as the records in the diary, there still isn't much we can conclude," Omid Abbott said.
"However, your decision to destroy the village was correct. Before we can determine the