After having a clear direction, Ian immediately took action. He sent his research information on Faith Power and his theoretical conjectures on Divine Power to Alti.
After reading and analyzing these materials, Alti restarted the analysis of Divine Power.
This time, she focused on testing whether Divine Power contained magic and belief.
As the core energy of the Empire, people have studied magic very thoroughly. However, little is known about faith.
Based on his short-term experiments with Ian, he concluded that faith is an extremely pure emotional force - just like the emotions used to create Lesser Philosopher's Stone.
Once Faith Power is absorbed, it can greatly enhance the strength of the mind and soul.
But the side effects are also obvious. It will affect the soul subtly and slowly change the personality and concepts of the absorber.
After mastering this information, the three people once again conducted an in-depth analysis of Divine Power extracted from Herpo.
Facts have proved that Ian's theory is partially correct.
Divine Power does contain faith and magic, but it also has many other substances mixed in.
Currently, they can only identify two of them: soul (or spirit) energy, and a small portion of Authority.
Looking at the results obtained in the past few days, Ian said, "It seems that it will take a lot of time and energy to completely solve the mystery of this power. In this case, let's conduct some basic experiments first."
Alti immediately ordered his assistant to get a clone as a sample.
Then, a small wisp of Divine Power was injected into the clone.
However, in less than five seconds, the clone's body exploded violently, and its internal organs and body fluids splashed all over the white laboratory.
"This energy is so unstable?" Alti murmured to herself. After ordering Tower Spirit to use Cleaning Charm to restore the room to a spotless state, she carefully reviewed the data collected in the explosion.
"This time it's a clone that has been genetically enhanced for the third time."
Previously, Empire could only successfully complete two genetic enhancements, but recently, with the new knowledge brought back by Ian, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the third enhancement technology has also been successfully developed.
Under the command of Alti, the experiment on the lower First Tier section began.
A new clone was brought up, and Divine Power was introduced into its body again.
Immediately afterwards, the clone fell to the ground and howled in pain.
Five minutes later, this clone exploded just like the previous one.
Alti frowned, not satisfied with the data obtained.
So, she sent in several more clones, but without exception, they all ended in explosions.
"Send a clone with Battle Aura in its body."
"Tower Master, we only have Battle Aura clones of First Tier and Second Tier," an assistant reported.
"Not even a Third Tier?" She didn't dare to ask a higher rank.
Currently, there are very few Fourth-Order Arcanists inside the Empire, let alone clones. So she has no hope at all.
"No."
Alti felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that as a dignified tower owner, he would be so poor.
There was nothing she could do about it. Her previous experiments were too expensive and even exceeded the allocation limit of the Empire, so she had to pay out of her own pocket to fill the hole.
"Don't worry about resource issues," Ian said, and directly contacted Morgana to send several Battle Aura clones of Fourth Tier and Fifth Tier.
At present, he is probably the only one who has this level of resources.
In the world of <Fullmetal Alchemist>, he cultivated a large number of Fifth Tier clones for war and experimental needs.
After thanking her, Alti returned to the experiment. She injected Divine Power into these clones.
This time, there was no explosion. On the contrary, Divine Power devoured the Battle Aura inside the clones, and then began to devour their life force.
All clones, including those of Fifth Tier, aged rapidly in a very short period of time and eventually died.
"This Divine Power has Self consciousness?" Alti said in surprise.
"Or that's just its instinct," Ian commented, "Try the magic."
Next, several clones with magical powers in their bodies were put into experiments.
This time, Divine Power reacted more aggressively.
It began to force the magic out of the clone's body, as if asserting its sovereignty.
And the process is extremely rough.
"So magic and Divine Power cannot coexist?" Ian whispered to himself.
He suddenly remembered a novel he had read in his previous life, called "The Great Archmage Reborn in a Different World 4000 Years Later".
In that novel, the protagonist's family conducted an experiment to allow the body to contain both magic power and Divine Power.
If possible, he really wanted to go to that world to get information about that experiment.
However, it is not yet certain whether the Divine Power setting of that universe is consistent with the one here.
The experiment continued. This time a clone with Liquid Mana was used.
Divine Power fought with it for about five minutes before the magic was driven out of the body.
Finally, it was Crystallized Magic's turn. The tug-of-war lasted for more than an hour.
In the end, the clone's body could not withstand this high-intensity energy conflict and collapsed completely.
The next experiment still centered around the relationship between Divine Power and magic power, but this time no longer used clones, but instead used precision instruments to test Fusion.
The result is still the same.
Subsequently, they tested various poisons and medicines on Herpo.
And throughout the entire process, the energy-absorbing enchantment never stopped operating.
"Your Majesty the Consul, what is your final plan to deal with him?" Rowena asked.
Ian was silent for a moment and replied, "First, I want to dissect him."
"That's it?"
"Carry out a live broadcast of the anatomy in front of the entire Empire people."
Rowena's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately understood the meaning of this move.
Ian has been committed to changing the spiritual outlook of the Empire people.
What could be more shocking than dissecting a "god" in public?
This move will not only greatly enhance his prestige and control over Empire, but also deeply implant the concept of pursuing Truth and knowledge into the hearts of children and Guangzhou Archmage.
They will witness with their own eyes that their ruler treats a superior "god" as experimental material, and all this is in the name of knowledge Kazuma.
Another benefit is that it will pave the way for future confrontations between the Empire and other gods.
If other gods try to spread faith within the Empire in the future, it will become extremely difficult because people have long lost their fear of gods.
In their eyes, the so-called "god" is just a more powerful and advanced Magical Creatures.