In the dark and deep underground laboratory, Blink shines with a faint blue runic light. The report is far from over, and clone No. 10 is working hard on Ian's core goal of coming to this world: to bring Otsutsuki Clan The greedy Divine Tree of was completely transformed into an ultimate plant weapon that can forcibly absorb the origin of the plane and condense it into "Mana Fruit" or "Omniscience Fruit".
The rapid progress of this disruptive research is largely due to the in-depth study of the "Magic Tree" by the Imperial Botany Master Neville Longbottom.
Long before Leyline Nodes of the Empire was fully activated, Neville had cultivated a unique and extraordinary tree species that could greedily absorb the magic power from Leyline Nodes, and then released the pure magic power back into the surrounding natural environment through a process similar to photosynthesis. At the time, this was definitely a groundbreaking invention worthy of being recorded in history.
Later, as Ian discovered the more vast "Magic Network", he gave Neville a new strategic task: to cultivate a new tree species that can directly extract energy from Magic Network.
Ian has always liked to prepare for a rainy day. He is paving the way for the Empire's future, so that when Leyline Nodes is destroyed by force majeure one day, Arcane Empire can still effortlessly obtain a steady stream of massive magic power.
What's more, in the vast Milky Way Galaxy, there are countless desolate planets. They have no so-called Leyline Nodes at all, and they cannot naturally generate magic power.
Empire's usual method is to carry out large-scale construction projects on these planets and build huge Energy Conversion machines to forcibly convert the hot solar energy of the stars, the vitality of the planets, and even the water energy of the vast oceans into magic power.
However, if Neville's Magic Tree research can be a great success, Empire's future interstellar colonization will become extremely easy - just plant a new generation of Magic Tree on those wild stars, and they will be able to directly overcome the obstacles of space and imbue the entire planet with magic from Magic Network.
Ian's ambition goes far beyond that. He even plans to personally weave a new Magic Network that covers all the worlds one day in the future. In his deduction, the Magic Network currently covering the universe is most likely the handwriting left by the ancient and powerful "Mage Race".
Standing on the shoulders of these Giant, clone No. 10 was unstoppable and successfully tampered with the underlying genes of Divine Tree, allowing it to successfully condense into a full-bodied "Mana Fruit".
He even frantically implanted a set of Arcane Purification Matrix into the energy circulation system of Divine Tree to ensure that all the impurities were completely filtered out during the coagulation process.
Not only that, this Divine Tree, which has been transformed beyond recognition, can now bear "Soul Fruit" that nourishes the soul, as well as other strange fruits in various energy forms.
Despite such a brilliant stage victory, Ian's ultimate ambition was not fully realized.
First of all, this brand new Divine Tree still needs a rigorous actual combat test - to test whether it really has the terrifying devouring power of draining the origin of an entire plane in one breath.
Secondly, and what drives clone No. 10 the most, he has still not overcome the technical barriers to condense the abstract wisdom of civilization into "Omniscience Fruit".
His eyes turned to the other two clones. Clone No. 11 was working tirelessly to crack the "wedge" of the Otsutsuki Clan, which was essentially a very advanced Reincarnation Magic.
By selecting a suitable "vessel" and planting a wedge mark on it, the caster can arbitrarily obliterate the soul of the container after the death of the physical body, thereby occupying the magpie's nest and regaining a new life.
This technology will be of inestimable value to the Empire's future "plane invasion" strategy. Arcanist will no longer have to bear the huge risk of soul damage during the reincarnation ceremony.
On the contrary, they can choose an indigenous container at will, perfectly replacing each other's identity, and thus sneak into any high-dimensional plane like a ghost without alerting "Cosmic Will".
"Have you found traces of the 'Shell' organization?" Ian asked casually. "Nothing was found. These guys don't exist in the current timeline. I have spread the search net to other parallel time and space." No. 11 Clone Body Report, Ian nodded in agreement.
As for clone No. 12, the subject of his research is Hidan, the crazy talker in Akatsuki. Ian is very interested in the unkillable "immortality" of this unlucky guy.
The research results are not unexpected. Hidan's physique is essentially equivalent to a crude humanoid "Horcrux". His vitality is tightly bound to an interdimensional entity hidden in the dark - the so-called "Evil God".
As long as that entity is immortal, he can live forever. After figuring out the principle, clone No. 12 has begun to coldly gather Iron Legion, preparing to directly enter the different dimension and capture the pretentious "Evil God" alive and slice it for study.
After listening to all the reports, Ian waved his hand, dismissed the motivated clones, and turned around to go about his own business.
Ever since he saw the cool and cool title "Legendary Arcanist" on Akashic Records's panel, he has been thinking about giving Empire Arcanist at different levels a set of loud and unified titles.
He is a perfectionist at heart and hates the dry titles of "Sixth Tier bit Planetary Level" and "Seventh Tier Stellar Level", which have no sense of beauty at all.
'Zero Tier is undoubtedly the arcane apprentice. So what about going from First Tier to Third Tier? Bronze, silver and gold?' Ian cursed in his mind. 'If we follow this vulgar online game logic, wouldn't Fourth Tier become platinum and Fifth Tier become diamond?'.
'No, I have already used a similar naming system when classifying Fifth Tier's mages before. We must not repeat it.' Ian decisively rejected this bad idea.
He sneered at this crude classification method. 'How about applying the Morning Star system directly?' Sixth Tier is called Morning Star Arcanist, Seventh Tier is called Huiyue Arcanist, and Eighth Tier is called Daybreak Arcanist.'The traces of plagiarism are too heavy, it's simply embarrassing. And in this case, what should Ninth Tier and Tenth Tier be called?' Ian killed them again.
He leaned on the high-backed leather chair and thought hard, vowing to come up with a set of titles that showed the majesty of the Empire. He even considered a simple and crude one star to ten stars, but what is the difference between that and directly calling Tenth Tier?
After some brainstorming, he finalized the preliminary framework: 'Zero Tier is the apprentice, Third Tier is the junior Arcanist, Fourth Tier is the intermediate, Fifth Tier is the advanced level, Sixth Tier is the master level, Seventh Tier is the Archmage, and Eighth Tier is the supreme Arcanist.'.
'So what about Ninth Tier and Tenth Tier? As for the future Eleventh Tier, I think Transcendence Arcanist is a good title.'. 'I originally wanted to use the name [Legend], but unfortunately it has been occupied in advance by those perverted mages who have mastered Conceptual Magic.'.
After racking his brains and unable to come up with a reason, Ian simply left this mess to Tower Spirit Morgana.
"What do you think about Ninth Tier being called 'Qiming Arcanist' and Tenth Tier being called 'Arcane Sage'?" Hologram House-elf suggested, fluttering its wings.
"Arcane Sage sounds okay, but it always feels like something is missing Haki," Ian smacked his lips.
"What about Qiming Arcanist?" Morgana asked.
"It's vulgar, I don't like it." Ian beat him to death with a stick. This merciless complaint instantly made House-elf puff up her cheeks with anger. She ran the algorithm crazily in the background like a rage, generating millions of alternative names in one breath and throwing them on the light screen.
Looking at the dense waterfall of data, the corners of Ian's eyes twitched fiercely. "Okay, okay, I'll take a look at it later.".
Having said that, his figure disappeared from the laboratory in an instant, and he planned to inspect the progress of the conquest of this planet.
The scenery above the surface is the same as in the past, and a lifeless peace is maintained between the major countries. The steel Golem army did not wield butcher knives to force the indigenous people to wear Arcane Empire clothes, nor did they engage in any bloody cultural cleansing.
Empire adopts a gentle strategy of boiling frogs in warm water. Through subtle educational reforms, pervasive commercial marketing, and overwhelming cultural propaganda, it slowly erodes their thoughts and quietly integrates them into the huge system of the Empire.
Although this process of cultural evolution is long, it can eliminate resistance in the most reliable way and nip in the cradle any armed rebellions and demonstrations that may break out.
After a round of inspection, Ian planned to go back to Konohagakure to talk to Tsunade, but found that the beauty was nowhere to be found. He immediately spread his consciousness over the entire planet Cleansweep, and when he accurately located the position of Tsunade, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch violently a few times.
Ripples in space flashed past, and Ian teleported directly to Land of Wind--more precisely, it was a splendid giant casino in Sand Village.. In order to revitalize Land of Wind's poor economy that has been eating away at the soil all year round, Empire carried out drastic reforms and directly built it into the largest entertainment and gaming center in Shinobi World.
As expected by Ian, he immediately spotted Tsunade lying on the roulette table among the noisy crowd.
The funny thing is, she is surrounded by gamblers with green eyes. These old fritters are staring at Tsunade's bets. As long as she chooses a certain color, they will bet heavily on the opposite color without hesitation. And the final result is always that these Vampire will make a lot of money, and Tsunade will lose their pants.
"I can't believe that even if you drank 'Felix Felicis', a kind of karma-defying Potions that modifies the cause and effect, your luck could still be so bad." A joking voice suddenly sounded from behind.
"Fuck! You scared me to death!" Tsunade jumped up like a frightened cat, and even covered his chest in an exaggerated manner. Even the well-informed Ian couldn't help but feel briefly dazed by the turbulent visual impact.
"I have to solemnly declare to you that I actually won three times today! Also, my eyes are on top, so don't look around!" Tsunade's face was red and he was as excited as a child who won candy.
For a super fat sheep who is addicted to gambling, but has always lost every time he gambled in the first half of his life, today's winning record of three games in a row is simply an unprecedented miracle.
"With the potency of that bottle of Potions, you should have killed everyone and taken them all," Ian sighed with a bit of hatred. "I even ordered the casino to turn off the anti-cheating 'Luck Suppression Barrier' in order to let you cheat, but you still lost so miserably."
After being exposed in public, Tsunade's cheeks immediately turned red. She thought that with the help of so many cheats, she would be able to wipe out the casino today, but who knew that she was still slapped hard by reality.
"Stop talking nonsense! Instead of being sarcastic, why don't you get me a few more bottles of Potions and help me out!" Tsunade shamelessly extended his hand.
Ian touched his chin and pondered for a moment. According to common sense, taking Felix Felicis continuously in a short period of time will cause quite dangerous magic rejection and psychotoxic backlash.
However, the "Abyss-level bad luck" displayed by Tsunade on the gambling table, which can swallow up even high-dimensional Potions, is really a rare and weird observation sample.
As a top scholar, his thirst for knowledge made him eager to see what outrageous chemical reaction would happen next. Anyway, with him, Arcane Emperor, in charge of the situation, even if this woman really drank up, he could bring her back from the dead in an instant.
However, with a responsible attitude, he truthfully informed the potential side effects and gave the other party the right to choose.
"Bring it here!" Tsunade didn't take the side effects seriously at all. He grabbed two bottles of Potions and drank them all in one gulp.
The effect of the medicine was immediate. In the next ten minutes, as if possessed by the goddess Luck, Tsunade was unstoppable at the gambling table, hitting wherever she pointed, with a lot of chips pouring into her arms. However, just ten minutes later, the mysterious blessing suddenly burst like a bubble, and her unlucky non-chief physique took over the highlands again.
"More! Give me a few more bottles!" Tsunade's eyes turned red.
Ian patiently handed her five more bottles in one breath. This time, her invincible luck only lasted for more than 20 minutes.
"This is a double miracle in medicine and mysticism! You actually have no adverse reactions to Felix Felicis, but this weird drug effect decay time is really abnormal." Ian looked at her as if she were looking at a rare treasure.
You know, for an ordinary wizard, one bottle of Felix Felicis is enough to ensure that all wishes come true for more than an hour. But after drinking these five bottles of high-dose strong medicine, Tsunade only felt happy for a mere twenty minutes! This woman's bad luck is even more domineering than Black Hole.
"When you are free one day, you absolutely need to go to my laboratory and let me take a blood test to study your mutated and unlucky constitution." Ian suggested earnestly.
"Research is nonsense! Stop talking nonsense and hand over all the remaining Potions!" Tsunade is completely furious. For her, this extreme dopamine surge of doubling the chips and rubbing the dealer on the ground is more intoxicating and intoxicating than any alcohol.
"There's not even a drop left. It's been drained dry by this gold-eating beast like you." Ian spread his hands.
"Stop pretending to be poor! You are a Empire Overlord who rules the endless sea of stars. You have wealth that is unparalleled. How could you even dig through a few bottles of broken potions!" Tsunade jumped in a hurry.
As soon as the words came out, a dangerous flash of light suddenly flashed in her brain. Yes, the man in front of her was extremely rich. If she could... She shook her head violently and forcibly cut off this tempting and dangerous thought. Reason told her that this was definitely playing with fire and burning herself.
"I am rich, but why do I need to cook such useless low-level Potions and hoard it with me when I have nothing to do?" Ian retorted confidently.
"Then you know the recipe, right? Can't you show mercy and cook a pot for me on the spot?" Tsunade begged with eyes shining brightly.
"No way. But teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish. You can go to my library and learn how to cook it yourself." Ian slyly threw out the bait.
"This is a brilliant idea!" Tsunade's eyes instantly lit up like stars. In order to be able to walk sideways on the gambling table in the future, she immediately abandoned the table full of chips and rushed out of the casino in a hurry, determined to conquer this great subject called "Potion Alchemy".
Looking at her enthusiastic back, Ian shook his head in amusement. Then, he stopped lingering, moved his fingertips, started Space Law and disappeared. He also wanted to meet an important person.
In a secret forest clearing, a gentle breeze blew.
"It's you." Itachi Uchiha, who had just regained his life and regained clarity in his eyes, looked at Ian who appeared in front of him out of thin air like a ghost, his tone was calm, as if he had expected it.