For Ian, it is easy to remove this level of curse. After all, he is the one who has mastered Law of Curse. However, he does not want to expose all his trump cards and strength prematurely to Council.
What's more, this G-334 looks like a very lucky variant, and Ian wants to make friends with him.
If he acts too relaxed, the other party may not be so grateful to him. Therefore, he must put on a show and pretend that he has spent a lot of effort to solve this problem.
Ian asked G-334 to wait for a while, and then disappeared. A few hours later, he came back with a "slightly pale" face, holding a Potions bottle in his hand, which contained a dreamlike white substance.
"Give your soul to me." He said, taking the light ball from G-334. He placed the Potions bottle in front of the light ball and shook it gently. Strands of black light were immediately pulled out of the light ball and poured into Potions. In just a few seconds, the soul in the light ball became clear and transparent, while the white liquid in the bottle became as black as ink.
"I spent a lot of money on this relic, and even used the best Potions in my collection." Ian deliberately lowered his voice and muttered, ensuring that only "himself" could hear it.
Half an hour later, the liquid in the Potions bottle had completely turned into pure black like Abyss, and the soul in the light ball had become purer and flawless than the winter snow in the North.
'This curse is really interesting.' Ian can see that this curse has reached the limit of soul curse, and is only a little short of directly eroding Soul Flame.
So, he unceremoniously put the bottle of pitch-black liquid into his space ring. Poor G-334 was in extreme excitement at this time and did not notice Ian's little movements at all.
He looked at the bright and clear soul in the light ball and grinned with an extremely exaggerated smile. If it weren't for the fact that he was now in a public place, he would definitely scream with excitement.
"On behalf of my whole family, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to you!" G-334's tone was full of sincerity.
"I'm serious, everyone gets what they need."
"It may be just a transaction to you, but to me, you saved the love of my life." G-334 said, solemnly handing the black Cosmic Cube body to Ian.
"In that case, how about we make another deal?" Ian suggested with a smile.
"Oh? What do you think?"
"Tell me where you found this Cosmic Cube body. In return, I can Resurrection her directly on the spot."
"Resurrection on the spot?!"
"That's right, only one spell is needed."
G-334 was completely moved. If he followed his original plan, he would need to spend a lot of time nourishing her soul first, and then use the previously saved genetic data to clone her body. Finally, he would have to re-implant the soul into the body with extreme care to ensure that there would be no mistakes in the entire process.
The entire Resurrection process will consume a lot of his time, energy and resources. If this process can be shortened, the risk of accidents will be greatly reduced.
What's more, he hasn't seen her for too long, and he doesn't want to wait any longer.
However, the information requested by the chairman is not trivial. The reason why G-334 handed over the Cosmic Cube body without hesitation just now was because he knew that he would have to find a replacement in the same ruins in other timelines. But now...
"I can assure you that I will never leak this information, and I can even sign Soul Contract." Ian added in a timely manner.
"Okay, I promise you. But, will your Resurrection spell have any side effects?"
"Not at all."
G-334 only hesitated for a moment, then handed the ball of light to Ian. The pure soul floated out of the ball of light, and then, an extremely complicated magic circle emerged around it.
The originally somewhat illusory white soul became radiant in a few seconds, like a miniature sun. Then, the flesh, bones, internal organs and skin began to be reshaped in the light, and a perfect body appeared out of thin air, even thoughtfully equipped with a wizard's robe.
A beautiful woman wearing a black robe appeared in front of them. After a few seconds, her eyelashes trembled slightly and she slowly opened her eyes. She looked around confusedly, and finally fixed her eyes on G-334.
"Ian? Is that you?"
"Hermione!" G-334's voice trembled with excitement. He rushed forward desperately and hugged her tightly, letting tears well up in his eyes. He didn't care at all that there was a variant of himself standing next to him.
"I'm not dead?" Hermione was still in disbelief.
"No, you are not dead. I promise you, you will never die."
Hermione Although she was full of doubts, she did not continue to ask. The only important thing now is that she finally returned to him.
"Ahem, excuse me." Ian coughed lightly at the right time.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman." G-334 finally came to his senses and quickly handed Ian an extremely complicated star map.
"Another you? What the hell is going on?" Hermione asked confused.
"I will explain it to you slowly later." G-334 reassured. Ian took the star map and quickly conducted a brief Divination to confirm its authenticity. After getting the positive result, he nodded with satisfaction.
"G-334, don't forget to ask her to sign Council's confidentiality contract." Ian reminded.
"I understand." He knew Council's rules very well and would never dare to violate them at all.
"This transaction is very pleasant. If you have any good things in the future, you can contact me at any time."
Ian turned around and left, returning to his own exclusive room. His original plan was to upgrade Citadel's magic defense system, because he felt that what C-137 had done before was simply relying on the defense. But now, all his attention was attracted by this mysterious Cosmic Cube body.
His eyes glowed with purple light, trying to see through the essence of this magic Divine Artifact. In an extremely brief moment, he caught a flashing rune, and then he couldn't see anything else.
Next, no matter how he tried - even using the power of the law - he could no longer pry into it. Even the memory of the rune he had just remembered at a glance seemed to have been forcibly erased by some force.
"Anti-theft mechanism? It seems that the technology is quite advanced." Ian muttered to himself, remembering that he had encountered a similar situation when he tried to reverse engineer the Divine Artifact borrowed from Akashic Records.
Therefore, he took various safety protection measures with extreme caution before carefully injecting his magic power into Cosmic Cube's body.
Nothing unexpected happened. Ian saw the shadow of a rune projected out, and at the same time a piece of information was directly transmitted into his mind.
"As long as you fully master this rune, you can unlock the first layer of inheritance of this relic?" He whispered, "No wonder G-334 can't open it."
What appeared in front of him was a [Primordial Rune]. After careful observation, he found that this rune was more basic than the ones he analyzed from Guznader and Divine Artifact, but it was indeed the genuine Primordial Rune.
"It will take a lot of time to fully master this rune. I'd better wait until I return to the Empire to study it slowly." Ian suppressed the ecstasy in his heart.
He continued to perform his duties as chairman and comprehensively upgraded and transformed all systems of Citadel (including the defense system). During this period, he had been waiting to see if anyone else would come to him for a deal.
Several people did come to the door, but the trading items they offered were either not suitable for Ian, or the asking price was too high. Finally, on the seventh day after the meeting, Ian was ready to return to Prime Universe.
His last job before leaving was to leave a secret channel for Council to contact him in an emergency. Ian originally wanted to leave a clone here to supervise the operation of Council, but after weighing it, he felt that now was not the best time to expose this technology.
"It's done." Ian stretched greatly.
"Sir, there is a new situation." Morgana suddenly appeared.
"What's going on?" Ian's eyes lit up, "Is it information about [Scholar Race]?"
"Yes."
"Put it through."
A holographic screen unfolded in front of him, Ian frowned slightly; the person who wanted to trade with him turned out to be the guy from L-123 who took the path of gods.
"Do you have any clues about Scholar Race?" Ian asked straight to the point.
"That's right," L-123 said, taking out a simple token, "I went to check the information. One of my followers once sacrificed this token to me as a tribute. According to him, this thing is related to a mysterious place called [Astral Realm Library] and is inextricably linked to [Scholar Race]."
After obtaining this token, L-123 also tried to find this so-called the Library. After all, there may be a huge amount of knowledge hidden in it.
However, he finally failed and had no choice but to give up and even gradually forgot about this thing.
"What do you want in exchange?"
"Your research information on [Divinity]."
"Based on a hearsay clue and a broken brand, your appetite must be too much."
L-123 frowned slightly, knowing in his heart that G-003 was right. No one can guarantee the value of this token.
"If this clue is true, I believe you will definitely get unimaginable huge benefits from it."
Ian ruthlessly ignored this bastard's extremely poor bargaining. "My bottom line is: I will provide you with an enchantment formula that can refine and purify Faith Power. As long as you use it in conjunction with your Divine Flame, the problem of your soul being counterattacked by faith should be greatly alleviated."
L-123 frowned. This offer was far from his psychological expectations.
"You want love, don't force it." Ian said calmly.
"Okay, deal." L-123 finally compromised. Recently, he felt more and more clearly how seriously Faith Power had eroded his soul.
To take the simplest example, it is absolutely impossible for any normal "Ian" to give up looking for a the Library full of knowledge so easily.
However, if Council hadn't mentioned it this time, he would have even forgotten that he still had such a token. Therefore, he must solve the fatal risk of soul corrosion as soon as possible.
"Happy cooperation." Ian said, cutting off the communication.
"Which version of the formula are you going to give him?" Morgana asked.
"The original defective experimental version. In addition, convert it into a wand-casting mode before sending it to him." Ian still doesn't want to expose his core Arcane Rune System.
"As you wish."
Morgana sent the information. L-123 naturally did not dare to play tricks under the constraints of the contract. A few minutes later, Ian played with the bronze token in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his lips.