Artificial God?
Zheng Qing vaguely remembered hearing that name somewhere.
Though he could not spare any more mental energy to search his memories, Professor Monteria's next words answered the young wizard's doubts:
"—The Artificial God Project was actually an old internal school project. It first began as an interest group in the Alchemy Department. Well, before First University merged, the Alchemy Department had been the largest magical faction in Alpha Academy. In short, those wizards had a very simple idea: since wizards could refine elves, forge a wizard's arms, legs, and internal organs, make portraits speak, and resurrect the dead, why not simply forge a god?
They did not use a word like 'Legendary' because, to wizards, 'Legendary' was a concept worthy of reverence. Gods, on the other hand, could be profaned.
However, limited by the development of magical techniques, and with the later emergence of more imaginative terms and feasible projects such as the Dimension School, the New World, and Forbidden Curses, most of the school's resources tilted toward those new directions. The Artificial God Project was shelved.
Until Dr. Duzem appeared.
He truly was an extraordinarily gifted alchemist.
There had always been two unsolved core problems in the Artificial God Project. One was the core energy source. Restoring vitality to a Legendary Grade being required an immense quantity of high-quality magic power. The other was how to prevent a legendary corpse from reviving after activation. One had to understand that Legendary beings had already stepped beyond the River of Destiny. When they died, their true bodies and true spirits had dispersed together. Conversely, the revival of a true body would most likely gather its true spirit anew... By then, it would no longer be the 'Artificial God Project,' but the 'Great Resurrection Project.'
Dr. Duzem solved the first