Chapter 809 Extra: The meaning of survival

1786, French magic world.

"Josue, what are you doing?!"

The door of a secret alchemy laboratory was blasted open by a red beam of light. A middle-aged man with thick hair who looked like an old lion stepped into the alchemy laboratory. He roared at the young man standing in front of an alchemy equipment. road.

Josue slowly raised his head. He looked calmly at the middle-aged man who broke into his alchemy laboratory. He said softly: "As you can see, my teacher, I am transforming my body so that I can My life can survive.”

"Human body alchemy..." Josue's teacher, Isaac Farnes, looked at the mechanical body on the alchemy table and the human tissue in the solution placed in the corner of the laboratory with a livid face, "This It’s a taboo in alchemy, how dare you break it?”

The human tissues soaked in the solution were obviously the experimental subjects of wizards obtained by Josue through illegal channels, or even wizards who were brutally murdered by Josue.

Listening to his teacher's accusation, Josue laughed loudly and tapped his chest lightly with his wand.

The next moment, Josue's chest opened outwards layer by layer, exposing the countless extremely precise alchemical components inside. These alchemical components were combined in a specific way and operated in an orderly manner to provide this body with energy. A steady stream of vitality.

"My human body alchemy has been successful. My body will be immortal and my life will last forever. What an incredible thing in the field of alchemy! The immortal body is an alchemical creation greater than the magic stone! "

"And the price I paid was nothing more than the flesh and blood of my parents, wife, and children, as well as the flesh and blood samples of more than 500 wizards and the lives of more than 10,000 Muggles! For this, I got enough to support my progress and support. My surviving immortal body!"

"My dear teacher, you should be extremely proud of your students' achievements!"

Josue said with a chuckle, but his tone was so indifferent.

It was as if the deaths of his relatives and the lives of more than 10,000 people he mentioned were just stepping stones.

Listening to Josue's crazy words, Fanez's lips kept trembling. He couldn't believe what he was hearing!

The student who had behaved extremely well in front of him in the past was actually a madman who broke the taboo of alchemy and killed his own relatives and massacred tens of thousands of people in order to try human body alchemy!

Followed by the unbelievable anger that appeared in Fanes's eyes, he said coldly: "Josue, your life is really pathetic, even your relatives, even your emotions, In your eyes, they are just capital for human body alchemy.”

"You cannot understand love, let alone love others. You move forward in order to move forward and survive in order to survive. So how are you different from those animals that have no intelligence and only eat, reproduce and die in their lives?!"

"You are just a beast, a sane, shrewd, powerful, but equally pathetic, heartless beast who cannot feel people's emotions for the rest of his life! You are just a beast that exists for the sake of survival, Josue!"

Fanes is like a roaring lion.

In order to investigate the frequent disappearances of wizards in the French magic world, as well as the semi-finished products of human alchemy that were constantly leaking out on the black market, Fanes spent more than ten years to find this secret alchemy laboratory.

But he never imagined that the alchemist who broke the taboo of human alchemy and killed hundreds of wizards and tens of thousands of Muggles was his student. The man who faked the massacre of his family ten years ago was actually his own. Self-acting Josué!

Looking at the teacher, whose eyes were bloodshot due to anger and who was pointing a wand at him, Josue showed no fear at all.

Josue opened his arms. He was like a fanatical believer and the Lord embracing the world. He seemed to be immersed in a world that belonged to him. His voice was like a murmur: "Beast? No." , my teacher, my meaning is only survival, or in other words, survival is my meaning!”

"I have an immortal body. I will witness, I will be compassionate, I will be happy, I will be sad, I will evaluate, and I will record. The world I live in creates value and meaning for my survival, and I am eternal. The existence will also create value and meaning!”

"You may not understand yet, my teacher, survival is the most fundamental, core, and perfect definition of the meaning of the existence of all things! All other meanings must be linked to existence and must be included in the meaning of existence!"

"My teacher, you know yourself as Isaac Farnes, the famous French alchemist, wizard, human being, and the student of the great great alchemist Nicolas Flamel. So for you "Human body alchemy is a taboo raised by your teacher and a rule that binds you."

"Thus, the fairy-tale ideal reference to emotion as a connection between people is considered to be the root of everything, and for you, you can foresee the end of your individual life, an end that destroys your sense of The expectation of the purest meaning of one’s own existence gave birth to great fear.”

"According to Muggle science, this fear is called nihilism, because for individuals who cannot survive, the end of life is foreseeable and inescapable. Once existence ends, those anchored in the individual's existence Meaning disappears, leaving only the meaning of the individual anchored in the collective.”

"My teacher, the reason why you care about those sacrifices for the alchemy of the human body is just because they represent collective embodied health, and because your vision of the survival of collective meaning can allow you to offset the feeling of being emptied of nothingness. of fear.”

Josue's chest closed, and the artificial blood and skin covered the alchemy-made body, making him look the same as an ordinary human being.

Fanes looked at the student who had gone astray sadly, and he growled: "Doesn't this world have any emotions worth remembering for you? In the end, only you will be left as an individual. What's the use?"

Hearing this, Josue just smiled sarcastically and said: "Emotions worth remembering? You may not have understood yet, my teacher, my body will provide me with immortality! I am both a civilization and a race. , I will be in my own league!”

"We think that we are French wizards and French alchemists, but we are not people of the era when wizards and alchemists were born. The concepts of wizards, alchemists, magic, and humans have all gone through It’s just a concept passed down through countless generations.”

“Every era has some iterations of these ideas, and even French grammar today is very different from ancient times, but even so, we think of ourselves as French wizards and alchemists, don’t we? "

"My body will become a tool for carrying my thoughts. I don't care about those emotions and memories. I am the root of everything. Once emotions and memories hinder my self-improvement, then abandon it and let it be annihilated!"

"My concept of 'me' is the same as our civilization. I just need to survive, just need to be coherent! My body is immortal, I will continue to exist, and let my self give meaning to the past me, just like I believe that the future me will give the same meaning to the present me!”

"My teacher, I hope you can join me, join the great alchemy of the human body, join the great immortality! Flesh and flesh are weak, and only the alchemy of the human body to create an eternal body can lead us to the [road] of ascension! As me Teacher, I am willing to give you a chance!”

Josue chuckled and looked at Fanes in front of him.

Alchemy bodies rise from the grooves on the ground one by one. They are bodies that are hung on metal shelves and modified using the dead human body as a template and frame.

Looking at the corpses of wizards and Muggles that had been transformed into alchemical creations, Fanes was trembling all over: "Josue, you are simply a madman! The reason why taboos are called taboos is because It will bring a price that we cannot afford! I will stop your crazy behavior, I will stop you!"

Josue was not surprised by Fanez's choice.

In other words, he had no hope that Isaac Farnes, a disciple of Nico Flamel who firmly believed in Nico Flamel's theories and was upright, would turn to him.

Josue said regretfully: "That's such a pity, my teacher, no one will remember who you are in a hundred years. Even if I am willing, Isaac Farnes will be a forgotten man in a dozen years." Forgotten name! Your actions will be meaningless, and your own meaning will be negated by the vehicle you hope to carry it!"

Fanes waved the magic wand in his hand, hundreds of alchemy circles surrounded him, and thick murderous intent filled the air.

"As your teacher, you took the wrong path, which is my fault, but as a French alchemist and my teacher's disciple, I have the obligation to clean up the door and take back the knowledge I passed on to you!"

Fanes said coldly, and the alchemy formations around him were all charged up.

Today, Josue is nothing more than a quasi-demon-level wizard. His body has only reached the point where it will never decay, and cannot withstand the excessive lethality.

In other words, his lifespan is unlimited, but his body can be destroyed and killed!

Looking at the alchemy circle that was enough to shoot him riddled with holes, there was no trace of fear on Qiaosue's face.

He looked at his teacher with a smile and said: "Since I am your disciple, and I know that you have been investigating the taboo-breaking human alchemy laboratory for the past ten years, do you think that I will be unprepared for being so rigorous? "

"What?" Fanes was stunned for a moment, then his face changed drastically, "What did you do?!"

I saw golden lines spreading on Fanes' body, and an alchemical armor made of mithril appeared on the surface of Fanes' body. However, this alchemical armor was not protecting him, but protecting him in a certain way. The trajectory blocks his power!

This alchemy armor is constantly extracting the magic power from Fanes' body. This process of extracting magic power is rough and irreversible. The magic power released by Fanes, including the alchemy circle surrounding him, is forcibly extracted. The magic power turned into the power to bind Fanes!

Alchemy formations were released from the alchemy armor and landed on the soles of Fanes' feet. Thin golden ropes tied Fanis's hands and feet tightly, making Fanis completely unable to move.

At this time, Josue finally put away his hypocritical smile, and his face turned cold.

Josue sneered and said: "This alchemical exoskeleton armor is very useful, isn't it? But you, who wore it to investigate the human alchemy laboratory two and a half years ago, did you find that this alchemical exoskeleton armor itself Is it a product of human body alchemy?”

"You!" Phanes' eyes widened with anger. He didn't expect his student to stab him in the back with the alchemical creation he gave him for protection. "Do you want to kill the teacher?"

"Of course!" Qiao Sue smiled again, but his eyes were cold. "As early as three months ago, I left clues on purpose so that you could find this place smoothly, and by the way... find me who was conducting human alchemical experiments..."

Josue walked slowly to Phanes and looked into Phanes' angry eyes.

"I have been preparing for this moment for too long! I hope you like this gift, my teacher, a carefully planned hundred-day teacher-killing feast!"

Josue snapped his fingers gently.

The next moment, countless sharp golden spikes pierced out from the inside of the alchemical exoskeleton armor, piercing the body of Phanes wearing this alchemical exoskeleton armor.

The scarlet blood flowed down, forming a small pool of blood on the ground.

Phanes's vitality was fading away quickly, and his eyes gradually lost their spirit.

"Clean up!"

Josué's magic wand touched Phanes' body, wiping it out along with the blood on the ground.

Even if it was a magic spell like the Clean Up Spell that even a young wizard could use, as long as the caster's attainments were high enough and the magic power was strong enough, then the Clean Up Spell could also exert a power comparable to the Vanishing Spell.

Staring at the empty alchemy laboratory, Josué's mouth curled up slightly.

"Next, I have to quickly start a craze for human alchemy in the French magic world. Only when more people recognize human alchemy and the significance of this [path] can I rely on my attainments on this [path] to advance to the level of a demon king wizard..."

"My body has already been anchored, but if I want to survive forever, anchoring the body is far from enough. I need to anchor my soul so that my soul will no longer be worn out and my soul will be immortal with my body... I understand, I need the Philosopher's Stone! Nicolas Flamel, my master whom I have never met... Let me meet you..."

The silver-white door of the alchemy laboratory was completely sealed, and the place fell into silence again. (End of this chapter)