Alien Knights

Seeing Wayne's smug figure disappearing at the end of the hall, Terrence looked at Todd with worry in his eyes: "Your Majesty, is this okay?"

Todd looked away from the report. "What are you referring to?"

"If, I mean, if Wayne really unlocks the secret of the soul, then Muxi City and the church will fall into an endless situation." Terrence looked at Todd and asked gently: "Your Majesty, are you ready?"

Todd folded the report neatly, handed it to Huggins, and said to Terrence: "Have you heard about the talented female mathematician Hypatia?"

The latter nodded: "I heard a little bit."

"Hypatia is a famous female mathematician in history. She was able to independently complete triangulation at the age of ten, and the work she wrote at the age of nineteen is beyond the reach of others." Todd leaned back in the chair, his face was calm, but there was a little fire shining in his eyes: "Such a talented woman was dragged into the church by the church fanatics of ancient Taro. Leafy clam shells cut off her muscles, and finally threw Hypatia's still quivering flesh into the fire."

When Todd finished speaking, the hall was eerily quiet.

Huggins clenched his fists unconsciously, and Terrence closed his eyes in pain.

Todd stood up from the throne and walked to the side door behind him: "There will eventually be a battle between truth and superstition. Deliberate evasion will only make more and more comrades leave in disappointment. Rather than sitting in silence and waiting to die, it is better to seek a way out in the struggle."

Huggins took Wayne's report and followed Todd's footsteps, leaving Terrence alone in the hall thinking quietly.

Walking in the corridor of the royal palace, Huggins peeked at Todd's face secretly, and said carefully: "Your Majesty, as long as you give an order, the entire Muxi City will fight for you to the last drop of blood."

Todd's footsteps did not stop: "The last drop of blood? If the war really reaches this point, then I, the king, might as well find a rope and hang myself."

"What I want to see is a hearty victory, not a disastrous victory with loss of troops." Speaking of this, Todd's voice became smaller and smaller: "For this purpose, I must have a trump card that can be used in my hand."

Huggins said in confusion: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you just said."

"It's okay, the laboratory under the palace, how is it repaired?"

Huggins said: "The cracks and collapses in the room have been repaired and reinforced, all experimental materials have been replenished, and equipment and equipment have also been reconfigured."

"Well, how is the kingdom's ability library established now?"

"Ability library?" Huggins was a little surprised why the king suddenly asked this question, but he still answered truthfully: "According to the statistics of all the registered aliens in Muxi City, there are currently a total of 65 effective abilities. Scholars at Muxi University abandoned the ability classification method created by the church, and re-classified and sorted these abilities."

Todd stopped and looked at Huggins with interest: "Tell me."

"The ability classification method used by the church is the Tarot classification method used in the ancient Tarot period. Specifically, the ability is divided into 22 categories according to the meaning of the Tarot cards. For example, the Tarot card of "Sun" means the ability related to fire, and the Tarot card of "Chariot" represents the ability related to mental strengthening. Then, according to the strength of the ability, the abilities of each category are marked with numbers."

"That sounds complicated," Todd said, frowning.

Huggins nodded in agreement with this opinion: "It is indeed quite complicated. This classification method is too abstract, with too many categories, and it is difficult to generalize. Even the senior deacons in the Inquisition Office sometimes tend to make mistakes in the classification of abilities."

Todd asked curiously: "So, what method do the scholars at Muxi University use to classify abilities?"

"The purpose of the new taxonomy is to be easy to understand and easy to remember." Huggins said to Todd while recalling the scholars' explanations: "Muxi University categorizes all abilities into five categories, namely protection, creation, evocation, transformation, and universal. On the basis of these five categories of abilities, 0 to 4 are used to distinguish the strength of abilities."

Huggins spread out his hands and said to Todd: "For example, my past ability was "weakness", so I was classified into the evocation department. According to the strength of my ability, it is probably at level 1."

Todd said with a smile, "That sounds a lot easier."

"That's right, scholars also said that as the number of abilities continues to increase, the classification of abilities may continue to increase, and the level of strength of abilities will continue to expand. But there is one thing that will not change. Try to let the public understand abilities and get rid of the original narrow concept, so that ordinary people can live together more harmoniously with aliens."

When Todd heard this, he suddenly remembered what he had to do before: "Hagins, make a copy of the ability library in Muxi City and transport it to my laboratory."

"The entire ability library? That includes a large number of bacterial culture dishes and parasite biological tanks. The current underground laboratory of the palace cannot hold so many things, and needs to be expanded and remodeled."

"Then let's transform it, this matter must be done as soon as possible."

"Yes, I see."

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When Todd walked into the renovated underground laboratory again, it was already a week later in the afternoon.

The original underground space has been expanded to more than five times. From the perspective of the building structure, three new rooms have been added: the first room is a constant temperature warehouse, which is mainly used to store bacteria and parasites; the second room is Todd’s living room, where there are single beds, bookcases, tables and chairs and other furniture; the last room is a tool room, where many appliances with different functions are neatly stacked.

Huggins pointed to a bell-shaped thing on the experimental table, and said to Todd: "Your Majesty, this device is specially made by Muxi University, which uses the principle of echoes and sand buckets. As long as you ring this device, the guards on the ground can hear your call and come here as soon as possible."

Putting on a lab coat, Todd said to Huggins, "Very well, have you brought the things I told you to keep?"

Huggins took a heavy lead box from the guards, put it on the table, took out the key from his waist, opened the lid, and presented the contents in front of the king: "Your Majesty, please have a look."

Looking at the intact "Amber Stone" in the box, Todd took a deep breath.

How to apply the tyrant virus that can upgrade and fuse genes to the kingdom's military and society has become Todd's most important task right now.