Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 708 - 226 The Transformation

As for the White Light Club’s request to cooperate, Anvis had no objections, as it was a win-win situation.

Players gained combat power that could rapidly take shape in the short term, while he obtained a large number of willing experimental subjects, as well as the opportunity to cause some trouble for the Holy Church Court.

However, to avoid affecting the natural course of the Thirteenth Prince’s destiny, Anvis and the people from White Light agreed that players transformed into Original Sin Apostles were absolutely forbidden to operate near Frost Lake City, and were also strictly prohibited from revealing that they were transformed by him.

Although once a secret is known to the players, it’s almost as if everyone knows, the requisite surface efforts still have to be made.

After all, the spread of information takes time.

Two players had been kept by his side during this time, all news remained unverified rumors until his mass transformations truly began.

Anvis was ready, after helping the White Light Club to transform a group of players, he would immediately leave Frost Lake City and completely abandon this identity.

His goals here had been fully achieved, whether it was restoring the Original Sin Angel or testing the Holy Church Court’s reaction.

Meanwhile, the Original Sin Beast that the flying goldfish had transformed into had been completely dissected by Anvis.

And his analysis revealed that there was no difference between the Original Sin Beast that remained after the real player died and those transformed from the normal inhabitants.

In other words, all that was special resided in the connection to the player’s consciousness. Once the player’s self-awareness disappeared, all the miraculous aspects also vanished.

Furthermore, through the research on the two players who transformed into Desire Apostles during this time, Anvis found that although the upgrade speed of players with the Desire Apostle profession was extremely fast, the price seemed to be the sacrifice of their level cap.

The newly introduced Sin Value System had an implicit cap, and once the player absorbed enough Power of Original Sin to reach this value, an irreversible mutation process would be triggered.

As for the consequences of the mutation, the flying goldfish had already demonstrated it before.

During his previous contact with the Power of Original Sin clouds, Anvis had closely monitored his attribute panel’s changes, watching the progression of his Sin Value System skyrocket, unlocking hidden attributes one by one.

And "Mutation" was exactly what lay hidden in the final part of the Sin Value System. As this attribute unlocked, the body of the flying goldfish began to grow and twist uncontrollably, and as its consciousness faded, it directly triggered the death process.

Moreover, at that time, Anvis also noticed a crucial detail; "Mutation" was not the final attribute of the Sin Value System—there seemed to be even higher hidden attributes that could be unlocked, yet the flying goldfish could no longer withstand them.

For Anvis, the fully transformed Original Sin Beast held no significance. He had already affirmed that the Original Sin Beasts, having utterly lost their consciousness, had incredibly poor growth potential, which entirely relied on the strength and rank of the material before transformation.

Depending on the player’s own attributes, this implicit Sin Value cap also varies.

The flying goldfish was at Level Seventy-One, while the other, Ying Ji Changkong, was at Level Seventy-Three.

Limited by the number of experimental subjects, Anvis was temporarily unable to determine which attributes caused these differences.

However, when White Light sent over a new batch of carefully selected players, his research progress quickly began to advance once more.

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"What did you say? Yin Mo is suspected to be missing?!"

Half a month later, in the City Lord Mansion of Double Lake City, the Thirteenth Prince, sitting behind the writing desk, lifted his head in disbelief upon hearing the urgent report from his subordinate, his gaze shifting from the map of Silver Frost Kingdom on the table to the Guard in front of him.

"Yes, Your Highness the Prince! In fact, we haven’t seen Yin Mo for several days now!"

Under the prince’s gaze, two guards clad in armor were tensely reporting the situation.

"Due to our routine supply delivery every five days, we discovered that the supplies from the last delivery had not been touched and remained in their original place."

"Therefore, we entered Master Yin Mo’s stone tower to try and get in touch with him, but we still received no response."

The two soldiers, each taking turns, recounted the situation at the time.

"Did he not take the supplies? Perhaps because Master Yin Mo was engaged in a magic experiment and couldn’t spare the time to collect them?"

The Thirteenth Prince looked at them doubtfully, since almost all spellcasters have this kind of issue.

"However, whenever Master Yin Mo is conducting a magic experiment, he would typically put up a notice to prevent our untimely entry and disturbing him, but there were no such indications this time."

The guard on the left shook his head, pointing out the anomaly in this instance. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"...I will go and take a look myself."

After some thought, the Thirteenth Prince slowly stood up, summoned the City Guard Commander, and headed straight to the Elemental Stone Tower.

"Your Highness, the guards’ assessment was correct. I have checked all the rooms, including the laboratory, and indeed, Master Yin Mo is not here.

There are no signs of battle within the tower; if Master Yin Mo was forcibly taken away, the individual who did so is likely a professional of at least the Seventh Rank or higher."

After a thorough inspection, the City Guard Commander concluded.

"Of course, there’s also the possibility that Yin Mo left on his own."

"Left on his own? But why would he do that?"

Furrowing his brow, the Thirteenth Prince carefully thought about Yin Mo’s recent actions but, finding nothing, shook his head in dismay.

"Try to find out where Yin Mo has gone. After all, he is one of my subordinates. His sudden disappearance must be hiding some kind of secret.

Moreover, if it is indeed an enemy attack that made a Sixth Rank at his limit like Master Yin Mo vanish without a trace, anyone among us could be next. We must be on guard!"

Following the Thirteenth Prince’s order, Frost Lake City’s defense system immediately sprang into action, making an all-out effort to locate ’Yin Mo’.

Meanwhile, searching for Anvis was not just the prince’s concern; members of the White Light Club, who had tasted the sweetness of success, were also on the lookout.

Indeed, the combat strength of a fully-transformed Original Sin Apostle is extraordinary. Even though Anvis had warned them about the drawbacks of being an Original Sin Apostle, the sign-ups were still enthusiastic.

Soon, the strength of dozens of players rapidly increased to above Level Sixty.

Being of the chaotic evil camp, these instant Sixth Rank individuals could not receive tasks like a normal Sixth Rank, nor dared to be discovered by the citizens of Saint Messia Empire, but they still possessed Sixth Rank combat power.

As for the impact his disappearance would have, Anvis could guess some of it, but he indeed had to leave.

If his presence led to changes in the Thirteenth Prince’s destiny towards an unknowable direction, that would be troubling.

It wasn’t too concerning when only two players had changed their profession to Original Sin Apostle. Now that there’s suddenly a host of them, it wouldn’t be long before the gaze of major powers fell upon this place.