After obtaining it, Noah appraised it again.
Only then did he realize that the ability to control spiders was not sothing the woman had trained by herself.
It was not exactly one of the Teigu's direct abilities, but the power ca from the Teigu.
If the user had a high enough compatibility with the poison-type Teigu, the Teigu would slowly improve the user's body while being worn.
After that improvent, the user's body would give off a biological signal that spiders were friendly toward.
If the user studied and trained that ability, they could learn how to command spiders.
Also, this power could be passed down through bloodline.
In other words, the change affected the user's genes.
Through Appraisal, Noah could see a special magnetic field coming from the poison-type Teigu.
That was probably the true form of the power that improved the body.
The female assassin's corpse had disappeared.
Noah appraised the poisonous plants on the ground one by one.
He discovered that more than half of them could be used as dicine.
With the right mixture, they could be used not only to make poison, but perhaps dicine that could restore youth.
'If the Dian Cecht Familia found out about this, that god of dicine might go crazy and start searching everywhere for .'
Noah collected all the poisonous plants and quietly left.
The fight had not caused much noise, so no one had noticed anything.
It was not until the next day, when soone ca to the tavern and found the bodies of Delano and his Revolutionary Army companion, that a commotion broke out.
The case was taken over by the Capital's law enforcent team.
In the end, nothing ca of it.
...
For the next six years, Noah focused almost completely on studying the alchemy notes Lamur had left behind.
As for Murasa, after learning that it was Gozuki's Teigu, he temporarily gave up on getting that blade.
Besides, he could not be sure that Murasa could truly kill Hylalsoles.
In modern tis, alchemy was seen as outdated technology.
It was treated as the early form of chemistry.
People thought of alchemists as madn who dread of turning filth into gold.
Noah had once thought the sa.
But through Lamur's books, he learned more and more about alchemy.
He finally understood what alchemists were truly chasing.
So people defined alchemy as a sacred art that could raise humans to the level of gods.
Before, Noah would have laughed at that idea.
But now, he could no longer firmly deny it.
Alchemy was like a deep abyss.
Even with Noah's abilities, he still could not see all of its secrets.
Six years of study had only changed him from a complete beginner into an alchemy scholar with so skill.
He was still far from being an authority.
Even so, he had already surpassed his teacher Lamur, who had studied alchemy for over thirty years.
The school of alchemy Noah was now studying was called the Ascension School.
It believed that even inorganic matter had a soul.
The true purpose of alchemy was not simply to turn lead or copper into noble tals.
That was only the result.
The truly important part was the process.
Through alchemy, the soul of tal was changed into a higher form.
Then, the changed soul affected the material body.
Noah had personally confird this.
Once the shape of a soul changed, the body that carried that soul would also undergo unpredictable changes.
But if that change was forced from the outside, it would always fail.
The result was that the body could not keep up with the soul's change.
It would twist, collapse, or explode.
That could create strange products like ntal pollution.
In truth, the ascension of the soul was a process of evolution.
When the soul of lead or copper was changed and evolved into gold, the body carrying that soul should also change along with it.
That was the ascension of the soul.
If this theory applied to every kind of existence, then alchemy was a power close to truth.
But before it reached that level, alchemy could only be called a skill, or perhaps an art.
It was not yet a true authority.
But there was still one major question.
Did tal, or other inorganic matter, really have souls?
Noah's answer was no.
Spell-Weaver allowed him to see souls with his own eyes.
Their shapes and colors were clear.
But he had never seen anything like that inside tal.
At least, that was what he had believed at first.
Until one day, he used Mind Drill to shatter a mithril ingot.
Mind Drill was an ability that damaged the soul.
It had no physical destructive power.
However, changes to the soul would also appear on the body that carried it.
For example, if a wound was carved into the soul, the sa wound would appear on the body.
By that logic, a tal ingot should not have been physically destroyed by Mind Drill.
But it shattered anyway.
The only reasonable explanation was that the ingot's soul had been shattered by Mind Drill, causing its physical body to collapse as well.
The mont Noah touched the broken ingot, it turned into pale gray powder.
It no longer had the properties of tal.
It could not be forged back into an ingot.
It was like ash.
It could not even burn.
"Professor Noah! Professor Noah!"
Six years had passed.
Noah had grown to eighteen years old in this world.
By the Empire's standards, he was fully an adult. After all, in this world, people could marry and have children at fourteen.
At the sa ti, in the Science Team, he had been promoted to a position second only to Bill.
Like Bill, people usually called him "Professor."
In the Capital, he was now fairly well-known.
So knew him as Laims's adopted son.
Others knew him as an official researcher.
"It was approved! Your request was just approved! That thing will be delivered this afternoon!"
Noah paused.
Then the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
'Approved?'
'And it would be delivered this afternoon?'
'That's perfect.'
Noah took the official docunt from his student.
Many nas had been signed on it, and at least four seals had been stamped on it.
"The application of Professor Noah, Captain of the Science Team's Second Squad, is hereby approved. Permission is granted for him to use and research the Teigu: Magical Beast Transformation — Hekatonkheires."
It had finally co.
Permission to research a biological-type Teigu.
Among the Teigu still owned by the Empire, Hekatonkheires was precious.
That was because a biological-type Teigu could imdiately beco a major fighting force if it matched with a user.
Noah was only allowed to research this Teigu because of the many contributions he had made to the Science Team over the past six years.
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