A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 348 Struggle

"Rapse, how many of these people do you think will survive to see the next day?"

Jiang Shuzhou looked down with great interest from the mage tower at the densely packed prisoners below, who resembled ants.

"Based on my estimate, about 70% will survive to the next day, and 20% will survive to the second week."

Laps responded, and at the same time, she thoughtfully peeled the grapes for Jiang Shuzhou and then fed them to him by hand.

Jiang Shuzhou naturally did not object to this, and accepted Laps's service.

"What a pity."

Jiang Shuzhou shook his head, quite dissatisfied with these people.

But that's normal. After all, we're just mortals, how could we possibly withstand those flesh and blood creatures?

"Let them exchange the items; I need to go into the lab to do some research."

Jiang Shuzhou waved his hand.

He didn't have time to watch these people dawdle.

Jiang Shuzhou also needs to research the Magic Stone Disease as quickly as possible.

This is a great resource for energy production.

With that in mind, Jiang Shuzhou and Laps entered the dangerous laboratory together.

As an assistant, Laps was responsible for assisting with the experiments.

Some of the experimental supplies can be drawn from the staff below.

Jiang Shuzhou then assigned Denozhi a whole bunch of study tasks and immersed himself in the experiments.

A month later.

In the observation room of the dangerous laboratory.

"Ah!"

A man was wailing, seemingly in great pain.

Bang bang bang.

The surrounding glass objects were shattered, seemingly shaken by the man's wailing.

Of course, that's not the truth.

If you look closely, you can see that the man has many stones growing on his body, and these stones are filled with elemental power. Clearly, these are magic stones.

The man also contracted the Magic Stone Disease, which is why he was able to shatter glass.

"The experiment was very successful, but the rejection reaction was a bit strong."

Jiang Shuzhou nodded in satisfaction. In any case, as long as the finished product was released, that was fine. Once the first version was revised, all that was left was to optimize it.

"Increase the element concentration to accelerate the growth rate of the magic stone."

With Jiang Shuzhou's command, Laps immediately began to adjust.

The elemental concentration in the man's room increased significantly, and at the same time, the magic stone within his body began to grow slowly and visibly.

"Pfft."

Sharp stone spikes pierced through the skin that bound it, and sharp magic stones emerged from its body.

As time passed, the man stopped crying out in pain, his movements gradually slowed down, and finally he stopped moving altogether.

Jiang Shuzhou could sense that the other person was still alive, but could no longer move.

Soon, the man disappeared completely, replaced by a magic stone statue.

Unfortunately, this magic stone statue is of low quality and requires further processing before it can be used as a normal magic stone.

"Project Magic Stone 1.5, a success."

Although the process was somewhat painful, Jiang Shuzhou calculated that the pain period would only last about a month, and he could just bear it and it would pass.

From infection to death, if the growth rate and element concentration are normal, it takes about thirty years.

This isn't low; it's already quite good. You know, in some places, it's not even certain whether a person can live peacefully to the age of thirty.

"It seems I have created a new path for myself to become an extraordinary being."

Jiang Shuzhou muttered to himself, "I'm very satisfied."

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shuzhou threw the magic stone seed into his demiplane.

It contains not only flesh-and-blood creatures, but also fish-men and ordinary humans.

There was already a lot of suffering there, this is just one more.

Besides, as long as one is infected with the Magic Stone Disease, even a mortal can become a superhuman and survive.

It can only be said that these people, as residents of Jiang Shuzhou's demiplane, are incredibly unlucky.

"Laps, manage this place well while I'm gone."

After saying that, Jiang Shuzhou left.

Inside the mage tower, Denuozhi was diligently learning a great deal of knowledge, which was precisely what Jiang Shuzhou himself had arranged for Denuozhi to acquire.

"How's your learning going?"

Jiang Shuzhou asked.

"Professor, I've learned quite a bit, and now I'm..."

When Denorchi saw Jiang Shuzhou, he was taken aback for a moment, then realized what was happening and answered.

"Good, keep up the good work, but I didn't come to you for that."

Jiang Shuzhou nodded in encouragement, while also waving his hand as if he didn't care.

Come, take my hand.

Jiang Shuzhou extended his hand to Denuozhi.

Denoz was taken aback, then timidly grasped it.

"Let's go!"

As Jiang Shuzhou's voice rang out, Denuozhi felt a sudden dizziness, and then she found herself in an unfamiliar place with Jiang Shuzhou.

The ground here is covered with unknown flesh and blood, and there are even many flesh and blood creatures around.

Welcome to my world.

Jiang Shuzhou said with a smile.

He planned to take Denoz to see how the people in the demiplane survived, which was more than a month outside and nearly three years inside.

The surrounding area was still lush and green, with many verdant trees.

Although the ground is covered with a lot of fleshy moss and there are many fleshy creatures around, this place is still considered natural.

At least, the trees here haven't turned into man-eating trees that swing their branches.

"Who? Who's there?"

A rough male voice came from behind.

"An ordinary person."

Jiang Shuzhou released a spell, and at the same time used a suggestive spell on the man.

"I see."

Despite Jiang Shuzhou's utterly insincere words, the man believed him without question.

All I can say is that this is the power of magic.

For Jiang Shuzhou, he can easily switch between black and white in other people's eyes.

"I am Lin Yeyu."

The man nodded.

"You two don't have a place to stay yet, do you? Why don't you come to our camp?"

Lin Yeyu said that for some reason, he had a feeling that this place was extremely dangerous and that there must be a top predator hiding in the abyss.

But things are different now; that sense of danger has disappeared.

"I was just about to take a look."

Jiang Shuzhou nodded in response.

Several floating cannons were drifting around Denozhi; these were all transformed from the split of Redemption.

Jiang Shuzhou had previously considered getting himself a set of such weapons, but unfortunately, he already had weapons, so these firearms weren't very practical. After all, unless they were rare items, the power of firearms was not as good as magic.

Lin Yeyu sized up Jiang Shuzhou and Denuozhi.

Then he looked down at Jiang Shuzhou's feet.

"Is that meat grass under your feet?"

Lin Ye said excitedly.

"It should be."

Jiang Shuzhou said.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yeyu was filled with excitement. He then bent down and began searching the ground. In just a moment, his face lit up with ecstasy.

"There's so much meat here. It looks like everyone in the camp will be able to eat meat today."

Judging from these words, these people actually live by eating flesh and moss.

That's normal, though. These people probably haven't fought many moving, flesh-and-blood creatures.

So over time, they ended up only being able to eat grass.