"Father... You..."
Upon hearing Leylin's decision, none of the warlocks standing at the base of the steps voiced any objections, but Serey could barely hold himself back.
Furie beside him was no different — though her expression hadn't changed, her hands had already clenched tight around the hem of her skirt.
These subtle movements were noticed clearly by Leylin.
"Of course... before the experiment begins, I'll make sure to set aside some time to properly be with you all..."
Leylin looked at Furie and said gently, trying to offer some comfort.
At the same time, his gaze swept over the crowd below. "Everyone... please give me and my family some time together..."
Now that Leylin had spoken, those high-ranking warlocks naturally had nothing more to say. They took their leave immediately, leaving the space to the most powerful family of three present.
"I'm sorry, Furie! But I have my reasons for doing this!"
Leylin looked at his wife with some guilt. "And I promise you — this brief separation now is only preparation and a prelude for our eternal reunion to come... Please trust me..."
Furie's eyes reddened slightly, while Serey beside her scratched his head awkwardly.
"Alright! Let's not dwell on unhappy things! Give the order — prepare a banquet! I'm going to spend these days with you both properly!"
Leylin looked at Serey warmly and said with a smile.
……
By the time Leylin returned to the laboratory, several months had already passed.
Thinking back on those months of dashing about from one engagement to the next, even Leylin couldn't help but rub his nose with a wry smile.
His family was far from limited to just Furie and Serey — there was Xiling and her son in the Dark Domain, Belinda and her sister along with Agnes in the underground White Phosphorus City, and several other women with whom he shared intimate relationships and who had borne his children. Each and every one had to be personally consoled.
Even if he only spent a very short time with each person, the accumulated total was a terrifying number.
Of course, given Leylin's personality, he only truly devoted extra care to Furie and a select few others. The rest he simply soothed with a couple of telepathic messages and considered the matter settled.
After all, in Leylin's mind, relationships were sorted in careful detail according to their closeness.
"Besides handling all of that, there's also the development of the Ouroboros Circle and the Farrell family..."
On these matters, Leylin merely set down a rough direction and left his subordinates to carry things out. With both Serey and Daniel — two Rank 6 warlocks — holding the fort, there was no need for him to worry too much.
"Next... it's time to pour serious effort into researching reincarnation technology and strive to conquer the Divine World!"
Anticipation gleamed in Leylin's eyes as he immersed himself in a flurry of experimentation and research...
Time flowed like water and the years sped by like a shuttle. For Leylin, buried deep in experimentation and theoretical verification, everything in the outside world seemed to have lost its importance.
In his mind, the Soul True Essence Bifurcation technique originally obtained from Melinda, the method of maintaining control over a soul clone from Enos, along with many other necessary procedures, had begun to gradually separate and recombine, forming a more complex and profound whole.
The mysteries of the True Soul began to slowly unveil their enigmatic veil before Leylin, drawing him even deeper into direct contact with the truths of the world.
"The cosmos and the True Soul, macro and micro, matter and consciousness… In the end, everything possesses these wondrous similarities and commonalities. Is this the great mystery of the world?"
A faint intoxication gleamed in Leylin's eyes.
Before him, countless brilliant starlights merged into one, while simultaneously seeming to shift and transform their shapes ceaselessly.
From the outside, the multitude of starlights coalesced into an irregular sphere, within which scenes of cosmic explosions and black hole collapses played out, ultimately coalescing into the vague outline of a human figure.
[Ding! Seventh-rank Wizard spell — Otherworld Reincarnation construction complete!!! Materials used: "Soul True Essence Bifurcation Technique," "How to Control Your Soul — by Enos," "The Mysteries of Otherworld Exploration," "Soul Concealment — The Foundation of Demonic Existence"]
The Chip's mechanical notification echoed through his mind, accompanied by a far more detailed introduction to the spell.
[Otherworld Reincination Spell: A seventh-rank Wizard spell! A technique that can split the caster's main True Soul and project it into a specific otherworld for reincarnation! The soul clone is under absolute control of the original body and synchronizes perfectly with the world's fundamental source frequency, granting the caster all the privileges of a native inhabitant.]
Seventh-rank Wizard spells were exceedingly rare even in the entire history of the Wizard World, and there were virtually no dedicated spell templates left behind for them.
This was because once a being reached the seventh rank and became a Rule-level existence, most of them could directly harness the power of a spell's source, bypassing the so-called template process entirely.
Furthermore, seventh-rank spells and above typically required corresponding Rule-level power as a foundation and did not possess the characteristic of universal applicability.
However, this particular spell that Leylin had specially developed was vastly different from anything that had come before.
"In other words, my Otherworld Reincarnation Spell is essentially a new instance of transmigration in itself. If cast upon any ordinary person, it could produce an effect identical to transmigration…"
A faint smile tugged at the corner of Leylin's lips.
This seventh-rank spell of his had not only drawn upon the wisdom of Melinda and Enos, but had also incorporated the most important element of all — something uniquely his own.