A week later, still inside the giant tree
Bai Yi, who hadn’t moved from her room for a week, finally showed a long-lost smile, followed by some gritted teeth.
"Surely there’s no problem now..."
In front of her, the Soul Fire she had been fiddling with for a week swayed slightly without wind, as if nodding and shaking its head. It was the undead Bai Yi had extracted from its original body a week ago.
After a week of enhancement, it is now vastly different from before; the soul, originally Tier Three, has already reached Tier Six, conforming to the standards of Bai Yi’s subordinate, Xu Qun.
The basic panel has drastically changed, with its attribute strengthening tenfold compared to its original state.
Unlike normal creatures, this undead, in its ghostly possession state and independent ghost state, has two different panels. One resembles more the Elemental Elf, sharing life and magic power.
While possessing a physical body, it additionally increases the blood volume of the controlled body, inheriting the talents and skills of the mech.
Talents have also drastically changed post-fusion, incorporating dozens of gene entries obtained from the Elemental Elves in this instance and those creatures in the starry sky.
The ultimate results were integrated and adapted, becoming several new talents.
For example, the energy assimilation of the Elemental Elves transformed into soul assimilation post-fusion, the effect is similar, but it accelerates the undead in expanding rapidly by devouring souls.
Allowing it to self-absorb magic power and strengthen its soul, even achieving breakthrough effects.
Meanwhile, other genes from starry sky creatures have also undergone major changes upon fusion with the undead.
Original genes enhancing attributes mutated on the undead into increasing power, or enhancing the upper limit of telekinesis control, among other talents.
After all, one can’t expect an undead to have any constitution or strength attributes, which is like asking a man to give birth, completely unrealistic.
Hmm, wait, perhaps this latter part could be possible...
Bai Yi’s thoughts suddenly scattered, but she quickly recalled she was still in the middle of an experiment, regaining focus.
Over this week, she indeed fused all required genes into this Soul Fire in front of her, but after all, undead differs from normal creatures; they don’t even have "genes."
This has been a rare experience for Bai Yi, intriguing yet troublesome, as numerous gene adaptations emerged incorrectly.
Aside from the entries from similar elemental creatures being complete expressions, other gene entries from normal creatures were extremely fitting.
Although they successfully fused under the effect of superpowers, and some succeeded in producing effects post-adaptation, many notably failed to express their original effects.
Bai Yi anticipated this aspect early on, planning to dedicate time for solving it, but she did not foresee that even her highly regarded metallization had issues.
This gene derived from Metal Grass, later strengthened by Snake Mother Landra’s superpower, unexpectedly did not achieve Bai Yi’s desired effect on the undead.
It wasn’t entirely uncontrollable; if directly given a complete mecha, control was possible, but unable to control metal transformation.
To solve this issue, she tested for an entire day.
Yet, since undead weren’t the usual familiar creatures, testing yielded difficult results.
Bai Yi felt akin to those programmers laughed at online, forced to transplant programs in unfamiliar environments.
And inexplicably, conflicts between the environment and program made testing piece by piece necessary.
Having issues isn’t terrifying; what’s terrifying is not knowing where the problem arises.
Fortunately, in the last testing, she already had ideas; success this time would be great, even with failure she could determine the problem’s location for spot-on troubleshooting.
Finishing this experimental record, Bai Yi retrieved a head-sized block of alloy from the logistics network, placing it before the Soul Fire. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⁂𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⁂𝘯𝘦𝘵
"Beginning the 61st Metal Control Test now."
With that said, the allowed pale blue flame infiltrated the metal below, as if igniting it.
Bai Yi intently sensed the undead’s feedback, fixating on the metal’s change.
Finally, after several seconds, the metal suddenly trembled, then melted into liquid as if burned by flame, writhing like a Slime, slowly forming into a mecha figurine.
"It’s done! The 61st test success!"
Bai Yi excitedly slapped the table, causing a vibration across the tabletop.
Only the battle info showing a Yuktrahill Life Value reduction of 100 quietly recorded everything.
But Bai Yi was unconcerned with the panel at this moment, her focus entirely on the undead that successfully entered the body.
"Unexpectedly, it really wasn’t related to genes, nor metallization, but rather the soul’s intrinsic adaptation issue...
Clearly, I knew about this problem, yet during these days failed to realize this point.
Although the undead’s control and mechanical brain worm’s control resemble, the essence of their existence differs vastly!
Mechanical Brain Worm directly manipulates mechas with biological bodies, without any problem, but the undead is different!