“So this is what a real wizard is? She walked on a really distant path,” Flora exclaimed as well.
“What is artificial life?” Angor could not hold that back.
Sunders pointed to Greya. “You will see when Greya uses her unique spells.”
Greya’s living food was usually taken away by her customers so she did not have special containers for them. Her movement was fast. Several unknown cooking materials were hurled into a gourmet wizard tool in a blink of an eye.
Gas vortexes, monsters with many eyes, mist, worms, ores, indescribable liquid… Everything looked weird, and they all gave out unusual auras.
Next, Greya threw everything into the air and began mumbling something in her mouth. Light rays spread from her fingers.
As Angor watched, live and dead materials changed their shapes and colors under the “massaging” of light, like soft dirt being reshaped and gave birth to saplings.
In the end, a black, segmented worm appeared in front of Greya.
Angor only found it amazing while Sunders and Flora noticed the application of various knowledge and techniques, added with the special ripple of a gourmet wizard. There was also an unknown will working in the dark, to create life out of death and make a living creature using many models.
“Wonderful. Beautiful!” Angor spoke.
“Knowledge as vast as the sea, used with varied logics. Such an astonishing view.” This was what Flora and Sunders would say every time they saw Greya’s artificial life spells.
Looking at the wiggling worm, Angor asked in a small voice, “Did she create life?”
As he remembered from the eastern and western myths from Earth, only extremely powerful beings could create lives. Maybe a wizard in this world could also do that?
Sunders considered for a while.
“Yes and no. Only the Creator in the mythologies can create a real life. But wizards don’t believe in gods, they trust in truth and knowledge. Greya’s unique spell is called artificial life and seems to be creating lives. However, it involves too many theories, including monster bionomy, microbial restructuring, mana energy exchange and so on. These deep theories are nothing like creating something out of thin air in the stories.”
“Oh…” Angor nodded in enlightenment. It was like cloning, to use various methods to create a new life while bypassing the rule of reproductive isolation. “I think I can understand now.”
“Kids,” Sunders shook his head. Of course, he did not believe that Angor actually understood anything. He thought the young man was pretending to be calm.
What he did not know was that when it came to certain knowledge, Angor was already a qualified scholar.
However, Sunders did not say anything, just to protect his new student’s little ego.