As I finalized my arcane formula, I took an old goblin into the test area, out of sight. I promised him a good meal, if he let me test something on him. He accepted blissfully.

On the track! I said out loud.

The room was 7m by 12m and was divided by a magic window. Made entirely of mana, it could separate two areas from everything in them, including air, mana and light. I sat the goblin on a straw chair and positioned myself on the other side of the glass.

I took out my scribbled notes in every direction and undertook to alter a portion of the mana I stored in order to infuse the goblin's body. The infused energy should reconstitute the corresponding atomic matrix and allow it to have two horns at the head. Basically, it could help him, I thought cleverly after finishing the preparation. It was then that a silver and black aura of jet rose and crossed it quickly to impregnate the body of the goblin. I had refined the mana to be absorbable by a non-human being, and so far, everything was going according to plan. When suddenly, a strange deformity appeared on the back of the goblin. Three powerful tentacles emerged and the goblin emitted a deadly aura. As if madness had taken root in him. A tentacle struck the glass that produced no noise. It was as if a drop of water had disturbed the calm of a lake. The goblin, whose eyes were injected with blood, launched into a series of attacks, in vain. I smiled as I watched, then I introduced my hand through the glass and dissipated a deadly cloud of mana particles. The goblin will die a few seconds later, with his mouth wide open in a howl of pain. Sorry, but you failed," I said to his body. "However, your carcass will be useful to me to study it". And I grabbed his arms to carry him in a second room dedicated to it.

I was beginning to seriously lose my head to the constant use of my mana to see, I vacillated catching up to a piece of furniture. Well, 70 hours I am awake, it will be time to rest". I had rested twice since I had established myself and this was felt more after the experience I had conducted.

When I woke up, I drank in a jar of earth that I brought everywhere, it contained a blue liquid of my composition. My ideas were at a terribly high speed and I had finished noticing the problems on the goblin. I erected a new arcane theory and undertook to refine the aesthetic details of the horns. According to 'The Invisible of Magic Art', it will be more practical to create horns in ether which was a gas and to confine it in a fleshly envelope. The ether being highly sensitive to magical fluctuations, the vision will only be increased. However, this method involved modifying the Dna to make it compatible with the information emissions of the ether. I know very well from my experience what the consequences would be. By modifying, The Dna, skills or abilities could be corrupted randomly. It is unthinkable for me. So I opted for the 'horns of blackberry of the very old' that came from the necromancer. It was a wise choice as long as they gave me other abilities.

I repeated the same action to attract a new goblin, then I prepared the infused mana that soaked into the goblin's body. Horns grew on his head, they were sinuous and entirely made of brambles. As they grew, it seemed that the growth exceeded the expected size, the goblin had in the image of a deer, huge woods. His perception was to be colossal but will his brain be able to bear such a burden? The goblin stopped moving when its horns were finished growing. "How do you feel?" I asked hesitantly.

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"I perceive another group of goblin 220km from here, as well as a group of wild animals 160km away"

"Can you move and get up from the chair"

The goblin rose, twitching slightly. Then in a startle, his eyes filled with a deep black. Arcane corruption! His mind was connected to cosmic creatures! This kind of accident was very unusual and could have disastrous consequences. The goblin had to be completed without delay or creatures could take it as a target and flood into the cave.

I prepared a powerful spell that the goblin dodged without difficulty. I poured mana gas that had no effect. During my attempts, the goblin had frozen, staring at the ceiling as if calling or communicating with other entities. The arcane corruption that came out of the obituary was terribly dangerous and altered the boundless Dna. It was only a matter of minutes before the goblin transformed into an unknown entity. The minutes passed as I tried to kill him by all means I knew. An idea came to me, I opened the obituary in haste and searched in the destruction and annihilation section. The goblin had been transformed repeatedly and now had black skin and undecipherable cosmic characteristics. Under the section 'deep invocation', a technique interpela me. It was about 'creating empty momentum'. I did not take the time to read the whole chapter and hastily tried to launch the invocation in the r'lyehien language. A ball formed above the goblin, the room was plunged into darkness despite the multiple lights and a sound of suction was heard. Then, like a vision of horror, the goblin's body was deformed to be sucked in by the ball, leaving behind it only the scent of blood sticking to the ground.

After the abomination had disappeared, the ball did not disappear. Presaging the worst. If I could not make it disappear, who knows what could happen. Moreover, parasitic waves began to crack the glass. We had to hurry. I conjured up a seal enchantment using the feather of the 'Tamir peacock', and the ball gradually retracted, too slowly on the other hand. Although the walls were designed to resist parasitic waves, there was a good chance that the waves would pass through. All the more, these waves were unknown in nature.

Fifteen minutes passed and the ball had finally disappeared, the room was dilapidated and plants of corruption had already taken up residence on the other side of the window. The glass was broken in many places and it was a miracle that it had borne the burden. Exhausted, I went out quickly to see the damage. The grass and the flora had blackened strongly in a diameter of 20m around the laboratory. It looked like a veil of death had spread all around. Nothing could reverse the process, the area will remain so for centuries. That didn't mean I was going to go on forever, so I didn't care about the damage I had just done. Some goblins had noticed the sudden change in the air and had been panicked. Two goblins approached to touch the corrupted grass and upon its contact, it was as if they had felt all the evil nature of what was happening in the laboratory. They rushed towards the exit. "What idiots deserters are not tolerated here".

And as they reached the surface. Two stone golems, the size of a massive bear, emerged from the ground. Blocking the road to the two goblins. They uttered small, high-pitched cries of surprise and raised their hands in capitulation. However, the golems followed the orders of their master only.

In a rush of a second, the goblins were crushed by the powerful club of the golems.

"Well problem solved, it's time to finish my theory and get down to work," I said to myself.