Evelyn and Miles entered her laboratory. Of course, not everyone could enter here to be tested for a serum, but since Evelyn was head of the science department, and Miles was her son, it was perfectly normal for him to be tested there, with the best equipment in Unity.
“Mind Serum is a bit different from Strengthening Serum. There is no test that can evaluate your body and mind to see if you are ready to take the serum. But one thing is certain. Those who have used Strengthening Serum, are more suitable to use the Mind Serums.
Of course, there are some other tests, although not perfectly accurate, they are somehow favorable. Since you have used the Strengthening Serum, and since you are my son, that is also an extra, with the test I am gonna conduct now, we will have the final certainty if you are eligible to use the Mind Serum or not.” Evelyn explained while boasting.
She had a great mind, and it wasn’t a lie to say it was running in the family. Adam, Evelyn’s older brother, was also a genius in his division. It could be seen from how even Mother AI looked for him when she needed a second opinion on anything related to botany.
“Since I am your son, I should be able to use it. It can be seen from the appearance I took from you.” Miles praised himself and Evelyn as he laughed.
“You are right. You are such a handsome boy, just like your mother. Hahaha!” Evelyn laughed too, as they started to test Miles for the Mind Serum.
Unlike Strengthening Serum, Mind Serum had an effect on the brain only. The effects were not measurable and the tests were much more vague. Mind was something unmeasurable. But could be fathomed to some extent. The tests were doing that exactly.
Mind Serum’s effect was increasing brain effectiveness, and it was a permanent improvement in efficacy. But the effects of the serum were dire for unqualified people. To test it, Evelyn would load Miles's brain with information.
In this age of technology, where psychic communication and information sharing were possible, loading information to a person's brain was too easy. Even the trains had similar technology, so the best laboratory in Unity had devices that could achieve more than that.
In normal testing, the information uploaded to the person's brain would be irrelevant, aka trash. But since he was Evelyn’s son, she picked some articles related to orbs, monsters, the portal world, and similar information to overload Miles's brain.
Miles skimmed through the information appearing in his brain out of nowhere. They were all useful, thus he didn’t want to lose them, but he couldn’t remember all of them in a short time. He had to record them to his memory to sort them out later.
One particular article caught his attention, but he let it go as soon as he focused on it. He realized Evelyn was eying him when he focused on “Double Elemental Orbs.”
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‘She suspects that I am the Marooner.’ Miles thought to himself. Since he could call this information later, he didn’t mind letting them go for now. But as time passed, he realized a pain started to form in his head. It was mild at first but got stronger over time. When he couldn’t withstand it anymore, he screamed. He felt like his brain was about to crack open. His eyes were bloodshot and his nose was bleeding.
“To think you lasted this long!” Evelyn exclaimed as she stopped the machine. Miles turned to look at the timer and noticed it had only been a little less than 2 minutes. Does she mean I am unqualified? Miles was surprised. He felt like hours when he was resisting pain, but now when he looked at the timer, it showed not even 2 minutes had passed.
Evelyn understood what Miles was thinking and appeased him. “Those who qualify for the first serum can stand at most half a minute. For the second serum, you should be able to last a minute, and for the third one, you should be able to last one and half minutes. You lasted a little less than two minutes, which means you are not that far from taking the fourth serum.”
Miles sighed in relief, as he tried to stand up, but felt his every muscle aching. He couldn’t wrap his head around it. How could overloading the brain cause his muscles to weaken?
“Why do you think the first condition is to take the Strengthening Serum?” Evelyn smiled at him. “Your body is run by the brain, and with it overloaded, it uses strength stored in the muscles. Now you have to lie down and rest, after you get better, I will let you use the serum. Don’t worry, I will be here for you.”
“Thanks, mom.” Miles lightly said as he passed out. The information uploaded to his brain surfaced while he was sleeping and sorted automatically. He unknowingly started to learn them. This was the wonderful thing about the brain. The things we learned in a day would be recorded temporarily and would surface while we are sleeping to either be deleted or recorded. Since Miles was keen to learn them while information was flowing into his brain, his will created this opportunity.
“Good night, sweety.” Evelyn smiled as she kissed Miles's forehead. Then, she left the lab. When she came the next day, Miles was still sleeping. She approached him to wake him.
“Good morning honey. Time to wake up.” She called Miles lightly. Miles woke up with his spirits lifted.
“Good morning mom.” He greeted his mother and went to wash up. He skimmed through the memories and realized he memorized 90 percent of the information uploaded to his brain and that it had been sorted. He brought up the article he focused on yesterday.
“Mother did thousands of experiments on double elemental orbs but failed each and every time. But the way she conducted the experiments gave me some ideas.” Miles thought to himself. In the mysterious cave, he found lots of documents about lab results of the mysterious owner of the place conducted over double elemental orbs. At the time, he couldn’t make use of them because of his lack of knowledge. But now he was uploaded with lots of information, he could understand the meanings of the documents.
'I can start my own experiments, and not only that. The knowledge mother gave me covers other subjects. Such as crafting!' Miles got excited.
He knew he opened a new path. He wasn’t uninterested in science before but just didn’t have time for it. Because of his lack of superpower, unlike his peers, he had to work hard to tap his limit so he could use the serums, but now Evelyn helped him to cross over the cliff keeping him from learning critical information.
“I have another power under my belt now!” Miles left the bathroom as he walked to the laboratory excitedly. He could now use the serum to increase his brain capacity.