Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 168 Controlled Experiment
Harvey successfully obtained information about the demon blood strengthening potion from the forum member "Son of Flame".

The only regret is that the other party said that until now the Federation has not successfully cracked or obtained the blood potion formula that has been secretly passed down by the demons for hundreds of years. The seized strengthening potion has also been used in live injection experiments on death row prisoners.

The result was that the subjects' flesh and blood disintegrated on the spot, and their death was extremely miserable. This also proved that there was indeed a huge difference in physique between the demons and humans. The strengthening potion suitable for them could not be replicated and used on humans.

However, Harvey keenly grasped a key piece of information from the long content of the conversation - the Rongling Ore comes from the core area of a large naturally formed magic stone vein.

It is a strange liquid magic mineral.

This is exactly the same as the magical magic net creature - the demon spirit - that Mr. Heart Demon, who lives in the magic net space, had captured for him before.

Including the energy-absorbing beetle that Harvey accidentally discovered and brought him huge benefits, it is also extremely similar.

Beetles also live near large natural magic stone veins, and demon spirits live in the deep red pipes of the magic network that are filled with huge amounts of pure magic energy.

Although they have different properties, they are completely similar in one aspect - they are all natural companions of magic stone veins.

A thought suddenly flashed through Harvey's mind, which even he himself thought was outrageous.

"Could it be that the magic soldiers injected with this medicine weren't some secret blood-strengthening drug at all, but... were actually pure liquid magic energy extracted from these magic stone companions?"

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Harvey asked Reiner to take out the living demon spirit that Mr. Inner Demon had just captured some time ago, along with the spherical water droplet filled with liquid magic energy in which it resided, and prepare for a control experiment.

The inspiration for this experiment came from the guess about the ingredients of the demon bloodline strengthening potion provided by the "Son of Flame".

The living demon spirit captured and sent by Mr. Heart Demon was in a somewhat listless state. This was because after coming to the real world from the magic network space, the liquid magic energy stored in the small water droplet where it parasitized was gradually consumed, just like the oxygen content of water in a fish tank decreased. In a few days, it would soon suffocate to death due to lack of magic energy.

Reiner used the metal tentacles on his back to deftly peel the demon spirit from the water droplet, and then used a hollow metal probe to extract all the liquid magic energy from the water droplet.

Harvey came to the captured demon "blood-summoning instrument" and instructed Reiner to quickly transfer the demon spirit and liquid into a transparent cover with a spherical crystal inlaid on the top, and then forcibly activated the demon instrument through an additional energy pipeline connected to the energy gathering array.

As a slight energy fluctuation emanated from the instrument, Harvey could visually see through the crystal cover on the top that the living demon spirit and liquid magic energy were quickly decomposed by the magic circle engraved in the instrument, and soon merged into a ball of translucent irregular substance, slowly floating in the crystal cover.

Reiner immediately took out an empty energy storage tank and placed it directly into the groove under the instrument, making the tank fit tightly into the groove of the bottom base.

The energy gathering array made a regular humming sound, continuously providing energy input to the magic circle engraved on this dilapidated "blood-summoning instrument", and soon sucked all the suspended translucent substance into the energy storage tank below.

Harvey couldn't wait to take out the energy tank, shook it gently, and found that it was indeed refilled with liquid substance.

He successfully replicated a substance that was suspected to have the same properties as the blood strengthening potion without a formula.

Next, they needed to test Harvey's hypothesis by testing the drug on live subjects. Unfortunately, during the small-scale raid on the mining area, the Northern Army suffered dozens of casualties, which clearly infuriated them. Without Harvey's prior request for prisoners, and with Pierce's tacit approval, all the severely injured demon soldiers who survived were beheaded on the spot, leaving no one alive.

The custom of piling up severed heads to show off one's might to foreign enemies on the battlefield is a unique post-battle ritual of the Northern Army that has gradually become popular since the days of fighting against the evil orcs in the valley outpost.

Only then did Harvey realize his regret. If he wanted to get another living demon soldier, he would probably have to turn his attention to the Evil Moon Mountains thousands of miles away.

The common fighting style of the demon soldiers is to fight to the death. Even if they are trapped in a desperate situation where they are surrounded by enemies, they will desperately try to use their innate ability of "blood and flesh explosion" to die together with the enemy before they die. Even if they finally catch a living person, they will either die quickly due to serious injuries or gradually develop drug withdrawal reactions due to the lack of continuous replenishment of strengthening potions, and ultimately they still cannot escape death.

The reason why Harvey's Northern Army soldiers did not suffer from their "suicide truck"-style attack during the mining battle was that they were lucky enough to encounter this isolated demon army. All of them were in a weak stage due to a long period of lack of medicine replenishment, and the drug content in their bodies was too low to allow them to release such a terrifying self-destructive attack.

This is also the main reason why the large number of demon captives captured by the human race during the decades-long war between the two races in the Evil Moon Mountains could never be sold to the southern countries.

However, for a research-oriented spellcaster like Harvey, it is not difficult to occasionally use a demon captive as a subject for spell research experiments.

Especially now that he has a good, mutually beneficial, anonymous relationship with the Federation.

Shadow Knight: Mr. Kel'Thuzad, you want a living demon test subject. It's not difficult for me to get one, but I need to inform you in advance that most of them are missing limbs and are in a dying state due to lack of potions. They won't survive your experiments, let alone your magic. Even if you leave them anywhere, they won't survive for more than a few days...

Shadow Knight: Are you sure you want to buy this rubbish experimental receptor? I'm embarrassed to even take your points. I'll give it to you for free. Just pay the exorbitant cost of the live transport yourself...

The Spellcaster Forum had officially opened the online business of instantaneous teleportation of living creatures and large-value goods a long time ago, but the amount of points required was too high, so few forum members tried it easily, resulting in Harvey's profits from this business being mediocre.

The single transmission fee of 50 points, plus an additional 1000 gold pounds for instant delivery, is enough to launch a knowledge exchange bounty for high-level magic in the forum information exchange section.

Of course, Harvey didn't mind the expense, as it was just a matter of transferring the money from one hand to the other.

So he quickly received a living delivery from the Blackstone Fortress in the Evil Moon Battlefield the next day.

"It really is missing some limbs... It just happens to be missing an arm and a leg."

Harvey couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the demon soldiers who appeared on the large teleportation array, tied up tightly with iron chains and cloth bags over their heads.

Reiner used the metal tentacles behind him to throw the disabled demon, who was trapped like a dumpling, directly onto the experimental table and locked it with a buckle. He took off the hood and found that the guy's red eyes had gradually turned a dark yellow color of dying. The muscles that were originally swollen all over his body had shrunk as if he was dehydrated, and his scales and skin looked dull.

Reiner quickly reminded Harvey, "Sir, it looks like he won't survive tonight. I remember Mr. Asdalen saying that when demons run out of medicine and enter a weakened state, their eyes will gradually change color. In the dying stage, the deep red eyes will turn into a disgusting dark yellow, as if festering..."

Harvey waved his hand to signal him not to worry, because he would soon test the strengthening potion he had randomly copied (blindly masked) on this guy anyway.

He might die on the spot after being injected and won't even survive the night.

(End of this chapter)