Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 169 Paper Submission, Anti-Magic Weapon Research

In order to make his experimental creature look a little more energetic, Harvey called Egno, who was busy in the medical hospital, and asked him to use intermediate healing skills to slightly activate the health of this disabled demon.

After being captured, this demon clearly did not receive any basic treatment worthy of a high-level intelligent life form. Even the wounds on his severed hands and feet were healed automatically by his own strong vitality. The Federation's combat mages were too lazy to even bandage his wounds.

What was even more inhumane was that, as if to make him shut up his wailing mouth, the battle mages inserted some unknown sharp weapon into his mouth and stirred it around, crushing his sharp teeth and tongue into pieces. As a result, he was unable to make any sound except for grunting.

Harvey didn't think the other party deserved any pity. The battle between different races was inherently cruel. If a human spellcaster was captured by the demons, he would probably be stuffed into the stomach of a monster as food for the mount, which would be considered a gentle treatment.

With the help of the hybrid elf's natural healing magic, the dying demon regained a little vitality, but his resistance lasted only less than a quarter of an hour. He was immediately weakened by the withdrawal reaction from the potion and collapsed on the experimental table again, unable to struggle. His bloody mouth kept opening and closing like a dying fish out of water.

Harvey took out the metal probe and the potion injection glass tube made by Egno, combined them together, and extracted more than half of the replica enhancement potion from the energy tank, and handed it to Reiner who was responsible for the experimental operation.

"Two injections, one into his veins and one into his muscles."

Reiner clamped the syringe with his metal tentacles, turned around and held down the extremely terrified demon. Ignoring his last dying struggle, he steadily completed Harvey's experimental operation instructions.

Pulling out the empty syringe from the demon's thick thigh, Harvey and Reiner stood side by side, observing the demon's reaction closely under the illumination of the magic stone.

After about a minute, the dying demon first opened his mouth and suddenly spurted out a burning sigh from the depths of his throat. Then, his pupils, which were originally dark yellow like pus, gradually faded and returned to a bright red.

The originally atrophied muscles all over the body gradually became full and bulging, and even the blood vessels that were barely visible under the skin bulged slightly, and the skin that seemed dehydrated and wrinkled became shiny again.

"It really...really works?" Reiner couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief, subconsciously turning to look at Harvey. "Sir, the potion you randomly concocted actually brought this guy back to life!"

It’s unbelievable!

Through decades of fighting, the Federation has captured and seized so many demon warriors and the energy storage tanks they carried, but no one has ever successfully cracked the formula of this blood-strengthening potion.

But on second thought, Harvey felt it made sense. Battle mages would only focus on improving the power of their own spells and their rank, and would not have any interest in this research direction that was of no benefit to them at all.

Research-oriented spellcasters who are not active on the battlefield will not waste a lot of money, materials, and energy to thoroughly explore the secrets of alien races. It is obviously better to have time to complete the improvement and analysis of several spell matrices.

Of course, Harvey didn't go to such great lengths to complete this experiment simply to satisfy his curiosity.

The most important purpose of replicating and preparing the demon strengthening potion himself was to confirm his previous guess - the demon soldiers did not use the secret blood strengthening potion at all, but the pure liquid magic energy extracted from the by-products of the magic stone veins.

Magical energy can actually be injected into the body and directly act on the body of intelligent life, directly strengthening blood and physical skills!

Harvey was no longer willing to think deeply about what this truth meant.

The Blood Knight Awakening Ceremony, which originated from the Church of Light, is definitely related to the demon race's magic energy injection enhancement method!

The former utilizes powerful ancient magical creatures as ingredients to create a bloodline potion to awaken talents. Essentially, this involves absorbing the remaining magical energy within the magical creatures, but with the addition of numerous other ingredients. A ritual then neutralizes the potent, pure magical energy to prevent a failed awakening and the immediate death of the participant. However, the demons, a race with naturally robust constitutions, have clearly abandoned this cumbersome and costly awakening method in favor of a more direct, more rudimentary injection of magical energy, still incorporating the flesh and blood of magical creatures to neutralize the so-called "violent" properties of the drug.

"Could it be... that the Church deliberately introduced this method to the alien race? Or was it simply that the demons obtained the formula and made crude improvements to the process?"

Of course, the truth is most likely the other way around. The demons were the first to invent this primitive and barbaric method of strengthening. After the church somehow stole the formula, the current awakening of the Bloodline Knights came about.

No matter what the truth is, as a spellcaster, Harvey hates the demons and the church equally.

No! Compared to the demons who brazenly launched a war between the two races and directly invaded human territory, Harvey felt that he loathed the Church of Light more. It had a large number of ordinary people as believers, but had been persecuting spellcasters for hundreds of years on charges of heresy and blasphemy.

Thinking of this, he had an idea in his heart and couldn't help but come up with the idea of revenge that would kill two birds with one stone.

Demons...injecting magic energy to increase the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

The church... the truth about the formula of the blood awakening ritual.

"Reiner! Bring me your experiment record book. From now on, I will dictate your records."

Reiner nodded in confusion, and decisively took out his thick experimental record book from his waist bag. He held the feather pen with his metal tentacles and began to quickly record Harvey's experimental results and research discussions.

——Research Report on the Similarities between Demon Bloodline Strengthening Potion and the Church's Bloodline Awakening Ritual

This research paper, which contains detailed experimental procedures and results, will be officially published in the Federation Bulletin circulated in all the countries of the Southern Continent if it can pass the review and evaluation of the Federation.

I wonder what kind of disgusted expressions the priests and bishops of the church would have when they saw this.

Harvey is looking forward to this!

However, publishing an experimental paper that disgusts the church is not actually his ultimate experimental goal.

The ultimate goal that Harvey wants to achieve through this tedious live-control experiment is actually to develop an anti-demon weapon to target the demons who take drugs to strengthen their physique!

He had already rehearsed the entire subsequent experimental process in advance.

Since the demons directly absorb pure magic energy to enhance and strengthen themselves, then wouldn't the energy-absorbing beetles, which are naturally capable of absorbing magic energy, be their primitive natural enemies that can restrain the abundant magic energy in their bodies?

If you use the soul transfer of the energy-absorbing beetle to create a magic alchemical weapon similar to the magic gun, you only need to slightly adjust its activation and operation methods to obtain a portable alchemical device that does not fire magic bullets, but directly absorbs the magic energy in the demon's body!
Once mass production is achieved and they are distributed in batches to the demonic battlefields of the Evil Moon Mountains, they will be used by those battle mages who already possess powerful spellcasting abilities...

Perhaps it is really possible to completely contain the demons' offensive in the Evil Moon Mountains, or even counterattack to the north side of the Evil Moon Mountains and invade the demons' territory that humans have never set foot on!
(End of this chapter)