Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 343 The Eye Demon Elder's Potion

Inside the laboratory, Yuri had completely fainted due to the rampage caused by the ghost hand.

Locke knew that information about the Abyss Demon race was still relatively scarce in the wizarding world of the Southeast Corner Region.

Most planes are targeted by wizards the moment they come into contact with the wizarding world.

In the wizarding world, a first-ring wizard is merely a basic combatant, but in other worlds, they are already legendary beings at the demigod level.

In other words, a first-ring wizard can already travel to worlds of medium size or smaller to wage war, but the Abyss Plane is one of the few worlds that wizards have not conquered, and which has even fought back and forth with the wizarding world.

In the southeastern region, abyssal studies is still a relatively untapped field, with not many people researching it.

At this point, under Locke's persistent questioning, Ghost Hand had no choice but to reveal its origin.

“My lord, you are the Lord of the Abyss, and as a lower-ranking demon, I can only obey your orders.” Ghost Hand said helplessly, “I am a Mammon demon, living in the Acid Sea, the seventh layer of the Abyss Plane. The one who rules there is the Abyss Prince [Grufulros], the Seven-Mouthed Duke. Legend has it that he can devour a medium-sized plane with just one mouth, and when he opens all seven mouths at the same time, he can devour a large world. I was hunted down by other demons in the Acid Sea, and I was almost left with only a few remaining limbs. For us demons, limbs are energy, and energy is our life.”

"Demons devour each other in the hope of breaking through racial boundaries and becoming higher-level demons. Mammon demons are lower-level demons with limited potential and limited upper limits, making it difficult for them to become abyss lords. They can only become cannon fodder in the Eternal Blood War."

"But if we can devour and mutate into abyssal fire demons, or high-level demons like Yogg-Saron, we can continue to grow stronger."

"Tanari demons are the lowest-ranking lower-level demons, the lowest of the low, destined to be cannon fodder for life, with no hope of ever rising up."

“Like your Eye Demon race, Eye Demons were originally just ordinary lower-level demons, but if they can devour each other and mutate into Eye Demon Lords, they can immediately advance to intermediate-level demons, become Abyss Lords, and gain the possibility of continuously strengthening themselves.”

The Ghost Hand seemed quite envious and mistakenly believed that Locke was the intermediate demon it had mentioned. "Eye Demon Lords are quite rare even among the Eye Demon race. It's not that Eye Demon Lords are actually very powerful, but rather that once they mutate into an Eye Demon Lord, their rank becomes that of an intermediate demon, which means they can continuously gain power and become a higher-level being."

"Among your clan, there is even an Eye Demon Lord who, through continuous devouring, broke through the racial limits and became the Lord of the Abyss Plane, independently ruling a plane of the Abyss, becoming the Prince of the Abyss, and the darling of the Abyss."

Ghost Hand said, "Just when I was about to be completely devoured, I was actually very lucky and encountered the Demon Grand Duke of our Abyss Plane and the second-circle wizards of their Wizarding World fighting against each other."

"The war created a dimensional rift, and I escaped along the dimensional rift until I was reduced to a piece of flesh and blood no bigger than a finger, and then I was picked up by those human wizards."

“I originally wanted to kill him, but I was too weak, so I pretended to be just a mindless piece of flesh. He didn’t notice that I was hidden among the flesh he picked up.”

"He used me to concoct potions, and as a result, through his potions, I parasitized the witch's body. For twenty years, I relied on her life force to regain some strength, to the point where my arm was back to its original size."

"This is a special talent of our Mammon demons. We can restore our bodies by absorbing the life energy of others. Other demons do not have such a powerful regenerative ability as us."

Locke frowned as he looked at the arm of the Mammon demon in his hand. The sensation of touching it was clearly the feel of flesh and blood.

But if what he said is true, then this Mammon demon cannot be an ordinary flesh and blood creature. On the contrary, the life form of abyssal creatures may be different from all living beings in the prime material plane.

That's something worth studying carefully.

Locke, whose main research focus is currently Abyss Potionology, naturally wouldn't let this opportunity pass him by. He directly captured a relatively high-level Abyss Demon that could communicate and maintained its consciousness.

The fact that the other party was so open and honest seems to be related to the fact that it regarded itself as the Lord of the Eye Demons.

Otherwise, the other party might not be willing to say so much.

Locke pondered, “The quality of your energy is roughly equivalent to a wizard apprentice with a magic pressure of 900. Yuri’s magic pressure is not even 600. After being absorbed by you for so many years, it has even regressed to the level of 200 magic pressure.”

"Since you're absorbing her life force, your recovery will naturally be very slow." Upon hearing this, Locke had two guesses—

First, abyssal creatures can restore their bodies by replenishing energy, but the degree of this ability varies among different abyssal creatures. The Mammon demon that I captured has a special talent, and its ability in this regard is particularly outstanding.

Therefore, based on my observations of its experiences, I boldly propose that abyssal creatures are actually energy life forms. Their biggest difference from life on the prime material plane is likely that they lack ether element particles in their bodies.

To verify this, it's simple: just throw the corpses of abyssal creatures into the forest and see if it affects the growth of forest plants.

If these corpses do not contain ether, then the growth of forest plants will likely only have side effects, not positive ones.

Secondly, like wizards, abyssal creatures have limits.

A magic pressure of 1000 is an insurmountable barrier.

The racial limitation mentioned by the Mammon demon in front of us likely refers to the fact that when a wizard apprentice breaks through to become a first-ring wizard, the soul body he encounters is not strong enough to continue increasing his magic power.

In other words, a permanent defensive force field is necessary to continue.

Wizards break through their limits by using a permanent defensive force field to overcome the limits of their souls and achieve their first breakthrough beyond those limits.

The abyssal demons seem to have used a more primitive method, devouring each other, thus transcending the limits of their species.

After surpassing the first limit, one can become a so-called Abyss Lord.

The Abyss Lord rank corresponds to the first-ring wizard.

The Demon Grand Duke class likely corresponds to the second-circle wizard.

The so-called Lord of the Abyss Plane, the Prince of the Abyss, is very likely the counterpart to a third-ring wizard.

"A first-ring wizard has the power to conquer planes, while a second-ring wizard has the power to destroy a plane of medium size or smaller," Locke pondered. "It seems that the world power level of the Endless Abyss Plane is very high; otherwise, it wouldn't be able to fight the Wizarding World to a standstill. In fact, many of the great barriers are formed because the Wizarding World and the Abyss Plane world overlap, creating abyssal rifts that form the great barriers between the various Wizarding Worlds."

Locke pondered, 'I accidentally obtained Abyssal energy by using a synthesized Eye Lord potion, enduring immense side effects along the way.'

'But if my previous guess is correct, and the Abyss Demons are energy life forms, then their method of identifying others is by using their energy characteristics.'

'That's why this Mammon demon mistakenly thought I was the Beholder Lord. The key is that the abyssal energy cycle has indeed been established at my eyes. I don't know what kind of change this is; continuing to explore might yield unexpected discoveries.'

Locke's eyes were strange. The fusion cube in the void in front of him had been successfully synthesized. He had put three bottles of Eye Demon Lord potion into it to synthesize it, and now it had finally succeeded.

He took it out and discovered that a special synthetic formula had appeared.

[Elder Eye Demon's Elixir]!
'The Beholder Lord Potion can grant me Beholder Lord-level Abyssal Energy. What are the effects and side effects of the Beholder Elder Potion?'

Locke looked at the Mammon Demon in his hand. He hadn't expected that healing Yuri would yield such a great result, and that he had gained a deeper understanding of the Abyss.

This is of great benefit to oneself.

Especially for his Abyss Potionology, this knowledge might quickly allow him to reach the first level of Potions. At the same time, studying the recipe for the Eye Demon Elder's potion will undoubtedly accelerate the progress of his basic Potions skills.

(End of this chapter)