Full-Time Magician: Demon Mage

Chapter 67 The Cursed Box

The improvement of demonic magic is not like that of magic, where you can directly increase the amount of magic you pour in. The growth of demons is a gradual process.

Before becoming a leader, as long as there are enough resources, breakthroughs are quick, which are breakthroughs in strength. Almost all demons can reach the advanced level of warrior.

After reaching the Commander level, things change drastically. This is a breakthrough in the level of life, and some ordinary demons and monsters cannot cross this threshold no matter how much they cultivate.

Unless one devours the flesh and blood of high-level demons to increase their own bloodline potential, it is impossible to break through this barrier.

Demons can be roughly divided into two categories. One category is demons with bloodline inheritance, which are descendants of high-level demons. These demons only need to keep growing and activating their bloodline power to have no bottleneck in strength, but it is extremely difficult for them to break through to the level of the progenitor.

One type is the demons that grow through natural cultivation and transformation; these demons can also be called ancestral demons.

The growth path of the primordial demon can be based on the Antarctic Emperor. The core is to purify the bloodline, continuously improve the quality of demonic power, and eventually break through the barriers of life level.

The simpler the attribute of a demonic power, the easier it is to purify and accumulate, and the easier it is to control perfectly. After all, demonic power is a product of the combination of life force and magical energy. The purer it is, the more likely it is to take the path of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

It's difficult for demonic power with mixed attributes to follow this path. The only option is to follow the path of demonic power fusion. Breaking through on this path can easily cause chaos in the demonic power, making it difficult to cultivate to a high level and also easy to kill oneself.

Wang Teng remained seated quietly on the platform. After the spatial magic energy entered his body, it merged with his own life force and transformed into spatial attribute demonic power.

This process was very fast, without any interference. As the demonic power increased, so did the physical body, and this enhancement was comprehensive.

Because he had accumulated a large amount of life force in the past and had not wasted it, this life force is now extremely vigorous, enough to perform an initiation ceremony.

The benefits of the Earthly Sacred Spring are thus revealed: it not only contains immense vitality but also mysterious bloodline evolution power, no wonder demons and monsters are driven mad by it.

As demonic energy is cultivated, life force decreases somewhat while demonic energy increases somewhat, making it difficult to achieve the rapid growth of a mage. It can only increase a little each day, accumulating over time. This is the main reason why demonic cultivation is so slow.

Treasures containing life force are especially precious to demons, as they represent an opportunity for them to surge in power, and the demon realm is not lacking in magical energy resources.

The next day, the concentration of magical energy in the space decreased to 140 times. His cultivation in one day was equivalent to the accumulation of nearly 5 months.

On the third day, the value dropped to 120 times; on the fourth day, it dropped to 100 times; on the fifth day, it dropped to 80 times; on the sixth day, it dropped to 70 times; and on the seventh day, it dropped to 60 times.

Once the connection to the demonic energy was severed, Wang Teng emerged from his cultivation, a glint of light flashing in his eyes, his aura incredibly powerful.

"Six days of continuous cultivation is equivalent to 570 days of normal continuous cultivation. Compared to the intermittent cultivation time of demons, it would take at least ten times longer to make a comparable calculation, which is 5700 days, or a little over 15 years."

"The commander level has reached its peak, but the accumulated life force has been almost exhausted. There won't be another chance for such a surge next time."

"It seems we still have to start with the Earthly Sacred Spring..."

As Wang Teng pondered this, he got up and left.

Ignoring the guards' gaze, his thoughts drifted to the overpowered protagonist, Mo Fan, who always seemed to stumble upon all sorts of rare resources.

We can try to get some of the Earthly Holy Spring from him, or at worst, we can exchange it for resources, since that guy is a penniless wretch.

Two elements are awakened at each stage, and eight elements at the super stage! That's outrageous. Only the Azure Dragon Pendant is powerful enough to allow him to cultivate them.

Moreover, this slut not only wants to awaken the summoning system and raise the Ghost Wolf Beast, but also wants to contract with the Flame Princess and raise her as her own daughter, constantly feeding her various fire-type fragments.

What's even more outrageous is that you have to play the Demon Transformation skill from time to time, and you often need to gather energy for the Demon Transformation.

The most outrageous thing is that he has a huge number of elemental magic types and pets, and he also wants to play three magic types that require a high level of skill: Shadow, Space, and Chaos.

There's no limit to how outrageous it can get; he even absorbed eight soul fragments to achieve the physical body of an emperor, with the supreme monarch occasionally acting as his henchman and lackey, and the divine bird totem possessing him directly granting him resurrection coins.

Even an ordinary mage who can accomplish just one of these tasks can stand out among their peers.

"I remember during the Bo City disaster, that guy collected the essence of a warrior-level expert but didn't share any with me..."

"Next time we meet, I'll find an opportunity to discuss this with him..."

When Wang Teng returned to the dormitory, two beds were already empty. After a semester, students could choose to live off-campus.

Qian Fu, this rich guy, couldn't wait any longer and had already booked a house before the semester was even over.

Lu Jie seems like a very loyal person, but he also moved out. I guess he's not very comfortable staying with the three of them.

"You're the only one left. Aren't you moving out, Huang Wen?"

"Move what?"

"It's such a hassle, and I'm not doing anything shady."

"Moving out would be detrimental to my further studies, and it would be inconvenient to go to the library. It's more convenient to live in the dormitory."

Huang Wen remained completely unaffected, his objective as clear as ever.

"I have something interesting to tell you..."

"Look at this!"

He walked over and turned his phone screen in front of Wang Teng.

"A complex of buildings... huh?"

"An expedition team discovered the ruins of a vampire castle in the United States. The castle's protective barrier was damaged, and the expedition team obtained a treasure!"

"The entire expedition team is dead!"

"A mind-stone box cursed with a terrifying spell!"

Wang Teng's eyes widened. The box contained a picture of death, showing the entire team reduced to skeletons. Moreover, black mist permeated the surrounding area, and the eerie patterns on the box seemed to devour all life.

"This matter was released yesterday and has spread throughout our circle."

"That expedition team was a mining team from their country, but we never expected them to encounter such danger."

"It is said that the incident alarmed the vampires and demons in the Americas, and even some of the leaders appeared, but they suffered the same fate."

"All the demons that approached were drained of their life force and turned into a pile of dry bones and dust."

"The area within a kilometer radius has now become a cursed wasteland; it's truly terrifying!"

Huang Wen's tone was somewhat uneasy, as if he were on the scene himself, and one could feel the crisis even through the screen.

"Such a large piece of stone, actually used to make a box?"

"What kind of vampire is so extravagant?"

Wang Teng found it hard to believe that a mind stone the size of a head could actually be made into a box.

The box still shimmered with the image of a nebula, looking incredibly magnificent. Such spiritual treasures are now extinct.

(End of this chapter)