Custom Made Demon King

chapter 29

Chapter 29: The Arrival of Van Helsing

He had accumulated quite a number of souls, most of them from hunting in Abyss of the Demon World and the four human souls offered to him by Lucius. Roy had now fifty-four low-quality souls.

Since his guess that souls were a special energy source, Roy began to probe deeper into how magic power was obtained from devouring souls.

He felt that demons devoured souls for the negative energy that resided within them. Negative energy referred to emotions of fear, pain, greed, etc. generated while the souls were alive. And because demons rarely had such emotions, the souls Roy captured in the Abyss of the Demon World were smaller and contained relatively less negative energy, resulting in lower growth of magic energy after devouring the souls.

In contrast, because humans were weaker, they were emotionally richer and more prone to generating negative emotional energy during death, thus the larger human souls.

Based on these theories, Roy thought of an idea.

He felt that demons simply devoured souls to increase their magic power and probably did not fully exploit the negative emotional energy in the souls!

Therefore, during the two days in the basement, Roy took out all the souls he had and categorized them by size. He then selected several souls of similar size and soul power and began experimenting.

He split these souls into two groups, and one group was for Roy to devour directly.

Through devouring these souls and observing the magic energy attribute in the system interface, Roy found that the growth rate was generally around 0.3 to 0.4 each, and only two souls reached approximately 0.5.

After recording this data, Roy began drawing in the system.

His drawing was still a potion, but his definitions were different this time. His definitions were Magic Energy Growth Potion and Refined Pure Extracts of Souls!

For insurance, Roy thought about it and added another one, Maximum Use. After deciding these three definitions, Roy threw the souls he would use for comparison into the system to save and materialize.

Unlike the materialized items in the past, the Magic Energy Growth Potion Roy made could be 100% produced because the potion itself was the refined extracts of souls. Just as how he could refine one soul, he could do the same for tens of souls. The only difference was the quantity and the size of the refined potion.

Soon, Roy had a potion bottle. He looked at it and then raised his head to drink it!

He had previously devoured twelve souls and gained a 4.2 increase in the magic energy attribute. However, after drinking it, this bottle of Magic Energy Growth Potion made from the extracts of twelve similar-sized souls increased his magic energy attribute by 10!

In other words, the soul extract potion produced by the system increased magic energy by more than double compared to devouring souls directly!

Roy’s tentative plan was now established. He felt that he now needed to control himself when it came to devouring souls. Although devouring souls allowed him to enjoy their taste, it actually lowered the energy that he could harvest from the souls. If he had wanted to raise his magic energy quickly, the best way was to use the system to make the soul extract potion.

Now that Roy’s magic energy attribute had grown to 23.5, he found that he could sustain Psychokinesis for twice as long.

The increase in strength and speed brought by T-Virus strengthening had now stalled, showing that he had fully developed the current potential of his demon body. Before he could make a better body development potion, these two attributes had reached their peaks.