He had accumulated a lot of souls, most of which he had hunted in the Abyss of the Demon World. There were also three human souls offered by Lucius. In total, Roy now had fifty-four low-quality souls.
Now that he had guessed that souls were a special energy source, Roy began to search for the fundamental reason why demons devoured souls to obtain magic power.
He felt that demons should only use the negative emotional energy contained in the souls when devouring souls. Negative emotional energy referred to the feelings of fear, fear, pain, greed, and so on that living beings had when they were alive. Since it was difficult for demons to produce such emotions, the souls that Roy obtained from hunting other demons in the Abyss of the Demon World were relatively small in size, and the negative emotional energy they contained was naturally less. Thus, the magic energy growth after devouring them was very low.
On the contrary, because humans were relatively fragile and had rich emotions, it was easier for them to produce more negative emotional energy when they died. This was also the reason why human souls were relatively large.
Based on these theories, Roy conceived a method.
He believed that demons simply devoured souls to increase their magic power and might not be able to make full use of the negative emotional energy in the souls!
Therefore, during the two days in the basement, Roy took out all the souls he had and classified them according to their size. He selected a few souls that were about the same size as their soul power and began experimenting.
He divided these souls into two groups, one of which Roy used to devour directly.
By devouring these souls and observing the growth of his magic energy attribute in the system interface, Roy found that the growth was mostly around 0.3 to 0.4, and only two of them could reach 0.5.
After recording this data, Roy began drawing in the system.
What he drew was still a potion pattern, but his definition of potion this time was a little different. His definitions were: 'Magic Energy Amplification Potion' and 'Refined Soul Products'!
And to be on the safe side, Roy finally thought about it and added 'Maximum Utilization'. After making these three definitions, Roy threw all the souls he used as a comparison into the potion to save and materialize it.
Unlike the materialized items in the past, the Magic Energy Amplification Potion that Roy made could be made with one hundred percent certainty. This was because the potion itself was the refinement and extraction of souls. If he could refine one soul, he could also refine dozens of souls. The only difference was the quantity and the volume of the extracted potion.
Soon, a bottle of potion appeared in Roy's hand. He only looked at it before raising his head and drinking it!
Previously, he had directly devoured a group of twelve souls and gained a total of 4.2 points in his Mana attribute. However, this Mana Enhancement Potion, which was extracted from twelve souls of the same size, actually increased his Mana attribute by ten points after drinking it!
In other words, the soul extraction potion made through the system had more than double the magic energy increase efficiency of devouring souls!
Roy's idea was established. He felt that he would probably have to control his devouring of souls in the future. Although devouring souls could allow him to enjoy delicacies, it actually had a low utilization rate of the energy in the soul. If he wanted to obtain faster magic energy growth, the best way was to use the system to make extract potions.
Now, Roy's magic energy attribute had increased to 23.5. When he tried to use Psychokinesis, the duration he could sustain it more than doubled.
The increase in strength and speed brought by the strengthening of the T-Virus had now stagnated, which meant that the current potential of the demon body had been fully developed. Before better body development potions could be made, the strength and speed attributes had temporarily reached their limit.
These two attributes only guaranteed Roy's melee combat ability. In this case, Roy naturally had to find other ways. He also needed to develop long-range attack methods and so on. Long-range attack methods required him to use high-quality souls to customize skills, and a higher magic energy attribute was also the fundamental guarantee after creating the skills.
During the two days that Roy stayed in the basement to do research, strange things happened one after another in Transylvania.
In two days, several people disappeared one after another. These people were the homeless people in the town. Not long after they disappeared, their bodies were found. At first, people thought that they had been captured by vampires, but after finding their bodies, they realized that they had been murdered!
Needless to say, these homeless people were murdered by Lucius. The souls that Roy received were proof, but the problem was that the people in the town did not know. Lucius had done it very secretly, so for a while, the people in the town were panicking and discussing who the murderer was.
Unfortunately, at this juncture, Van Helsing and his assistant, the monk of the church, Carl, came to this town.
The people of Transylvania, which had been sealed off for many years, were already familiar with each other's faces, so when Van Helsing and Carl appeared, the people in the town noticed them as two strangers!
With weapons in their hands, the people spontaneously surrounded the two of them.
This town was under the shadow of the vampires, so they were extremely distrustful of strangers. This was because there were often self-proclaimed monster hunters who overestimated themselves and wanted to come and fight the Vampire Count Dracula. Without exception, these guys were all killed by Dracula and often caused Dracula and his brides to vent their anger on the townspeople, bringing disaster to the people.
Van Helsing and Carl did not know this, so they did not know what was happening after being surrounded. Looking at the indifferent and numb eyes of the townspeople, Van Helsing had no doubt that these people would swarm them and kill them, so he had already reached behind him to take out his weapon and prepare to defend himself.
"You, turn around!"
At this moment, a pleasant voice came from behind Van Helsing. He turned his head and found that it was a beautiful blonde in noble attire.
This woman was naturally one of the only remaining descendants of the Villelis family, Anna Villelis! Although she had long lost her noble title, the Villelis family's ancestors were once rich, so her attire was completely different from the poor commoners in the town, especially those women with dirty faces. Compared to them, Anna was naturally dazzling.
"Take off your hat!" Anna put her hands on her hips, raised her chin, and said to Van Helsing, "Show your face!"
"Why?" Van Helsing asked.
"Because we don't trust strangers!" Anna replied. "And gentlemen, you have to disarm yourselves!"
"Come and try!" How could Van Helsing agree? He tightened his grip on his gun.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. But at this moment, another voice suddenly came. "I know who he is!"
The people looked toward the source of the voice and found that it was the mayor, who had not shown his face for a long time!
"It's Baron Lucius!"
"Hasn't he been hiding in his manor, escaping from the vampires?"
"Why is he out now? He seems to have lost a lot of weight … "
Ignoring the whispers of the people, Lucius walked through the crowd toward Van Helsing and said loudly, "Gentlemen, I know who you are! There are wanted posters for you everywhere in London and Paris, aren't there? Van Helsing! You murderer! This is why you don't dare to take off your hat and show your face, am I right? "
After hearing Lucius's words, the townspeople suddenly burst into an uproar. Wanted poster?! This guy is a murderer?
Therefore, the people immediately linked the murder of many homeless people in the town to Van Helsing!
"Damn it, could it be that he killed the people in our town?"
"It can't be wrong. Although Baron Lucius is a little timid, he is a noble and well-informed. Since he said that the other party is a murderer, it can't be wrong!"
"Murderer! He is the murderer! "
"Capture him! Burn him to death! "
Van Helsing could not help but smile bitterly as he watched the townspeople gradually become agitated. The wanted poster was real. In fact, many of the monsters that Van Helsing had hunted were actually humans. After killing these monsters, they would return to their human appearance. This led many people who did not know the truth to treat him as a murderer and put him on the wanted list in various cities for first-degree murder!
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