An instant after he said those words, a golden carpet-like notification containing words written in darkness popped up in front of him, adding a mysterious feel to it all, increasing Vincent's excitement and killing him with anticipation.

‹ Power of evil: The Champion can channel Mana into his supernatural cells to activate Power of Evil which allows you to create parasitic seeds of fusion. It can infest energies and liquids. The things your seed of fusion infests obtain the ability to combine with any type and kind of matter, be it solid, liquid or gas, allowing for the creation of something greater. ›

Vincent read the description of his newfound ability in silence before he closed his eyes, breathing calmly and trying to make sense of it.

Three things stood out.

"First, I can channel purified magic power into the supernatural cells present in my bloodstream to create a parasitic seed of fusion. Second, they can merge with liquid and energy, giving them the ability to fuse with any form of matter. Third, I can fuse purified blood of beasts infested with the parasitic seed of fusion with an alchemical pill such as a body strengthening pill to increase its effectiveness. Am I right?"

If it is as he said, then he would be able to improve countless things such as magical pills, beast's weapons, magic scrolls, and so on.

‹ Indeed. The Power of Evil is one of its kind. It has few limitations, and although not as good as offensive and defensive abilities, it transcends the worldly limits of auxiliary supernatural ability. It will allow you to create offensive and defensive items far surpassing the offense and defense of abilities. That's what it allows you to achieve. ›

Vincent rubbed his cheeks, closed eyes, thinking hard and long about it, taking his time as it was not the end of the world, not just yet. "So, it's not like the generic ability that everyone else uses. Hmm, nothing less expected from the evolution material that gave rise to the Emperor of Darkness. His ability to control monsters is one of a kind, and so is mine. It's adaptable, too. I just need to prepare before battles, but that's something I can afford to do."

The potential of this ability won't go to waste, not in Vincent's hands!

It could be used to combine two different types of offensive magic scrolls into one. Vincent can first infest fire energy with his seed of fusion. And imbue it into offensive fire inscription patterns inscribed a magic scroll to grant it the ability to fuse with another matter, followed by fusing that magic scroll with another magic scroll to give birth to an unbelievable item.

The possibilities were endless, and he didn't know where to begin. In the end, he decided to go back to his living quarters and sleep and think about it after waking up.

"It's hard to believe that the Tree of Evil was the main source of the birth of this ability with many creative purposes," Vincent said in his mind.

The Tree of Evil wasn't too different than the harbinger of death. Although it saved one life from dying, it took several hundred lives in exchange for that and to help itself grow.

However, that very monster created a Fruit of Darkness that awakened an ability with the sole purpose of improving and creating new things.

it was hard for Vincent to believe that, although it was right in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but marvel at the duality of creation.

‹ The Tree of Evil isn't exactly evil. Its nature is like two sides of the same coin. It can grow up to become both good or evil depending on the type of society it grows up in. The Tree of Evil you encounter sprouted in a place filled to the brim with negative energy, naturally it grew up to become evil. However, if the same tree grew up in a happy place, it would have become the Tree of Good. It's a mythical Tree that has the potential to grow up to become the Tree of Creation. A monster at the epitome of existence ›

Blood's announcement rang in Vincent's ears, telling him about the long-forgotten truth of the Tree of Evil.

"So, one of my ancestors came across such a tree?" Vincent asked in his mind, believing that the heirloom of his family possess such information because of one of his ancestor.

‹ Indeed ›

"Who was it?" Vincent asked in anticipation after a moment.

‹ The second head of the family. He didn't only come across it but also helped it to grow closer to its peak ›

"Really?" Vincent asked, shock brimming in his heart.

‹ If you don't believe me then just go Lorena, the world of the elves. And you'll know what I mean. ›

"Entering Lorena, huh. It's not too distant of a dream."

It truly wouldn't take too long before Vincent finally gets a chance to enter Lorena.

He couldn't enter it right now as students needed special permission to enter that world.

Of course, he wasn't betting on obtaining it.

He could enter that world within months, after all.

The island of wisdom was located someplace in Lorena!

"He isn't here?"

Vincent didn't see Varth in the room, although it was early morning and still a weekend, meaning there were no classes to attend. Yet, he wasn't here for some reason.

Vincent wondered why. Still, it was just passing curiosity. Varth was his roommate and getting curious about his life sometimes wasn't too abnormal for Vincent. Of course, he didn't obsess over it nor think too about it. He didn't have any rights to know what's happening in his roommate's life and he didn't have much of an interest either.

What mattered more was his own life.

He hasn't slept for more than a day. What's worse is the fact that he has been working hard for the past several hours. It wasn't painless to use magic techniques continuously. The use of magic techniques was mentally exhausting but the overuse of magic techniques gives a person painful headaches and muscle spasms.

He was tired, exhausted, and mentally drained

The headaches causing aching pain in his head didn't help either.

The overuse of the Flame Purifying Technique has also damaged his veins. The damage wasn't something serious but it was still discomforting. It felt as if he was sitting in front of flames.

"Ugh, I was too excited and didn't think too much about the consequences of overusing magic techniques when purifying the fruit of darkness."

Vincent hit the bed and tried to fall asleep.

The pain wasn't great in the face of his exhaustion and that's why he was able to fall asleep almost instantaneously.

While he was sleeping without a care in the world, Varth sat before a golden cauldron, trying to create Small Distance Teleportation Ability Crystal.

The process of creating an ability crystal was neither too complex nor too simple. It basically follows the same steps an alchemist performs to create a pill or a magic chef follows to create an evolution dish.

First off, he purified impurities from the pool of darkness. The pool of darkness contained not only the blood of the victims of the Tree of Evil but it also contained negative energy, water, weed, sand, dist, and a few other things that could only be classified as impurities.

"I Need to clean the pool of darkness from all impurities first. Only then I will be able to use it to create my life-saving items." Varth said under his breath, using his mana and the flame of the magical cauldron to eliminate and push impurities out of a pool of darkness.

It didn't take long for him to purify the pool of darkness as he was using both his mana and the flame of the cauldron to purify it.

Of course, it required multi-tasking to control fire and mana at the same time and wasn't something anyone could do.

He separated the pool of darkness into a thousand tiny portions. And proceeded by storing all of it except for one in his spatial treasure. That one portion was left inside of his cauldron.

"Let's get it started!" Varth opened the lid of the cauldron before pouring in a few materials.

He heated the cauldron to a high degree after closing its lid. The heat melted the materials inside the cauldron including the small portion of the pool of darkness into their medicinal essence form. Once all the material achieved this gaseous state where only their purest essence was left in a raw form, Varth lowered the heat.

A few moments later, once the cauldron has cooled down a bit, Varth performed some hand signs in a hurry, causing a huge amount of mana to burst forth from his body, pouring straight into the cauldron through the small holes at the top of the lid.

The energy went inside the cauldron and pressurized the medicinal essence of different materials to gather around each other, twirling and mixing, condensing into the shape of a triangular crystal with black luminesce.

[Congratulations for creating a Teleportation Ability Crystal, Master]

An instant after he retrieved the triangular-shaped crystal from the cauldron, Noah, the mechanical box that Varth uses to calm his emotion and soothe his soul announced in a happy voice.

"It's too soon to be happy," Varth said, narrowed eyes brimming with determination to create more Ability crystals.

"Master, how many more are you gonna prepare?"

"I am planning to use half of the pool of darkness to create short distance teleportation ability crystal only," Varth answered as he mentally himself for another round of ability crystal creation.

[What about the other half?]

"Hehe, I'll use it all to create my ultimate trump card!"