Learning doesn't make people happy.

Especially when you have to drink a bottle of alchemy potion every three days, which tastes terrible, and force yourself to study hard twenty-four hours a day, this is not a pleasant feeling.

Because people are only happy when they do what they are interested in. And when hobbies become a constant job, a task that must be completed, you don't feel much happy.

And to go a step further is to change this matter from a simple task that needs to be completed to a task that must be carried out no matter how much you force yourself and use all means...... That's even more appetizing.

Not to mention happiness, it will only make people feel sick and sick from physical to psychological in the endless repetitive mechanical labor.

Mr. Smith had heard that there was a concept called the "gaokao" in China, and under its threat, there were countless high school students in China who worked hard for it, often going to bed at two or three o'clock in the evening, and getting up at six in the morning to continue to study as hard as they could.

He thought it was incredible at the time, but he also learned to study as hard as Chinese candidates did, and he persevered for several years. Eventually, he stood out during his studies, not only with excellent grades, but also with the opportunity to enter a higher social class......

It's a pity that although he has been trying to climb up, he still didn't climb high enough in the end, the kind that can decide his own fate.

Now, he's just bringing out the same amount of tenacity he's used to play again, and forcing himself to really do his best. He is also a person who can give full play to the spirit of hard study, but only the degree of hard study in the past is not enough, far from enough!

In the past, he was just an ordinary person, he needed to eat and drink, he needed to rest and take a breath, so it was impossible to rotate continuously, this was force majeure.

But now—

He has the physique of a half-demon, has a magical alchemy potion, and has the profound wisdom bestowed by a great being, and how much knowledge he can digest depends on his own efforts...... Therefore, the effort of ordinary people to "go to bed at two or three o'clock at night and get up at six o'clock in the morning" is simply a great waste in this case.

The Clarity Potion requires seven ingredients to concoct, and luckily six of them are relatively common ingredients, such as alum and sulfur, which can be purchased for as long as you spend money. And the last required magical substance can also be replaced by Mr. Smith's current demon blood.

So the problem is that the modulation is a bit cumbersome, the steps are a bit complicated, and it requires quite a delicate operation.

Mr. Smith quit his job and set up a laboratory in his lodgings, the kind with stills, alcohol lamps, crucibles, measuring cups, and other equipment.

After a dozen failures in the early stage, he succeeded for the first time, and then slowly figured out the rules and tricks, and mastered the key to this alchemy formula.

A clarity potion can make an ordinary person not need to sleep, last for about three days or so, and can also have the effect of refreshing the mind and increasing the activity of the mind. However, the toxicity is unbearable for ordinary people, even if it is a healthy prime-age person, it is already the limit to use one serving in a month.

Mr. Smith, who is a half-demon, can take it continuously, but although it can eliminate mental fatigue, it cannot eliminate mental pain...... Especially for the human spirit.

And Mr. Smith doesn't even have time to wander, he is always forcing himself to absorb knowledge and master all kinds of black magic techniques, and his attention is always in a state of high concentration......

In this way, he studied day and night, using alchemy potions to directly deprive himself of sleep function, and feared the threat brought by the demonic personality, he had completely and almost 200% squeezed out of his potential.

With enough savings to meet the needs of life for a long time afterward, Mr. Smith also took advantage of some of the spare time to directly take charge of the group of victims that the demon personality had enveloped through the demon contract, thus establishing a secret society-like organization.

After the organization began to gradually improve and function, he could not directly become rich in a short period of time, but at least achieved a certain degree of financial freedom.

By the way, those people are the people at the bottom of society, struck down by poverty and misery and the malice of fate, men and women, from the lowliest prostitutes, to dock workers who sell coolies for a small wage, to teenagers and girls living on the streets, single mothers who cannot afford to raise their own children......

The demonic personality is not a butcher's method or a bodhisattva's heart, but it specifically selects some people who have just been killed, uses the demon contract to "resurrect" them, and also allows them to participate in the future.

They were originally at the bottom of society, and they had no hope of living and suffered a tragic fate, but there was a mysterious power that gave them the dawn in the darkness, and let them see with their own eyes the miserable wails and begging for mercy of the people who killed them, and they couldn't survive and couldn't die.

Such a two-pronged approach, with both grace and power, can be said to be invincible and unfavorable to buy people's hearts.

If it is a secret organization in the form of a religion, then it is the level of all fanatics, except that they worship not gods, but demons - demonic personalities are probably also using their emotions to create a stable network of beliefs.

Thankfully, Mr. Smith discovered it early, so he had the opportunity to turn the organization's core philosophy around.

Especially after he gradually mastered the increasingly powerful magic power in his body, and also mastered a lot of supernormal knowledge in his mind, his strength is growing by leaps and bounds...... He finally understood what the true gift of a great being was.

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In the middle of the night, Mr. Smith was as busy in the laboratory as ever.

Before he knew it, a few months had passed, and he had basically mastered the fragments of knowledge he had acquired when he first "awakened"—albeit only fragments, but also an extremely large amount of transcendent knowledge.

This knowledge is not comprehensive, but it is quite professional and targeted, as if it is a big tree that is rapidly taking root and thriving under his efforts.

It is rooted in the soil of "basic mystical knowledge" and grows branches such as "mysticism", "prayer methods", and "magical ritual systems", and then on these branches grow luxuriant leaves such as "alchemy", "symbolism", "astrology, and astronomy".

But the core trunk is still an important part of the "demonic power".

All the mystical knowledge that Mr. Smith has learned and mastered is the type that is closely related to the demonic power he holds, just like a large field with various types of related knowledge, but the other types have been filtered out, and only the part about demonic power remains.

He didn't want to delve into this unimportant question, anyway, the source of his extraordinary power was the power from the demonic bloodline, and the occult knowledge that focused on the demonic power was a transcendent ability tailored for him.

As the amount of primordial magic absorbed became more and more huge, now his physique has transformed from a half-demon to the level of an ordinary demon, and his physical abilities such as various strengths and agility have been strengthened to a new level, and his perception and memory are also greatly beyond ordinary people.

The most important thing is that the demonic personality is equivalent to an auxiliary thinking and learning device-

First of all, you must know that whether it is the original Mr. Smith or the sub-personality spawned by the demon, they all share a body and a soul, so no matter how the demonic personality is disguised, in the end, Mr. Smith remembers the relevant memories.

A few months ago, when Mr. Smith first sensed the danger of the demonic personality, he simply thought it was an uncontrollable time bomb that had no meaning other than to bring risks, but then he realized that he was wrong.

From the point of view of his own human side, it was the demonic side of the demon he was now.

So what about the other way around?

If there is no human side to drag it down, then the demonic personality is equivalent to a real and pure demon, and the demonic power is its original power, and it is naturally able to quickly understand all kinds of mysterious knowledge about the use of demonic power.

And if it did, it would be equivalent to Mr. Smith himself understanding, just as Mr. Smith would remember what he had done. Because they are the same soul level existence, the information is naturally shared, and at most there is some delay......

Mr. Smith discovered and took advantage of this trait, and he frantically learned the paranormal knowledge he was exposed to, without having to integrate it, only by memorizing and rote memorization.

Because after that, he will start dreaming one after another for a few days, and when he wakes up, he will find that he has understood and mastered some of the knowledge he learned the previous day.

In this way, studying hard day and night, and with the whole of London, the whole of England, and even more people supplying him with primordial magic, he quickly progressed to become a great magician...... Of course, it can also be said to be a demon sorcerer.

And during this period, there were still several accidents, so that the demon personality still made a resistant, which caused him a lot of trouble, but also caused the "demon" to continue to shake the whole of London, making the news hot at all.

did not complete the process of execution alone, but relied on various lethal arrangements and psychological tactics to make the victim self-harm, torture himself, and finally die of hatred in endless despair and pain.

And the means are more and more vicious every time, and the arrangement is more and more ruthless every time-

For example, the pendulum axe can only escape by crushing both hands, otherwise it will be cut in half horizontally by the giant axe......

For example, they are forced to inject chronic toxins, the antidote is in a safe, the code is on the wall, the only light source is a candle, but the body is covered with flammable materials......

For example, two people are chained to the same killing machine with chains around their necks, and the chains are connected, and the keys are at the back of each other's necks, but one has a mouth sewn and the other has an eye sewn up......

Almost all of London was shrouded in the shadows, trembling with fear.