Chapter 1100: Rest Assured
Leon nodded.
"Alright, I’ll go prepare the potion for you. But I’d advise you to rest first. Your mental and physical state aren’t suitable for taking any potion right now. You’d better adjust yourself before I finish brewing it—only then will it have the best effect."
As soon as Leon finished speaking, Morgan simply closed his eyes, collapsed onto the ground, and began snoring evenly...
Leon shook his head, opened the demi-plane portal, and entered within.
Brewing the Golden Temptation Potion for the second time went much smoother. In less than half a day, Leon completed the process, and the potion’s quality was even better than the first batch.
When Leon emerged from the demi-plane, Morgan was already awake, his complexion restored to a healthy flush. He stared at the stone vial in Leon’s hand like a pet waiting to be fed.
"Leon... Archmage Leon, did you succeed in brewing it?"
Morgan looked uneasy. Brewing a potion was never guaranteed to succeed, and the higher the grade, the lower the odds. For something like the Golden Temptation Potion, even a thirty or forty percent success rate was considered top-tier alchemy.
If it failed, well... that was just his rotten luck.
After some back-and-forth, Morgan ended up taking the Golden Temptation Potion.
Much like Rafael’s breakthrough, after Morgan took the Golden Temptation Potion, countless rule runes swirled around him, forming a golden sphere that enveloped him. The runes gradually merged into his body, and his aura steadily grew stronger.
The aura of transcendent power appeared, and it seemed as if all light in the vicinity was completely swallowed.
Within a span of several hundred meters, pure darkness spread, with only a golden sphere flickering at the center.
A few minutes later, as the rule runes fully merged into Morgan’s body, the area of several hundred meters turned into complete darkness.
No light could penetrate this region; in fact, some rays of light twisted into arcs and skirted around the edge of the darkness.
A terrifying dark aura spread, and the plants, earth, everything nearby seemed to be corroded by darkness. At the edge of the dark zone, time seemed to accelerate—plants withered to ash, the ground decayed to sand, as if all life was fading away.
Slowly, the dark zone began to contract inward, turning into a shadow behind Morgan. His body became a vague silhouette, completely shrouded in darkness.
A terrifying, shadowy aura radiated from Morgan’s body and then frantically poured into the shadow behind him. His dark magic was rapidly purified, becoming extremely pure and free of any impurities.
Within the shadow behind him, a terrifying evil seemed to lurk, and the malice nearly broke free, spreading outward.
Soon, Morgan emerged from the darkness, his dark aura now utterly pure. The negative effects of his dark magic were gone, transformed into a power that helped him open a demi-plane.
With all that accumulated negativity, even the rate at which elemental demonic creatures are spawned in his demi-plane will be much faster than others.
That’s the nature of dark magic—breaking through to Sky Rank is extremely difficult, and the influence of dark rules quietly breeds negative emotions. If you can’t resist them, you’ll lose yourself entirely, your soul ultimately consumed.
But once you break through and open a demi-plane, all those powerful negative emotions and magical impurities are drawn out and cast into the demi-plane.
Inside a demi-plane, the mage can control everything. All those accumulated negative emotions, magical impurities, and obstacles to a dark mage’s breakthrough can be managed.
Now, those negative emotions become the perfect seed for spawning elemental demonic creatures—their growth rate will be much faster, and when they emerge, they’ll be stronger and fiercer than any others.
After Rafael broke through to Sky Rank, he immediately opened a demi-plane. That’s why Arno wanted Morgan to advance first.
Once a demi-plane is opened, the spawning of dark demonic creatures is extremely fast. Within a month, Morgan’s dark elemental demon could be born.
By then, Morgan will have the help of his dark demon, making him much stronger than other mages who’ve just advanced.
Among dark Sky Rank mages, many of them rely almost entirely on their dark elemental demons for strength.
Eight thousand years later, chaos erupted in the Abyss. A Dark Overlord appeared, waging war everywhere and slaying at least a hundred demon lords—he even killed one of the Overlords.
This mysterious demon, known as the Dark Overlord, fought in the Abyss for almost a thousand years before being suppressed deep within the Abyss by several awakening demon overlords working together.
How the Dark Overlord suddenly appeared remained a mystery for over a thousand years.
At that time, wars were raging across Northend World, and many powerful beings were away due to interplanar colonization. The demons of the Abyss tried to seize the opportunity to invade Northend World, sparking endless warfare and an ever-increasing number of demons appearing.
With most of Northend World's strongest away, Abyssal demons destroyed a kingdom and seized land, launching a massive invasion. Countless mages fell, with sacrifices beyond number.
A swath of land, as large as modern Andalusia, was turned to scorched earth, polluted by the evil powers of the Abyss.
At that time, many powerful beings were tied up in other planes and couldn’t return.
So, an elder Sky Rank peak mage, later honored as the Dark Saint, quietly entered the Abyss alone. At the end of his life, he released his dark demon.
He sacrificed his demi-plane, his power, and the last remnants of his life, allowing his dark demon to become a true entity—a living being in the greater world.
The Dark Saint’s combat strength mostly lay in his dark demon. After the sacrifice, the demon surpassed Sky Rank and became a Dark Overlord.
The Dark Saint’s final command to the Dark Overlord was to wage endless war in the Abyss, draining its power.
The dark demon’s instinct to devour negative emotions didn’t disappear—instead, it grew even stronger.
In the evil depths of the Abyss, endless negative emotions fed the Dark Overlord.
Soon, the Dark Overlord began its endless war, plunging the Abyss into turmoil—even demon overlords were drawn in, leaving them powerless to invade Northend World.
When Northend World’s champions returned, one furious hero personally invaded the Abyss, fought a demon overlord, and sealed a Purgatory Gate deep inside, flooding the Abyss with devils.
That made things even wilder—the demons of the Abyss and the devils of Hell, whose hatred was soul-deep, fought for thousands of years. Even as Northend World weakened and neared destruction, the war between Abyss and Hell raged on.
Looking at Morgan, Leon couldn’t help but recall the events leading up to Northend World’s decline. Some even say the beginning of its downfall was because of those sulfur-reeking demons.
“Archmage Merlin, is something wrong?”
Leon snapped out of his thoughts. Morgan had already broken through to Sky Rank and now looked at Leon with joy.
“It’s nothing, just something crossed my mind. Morgan, now that you’ve reached Sky Rank, you should be able to travel farther to hunt. If you see Lord Joey or Lord Heron, have them contact me—I haven’t seen them for a month and I’m worried something might’ve happened.”
Morgan patted his chest and promised to find Joey and Heron.
“Don’t worry, Archmage Merlin. Even if I stop hunting, I’ll help you find Joey and Heron.”
If not for you, I wouldn’t have advanced so quickly. No—without you, I might never have reached Sky Rank.
Archmage Merlin…