Chapter 827

Divine grace sometimes manifests a person's experiences into so-called skills, and Broly's newly acquired Demon King skill came about this way.

The greatest change this skill brought Broly was that a special organ capable of absorbing magic power—a Demon King Crystal Core (Dungeon Master Magic Stone)—appeared within his body.

And since this magic stone was formed by the skill, it differed from the magic stones found within monsters, heretics, eccentrics, and even Alicia and others whom Broly had resurrected into monster-like forms.

This thing does not contain Broly's soul; even if removed from his body and shattered, it would not affect him much. Simply put, there are no counterproductive effects—no fatal weakness created for the skill's owner.

And after the magic stone is removed, Broly can actively activate the 【Demon King】 skill, using magic power to condense a new magic stone within his body. The quality of the magic stone, as it is gestated, is linked to the magic power poured in and the gestation time; once it reaches Dungeon Master quality, it can form directly, but if magic power continues to be poured in, the quality can continue to rise, though there is a boundary effect.

"So, as long as it's raised enough, just cut open your chest and take it out, and with your Dragon Talisman, wouldn't you be a magic power device that endlessly produces Dungeon Master magic stones?"

"In theory, yes, Miss Fels."

"And in practice?"

"If I really did that, my ability values would stagnate. Although the magic stones I produce could sell for a lot of money, do I look like I'm short on cash?"

"Uh, no."

Fels shook her head.

"But since you're not short on money, why are you still constantly producing magic stones now?"

In the Magic Laboratory, Broly didn't even blink as he cut open his own chest to remove the stone; he directly thrust his sword into his chest and dug out a bloody magic stone from his chest cavity.

Then he used Healing Magic on himself, and after the wound healed, he used the Demon King skill to condense a new magic stone.

While condensing, he used the Dragon Talisman to restore his magic power; after a new magic stone was gestated, he repeated the above process.

In the box beside him, a pile of Dungeon Master-quality magic stones had already stacked up. Selling them at the Guild would probably fetch over ten billion Valis without issue.

"The reason I produce magic stones is simple: my body can convert magic power into magic stones, but cannot directly convert magic power into Excelia. However, my magic stones can convert the magic power within them into Excelia, becoming nourishment for my body to grow stronger."

Through experimentation, Broly had already discovered that, like eccentrics and monsters, he could grow stronger by directly eating magic stones.

Reflected on his ability value panel, his Demon King Crystal Core could convert the magic stones he ate into Excelia for his ability values.

"The higher the quality of the magic stone, the more Excelia it provides, and Dungeon Master-quality magic stones are the most cost-effective, because their generation speed is just right and the Excelia provided is sufficient. As for even higher-quality magic stones, the longer generation time actually leads to lower Excelia acquisition efficiency—"

Broly explained as the magic stones in the box were about to overflow, which made him stop his chest-stabbing and stone-digging behavior.

"So, you're producing these magic stones for self-production and self-sales?"

Watching Broly throw the magic stones from the box back into his mouth to eat them, Fels's expression was somewhat conflicted, as if seeing a hen lay eggs and then eating the eggs herself.

However, she could understand Broly's approach, after all, the energy to gestate magic stones came from the Dragon Talisman, while the Excelia gained from eating magic stones was his own.

"Don't underestimate the Excelia these magic stones can provide me. Eating one is roughly equal to over ten thousand Excelia."

"Even with my current 55s ability values, each point of ability value requires fifty-five times the Excelia. One magic stone I produce myself can bring me an increase of over two hundred ability value points. I only need twenty-five such magic stones, and my overall ability values can increase by one S"

"rank."

"And to produce such fast-track magic stones, I only need to spend thirty seconds per stone. Swallowing the magic stones I produce in a day to gain Excelia and increase my ability values is faster than going into the Dungeon to fight monsters for Excelia and ability value increases."

"Wait, according to what you're saying, doesn't that mean you only need to produce magic stones without sleep or rest for thirty-six days or so, and the Excelia provided by the magic stones produced could directly increase your current ability values to the level of 100s?"

Fels merely did a quick mental calculation and reached this conclusion, while Broly looked blankly at this Sage lady.

Broly was not illiterate, but he wasn't highly educated either. Faced with arithmetic calculation problems involving arithmetic progression formulas, he obviously had no concept of them.

However, Fels was calculating the number of magic stones he needed to raise his ability values to 100s, and the time he needed to produce them without sleep or rest; he could understand that.

"First, I can't produce magic stones without sleep or rest. Also, swallowing and digesting magic stones takes time, and this time is related to the quality of the magic stones within my body. With the same quality, the time is one-to-one. However, if the magic stones within my body are of higher quality, it can instead increase the digestion speed."

"How much can it increase at most?"

"Should be ten times, corresponding to Adventurer levels."

"Of course, I'm rating according to my own absorption efficiency."

"Like this kind of fast-track magic stone, it's level one."

"Then if you produce higher-quality magic stones, is the time calculated according to the corresponding multiple?"

"No. Producing higher-quality magic stones takes more time. With the help of the Dragon Talisman, it takes me half a day to produce a single level-ten Demon King Crystal Core."

"I see. But, do you plan to just directly eat raw this pile of magic stones you produced?"

"If not eating them raw, what else can I do?"

"I mean, do magic stones taste good?"

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"Do you want to try one?"

"Uh, forget it. I can't digest magic stones anyway."

Looking at the magic stone the youth handed to her, Fels hurriedly waved her hands.

"By the way, don't you have a kind of magic that can both absorb others' energy and transfer your own energy to others?"

"You mean Absorption Touch?"

"Yes, that one. The magic you use to restore our stamina—can it be used on swallowing magic stones?"

"I really don't know about that, but we can try."

Absorption Touch is an exclusive magic of some ghost-type Undead in the KonoSuba World. It has no effect on increasing strength; it's just an Undead recovery magic that restores HP and MP.

After learning this magic from Teacher Wiz thanks to the peculiarity of the Adventurer class, Broly combined it with his own Qi to create the move Plundering Aura, but most of the absorbed Life Energy was either thrown away or used to make Vitality Potions.

However, he had indeed used this magic to eat Vampa Spider legs, but the essence was just replenishing energy consumed by the body.

", it actually works?!"

Originally thinking that if he didn't eat magic stones raw, the Demon King Crystal Core might not recognize them, but unexpectedly, after using Absorption Touch to absorb a magic stone's energy into his body, that energy was actually directly received by the Demon King Crystal Core.

【Then why doesn't it want the pure energy directly provided by the Dragon Talisman?】

Broly was somewhat puzzled.

【Does it only want Biological Energy?】

He had a guess, and upon thinking it, he did it.

"Miss Fels, could I trouble you with something?"

"What is it?"

"Can you let me absorb some?"

Broly's sudden request made Fels's eyes widen involuntarily.

Although she herself was also an External Wife, Broly had never forced her to do anything.

However, although this request was sudden, Fels did not refuse it.

When she became Broly's External Wife, she had already made some psychological preparations.

"Fine, then take off your pants."

"Wait, why do I have to take off my pants?"

"Didn't you say, let me absorb some from you?"

"Ah, you thought it was that kind of absorbing?"

"Isn't it?"

In the Magic Laboratory, the two stared at each other.

"I'm talking about the absorb of Absorption Touch. I want to use the life energy absorbed from you to test whether the Demon King Crystal Core inside my body can directly absorb and convert it into Excelia."

Fels: "————"

Her usual expressionless cold face now had some color.

"However, Miss Fels, if you are willing, then I won't refuse either."

"Of course, let's get down to proper business for now."

Broly actively changed the topic, eliminating the awkwardness.

"Okay."

Fels responded and stepped forward to absorb life energy from Broly.

However, Broly pressed his hand on her chest as soon as he started.

"Uh, why press there?"

"Because the heart is the source of life, the fastest place to absorb life energy."

"Then when you helped me recover stamina before, why didn't you press there?"

"This kind of place easily triggers unnecessary desire. Helping recover stamina before was for researching things."

"Alright, that is reasonable."

Fels had to admit the youth's rigor. Now with Broly's hand pressing her chest, the heartbeat inside was somewhat abnormal.

"How is it? Does the Demon King Crystal Core inside you want my life energy?"

Fels took a deep breath, tried to calm her mood, and seeing the Saiyan youth's brow slightly raised, couldn't help but ask.

"Yes."

Broly nodded in response. The life energy absorbed from Fels was almost entirely absorbed by the Demon King Crystal Core.

And to verify the conversion into Excelia, Broly soon requested Hestia to do an immediate status update.

After verification, Broly found that directly extracting life energy from a creature yielded higher Excelia efficiency than devouring Magic Stones.

"But no one can withstand your kind of absorption, right?"

After just a short experiment, Fels was left somewhat drained by Broly absorbing her life energy, drinking two bottles of Physical Recovery Potion and Magic Power Recovery Potion before catching her breath.

"That is indeed true."

Broly nodded, then tried to infuse his Qi into the Demon King Crystal Core, but the Demon King Crystal Core seemed to recognize that this life energy was his own, and absolutely did not absorb it.

"That is only natural. Otherwise, if someone else obtained your Demon King Skill and formed a Demon King Crystal Core, it might absorb them to death."

"That is also true. However, you can also share my magic and should be able to use Absorption Touch. How about this: I absorb your life energy to serve as sustenance for the Demon King Crystal Core, you absorb my life energy to replenish your own missing life energy, and you can even use the Demon King Skill to form a Magic Stone inside your body. We mutually absorb each other's life energy to form a cycle. How about it?"

"?!"

Fels was stunned, and after careful thought, actually felt this plan was highly feasible.

The next day, Battlefield Saintess Amide, who had finished her two-day vacation, returned to work at Hearth Manor's Magic Laboratory. When she opened the Magic Laboratory's Gate, she saw the two people intimately embracing inside.

"Ah~"

She let out a cry of surprise.

"Miss Amide, please don't misunderstand. We are cultivating."

"What cultivating? Does it require taking off clothes and embracing each other?"

"Taking off clothes and embracing is to increase the magic effect of Absorption Touch. It's not what you imagine."

Broly and Fels, now clothed, explained to Battlefield Saintess Amide, and listening to the explanation were others attracted by the cry.

Liliruca looked at Fels with an examining gaze. This Sage Miss, after becoming a Crystal Palace member, had not joined in getting close to Broly-san, always staying on the edge, and she thought the other truly had no thoughts. But now the situation made her suspect the other was actually secretly plotting.

After all, according to Miss Amide's description, Broly-san and this Sage Miss, their poses in the Magic Laboratory, even if not truly united, were already an ambiguous situation of abdomens pressed tightly together.

【111 "Miss Fels, do you mean we can also dual cultivate with Broly-san?"

"Miss Fels, do you mean we can also Dual Cultivate with Broly-san?"

However, after an explanation, knowing why a scene that made Miss Amide cry out appeared in the Magic Laboratory, Liliruca's attention was quickly attracted by Broly's dual cultivation. After all, only needing to embrace each other could quickly increase Capability.

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After the Demon King Skill appeared, after several days of research, Broly and Fels worked out a Cultivation Method conforming to the Reverse World's worldview.

However, one must possess both Absorption Touch magic and Demon King Skill to walk this Cultivation Method. In short, only Encounter Targets and wives who had Absorption Touch magic and Demon King Skill shared by Broly's Wing Skill could walk it.

In Hearth Manor's Room, people began embracing to cultivate the path of dual cultivation.

Either with Broly, or paired cultivation between Encounter Targets and External Wives.

And those of similar Strength had the best mutual cultivation effect, without one side dragging the other down.

"Riviria, can you assist me in cultivation?"

"Then what about Broly?"

"He's busy over there; we're a whole platoon queuing up to dual cultivate with him, but my time's used up now."

"Aren't you going to rest?"

"I want to become stronger."

Faced with the Sword Princess girl's request to assist my cultivation, the Nine Magic Princesses couldn't refuse.

Of course, without the Dragon Talisman's assistance, those dual cultivating must take a Magic Power Recovery Potion and a Physical Recovery Potion from time to time to recover the life energy consumed during dual cultivation.

After finishing helping Ais cultivate, holding the somewhat tired Ais in her arms, Riveria suddenly felt that agreeing to join the Crystal Palace before had been the right choice, allowing her to look after this kid Ais up close.

"However, dual cultivation really consumes potions terribly; in just under half a day of cultivation, over ten million Valis worth of recovery potions are gone."

"Mm, potion consumption is fast, but the upside is our ability values rise quickly too; I feel like I can go to Loki's place tomorrow and update my ability values."

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The magic stone lamp dimmed, and this pair of mother and daughter who weren't mother and daughter embraced each other and fell asleep.

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