Chapter 3799: The School Doctor's

Schiller sighed in his heart. He could fully understand why Owlman's train of thought had turned to this. Because it was visible to the naked eye that most Batmen couldn't open up a gap in their level of learning magic.

Because it didn't involve contracts for the time being, everyone was using the energy in their wands. The way to control energy wasn't very difficult. If one had to say there was any threshold, it was probably that people with higher IQs and better coordination would be more handy in controlling energy. But such people were more excellent in any industry, so it couldn't really be considered a threshold.

Basically, every Batman was such a person. Their physical coordination and intelligence levels were basically the same. With the same learning progress, everyone mastered the same abilities.

Most Batmen had no opinion on this, because being able to learn magic was already quite good. Although they knew that after returning to their own universe, there was no energy to be found, it was still much better than the previous state of being clueless. Even taking it as a life experience was not bad.

So the situation where Batmen were competing with each other to see who had better grades and crazy internal involution didn't appear. Many Batmen also liked elective courses; even Lucifer's nonsense universe construction, many Batmen listened carefully to gain knowledge.

The Main Universe Batman's faction wasn't panicked either. They originally had an advantage, defeating the conspiracies of the Laughing Batman and Owlman one after another, chasing them all over the universe, which could be said to be suppressing the evil side. Magic power was just icing on the cake.

But for Owlman, the situation now was very troublesome. He couldn't beat the other party in a head-on fight, and his conspiracies would be seen through. His teammates weren't giving him strength, and his opponents were too strong, so they could only choose to take shortcuts.

Since following the main force to learn ordinary magic couldn't overtake on a curve, dark magic was obviously the best choice. Still the same sentence, many people would feel that as long as I sacrifice morality, I will definitely be able to take a shortcut. Although Owlman's symptoms weren't as severe as the Laughing Batman's, there was a certain tendency for this.

Maybe this was also to blame for his stereotype of magic. Whether in the East or the West, the public's stereotype of the mystical side was about the same, feeling that evil cultivators were faster than righteous people.

Schiller had also asked Strange if this was the case. Strange denied it completely: at least in our universe, there is no such thing as dark magic. Energy is energy, regardless of high or low, noble or cheap. Curses can kill, and using magic to control a sword to pierce the other party directly can also kill. How can one distinguish between the justice and evil of these two means?

And those dark magic classics placed on the bookshelves in the secret room that looked very evil were actually just looking evil and weren't forbidden books that had been sealed. In Kamar-Taj, even small mages could look them up, but few people read them.

Nothing else. In fact, many methods of invoking magical energy that appear evil and bizarre are simply things people have been forced to come up with when magical energy is extremely scarce. It's just like during a famine, when people rack their brains to make strange ingredients taste good. It's not because they enjoy that sort of thing, but because if they don't eat it, there's nothing else to eat.

But now that energy was abundant, there was no need to engage in any tricks. They didn't use magic energy to control swords to kill before, but used curses, purely because curses saved energy. But in fact, the difficulty was much higher than using energy to control swords to kill.

Just those strange dark magics created by the great mages of the past, let alone Strange, even the Ancient One wouldn't use them. It was just some long-lived species left over from ancient times that could barely use them. But most of them had also disappeared in the long river of history.

That is to say, Owlman wanting to learn dark magic now was completely going far away. Leaving the simplest way of utilization unused and making things extremely complicated could be said to be learning backward.

But Schiller thought again, many Batmen in the universe were very short of energy, so were those complex but energy-saving dark magics the most suitable magic types for them?

Schiller thought not. On the contrary, teaching them this kind of dark magic was harming them.

A person was already about to starve to death, then no matter what method he thought of, he would find food. Whether it was picking up trash or begging, at least he couldn't let himself starve to death. But if he was on the verge of starving to death, a steamed bun would definitely fall from the sky, allowing him to barely maintain not starving to death. Then he might really live on this small piece of steamed bun and wouldn't think of ways to find food again.

It was the same in terms of magic energy. Basically, every Batman in the universe was about to starve to death. Before, they hadn't experienced what it felt like to be full, so Batman might not have had such a big obsession. But coming to this universe and experiencing the power and convenience of magic, Batman absolutely couldn't endure the hunger like before.

After returning to his own universe, he would try every means to get energy. Whether it was taking a knife to those mysterious existences, or finding great mages, or simply killing into hell, they would definitely try every means to get energy.

But assuming Owlman learned a method that could barely achieve his goal with very little energy. Would he still try every means to get a lot of energy like other Batmen?

Schiller thought not. Because obviously, Owlman was facing too many problems now. If there was a method that could bring great improvement with very little energy, he would definitely use it first.

But once this method was used, it would create dependence. Or even if he wanted to get a lot of energy later, the speed would be a big chunk slower than other Batmen.

Judging by Batman's efficiency, it was absolutely a day without seeing each other like three autumns. By the time Owlman started to get energy, Batman might have become the Sorcerer Supreme. By then, he would still be suppressed and beaten.

Schiller realized this was a good opportunity to drag Owlman down. This dark magic must be taught, and it must be taught to him, and he must be made to taste the sweetness of taking a shortcut. Only then would he continue to rely on the path, delay his time to get energy, and give more righteous Batmen time to develop.

But Schiller had a headache again. Not to mention that these dark magics themselves were difficult and cumbersome, just the mystical knowledge always didn't enter his brain. Watching for a while made him sleepy, and the hypnotic effect was comparable to learning mathematics.

Since he couldn't do it himself, he would change to a personality trait that could do it. Greed thought of inspiration. The generation process of this personality trait was also very special.

Schiller had always known that his mental state wasn't very good. After studying psychology for a period of time, he understood more clearly how rare his symptoms were. So for a period of time, he suspected that he wasn't a mental patient, but had been cursed.

Simply put, he suspected that his mental state was caused by mystical factors. So he began to study knowledge in the mystical aspect, and thus the personality trait "Inspiration" was born.

In fact, his suspicion at that time was correct. His mental problem wasn't just his own problem, but also the problem that appeared in the soul transcoding process caused by God throwing him into another world with different parameters. To some extent, it could be considered the influence of mysticism.

But unfortunately, that world really didn't have extraordinary power, and God didn't show his face at all. The vast majority of mystical knowledge was made up by ordinary people. Inspiration studied it for a long time, but didn't study the real reason.

However, precisely because of the background of its birth, his way of thinking was indeed more toward the mystical aspect; accurately speaking, thinking about any problem would turn to the mystical direction.

If it was daily life, there might be a little problem, but if it was learning magic, it was a unique advantage.

Now the candidate for learning was there, but where to learn?

Schiller thought for a moment, relying on the books in the school shouldn't work. It was said before that because these things were too deep and obscure, many had disappeared in the long river of history, and the remaining words and phrases didn't form a system. There were too few people who knew them now.

Owlman, as Batman, had a very strong learning ability. If Schiller didn't learn the dark magic knowledge thoroughly first, he estimated that there would be nothing to teach in a few days, and his identity as a senior dark mage would be exposed. This definitely wouldn't work.

So who had profound dark magic knowledge?

Schiller suddenly had a flash of inspiration: would Mephisto know dark magic?

This was really a good question. Mephisto should be the source of dark magic. But just because he was the source, he didn't seem to have any need to know dark magic. You couldn't expect the Lord of Hell to learn how to curse others; he was generally the school of picking up a sword and hacking.

Logically speaking, a devil like Mephisto who liked to confuse humans with appearance and behavior shouldn't be so open and close. But unfortunately, his opponent was the Ancient One. If Mephisto was a spell school, the front swing of raising his hand was enough to take three punches from the Ancient One.

However, Mephisto had lived a long time, although he hadn't seen dinosaurs, he should have seen humans living in trees. He especially loved to run to the human world, chatting with people when he had nothing to do, so his knowledge must be very broad. If one had to say who in this school was most likely to know complete dark magic, it was him.

Thinking of this, Schiller said to Owlman: "Everything has a price. What price do you intend to pay for this?"

Owlman pursed his lips tightly; he knew he didn't have many chips in his hand. He said: "You sneaked into Ilvermorny, I'm afraid you don't want to waste time here, right? I can help you do what you want to do, but you also have to help me."

"You don't have room to negotiate." Schiller said, "Don't forget, you still have to rely on me."

Owlman's hand tightened slightly. He had been tricked before, and now it was indeed difficult to have room for negotiation. He still had to fight for it.

"I won't be threatened by others. If you think you can kill me with a curse, then you try. But if a student just dies in the school like this, the Sorcerer Supreme won't let it go. Do you really think you can stay out of it?"

As expected of Batman, Schiller thought, even like this, he could create cards out of thin air for himself. But what he said was reasonable. The current setting was that the Sorcerer Supreme was the biggest; even if he was a very powerful dark mage, he had to be sneaky. And as a student of the school, Owlman was indeed protected by the Sorcerer Supreme. If something happened to him, it was very likely to interfere with Saphir's plan.

"It's impossible for you to hurt the Sorcerer Supreme with such a curse." Owlman said, "Or this isn't your fundamental goal either. You just want to weaken him. But since you've already failed, why not change the way."

"Why should I listen to you?"

"I'm just showing my sincerity. Instead of weakening the Sorcerer Supreme, it's better to directly transfer him away and let him leave the school for a period of time. You naturally have a lot of room to play." Owlman said confidently.

"You mean, let me cause some trouble outside the school?"

"Isn't this the best way?"

Schiller suddenly sneered and said: "It seems you really don't know much about magic. There is a reduced version of the magical defense network outside Ilvermorny, and any existence passing through this network will be monitored by the Sorcerer Supreme. I can't get out."

"Then how did you get in?"

Schiller didn't speak. Owlman immediately realized that the other party was very likely a faculty member in the school. He must have a formal identity to avoid being noticed by the Sorcerer Supreme.

He looked at Schiller in a black robe, but didn't see any clues. This robe seemed to have been cast with magic, completely unable to see the other party's true face. ===== CHAPTER 3800 =====