Chapter 3800

"I can teach you," Schiller suddenly spoke again. His attitude perfectly displayed the capriciousness of an evil dark mage, "I can see your evil; you and the Sorcerer Supreme will never be on the same path. Being able to create an opponent like you for him is something I am happy to see. However..."

"However what?"

"What do you think dark magic is like?" Schiller chuckled and said, "Is it the same as the pediatric knowledge those childish schools teach you? You think your grades in school are not bad, so you are full of confidence and want to learn dark magic from me? I can only tell you that the uniqueness of dark magic does not lie in evil."

"Then what does it lie in?"

"This is a very great system," Schiller said. Although he himself didn't know what kind of system this was, it didn't hinder him from bragging. He paused and then continued: "It will reveal the truth of this universe to you. This is a power system that even excellent great mages would feel profound and obscure to understand, much more difficult than any magic you learned in school."

"Then what about the Sorcerer Supreme?"

"He won't," Schiller said, "Learning dark magic requires a unique evil talent, and he doesn't have it."

Owlman was obviously interested, he said: "But you said I am evil enough."

"You are just evil enough. I saw some interesting parts in your soul, which is why I would try to teach you. But whether this is enough to support you in understanding this knowledge, I can't make a conclusion."

Owlman didn't feel strange, and he even felt that the profound and obscure dark magic in Schiller's mouth was the real magic. The magic of waving wands taught in school now is simply like playing, completely a scam.

Batman always has the ability to complicate everything, and Owlman is no exception. He would rather feel that things that require unique talent and are very difficult to learn are real magic. Those that don't require talent and are simple, even if they can be used, are definitely not as good as the difficult ones.

"What should I start learning from? I saw some books in your secret room..."

"Then go read the books," Schiller said somewhat disdainfully. He stood up and walked to the window.

"I mean, I think I can learn by reading your notes first," Owlman knew he was angry, so he quickly made up for it and said, "After all, you are the best dark magic master in the world, your notes will definitely benefit me a lot."

"I mean, those books don't form a system, so it's useless even if you read them. However, if you really want to read them, you can flip through them. I have things to do tonight, I'll contact you when I'm done."

After speaking, he waved his sleeve, and Owlman fell down. In fact, it wasn't any magic, it was purely the Gray Mist that knocked him unconscious. Then Schiller used the Gray Mist to send him back to the dormitory.

After sending Owlman back, Schiller went to find Mephisto. Mephisto has been staying at the shooting base recently, Chris found him a new job, which is to be the lecturer for the guide.

Chris let everyone read the guide written by Batman. Batman wrote it well, but not everyone can understand it, especially children, who get sleepy as soon as they see this kind of text.

The one who understood it best among everyone was actually Mephisto. Not to mention that the long-lived species is knowledgeable, Mephisto is indeed very interested in Batman's way of expounding the world.

As a devil, the world in his eyes of course cannot be full of logic, but he is a wise life after all, not complete chaos and confusion. Any thinking creature has order, and Mephisto is exceptionally smart and cunning; he can fully understand human logic, and naturally can appreciate rigorous logical thinking.

Batman's thinking is not only rigorous, but also carries a kind of arrogance and conceit, as if saying "the world must be like this as I understand it." Facts are not necessarily so, but things written with this emotion will have extremely strong incitement. Devils like everything that is inciting, and they won't miss the opportunity to learn from a great orator.

Not to mention, Mephisto himself likes Batman very much, feeling that they are simply perfect candidates for believers. He liked them even more after reading the guide; if it weren't for fear of the Ancient One coming back to beat him, he would have had to taste the saltiness.

And as a diligent devil, he has very professional ethics. He learns whatever the person he is attacking is interested in. Now the big boss Chris, whom he wants to fool most, is interested in this guide, so he must take out 120,000 points of energy to understand it.

So he flipped through the guide over and over again, reading it clearly and thoroughly. The next day, he talked freely with Chris, and even extended many of his own insights on the content written by Batman, making Chris listen in a daze.

When Schiller found him at the shooting base, he was giving a lecture to the crew, just talking about the evolution and branches of mushrooms. Schiller waited for a while, and when class was over, Mephisto still looked like he hadn't had enough.

"It used to be so troublesome for me to fool a believer," Mephisto couldn't help but exclaim, "It was either entrusting dreams or manifesting, I had to take care of the children and elderly in the family getting sick, aunts and uncles having accidents, and even cheese molding and beer turning sour. If they didn't listen, I had to slaughter a cow or sheep in the sheepfold to scare them, and if I didn't watch one, they would run to the church. It's better in modern times, someone even sent me a private message on the software yesterday, asking me to go to the hotel."

Schiller almost spat out a mouthful of coffee. He looked at Mephisto and said: "Then you went?"

"I went. I went to everyone who asked me, turned into the appearance they liked most, and fooled them into a daze. It's a pity that not many finally converted into believers, but it wasn't a loss, at least it increased a lot of fans for my account."

Schiller opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. You can't expect a devil to understand etiquette, righteousness, and shame; isn't this the set of tricks devils use to fool believers?

In the Middle Ages, there was still the Holy See to manage it, but in modern society, everyone is open, and a bit too open, so Mephisto isn't fooling one after another accurately.

Schiller decided to skip this topic. He said: "Do you know dark magic?"

"What?"

"Dark magic, that is, things like curses, do you know them?"

Mephisto's expression became a bit strange. He looked at Schiller and said: "Do you think I should know?"

"I think you've lived so long, even if you haven't eaten pork, you should have seen pigs run. When those great mages use dark magic, you must have seen it, you should know a little bit, right?"

Mephisto's expression became even stranger, as if he had thought of some dark history. He hesitated for a moment and said: "Do you know who the first person to use dark magic was?"

"Who is it?"

"The first Sorcerer Supreme."

"He beat you up?"

"Not every Sorcerer Supreme can beat me up!" Mephisto raised his tone and said, "He was my believer! The dark magic he used was taught to him by me! I am the founder of dark magic!"

"That's not right," Schiller looked at him and said, "You are a devil, the energy you can mobilize is almost infinite, why do you study dark magic?"

"Isn't it for you guys, you stupid humans!" Mephisto finally couldn't hold it back, he said, "I give you energy and you don't know how to use it! If I don't teach you the correct way to use magic, you can blow yourselves into pieces!"

"Uh..." Schiller didn't know how to refute it. Judging from Mephisto's current emotions, what he said might be true, dark magic might really be taught to humans by this old devil.

Mephisto sighed helplessly and said: "I can be considered one of the earliest batches of gods to invest in humans. I saw your potential long ago and knew the special nature of your souls, so I spared no effort to promote for thousands of years that hell is the destination of human souls."

"Unlike the gods who wantonly oppressed and plundered humans in that era, I adopted peaceful trading methods from the beginning. Although it may not be completely honest, it can be considered a transaction, which was already very civilized in that era."

"But humans are a race with great innate defects. I don't know how to describe it to you. The humans with barren magical talent before you released energy within the Nine Realms were already the result of generations of gods tirelessly providing you with energy nourishment. In ancient times, human magical talent was even worse than this."

Schiller was not surprised by this. Humans themselves are a life form completely opposite to magical creatures. At the starting point of evolution, they should have no intuitive way to understand energy and directly use energy, otherwise they wouldn't have drilled wood to make fire.

"The energy I can provide to humans is too powerful for them, and they cannot store and control it well at all. In order to let them use this power, I had to make restrictions, just like the safety of the firearms you use, you must draw specific patterns or chant spells to mobilize power. This is what dark magic looked like at the beginning."

Schiller understood a bit. He had wondered when he watched Strange cast spells before, why he didn't need to chant spells or make movements. Strange told him that magic itself follows the heart, and things happen as one wishes, without so many restrictions.

But this may actually be because he has magical talent, and now he is not short of energy, and even if he follows his heart and makes a mistake, it's not a big problem, at least it won't hurt himself.

But it wouldn't work in ancient times. Mephisto might not be able to pick a few people with magical talent, and if he didn't add restrictions, these people could play themselves to death, so he added so many restrictions to magic.

"Later, the restricted form of magic I invented was carried forward, and humans called it dark magic. This name is not wrong, after all, I am a devil myself. But the reason why this magic can develop is also to blame on you humans yourselves."

"Humans are too greedy. No matter how much energy I give them, it's not enough. If I give them less, they will at most use it to fight, and if I give them more, they will dare to hit the sun when they are drunk. So generally, I won't give them too much energy."

"However, if I give less, it will make me look too stingy, and humans will also scold me for not being generous enough. I already had quite a few competitors in that era, and I didn't want to lower my image in the hearts of humans because of this. So I told them, you need to study energy-saving methods yourself, if you can't study them, it's because you are stupid, don't blame me for giving less."

"Humans racked their brains in this regard, and within a few generations, they studied many energy-saving methods, which is the prototype of dark magic that has been passed down to the present."

"Just a prototype?"

"Yes, it was just a prototype from beginning to end. Because before it could develop more deeply and widely, the Ancient One became the Sorcerer Supreme. Her magical talent was too good, she could eat as much energy as the gods gave her, and her application of energy was natural. The dark mages on Earth were beaten by her, and then they realized that this path was not feasible, and this thing was basically not used by anyone."

"So that's how it is," Schiller said. In fact, he thought in his heart that if there were no Ancient One, if dark magic continued to develop, it would really be possible to develop to the point where ordinary people without any magical talent could use it. Unfortunately, the Ancient One descended like a god and completely blocked this path.

But this is actually a good thing. If it weren't for the fact that the extremely energy-saving dark magic wasn't passed down much, humans wouldn't have ambitiously plundered so much energy. This is the same principle as Schiller wanting to teach Owlman dark magic.