Chapter: Chapter 379
“Why do I feel like you’re up to some conspiracy?”
“Conspiracy? Look at my face, do I look like someone who plots conspiracies?”
“Yes, very much so, when you say things like that, you’re definitely up to something.”
“I think when you say things like that, your head is itchy. Come, come, let me give you a buff.”
Another day of calm passed. Leticia and Bai Ling sat in the sun-drenched living room, each doing their own thing. Miss Bai was watching a TV drama that Leticia found devoid of any substance, while Leticia was holding several test tubes and performing operations that Bai Ling couldn’t understand.
Leticia roughly mixed the colorful liquids together, and an uninformed observer might have thought she was cooking up some devilish dish.
Looking at the strange, bubbling solution, Bai Ling worried that the seemingly dangerous potion might explode if mishandled.
After all, that’s how it always happened in novels and TV shows; slight mistakes in alchemy operations would lead to explosions.
“Shouldn’t you be more careful? Sofas and tables cost money, you know,” Miss Bai cautiously offered her thoughts.
“Worrying about nothing,” Leticia snorted. She wasn’t doing anything dangerous; she was just mixing prepared potions. What could possibly go wrong?
These potions were stable; no matter how she messed with them, nothing would happen!
Probably.
“Something’s wrong, this isn’t how it should turn out.” As the bubbles in the test tube increased, Leticia grew uncertain. Theoretically, after mixing these potions, they should have turned the same seven colors as before, but why had the potion turned pitch black now?
And why was the temperature of the potion getting higher and higher?
Wait, higher and higher?
Oh no, it’s going to explode!
She quickly threw the test tube away and cast three shield spells towards the test tube in mid-air. Leticia sighed as the potion exploded like a firework, enveloped by the shields.
Bai Ling, on the other hand, wore an “as expected” expression. She had felt that Leticia’s potion was going to explode this time, and sure enough, it did.
“So, what exactly were you trying to create?”
“A potent hypnotic agent. The potion I made before required a whole syringe to put someone into a hypnotic state. Now I’m trying to improve it to use a spray to induce hypnosis.” Leticia picked up a small spray bottle from the table and sprayed twice towards Bai Ling.
A misty white spray shot out from the nozzle, moistening Bai Ling’s face slightly.
Unhappily pulling out a tissue to wipe her face, Bai Ling felt that Leticia’s idea was somewhat impractical. “These two sprays, if it were a stunner, it would be enough to take someone down, but for hypnosis, I don’t think it’s going to work.”
It was easy to knock someone out, but inducing a hypnotic state was much more troublesome.
It was already unscientific enough for Leticia to be able to hypnotize someone with a syringe full of potion, and now she wanted to hypnotize others with just two sprays from a spray bottle? That was very difficult.
“That’s why I’m improving it. First, I need to figure out the dosage,” Leticia shrugged and took out a few more tubes of raw materials from a large bag beside her. She had dedicated most of her time in the past few days to improving the potion.
Besides spending about half her time making berserk potions, healing potions, and other things to maintain the household, she had spent the rest of her time searching for ways to improve the potions.
Unfortunately, the results were not very satisfactory. While explosions only occurred once, many of the previous attempts had directly produced defective products, the kind that could kill if consumed.
Then, Leticia, with no conscience, had labeled the defective products as “poison” and given them away, even labeling them as “untreatable, deadly upon contact.”
She was just being honest, wasn’t she? If someone truly drank one of those potions, they would definitely see a Death Miss with thigh-high black stockings beckoning them from the other side of the River Styx.
Ordinary people might be tempted by her beauty and follow her, while more powerful individuals might be able to kick Death and run back.
As for the most powerful, they might even beat up Death and carry her home?
Cough, cough, getting carried away, getting carried away. The lethality of the defective potions depended on the user’s strength. For example, if Bai Ling drank one of these potions, she would probably just have a stomachache for a while.
As for ordinary people, they would probably die in agonizing pain.
It was indeed an untreatable poison, deadly upon contact, as even the creator had not intended to create an antidote.
These poisons were accidents; why create a corresponding antidote for an accident?
And what if someone accidentally took it?
Alchemists who could accidentally drink defective potions had no right to continue living in this world. If they made a defective product, not only did they not destroy it immediately, but they also put it in their mouths. Such people would die in their potions, if not in other ways.
“I’ll use less material this time. I don’t believe it, I, a Demon King, can get stuck here,” Leticia rolled up her sleeves and continued her skilled work.
Miss Bai let out a sigh. In the past few days, she hadn’t had any time to snuggle with Leticia. Earlier, Leticia would go out to the workshop she rented as soon as she woke up to make potions. Today, she finally managed to get her to stop and spend a day with her, but she was still thinking about making potions.
Were these potions more attractive than her, this soft and fragrant girl?
Bai Ling was not convinced.
Fifteen minutes later, watching the test tube spewing multicolored flames, Miss Bai patted Leticia’s shoulder. “How about taking a break?”
It had to be said that judging by the appearance alone, the fireworks were quite beautiful. However, beneath that beauty lay extremely fierce destructive power. If not for Leticia’s shields blocking the splashed hot liquid, the living room floor would probably be pitted and unsightly by now.
“Alright, give me a break. How many times has this happened? It must be a problem with the ratio. Shouldn’t it be compressed more?” Leticia vaguely gestured at the still-flaming test tube, cleanly disposing of the test tube and its contents with magical flames.
Compared to true magic, the potion in this test tube was still a bit weaker.
Leaning her head onto Miss Bai’s shoulder with a dejected expression, Leticia felt like a failure. She couldn’t even make a simple potion, so she couldn’t be a Demon King!
It was too embarrassing.
“The sixth time? The previous times didn’t have such violent reactions, only the last few were a bit wild,” Bai Ling recalled and gave a number.
“Because I added too much material in the later attempts.”
Leticia recalled her previous process and realized that in the later attempts, she had directly used the highest concentration of potions for mixing. It was highly likely that the problem was caused by the overly high concentration.
But to achieve that effect of taking someone down with just two sprays, the concentration couldn’t be too low, otherwise, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if two sprays had no effect at all?
For example, with the concentration Leticia used before, it took a whole syringe to incapacitate an ordinary person. If that concentration were turned into a mist, it would truly be just mist; even more than a hundred sprays might not be enough to knock someone down.
After all, one was injection, and the other was inhalation; the absorption efficiency was worlds apart.
“It’s hard. I wish I was in the Demon Realm right now,” Leticia sighed. If she were in the Demon Realm, there would be no need for her to do it herself; she could just have her alchemists try it again and again.
A group of people’s brains would surely be better than hers alone. Her talent in magic was very, very strong, but in other aspects, she was only on the verge of being a genius, incomparable to those true prodigies.
Those geniuses could create potions at a higher level, while Leticia could only meticulously follow her own level to make potions. Didn’t that show the gap?
However, Leticia didn’t feel any jealousy. She couldn’t be a perfect being; no one in the world was perfect. No matter how skilled those alchemy geniuses were, wouldn’t they eventually have to work for her, Leticia?
I, Leticia, am the dignified Demon King. Don’t you so-called geniuses have to serve me?
“What, you didn’t want to go back for so many years, but now you want to go back every day?” Bai Ling stroked Leticia’s hair, her lips curving slightly upwards.
After all, Leticia had been holed up in the human world for years without moving. Looking at her then, she was absolutely content and unwilling to leave. But now, for some reason, this Demon Queen seemed to be possessed by the Prime Minister, suddenly having new motivation.
“My mentality collapsed back then, but it’s much better now, isn’t it?” Leticia snorted lightly, indicating that she wasn’t a fool. The status of Demon King was hers for the taking.
Even if she didn’t want the empty title, the wealth accumulated by the Demon race over millions of years was something Leticia couldn’t refuse. If that wealth were converted, it would be much more substantial than Bai Ling’s tiny treasury.
“My little treasury, thinking that I can’t reach that money now makes my heart ache,” Leticia clutched her open, honest chest, looking distressed. “Damn it, why was I so frugal before? I should have built more palaces and changed one every month. That would have been life.”
“You are definitely a foolish ruler, aren’t you?” Building palaces was a true waste of resources and manpower in ancient human history. Bai Ling felt it was necessary to correct Leticia’s thinking.
But Leticia expressed that she shouldn’t use human affairs to restrict demons. Could these two races be compared? Could humans cast magic or fly?
Building palaces for demons was not as troublesome as for humans. A team of higher-level mages could completely build a luxurious palace of the Demon King’s Palace level within a month, but internal decorations would have to be figured out on their own.
Those things couldn’t be created out of thin air.
“Besides, if I were a foolish ruler, I would have at least a three-digit harem, and I could flip a card a day for three to four months without repetition,” Leticia muttered softly, counting on her fingers. “The girls of the demon race are also quite beautiful, but sometimes they are quite wild.”
“You know them well?” The hand resting on Leticia’s shoulder tightened.
“I’m the Demon King, how could I not know? I’ve read those kinds of books before,” Leticia stated that she wasn’t some pure little princess who knew nothing. “Speaking of which, I remember there’s a way to reproduce same-sex offspring in the Great Library. After I saw that, I decided that I would be with girls in the future.”
“I remember we humans have similar methods…”
“Your technology isn’t good enough. Ours has been tested and proven reliable,” Leticia immediately asserted that the demon race’s methods were more complete, as demons lacked humanity and did not have the same restrictions on experiments as humans.
The ancient great mage who found this method did so to leave behind the crystallization of love with her same-sex partner. During this process, it seemed that nearly ten thousand innocent demon girls were rendered useless. Finally, this mage was besieged on a small mountain by the Demon King and his army at the time. After failing to resist, she committed suicide.
As for the mage’s lover, for some unknown reason, she was kept by that Demon King and later seemed to have found a new demon and lived a happy life.
It was just that her child, no matter how you looked at it, resembled a combination of her and that mage.
At that time, the mage’s research was nearing its final stages. The Demon King, after receiving the previous research materials, perfected the magic on her own. Then, this Demon King felt that this thing was of no great use and casually placed it in the Great Library.
If Leticia hadn’t been bored and liked to frequent the library back then, she might not have found this dust-covered magical technique.
Yes, although Leticia was now a decadent shut-in, she was once a frail little princess!
“But why are we discussing this?” Leticia realized. Why was she discussing this with Bai Ling?
“Is there no possibility that you want to have children with me?” Miss Bai tilted her head, revealing a tantalizing smile. “How about you try that magic? What’s the success rate?”
“Get lost! I knew you were lusting after me!” Leticia spanked Bai Ling’s thigh and righteously declared that she absolutely had no such intention. No matter what, it was still too early to discuss children.
The Empire… the God Seat is eternal, why bother with family!
As for why the God Seat needed to be destroyed? Well, Leticia could only find this organization with a villainous aura.
Only you seem like villains, so you’ll take the blame for now. If I find other scapegoats later, I’ll replace you.
“What do you think our future children should be named, should they take the surname Bai or Infenor?”
“Don’t think so far ahead! Do you have anything else in your head?” Leticia was shocked. This person was already thinking about what to name her child? “Also, of course, they should take the surname Infenor!”
