After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King-Chapter 296 - 40 The Sage’s Stone is Complete

"Yila!!! Yila, open the door! I finally made it back, Yila you..."

Vera banged on Yila’s door, and as soon as the door swung open, her punch landed right on Yila’s head... Yes, from the outside, Yila indeed looked like a teenager.

He was at the mercy of those eccentric alchemist elder sisters who would hug and squeeze him, shouting, "Hee hee hee~ Yila is small and fragrant~"... So in truth, he wasn’t tall at all.

But this didn’t stop Yila from glaring at Vera with a dangerous look as she awkwardly retracted her hand from his forehead. He said, "Welcome back, what have you been up to? Some experiment?"

Indeed, when Yila, Satan Ye, and Hilena returned, they heard that Vera had gone out to do some experiments, so Vera was absent from yesterday’s morning meeting... and no one specifically asked what Vera was up to.

*How to put it, whether this was good or bad, this kind of trust and nonchalance was what made this the Demon King Territory.*

"Forget about that, don’t you want to know why I came to see you so early, sneaking around?"

Vera said, but although she said she was "sneaking around," her actions were far from inconspicuous, making her stand out even more as she posed suspiciously.

To this, Yila gave her a dead fish stare, rolled his eyes, and shook his head, saying, "Personally, I’m not curious, but if you need me to be curious... then fine, I’ll be curious. What is it that you are up to so early in the morning like a madwoman?"

"Mad... madwoman?"

Vera repeated Yila’s words, clutching her chest as if wounded, feigning shock and stepping back a few steps... but she soon dropped the act, looked around seriously, and said, "Enough playing, I really have some significant research results."

"..."

Seeing Vera’s serious demeanor, Yila gazed at her for a moment, then pulled her into the room and closed the door, saying, "Well, if you mess around again, I’ll hit you."

Initially, Vera intended to act all frightened by Yila’s threats, but her demeanor became serious all of a sudden... whether she feared a beating was another matter, the main point was that what she was about to discuss really was important.

"Here..."

Vera said, pulling out two bottles of potions from her voluminous Mage Robe. She said, "This is my second research result—Anger Potion 7.0 and Anger Suppressant 7.2. Want to try them?"

The Anger Potion 7.0, held in Vera’s left hand, was a fiery red potion, while the Anger Suppressant 7.2, apparently, was the light blue, semi-transparent potion in her right hand.

Yila glanced at her briefly and asked simply, "Thank you for the gesture, but it’s really unnecessary... Besides, how is this different from the red potion you had in your lab before?"

Indeed, Yila knew that Vera did this for his future battles against "Outliers"... but the problem was, Vera seemed not to understand—*"Mutation" doesn’t enhance combat power!*

*Getting angry might from a subjective point make people more aggressive, but... entering a rage state truly doesn’t give the Governor significant combat power boost.*

*Even if it appears that the world spell marks on his neck turned all red, his eyes went red, seemingly tripling his strength and speed, like opening Traxs-Am.*

*But really... no combat power increase.*

"Of course, the current 7.0 version may be the final form of the Anger Potion... it’s an ultra-dangerous potion; just a whiff of it can almost make someone blow their top."

Vera cautiously said, pointing to the white potion in her right hand, "Without using the antidote, the person would essentially go mad with destructive desire, super terrifying... this would surely increase your chances against the Outliers."

In Vera’s vision, it seemed that if the Governor got angrier in the "Mutation" state, the more terrifying his combat power would become... this explanation needed some work.

*Although it sounded like a technical breakthrough.*

"You know, Vera..."

Yila patted Vera’s shoulder helplessly, and though he was reluctant, he said, "Actually, whether ’Mutated’ or not, it doesn’t affect the Governor’s combat power."

Vera: "..."

Vera: "Huh?!"

Seeing the shocked look on Vera’s face, Yila organized his thoughts and said, "To put it simply, although ’Mutation’ may sound like ’Awakening,’ it’s more akin to ’Losing Control.’"

Vera: "???"

"..."

"So I wasted my effort, huh? I thought you’d get stronger the angrier you got?!!!"

Vera said, stunned, clutching her head in disbelief. Her world view collapsing look was surprisingly cute, making Yila chuckle helplessly as he ruffled her head through her Wizard Hat.

*Well, that was some consolation at least.*

"But it’s okay, at worst, it can absorb my Mana, and what’s coming next is the main event."

Vera quickly adjusted her mindset and said this... once more reaching into her Mage Robe, she began pulling out something from its inner pocket.

"..."

For some reason, Yila genuinely felt she was about to pull out something incredible... maybe it was just an illusion, after all, this was just Vera.

As Yila thought this, Vera pulled out a fingernail-sized, blood-red, multi-hued crystal and displayed it before Yila... it sounded paradoxical, but actually wasn’t.

The completely blood-red crystal, under the light’s refraction, sparkled with countless mixed colors of light, even overshadowing the red itself. And this thing... had such distinctive traits.

"The Sage’s Stone?"

Yila couldn’t help saying.

"Yes, that’s right... look."

Vera nodded, smiling as she held the small stone in her right hand, placing her left hand on Yila’s desk. Without chanting, the wooden desk sprouted new shoots.

"This is the miracle of the cypress, which can revive the dead, reunite friends, create magnificent castles, or ensure favorable weather conditions... So rest assured, the souls I collected from the battlefield, though slightly dangerous."

Hearing this put Yila at ease, as she really hadn’t massacred an entire civilian town to create the Sage’s Stone. Lazily, she popped the stone into Yila’s hands and said, "Wear it or swallow it, your choice... it can revive you once."

"..."

"..."

"For me?"

Yila asked in confusion, looking at this piece of alchemical perfection in his hand, then to Vera, already comfortably lying on his bed... Logically, Vera should fear death the most, thus she painstakingly crafted the Sage’s Stone, right?

*Why give it to me then?*

"Mmhmm~ touched, aren’t you? If you’re really touched, how about sleeping with me?"

Vera said casually with her eyes closed... then when she felt Yila actually sitting on the bed, she squeezed her eyes shut tighter nervously, but didn’t jump up to say anything.

If it were the old her, she might have said something like, "Ah! I was kidding!" but now... she didn’t want to say that.

"..."

"..."

After waiting for a long time, not sensing Yila doing anything or getting the usual playful thumps on her head, Vera curiously opened her eyes and started to ask, "Yi-..."

Then, Yila immediately stuffed something into Vera’s mouth.

"Mmm mmm mmm!!!!"

Followed by water being poured down her throat, and being forced to swallow it...

"..."

"I don’t need this, but thank you... Vera."

Looking at Yila who said this, Vera touched her stomach and confirmed it was indeed the precious Sage’s Stone Yila forced her to swallow. She opened her mouth but came to realize something, then smiled and lay belly-down on Yila’s bed.

"Do as you please... I’m exhausted, borrowing your bed for a nap, help yourself~"

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