Chapter 51. Dekan and Mi’e’s Brainchild

“What do you mean?”

My expression was more serious than ever.

It even surprised Mi’e a little.

Clearly, I wasn't treating Mi’e’s “wild fantasy” as a joke.

Looks like she thinks highly of me.

“Purification magic can only purify negative effects, but it can’t purify beneficial buffs, right?”

Mi’e asked with a smile.

“That is indeed the case.”

I had once thought of using this method to bypass purification, but it yielded no actual results.

Mi’e said, “I’ve constructed a poison magic α that can provide the target with a continuous healing effect, but it will constantly accumulate a toxin in their body that carries a very small beneficial effect.”

“Is there also another poison magic β that, upon encountering the toxin produced by α, will trigger its toxicity, causing the accumulated poison to detonate completely?”

The stacking-poison-and-detonate strategy, I knew it all too well.

However, compared to the traditional stacking poison detonation, Mi’e’s improved poison magic α could prevent the opponent from removing the stacking process through purification.

Finally, detonating it would deal a massive amount of burst damage.

But.

Could this really be called poison?

The process of stacking the poison was too gentle.

A poison that lacked a process of painful torment had already lost the soul of poison magic.

Although Mi’e’s poison magic was a groundbreaking innovation, it wasn’t of much use to me.

What I wanted was never the damage from poison magic.

“Hmph hmph, it’s not that simple.”

Mi’e wagged her index finger, smiling slyly.

“This can’t be considered the ‘unpurifiable poison’ we want. Poison is all about the process of continuously tormenting the enemy.”

She continued.

This made my eyes light up.

As expected, Mi’e was a colleague who had not abandoned the faith of poison magic.

“Please continue.”

I earnestly sought her guidance.

Mi’e asked, “In your understanding, is the poison magic β used to detonate poison damage a single-burst type?”

I replied, “Yes, after all, its function is to detonate toxins, so its characteristics are often swift and decisive.”

“What if poison magic β is also a continuous beneficial buff?”

“!”

Hearing Mi’e’s words, I seemed to understand something in an instant.

I murmured, “Interweave and combine these two beneficial buffs that cannot be identified by【Purification Magic】?”

“Yes! That’s it! They are both beneficial buffs, and they only produce poison when they interact. Purification magic can’t remove these two beneficial buffs either. As long as we control the frequency of their interaction, we can make them continuously produce toxins that torment the enemy!”

“Brilliant, my dear sister.”

I clapped my hands in a daze, unable to suppress my growing expression of joy.

I had completely understood what Mi’e meant.

Two beneficial buffs, on what grounds could purification dispel them?

Even if the toxin produced by their interaction was purified, a new toxin would be generated immediately.

Before the two beneficial buffs ended, the toxin would be in a state of continuous production.

Purification magic only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.

This was a truly unsolvable poison!

“This is the difference between direct current poison and alternating current poison!”

Mi’e had clearly already named this new type of poison magic.

“We are truly the Edison and Tesla of the poison magic world!”

I exclaimed with excitement.

Although the principle was completely dissimilar to direct current and alternating current, there was a hint of a similar ingenuity.

“Edison and Tesla?”

Mi’e asked with some confusion.

“Two deities who control lightning and thunder, legends from my hometown.”

“Oh, oh.”

Mi’e didn’t understand, but she just nodded.

“By the way, have you already developed these two toxins?”

“Of course, but they’re still in their nascent form. To combine them for stable triggering and subsequent level-ups, it would require a Card Maker with a profound understanding of poison magic and superb skills to make it possible.”

Mi’e proudly took out two small scrolls from the cabinet.

“Together, we will definitely succeed in making the card! I have confidence!”

Both of us were beyond excited, and then we began our new experiment with a hint of mania.

...

By the time the two of us finished the experiment, an unknown amount of time had passed.

Mi’e and I had both lost track of time.

We leaned back in their chairs, exhausted.

“Phew, we’ve achieved preliminary success.”

【Alternating Toxin 1.0】

【Category: Spell Card】

【Grade: Blue Precious】

【Rank: 1】

【Effect: Inflicts a continuous dual buff, but will constantly trigger poison damage.】

【Remark: Mi’e & Dekan’s greatest masterpiece, an experimental prototype. Developer’s Diary: We have finally fixed the bug where poison magic could be dispelled by purification magic.】

“But if we get hit by this poison, it seems we can’t use purification to get rid of it either.”

I thought for a moment and noted in my notebook: When producing higher-rank alternating toxins in the future, antidotes for both toxins must be prepared in advance to prevent the experimenters from being poisoned.

“The enemy will either be poisoned until the duration ends, or they can only use special dispel-type magic to remove it.”

Mi’e caressed the smooth surface of the finished card, her face beaming with satisfaction.

【Forced Dispel】 could dispel both beneficial and malicious states all at once, and it was generally used on enemies.

Moreover, its mana consumption was huge, and it had many restrictions.

Very few people would use 【Forced Dispel】 on themselves as a form of purification.

Besides dispelling all of their own buffs, it would also waste extra mana.

But leaving aside whether the enemy even had 【Forced Dispel】, forcing them to use it on themselves was a huge win!

Mi’e: “I’m really a bit tired now. The moment I thought things were over, the feeling of fatigue suddenly rushed in.”

I replied: “That’s right, I’m exhausted too.”

“Then you should hurry up and go to sleep, but you have to take a shower first.”

“?”

I was a little puzzled for a moment, then looked up at the clock.

It was 3 AM.

“If you leave now, the Dormitory Administrator will definitely remember you.”

Mi’e said with a grin.

“Then if I walk out tomorrow morning and bump into someone, wouldn’t that be just as bad?”

I sensed a bit of trouble.

No wonder I had to prepare my own daily necessities at Mi’e’s place.

It seemed like I would be pulling all-nighters here often in the future.

“Let’s leave tomorrow at noon! We’ll both get a good night’s sleep!”

“Shouldn’t your wording be a bit more precise? After all, our actions are already very easy to be misunderstood.”

I had gradually gotten used to Mi’e’s way of speaking.

She wasn’t serious at all when she spoke; she simply liked to tease people from time to time.

Just as the two of us were debating.

Knock knock.

Both of us heard a faint sound from within the laboratory.

The main door of Mi’e’s dorm was being knocked on.

The person was knocking very lightly.

It seemed they didn’t want to wake Mi’e, yet they really wanted to find her.

Mi’e made a “shh” gesture and left me in the storage room.

She walked to the living room and went to open the door.

Iris was standing outside, rubbing her reddened eyes sleepily.

“Mi’e, wuwuwu.”

The moment she saw Mi’e, Iris hugged her as if she had finally seen her savior, sobbing in her arms.

“Iris, what’s wrong?”

Mi’e was surprised at first, then gently stroked Iris’s long golden hair.

“I, I just had a nightmare. I dreamed I was purified by a demon. I’m so scared, wuwuwu…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. There are no demons in the dormitory.”

Iris raised her head, looking rather pitiful:

“Mi’e, can I sleep with you tonight?”

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