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Of course, this low-end version of the panacea is much less effective. In the game's description, it roughly restores about 80% of maximum health and removes various negative status effects below a certain level. It doesn't restore mana, doesn't provide any subsequent continuous buffs, and can't remove a few higher-level or less common negative status effects.

Even so, this potion far surpasses all other healing potions currently on the market, enough to make a new pharmaceutical company an industry giant.

Amelie intended to use this formula as her trump card against Slater Pharmaceuticals. Whether she used it to entice Slater to cooperate or founded her own pharmaceutical company to seize Slater's market share, the choice was entirely in Amelie's hands.

This recipe has another huge advantage: the essential ingredient, holy water, can only be made by Emerald. Even if the recipe is leaked, she is not afraid, let alone reverse engineer it.

On the other hand, after nearly half a month of hard work, Xia Sha also used the rare deep-sea materials that Machira had offered as a bounty to build the Dark Abyss Altar.

For Shasha, who once served as a high priestess, the altar was her core structure. Shasha with an altar and Shasha without an altar were completely different in strength.

Of course, even with the altar, Shasha was still no match for Machira. She had her altar destroyed along with the altar before, and she would have been killed if Yulia hadn't picked it up.

Upon receiving the news, Emerald immediately went to find Xia Sha, intending to establish a link with Abyss through Xia Sha to improve herself and slightly alleviate her two incurable diseases: fear of insufficient firepower and anxiety about intensity.

Xia Sha certainly wouldn't refuse; in fact, she was quite happy about it.

For Amelie, asking her to experience the Abyss was like a girlfriend bringing a precious gift to visit her mother; of course, she would do everything in her power to help.

As the first person among the merfolk to embrace the Abyss and the leader of the Abyss believers who has already drawn many of her kind into the Abyss faith, Xia Sha is already very experienced in leading people to experience the Abyss.

Using Xia Sha as a bridge, Ameliete and the Dark Abyss were linked.

Based on the original game's concept of the Dark Abyss and her own feelings about the power of the Dark Abyss, Emery had long had a guess about what the Dark Abyss was.

Now that Emerald has finally entered the Dark Abyss with a portion of her consciousness, her guess has been immediately verified.

Just as she thought, the Dark Abyss was indeed closely related to necromancy, and could even be said to be a product of necromancy.

Among the many forms of necromancy, there is one such spell.

It is only an intermediate-level spell, which can be mastered by a formal mage. It is also a spell that all necromancers must learn, but it is not easy to learn and not every necromancer can master it.

This magic is called "Undead Space," which is the dark purple rift that appears behind Amelie and the old lich every time they summon undead.

The Necromancer's Space spell doesn't require high levels of magic power or reserves, so when it was first created by the elves, it was only classified as an intermediate spell.

However, this magic requires a high level of theoretical knowledge and a certain amount of talent, much like the mathematics that Amelie needed in her previous life. Those who cannot learn it simply cannot learn it. Many people who originally liked necromancy switched to other spells because they could not learn the Necromancer's Space.

Of course, neither Emery nor the old lich had any such worries. This magic was as simple as a basic skill for them, and they learned it with ease.

Just like a genius on Earth in Amelie's previous life once said—even if someone is stupid, can't they learn calculus?

Amelie and the old lich actually shared similar views—even if a necromancer is a weakling, surely he has a necromancer space?

Actually, that's not the case. Most necromancers don't have their own undead space before becoming archmages. When summoning undead, they can only use whatever they can find or carry some zombies, skeletons, and ghosts with them as servants.

Although the spell "Undead Space" has the word "space" in its name, it actually has nothing to do with spatial magic. There is no other space behind that dark purple crack, and it is completely different from storage space.

In Amelie's understanding, the undead space is actually somewhat like a data server.

The principle behind this magic is to compress an undead into a necromantic mark in pure data form and store it in the necromancer's consciousness space, just like game character information in a game server.

When a necromancer needs a particular undead to appear in battle, he extracts the undead's data, also known as its necromantic mark, and then consumes magic to materialize it for his own use in the fight.

This is precisely why the undead of necromancers are so difficult to completely destroy. As long as there is the mark of the undead and the magic power of the necromancer, they can be reborn infinitely, and being reduced to dust is useless.

At the same time, this is also why necromancers find it difficult to control undead creatures stronger than themselves, because no spellcaster's magic can create a creature stronger than themselves... Even if a necromancer can forcibly control undead stronger than themselves through certain means, the strength that undead can exert generally cannot exceed that of the necromancer himself.

In conclusion, the Necromancer's Realm is a very important spell for necromancers, and any powerful necromancer must master it.

Amelite had previously speculated that the Dark Abyss that transformed Shasha and her mermaids was likely a necromancer's space left behind by a powerful necromancer. However, the necromancer had perished or left this world for some reason, leaving the Dark Abyss unclaimed, which is why Shasha and her followers were able to maintain their free will.

However, Amelie had only speculated before, because normally the necromantic space would disappear after the necromancer died, and even if the necromancer wanted to leave this world, he shouldn't have left his necromantic space behind.

It wasn't until Xia Sha linked a part of her consciousness with the Dark Abyss that Amelie was certain her previous guess was correct.

The Abyss Dark Space is the undead space of a powerful necromancer, and that necromancer is definitely stronger than the old lich, at least on the same level as the divine tree of Shangying Kingdom, and possibly even comparable to the Dao Ancestor and the Elf Queen.

However, this necromancer has already perished, and has been gone for a very, very long time, conservatively estimated to be over ten thousand years ago, when there was no human civilization at all.

Therefore, Ameliete speculated that the original owner of the Dark Abyss was likely a powerful elf or a powerful sea creature.

Although these two races are not as powerful as humans now, they are indeed ancient, having had civilizations and kingdoms as early as ten thousand years ago.

The sea creatures are more likely to be among them, since Xia Sha sensed the Abyss Space in the deepest part of the ocean.

It was precisely for this reason that Emerald refrained from taking possession of the Dark Abyss Space, even though this powerful undead space was already ownerless.

Who knows if that fallen necromancer might have some hidden tricks up his sleeve?

Xia Sha was able to easily embrace the Abyss and maintain her free will, most likely because she was a member of the same clan as that powerful necromancer, or even a descendant, and possessed a formal right of inheritance, so she was fine.

However, it's hard to say whether a human necromancer would face a strong backlash if he tried to seize ownership of the Dark Abyss. At least, given Amelie's caution, she wouldn't do that.

Anyway... now that Xia Sha is also Emeryte's person, Emeryte can gradually gain a deeper understanding of the Dark Abyss through Xia Sha, and from the Dark Abyss, she can glimpse the secrets of the powerful necromancers of ancient times, deepen her understanding of death, and improve her own necromancy skills.

At least this first connection with the Dark Abyss was very rewarding for Emily.

Besides confirming that the Dark Abyss is a kind of undead space, Amelie also gained a new understanding of the path to death.

Chapter 289 Insights and Cultivation

Amelie learned necromancy from the old lich Granny Ya since childhood, and has always followed the same path as the old lich.

She had previously thought that necromancy only had this one path, and that other forms of necromancy, even if different, would lead to the same end.

It wasn't until she connected with the Abyss, explored it, and, through Xia Sha's introduction, communicated with the souls within it that Amelie discovered it wasn't like that at all.

Death and death are not the same.

It is not that multiple paths lead to the same destination and converge into one, but rather that a main trunk can have multiple branches extending infinitely, ultimately reaching infinite possibilities.

Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die.

Amelie was indeed the old lich's only student, but if she followed the old lich's old path completely, it would be difficult for her to make any significant progress in necromancy.

Because there's already an old lich on this path, unless the old lich dies, Amelie's current level is pretty much the limit for this path.

If Amelie doesn't intend to betray her master and kill the old lich, she must find her own path to further improve her necromancy skills.

After realizing that the concept of "path" or "path of enlightenment" as understood by Eastern practitioners truly existed, Amelie quickly figured out, through recollection and experience, what path the old lich and the master of the Abyss were taking.

The old lich's path is a cycle of death and life, an insight she gained after being hunted by the divine tree and forced to hide inside a fish's belly, only to be reborn from the brink of death.

Therefore, the old lich's unique necromancy is actually a composite magic of death and life. The essence of flesh and bone modification is to use the body of the dead to create new life.

The old lich simply didn't want to; if she wanted, she could easily create undead that were almost indistinguishable from the living, just like Amelie. Amelie was able to do this because she had learned the old lich's necromancy, something that ordinary necromancy could never achieve.

The path to death for the master of the Abyss Dark Space is one of tranquility and acceptance.

The warmth and peace that Xia Sha and the other believers in the Abyss felt when they embraced the Abyss was the all-encompassing nature of death.

They actually died when they embraced the Abyss, and it was a willing suicide, but the power of the Abyss granted them immortality in a certain way after their death.

Essentially, Shasha and her followers are undead with free will, and their ritual of embracing the darkness is a ritual similar to lich transformation, but more advanced, and not limited to necromancers; any life form can be transformed.

Amelie guessed that the master of the Abyss Space was able to embark on this path, which was likely related to the grandeur of the sea that encompasses all life... That person must have attained enlightenment in the sea, and it is highly likely that he himself was a believer in the sea, just like the mermaids like Machira, which is why he was able to embark on this path of embracing everything through death.

Now that the master of the Abyss Dark Space has fallen, Xia Sha is the first in line to succeed him, and it will be easy for her to return to this path in the future.

With Emerald's methods, it wouldn't be difficult for her to take these things from Shasha. This kind of copying behavior would indeed allow Emerald's strength to increase rapidly, and she might be able to grow to the level of the old lich and the red-clothed one in a short period of time.

But after careful consideration, Amelie resisted the temptation.

The reason is still the same old saying—those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die.

Using the legacy left by predecessors and following the paths already explored by them may indeed lead to significant improvements in the short term, but is this path truly suitable for oneself?

If Ameliete had no memories of her past life and no knowledge of the future, then quickly acquiring the power of the old lich and then acting recklessly wouldn't be out of the question.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs." Amelie knew very well that the old lich was very powerful, but in the face of the crises to come, that power was still not enough; he needed to be even stronger.

Therefore, neither forcibly continuing along the old lich's path nor following the path already paved by the master of the Dark Abyss is the best choice for Ameliete.

She needs to find her own path.

Will Emery be able to find such a path?

In fact, the road has always been under her feet.

Feeling the power within her that she had possessed since before she was born, Emery seemed lost in thought.

Death and life can cycle endlessly together.

Death can be as all-encompassing as the ocean.

Why can't death be sacred?

. . . . .

After experiencing the Abyss Link with Xia Sha for three days in the water, Amelie returned to Locke City to deal with the backlog of work, and then once again became a hands-off manager, focusing on her magical training.

This time, I'm really practicing magic.

Now Amelie has realized which path she should take and has seen the road ahead; the next step is to actually embark on it.

But this is not an easy thing to do; it's not something you can figure out by sitting there and meditating all night.

The path of a magician is more difficult than that of a sorcerer because a magician not only needs to condense magical power to strengthen himself, but also needs to learn a vast amount of knowledge and have insights commensurate with his strength... while a sorcerer only needs to provide magical power to his magical devices.

Therefore, a pure mage generally cannot defeat a mage of the same level, but the cost of training a mage is much lower.

Although Emeryte also followed the path of a mage, reaching the third stage by fusing a part of her body with magic, her magical knowledge was actually no less than that of mages of the same level, at least in necromancy and holy magic.

However, Amelie's knowledge was limited to necromancy and holy magic, which was still quite different from that of orthodox magicians.

After practicing for a few days and feeling that she hadn't gained much, Amelie thought that what she was lacking was magical knowledge.

The old lich's magic tower contained many magical texts, but they were too specialized, mainly focusing on necromancy and dark magic. Amelie had already read most of them, so continuing to read them wouldn't be very rewarding.

So Amelie decided to find a place with a wealth of magical knowledge, and preferably some powerful magicians to consult.

The place with the most magical knowledge in the entire Western continent is undoubtedly the Elven Royal Court. If one could enter the Elven Royal Court's library, that would be the best.

But this is clearly unlikely. Just as the Melson family would never allow an elven noble to visit their magic workshop, the elves would certainly not allow Amelie to enter the royal library.

Therefore, Emerald only has one choice.

She decisively contacted Ark using the communication magic device:

"Hi, Brother Yak, how's your sweet trip with Sister Kerry going? I hope I didn't disturb your good time by contacting you this time? Hehe... Well, I have a small favor to ask you for, Brother Yak."

The benefits of saving Ark's life and doing him a great favor were immediately apparent.

Ark readily agreed to Emerald's request without hesitation and made the necessary arrangements that very day.

Amelie wants to stay at the Lohid Magic Academy for a while. She needs permission to freely enter the academy's library and borrow books. She also wants to meet with some of the most powerful old magicians in the Lohid family and ask them some questions.

The first two things were manageable, but the third thing was difficult even for Yak himself, the eldest grandson, to meet with the old men in the family and get a few words of guidance, let alone outsiders.

However, as the eldest grandson, Ke Yak was highly regarded within the family. After pleading with his grandfather for a long time, he finally made arrangements for Ameliete.

Amelie wasted no time and immediately moved into the Lohid Magic Academy. Every day she either spent her time in the library borrowing various magical books or went to see the hundreds-of-years-old magicians of the Lohid family at the appointed time to ask them questions.

This includes Karent Lohid, and the creator of the alternate-world town.

Lohid Magic Academy truly lives up to its reputation as the most authoritative magic research institution in the Allen Federation. Its library contains a wealth of magical texts, which greatly enriched Amelie's magical knowledge.

Her interactions with those old magicians were incredibly beneficial to Amelie, giving her a more comprehensive and systematic understanding of the "Path" as she perceived it.

It turns out that the old magicians of Lohid had already studied this problem and even had their own theory.

They refer to Amelie's understanding of the "path" as the "conceptual view" of magic, which, like a worldview or philosophy of life, represents a magician's deep understanding of a particular type of magic. It is a question that only arises after a magician has mastered a particular type of magic to its fullest extent.

In the theories of the Lohid magicians, the essence of the "conceptual view" is actually to make a certain type of magic exhibit the attribute changes of another type of magic.

The ultimate goal that Lohid magicians have always pursued is to be able to use one type of magic as all types of magic. Therefore, Flora, who has a similar ability, was once highly valued. Unfortunately, after research, it was found that Flora's ability to do this was entirely due to her talent and could not be replicated. Further research would not be of much significance.

The old lich's concept is life itself, so she can use necromancy and the power of death to do things that only life magic can do. It looks like composite magic, but according to Lothid's theory, it is still necromancy.

The concept of the Dark Abyss's master, Ameliete, was not confirmed because she did not tell the old magicians of Lohid about the Dark Abyss. It was her own trump card, so she could only guess. She still tended to believe that the answer was the Sea's Embrace.

The old Lohid magicians who consulted Amelie were also shocked that she could reach this level at such a young age, and they all asked her how she came to know this.

Amelie didn't mention the Dark Abyss, but she said that she had come across some Eastern cultivation techniques during her travels to the Eastern countries and gained some insights from them.

Then, Amelie combined some theories from the Netherworld Soul Technique with some magical knowledge she had seen in games in her previous life, and rambled on to the old mages, leaving them all dumbfounded.

Karent Lohid even came to Amelie to play many games of chess with him, and they talked about a lot of things during the games, including some top secrets.

For example, Karent Lohid himself, as the strongest member of the Lohid family on the surface, had long been exposed to the concept of "concepts" and already had his own concept of "concepts".

Kalent specializes in ice magic, and his conceptual understanding is stillness.

His magic's ability to freeze everything instantly doesn't rely on the coldness of ice and snow.