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They had all made preparations in advance. Before the downpour, they secreted a special mucus through their skin, which could effectively prevent the rainwater mixed with the magic potion from entering their bodies... The magic potion was effective against the squid spirit's blood, and since it could not enter their bodies, it would not be effective.

Of course, these squid demons already had new magical potions inside them, and Amelie only needed a thought to make them reveal their true forms. But Amelie was counting on them to report back and mislead the squid demon leadership, so naturally she wouldn't let them expose their identities now.

Not only that, after confirming that there were no lurking squid monsters at the scene after the rainstorm, Emerald personally snapped her fingers, and everyone's soaked clothes were restored to dryness in the warm holy light, and were clean and crisp, without any stains or wrinkles.

The press conference was quite successful so far. It is foreseeable that detailed information about the Squid Man will soon spread throughout the Federation, and when the public is excited, they can finally take action.

As for the fact that the squid spirit had a way to counteract the original version of the potion, Emerald was not surprised at all.

Because in the original game, the Squid Demon's identity would be exposed, but it was really just an accident. Before that, the Allen Federation had indeed failed to discover the Squid Demon's infiltration.

The Ise Group's main business, to put it nicely, is investing in entrepreneurs; to put it bluntly, it's lending money at exorbitant interest rates, and it has used this method to plunder the hard work of many entrepreneurs.

In the original game, there was an entrepreneur whose hard work was stolen. He happened to meet Yulia, who already had the reputation of being a hero in the Allen Federation at that time, and told Yulia about his tragic experience.

As for Yulia... well, after hearing that someone had been bullied, she naturally wanted to help the victim get justice immediately, so she directly contacted an investment division of the Ise Retsu Group.

The investment manager in charge of the entrepreneur's business happened to be a female squid spirit. After being defeated by Yulia, she was then given a "thought-correcting punch" by Yulia.

The intense stimulation of the Thought Correction Fist completely destroyed the female squid spirit's thinking, even bringing her body to an unprecedentedly relaxed state, unexpectedly revealing her true form.

In the original game, Xia Sha had already joined the main character team. While the others didn't know what the squid spirit was, Xia Sha recognized it at a glance.

What happened next was quite simple. Xia Sha explained the dangers of the squid spirit to the main characters and also provided them with a magic potion that could make the squid spirit reveal its true form.

Players control the main characters, like clearing dungeons one by one, destroying the branches of the Ise Reizai Group one by one, forcibly feeding the disguised squid spirits magic potions, and then executing them as monsters after they reveal their true forms.

Unlike Emerald in this world, Yulia in the original game did not borrow a lot of money from the Ise Regiment Group. Even if she wiped out the entire Ise Regiment Group, she could simply say it was a personal grudge and it would not cause a serious financial crisis.

However, the same situation exists in the original game, where many large families also owe the Ise Retsu Zaibatsu a large sum of money. Naturally, they don't want to miss the opportunity to avoid paying back the money.

In addition, Yulia had saved the Federation many times and made a great name for herself, so people were willing to believe her.

So the major conglomerates conspired briefly and secretly supported the protagonist's group, basically wiping out all the squid demons in the Federation... Anyway, it's only natural for heroes to fight monsters, and no one will say anything.

Chapter 324 Prelude to the Extinction War

As Machira's remarks at the press conference spread throughout the Federation, the image of the Squid Man as a cunning and despicable monster gradually took hold in people's minds.

Although the Allen Federation does not yet have the internet, the ability of some non-mainstream tabloids to embellish their reports is no less than that of internet gossip.

The things the squid people did to the mermaids and fishmen were exaggerated and widely circulated through artistic means, which resonated with many people. This led many people who had never heard of the squid people before to call for their destruction and wish they could all be resurrected and tortured to death again.

At the same time, many people are very worried about the squid people lurking in the Federation, fearing that they will pollute their bloodline and turn their offspring into squid people as well... As a result, many couples who were planning to get married or have children have postponed their plans.

In this situation, finding all the spies lurking within the federal government as soon as possible naturally became a top priority for the federal government.

The newly appointed president, Gaif, had long been controlled by Rei's magic and turned into a puppet, while Ameliete inherited all of Rei's legacy and was now the true mastermind behind the federal government. Of course, the federal government would unconditionally cooperate with her script.

So the federal government first released some official records of the squid people from the sea creatures obtained from Machira, further confirming that the squid people were dangerous and despicable monsters.

Only then did the federal government take action. They requisitioned the production lines of several large pharmaceutical companies to produce the magic potion that Machira had given to the federal government, intending to use the potion to induce magical rain to identify the squid people hiding among humans.

This method has also been recognized by the vast majority of federal citizens. Many people have expressed their willingness to cooperate with the federal government's magical rain and have called on everyone to take a selfie in the rain to prove their innocence. Anyone who is afraid to get wet in the rain is a squid!

The squid spirits of the Ise Retsu Foundation certainly took this matter very seriously, but they weren't overly worried or panicked.

Those squid spirits who attended Machira's press conference have already reported back that the potion formula Machira used is still the same one from a thousand years ago, without any improvements.

The squid spirits aren't stupid; they learn from their mistakes. They were nearly wiped out by the mermaids and fishmen using this kind of potion, so they naturally had ways to counter it. The on-site attempts by those squid spirit reporters proved that this method was very successful.

However, just to be on the safe side, the squid spirit still took some action.

. . . . .

The largest pharmaceutical company in the Allen Federation is, of course, Slat Pharmaceuticals.

Although Slater Pharmaceuticals has been declining for over a century, a starving elephant is still far more valuable than a cat or dog. It remains the largest pharmaceutical giant in the Federation, with drug production lines established throughout the country.

A large portion of the pharmaceutical production lines that the federal government leased for the production of magic potions belonged to Slat Pharmaceuticals.

As one of the Federation's top financial groups, Slat Pharmaceuticals, like other major families, has always had business dealings with the Ise Group and has used a lot of the Ise Group's funds.

This inevitably led to the infiltration of Slat Pharmaceuticals by the Ise Group, with several middle-level managers and even more lower-level managers being effectively controlled by the Ise Group due to economic issues.

On the second night after the mass production of the [Potion for Squid People] began, several shadowy figures quietly infiltrated one of Slat Pharmaceuticals' many factories.

As production lines for pharmaceutical giants, these factories are naturally heavily guarded, equipped with mage squads patrolling 24 hours a day, and also have emergency rescue equipment. In the event of an accident, a powerful mage at the Fusion stage will be dispatched within half an hour at the latest.

However, no matter how strict the defense measures are, they will become useless when there is an internal traitor.

A mid-level manager at Slat Pharmaceuticals, who was in charge of the production line, had been secretly controlled by the Ise Group for many years due to a honey trap, and now plays a key role.

He first disabled the factory's security system, allowing intruders to easily enter the factory without worrying about triggering alarms or magical traps. He also revealed the patrol routes of the mage squads in advance, allowing the intruders to avoid the stronger mage squads and only need to deal with a few ordinary guards.

So, the infiltrators easily entered the central area of ​​the factory, obtained the potion formula and samples that were being produced, and then silently withdrew.

The same thing happened on several other potion production lines.

The squid spirits of the Ise Rei Foundation were very cautious. They sent out multiple teams to steal the potions that the Allen Federation was mass-producing for comparative testing to see if there were any differences.

As it turned out, they seemed to have worried too much. The federal government hadn't played any tricks; all the production lines were producing the same potion, the original version from a thousand years ago, and the squid spirits were no longer afraid of this version.

"Hmph, foolish mermaids and fish-men, still so disdainful of technological research! It serves them right that they are the first intelligent beings in the world to establish nations and civilizations, yet they have become the weakest of all nations."

At a meeting of the core members of the Ise Regiment Foundation, the old squid spirit Yog Soth, who currently serves as both the foundation's leader and the leader of the tribe, expressed disdain for the merfolk and fish-men.

The other squid spirits also expressed their agreement, mocking the foolishness of humans and sea creatures, believing that this nationwide magical rain was destined to fail.

"But we can't be careless."

After the initial mockery, Yog Soth thought about it seriously for a moment, and then said solemnly:

"After all, we still don't know why those two clansmen were suddenly exposed. We can't rule out the possibility that a very powerful enemy is secretly targeting us. We can temporarily ignore the magical rain that the federal government is about to start, but that plan must be accelerated... Only with sufficient strength can we rebuild our own kingdom, instead of living under someone else's roof!"

"Yes, Chief!"

The other old squid spirits all agreed.

After confirming that the magic potions being mass-produced by the federal government would not pose a threat to them, the Ise Rei Foundation quickly issued a public statement expressing its support for the plan to use magical rain to find the squid monsters, and even donated a sum of money to the federal government.

Of course, this money wasn't wasted. The squid spirits were very cautious. Even though they were certain they had a way to deal with those magical potions, they didn't want the Financial Triangle region to experience widespread magical rain from the very beginning.

Therefore, after using the power of money, the route of the federal government's magical rain will be determined according to the wishes of the Ise Group. The first city to receive the magical rain will be the capital, Sphinx, while the Financial Triangle region will be in the middle to later order.

The squid spirits still planned to observe the actual effects of the magical rain first, and arranged for some squid spirits in each city to get rained on, to see if they were really immune to the magic potion.

This method cannot be said to be frivolous, but unfortunately, the squid demons were far less knowledgeable than Emeryte, who was familiar with the original game's setting. They did not know that what would reveal their true form was not a potion mass-produced by the federal government, but had already entered their bodies.

Finally, amidst the people's anticipation, the magical rain began, and its first stop was the federal capital, Sphinx.

The constitution of a magic-affinity person is much stronger than that of an Earthling in Amelie's previous life. They can take a bath in ice water in the dead of winter without any problems, let alone just get caught in a rain shower.

On the day of the rain, the streets of Sphingard were like a carnival. People took selfies in the rain with their magical devices, thankful that their bloodline had not been contaminated by the squid people. Even the most reclusive artists and researchers came out of their rooms after a long time.

The squid spirits sent to Sphinx by the Ise Group were initially afraid of the heavy rain, since it was specifically targeting them.

But after a daring squid spirit stepped into the rain using self-protection techniques it had practiced and was unharmed, the other squid spirits relaxed and joined in the revelry.

In the end, the heavy rain lasted for half a day, and not a single squid man in Sphingard revealed his true form in the rain, which made everyone very happy.

Ordinary people are happy because there are no lurking monsters among their relatives and friends.

The squid spirits were happy because the magic rain potion had no effect on them.

When the news reached the Financial Triangle, all the squid spirits breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they were still making some preparations according to Yogg-Soth's orders, they no longer cared about the magic potion rain, letting it rain down from one area to another.

. . . . .

After Machira's press conference, everything proceeded according to plan. Many subsequent matters did not require Emery's personal involvement; she simply maintained a watchful eye and directed operations remotely.

Taking advantage of this time, Emerald once again improved her strength.

There was no clue about the new divine magic for the time being, so she could only order the literary artists of Melson Entertainment to write more hymns, focusing on praising long legs in black stockings, and at the same time, she ordered Flora to design more beautiful nun's clothes for a new combination.

Of course, the chefs at Drunken Dream House weren't idle either. Amelie also offered a reward, asking them to develop new dishes and to be bold in trying new things. As long as the food tasted good, it didn't matter if it was poisonous, since it wasn't meant for human consumption anyway.

Since she couldn't get her hands on any new divine spells for the time being, Ameliette researched the old divine spells, which were also the only ones she could currently use—Sunfire Burst.

The single-target power of this divine spell is not particularly strong; at least for a third-stage powerhouse, it can only be considered a charged-up attack, not even a powerful ultimate move.

Even so, there are still aspects of this divine art worth studying.

Besides the time she dragged Julia into a real battle, Emerald also had Suzuran analyze the divine spell from the perspective of energy data and compare it with her original holy magic.

As a result, Emery discovered that if she wanted to achieve the same effect as the Sunfire Burst using Holy Light Bullet from the Holy Magic, the Holy Magic Power required to condense the Holy Light Bullet would be more than three times the energy of the Sunfire Burst itself.

Divine spells stored in the faith circuit beforehand through prayer do not consume additional divine power from Emerald when cast. However, the spells themselves still have energy. Suzuran cannot directly analyze this energy at present, but she can calculate it backwards from the heat and kinetic energy after the explosion and compare it with the divine power consumed by Emerald during prayer.

The calculation results are roughly equivalent to the Yangyan Explosion consuming only 1 unit of energy but achieving the effect of 3 units of energy.

At first, Emerald thought this was due to the special nature of divine power, and that the difference in effectiveness was simply because divine power, as an energy source, was of a higher level than divine magic.

So she conducted the verification.

The verification method was also very simple. Based on her prayers, Amelie increased the divine power consumption when using the divine spell "Sunfire Burst". She injected roughly the same amount of divine power into the artifact scepter and then used a magical device of her own design to launch the artifact scepter as a rocket to conduct an attack test.

As a result, the attack effect of the divine artifact scepter was incomparable to that of the Sunfire Burst. Although both sides consumed about the same amount of divine power, the attack power of the divine artifact scepter was less than a quarter of that of the Sunfire Burst.

Taking into account the energy loss during the launch of the Divine Scepter and the Magic Device, the actual power of the Divine Scepter is about the same as that of the Holy Light Bullet, which consumes the same amount of magic power, which is exactly in line with Suzuran's calculations.

In other words, divine power may be a higher level of energy than magic, but apart from its special effects that Emerald cannot yet perceive, its effectiveness in influencing the world is similar to the divine magic that Emerald originally used.

Since the efficiency ratio is similar, why does the Sunfire Blast have about three times the power of the Holy Light Bullet when the consumption is the same?

The reasoning is quite simple: there must be an additional factor that, as an independent multiplier, enhances the effect of the divine magic, much like Hoshino Ayahime's innate divine power.

But divine magic is not a human's innate supernatural power; it can be mass-produced, copied, and learned. If the secret of this independent multiplication zone could be unlocked and mastered, it would be equivalent to increasing the power of all magic by 3 times with the same consumption, which would be an absolutely huge boost.

So, in the days that the magic potion rain project was progressing step by step, Amelie had been studying the mysterious independent multiplier of divine magic, hoping to master it and use it to enhance the power of her own magic.

He gathered the girls around him to help him broaden his thinking and brainstorm ideas, and then had Linglan take charge of a lot of calculations. After several days of hard work, after eliminating other factors, the remaining factors, no matter how outrageous they seemed, became the answer.

Emery successfully found the answer, and the answer was indeed outrageous—a factor that everyone could clearly observe but generally wouldn't pay attention to.

It is the shape of the spell.

The divine technique, Yangyan Burst, initially emits a golden light the size of a grain of rice, which then immediately expands to the size of a watermelon.

However, this watermelon is only used to describe the size of Yangyanbao. In reality, the fully formed Yangyanbao looks like a small golden sun.

Through high-speed photography and magnification by Suzuran, Emerald discovered that the shape of the sun after the Sunfire Burst was formed was exactly the same as the golden sun that flew out of her body and tore apart the kingdom of the Storm God.

Since this is the divine magic of the Sun Goddess, the shaping of this sun may also have some religious symbolic meaning, serving as an independent multiplier to further enhance the power of the divine magic.

Emery immediately put it to the test.

That day, she took Julia to the wilderness again, and this time not only Julia, but also Marcy and Flora, along with more than a dozen lily-of-the-valley dolls carrying various observation equipment.

"Let's give it a try..."

The most suitable spell to try is, of course, the holy spell, Holy Light Ball.

However, when Emery released the Holy Light Bullet this time, she put more effort into precisely manipulating its shape.

Thanks to the training she received while creating the nanoscale sealing crystal, Emery now has a very precise control over magic. She can reproduce the shape of the golden sun at the nanoscale, and even the patterns on the sun's surface are exactly the same.

!

When Amelie used her divine magic to create a golden sun the size of a human head, she suddenly felt a strange, almost divine inspiration.

Not good enough... It's still a little short... Yes...

While she was thinking, Emerald's body was already reacting.

She opened her mouth and, in a voice that was both ethereal and holy yet tinged with a touch of allure, quickly recited a passage.

That wasn't a magic incantation, but rather a compressed and simplified version of the prayer for the Sunfire Burst, reduced from over 200 syllables to a sentence of just over 30 syllables. Each syllable was a condensation of the essence of language, similar to the ancient Chinese poems from the Celestial Empire on Blue Star, the planet Amelie's previous life.

If those 30-plus syllables were summarized in the simplest terms, they would have only one meaning:

Goddess, your legs in black stockings are so beautiful!

boom!

As Amelie recited the prayer, her magic immediately changed.

Although the amount of magic power consumed did not increase, the power of the spell was clearly enhanced, as if a fusion reaction had actually occurred inside it, like that of a star.

"go with!"

Then, with a flick of her finger, Emery still used the same method of controlling the Holy Light Bullet to smash the golden sun toward the target, but the spell's effect was far superior to that of the Holy Light Bullet. Its power increased by at least three times without any increase in mana consumption.

"Success..."