The potion entered her mouth like a piece of cold jelly going into her stomach. A second or two later, Odis suddenly felt as if she had been hit and thrown out by a speeding train.
My whole body felt like it was falling apart, and every inch of my skin felt like it was being pricked with needles.
Immediately afterwards, my head started buzzing, I experienced severe tinnitus, and everything went black; I couldn't see anything.
Odis managed to concentrate and avoid fainting from the intense pain and tinnitus.
He felt as if giant hands were kneading his muscles, tearing them off his bones and gathering them in one spot before relaxing them again.
This continued incessantly, until Odis felt numb and aching all over.
He struggled against the pain, trying his best not to lose his senses. He didn't know how much time had passed before Odis's vision stopped going black and he finally regained some of his sight.
He vaguely saw that the muscles in his entire arm were indeed twisted together by an invisible force, forming a terrifying spiral shape. Soon, the muscles unfolded again.
Then, they were twisted together again.
That wasn't an illusion; the potion was actually tearing his body apart, reshaping his muscles, bones, and blood vessels!
At this moment, a piercing pain struck my head, gradually "overtaking" me.
Odis felt his vision distorted by the pain in his head; the floor, the lab bench, the ceiling, the beaker, the graduated cylinder—everything was spinning rapidly!
Dizziness and pain ravaged Odis's spirit, making him feel as if he were in a raging storm, on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
Fortunately, he digested the potion from the "Secret Seeker" very well, and he also regularly used "meditation" to train his mind. After passing through a certain stage, the intense dizziness and pain quickly subsided.
The buzzing in his ears disappeared, and suddenly, a strange and cold voice entered his ears: "...universe...stacking...jumping...knowledge...canal...endless..."
Most of the speech was unclear, and only a few words could be understood occasionally.
Those indistinct parts were either like the low growl of a beast, making Odis's heart pound; or like fingernails scratching a thin sheet of iron, making a sharp noise that made him extremely irritable; or like harmful ultrasound waves, making him dizzy.
Fortunately, the sound came and went quickly.
But that was enough to make Odis's forehead veins bulge, his face turn deathly pale, and he slumped into a chair, dry heaving for a long time.
A minute or two later, Odis was panting heavily and leaned back in his chair to rest.
It felt like a hangover – weak all over and with a splitting headache.
He took out his pocket watch and looked at it. The entire promotion process only took about three minutes, and the pain beforehand lasted less than two minutes, but it felt like an eternity to him!
The discomfort that followed was entirely due to the voice of the "Hidden Sage" after the promotion was completed!
Having just been promoted, his spirituality was already very unstable. The shouts of "Hidden Sage" only exacerbated this instability, almost causing him to lose control.
This is a total rip-off!
Odis lamented: What's even more deceptive than the existence of a true god in this path is that the unique deity in this path is an evil god!
Then he discovered that, having just advanced to the " Melee Scholar" level, he had already digested half of the potion.
This made him feel relatively relaxed and less tense, so the discomfort he felt throughout his body quickly disappeared.
After a moment's thought, Odis realized: I had digested the "scholar" part of " Melee Scholar" in advance!
His research every Sunday in the "wilderness of knowledge," as well as his experiments in the real world, are like those of a scholar studying the occult!
For the past three years, Odis has been conducting various studies in his sleep and in the "wilderness of knowledge" for a total of about twenty years.
Add to that the three years of research in the real world, and that makes twenty-three years! Almost the same age as him.
Crucially, the abundant results will surely allow us to consume a portion of the magic potion ahead of schedule.
Odis then realized that digesting the potion for " Melee Scholar" required separating "fighting" and "scholar." The focus couldn't always be on "fighting," since the potion's name was " Melee Scholar," not "Fighter."
Clearly, "fighting" is a safeguard or method for "scholars" to conduct research.
Of course, studying "combat" can also be one of the ways for "scholars" to understand the world.
Thinking of this, Odis suddenly smiled, feeling a sense of "I'm not afraid of hooligans who know martial arts, I'm afraid of hooligans who are cultured."
Then, while suppressing his spirituality, he sensed the changes in his abilities and himself.
First, Odis felt that his strength was very "precise". This feeling was very strange. For example, if Odis wanted to put a medicine jar up high, he would definitely have to use a ladder to put it up.
But now, he felt he could just throw it up there! And the exact spot he imagined would be perfect.
This performance is due to Odis's already superb fighting skills, which seem to be innate, imprinted in Odis's mind since birth.
The " Melee Scholar's" potion also reshaped Odis's body, allowing him to fully utilize these skills.
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
However, it takes a certain amount of practice to fully integrate the skills with oneself and to accumulate practical experience before one can become a qualified fighter!
Odis had already planned ahead; he intended to join a fighting club and practice sparring with the club's members.
Another change was that Odis's mind was filled with a lot of occult knowledge, which allowed him to perform some more advanced ritual magic.
In fact, when one becomes a "secret seeker," one's extremely high spirituality allows him to perform some magic and witchcraft through rituals or formations.
But back then, all the knowledge was learned and explored on our own.
Now, however, things are different. After his advancement, Odis possesses some occult knowledge, which allows him to perform "healing" magic through rituals and to draw "defense arrays" by imbuing them with his spirituality.
Another significant change was that Odis clearly felt his mind was much sharper. He realized that problems that used to take him three hours to think about could now be solved in just one hour.
Moreover, their ability to learn and understand knowledge is three times that of before.
If the potion is fully digested, it can even reach five times the power of Sequence 9!
Odis breathed a deep sigh of relief: the promotion will also be helpful to my research.
He really didn't want to move at that moment, so he spent the night in the lounge and laboratory.
...
In the abandoned West Bayron dockyard in the Backland dock district.
Klein lay in ambush in front of the overgrown warehouse and saw three figures approaching at an extremely fast speed.
Leading the pack was Marich, who was responsible for luring the enemy here; at this moment, he was faster than a steam train.
Behind them are their enemies, Jason the "zombie" and Tyrell the "werewolf".
Upon reaching the center of the abandoned shipyard, Maric suddenly turned around, raised his "Flaming Arrow," and fired six shots at the enemies behind him.