Chapter 120 | Paladin Class: Awakening the Strongest Demon System

Hearing this, Jiang Lin made a gesture to tell him to rest easy.

"This set of potions has already been tested by hundreds of people for several months.

There haven't been any serious issues."

All four were somewhat surprised to hear that.

A magic potion combination for staying up all night, and it’s even been tested by hundreds of people?

Could it be that Jiang Lin's family had conducted such a large-scale experiment just to cultivate geniuses more efficiently?

If that was the case, was the ratio of this potion set something that outsiders like them were allowed to hear?

Doubts flickered in everyone's minds.

However, since the other party was willing to share it, he must have known what he was doing, so they all began to commit it to memory.

Jiang Lin spoke slowly:

"For the first two days, use Mental Invigoration Potion. This potion only starts showing side effects after five consecutive days of use, but here, we only use it for two days.

Following that, use a clear grass reagent containing silver moon dew for two days as an adjustment. This reagent also only shows side effects after five days of consecutive use.

Then, use a mixed preparation of calming flower and vitality mushroom for two days. By this point, six days have passed, and the effects of the initial Mental Invigoration Potion have almost entirely dissipated, allowing you to use it again..."

"Mental Invigoration Potion, silver moon dew clear grass reagent, calming flower and vitality mushroom mixed preparation..."

Neil repeated in a low voice, quickly taking out a pen and paper from his spatial ring to jot it down.

"This cycle is six days?"

"That's right."

Jiang Lin nodded.

"Mental Invigoration Potion produces side effects after five consecutive days of use, so we only use it for two.

The clear grass reagent follows the same principle.

The mixed preparation of calming flower and vitality mushroom neutralizes the residual effects of the first two potions while providing a gentle energy supplement.

It’s a six-day cycle, which can then be repeated."

Nora frowned in thought. These potions were relatively niche, so she wasn't clear on their prices.

"What is the price... of these potions?

Can we afford long-term use?"

Jiang Lin was well-versed in this as well.

"With the subsidies of our elite class and our family backgrounds, it's completely affordable.

Mental Invigoration Potion is 5 silver coins a vial, so 10 silver for two days; the clear grass reagent containing silver moon dew is slightly more expensive at 8 silver a vial, so 16 silver for two days; the mixed preparation of calming flower and vitality mushroom is 6 silver a vial, so 12 silver for two days. The total for six days is 38 silver."

He paused.

"Counting five cycles per month, it’s about 1 gold 90 silver.

For students capable of entering Saint Brilliance Magic Academy, this expense is entirely within an acceptable range."

Elvira tapped her fingertip lightly on the table. With her knowledge of magic potions, she quickly understood the ingenuity of this method.

"Using a cycle to avoid drug resistance, alternating different potions to prevent the body from developing a dependency... it's very cleverly designed.

Jiang Lin, is this a research result from your family?"

Jiang Lin was momentarily stunned.

He hadn't expected the other party to link this to a non-existent family.

However, this stuff was basically common knowledge among the students in Boulder City.

So, he couldn't use it to enhance the persona he had built.

Moreover, given the talent and strength Jiang Lin had displayed by now, there was no need for him to pretend to be a big shot anymore.

After all, although he hadn't officially joined the Temple, he was already an honorary gold badge member of the Paladin Order.

He was also an apostle of god and had a good relationship with the disciple of a 9th-rank powerhouse.

As long as Jiang Lin didn't touch the core interests of those major families, no one would be bored enough to come looking for trouble with him.

Thus, Jiang Lin said straightforwardly:

"It isn't. This was figured out by hundreds of students in Boulder City staying up late together, testing the medicine with their own bodies."

The four people in the classroom were visibly stunned.

What did he mean by 'hundreds of students staying up late together'?

What did he mean by 'testing the medicine with their own bodies'?

These were clearly human words, so why did they make no sense when put together??

"Wait, wait, wait? What are you saying? I don't think I quite understand."

Neil forced himself to digest the information he had just heard.

Jiang Lin let out a sigh.

"I’ve always felt that while the students of our Saint Brilliance Magic Academy have decent talent, they are ultimately too arrogant, too lazy, and too lax; they aren't hardworking enough.

For instance, although your talent is a bit inferior to mine, your level of effort doesn't even come close.

How can you spend such precious time at night on sleeping?

Even if you only sleep four hours every night, that's over 1,400 hours a year, which is equivalent to two months.

Not to mention those students who get a full eight hours of sleep; that’s four months out of the year spent sleeping!

That is the absolute peak of laziness!

If you want to become stronger, you must seize every opportunity and race against time to improve yourselves!!

I come from the Radiant Junior Magic Academy in Boulder City.

Starting from the second half of our third year, countless students in the entire grade began staying up late to cultivate.

In the end, almost everyone joined this 'sleepless war'.

This included the other two junior magic academies in our city."

He paused and continued:

"Do you know what the result was?

In our year, the overall level improved by at least thirty percent compared to previous years.

Many students who could only have entered ordinary middle academies ended up getting into good schools.

Even some students who weren't originally qualified for Middle Magic Academy eventually made it, changing their lives!"

Jiang Lin directly delivered a radical theory:

"Comfort is for the dead!

As long as you're alive, you must strive with all your might!!"

Jiang Lin's words were like a thunderclap exploding in the silent classroom.

It caused Neil, Nora, Aria, and Rex to fall into silence.

They had never heard such an extreme conclusion.

In a top-tier institution like Saint Brilliance Magic Academy, although the teachers encouraged hard work, they emphasized 'scientific cultivation' and 'balancing work and rest'.

No one had ever equated 'sleeping' with 'laziness'.

"Old Jiang... are you serious?"

Neil swallowed hard.

"Of course."

Jiang Lin's golden eyes looked exceptionally bright in the morning light.

Nora's eyes widened slightly.

She hadn't expected her desk mate to come from such a 'combative' city.

"So... you guys really relied on staying up late to force your grades up?"

Elvira asked softly, her voice filled with disbelief.

"Not entirely."

Jiang Lin shook his head.

"Talent, resources, and guidance from teachers are all important.

But without enough time invested, even the best talent will be wasted.

We just used the time others used for sleeping to catch up to those with better talent than us."

He looked out the window, where the rising sun was casting its first rays of golden light into the classroom.

"In Boulder City, we have a saying—'the degenerate rising suns shatter the darkness'.

It means that when the sun rises, those who worked hard in the dark of night have already walked a bit further than everyone else."

A long silence fell over the classroom.

Rex clenched his fists, the veins on his thick arms bulging slightly.

He finally understood why Jiang Lin could break through from the peak of rank-0 to rank-2 in just two months and possess the strength to crush them.

It wasn't just a matter of talent.

This was a gap built up from countless sleepless nights!

"I... I want to try."

Neil took a deep breath, a fire igniting in his eyes.

"It's just staying up late, right? I can do that too!"

Nora didn't speak, but she had already silently memorized the potion formula Jiang Lin mentioned.

For her, who bore a blood feud, she wouldn't let any opportunity to become stronger slip by.

If staying up late could get her closer to her goal of revenge faster, then what did a little pain matter?

Even if it were a thousand cuts, she would grit her teeth and endure!!

What was the pain of mere sleep deprivation compared to that?

Elvira asked softly:

"Jiang Lin, are there any taboos or things we need to be careful of with this potion cycle?

For example, if certain constitutions aren't suitable, or if it can't be used when practicing specific magic?"

Jiang Lin shook his head.

"I don't know."

Hearing this, several of them were dazed.

"This plan was just screened by the students of Boulder City over the course of half a semester.

If you have better magic potion preparation methods, you can certainly try them.

This is just one possible solution."

At that moment, Neil raised his right index finger.

"Hey, I just thought of something."

Seeing everyone look at him, he said:

"The family lands of my Kohlst family have a specialty tea. Drinking it provides a refreshing effect, and there are almost no side effects!"

Jiang Lin's eyes lit up.

He had almost forgotten; Anya's father, the City Lord, had once sent him a tin.

It indeed had a good refreshing effect and was a supplement Anya used frequently.

Before he left, he had even given half of it to Tie Chen.

"Then you can try the effects of long-term use."

Jiang Lin suggested.

The others nodded in agreement.

At the same time, they began to chatter, offering some of their own insights.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Lin felt quite gratified.

His light was finally beginning to shine upon Saint Brilliance Magic Academy!

As for Little Black, who had witnessed this entire scene from the side, it no longer knew what to say.

Why did it feel like under Jiang Lin's lead, this group of originally normal students was starting to develop in an increasingly strange direction??

......

The morning light completely filled the campus, and a new day officially began.

As other students arrived in the classroom one after another, they were surprised to find that the states of Neil, Nora, Elvira, and Rex seemed different.

It was a gaze... that seemed to be burning with some kind of flame.

"What's wrong with you guys? Didn't sleep well last night?"

A classmate asked curiously.

Neil grinned.

"No, we slept very well.

It's just that... starting today, we might be sleeping a bit less."

The morning class was "Advanced Principles of Magic Arrays," taught by a stern, middle-aged female teacher.

She explained the energy node distribution and stability control of composite magic arrays, filling the blackboard with complex rune structures.

Suddenly, she felt the atmosphere today was a bit off.

Glancing around, she found a golden-haired student who was impossibly handsome meditating on a breathing technique in the corner, while his desk mate and the students in front of him were looking at the textbook with a level of determination and seriousness she had never seen before.

She had been teaching this elite class for a year and had some understanding of these genius students' personalities.

While they learned quickly and could master the content she taught, they were generally quite laid-back in their studies.

This was the first time she had seen them like this.

"...Therefore, when setting up a triple-overlay 'Flame Burst · Ice Seal · Lightning Strike' composite array, the fire-attribute nodes must be placed in the outer layer, the ice-attribute nodes in the middle layer, and the lightning-attribute nodes in the core. This utilizes the principle of elemental affinity to enhance power rather than simple stacking..."

The female teacher explained while drawing the structural diagram on the blackboard.

Neil and the others listened to the teacher's explanation while reading the textbook themselves, absorbing knowledge like sponges and hungering for strength like starving wolves.

Jiang Lin, who was meditating, suddenly felt another presence absorbing magic essence in the classroom.

This position... seemed to be Rex?

"Not bad."

Jiang Lin nodded to himself.

He felt as if he were seeing a miniature version of the past when the entire elite class of Radiant Junior Magic Academy ignored the lectures.

This was how an elite class should look.

Listening to a teacher's lecture?

That was a method used only by mediocre talents!

True geniuses learned everything on their own!

......

At lunchtime, Jiang Lin took out his dry rations as usual.

And this time, Neil, Nora, Elvira, and Rex made the same choice.

The five of them sat in their respective seats, gnawing on dry rations and dried meat they had run out to buy, and then simply stayed in their seats to continue their work.

The other students were surprised to see this.

They didn't know yet that these four had already pulled an all-nighter with Jiang Lin, much less that Jiang Lin had completely brainwashed them.

Some friends who were familiar with Neil and the others asked what was going on.

Neil and the others frankly told them that they were doing this to save time on eating, giving themselves more time and a better state for cultivation.

Hearing this, the pupils of the surrounding students shook.

They had never expected such an answer.

Were they... triggered by something?

At the same time, a seed of doubt was planted in their hearts.

The afternoon sun shone through the window, stretching the shadows of the five.

Students returning to the classroom after lunch felt an inexplicable sense of urgency upon seeing this.

Jiang Lin, who already crushed everyone in the class, was working hard. Rex, who was second; Elvira, who was third; and Nora, who was in the top eight, were also working hard.