"Yes," Vincent said in his mind, allowing Blood to utilize a few experience points to memorize the contents of the book, store the information of the technique into its database and then transfer all of it in his mind.

‹ The information of the Thousand Purifying Cooking Technique is stored in Blood Evolution System's Database ›

‹ The information related to the Cooking Technique is being transferred to your mind ›

An instant after blood's announcement, Vincent's eyes dilated as a lot of images and texts related to purifying evolution material by using a complex and profound method popped up in his mind, becoming a permanent part of his memory.

He couldn't forget it now, even if wanted to.

‹ You have learned Thousand Purifying Cooking Technique ›

‹ Thousand Purifying Cooking Technique ›

‹ Type: Cooking Technique >

‹ Description: Consumes Purified Magic Power to purify evolution materials from all sorts of impurities, be it filth, poison, harmful cells, toxic blood, or negative energy. Must have Mana to activate. The Magic Chef must symmetrically perform hand signs when purifying an evolution material to not only not harm the ability cells in the evolution materials but also to purify it without limits ›

This Cooking Magic Technique will allow him to purify the Fruit of Darkness without much trouble. He didn't worry about performing hand signs in an incorrect order as he has completed memorized the order in which the hand signs have to be performed to channel a hundred units of mana into this magic technique.

Except for this sooking technique, he has learned two other.

He has learned two more techniques relating to cooking!

One of them was called the Energy Intensification Magic Technique, a skill that allows him to control the input and output of the energies in his body, increasing and decreasing them as he wishes. While the other one was called Energy Control, a Magic Technique that he can use to control Mana or Magic Power outside of his body. These two techniques didn't require any sort of energy, be it mana or magic power, to activate.

The three books cost him a bit over 25000 contribution points. They were the best ones he could afford right now.

"I have learned a handful of cooking techniques in just three minutes."

Vincent couldn't help but smile as not only Blood completed all of its tasks in a matter of several seconds, but he has also gained a lot of knowledge that only a professional Magic Chef has.

Knowledge; that will allow him to purify the evolution material in his spatial ring and help him make a dish out of it.

"This much should be enough for me to purify my fruit of darkness." Vincent thought as he took out an inky, black fruit from his inventory.

He placed it in front of him, right on top of the table, and used the appraisal spell matrix on it.

‹ Item Name: Fruit of Darkness ›

‹ Type: Evolution Material ›

‹ Description: The consumer gains extraordinary darkness ability cells by consuming it ›

‹ Warning: It's not safe to consume the Fruit of Darkness before purifying it from negative energy ›

‹ Negative Energy: 1000 units ›

Vincent knew he needed to purify the fruit of darkness from its 1000 units of Negative Energy before consuming it to awaken. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to consume it without fearing for harmful effects that would corrupt him mentally.

He didn't want to have his mentality affected in any way harmful.

It was already bad that he would lose his self-control in the face of blood.

He didn't want to lose his control in front of other things, too.

Thus, he decided to purify it from all of the negative energy no matter how much time it takes.

The Fruit of Darkness was on top of the table in a vacant area of the library. He was sitting in the chair right next to it. He looked around and came to the conclusion that this was the perfect place for purifying an evolution material.

They were separated from everyone else by a thin barrier which not only blocked outsiders from viewing what's happening inside but also blocked all voice or energy from going outside.

Vincent decided to purify the Fruit of Darkness right here, instead of wasting his time in order to look for a nice and vacant spot where he could purify it without any worries of harming those sensitive to negative energy.

"Let's begin." Vincent crackled his fingers, looking at the Fruit of Darkness in the same way a hunter looks at its prey.

He started to perform hand signs, controlling a hundred specks of mana to flow out of his body and inject themselves into the fruit of darkness from various locations.

Each speck of mana was the condensed form of one unit of mana, and it eliminated one unit of negative energy from the Fruit of Darkness.

The purified version of magic power and negative energy were polar opposites.

They were equally powerful but belonged to two different sides.

It was like a clash between light and darkness.

White can't mix with black.

Darkness gets purged under daylight.

These two types of energies simply couldn't exist under the same sky.

The clash between these two energies caused both of them to dissipate, vanishing from the face of the world.

Vincent kept on performing hand signs, and it didn't take him more than a few minutes to forcefully eliminate a hundred units of negative energy from the fruit of darkness by using 100 units of mana.

‹ Mana: 0/100 ›

Now, however, he was left with not even a single unit of mana.

Vincent knew he needed to create another hundred units of mana if he wanted to purify the fruit of darkness.

For that purpose, he stored the fruit of darkness in his spatial storage device, stepped out of the library, walked to a nice place in the garden, and breathed in the magic power present in nature to acquire a hundred units of magic power.

Magic power couldn't be used to purify the negative energy present inside the fruit of darkness.

It's because magic power was filled with impurities and was far too weak to harm negative energy.

Only mana that was ten times stronger and better than magic power was a threat to negative energy and could eliminate it for good.