High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 488: Chapter 157: Thump, Thump _1

”Wolf, from dog, melodious voice, ferociousness.”

”Stride, from foot, the sound of ’ba,’ signifying the act of trampling.”

”Carry, the meaning of convey or furthermore.”

”Trip and stumble have the same sound and meaning, involving tripping over or foot stepping.”

”These four magical characters form the foundation of this spell and are key to accurately grasping its real meaning.”

”Literally translated according to the rules of magical characters, the meaning of this spell is a ferocious demon stumbling over its own whiskers as it moves forward, then backward, tripping over its own tail.”

”Of course, in practical application, using this magic cannot make a demon take a standard textbook-style tumble... that’s Puppetry Technique, not Chaos Spell.”

The professor’s last explanation was quite humorous, but it did not yield the expected effect.

Usually in such situations, everyone would laugh a few times, showing that they ’got’ the key point in the professor’s words; but today, most people were focused on the blackboard, afraid that a moment of negligence would affect their subsequent learning. Who has the energy for a laugh?

Noticing no response, Old Yao could only clear his throat and continue his lecture:

”Chaos, chaos, by definition, is the lack of routine, order, and stability.”

”When dealing with a single demon, this spell can only cause it to lose its sense of direction and balance to a certain extent. In severe cases, it may also cause restlessness and agitation—an especially valuable distraction when you are being hunted by a demon, or hunting one.”

”However, merely doing this does not give the Chaos Spell the status of ’one of the three major auxiliary spells’. In fact, the ’Charm of Five Sounds and Colors’ or the ’Charm Spell’ can interfere with the actions of the demons on a wider scale.”

”The most effective target of the Chaos Spell is a swarm of Wild Demons.”

”I suppose you all know what Wild Demons are!” The professor tapped his pipe on the lectern and looked around.

Everyone nodded their heads quickly.

Zheng Qing was no exception.

Since his encounter with the wizard’s world, he had met three demons: a pig demon that had transformed from an infected obese man; a beautiful witch who could even speak human language; and a kappa demon that appeared inexplicably by a lake.

According to ordinary classification rules, the pig demon and the kappa demon can be classified as wild demons—they are more beast than rational, or one could say, apart from instinct, they have absolutely no capacity to think.

”Most wild demons are gregarious creatures, very few wild ones act alone.” While saying this, Old Yao shot a subtle glance at Zheng Qing, then continued to explain:

”This is because any wild demon will unconsciously infect the creatures around it. On one hand, this is due to their predatory instinct; on the other hand, it’s an innate talent in their bloodline to gather more of their kind to resist the hunting of wizards, and also to use the aura of many of their kind to transform their demonic energy and further refine their bloodline, becoming the king of wild demons.”

”Every formed group of wild demons must have a wild demon king.”

”Wild demons are a group of demons with very fragile mental defenses, which can easily be influenced by spells like Exhaustion Spell and Chaos Spell. But the Wild Demon King is different. On the contrary, because of the further refinement of demonic energy, the Wild Demon King’s mind has become very condensed. It has developed preliminary thinking abilities and accordingly, its resistance to various magic has greatly improved.”

”Most of the time, the wild demon king will control the entire demon group’s actions through mind control. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage.”

”The advantage is that this kind of control can make the demon group obey like an arm’s command, attacking breezily; but the disadvantage is that if the wizards interfere with the wild demon king’s command, they can easily disrupt the entire demon group’s actions.”

”The Chaos Spell can create such a disturbance.”

”When a hunting team encounters a group of wild demons, casting a bunch of Chaos Spells can effectively disrupt the Wild Demon King’s control over the group, making it so busy that it can’t organize—some powerful wizards using this spell can even make the wild demons fight each other—at that point, the hunting team will have plenty of time to react.”

”Whether planning to fight, strategically retreat, or simply observe from the sidelines, the team leader will have plenty of time to think and prepare.”

”Therefore, in the hunting ground, Chaos Spell is a very useful auxiliary spell.”

”Especially when you encounter a group of wild demons.”

Zheng Qing tightly gripped his brush pen, writing as fast as he could.

The feeling of dozing off earlier had long since disappeared with the professor’s lecture.

For him now, there was nothing more important than improving the combat power of the hunting team—at one point, the young scholarship student even silently complained about the most beautiful woman in the wizard world, for not coming earlier or later, but specifically interrupting Old Yao’s important lecture on spellcasting.

Of course, he dared not voice these thoughts.

”As I mentioned before.”

”Chaos Spell is a closed spell. This means you don’t need to consider intricate structures and complex grammar when building the spell.”

”You just need to follow the steps and copy the standard spell onto the law book.”

”Of course, like the ’Exhaustion Spell,’ this type of spell places higher demands on your ’comprehension’ ability. You need to not only understand the original meaning of each magic character, but also expand this ’imagery’ with rich divergent thinking.”

”If you simply use magic according to the original meaning of the spell, your expended magical power is wasted just to make the prey stumble a few times.”

”But if you really understand the meaning of each magic character, you can easily influence the prey on a mental level. For example, making them spin around in the same place, become confused, or even do a few backflips, perform some wilderness ballet... all of which are possible.”

”Once this spell is mastered to a high level, you can even combine it with ’Point at Deer for Horse,’ to create an illusory scene, a fictional theory—of course, this level is too high, you don’t need to consider it for now.”

”Comprehension can only be gradually figured out and experienced by yourselves.”

”This is not a problem that can be solved by adding a few ingenious structures to the spell on the law book or using the appropriate tone when chanting.”

”As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and skill can ascend to immortality. Only complete proficiency can help you continually comprehend the essence of magic...”

Old Yao’s thorough explanations had everyone lost in thought.

Until the sound of his lecture was interrupted by an unusual noise.

”Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack...”

It was the sound of high heels walking.

Zheng Qing looked up instinctively towards the classroom door.