High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2866: Chapter 1087: The Heavy Price

”Now, when you look at ’Taiyi’ again, what do you feel?”

The professor changed his tone, turning to the young wizard who had stood up again, asking with deep meaning.

”It’s too big.”

Zheng Qing sighed, responding with three words without thinking; then he paused and shook his head himself: ”No, not too big... it’s too heavy. Yes, too heavy.”

The first response was based on the giant entity in the cloud sea, presenting an unparalleled visual impact, leaving no other thought in the mind besides ’big’.

The second response, however, was due to the secret the professor just mentioned—the power driving this giant entity’s revival originates from a Forbidden Curse. Whether it’s this secret, the corpse of the already dead legend, or His towering figure akin to Mount Tai, all are too burdensome for the young wizard.

”Very clever wording.”

Old Yao bit his pipe, nodded thoughtfully, seeming to appreciate his evaluation, then continued asking, ”So what kind of consciousness do you think can master such a heavy power?”

Zheng Qing was taken aback.

Instinctively, he raised his hand, looking at the smooth skin, white and red without a hint of calluses, with intersecting fine lines. He gently clenched and released it, repeating the action thrice, finally shaking his head slightly: ”I don’t know... this is not a weight an ordinary wizard can bear.”

”Hmm—”

The professor took a drag on his pipe, nodded: ”To be precise, this is not a weight ’others’ can bear. Besides giants, only giants themselves can make giants walk. When you carry someone up a mountain, you’ll feel particularly heavy; but when you shed the burden and climb by yourself, you immediately feel much lighter. The principle for a suitable candidate to drive a Giant God Soldier is this. So, the answer to my previous question—only one’s own consciousness can master such a heavy power.”

Zheng Qing frowned, looking at the giant entity in the cloud sea.

”But He...”

”He is already dead.”

Professor Yao followed the student’s gaze, seemingly guessing what he wanted to say, and interrupted decisively: ”—Undoubtedly, completely dead, His consciousness long disappeared, becoming nourishment in the river of time. Thus, we need to find a substitute for His consciousness, which is the ’suitor’ of that body. The basis of resonance degree is measured according to the frequency of ’Artu Groot’ and ’Taiyi’ resonating with magic power. Only magic fluctuating within this resonance degree has a chance to ’effortlessly move a heavy weight’, driving this powerful Giant God Soldier.

There are actually two situations here.

One type of wizard’s magic aligns very well with Artu Groot’s magic, while another type aligns closely with Taiyi’s nature. In any case, the closer the wizard’s similarity to Him, the higher the compatibility with the Giant God Soldier. When it reaches a certain level, the two become nearly indistinguishable, merging into one—which is what we mentioned earlier as ’Daohua’.”

Deceptively taken nest.

For some reason, this outrageous word popped into Zheng Qing’s mind—similar to ’possession’, a black magic strictly prohibited by the Alliance. However, listening to Old Yao’s explanation, he couldn’t help but feel that the suitor has a subtle commonality in expression with the possession magic briefly covered in the encyclopedia—of course, he believes these experimental school’s experiments would certainly withstand the test of ”The Code”.

But from another angle, only another legendary consciousness has the traditional ability to possess the corpse of a legendary wizard, which is exceptionally challenging.

And the school, however, hangs down a vine named ’Forbidden Curse’ from the sky, offering wizards on the ground a tiny possibility.

Zheng Qing has never been arrogant.

Nor does he belittle himself.

He has reason to believe that even if the other six suitable candidates injured in the ’fringe type one’ experiment phase recover and return, they probably don’t have the ability to drive this Giant God Soldier in the cloud sea—merely driving a fringe type one already impaired their lifespan, and if they were to attempt ’Taiyi’, Zheng Qing suspects they’d be directly sucked dry into jerky.

From this perspective.

Is he considered ’designated’ to be ’Taiyi’s driver?

Just when the boy was daydreaming.

Professor Yao had already shifted the topic back to what the two discussed before they first ascended the terrace: ”—Returning to the question you posed before that suit, the so-called special configuration of ’high-level control method’ refers to the driver of the Giant God Soldier being ’Daohua’, completely merging into one. Bypassing the intermediary loss of resonance degree, the living wizard forfeiting his flesh, and the dead legendary remains gaining a whole new consciousness. It’s difficult to define whether this counts as the legend returning from the river of time. But undoubtedly, a fully awakened legend can naturally exert one hundred percent, even hundreds of percent of the Giant God Soldier’s power. Does it sound tempting?”

He tilted his head, sneeringly looking at the boy.

Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly—indeed, if merely losing the flesh were the cost for acquiring the remains of a legendary wizard, this deal was simply too advantageous—even he couldn’t help feeling tempted.

”Equivalence is the primary principle of magic.”

The principal of Jiuyou Academy looked profoundly at his student, solemnly warning: ”Especially since you are a student of Jiuyou Academy, in Jiuyou’s values, ’equality’ is a very important concept... The reason the project group named that ’high-level control method’ as ’Daohua’ is because in calculations, this driving method has repercussions similar to ’Daohua’. That is to say, if you integrate completely with Taiyi, perhaps your consciousness can only maintain the legend fully awakened for one minute, a few dozen seconds, or even a few seconds. For a battle, a few seconds can be enough to turn the tide.

But for the ’Daohua’ wizard, a few seconds later, he will dissipate from this world like a bubble in the sunlight. During this process, you won’t even feel anything. There is no gap between having everything and losing everything.

That’s also why when we chose suitable candidates back then, we repeatedly emphasized the need for a wizard with ’appropriate’ resonance degree. This was to avoid the irreversible consequences in the course of battle caused by the wizard impulsively increasing his resonance degree.”

Zheng Qing let out a long breath.

When he was mumbling softly before that suit, he never anticipated the answer Old Yao gave would be so heavy.

”Then what about Sister Korma?”

He thought of the other special configuration driver chosen alongside him, and raised some curiosity: ”Is she also a suitable candidate? Her...”