High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2867: Chapter 1088: Generation 3.5

”Korma is different from you.”

Professor Yao took the pipe away from his mouth, interrupting the boy, then tapped the pipe on the railing beside the terrace, letting the ash fall into the cloud sea like big snowflakes:

”—She is already a great wizard. The level of life between a great wizard and an ordinary wizard is fundamentally different. Although both are called wizards, the difference is greater than that between humans and fire dragons. At the stage of a great wizard, a wizard has enough understanding and adaptation to the concept of ’great.’ When using the consciousness of a great wizard to drive a legendary carcass, although they cannot fully grasp the power of legend, it is barely enough, and there’s no need to overly insist on resonance and other additional conditions...”

Zheng Qing suddenly thought of the idea that had just flashed through his mind.

”I remember that there was also a great wizard among the seven eligible candidates previously selected by the school...” His tone was somewhat hesitant, as well as slightly indescribably uneasy.

”That’s right, that great wizard was originally our pre-arranged operator of another special configuration. Our requirements for resonance with them were different from the rest of you.”

Old Yao did not deny it; he just looked down, stuffing the golden tobacco he had just taken out of his pocket into the pipe bit by bit, speaking lightly: ”—it’s just a pity that in the Edge One experiment, everyone discovered the huge defect of this project, so the great wizard refused to participate in the subsequent experiments.”

Saying this, a slight sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: ”...it’s not hard to understand. On one side is the long life and prestigious status of the alliance’s great wizard, and on the other is a magic experiment with great risk and life expectancy could be damaged. Especially when there is no upper limit to this risk, and the project team cannot ensure the life safety of participants in subsequent model validations. So, it’s easy for anyone to choose to refuse.”

”Then Sister Korma...”

”Again, she’s different.” Professor Yao held the pipe filled with tobacco, his voice slightly softer: ”She is the promoter of the establishment of Edge Academy, the first vice principal of Edge Academy... When Edge Academy was established, the most important school motto was ’sacrifice’—similar to Alpha’s ’freedom,’ Jiuyou Academy’s ’equality,’ Atlas’s ’faith,’ or Starry Sky’s ’battle’—to you newcomers, these concepts may be subtle influences, but to her, ’sacrifice’ is sacred.”

The professor analyzed simply, without uttering more cruel words.

A spark flickered by.

Whirr—

Blue smoke rose again from the pipe.

”...other than that, unlike you low-level wizards.”

The professor tapped the pipe, exhaling a long breath, ”You are passively enduring the Taoist charm of the giant god soldiers; the legendary level is really too high for you, making you feel tired and hard even if it transforms, it’s passive. But great wizards are different; they have seen the scenery of ’great,’ so after feeling the ’power above greatness,’ they will unconsciously pursue that power actively. This is the instinct of every wizard pursuing truth. This instinct makes them addicted to that power. Like Korma, if she becomes addicted to the pleasure of wielding legendary power and can’t extricate herself, the only result is...”

”Transformation,” the boy muttered in response.

”That’s right, transformation.”

Zheng Qing swallowed, feeling his throat slightly dry and tight. The dean of Jiuyou Academy exposed the cold and cruel operating mode of this world to him with three consecutive ’different.’

He didn’t quite like this kind of world.

The professor tapped the boy’s shoulder, leading him to another direction on the terrace, pointing to the distance: ”—were you just trying to ask about Korma’s special configuration? Look, it’s there...”

In fact, he didn’t need to point.

When Zheng Qing turned around, he saw a massive figure sitting within the cloud sea at a glance. It seemed to be crouching under another red moon, and compared to Zheng Qing’s ’Taiyi,’ Korma’s legendary configuration appeared more slender but also more complete in appearance—at least there were no exposed bones—and moreover, its aura was more active.

Similar to this side.

Beside the slender legendary configuration, a lotus flower was also blooming.

Zheng Qing guessed that Korma should be standing in the center of that lotus at this moment.

The two giants sat opposite each other, each covered by a thin, eggshell-like light film, with blazing auras soaring into the sky, as if they connected with the moon in the sky.

Before comparison, Zheng Qing felt the color tone of the world was exceptionally unified, but just by changing direction, the world seemed to be divided into black and white—or perhaps, it’s not black and white, but merely two opposing colors.

This is the infection of the world by the uncontrolled legendary aura.

Also the result of the collision of legendary auras.

Old Yao’s slightly sentimental voice came from behind the boy: ”—if we say the most precious existence in this world is those two special configurations, then slightly inferior is the ’Phoenix Robe’ enveloping the configuration. It’s what you see, the light film that looks like an eggshell. Don’t look at them as just simple, thin layers; they are the culmination of the Alliance’s barrier techniques. Because on one hand, it needs to isolate the law aura emitted by the special configuration, on the other hand, it must ensure the configuration is connected to the heavens and the earth, and it also has to be tough enough to withstand the invasion and impact of legendary aura...”

”What is its name?” Zheng Qing asked abruptly without turning his head.

The dean’s voice paused for a moment, then answered grumpily: ”—Primordial. Because it was the first special configuration designed and manufactured from scratch by the project team, they named it this, meaning the beginning of everything. Originally, Duzem intended to call it ’Zero,’ like that Giant Zero Three he built before... but after unanimous opposition from the rest of the project team, this name was eventually settled.”

”So, my ’One’ was named ’Taiyi’?” Zheng Qing suppressed the urge to complain and continued to ask: ”And what is its forbidden curse?”

”Like yours, it’s ’Nine Songs.’ The school’s first three generations of forbidden curses are ’complicated in ownership,’ with some resistance to handing them over to Edge Academy... only the fourth-generation forbidden curse, born relatively late, is relatively ’cleaner’...”

Saying this, he glanced at the boy inconspicuously.

Zheng Qing ignored Old Yao’s sly glance, asking in amazement, ”Wait, what song? Isn’t the name of my forbidden curse ’Taiyi’?”

”That’s just you talking to yourself; I never admitted it.”

Old Yao shook his head repeatedly: ”I only said your special configuration is called ’Taiyi’... but it wouldn’t be out of place to use ’Taiyi’ to refer to ’Nine Songs’ because Taiyi is the head of Nine Songs, the god among the ’heaven, earth, human’ trio, and also the last step in the convergence of this forbidden curse. This name is actually to commemorate the third-generation forbidden curse... do you know? The third-generation forbidden curse requires nine great wizards to jointly cast it. And the nine Chapters of ’Nine Songs’ are linked front and back, theoretically, only three great wizards are needed to release it, which is what I just mentioned as ’heaven, earth, human’...”

Zheng Qing scratched his head.

Feeling that the world is too complex.

If not mistaken, the teacher said his ’Order’ is actually the fourth-generation forbidden curse, requiring only one person. What the heck is the ’fourth-generation forbidden curse’ that needs three great wizards!

Is it three and a half generations?