High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2903: Chapter 1122: Loose Lips Sink Ships

While cursing inwardly, Zheng Qing quickly sorted out a series of key points.

To impersonate a Great Wizard in front of an established Legend, first, one must be at least of the Great Wizard level; secondly, they must have a substantial understanding of Elder Ruoyu; lastly, and most importantly, the impersonator must have had direct or close contact with the impersonated recently.

Moreover, the timing is crucial.

Before confirming as an eligible ’Primordial,’ Korma’s freedom is relatively high, with certain limitations of school attention, theoretically, this phase is the easiest for impersonation.

But at the time of becoming an eligible, she will definitely undergo thorough and extensive checks by the school. If the impersonator switches identity before this, the risk is high, with a great chance of exposure.

More importantly, only confirming Korma as an eligible ’Primordial’ makes this identity swap meaningful.

Thus, the swap can only occur recently, just as the school confirms Korma to replace the Great Wizard who abandoned the eligible status, after making the final choice between the two Vice Deans of Edge College.

There is no doubt that since confirming as an eligible ’Primordial,’ Korma will surely receive more attention and protection from the school, making it extremely difficult to ’replace’ her quietly.

The best option is if this ’cat swap for prince’ drama was agreed upon and cooperated proactively by Korma. Just considering the hope and determination she showed during conversations with Zheng Qing, it doesn’t seem like she would willingly give up the ’Primordial’ status.

If proactive cooperation fails, they must find a way to ’convince’ her.

Then it returns to the previous limiting conditions—Korma is already under tight surveillance by the school, achieving this ’convincing’ without alerting third parties is extremely difficult, requiring the school’s attention to be elsewhere for a chance of success.

And recently, there’s only one event that truly diverted the school’s attention.

The unexpected eclipse.

Very coincidentally, during the eclipse, an incident occurred at No. 33 Gu Diao Street, in which one Great Wizard was injured, and another Great Wizard went missing.

In a flash of insight, Zheng Qing felt his thoughts had never been clearer.

And under that series of musts.

The only answer became apparent—especially the last sentence the ’impersonator’ mentioned at the altar center, ’...what did you feel from me?’

Through the heavy armor of Edge Alpha, Zheng Qing felt a chill penetrating deeper.

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Noticing the young wizard’s unusual silence and intense emotional fluctuation.

The impersonator belatedly realized.

That slightly mechanical voice resounded in the cave plaza again, with a hint of realization: ”——Oh, so you didn’t see through it, just guessed it by chance?”

Before the voice finished.

The sharp, shrill voice of Edge Alpha echoed within the cave: ”...Professor Montreya?”

Silence was awkward amidst the flute and organ.

The cave plaza was silent at this moment.

The witch at the altar center finally moved her gaze from her palm, slightly turned her head, looked at Zheng Qing, and after a moment of silence, that mechanical, cold voice resounded again above the cave: ”——Ah, it was my mistake.”

Obviously, he realized his identity was suddenly exposed by Zheng Qing because of a slip from himself.

The old saying ’too much talk leads to loss’ did not deceive me.

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Compared to the impersonator’s calmness.

Zheng Qing was instead a bit confused again—just as a few minutes ago, when he hadn’t expected the other to be so honest, now he didn’t expect the other to be so candid.

Suspended in midair.

He even forgot to struggle.

Just twisted his neck, straining to look at the graceful figure at the altar center, his consciousness seemed to explode as countless questions arose at once—

Why?

Why did he attack Korma? Why did he turn into a crow? Why choose this time? Why so candid? Why let the crow attack him? What’s the situation with the spirit seed that disappeared in his body? Why leave the laboratory key to him? How did he accomplish all this? Why didn’t Elder Ruoyu discover him? Was Elder Ruoyu in cahoots with him? Who else at the school colluded with the crow? Does the school know he is that big crow? He is the Vice Dean of Edge Academy, clearly with safer and more secure ways, why take risks?

One after another, countless ’whys’ surged out, blocking Zheng Qing’s throat, giving him a strong sense of déjà vu—perhaps when Thomas tied him on the test bench, he felt this mental impact.

Only compared to last time, this time, his tolerance level had notably increased.

”You...”

After uttering the first word, Zheng Qing instantly felt inappropriate, paused, revised the address, and asked the question he was most curious about: ”——How did you evade Mr. Ruoyu? A Transformation Technique? Some special confusion spell? Or a powerful magic artifact?”

He speculated various possibilities, very worried to hear such replies as ’Mr. Ruoyu knows my identity’ ’Oh, our Vice Principal is also a big raven’.

Fortunately, the situation wasn’t that bad.

”It’s a minor outcome from the Montreya Laboratory.”

Perhaps because he was wearing someone else’s ’skin,’ the impersonator naturally used that laboratory’s ’common name,’ the voice echoing in the cave plaza was still mechanical and cold, yet entirely devoid of the usual rigidity and rigor:

”——You know, a part of our laboratory’s research focuses on bloodline studies, wherein one important topic is ’rejection,’ i.e., how different bloodlines can truly ’merge into one’ during fusion? ’Surface flesh swap’ is quite an excellent breakthrough.

This project’s inspiration actually comes from our respected Vice Principal Ruoyu, you know, he has a nickname in school, called ’man in the casing,’ meaning he’s too rigid... In short, that small project succeeded but failed the school’s review because it’s not ’civilized,’ requiring stripping the impersonated person’s flesh. The school’s academic achievement evaluation committee’s old fogeys deemed it akin to black magic, so it was directly banned.

But this magic can be banned for others, not its inventor.

A while ago, I stripped my own flesh, made it into a casing, having Gan Ning substitute me in class. It worked well; from Legends downward, nobody at the school realized it wasn’t me... I guess one very crucial reason is that this is school, everybody is very polite, eyes cannot see through, no one would impolitely use Divine Thought recklessly to poke around others.”