Chapter 201

Soul Search Technique, on the Tianming Continent, this magic continent, is a very common spell, with low learning difficulty.

However, its prevalence is not high, after all this thing involves ethics and morality; use it too much, and you'll be labeled with the hat of "Abyss Erosion".

But moral stuff, for Big Boss, are there limitations? Naturally, there are none.

He even feels his own moral bottom line is too high.

Of course, Soul Search Technique also isn't without limitations; on one hand, it's only effective against targets with Spiritual Power lower than his own, on the other hand, the memories that can be probed are only those within one or two days.

There are also higher-rank Soul Search Techniques on the Tianming Continent, but those are all forbidden books; Big Boss hasn't gotten his hands on them yet.

But fortunately, the current Nespu is bound by Magic Ban, his strength is already beneath him.

His life has been tortured by the two-out-one-dog until only a flickering candle in the wind remains; there's no need for any high-stage Soul Search Technique either.

Big Boss let out a light laugh, his dual pupils releasing purple Lightning, Bu Qi Zhi Ren surging into his palm, pressing onto Nespu's head.

"Don't, you damn bastard, you this Demon, Soul Search, hehe, the Full Moon Queen actually has a student like you, evil to the brim! Ah!!!"

The ultimate pain of the Soul Search Technique made Nespu unable to hold back a howl.

His eyes were bloodshot, his eyeballs nearly falling out of their sockets.

That call with the Limb Grafting Crown Prince, and the Wrathful Father God, appeared completely, originally and entirely, before Big Boss's eyes.

Minutes later, Big Boss loosened his head, laughing lightly: "Compared to what you've done, I count as a moral model, Dean Nespu, oh no, should be Traitor to Humanity, Nespu."

"Hah..." Nespu collapsed on the ground, panting heavily, but his gaze held no fear, only thick mocking and venomous resentment:

"Traitor to Humanity? Brat, what do you know?!"

"The Tianming Continent is already beyond saving! Fighting like this will only lead to being nibbled away bit by bit, not even a wisp of spark left!"

"I serve the Wrathful Father God, just to find another way out for my World!"

"Another way out?" Mu sneered, stepping one foot onto Nespu's face: "Your so-called another way out is to betray your own kind, and keep company with the butchers who slaughter them? Have some shame!"

Although he was born a bit human, his sense of justice is full, a typical War God Family member.

"Hehe, that's because they deserve to die!" Nespu, stepped on by Mu, the venom on his face deepened: "They are backward, they are weak, they are no match for the Abyss, the backward get beaten, the weak deserve to die!"

"You TMD!" Mu was truly enraged this time, exerting force under his foot, nearly stomping Nespu's head to pieces.

"What qualifications do you have to be angry, why would you be angry?" Nespu laughed wildly: "The Abyss has eroded the Tianming Continent so many times, why didn't you die? Why did those civilians die?"

"Isn't it just because you're stronger than them, so you're qualified to live?"

"The weak are meat, the strong eat; the weak can only beg for the strong's protection, kneel subserviently under the strong's feet, this is the Ancient unchanging Zhen Xi."

"The Abyss is much stronger than the Tianming races, much more advanced, why should we resist stubbornly? Why resist the World's truth?"

"The Wrathful Father God promised me, to liberate the Tianming Continent; then, all people can transform into Abyss Demon Race! We can become the most advanced, strongest race!"

"And I, will become the leader of these new Demon Race, become their King!"

Nespu gritted his teeth, forcibly twisting his head under Mu's sole: "Heh, Traitor to Humanity? I'm not any Traitor to Humanity, I am the Savior, I am the Savior guiding the Tianming Continent's transformation!"

"You, you're simply a Feng Bao..." Mu looked at Nespu, swallowing his saliva.

He only felt his hair stand on end, a chill to the bone.

Just how twisted a person must be, to come up with such Logic.

Not just him, Regina and Kalinina, also all looked at Nespu with ashen faces.

This dying Bastard, no begging for mercy, no wailing, only unbridled wild laughter.

For a moment, they actually produced an illusion of being unable to refute.

As if, what this Bastard said, really was the World's truth.

"Truly boring value output, Dean." Big Boss let out a light laugh, using his pinky to scratch his ear:

"Bottom line, you just want to go be the Abyss Demon Race's dog, right? Yapping what nonsense here? Will the Wrathful Father God give you a few more big bones?"

"Heh, I have nothing to say to mediocre people." Nespu sneered: "Originally thought since you could devise a scheme against the Wrathful One, you should've long seen through this World's reality; now it seems, I Overthought it."

"I'm very curious." Big Boss scratched his ear again: "From your memory, you're the Limb Grafting Crown Prince's teacher, his Limb Grafting technique was also researched by you, but, you two's ideals have a huge divergence, ah."

"Divergence of ideals? Don't act like you know the Limb Grafting Crown Prince well, how do you know his ideal is——" Nespu spoke to here, his gaze trembled, then revealed a surprised expression: "So that's it, you are…… that Xiu Si Da Er."

"Old Thing, your brain turns really fast." Big Boss laughed noncommittally: "The Crown Prince chatted with me about his wish; although he's also a not-human thing, compared to you, he's much more human-like."

"At least he truly wishes to shake off all shackles pressing on his head, rather than go be someone else's dog."

"Heh, shake off shackles? You call that disgusting appearance of his, covered in all kinds of arms, shaking off shackles?"

"Periodically swapping bodies, or they rot, also called shaking off shackles?"

"Personality becoming violent, killing, suspicious, even unable to let others see his true face, that's also called shaking off shackles?" Nespu's face surfaced with madness: "He's just my Experiment, a disgusting failure, his existence just tells me, humans no matter how many means they exhaust, are still just turning from ants into stronger ants! You lot are a bunch of inferior creatures!"

"Want salvation, want Evolution, must shake off human shackles! Want Evolution, so what if being a dog? Father God promised, to let me transform into high-rank Demon Race, I can break through the Tenth Rank Shackle, I can become a Demigod!"

"You bunch of ants, this life you'll never have this chance, you want to be dogs, you'll never have the chance either! Hahahaha!!!"

"How about it? Big Boss, there's still a chance now!"

Nespu looked at Big Boss ferociously, yet his words took a turn: "If you're willing, I can introduce you to the Wrathful His Majesty, your wisdom is not beneath mine, you and I are the same, able to gain the chance to transform into Demon Race!"

"A talent like you, no need to bind yourself to the Tianming Continent, in the Abyss, you can get a Larger stage, right?"

"Sorry, I have zero interest in being someone else's dog." Big Boss scratched his ear, thought a bit and said: "But there is a certain Abyssal Deity who wants to be my dog."

"Heh? Deity, be your dog? Hehe, Fool's Dream idiot." Nespu looked at Big Boss like looking at a Scarecrow/Idiot.

"Believe it or not, up to you." Big Boss shrugged.

"Truly a youth that cannot be taught, fine, since words don't match, do it." Nespu regained calm: "Kill me."

"You seem not afraid at all?" Big Boss raised an eyebrow.

"Why should I be afraid?" Nespu mocked looking at Big Boss: "This is the Trial Gate, people who die here, don't really die, just lose memories."

"When I go back, I fundamentally won't remember you, let alone fear and dread."

"Same for you, you won't remember me either, right? You won't remember what you did in the Trial, won't remember what I said, won't even remember I'm the 'dog' in your mouths."

"Otherwise, why would I dare tell you my thoughts?"

"When it comes down to it, you can't do anything to me." The mockery on Nespu's face grew thicker; he looked into Big Boss's eyes, his mouth corner stretching all the way to his ear roots:

"Ah, this is all thanks to you, little friend Li Cheng; it was you who opened the Secret Realm Trial, and the rules of this trial are my reliance! Hahaha, you lost, you picked up a stone and smashed your own foot, hahahaha!"

"Come on, kill me, kill me in your helpless rage!"

"Then, in the self-reproach of being unable to transmit the information out, suffer! Hahaha!"

"You, you can't do anything, because you're just an inferior human, a backward race!"

"Damn it, I f*cking... ah!!!"

Mu's eyes blazed with jealousy; he angrily lifted his foot and stomped on the ground next to Nespu's head, smashing out a deep pit.

If he could, he really wanted to stomp this guy's head to a pulp with one foot.

But as he said, killing him would solve nothing.

The trial's rules restricted everyone.

"Bastard, this bastard..." Karenina clenched her fists, knocking on her head: "Move, my birth head, think for me, just how to deal with this bastard!"

But no matter how she pondered, she couldn't think of even a single method to turn the situation around.

Usually that little head full of whimsical ideas was now frozen, unable to think of anything.

Although Shana couldn't understand what the group was thinking or saying, she still perceived everyone's emotions; her ears drooped down, and even her tail stopped wagging.

Regina was even more so.

Although she probably already understood that Big Boss's group had entered inside the World Tree's trial, and she was one of the plot characters in it.

And she wasn't restricted by the World Tree, probably because she had already signed a contract with Big Boss, becoming his property.

Although she didn't know how Big Boss managed to open such a World Tree Gate, Regina knew clearly that the World Tree's rules cannot be bypassed.

For trial-type secret realms, whether dead or alive, when leaving, memories cannot be retained.

The fact that this bastard is a traitor to humanity, no one will be able to remember.

"Damn it!" She clenched her fist tight and fiercely smashed it against the wall nearby.

Such helplessness, such powerlessness, reminded her of herself.

Reminded her of her mother's death, of being arranged by her father to go undercover, of her sister colliding with her own lance.

"Why... every time, am I this powerless..."

"You're not powerless." Just then, Big Boss's voice rang out: "Regina, you are the key to solving this matter."

"What? Me?" The face-paralysis female knight lifted her head: "I'm to solve this matter?"

"Hahaha, brat, have you lost your mind?" Nespu laughed wildly: "No one can bypass the World Tree's limitation, not even an Eight Rank knight! Ah hahahaha!!"

"Hmm, what you said is correct." Big Boss looked at Nespu, revealing a sunny smile: "But the prerequisite for having memories erased is being a trial participant."

"What?" Nespu's smile came to an abrupt stop; he stared blankly at Regina: "She's not a trial participant? No, impossible. If she's not a trial participant, why am I still here, why are you all still here?"

"Heh, you guess?" Big Boss laughed out loud.

That's right, this was his trump card.

From the first time he signed the Knight's Oath with Regina, Big Boss had discovered this fact.

After all, the Knight's Oath is the deepest soul binding; even if Big Boss didn't tell Regina his true identity, she could still perceive that her soul essence was not the Furious God General.

But after this female knight learned her identity, she didn't trigger that rule which would forcibly eject her.

Originally Big Boss had also thought of using Sigil Transfer, converting the cost of himself being ejected onto the Great Love Magic Dog, but unexpectedly it wasn't needed.

He initially thought this was because Regina was his contracted servant, equivalent to property, similar to Shana and Nightingale, so she wouldn't eject him.

So he did another experiment, letting Mu expose his identity in front of her.

Unexpectedly, Mu wasn't ejected either.

Truly a pity.

But also because of this experiment, Big Boss could confirm that her identity lay between this instance's original NPC and Big Boss's contracted summon.

She couldn't trigger the World Tree's taboo.

And because she wasn't a trial participant, she didn't need to pass through the World Tree's Gate to return to the original world, so naturally her memories wouldn't be cleaned up.

So, obviously, Regina is a BUG, a small BUG in this game.

And for Evil Path Players, exploiting BUGs, isn't that a matter of course? "No, damn it, damn! Damn! Damn! You actually bypassed the rules, how could you bypass the rules!"

Right then, panic finally surfaced on Nespu's face.

"Heh, I thought you'd always keep that composed appearance, Dean Nespu." Big Boss still maintained a harmless smile.

"..."

Nespu gritted his teeth; he had originally thought everyone present was a trial participant, so he dared speak recklessly, so he dared pour out the words suppressed in his heart for so long with no outlet.

But he never expected that damn Li Cheng would actually scheme against him.

He didn't know what method he used, but he actually bypassed the secret realm's limitation.

This time, he was exposed, thoroughly exposed.

If the trial ends, and that woman is still alive.

The information that he's a mole would be transmitted back; at that time, he would lose everything he has.

No, that's not right, it's not like that...

Nespu was nervous, but then seemed to think of something; his mouth corner suddenly hooked up: "Heh, old man almost got bluffed by you, Li Cheng."

"So what if she knows my identity?"

"I am the Northern Academy's Dean, a 10th Rank Strong One, the Tianming Continent's 'Guardian God'!"

"And her? She's just a Dark Elf of the Abyss!"

"She says I'm a mole, so I'm a mole?"

"A Dark Elf, a Grand Mage — you tell me, would those foolish humans like them believe who?"

"The truth? Hahahaha, I am the truth, I am the law! Li Cheng, your trick won't work, won't work!"

"And besides, does she dare to expose me?"

"Hehe, outside isn't like the trial; I can contact the Furious Father God His Majesty at any time, I can easily kill her!"

"Hahaha, feel free to try; let's see whether you beat me, or I play her to death!"

Saying this, Nespu laughed again, and this time, even more arrogantly than before.

Everyone present looked at his face and felt as disgusted as if they had eaten a fly.

Karenina was so angry her limbs went numb; she wished she could tear this old pretender into eight pieces right now.

After great difficulty she found a method to deal with a general, but it had no effect at all.

Instead, she was mocked back by this guy.

Regina was also in great pain, and at the same time, she began to blame herself.

It was a pity that her strength was still too weak.

If she were also Tenth Rank, returning to Tianming Continent and revealing her identity, she might not be unable to deal with this bastard Nespu.

But unfortunately, she was only Eighth Rank.

Compared to Nespu this Great Magus, the gap was too great.

Not to mention the world of difference in identity and status between the two.

A sense of powerlessness once again wrapped her.

"Hmm, Dean Nespu, you're right about this one." Li Cheng nodded: "Indeed, no one would believe that you, a Tenth Rank Great Magus, would abandon the position of Magic Academy Dean revered by tens of thousands to become a dog of the Abyss."

"Hehe, as long as you know." Nespu showed no ripple at all toward Li Cheng's sarcasm.

No matter what you say, the result will not change in any way.

"But there's a premise to all this." Li Cheng shrugged again, showing a sunny smile: "The premise is that you have to be human, not of the Demon Race."

"What did you say?" Nespu looked at Li Cheng doubtfully.

He could of course understand the meaning in Li Cheng's words.

This youth was saying that he could turn himself into a member of the Demon Race.

How could that be possible?

Converting other lifeforms into Abyss Demon Race—that was something even the Abyss gods His Majesties could not do.

Even Furious His Majesty only promised to lead himself before the will of the Abyss, letting that great will reshape his body.

You, a mere student, even if your strength improves rapidly and truly reaches the level of Divine General.

But something even gods cannot do, how could you, a Divine General, possibly do?

Thinking of this, he laughed out loud: "So I am of the Demon Race, hehe, I didn't even know that myself~"

"Rest assured, you will achieve your dream soon, Dean Nespu." And Li Cheng still laughed lightly, drawing the Sword of Terminus from his bosom.

The moment that sword was drawn, Regina's expression became off.

Crimson to an extreme degree.

She recognized at a glance that it was this sword, which had shattered her armor and her disguise.

And just like her, the one whose expression suddenly changed was also Nespu.

He felt it, the extremely rich Abyss Power emanating from that sword.

If speaking solely of the purity of Abyss Power, even that on Furious Father God was not as rich as on that sword.

"This... this is what..."

"Heh, this is what you've been longing for day and night." Li Cheng laughed, wiping the blade: "A ritual sword that can turn you into a member of the Abyss Demon Race."

【End Dagger】, this dagger in the PC version that turned Liuli into a Corrupt Dragon and caused the destruction of Tianming Continent, was originally absolutely impossible to obtain in the first act.

Not to mention that in the PC version, this thing only existed in background stories and players could not get it.

Even if one could get it, one would need to go to Storm King City after Full Moon Academy was destroyed and the entire Tianming Continent fell into a sea of fire.

Find Liuli and kill this "Official Heroine."

But now, Li Cheng had obtained it early, not only obtained it, but also turned it into a weapon usable for combat.

Touching the dowry of the dragon girl below, he felt a mixture of emotions.

Her posture, her scent, her Dragon Roar kept flashing through his mind.

"Impossible, impossible, that... that kind of power, only the Great Will of the Abyss possesses! Impossible, you're lying to me, you're lying to me!"

The arrogance on Nespu's face had vanished.

Replaced by fear, and the shock of a shattered worldview.

Furious Father God had told him that only the Abyss Will could transform his life form.

He also believed it and took it as truth.

Nespu had always been a studious person; he was intelligent, agile, and exceptionally talented.

He longed to know the truth of the world, so he studied magic, studied prayer, studied the history of sects.

And it was then that he discovered that in countless religious legends, there were stories of gods creating humans.

But the Gods of Heavenly Mandate did not possess the authority to create life. He realized that these gods were nothing but false gods.

They were not perfect either.

That was Nespu's most painful moment; he wanted to find why he came and where he came from.

But all knowledge in the world would not give him this answer.

Nespu did not accept all this; he thought, since gods were merely false gods stronger than humans, then if humans possessed abilities similar to theirs, could humans also see the scenery in their eyes?

So, he invented the technique of Limb Grafting.

So, he created the Limb Grafting Crown Prince, a lifeform that disgusted him and made him nauseous.

How can a god exist in such a posture?

For the first time in his life, Nespu gave birth to the thought of wanting to give up.

Just then, the Enraged Father God found him.

The Father God brought him to the depths of the Abyss Holy Hall, where he saw that vast, huge, majestic, indescribable Great Will.

He saw, He let the dead Abyss Demon Race revive, reincarnate.

He saw, He converted other lives into Abyss Demon Race.

At that moment, Nespu saw the true God.

Those are things only a God can do!

To become that God's creation, he would rather be a dog.

But now, the youth before him told him.

It's not that only a God can do these things, he can too.

In this instant, Nespu's Arrive Heart shattered.

All his persistence, all his devotion, shattered.

What remained was only the instinct to survive, and fear of future death.

He was no longer a mage who considered himself superior to everyone, but more like a wretched old man who had lost everything.

"No, no, don't, I don't want you to convert me, only the Great Will can convert me, only God, only my God, don't come over, don't come over!"

He struggled desperately, wriggling on the ground, wanting to leave this place.

Fresh blood gushed wildly from his severed limb wounds, dragging five lines of blood across the ground.

Li Cheng wasn't in a hurry to chase him, instead reaching out to Regina: "Come."

"Ah? Me?" Regina was baffled.

"Mm, I promised you before, right?" Li Cheng smiled: "I'll accompany you, to launch revenge against everyone who hurt you."

"Wh... what do you mean?" Regina looked at the wriggling Nespu: "He... is also my enemy?"

"Mm." Li Cheng nodded: "Dean Nespu, do you still remember, the Elf hand you grafted onto your failed product, whose body did it come from?"

"I... how would I know what she was called?" Nespu crawled laboriously, crawling toward the main gate, he had already seen the dawn outside that gate: "Heh, anyway, I only grafted that one Elf, seemed to be the Ling Wang's former lover? Called something Feng..."

"Feng Weiniya."

"Right, Feng Weiniya."

Nespu was crawling, but suddenly froze, he blankly turned his head, seeing Regina take off the black hood she wore on her head.

Chestnut short hair and signature Elf ears were exposed, on that absolutely beautiful and heroic face, tears had already blurred her makeup.

That face, Nespu had seen before.

Or rather, he had seen a face, seven or eight parts similar to that face.

A face wailing, in pain, begging him to kill her.

But he refused, because grafting while alive wouldn't affect the quality of those limbs.

"You... you are..."

"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!"

Regina abruptly snatched the Long Sword from Li Cheng's hand, roaring as she rushed before Nespu, raised the Long Sword, and viciously stabbed it into this bastard's lower abdomen.

"You... you're her daughter... damn you... you, you set me up... no, don't stab me, don't, I don't want you to turn me into a demon... ah!!"

"I didn't, I didn't do it on purpose... that was just an experiment."

"Yes, I did it for humanity, so humanity could ascend to a higher ladder..." Nespu endured the tearing pain in his lower abdomen, defending himself: "Believe me, believe me, your mother died smiling, really, really!!!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! You die, die!"

"Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!!!!"

Regina pulled the Long Sword out again and again, and stabbed the Long Sword into Nespu's body again and again.

Lower abdomen, chest, side waist, neck...

She knew where every vital point of the human body was.

So, she precisely avoided those vital points.

She wanted to vent onto this bastard's body, exactly as they were, the pain her mother suffered.

And Li Cheng also cooperated by activating 【Great Love Poem Chapter】, amplifying Nespu's pain perception by 40 times.

Li Cheng Master wouldn't miss the chance to harvest Beautiful Energy.

Of course, to not let Regina get stimulated, he thoughtfully turned off the special effect that converts "don't want" into "happiness".

"No, don't, pain, so painful."

"Kill me... kill me..."

"Please, kill me, kill me!"

"I was wrong, don't continue, I deserve to die, I deserve to die, you kill me!"

Nespu had flesh sliced off knife by knife, his skin and muscle fibers long since severed, exposing ghastly White Bones.

Under 40 times pain perception, his eyes were dead gray, nearly losing consciousness.

This punishment comparable to death by a thousand cuts made him regret coming to this Secret Realm, regret falling into Li Cheng's hands.

It continued like this for nearly 40 minutes.

Regina abruptly lifted the sword, aimed at Nespu's head which long had no Human Appearance and no consciousness, and viciously stabbed it in.

The Long Sword pierced into the brain marrow, his body merely twitched a nerve reflex, then moved no more.

All those sliced-off chunks of flesh Annihilated into Dust, disappearing without a trace.

Regina just like that held the Sword Hilt of that sword, bit by bit knelt down.

Two lines of hot tears slid from the corners of her eyes, turning into drops of pearls, soaking the ground.

Her face, which should have been face paralysis, was now completely twisted together in a hideous grimace, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing.

Yes, it is impossible for both the emotions of laughter and crying to appear on a single face simultaneously.

But she just appeared like this, irrefutably.

Carrying the sorrow of despair, and the hope of fortune.

"Mother, I have avenged you, Mother..."

Li Cheng walked to her side and patted her shoulder.

The system prompt had already sounded; the End Times Space had transformed Nespu into the Demon Race, and moreover... it was the lowest level kind.

The layout was already complete; the rest was just to think of a way to contact Vivian and have her send people to deal with Nespu.

"Master..."

Just then, Regina's voice softly rang out.

She clenched her fists, and besides sadness, there was self-doubt in her voice.

"You say, my mother, really died smiling just as Nespu said?"

"Mm, I think, it should be so." Li Cheng also squatted down and spoke softly.

Regina's body suddenly trembled, her nails digging ruthlessly into her flesh.

"But..." Li Cheng continued: "Not because of anything, for humanity to climb the ladder of evolution. But because she fulfilled her promise to your father."

"She believed...

"She saved her two children."

"Wuwuwuwu!!! Why... why was she so stupid... she clearly could have escaped... could have escaped..."

"I know all of it... she was the most outstanding... most outstanding... Elf, how could she... not escape?"

Regina abruptly turned, tackling Li Cheng to the ground, hugging him tightly, wailing loudly on his chest.

Tears completely soaked the chest of the rising Dong Xi.

His palm rested on the Elf Princess's head, gently stroking.

"Sleep a while; when you wake up afterwards, it will be much better."

"I, I really, I... Master... thank you, really thank you... wuwuwu."

"Alright, don't say anymore."

Li Cheng looked through the skylight at the moon that was about to take its final bow, the corner of his mouth curling up slightly.

And Karenina, also dragging Shana with one hand and Mu with the other, consciously left the room.

The long night stretched on, the lamp fire already extinguished.

Apart from the girl's weeping, all was utterly silent. — Another side.

Northern Magic Academy.

"Hu!"

Nespu abruptly opened his eyes.

Immediately after, only hearing an "ah" sound, he fell from the chair onto the ground.

A fear and pain penetrating to the bone marrow also exploded at this moment; he covered his head, rolling on the ground.

"Damn it, what's going on, didn't I go inside the trial? Isn't memory supposed to be wiped? Damn it!"

Just like that, after being tortured by pain for nearly thirty minutes, he finally panted heavily and crawled up from the ground.

"Is it an aftereffect? Of the trial? Or did something happen inside..."

Pinching his brow, a complacent expression appeared on Nespu's face.

While scratching his back with one hand, he said confidently: "Heh, however, since I've already come back, that means this trial has already ended."

"Hahaha, Full Moon Queen, this time, I won!"

That's right, Nespu with his memory wiped was very confident in himself.

Joke, a Dean entering the Secret Realm to deal with a bunch of students.

Would he lose? Would he lose??

Would he lose??? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! "Heh, who knows how many students I killed inside, how many Blessings I got, tsk tsk tsk, huh, not right, how come even the Final Settlement memory is gone?"

Dean Nespu scratched the back of his hand while full of doubt: "Strange, logically speaking, win or lose, shouldn't there be a Final Settlement?"

He scratched his thigh again, the doubt in his brow growing thicker.

He couldn't figure out the answer to the problem.

"Forget it, if I can't think of it, I'll just ask others, my students should have all come back too, heh." Nespu scratched his face skin again and sent a voice transmission outside the room:

"Someone come, have the trial participants all come in to see me."

Two seconds later, the door was pushed open.

Huh, how come they came so fast... in Nespu's increasingly doubtful gaze, the student outside the door, carrying a book, walked in: "Director Adult, the trial participants haven't come back yet, you forgot—"

"Bang!"

The student's words stopped halfway, abruptly cut off; the Magic Book he held in his hands also fell to the ground.

His fingers trembled as they moved upward, his face showing the terror of seeing the most fearsome life in the world.

"You, you..."

"What 'me'? So flustered, what kind of decorum is this!"

Startled by his expression, Nespu in his panic fiercely scratched his face and pointed at the student, cursing angrily.

This student was his confidant, and like him, extremely interested in the Abyss.

A member of the Traitor Unit.

He acted with steady caution; any "dirty work" could be handed to him, yet who knew what was going on today — he was this panicked.

And it was right at this moment that he felt a sudden chill on his face.

And on his fingers, there was also a sticky, gooey sensation.

He lowered his head and looked at that sticky stuff, only to see a sloughed skin, like a snake's yet also like a lizard's, entwined between his fingers.

"Th-this, what thing is this? How would my hands have this stuff?"

"This is... something pulled off from my face?"

Nespu, still shaken, looked at his own hand, then turned his head to look at that full-length mirror inside the room.

In that mirror, wrapped inside the wide mage robe, was not an old man.

But a lizard whose skin was continuously cracking.

As a scholar with boundless reverence for the Abyss, Nespu knew very well what that thing was.

Abyss Magic Lizard, the most inferior Abyss race, generally used to cut off the tail for brewing wine, or strip the skin to make armor.

No right to reincarnate at the Abyss Will there; living consumables, the most unwelcome existence.

Although Abyss Magic Lizards all walk crouching, the one in the mirror was standing.

But doesn't matter; no matter from what angle you look, this thing is an Abyss Magic Lizard.

"Wait, this... how is this possible? My, my room, why would there be an Abyss Magic Lizard?" Nespu stared blankly at the mirror.

A fearful thought had already flashed through his mind.

But he was unwilling to believe it.

Absolutely not.

Right at this moment, a miserable scream of panic pushed to the extreme exploded from the mouth of the student in front: "Monster! Monster! Dean Nespu has turned into an Abyss demon! Monster ah!"

He howled while twisting his head and running straight out of the room.

"You wait! Damn it, I told you to wait!"

Nespu subconsciously reached out to stop him, yet never expected his own arm to suddenly whoosh — singing, transforming into a sharp blade, flying forth with lightning speed, directly piercing through that student's back and nailing him straight to the wall.

That student, until death, still kept his eyes wide open, dying without peaceful rest.

"What's going on! What happened to Director Adult!"

Right at this time, the room's door was smashed open.

One by one, Nespu's confidants, members of the Traitor Unit, rushed in; they all held staves in their hands, thinking their teacher had encountered danger.

Then, they saw the scene of their companion nailed dead to the wall.

"No, it's not like this, this must be a misunderstanding, you listen to me, this is a misunderstanding!"

Nespu hurriedly stretched out his other hand, making body language wanting to explain.

Yet unexpectedly, this hand also turned into a sharp blade, flying straight toward his students.

In just the blink of an eye, two more students' heads were cut into debris.

"Mon, monster!"

"It's a monster! Dean Nespu has been possessed by a monster!"

"Run fast, run fast!"

The remaining few students hurriedly turned around, shouting as they fled toward the door.

And Nespu, looking at their back views, only felt a surge of anger rise in his heart.

Click, click, click...

His heartbeat continuously accelerated; his lizard eyes were full of rage.

"You, you didn't say..."

"You like Abyss demons, right? Didn't you say you yearned to become Abyss demons?"

"You bunch of spawn, this bunch of Lord Ye who loves dragons only in theory idiots!"

"I want to kill all, I want to kill you all!"

Blades dancing wildly, a tragic slaughter unfolded on the top floor of the Northern Magic Academy.

(Chapter Complete)