High School of Demon Hunting

Dong dong dong.

The slightly urgent knocking suddenly sounded, interrupting Professor Yao’s eloquent speech.

He waved his hand holding the pipe to the side: "—Come in."

The door of the conference room opened silently, revealing a slim figure.

It was Doctor Duzem.

"—I came immediately upon receiving your message." The doctor quickly glanced at the others in the room, a slight hint of surprise flashed in his eyes but was well concealed, he then looked at Professor Yao properly: "But you know, the construction of the No. 2 Prototype is at a critical stage, I might not have much time..."

"Won’t take long, I just need about ten, twenty minutes from you."

Old Yao stuffed the pipe into his mouth, took a deep puff: "—Poof—If nothing unexpected happens, these three will be the pilots for the special configuration, Montelio and Korma have some understanding of it already, you mainly just need to explain to Zheng Qing. Here will do. His time is also tight, he needs to go back for a class."

Zheng Qing couldn’t help but glance at Korma.

She was seemingly observing her nose, her nose observing her heart, appearing immersed in self-awareness.

"Is there a problem?"

The professor couldn’t pretend not to notice the boy’s obvious action, he exhaled a wisp of smoke and jokingly scolded: "Your class schedule is arranged by me, even if it’s just a teaching assistant session, you needn’t skip, unless you plan to skip the Art of Body Transformation?"

The professor for Art of Body Transformation was indeed Old Yao.

He had ample reason to demand Zheng Qing return early.

The boy smiled shyly, raising his hand slightly: "—Here, just tell me here? Vice-President Korma just mentioned taking me to see the special configuration..."

He was sufficiently curious about the Giant God Soldier he might command in the future.

Korma continued to play dead.

Old Yao glanced at her, deftly rejecting the warlock’s curiosity: "Your special configuration is only halfway built, from both safety and confidentiality perspectives, it’s not suitable for you to visit... not even if Vice-President Korma agrees."

The last sentence, he slightly emphasized his tone.

Zheng Qing noticed Korma’s face turned slightly pale.

Doctor Duzem timely cleared his throat, adding: "Another reason is that your battle robe is still adapting to the No. 2 Prototype, you can’t wear it... without the battle robe, you can’t approach the No. 2 Prototype."

Zheng Qing couldn’t help but glare at Korma—just moments ago she had used the excuse of ’changing battle robe’ to push him into this room, now looking back, she indeed had ulterior motives.

He couldn’t help but tighten his robe.

Meanwhile, he grew more curious about the so-called ’battle robe’, wondering what it looked like.

At the moment, however, he had other questions for Doctor Duzem: "You kept mentioning ’No. 2 Prototype’... Does it have anything to do with the ’special configuration’ Professor Yao mentioned?"

Doctor Duzem rubbed his eyes.

Zheng Qing worried he might suddenly pull out his eyeball to clean it.

"Prototype, original machine, special configuration—whatever the name, they all mean the same thing—essentially, it’s a higher-level Giant God Soldier distinguished from the ’Edge Type One.’

The doctor provided an answer that did not surprise Zheng Qing, meanwhile raised his hand to swiftly sketch a humanoid structure diagram in the air: "Compared to Edge Type One, its structure is more humanoid, due to classic magical theory suggesting that humanoid structures are most conducive to magic power operation and release..."

Zheng Qing looked at the glowing structural diagram in mid-air with some fascination.

It appeared like a primitive giant, with slightly longer arms, forearms and palms being particularly wide, with bone spurs on its back, elbows, and knees, its skull devoid of flesh—or possibly there was, but the diagram couldn’t display it—its chest cavity covered with thick plate armor, and it dragged a snake-like tail covered in scales behind it.

Doctor Duzem’s slightly verbose explanation came to his ears:

"—For the No. 2 Prototype, we used the skeleton of the Legendary Giant Artu Groot as its basic structure, here I need to remind you, if you really manage to command the No. 2 Prototype in the future, you must undertake part of Artu Groot’s karma, such as caring for the Groot Clan, this won’t be too troublesome since the Groot Clan has gradually declined and become a marginal race among giants since Artu Groot’s demise. Their introductory passage in the latest version of the ’Wizard World Encyclopedia’ is even shorter than that of the Hill Giants... Besides driving this enormous skeleton, we captured a batch of Mubawa Treemen in Dreamland, with Kabbalah Laboratory’s help, a tree-like neural network was constructed, ensuring immediate signal transmission; moreover, for the filling material between skeletal structures, we chose the altered alien Taisheng by Montreya Laboratory, this edge existence between life and death has strong spell and physical tolerance, as well as a powerful regenerative ability—provided that the nutrient-supplying magic power conduits are not destroyed—these conduits not only supply the No. 2 Prototype’s operation but primarily maintain your vitality. Because once the No. 2 Prototype is activated, it will continuously consume your blood, or in some sense, it’s awakening through the vitality carried in your blood, ensuring that once it’s awakened, you remain unified with it, this is the key to preventing its actual resurrection. Making a legendary being’s skeleton move is simple, but controlling a legendary skeleton requires incredibly delicate methods..."

Zheng Qing’s focus initially remained on the glowing structural diagram.

But soon, as Doctor Duzem’s explanation deepened, he had to concentrate entirely on the doctor’s words, especially the occasionally alarming ’single words.’

Until the doctor paused slightly.

The boy hurriedly asked, full of unease: "—From what you’re saying, I’m not operating this special configuration in the synchronization chamber?"

Doctor Duzem stared at him with dead fish eyes, confirming he wasn’t joking.

"Of course not!"

He sounded somewhat disappointed, seemingly worried about the No. 2 Prototype’s future destiny for a moment: "Even with Edge Type One, achieving complete command requires the wizard and Giant God Soldier to become as one... remote operation in the synchronization chamber only happens during preliminary trials. For high-level entities like No. 2 Prototype, if you lack the consciousness of a legendary wizard, remote manipulation of its physical activities is absolutely impossible."

Professor Yao, who had been listening quietly on the side, seemed to know Zheng Qing’s concerns.

"Don’t worry too much," he drew a tiny circle in the air with his pipe, smiling and comforting: "During your first test drive, several of us will be on-site watching... there won’t be any issues."

A legendary wizard’s words hold more persuasive power.

Especially since he drew a little circle.