Chapter 25
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One month later in the classroom, I bid a solemn farewell to my first batch of students as Qin Yang. Although it was only two months, as a teacher, I had left a deep impression on the students. I hoped that they wouldn't forget me too quickly after I left. Guffy had not acknowledged me for the entire month, and I felt it was better that way until I left.
"Teacher, will you come back as a permanent teacher? Normally substitute teachers are in their probation period."
"I was just passing time as a substitute teacher. Choosing history was only because it required just moving my lips. If we ever meet again, it'll be a long time."
"What will you do then, Teacher?"
"There's still a battle that I haven't finished."
"A battle? Is the teacher going to save the world!" The students laughed.
"The world may not be saved just because of one battle. You play too many games."
"So, is your opponent very powerful?"
"It depends on your definition of powerful. If it's magical power, he's extremely powerful. If it's inner strength, he considers himself hollow. He believes that defeating himself will bring about miracles." That fake Holy Dragon gave me the impression that he was hollow.
"We've never seen Teacher's Magic. Can you demonstrate it to us before you leave?" The students looked at me curiously.
"Well, forget it. My Magic is not suitable for demonstrations."
At the end of the class, I wrote an outline on the blackboard: "When your teacher returns, there will be a test. This is the outline. Study the internal disturbances of the empire for the past century, boys."
"Do you still want to go back and finish the battle, Qin Yang?" As I was about to dismiss the class, a student sitting in the back who had been sleeping with his head down the entire time stood up.
"Haha, you've been so well-behaved for the past month. I thought you were enjoying being a student too much, Tony." I had always known that Tony had been pretending to be a student and wandering around The Chishin Academy as a Demon Dragon. It was impossible for him to panic just because an enemy appeared. And for the past month, he had been obediently doing what he was supposed to do, which was very strange to me.
Tony kicked his desk away, his elongated demonic sword resting by his left foot, his right hand in a stance ready to unsheathe the sword. It was a completely different attitude from the first time I met him in The Demon Realm, standing calmly on top of a steel building.
"Teacher..." The class monitor glanced at me, as if he had something to say.
"Leave with everyone, including the people in this building."
A girl impatiently said, "Hey, baldy, the teacher hasn't dismissed the class yet!"
"Kids really have no sense of danger." Tony unsheathed his sword in an instant, a golden light flashing. I stood in front of the girl, my hand ablaze with flames, holding the demonic sword emitting purple aura.
"How dare you touch a student..."
"Will I leave any of you alive?" The power of the demonic sword suddenly manifested as an invisible blade energy, bypassing me and attacking the girl. I pushed the girl again, and the blade energy only lightly grazed her skin.
"I know that you feed the King of Rampage in your sword with souls and human blood."
"Do you know what will happen when it absorbs enough blood and souls?"
"Resurrection..." I furrowed my brows, stating this fact that I didn't want to say.
"Haha, you're right!"
"I don't understand why you think a whale that has already died once can defeat me."
"You've been at the highest point for too long, haven't the 13 million years of your disappearance made you realize that? The era will not always belong to you! As long as I'm alive, even if only my soul remains, I will challenge you!"
Tony's determination momentarily shook me with the courage of the younger generation surpassing the older generation, but I cannot be defeated!
"Do humanities teachers have such power? Did we really underestimate them?"
"Did you hear what I just said? Leave!" I shouted at the students, finding it difficult to understand why I had this emotion that I couldn't bear to see students getting hurt. Clearly, the Demon Dragon should be indifferent to life and death, clearly should only be on the side of slaughter, is this what Bai meant by kindness? Should I live as the Demon Dragon or Reisgolo, or as a normal human Qin Yang who sometimes can't tell the difference for no reason.
"Hey, don't get distracted!" Tony's blade turned toward me.
"Ten Thousand Word Utterance: Annihilate!" The large blackboard behind me was shattered, and ten pages of a book floated up, with the word "Annihilate" suspended on each page. Tony suddenly felt suffocated, and his body crackled like electricity.
"The Demon King does have a high resistance to spells, a magic book written by a human? Hahaha... attacking me? It tickles!"
"Teacher Gu, take the students and leave."
"Principal!"
A hunchbacked old woman slowly approached from outside the classroom, Gong Madam, the principal of The Chishin Academy eighteen years ago, with the same level as my father, but unfortunately too old to participate in the border war two years ago.
"Principal! You can't fight against this bald man!"
"Teacher Qin, you bringing personal grudges onto the campus is your fault, and not clearing out the campus terrorists is my fault. The safety of the students, however, is our responsibility!" The hoarse voice of the principal spoke like this.
The principal usually didn't even show up for school meetings, but she appeared at this time completely out of her sense of responsibility for the students.
"Ten Thousand Word Utterance: Gale" The spinning pages of the book instantly swept away all the students in the teaching building.
"You guys are no fun at all. I never even thought about killing students. We need witnesses!"
"Then let me be the witness!" The water pipes in the entire teaching building burst open. The principal clearly didn't know Tony's strength and wanted to use the Magic she had comprehended throughout her life at the beginning of the fight. But unfortunately... she didn't get the chance.
"Boom!" Suddenly, a powerful impact shattered the principal's Magic, and a giant snake head rushed into our classroom. The snake head wore the school uniform, and its face was veiled, belonged to a girl. The snake head was incredibly eerie, as if it had grown a small wing on its head.
"Qing, you're here at the wrong time, there are no spectators!" Tony said.
"...." The girl named Qing raised her left hand, and the snake's mouth opened, its tongue curling around the principal.
"I knew you humans all like to talk about responsibility, unlike us demons. We do as we please." Tony held his magical sword against the principal's neck and said, "We infiltrated here not for Qin Yang, but for you, Gong Madam, the human most compatible with water elements in this era. Your soul is the final key!"
"So Gong Madam is the sacrifice to revive the King of Whales?" I suddenly realized that I had awakened too late.
"Oh? Don't you remember? This is an ancient method passed down from your time."
I almost forgot, blood sacrifice is most often done for the Demon Dragon.
"Tony, release Mrs. Gong and we'll make a trade! I'll give you my soul."
Instantly, God Devourer emerged, the sword's aura was overwhelmingly powerful, causing the shattered walls to collapse instantly. One by one, wailing souls appeared from the sword, all of them being the deceased souls who had perished under the sword.
"Take your pick!"
