Chinese professors at the Wizarding Academy

A dark green streak tore through the night sky, leaving a long trail, and crashed straight into a distant black tower.

"It shouldn't be that simple..."

"That's the Sealing Tower... I have a bad feeling about this..."

Gu Chen rushed out of the shattered tent and looked up. He didn't really know what had just happened. He had only observed the tombstone and reversed the flow of various energies flowing into Joebeck's body, which caused the chaos.

Logically speaking, since the Joe Baker was blown into a white light, there shouldn't be any problem...

But Gu Chen frowned deeply; why was the light from the explosion heading towards the distant sealing tower...?

He had never been to that place, but he knew that the Sealing Tower held a very important position in all of the current affairs.

"Tsk..."

Gu Chen looked at the camp, which was now in complete chaos.

Firelight, shouts, and people running in all directions were everywhere.

"Let's retreat first...and observe from a distance later."

Just as Gu Chen was about to leave, the chaotic state of the camp provided him with an excellent opportunity to escape.

But suddenly!

A dark green beam of light shone from the sealing tower!

Shouts, screams, the guards' roars to maintain order... all this noise was suppressed by the deep hum emanating from the dark green beam of light that pierced the heavens and the earth.

The sound seemed to originate from the sealing tower itself, coming from underground, like countless dying people forcibly opening their throats and then groaning.

At that moment, Ken, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly sent a telepathic message, but it wasn't his; it was an intercepted communication.

Ken remained silent, having overheard Calkosa's roar:

"Seal off the camp! Back to camp! Back to camp! Activate all alert runes! Find that bastard!"

"Damn it! What did that piece of trash Joe Beck do?!"

Gu Chen had just finished listening and was about to run away; if he didn't run now, he probably wouldn't have another chance...

But at that moment, another deafening roar pierced the sky!

"Thump!"

A deep, muffled thud came from the direction of the sealing tower.

It wasn't an explosion; it was more like something enormous had crashed heavily into the tower.

Gu Chen's attention was naturally drawn to that. He looked up at the dark green pillar of light, which was twisting and expanding. He could see a rolling shadow inside the pillar...

It was emitting a sharp, inhuman screech.

Then,

The dark green stream of light at the top of the pillar of light, formed by the explosion of Joebeck's body, did not dissipate; instead, it began to... shrink... condense?

"What is that?"

A necromancer apprentice dressed in black robes pointed to the sky, his voice trembling noticeably.

The ball of light was spinning, faster and faster, like an inverted vortex.

Something seemed to be taking shape at the center of the vortex...

"I have a bad feeling..."

"I think I should make my escape..."

Gu Chen's lips twitched again; he had a strong sense of foreboding...

He could see inside the ball of light, which contained no physical entity. It was more like an outline forcibly mixed together from pure energy, shattered souls, death energy, and so on.

Immediately afterwards, he felt a sharp, needle-like pain in his right arm.

It felt like some kind of resonance, originating from the soul-corroding death energy in his right arm, but this resonance had a distinctly chaotic feel to it.

"impossible……"

He stared at the gradually solidifying dark green ball of light, and an absurd thought flashed through his mind.

"broken."

The pillar of light from the sealing tower seemed to have become a furnace with a mold, and the energy and soul fragments that Jobeck had exploded seemed to have merged with what was being suppressed under the sealing tower. It was being forcibly forged and reshaped in this furnace of light and shadow!

"...Sealing Tower, sealing tower, what else could it seal? It must be the Throat of Silence..."

"Source Crystal, it really does mean exactly what it says..."

Gu Chen didn't take a step and instead ran away from the camp.

The reason is quite simple: he had already achieved his goal, but now it seems that Joe Baker is still alive...

It seems to be getting even stronger...

Whether this force comes at a price or not, or even if it does, it seems the time for the price to be paid will be later...

Even if you run away, it won't help if you can't kill this young master...

"Then let's go."

Gu Chen looked at the sealing tower and waited quietly.

The crimson magic was slowly circulating, and his spirit was rapidly recovering.

"Young Master...it's Young Master!"

One of the Antinoya family guards suddenly shouted excitedly!

Their young master!

Young master doesn't seem to be dead!

It's clearly inside the ball of light!

The guard was very happy!

If the young master hadn't died, then his mission wouldn't have failed, and he wouldn't have been implicated.

But then, the guard's expression changed rapidly, from ecstasy and excitement to confusion. He suddenly froze, the smile on his face disappeared, his pupils widened, and his mouth opened slightly, clearly feeling the emotion called fear.

Moreover, after seeing the inside of the ball of light, he was plunged into an even deeper fear...

"No...no...this isn't..."

"What is this? A human? A monster? No... this is a monster!"

"monster!!!"

The vortex stopped spinning.

The dark green light collapsed inward, eventually coalescing into a human figure in mid-air.

He hovered about ten meters above the ground, surrounded by dark green energy that seemed to be in reality. This energy churned and rolled, sometimes transforming into a painful skeletal face, and sometimes into twisted tentacles.

His figure still vaguely resembled the outline of Joebeck, but his skin had turned completely into a dark green, translucent state, with viscous energy flowing like lava inside. His once magnificent blood-red robe had long since vanished, replaced by an energy shell resembling armor, formed from flowing runes and death magic.

His face, if it can still be called a face.

At this moment, there was an eerie calm. The facial features were mostly still there, but two flames burning in the eye sockets were constantly changing between dark red, pale green, and dirty black.

He looked down at his hands, which were made of energy, his fingers slowly opening and closing with his thoughts.

"I...I'm not dead?"

The sound was no longer the sharp one that Chobeck originally had, but a mixture of multiple tones, deep, hoarse, with a metallic, grating echo.

"No... I'm dead." He seemed to be talking to himself, yet also declaring.

"But I'm back!"

"...in a greater and more eternal way."

"Great and eternal!"

He raised his head, his burning eyes looking towards the camp, and precisely locked onto Gu Chen.

"It's you."

There was no roaring, no hysteria. But the chilling killing intent hidden beneath that calm tone was impossible to conceal.

"You made me experience death, decomposition, and fusion with a trace of that ancient being... Now, it's your turn to repay."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slowly descended from the sky.

There was no indication that he was using flight techniques; it was more as if gravity had lost its effect on him.

He landed right in the center of the dark red carpet where he had originally stood.

Even more bizarrely, the dark red carpet had transformed into a writhing, blood-red fleshy carpet. The carpet writhed like a living creature, frantically absorbing the dark green energy emanating from his body. Its color deepened, its texture became more viscous, and it began to spread rapidly in all directions, its area several times larger than before!

At that moment, Karkosa, whom we hadn't seen for a long time, suddenly appeared, leading another group of necromancer apprentices dressed in black robes.

Upon seeing this scene, his expression changed drastically!

"Fool! Stop now! Your soul and the essence that has escaped from the sealing tower..."

"It's mixed up! This will make you completely lose yourself!"

"You idiot! Do you even know what you've done?!"

"self?"

"Jobeck" spoke, his tone filled with doubt, but even more so with contempt.

Was it really Joe Baker who opened his mouth?

Or rather, at this moment, this being, a fusion of death, chaos, and obsession, is slightly tilting its head, looking at Calkosa with indifferent eyes.

"Carkosa, you're always so short-sighted. How can your lowly so-called 'self' be worthy of this power that's almost a rule?"

He raised a finger and gently pointed it in the direction of Carkosa.

There were no incantations, no light effects, nothing at all.

It looked like an ordinary person waving.

But Calcosa's reaction proved that this was not some mortal foolish imitation of a wizard's behavior.

The space in front of Calcosa suddenly distorted, and a semi-transparent hand made of dark green energy appeared out of thin air, its five fingers closing up and grabbing him in its palm!

"Ugh!" Calcosa groaned, a powerful gray-black death energy shield erupting from his body to resist the pressure of the large hand.

"Click-clack...!!"

"Click!"

But the shield's light quickly dimmed, emitting a cracking sound as it struggled to withstand the strain.

"Damn it!"

"You're insane!"

A clear look of panic flashed in Calcosa's eyes, followed by a roar. His eyes had turned completely gray-black, indicating that he was overdrawing his magic power, and the cracks in the shield were repaired as he overdrawn his magic power.

"……madman……"

Calcosa had little power to resist, but he could still use his own strength to block "Jobeck's" attacks, or at least hold out for a while.

This also proves the current strength of "Jobeck"...

"Look, this is the difference."

"Jobeck" retracted his finger, and the energy hand dissipated.

Calcosa staggered backward, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, staring in horror at the familiar yet unfamiliar so-called "young master" before him.

This "young master," who was never valued by the family, was always just a fool in his eyes...

Now this idiot has messed up all the plans... and he actually thinks he's gained some kind of power!

However, there was really nothing Calcosa could do; he could only slowly retreat.

"Jobeck" has completely gone mad. If I keep going, I'll only get attacked. I'd better wait until he's done with his business before making any plans.

"Now, don't disturb my revenge."

Joe Beck stopped looking at him and turned his gaze back to Gu Chen.

"He and I have some 'personal grudges' to settle."

Gu Chen took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart.

And there was the twitching of my own lips, but I still couldn't resist the urge to complain.

"What is this thing... a humanoid slime?"

"It's still green, does that count as a green hat...?"

He stared intently at "Jobeck" in front of him, muttering under his breath, but his mind was already probing it, and the blood-red magic lines in his hands were ready to connect at any moment.

The enemy before him was completely beyond his comprehension. No longer the Joebeck who relied on external tools and scheming, but someone who had truly fused multiple powers, although the fusion of these powers was clearly forced and chaotic…

But it's clear that this monster has now touched the very skin of a rule.

It's important to understand that only second-ring wizards can make very rudimentary attempts at mastering the rules...

"Um……?"

Gu Chen suddenly felt a strange reaction within his body and couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

The chaotic vortex slowly accelerated its rotation deep within the right arm, no longer dormant, but emanating a restless, even hungry, energy.

It seems... to be reacting to the chaotic power within Jobeck.

It seems that the monster before us is not invincible; the power bestowed by the gravedigger may be the key to victory.

"Personal grudge?"

Gu Chen twitched the corner of his mouth and flexed his wrist.

"You're right... it's time to end this."

He no longer attempted to disguise or sneak around; such tricks were meaningless against an opponent like him.

Gu Chen straightened up, and his aura began to change accordingly.

The three forces—the Soul-Eating Death Aura, the Necromantic Magic, and the Power of Darkness—were no longer clearly distinct. Instead, under the invisible pull of the chaotic vortex, they began to intertwine and flow across his body, forming a constantly shifting three-colored halo.

Although it was far less dazzling than the dark green energy of Jobeck that had fused with the power of rules, it had its own solid feel. If Jobeck was a vat of energy, then Gu Chen's body was a suit of armor designed by an extremely excellent designer.

"I've always wanted to try this..."

"I feel like a knight now."

This was the first time Gu Chen had done something like this—using subtle manipulation of magic to form armor. Knights liked to do this, but wizards generally didn't; they used spells directly.

However, this guy in front of me doesn't look like someone to mess with, and I don't have many spells...

We can only use whatever we have.

It looks really good and is very stable.

As the armor took shape, "Jobeck's" burning eye sockets flickered slightly, seemingly surprised, but this was quickly replaced by an even stronger greed:

"Your power... is very special. By consuming you, my new body will surely be even more perfect."

"I must express my gratitude to you, Chobeck from the Antinoya family, thank you for your dedication, you ant!"

Faced with the pretentious elegance of "Jobeck," Gu Chen's suppressed emotions turned into a direct verbal attack.

"Laughable, what kind of bastard is this? Your mother doesn't love you at all."

"Your dad doesn't love you either; you're just a little brat who wants candy."

……

"roar!!!"

A wild, beast-like roar heralded the start of a deadly battle!