Zheng Qing was no stranger to the word "calamity."
During his freshman year, when his head illness had flared up again, Professor Yao had diagnosed the root cause as a "calamity," then treated him by helping him avoid it. In other words, Transformation Spell.
Although Zheng Qing later learned that there had been another cause behind his headaches, Transformation Spell had indeed reduced the frequency of his head illness to some extent. It had been a lucky accident.
According to the most widely accepted magical theory, a calamity was essentially a form of Information Perturbation—it could be understood as a reef suddenly rising in the River of Destiny, blocking the current and creating whirlpools. The force of those whirlpools then acted back upon the unstable reef: at best, knocking it back into the river; at worst, compounded by other external factors, grinding it to pieces outright.
Zheng Qing remembered that Professor Yi's magical notes on calamities had clearly listed certain circumstances that could trigger one, such as changes in magical techniques, advances in magical knowledge, casting spells with a major impact on the world, and so on. While they had not explicitly stated that "founding a new magic academy for a certain group" was also a cause of calamity, considering that such an act truly had a significant impact on the world and represented progress to some extent, it was most likely that it would suffer the world's backlash against the wizarding community.
To borrow a theory from the Bading World, risks were proportional to returns.
Thinking of those notes,
Zheng Qing naturally thought of a conjecture mentioned in them—once a calamity could no longer trace its target life-form, its magnitude would continuously collapse until it dissipated.
"Could Edge Academy become another kind of life-form?"
He looked tentatively at the