Great Demon King
Chapter 28

So Fucking Incredible

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"All right, we'll leave in two days. Get ready over the next few days. As for your chores, I'll have the academy temporarily divide them among those three, so you don't need to worry." Seeing Han Shuo agree, Fanny gave a faint, alluring smile. The smile made her beautiful face radiant and captivating, sending a slight flutter through Han Shuo's heart.

Before he had inhabited Brian's body, Han Shuo's life could have been called quite a failure. Not only had he accomplished nothing in his career, but his love life had been even worse. Even now, he still did not know what it was like to be with a woman.

After coming to this world, Han Shuo's self-control had grown increasingly weak and his various desires increasingly strong because he had practiced the Demonic Cultivation Art. Han Shuo was someone who had died once. His old, muddled existence had completely constrained him. Coupled with his family circumstances and personality, this meant that although he had harbored some wicked thoughts, he had never dared indulge any extravagant hopes.

Now that he had arrived in this completely unfamiliar world and begun practicing the Demonic Cultivation Art, many of the forces that had once constrained him disappeared as his strength gradually increased. Naturally, he wanted to fulfill the extravagant hopes he had always buried deep inside, leaving himself no regrets.

And women, especially beautiful women, were one of the desires Han Shuo could not suppress.

Fanny was not only stunningly beautiful, but also took very good care of Han Shuo. Han Shuo was also at the age when he craved women most, so strong desires were naturally inevitable. Moreover, practicing the Demonic Cultivation Art emphasized following one's desires, so Han Shuo quite naturally regarded Fanny as his romantic prey.

"Teacher Fanny, are the Dark Creatures you summon different every time? Can you summon a Dark Creature, send it back to the Otherworld, and summon that same one again next time?"

Since Han Shuo had agreed to go out with Fanny and the others, he began making arrangements for his own affairs. Han Shuo owned nothing of value. Apart from the little skeleton he had summoned, he had nothing else.

Within a certain range, Han Shuo could contact the little skeleton through his mental power. But if he traveled far away, putting hundreds or thousands of miles between them, his mental power would probably have trouble reaching it. If something happened to the little skeleton while Han Shuo was away and it was no longer under the control of his mental power, that would be troublesome.

Although Han Shuo was confident he could send the little skeleton to the Otherworld, he did not know whether he could summon it again next time, so he wanted to resolve this problem before leaving. As a teacher in the necromancy department, Fanny would naturally know more about such matters. Just because Han Shuo had no solution did not mean Fanny had none, which was why he asked.

At Han Shuo's question, Fanny looked at him with some puzzlement. Her full, sensual lips moved as she asked, "Hmm? Brian, why are you asking about this? These are things students in the Necromancy Department should be concerned about. You shouldn't be interested in them!"

"Oh, it's Lisa's question. I'm just asking you for her." Han Shuo nodded, looking thoroughly well-meaning.

Fanny did not suspect this answer. She knew Lisa often used Han Shuo to practice necromancy, so it was plausible that Lisa had asked him to question her. After a moment's thought, Fanny said, "So that's it. After sending a dark creature to the other dimension, it isn't impossible to summon the same one again. There's simply no need.

"Whenever you summon from the Otherworld, you randomly summon one or more dark creatures of the same rank, depending on the strength of your mental power and incantation. Since dark creatures of the same rank don't differ much in strength, no one bothers about that."

"Then what should you do if you want to summon a dark creature you previously sent to the other dimension?" Han Shuo's heart stirred, and he hurriedly pursued the question.

Putting away the magic scrolls on the round table one by one, Fanny lightly slid her beautiful, slender fingers across its surface. With a frown, she explained, "If you really want to summon a dark creature you sent to the other dimension, you have to leave a Magic Imprint on it before sending it there. When you summon it next time, you use that Magic Imprint to lock onto the original dark creature. That way, you can find and summon the dark creature you originally sent to the other dimension."

The instant Fanny finished, Han Shuo inwardly rejoiced. On his face, however, he wore a frown as he muttered to himself, "So that's how it works. I wonder whether Lisa knows how to leave a Magic Imprint on a summoned dark creature."

Fanny gave Han Shuo a surprised look, then smiled, showing her teeth. In a gentle voice, she said, "Brian, you really are a very kind person. I know Lisa has never been very friendly toward you, and the problems with your body were caused by her Soul Pain. I never expected that not only would you bear no grudge, but you'd keep thinking of her. There are very few people as innocent and kindhearted as you these days."

Innocent! Kindhearted! Han Shuo was inwardly speechless, but he gave a guileless smile, scratched his head, and said with some embarrassment, "I don't think you should hold grudges over anything. As long as you treat others kindly, they'll understand eventually. Hehe."

Hearing this, Fanny chuckled and nodded. Without saying anything more, she took a sheet of thin, straw-yellow paper from a nearby cabinet. Picking up a quill with her delicate fingers, she dipped it in ink and rapidly wrote something on the paper.

Before long, Fanny had covered the thin sheet with writing. She placed the quill in its holder and handed the paper to Han Shuo, saying with a smile, "These are the incantation and method for leaving a Magic Imprint on a summoned dark creature. Pass it on to Lisa. With her strength as a junior mage, I think she should know what to do."

Overjoyed, Han Shuo took Fanny's sheet of paper with almost trembling hands. Then he nodded with a guileless smile and said impatiently, "I'll go right now. Lisa will definitely be delighted."

With that, Han Shuo took the paper and hurried excitedly out of Fanny's laboratory.

"He really is an innocent young fellow. Hopefully, this will make Lisa give him less trouble from now on!" Watching Han Shuo hurry away, Fanny smiled faintly and remarked.

Late at night, in the graveyard behind the Babylon Academy of Magic and Martial Arts.

"Endless darkness, become a Shatterbone Arrow of destruction, and destroy everything before me according to my will. Bone Arrow!" As the low incantation ended, a sharp bone arrow instantly formed in midair. With a fierce whistle, it plunged into the chest of a straw dummy ahead.

"Haha, I can finally cast Bone Arrow successfully!" Seeing that the bone arrow had neither shattered midway nor gone off target this time, Han Shuo laughed and declared proudly.

A long time had passed since the incident in the graveyard. Once Han Shuo was certain no one would pay attention to this place anymore, he returned to practice the Necromancy spell Bone Arrow.

Over this period, Han Shuo's mental power had improved rapidly. In particular, after he had fiddled with that strange sphere and survived the calamity last time, his mental power had increased enormously. Through constant practice and his understanding of magical knowledge, Han Shuo had finally mastered this low-level Necromancy spell, Bone Arrow, completely and correctly, without any errors.

The little skeleton stood straight in the distance, its empty eye sockets continually scanning its surroundings as its skull turned. Its bone blade was clenched in the five skeletal fingers of its right hand, gleaming with a cold, eerie light beneath the moon.

Tomorrow, he would temporarily leave the Babylon Academy of Magic and Martial Arts with Fanny and the others and venture into the outside world. Han Shuo's use of Lisa's name to ask Fanny for advice had not been exposed. After all, it was only a small matter, and Fanny was not someone who questioned everything. After a day or two, she naturally forgot about it.

Over the past few days, Han Shuo had consulted Necromancy Basics and Overview of Dark Creatures, carefully studying and pondering what Fanny had written on the thin sheet. He was already confident that he could leave a Magic Imprint on the little skeleton. With his departure coming tomorrow, Han Shuo finally decided to act and begin placing his own Magic Imprint on the little skeleton according to his understanding.

At a stir of his mental power, the little skeleton patrolling in the distance sped straight toward Han Shuo, bone blade in hand. The seven bone spurs on its back fluttered slightly as it ran, seemingly providing some assistance, so that it actually seemed to skim just above the ground as it moved. This startled Han Shuo. He thought that his efforts at refining it over this period had indeed not been wasted. Clearly, just like him, the little skeleton's strength was continually improving little by little.

Once the little skeleton stopped before him, Han Shuo held his breath and focused, concentrating his mental power as never before. Curling the fingers of both hands, he raised them slightly toward the sky and began chanting in a low voice according to Fanny's written instructions.

"My faithful servant, in my capacity as your summoning master, I leave upon you my eternal brand. Darkness Seal!" As the incantation ended, Han Shuo suddenly felt his mental power drain rapidly away. A pitch-black mass of air the size of a fist quickly formed between his curled hands.

The mental power required for this Darkness Seal was far greater than Han Shuo had expected. Only then did he remember something he had overlooked-Lisa was a junior mage, while he was merely a magic apprentice. Fanny had probably gauged the mental power required for her method according to Lisa's mental power, never imagining that the caster would be a mere magic apprentice like Han Shuo.

His mental power was drained in an instant. Han Shuo felt a sudden, excruciating pain in his mind, as though something else had been drawn out along with it, and he could not help feeling horrified.

Just then, the mass of air between Han Shuo's hands abruptly floated out and plunged into the little skeleton's body through its empty eye sockets. At the same time, Han Shuo felt utterly drained. He collapsed onto his backside and gasped for breath.

Suddenly, those hazy memories from Chu Canglan were like a veil with one corner torn away. A passage of cultivation instructions and memories abruptly became exceptionally clear.

They were memories of controlling demonic treasures and the cultivation method called the Demon-Control Art. The suddenly clear memories made Han Shuo realize that, under these inexplicable circumstances, he had learned another portion of the hazy memories of Chu Canglan in his mind.

A strange whooshing sound abruptly interrupted Han Shuo's thoughts. He involuntarily raised his head to search for its source.

Turning his head to look, Han Shuo was dumbfounded.

The little skeleton was flailing its arms and legs as though having a seizure. In midair, a sharp bone blade gleamed coldly beneath the moonlight, darting back and forth around its body. As the little skeleton moved its five fingers, the bone blade eerily changed direction, stabbing the straw dummies Han Shuo had made nearby until each was riddled with holes.

After staring dumbfounded, Han Shuo abruptly came to his senses. Unrestrained ecstasy filled his face, and he threw back his head and shouted, "Holy shit, that's so fucking incredible!"

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