Chapter 1 My name is Luo Yan, and I study at Demon King Academy
In a ghastly classroom filled with instruments of torture, a ferocious-looking demon stands behind a black stone lecture table.
His name is Enos. He is a diamond-level (level VII) fear demon with two huge bull horns on his head, like a beast that walks upright.
The tall body was wrapped in a scarlet robe, and the scarlet eyes exuded a terrifying and fierce light under the shadow of the hood.
And the blackboard behind him was even worse, with a line scrawled in lime pen on it——
[About how to torture humans efficiently and collect fear energy from their screams. 】
"Fear and charm are different, but the essence is the same... The source of our strength is people's faith. Our believers will not praise us, but they will be terrified for us all day long, and in fact this is also a kind of prayer."
"So dead believers are meaningless, only living believers can contribute a steady stream of strength to us."
"We have to remember something here... We both We must make our prey fearful and avoid excessive torture that will cause them to die or break down. "
"After all, if the prey loses its response to external stimuli, no matter what we do, it will be meaningless. Therefore, the most advanced torture is often invisible... But at the same time, you must also be aware that if the torture is too light, it may have the opposite effect, such as making the prey feel happy. This is also what we must avoid. "
"Concentrate! Don't think that you can't use this knowledge if you are not afraid of demons. Even if you are a succubus, you can learn from it. Never let your prey get you. Only when the licking dogs can't get you, they will treat you as their gods... I hope you learn from Ms. Lilith more than just the skills of coquettishness."
This is the Demon King Academy, the highest school in hell.
As the name suggests, it is a place where demon kings are cultivated.
Of course, as the humans on the surface are getting stronger and stronger, the Demon King today is not as popular as it was five hundred years ago, and has even become a consumable.
Hence, the goal of most students is to stay in Shanghai, preferably to become a civil servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs... But these are digressions.
In short, in order to stay behind after graduation, the students under the podium listened attentively... Only Luo Yan felt chills go down his spine.
There is no other reason.
Everyone here is either a demon or an undead. He is the only human being, and he is sitting in the middle of the classroom.
Every time the class talks about human beings, no matter how nervous he is, it’s hard not to get nervous.
Especially Professor Enos, who always opened his bloody mouth and smiled mysteriously at him while he was talking.
Enos's smile is only one aspect, sometimes trouble will come from his side.
The horror Rumi sitting at the table next to him was peeking at him from time to time, with a look on his face that was about to make a move... I hope this guy was just thinking about it in his head and not really taking risks.
McKinley, the dream demon sitting on the other side, was blowing the air at the Balrog in the front row, muttering in a low voice from time to time.
"I heard that humans are more likely to doze off in an environment of forty degrees..."
Luo Yan didn't know where this guy heard it from, nor did he know what this guy wanted to do after he fell asleep.
In Professor Enos's class, he felt that even if he was roasted, he might not be able to sleep.
Compared to General Hengha sitting on his left and right sides, what was even more outrageous was Miss Mia sitting in the back row of him.
This lady is a succubus with pink hair, a heart-shaped tail tip and pupils, and a pair of sheep-like curved horns growing above her ears.
She changed the skirt of the school uniform to be very short, to the point where people don’t know where to put their eyes.
Since the beginning of this class, this guy has been looking for trouble with him, either kicking his chair with his toes under the table, or blowing air on the back of his neck with an exaggerated yawn.
This guy is the most dangerous!
Other demons need to cast spells anyway, but she only needs to rely on her own racial talent.
If you don't cast a spell, it won't leave any traces, and there's nothing you can do if you get hit.
Luo Yan did not dare to be careless at all, for fear of being caught in a loophole, so that the things taught in class would be learned and used on himself.
Apart from him, there is only one guy named Ige who is relatively normal in the whole class.
Although this guy is a succubus, he is a male succubus and belongs to the bottom of the high-level demon ecological chain.
Since Luo Yan's status is similar to that of a giant panda, he is a "protected animal" appointed by the devil. Bullying him has serious legal consequences, so Ige is usually the one who is bullied in the class.
This guy is really pitiful. His pitiful eyes sometimes make even Luo Yan, a straight man like him, feel sorry for him.
Of course, sometimes he can't make up his mind, whether this guy is just pretending on purpose...
Maybe he has to be careful!
The frequency of kicking the stool gradually became a little too much. Luo Yan couldn't bear it, so he turned around and glared at Mia.
However, the latter not only showed no restraint, but also licked the corners of his mouth provocatively.
His burgundy pupils were like sweet chocolate fudge. Luo Yan just met this guy's eyes, and he couldn't help but feel in a trance.
That is not magic, but the racial talent of succubi... The pupils of these guys are born with breathtaking power.
Only high-level demons or people with strong enough mental power can be immune, but Luo Yan obviously does not belong to either of these.
It's going to happen!
As soon as he thought this, it was already too late.
In this moment, Enos, who was standing on the podium, had noticed his little movement of turning back and immediately roared like a bull.
"Luo Yan, you dare to do something small in my class, you are very brave!!!"
The whole classroom was shaking, and the students sitting in the front row were covering their ears in pain.
And this is just the normal volume used by Ernos when reprimanding students.
"I'm sorry, sir——" Luo Yan stood up with a groan and quickly admitted his mistake, but was interrupted by another thunderous roar.
"I'm sorry? There is no word sorry in hell! Lift your head and stare into my eyes! Do you dare to look into the succubus's eyes, but not mine? Don't obey the fear, overcome it! That's right, just like that! Very good, you can go to the toilet and dry your pants! Hahahaha!"
Enos laughed loudly to himself, and the class also burst into laughter.
「哈哈哈哈哈！」
只有伊格用小鹿般的眼神望着罗炎，一副担心的样子。
Mia clapped her tongue, holding the back of her head with both hands, dissatisfaction written on her face. She didn’t know whether she felt regretful that Professor Enos ruined her good deeds, or regretted that it wasn’t her who wet someone’s pants.
Of course, Luo Yan's pants were not wet, so there was no need to go to the toilet.
Faced with the laughter of his classmates, he did not make any response, but sat back helplessly.
Heck, this situation is all too common, and this is not the first time that he has been teased by teachers in this college.
Just yesterday, Ms. Lilith, the succubus who teaches illusion and control spells, used him as a spellcasting material for live teaching.
Mia, who was sitting in the row behind him, was probably a poor imitation of the female donor just now.
As for Professor Enos, he is actually one of the friendlier professors in this Demon King University, and at least he can teach him some useful skills.
Thanks to him.
As an ordinary human living in hell, he has not been frightened to death by the eyes of a fearful demon for a long, long time.
On the other hand, Ms. Lilith was just making fun of him.
To this day, he is still not immune to the succubus's control skills. No matter what, there is something wrong with that guy's teaching policy!
As for how he, an ordinary human being, came to go to school in this damn place, it’s a long story.
First of all, he is not a person from this world, but a traveler from the earth.
The cause of the time travel was a traffic accident, and he could not remember the entire process clearly. In short, when he opened his eyes again, he was already in the Demon God's Temple deepest underground in Osland, with mysterious mantras and a pentagram behind him.
According to the shadow priest in the temple, his mother is a human acolyte and his father is an unnamed vampire.
It stands to reason that he would have half the blood of the Vampire family...but that is not the case.
In this world, the inheritance of the blood clan is not completed through primitive mating, but requires the first embracing ceremony to complete the inheritance of the blood clan's power.
That is a rather troublesome process, which not only tests manpower and material resources, but also tests the genealogy of the person being cast.
Generally speaking, only the combination of a vampire and a vampire will receive the first support from their vampire relatives at birth.
As a disgraceful illegitimate child, Luo Yan is obviously not qualified to receive the first love.
And the blood flowing in his veins is just the blood of ordinary humans.
What he inherited from his father was at most a handsome face, and blood that seemed noble but of no use, and nothing else... although he didn't expect anything else.
His mother, Tiffany, died shortly after giving birth to him, and his father has not appeared at all in the past eighteen years.
But it doesn’t really matter.
When Luo Yan first came to this world, he felt that life was gloomy and there would be no more in this life. However, after staying for a while, he discovered that it was not that desperate after all.
First of all, humans in the underground world are "protected animals" appointed by His Majesty the Demon God.
Hands who serve the devil, the undead creatures and demons in hell are not allowed to harass or discriminate against, and harm is strictly prohibited, and offenders will be punished with death. Whether this is to show the believers who secretly believe in the devil on the surface, or to ensure the species diversity of hell, in short, the humans in hell are certified, and their lives are actually good...as long as they are not captured prey or prisoners of war.
Although it is impossible to expect that the Hell society, which respects the strong, will not discriminate against humans at all, at least on the surface, there will be no demons or undead creatures casting spells on humans who are also followers of the Demon God, and the closer to the political center of Hell, the more so.
In addition, humans can get extra points for admission to hell's higher education institutions.
However, since human beings' magical talents are at the bottom, even if they get extra points, most humans will not be able to pass the exam at all.
In addition to the advantages of schooling, it is also quite good in terms of employment.
Although most demon workshops do not welcome weak humans, the acolytes of the temples under the Ministry of Truth always open their doors to humans.
This position is equivalent to a civil servant in hell. It has a certain status and a decent income. Although there is no room for promotion, there is no danger. After death, you don't have to become an undead. The soul directly enters the reincarnation pool and becomes a devil in the next life.
Luo Yan's biological mother in this life was an acolyte.
Although being an acolyte is not bad, Luo Yan does not want to stay in hell for the rest of his life, even if he has a distinguished "Demon City Household Registration".
It is true that there are humans in hell, but it is not suitable for human life at all.
If nothing else, the "ocean" here is filled with magma that reaches thousands of degrees. A random heat wave can raise the temperature of the entire city to hundreds of degrees.
This temperature is nothing to demons and undead, or even dwarves, but it is fatal to humans.
His ability to survive to this day is purely due to the magic barrier in the magic city.
After being teased by Professor Enos, Luo Yan only felt on pins and needles.
I don't know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that the "100 tricks to make humans scream" in the second half of the class was a bit out of scope.
At this time, the get out of class bell finally rang in the corridor outside.
The little devil sitting in the classroom seemed to have heard the starting gun. He soared into the air and flew towards the window, screaming "mine, mine", aiming directly at the cafeteria in the tower next door.
However, just as they were about to fly out of the window, they hit a wall of air with a "bang" sound.
Instant silver level magic!
The wall of atmosphere!
Looking at the fear demon on the podium, Luo Yan's eyes were filled with envy.
In Osland, whether it is the surface world or the underground world, the classification of levels follows the standards handed down from the First Era.
The lowest level is black iron (i), then bronze (ii), followed by fine steel (iii), silver (iv), gold (v), platinum (vi), diamond (vii), amethyst (viii), master (ix), and demigod (x).
Beyond the demigods, there is actually a near god (XI), which in lay terms is like a god. However, in the underground world, this level is suspected to be reached only by the devil, the ruler of the underground world.
In addition, each level is actually divided into five stars.
It's just that in battles of the same level, experience and skill account for a larger proportion, and the reference value of star breakdown is limited, so it is not commonly used.
A fearful demon who can instantly cast level 4 air magic...
Professor Enos may already have the strength of a five-star diamond!
By the way, Luo Yan is Bronze (II).
Although his theoretical knowledge is extremely rich and he is at the top of his grade every year, his racial talent does not have magic power.
Just as the little devils with drooped wings got up from under the window cursing, Ernos, who was standing behind the podium, stamped his foot.
"Silence! I haven't said get out of class is over yet! Get back to your seat!"
The sound was like an earthquake!
Seeing that it was Professor Enos who was showing off his power, the little devils who were still cursing were suddenly frightened and turned pale, and they all crawled back to their seats with numb hands and feet.
Watching the students sit down again, Professor Ernos glanced around the classroom, cleared his throat vigorously, and then spoke loudly with a loud voice.
"Classmates, this is the last lesson I teach you. I hope you will remember the content of the lesson firmly! Especially some people, if you want to save your life, it is best to listen carefully."
I don't know if it was his imagination, but Luo Yan always felt that Professor Enos's bull eyes glared at him, and sweat broke out on his back unconsciously.
The pressure of a diamond-level demon cannot be resisted by a mere bronze-level necromancer.
Besides, this necromancer is still mixed with water.
Hhearing Professor Enos's voice, the demons and undead in the classroom started talking one after another.
"Last class?"
"What do you mean?"
"This year's summer vacation has been advanced?!"
"It's not the summer vacation that's been brought forward! Idiots, it's your graduation ceremony!" Looking at the group of stunned young people who were still talking about the summer vacation, Ernos shook his head in disappointment and continued in a strong voice, "The adventurers on the surface are too strong and there are not enough demon kings on the front line, so this year's graduation ceremony has been brought forward."
As soon as he finished speaking, the little devils in the classroom screamed again.
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However, they are all nobles among the little devils, so naturally they cannot be generalized like other little devils.
Although Luo Yan often feels that these idiots may not be as smart as ordinary little devils, at least those cunning guys can often survive for two more episodes.
Mia, who was sitting in the back row, raised her hands and stood up in the eyes of all the demons.
"But Professor Enos, we are third-year students and we will graduate next year. Did you remember it wrong?"
Enos glanced at her contemptuously and said coldly.
"Remember wrong? It's because you still don't understand the situation! This year, the frontline is in urgent need, and the third grade and the fourth grade will graduate together... But you are luckier than the fourth grade, and all the places in the school will be reserved for you. You don't need to bring textbooks tomorrow morning. Come to the graduation ceremony hall on time at eight o'clock. At nine o'clock, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will come to take you to fill in your application."
"You haven't had a few practical lessons. It's best to pray that you won't be assigned to the front line. That place is no joke, especially the recent situation is not optimistic."
The little devils were stunned, as was the horror demon Rumi who was playing with nail clippers, including the dream demon McKinley who was blowing the cool breeze on Balrog's back, with his mouth bulging like a ball.
"How could it be..." Mia's eyes widened, her pink pupils flashing with fear, and her white thighs trembling slightly.
This was the first time Luo Yan saw her showing such an expression. He usually saw it on Ige's face.
Perhaps there is someone in her family who knows the war situation on the front line.
But... is it really that exaggerated?
To be honest, although most of the students in this Demon King Academy are afraid of the Demon King profession and come here just to get gold, he was admitted with the aim of becoming a Demon King.
As for the reason, it is very simple... As long as you become a demon king, you will be sent near the surface.
This is his only chance as a human to return to the surface world.
Although Luo Yan knew that things might not be that simple, it was at least worth a try.
No matter how dangerous the surface world is... it's not more dangerous than hell, right?
Here, the Balrog might accidentally injure him even if he sneezed, and there was also the wolf-like succubus staring at him.
Luo Yan has already made up his mind and will be the Demon King as his first choice tomorrow.
As for how to be this demon king, it is not up to these demons.
In any case, he is just living in obscurity as long as he can. He can use a small whip and an itchy knife that can't reach forty meters, trying not to be regarded as a threat by humans, nor to be targeted by his colleagues in the rear.
Just do Tai Chi.
He is not good at magic, but he is very skilled at catching fish.
Perhaps because he has been on the battlefield, Enos knows the situation there very well.
Although he didn't like these playboys who were dawdling around, he still couldn't bear to watch his students die.
Him knows very well how demons torture humans, and he also knows best how humans torture captured demons.
Looking at the group of dumbfounded young men who were looking at each other, he continued to shout in a bull-like voice.
"You have one night to write letters home...you idiots!"
"get out of class is over!"
(End of this chapter)