After Daitokuji, even Caesar, Fubuki and Asuka lost contact.
This solidified Principal Samejima's speculation. There was no doubt that it was the last and strongest Seven Stars who launched the attack.
The opponent who had just appeared on the scene quickly equalized the disadvantage of the previous seven stars of unknown significance, leaving the academy with only the guardians of the last two keys.
The atmosphere in the college gradually became gloomy, like the calm before the storm. Even ordinary students who knew nothing about the Seven Star Incident were disturbed by the state of the principal and teachers.
It's just that the two people involved had no feelings about it.
Judai is still continuing the futile search and rescue, while Jock is just staying in the dormitory to fish.
Until late that night...
"So, as the ultimate miracle pursued by alchemists, the Philosopher's Stone is not just a 'touchstone for turning things into gold'."
Thanks to Professor Kronos's poor script and endless explosions in the alchemy course, Su Liang finally asked Jock for help with tutoring, and he has been cramming for the test points of this course for the past few days.
"It is the mystery among mysteries, an element that cannot be destroyed by any element, and a miracle of the subtle coexistence of all elements and states."
"The completed version of the Philosopher's Stone can not only transform the nature of things, make people's souls purer and achieve eternal life."
"Precisely because it contains the perfect essence of any element, it can use the Philosopher's Stone to perform all creative actions, even opening up new worlds."
"Well...the above is not part of the content of this elementary alchemy book, so you don't have to write it down."
"Then what do you think he did!?"
Su Liang angrily tore out a page from his notebook and threw the notes containing numerous descriptions of the Philosopher's Stone into the trash can.
"While I'm teaching you, I'm also reviewing myself."
Qiao Ke closed the textbook and explained while checking the test points recorded by Su Liang: "The reason why it is called a miracle is because the true Philosopher's Stone has never been created. In fact, there are many descriptions of it. The alchemists’ pursuit of perfect elements will not be recorded in the textbooks because it has no reference value.”
“According to the ideas of the alchemists, the true Philosopher’s Stone has all the elements and can be used to create any kind of thing.
"It is an unrealistic fantasy to presuppose an all-encompassing concept and then find its own explanations and answers from this concept. This way of thinking has always been despised by formal alchemists and mages."
Su Liang, who didn't really believe in alchemy to begin with, was very puzzled by this: "So, isn't the Philosopher's Stone just a non-existent fantasy? Then what's the point of their pursuit?"
“The pursuit of truth is its own meaning.”
The person who answered this question was Wang Jiang who was lying on the bed beside him: "Bold assumptions and careful verification. The act of 'assuming' itself is just a means to pursue the 'truth'. In the process, no matter how unrealistic the fantasy is, it will be constantly rejected." Supplementing and perfecting it may finally achieve 'truth'."
"It's just that in most cases, you will fall into a blindness." Jock put down his notes and added to this explanation, "A long detour is not always a shortcut. More often than not, the road ahead is an endless loop that keeps people wandering. Even a cliff that makes one step empty.”
"So why does this high school make alchemy a compulsory subject?"
Especially the chairman of this duel academy is the top spokesperson in the field of science.
"It's a long story. In ancient Egypt..."
Just when Qiao Ke was about to fill in the history of this world for Su Liang, he suddenly heard a "pop" sound and the window exploded out of thin air, leaving glass shards everywhere in the dormitory.
Su Liang was so frightened that he jumped on the bed and screamed: "Qiao! What is that! A figure just rushed past not far away!"
"Why do I feel that you have said similar things before...but we live on the third floor?"
Jock curiously came to the window sill and looked out, and sure enough, he saw a masked man in black clothes downstairs.
Seeing that he had discovered him, the masked man turned and left without looking back, trotting all the way into the forest using the darkness of the night.
"I'm afraid he is the last Seven Stars!" Su Liang quickly dressed and prepared to go out, "Let's go, the long-lost justice two against one!"
Jiao Ke was silent for a long time, lamenting that his roommate seemed to be becoming more and more disdainful under his influence.
…
The two followed the alchemy runes left not far away by the masked man, and were eventually led to the abandoned schoolhouse in the forest that was strictly prohibited for any students.
Now they already have a certain understanding of this place - this was once an unfortunate place where many students were lost due to accidents, causing the college to eventually abandon it and ban students from entering again.
When Jock arrived underground in the abandoned school building, he found that the trio in the red dormitory were also here.
"Qiaoqiao? Were you also led here by that masked man?"
Judai looked around and found no masked man: "But there seems to be only some strange equipment here, and there is a coffin there!"
"It's not a vampire again, is it?" Hayato Maeda's hand holding the flashlight trembled slightly, "Or is it a zombie this time?"
Seeing that only this coffin could accommodate people in the empty underground, Judai bravely stepped forward.
"There might be some clues in this, let's open it together."
However, when the coffin was opened by everyone, what appeared in front of them was not the seventh person sleeping like a vampire inside as they imagined, but a mummy that had obviously been dead for a long time.
"This corpse looks familiar."
Judai rummaged through the corpse's clothes and found the ID tag of a Duel Academy employee on it - Daitokuji.
"This corpse is Daitokuji teacher!"
"Big...brother, don't scare me!"
"Isn't it possible? Although Mr. Daitokuji's whereabouts have been unknown for many days, it is impossible for him to turn into a mummy so quickly!"
The corpse's appearance was obviously dehydrated, but there was no giant-viewing phenomenon that should have occurred (don't go to Baidu for this). It didn't make sense no matter how you looked at it. It was probably artificially processed like this.
Although Maeda Hayato's speculation is reasonable normally, it is not impossible in this world.
Jock shook his head and guessed: "We can't rashly conclude that if he loses the dark game, the body may indeed become like this. In short, to confirm his identity, we still need to rely on DNA identification by forensic scientists."
"No need, let me tell you, that corpse is indeed the former 'Teacher of Daitokuji Temple'."
Just as everyone was shocked by the appearance of the corpse, a strange voice suddenly came from behind them.
Chapter 174 The Last Seven Stars
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