High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2717: Chapter 938: The Gospel of Judas

Looking at the nose, observing the heart, is the standard response to avoid looking at what is inappropriate.

But today, this method lost its effect on Zheng Qing.

Because when he tried to look at his nose, he immediately realized that when his eyes focused on the tip of his nose, at the end of his gaze was the female demon carefully examining her body in front of the mirror.

And when he tried to turn his head, the corner of his eye always unconsciously captured that breathtaking whiteness.

Closing his eyes was impossible; the young warlock lying on the experiment table might not yet be at the stage of ’dying with eyes closed’, but he wasn’t assured enough to close them either.

A slight tilt of the head, as if making an effort, was enough to show he’d tried.

After all, no one present was qualified to mention ’morality’ in front of him.

Of course, the consequence of lowering moral standards was that he had to bear the dual pressures from both the laboratory owner and the female demon’s gaze. Perhaps because she had just fed, the female demon’s eyes did not have the cruel greed typical of demons in Zheng Qing’s impression, but rather a certain clarity. As for Thomas, his gaze was particularly unfriendly.

Can I still return alive?

Before, Zheng Qing asked Thomas this question, and Thomas gave a definite answer. But now, Zheng Qing suddenly felt that the probability of returning safely was rapidly diminishing.

Whoosh!

A red dress swirled, covering Nikita’s figure.

As the dress fell, she put down the dressing mirror, gracefully approached Zheng Qing’s experiment table, picked up the blood bag hanging on the rack, and looked at the droplet by droplet of bright red blood inside, a hint of red flashed in her eyes.

”Have you made your decision to finally let him go back?”

Nikita turned to look at the laboratory owner, her cold gaze gliding over Zheng Qing’s face without so much as a pause: ”As I said before, unconscious evil feels worse than conscious evil... The moment you took him away from the school’s guards’ sight, you could never go back—why waste such precious experimental materials?”

”That’s a different matter.”

Thomas shook his head, seemingly deliberately avoiding the female demon’s gaze, turned his head, and checked the readings on the experiment table, maintaining a firm attitude: ”Even if I made a mistake, I am still a wizard, and I won’t allow you to eat my student.”

The female demon let out a short, piercing laugh.

”What about a wizard? Does being a wizard mean you don’t eat people?”

She loudly mocked the laboratory owner’s hypocrisy and indecision: ”Wizards were once a group of demons! They ate fairies, vermilion fruits, luan birds, drank dragon blood... consumed every magical creature they could defeat, their flesh and soul, driving many ancient beasts to the brink of extinction. Even today, they still consume. How is that essentially different from demons? Demons merely have a slightly richer menu.

The morality you revere is merely a narrow consensus that some wizards try to impose on the masses.

Ultimately, ordinary wizards have no essential difference from demons, white dings, primitive people, or even monkeys. Stripping away the external, ornate packaging, we’re left with three words—impulse, instinct, survival—this is the true commonality between wizards and demons, the point where both can coexist, and the true reason for the ’Crow’ to be born.

The greatest enemy in the war between wizards and demons is the wizards themselves.

The school makes you think that being fallen is a desecration of being called a wizard, but in truth, binding oneself with morality and man-made rules is the real desecration to every wizard who perished in battle.”

Such fallacy left Zheng Qing utterly stunned, his back chilled.

But almost at the same time.

He belatedly realized that the female demon’s brazen display towards him was perhaps meant to provoke Thomas into changing his previous decision to let him go.

Zheng Qing decided to retract his earlier judgment of her being polite.

Still as malicious as ever, this little witch!

”Is this what you learned in the Land of Desolation?”

Thomas spoke mildly, seemingly unaffected by the female demon’s incitement: ”—Seawater and freshwater are both water, except one contains more salt. A person can tolerate some salt, but cannot drink seawater as if it were fresh.”

”Self-deceiving nonsense.”

The female demon sneered coldly: ”Both equally harm ordinary wizards’ lives, both hunted by the Alliance and the school, the Crows are no nobler than the fallen wizards of the Land of Desolation. Completely unable to comprehend what meaning lies in your pointless persistence.”

This time, Thomas was silent for a long time, focusing solely on preparing the flesh and blood materials on the experiment table.

Zheng Qing’s eyes rolled, flitting between their faces, trying to slow his breathing and reduce his presence, hoping that Brother Tom could win this round of debate.

Until the blood bag was almost full.

The laboratory owner finally spoke again.

”Have you ever read the Gospel of Judas?” He put away the carefully prepared flesh and blood, exhaling lightly: ”It might help you understand us.”

Nikita raised her eyebrows: ”—I never knew you were a member of the Gnostic sect. If I remember correctly, you have a good relationship with the Atlas people? Even in Atlas, the Gnostic sect is considered heretical, aren’t they!”

Zheng Qing didn’t know what the Gnostic sect represented, but he’d heard Xiao Xiao mention the term ’Gospel of Judas’ before, and had some vague idea in his mind.

According to the ’Gospel of Judas’, God is omniscient and omnipotent, so He knows all that is to happen, He knew Judas would betray and allowed this to happen—this was part of His ’Divine Plan.’

In other words, Judas’s betrayal was part of the plan.

Christ needed to be betrayed, so He let Judas execute His plan. Only through this could ’redemption’ be achieved. If Judas did not betray, Christ would not be crucified, and would not resurrect.

So, according to this theory, Judas was the greatest saint. Because he sacrificed his soul so that Christ could fulfill His divine plan and complete His mission.

In other words, Judas was sacrificed for the greatest plan.

In this light, this ideology is indeed ’heretical.’

Upon thinking of the word ’heretical’, Zheng Qing instinctively recalled the cup of tea he had earlier in Thomas’s office, a tea he had evaluated as ’heretical.’

This gave him a peculiar sense of deja vu.

In his two years at the First University, Zheng Qing heard the word ’heretical’ more than once; many people in the academy openly expressed that wizards and demons were in competition, while the true rivalry was with the Alpha people. Simply put, in the eyes of Jiuyou people and Alpha people, each saw the other as heretical, and history proves that heretics are more hated than heathens.

After all, Christianity had once blessed the Sultan Emperor but always refused to accept the second son of God.