Hogwarts God of Ice and Fire

1786, French magical world.

"Josué, what are you doing?!"

The door of a secret alchemical laboratory was blasted open by a red beam of light. A middle-aged man with thick hair, who looked like an old lion, stepped into the alchemical laboratory. He roared at a young man standing in front of an alchemical device.

Qiao Sue slowly raised his head and calmly looked at the middle-aged man who broke into his alchemy laboratory. He said softly: "As you can see, my teacher, I am transforming my body so that my life can continue."

"Human alchemy..." Josue's teacher, Isaac Phanes, looked at the mechanical body on the alchemy table and the human tissue in the solution placed in the corner of the laboratory with a grim face. "This is a taboo in alchemy. How dare you break the taboo?!"

The human tissues soaked in the solution were obviously the experimental subjects of wizards that Josue obtained through illegal channels, or even wizards who were brutally killed by Josue.

Listening to his teacher's accusations, Qiao Sue laughed out loud and tapped his chest lightly with his wand.

The next moment, Josue's chest flipped outwards layer by layer, revealing the countless extremely sophisticated alchemical components inside. These alchemical components were combined in a specific way and operated in an orderly manner, providing this body with a constant supply of vitality.

"My human body alchemy has been successful. My body will soon be immortal, and my life will last forever. This is such an incredible thing in the field of alchemy! An immortal body, this is an alchemical creation greater than the Philosopher's Stone!"

"And the price I paid was nothing more than the flesh and blood of my parents, wife, and children, as well as the flesh and blood samples of more than 500 wizards and the vitality of more than 10,000 Muggles! For this, I got an immortal body that is enough to support me to move forward and support my survival!"

"My dear teacher, you should be extremely proud of your students' achievements!"

Qiao Sue said with a chuckle, but his tone was so indifferent.

It was as if the deaths of his relatives and the lives of more than 10,000 people he mentioned were just stepping stones.

Listening to Josue's crazy words, Phanes' lips kept trembling. He couldn't believe what he heard!
The student who used to behave extremely well in front of him turned out to be a madman who broke the taboo of alchemy, killed his own relatives and massacred tens of thousands of people in order to try human alchemy!
Immediately following the disbelief, anger appeared in Phanes' eyes. He said coldly, "Josué, your life is so pathetic. Even your relatives and your emotions are just capital for human alchemy in your eyes."

"You can't understand love, let alone love others. You move forward for the sake of moving forward and survive for the sake of survival. Then how are you different from those animals who have no wisdom and only eat, reproduce and die in their lives?!"

"You are a beast, a sensible, shrewd, powerful, but equally pathetic, heartless beast that can never feel people's emotions in its entire life! You are just a beast that exists for the sake of survival, Josue!"

Phanes was like a roaring lion.

In order to investigate the frequent disappearances of wizards in the French magic world and the semi-finished products of human alchemy that continued to flow out on the black market, Phanes spent more than ten years to find this secret alchemy laboratory.

But he never imagined that the alchemist who broke the taboo of human alchemy and killed hundreds of wizards and tens of thousands of Muggles was his student, Josue, who had fabricated the massacre of his entire family ten years ago and actually directed and acted in it himself!
Looking at the teacher whose eyes were bloodshot due to anger and who was pointing his wand at him, Qiao Sue did not feel the slightest fear.

Qiao Sue opened his arms, like a fanatical believer, or like the Lord embracing the world. He seemed immersed in a world that belonged to him, and his voice was like a series of mutterings: "Beast? No, my teacher, my only meaning is to survive, or rather, survival is my meaning!"

“I have an immortal body. I will bear witness, I will feel compassion, I will rejoice, I will grieve, I will evaluate, and I will also record. The world I live in creates value and meaning for my continued existence, and my eternal existence will also create value and meaning!”

"You may not understand yet, my teacher, that existence is the most fundamental, core, and perfect definition of the meaning of the existence of all things! All other meanings must be linked to existence and must be included in the meaning of existence!"

"My teacher, you identify yourself as Isaac Phagnes, a famous French alchemist, wizard, human, and a student of the great alchemist Nicolas Flamel. So for you, human alchemy is a taboo proposed by your teacher, and it is also a rule that constrains you."

"Therefore, emotions as a fairy-tale ideal reference to the connection between people are considered to be the root of everything. For you, you can foresee the end of your individual life. This end destroys your expectations of the purest meaning of your individual existence, thus giving rise to great fear."

"According to Muggle science, this fear is called nihilism, because for individuals who cannot survive, the end of life is foreseeable and cannot be escaped. Once survival ends, the meaning anchored in the individual's survival will disappear, leaving only the meaning of the individual anchored in the collective."

"My teacher, the reason you care about those sacrifices for human alchemy is because they represent the concrete health of the collective, and because your continued vision of collective meaning can offset your fear of being annihilated."

Josue's chest closed, and the artificial blood and skin covered the alchemical body, making him look no different from an ordinary human.

Phanes looked at the student who had taken the wrong path with sorrow. He growled, "Does this world mean nothing to you? What's the point of continuing as an individual when you are the only one left in the end?!"

Hearing this, Qiao Sue just smiled sarcastically and said, "Emotions worth remembering? You may not understand yet, my teacher, my body will provide me with immortality! I am a civilization, I am a race, I will be a system of my own!"

"We consider ourselves French wizards and French alchemists, but we are not from the era when wizards and alchemists were born. The concepts of wizards, alchemists, magic, and humans are all concepts that have been passed down through countless generations and passed down orally."

"Every era has made some iterations of these ideas. Even the French grammar today is very different from that of ancient times. But even so, we still think of ourselves as French wizards and alchemists, don't we?"

"My body will become a tool for my thoughts. I don't care about those emotions and memories. I am the root of everything. Once emotions and memories hinder my progress, I will abandon them and let them disappear!"

"My concept of 'I' is no different from our civilization. It just needs to survive and be coherent! My body is immortal, and I will survive, letting my self give meaning to my past self, just as I believe my future self will give meaning to my present self!"

"My teacher, I hope you can join me, join the great human alchemy, join the great immortality! Flesh and blood are weak, only human alchemy, to create an eternal body, can lead us to the [path] of ascension! As my teacher, I am willing to give you a chance!"

Qiao Sue chuckled as he looked at the Phanes in front of him. Alchemical bodies rose from the grooves on the ground. They were hung on metal racks and were transformed from dead human bodies as templates and frames.

Looking at the corpses of wizards and Muggles that were transformed into alchemical creations, Phanes was trembling all over. "Josue, you are simply a complete lunatic! The reason why taboos are called taboos is that they will bring about a price that we cannot afford! I will stop your crazy actions, I will stop you!"

Josue was not surprised by the choice made by Fanes.

Or rather, he had no hope that Isaac Phagnes, who was a disciple of Nicolas Flamel and a firm believer in Nicolas Flamel's theories and was upright, would join him.

Qiao Sue said regretfully: "That's such a pity, my teacher. A hundred years from now, no one will remember who you are. Even if I wish, Isaac Phanes will be a forgotten name in a dozen years! What you do will be meaningless, and your own significance will be denied by the carrier you hope to carry it!"

Phanes waved the magic wand in his hand, and hundreds of alchemical arrays surrounded him, with a strong murderous intent spreading.

"As your teacher, it is my fault that you have gone down the wrong path. However, as a French alchemist and my teacher's disciple, I have the obligation to clean up the mess and take back the knowledge I have passed on to you!"

Phanes said in a cold voice, and all the alchemical arrays around him had completed storing energy.

Today, Qiao Sue is just a quasi-demon-level wizard, and his body has only reached the level of immortality, but cannot withstand excessively powerful killing power.

In other words, his lifespan is infinite, but his body can be destroyed and killed!

Looking at the alchemical array that was powerful enough to pierce him with holes, Qiao Sue did not show any fear on his face.

He smiled at his teacher and said, "Since I am your disciple and I know that you have been investigating the human alchemy laboratory that broke the taboo for the past ten years, do you think that I, who is so rigorous, would not be unprepared?"

"What?" Phanes was stunned for a moment, then his face changed drastically, "What did you do?!"

I saw golden lines spreading on Phanes' body, and an alchemical armor made of mithril appeared on the surface of Phanes' body, but this alchemical armor was not protecting him, but blocking his power in a certain specific trajectory!

This alchemical armor was constantly extracting the magic power from Phanes' body. The process of extracting magic power was rough and irreversible. The magic power released by Phanes, including the alchemical array surrounding him, was forcibly extracted and turned into a force that bound Phanes!
Alchemical arrays were released from the alchemical armor and landed at Phanes' feet. Long and thin golden ropes bound Phanes' hands and feet tightly, making him completely unable to move.

At this time, Qiao Sue finally put away his hypocritical smile and his face turned cold.

Qiao Sue sneered and said, "This alchemical exoskeleton armor is quite useful, isn't it? But when you wore it to investigate the human alchemy laboratory two and a half years ago, did you find that this alchemical exoskeleton armor itself is a product of human alchemy?!"

"You!" Phanes' eyes widened in anger. He had never expected that his student would stab him in the back with the alchemical artifact he had given him for protection. "Do you want to kill your master?"

"Of course!" Qiao Sue smiled again, but his eyes were full of coldness. "As early as three months ago, I deliberately left clues so that you could find this place smoothly and, by the way... discover me who was conducting human alchemy experiments..."

Josue walked slowly in front of Phanes and looked straight into his angry eyes.

"I have been preparing for this moment for so long! I hope you like this gift, my teacher, a carefully planned Hundred Days Teacher-killing Banquet!"

Josue snapped his fingers lightly.

The next moment, countless sharp golden spikes pierced out from the inside of the alchemical exoskeleton armor, piercing the body of Phanes who was wearing the alchemical exoskeleton armor with holes.

The scarlet blood flowed down, forming a small pool of blood on the ground.

Phanes's vitality was fading rapidly, and his eyes gradually lost their luster.

"Clean up!"

Josue's magic wand touched Phanes' body, wiping it out along with the blood on the ground.

Even a magic like the Cleansing Spell, which even young wizards can perform, can exert a power comparable to that of the Vanishing Spell as long as the caster's attainments are high enough and his magic power is strong enough.

Gazing at the empty alchemy laboratory, Qiao Sue's lips curled up slightly.

"Next, I have to quickly start a craze for human alchemy in the French magic world. Only when more people recognize human alchemy and the significance of this path can I rely on my attainments on this path and advance to the level of a Demon King wizard..."

"My body has been anchored, but if I want to survive forever, anchoring the body is far from enough. I need to anchor my soul so that my soul will not be worn out and my soul will be immortal along with my body... I understand, I need the Philosopher's Stone! Nicolas Flamel, my master whom I have never met... Let me meet you..."

The silver-white door of the alchemy laboratory was completely sealed, and the place fell into dead silence again. (End of this chapter)