Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 303 Killing someone with a borrowed knife

"Every time I see you, it's hard to call you teacher again."

Xia Youjie smiled and looked at Shen Yuanyi who had arrived. After so many years, the latter in his trance was almost the same as he was more than ten years ago.

Although I've known about this for a long time, I can't help but sigh every time I see Geto Suguru. Nowadays, he and Satoru sometimes look more mature than their teacher, which really makes me feel confused.

Shen Yuanyi smiled and replied: "Didn't I tell you that you can just call me by my name? You know, I don't care about these things."

Of course, Xia Youjie knew that the other party really didn't care about these things. All the things in the world... power, wealth, beauty and all the ordinary people's pursuits and enjoyments, his teacher had never shown any intention of pursuing them.

Obviously, everything is within his reach. Xia Youjie even feels that even if he, Wu, and all the high-level magicians in the world of sorcery are added together, they may not be able to do anything to Shenyuanyi.

However, the latter has never been heard to have done anything out of line in the past twenty years. Ever since he became the teacher of the young Gojo Satoru, he has been so low-key that everyone has almost forgotten that he is also one of the top-grade sorcerers, and an existence that the General Headquarters still fears.

After thinking about it, in Geto Suguru's memory, Kamigano Ichito seemed to be just a person who was happy to be a teacher. The only thing he pursued or did was the "New World Project" in which he and Gojo Satoru were involved.

In fact, they have been running around all these years for this matter, and the plan is going quite smoothly. Under various subtle influences, part of the truth about the curse is gradually penetrating into people's hearts.

Of course, this situation also led to an increase in curses, so that Geto Suguru was very busy. The most obvious evidence was that he didn't have to worry about the lack of curses to subdue in his own techniques.

Even Geto Suguru had to choose techniques or cursed spirits with good qualities to subdue. Many people were guessing how many cursed spirits he had subdued, but only Geto Suguru himself and a very small number of people knew the number.

Four thousand eight hundred and thirty-two cursed spirits.

Among them, there are as many as thirteen special-grade cursed spirits, and most of them are not even those special-grade cursed spirits recorded by the General Headquarters. They were all collected by Geto Suguru when he traveled around the country to deal with curses.

This is also the reason why, although Geto Suguru was still a little distance away from mastering the expansion of his domain, he became a special-grade magician very early on. He mastered multiple special-grade curses. Who can say that this is not a special-grade combat power?

Even because of some characteristics of [Curse Spirit Control Technique], Geto Suguru's strength may be much stronger than the average special grade.

This time, while solving the curse, he discovered something that the Divine Source had mentioned long ago.

"If you find a victim of a curse whose soul and body have been changed, notify me immediately..."

No matter whether it is the sorcerer or the cursed spirit, it is extremely rare for the spell to involve the soul level. In fact, there are many different opinions in the sorcery world today about whether the soul exists or not.

Therefore, injuries involving the soul are extremely rare, which is why Shen Yuanyi asked Geto Suguru to pay attention to the news in this regard. As long as the real person is able to move and follow his instincts, he will start killing humans.

This kind of abnormal injury can expose his whereabouts immediately. So, Xia Yujie assisted the supervisor in finding their whereabouts one step ahead, and there was an unexpected surprise, that is, Xia Yujie used the curse spirit he used for exploration and found a guy with sutures on his forehead.

"In order to avoid alerting the enemy, after confirming their whereabouts, I only used the curse spirits to grasp the general situation remotely. But are they really that powerful? Four special-grade curse spirits that also possess intelligence?"

Most of the cursed spirits have no intelligence at all. At least in Geto Suguru's opinion, some of the behaviors exhibited by many cursed spirits can only be called "instinct". It is just because they are born from people's negative emotions, so it is not surprising that some of them can speak human language and have simple thoughts.

But from the mouth of Shen Yuanyi, he heard that there was actually a kind of cursed spirit that was not reborn in the flesh, but had the same wisdom as humans in its original form. Even the special cursed spirit that needed his attention was a special-grade cursed spirit that was no different from humans in terms of thinking ability and appearance.

Shenyuan nodded. This was not surprising, even though sorcerers generally believed that the so-called cursed spirits were just some special beings born from the curse, and were themselves part of the curse.

Even if it behaves like a living being, it is still just a "phenomenon", just like the romance and love, there is nothing to worry about. Those with more radical ideas only regard it as a "beast" that is the natural enemy of humans.

Even though they were the "eight million gods" worshipped by ignorant people in the past, later on, no one regarded them as being on the same level as "humans". This was because humans, as the most intelligent creatures on earth, instinctively despised such beings that did not even have thoughts.

But now someone told Geto Suguru that cursed spirits can possess wisdom and thinking abilities comparable to those of humans. Doesn't that mean... in a sense, cursed spirits could perhaps be regarded as a new intelligent race, a population that could potentially develop its own civilization and social structure?
However, it was just a sudden thought from Geto Suguru. No matter what, he would not show mercy to the cursed spirits. Not to mention that only some of them had this level of intelligence. Even if the cursed spirits really became a new race, the fight between them and humans would be a fight to the death.

Humans, or Homo sapiens, are the only existing species under the genus Homo today. They have left behind their own evolutionary path tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years ago. During this journey, the number of species that have become extinct at the hands of these terrifying upright apes is a terrifying number.

As for the cursed spirits, these beings have the purest malice towards humans since their birth. They can only have two endings. One is to be completely eradicated, which is also the greatest wish of Geto Suguru. The second is the "New World Plan" they are currently working on. As long as they can successfully guide the existence of curses and let everyone accept and treat them as normal, sooner or later the proportion of magicians will rise to a point where curses can be completely suppressed.

At that time, the cursed spirits will become vicious beasts like lions and tigers with their teeth pulled out and their claws cut off. They will be "confined" like wild animals in zoos or nature reserves, becoming a rare, controllable species with alternative value.

Therefore, when Shen Yuanyi said that the guys he was looking for could be helpful to their plan, Xia Youjie took it very seriously. Today was a reward for his hard work all along.

"Their role? It's very simple, Jie..."

When they went to the area where the Zhenren and other cursed spirits were active, Shen Yuanyi smiled and explained to Xia Youjie the role of those tool people...spirits.

"We have encountered a lot of opposition to our plan, you know that, Jay."

Of course, the public existence of spells will be opposed by many people. The irony is that not all of those who oppose are sorcerers. The ones who are leading them are naturally the "old idiots" in the general managerial department.

Or to put it another way, the so-called "conservatives". Gojo Satoru prefers to call them old-fashioned or "old guys who are lying on the rotten coffin lid and refuse to let go for fear of drowning."

Of course, not all conservatives have such extreme ideas. For example, the Kamo family... they are the more moderate ones among the conservatives. Yes, the Kamo family, who have deep operations in the world, are members of the conservatives.

However, their belief is that spells should be kept by spells and mortals should be kept by mortals. Because spells are accompanied by curses, they should be isolated from the world of ordinary people. Otherwise, the Heian period, the so-called "heyday of spells" thousands of years ago, would have been here.

The dark era when hundreds of demons roam at night and people are no longer human will come again!

It is also difficult to say that the Kamo family's claims are wrong. There are many sorcerers who think so. After all, that is the "lesson" left by the history of sorcery that has been passed down to the present day.

However, in the eyes of the "reformists", this is only treating the symptoms and not the root cause. It seems that this path is chosen for the sake of stability, but in fact it is equivalent to doing nothing. Spells are still reviving and curses are still increasing. Moreover, due to the progress of the times, spells may become known to the world one day, and the situation will only be worse at that time.

Under such circumstances, the plan jointly proposed by Kamigata, Geto Suguru, and Gojo Satoru immediately caused an uproar. If it were in the past, this plan would never have been proposed.

But it is undeniable that although the conservatives are still the dominant force in the world of sorcery today, the power of the reformists has become increasingly formidable. In fact, because of the three masters and apprentices, they have even overwhelmed the conservatives in this regard.

Therefore, this "New World Plan" was put on the table, causing people to think and argue.

I still remember that Gojo Satoru was the good guy and Geto Takumi was the bad guy, which almost made everyone think that the top leaders of Jujutsu were going to have an internal conflict. The top leaders were also afraid of the top combat power here, and finally had to compromise: allowing them to try some preparatory work first to see the results.

How could Shenyuan and his people not understand the Directorate's ideas? These ordinary people who became high-level officials because of their outstanding energy and influence in both the magic and the real world were just afraid.

Fear that magic will become a power that everyone can access, fear that the privilege of magic that they hold in their hands will be lost, fear that everything will be lost in this inevitable earth-shaking change.

So they also fear that "new world".

It is foreseeable that even though these guys are wary of their own strength on the surface, they will definitely use tricks secretly. In order to avoid a bad situation caused by idiots, Shen Yuanyi decided to strike first.

In the past, due to the horrific disaster of "Death Migration" caused by the noose, Otsutsuki took advantage of the chaos to kill all the senior officials of the General Administration. Under the unprecedented impact, there was no such thing as conservatives or old-fashioned factions, because the worst future had come.

And now that Noose is half-crippled, although he has gotten involved with Zhenren and the others again, it is estimated that he may not be able to cause that kind of trouble, so it will be difficult for Shenyuanyi and the others to deal with the general managerial department.

It's impossible to go in alone and kill all those old orange peels. Even if Shen Yuanyi and his men can do it, this is not a purposeless massacre or revenge. What Shen Yuanyi and his men want to do is to create a new world.

If the most stubborn conservatives in the General Office were killed in this rule-breaking way, how would those ordinary conservatives who simply had different ideas and still had a chance to fight for it feel?
If you break the rules first, no one will be willing to play by the rules with you anymore.

Therefore, Shen Yuanyi needed a knife, a knife that had nothing to do with them and could be discarded or broken after use.

Zhenren and the others are very qualified "knives". They are strong enough. As curse spirits, their words will not be trusted by everyone. Moreover, Shenyuanyi originally planned to kill them directly, so it is a good choice to make good use of them now.

(End of this chapter)