[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

102: High School Student 10

This face was completely different from Zong Yan's youthful high school student face. Not just the temperament but even the contours of this face were completely different.

"If I use this persona, I can just beat him up directly, right?"

The voice of the King in the Cloud was glacially cold, but his words left the evil god speechless for a moment.

The more Zong Yan thought about it, the more sense it made.

People in the occult world might be able to guess about the persona card of Apollo, the Sun God. But aside from saving Jiangzhou previously, Zong Yan had basically never used the persona card of Yun Zhong Jun again in public.

That meant he could activate the Yun Zhong Jun card, throw caution to the wind, hunt down Paracelsus the cult leader, and beat him senseless. As the saying went, catch the ringleader before the other thieves. After Paracelsus was captured, his henchmen probably wouldn't be able to accomplish much.

Besides, Yun Zhong Jun was a genuine Elder God, more than capable of fighting the Lord of Tindalos. Against a human, this was equivalent to a dimensionality reduction strike. No trouble at all.

Zong Yan admired the brilliance of his own idea, then quickly activated the clouds around him and vanished.

The gray-haired evil god in the trench coat didn't move.

His hands were in the pockets of his trench coat, and his golden eyes glittered with continual flashes of light.

Yog-Sothoth hadn't told Zong Yan that Paracelsus transferred R'lyeh's jade piece long ago.

Paracelsus had been dormant in Miskatonic University for a very long time, long enough to become an honorary member of the Spire Council. Most of the time, Chancellor Nicholas Flamel didn't bother with university business. Paracelsus had become the primary leader and decision maker.

Moreover, Paracelsus was a genius gifted in alchemy and medicine. He'd even been involved in the most forbidden field of alchemy—human alchemy—and succeeded in creating new life out of nothingness.

However, his talent wasn't great enough to refine the philosopher's stone by himself. There had been many legendary figures throughout the ages. Nicholas Flamel learned how to refine the philosopher's stone after receiving a dream from an angel, and Paracelsus followed his example. He searched ancient books and performed secret rituals, hoping the angel would also teach him how to make the philosopher's stone.

In the end he got the recipe, but the being who taught him was an evil god.

In exchange for immortality he traded away his soul.

Later, Paracelsus infiltrated MU and waited for the great Cthulhu to recover.

As for the jade piece of R'lyeh, he stole it long ago. The point of today's business was to make a show.

'We'll wait for the appointed people to arrive and discover the jade piece is missing. Then we can start the full-scale operation.'

The red-haired alchemist stood in the center of the auditorium, gazing up at the alchemical symbol of an eye in the ceiling.

He'd been alive for many years, from the Renaissance to the discovery of the New World, from the Age of Steam to the Age of Electricity, to the Information Age of today.

Paracelsus had lived a very long time, and the longer he lived, the greedier he became.

He knew that only by reviving the evil god could he reach the pinnacle of alchemy. As a man who'd sold his soul, he had no other choice.

'All we need to do is wait until tonight. When the jade of R'lyeh descends into the South Pacific... You will finally awaken from your long, healing slumber, O Lord.'

Paracelsus's eyes were filled with a frenzy of excitement. He'd planned this for so many decades, and now he was even more determined to win.

Then—

He was suddenly punched across the auditorium.

And it was a punch to the face.

Paracelsus: ? ? ?

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The author has something to say:

Zong Yan: Evil gods have hit me so many times with dimensionality reduction strikes, I finally learned to do the same to others. Smile.

Zong Yan: Don't ask, just ask how you'll be punched

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TL Notes:

throw caution to the wind - 不管三七二十一 - no matter three, seven, twenty-one - casting all caution to the winds; come what may; in spite of anything; recklessly; regardless of the consequences

catch the ringleader before the other thieves - 擒贼先擒王 - catch the king before the thieves - capture the ringleader first in order to capture all his followers; Before you can get rid of the petty criminals you must catch their boss; Destroy the leader and the gang will collapse; To catch a snake by the head is good advice

dimensionality reduction strike - 降维打击 - A sci fi term from the science fiction novel The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (officially released in English and very popular). It means to attack a problem by reducing its spatial dimensions. To put it crudely, if you convert a 3D object to a 2D object and shred the paper it's written on, it's suddenly much easier to deal with

Don't ask, just ask how you'll be punched - 别问，问就是直接打 - "Don't ask, just ask XXX/don't ask, the question is XXX" is a popular insult meme from the DOTA2 e-sports circle (Baidu)