Professor Lucius smiled after seeing their reaction. The creature inside the cage does have a terrible appearance but it wasn't the worst thing he had ever seen.
It brings him joy seeing them terrified… He even wanted to remove the cage to tease them and see them piss their pants.
Nevertheless, he controlled his urge to tease them as he took a deep breath.
He didn't answer their questions and asked his students instead.
"How do you think we're keeping it alive?"
No one expected such a question. Most of them are in a daze looking at the creature so they didn't have the time to think of a good answer.
After a while, someone spoke with a curious tone.
"Is it being fed by normal food? If not, perhaps some sort of spiritual food…" Neil said. He actually thought that this creature doesn't need food and only requires some sort of mystical energy. However, from their Professor's question, he seems to be hinting at something else.
Professor Lucius then looked at the others who were still staring at the creature in their Phantasm State.
"I think that it needs to drink some blood like the vampires in the novels…" Felicia commented.
"That's a good one… However, I think it requires living beings as their food. After all, the body they were controlling was previously dead. It probably needs life or maybe soul in order to continue functioning." This time, it was Jody who had answered.
Professor Lucius still didn't answer… He didn't say whether it was right or wrong and was quite annoying for Vale.
'He was acting so mysterious like Master Heinz… I don't like it.' Vale commented in his mind as he saw Heinz's behavior in Professor Lucius' actions.
"Professor… It's already three minutes. I think Lisa wanted to see the creature as well." Chad suddenly reminded me as Lisa glared at him.
She doesn't want it at all! However, the Professor already acted as he waved his hands to remove the seal.
It was as if he cast a spell on it.
'No… He didn't cast a dark spell… He pressed something on the cage using his Dark Energy to remove the seal.' Vale mused as he noticed the Professor's subtle action.
His action seems that he cast a spell just now but he simply used a lump of energy to press or activate something on the cage.
If he wasn't mistaken, he should've targeted the Magic Circle that was carved on each bar of the cage.
This was quite interesting to Vale since he was still learning how to do this seemingly easy action.
At this point, everyone was in for another surprise as the seal that was suppressing the creature was removed.
It means that the creature's aura was finally released! Everyone shivered at the sudden cold and menacing aura wrapping around their bodies.
Lisa was also shocked as she saw the two paralyzing eyes staring at her with a disturbing obsession. She also swears that she saw a flame from its broad mouth with great intensity.
Smoldering and smoking skin adorns its muscular head, which itself is cracked all over. There's also a plume of shadow that escapes the creature's angular nostrils set within a compact nose.
It was no wonder her classmates were terrified after seeing this creature! Lisa finally understood what they were feeling just now!
Its blubbery body disgusts her already so the moment it looked at her, she couldn't help but step away to escape its line of sight. She hid behind Vale as she felt uncomfortable.
Perhaps, it is only lacking some bony wings and this creature would appear close to the demons that he had seen in some paintings in the churches.
"It's horrifying…" Lisa commented as she sucked in a cold breath.
Vale nodded in agreement.
Lisa then looked at the others and they all have the same reaction since they were also wrapped by that menacing aura coming from the creature.
"Indeed… It also eats humans in order to stay alive…" Professor Lucius said.
"W-what?! Humans? Living humans?" Emily asked in concern.
"No…" The professor answered.
"So… The academy is feeding it with corpses then?"
"Isn't that a bit too much?"
The professor expected this reaction so he explained. "That's right… It only needs one human corpse a month… Just in the kingdom, hundreds of people are dying every day. You don't have to worry about lacking enough food."
'That's not what I'm concerned with…' Lisa thought as she also can't accept that human corpses are going to be defiled by this creature.
Although they were already dead, she believes that they shouldn't be treated like that. It's probably the influence of the church in her life so she couldn't help but frown at this practice.
"Professor, does it need a normal human corpse or those practitioners of the Arcane Path?" Vale asked this time.
"Anything will do. However, if it's a practitioner, then there is a higher chance that it doesn't have to be fed for a few more months."
"I see… Then, will it still eat even if we give them more corpses than needed?" Blair asked as he looked at the creature.
"Yes… It will eat human corpses whether it already had its fill or not." The professor continued to answer.
"Since it eats corpses, then it should also be capable of killing humans and eating them. Then, why was this creature considered a docile one or different from the other evil creatures?"
Lucius nodded as this was the question he was waiting for.
"It is docile because it can communicate with us. On the outside, we call all of them evil creatures since they were all possessing dead bodies and can be harmful to society… However, these docile ones who were capable of communicating are what we call Messengers. Of course, they all must be eliminated. We are only keeping this one alive for various reasons like showing it to young ones like you and not being clueless about the outside world."
Before the students further ask, Lucius immediately cut them off and changed the topic.
"You will know someday why they are called messengers. I will not discuss it now… Instead, we will have an activity of testing your might against this creature. I need ten volunteers who will try to fight against this creature."
At these sudden words, everyone froze and their eyes immediately looked toward the exit!
