Chapter 97 Ghost Ship on the Atlantic Ocean (12) Nine hundred years ago, and...
"What?" Lucifer was stunned.
The two of them took a few steps back to the right at the same time, and found that Satan was right. Si Ling was still staring at the front without moving, and now there was only Xuan Chi who was in a coma in that direction.
"Si, Si Ling...you two are compatriots, calm down..." Before Lucifer finished speaking, Si Ling floated up faintly.
She floated to a height of half a meter above the ground, and a shadow took shape behind her.
It was not the dazzling phantom like the clone technique just now. There was only one, but it was almost three meters tall, almost reaching the sky in the inverted bowl.
Si Ling raised his right hand, holding two fingers in front of his chest. The shadow also raised his right hand, holding two fingers in front of his chest.
Satan and Lucifer both looked up at her, only to see her and the shadow tilt their heads at the same time. Two skulls appeared behind them, and in an instant they became four, eight... and soon it was a dense mass.
"You..." Satan subconsciously raised his hand to block Lucifer's sight, but Lucifer avoided it.
He was indeed cryptic, but the scene before him was strange yet spectacular. Lucifer was so shocked that he forgot about his cryptic fear for a moment.
Soon, those skulls formed a wall behind Si Ling and the phantom. The skulls at the edge touched the colorful bowl. Si Ling's thin lips moved slightly, and he muttered something. All the skulls roared ferociously.
"Ah——" Satan and Lucifer had splitting headaches from the screams, and they both held their heads and covered their ears.
At the same time, cracks appeared on the inner wall of the colorful bowl, and golden light shone in the cracks. The black smoke released by the skeleton rushed towards the golden light as if it had found its prey, annihilating it at the fastest speed.
"Crack—" More cracks appeared. Satan raised his head and suppressed the discomfort, wanting to cast a protective spell. However, just as the flame of the spell appeared, black smoke quickly gathered and swallowed up the spell like a swarm of locusts.
"What the f**k!" Satan yelled. The next second, the cracked colorful bowl reached its endurance limit and exploded with a bang!
Satan and Lucifer instinctively raised their hands to shield themselves. After a brief breath, they realized that the expected fragments did not fall. They hesitantly looked up and saw Si Ling, still floating in mid-air with her eyes completely white. Behind her was the three-meter-tall shadow, facing Moloch from afar. Behind the shadow, the hideous skull had disappeared without a trace, replaced by fragments of artifacts, large and small, floating erratically.
Si Ling raised her right hand expressionlessly, the shadow behind her still moving in sync with her. The fragments were driven, instantly changing direction, each pointing its sharpest point towards Moloch.
Then, under the dull gaze of Satan and Lucifer, Si Ling hooked his finger.
Countless fragments flew towards Moloch like sharp swords, making a soft whining sound in the air. Hundreds of eyes on Moloch's bull-head narrowed simultaneously, and he immediately leaped up to avoid the attack. However, the fragments pursued him as if they had their own tracking system. Moloch quickly turned and fled, but the fragments continued to pursue him.
The barrier that was originally used to restrict the opponent's movements now became a cage that bound Moloch himself. He rushed around under the rich purple dome, but the chasing debris still cut off his countless limbs that grew like vines. The broken limbs fell to the ground with a crackling sound and piled up like layers of fallen leaves.
Satan and Lucifer were not surprised by the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in hell, but seeing all the broken arms and legs was still too much for them. They both let out a synchronized retching sound but held it back at the same time, then cast a spell to make themselves float up and away from the severed limbs.
The retching sound made Si Ling turn around. Lucifer shuddered and blurted out: "I'm frightfully sorry①..."
But Si Ling's gaze seemed to be fixed on a farther place. She tilted her head and raised her finger, causing the unconscious Xuan Chi to float up, and the broken limbs that had fallen on him fell to the ground.
When he turned around again, Si Ling snapped his fingers crisply.
The countless fragments chasing Moloch exploded again, turning into countless tiny dust particles and attacking Moloch at an even faster speed!
"No--" Moloch cried out in despair in an ancient language, but was still ruthlessly swallowed by the dust. Satan and Lucifer watched him being wrapped into a ball of gray smoke, and wisps of golden beams burst out from the smoke, eventually turning into a dazzling ball of light.
"It's you!" Moloch screamed in pain from the ball of light, this time speaking the familiar English they were all accustomed to. "That interesting prophecy... Ha."
After a short laugh, the golden light suddenly disappeared, and the purple barrier disappeared without a trace. Moloch, who was swallowed by the golden light, left no body. Only countless severed limbs sinking from the sea surface to the bottom of the sea could prove his existence.
Nine hundred years ago, the devil, who had fought with Satan for several days and nights before being barely subdued, died in this way.
The Mockingbird, which had sailed for more than three hundred years, also no longer existed. Hundreds of ghosts were floating aimlessly on the sea. Seeing this, Satan immediately cast a spell to bind them all and prepare to send them back to hell.
Lucifer should have gone to help Satan, but he thought carefully, floated in front of Si Ling first, maintained a safe distance of several meters, and observed her carefully.
Si Ling was still floating in mid-air, but the three-meter-tall shadow behind her gradually faded until it vanished. After the shadow completely vanished, her pupils began to return to their normal color, from a barely visible light gray to the brown-black color most common in China.
Si Ling blinked, noticed Lucifer in front of him, and raised an eyebrow: "What's wrong?"
"Well, I just want to say..." Lucifer raised his thumbs, "You're awesome. If you're considering settling in the West, you can choose any position..."
Si Ling was a little confused. What happened a moment ago had become only a vague memory covered by a thick white mist in her mind. She looked around vigilantly, and after a long while she finally found a trace in the mist. She hesitated and said, "Is Moloch dead?"
"...?" Lucifer paused, then smiled in a complicated tone, "You're not trying to tell me that your attack just now was unconscious, are you?"
Si Ling was about to say yes when Lucifer pointed behind her and said in an exaggerated tone, "Don't be ridiculous. You even knew how to get Xuan Chi out of those disgusting severed limbs. This is not something that can be done with an unconscious attack."
Si Ling turned her head in the direction he pointed and saw Xuan Chi floating there, still unconscious. The thick blood plasma on his wings made her vaguely remember how she had pulled him out of the mutilated limbs.
Then, more thoughts came back to him. Si Ling looked at Xuan Chi with narrowed eyes, pondered for a while, and said to Lucifer without answering the question: "We should go back."
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Hohenzollernburg, Ghost Academy.
Hyun Chi woke up in the middle of the night, and the first thing he saw was the bright moonlight slanting in through the curtains. Even for someone just waking from a coma, the soft moonlight was a bit dazzling, so he subconsciously shielded his eyes with his arm.
This slight movement attracted the attention in the darkness. Xuan Chi felt something approaching rapidly. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw the cold light of the dagger against his throat.
Xuan Chi paused, his eyes moving along the sword, passing the hand holding the hilt, and finally falling on Si Ling's face: "...What are you doing?" He looked at her in confusion.
Si Ling looked at him: "I ask you questions, answer them, don't lie to me."
“…” Xuan Chi wanted to nod, but considering that the tip of the sword was right in front of him, he could only lower his eyes.
Si Ling: "What's your feud with Moloch? It counts both before he was sealed and after he was unsealed."
"I've never seen him..." Xuan Chi blurted out, then thought for a moment before adding, "I've never seen him since the seal was lifted. As for before the seal... I don't remember."
Si Ling hesitated for a moment and continued to ask, "Do you have any impression of him? Even just a single image would count."
"No."
"Then why did he target you?"
Xuan Chi was puzzled: "He is targeting me?"
Si Ling raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "When I first let you out, you were able to pin me to the ground and beat me, but facing Moloch, I was unharmed and you fainted directly. This doesn't make sense, so that magic weapon is aimed at you."
Xuan Chi was speechless and thought for a moment. He was unable to refute Si Ling's opinion, which only made him more confused. "What you said makes sense...but I don't know."
"Okay." Si Ling put away the dagger with his backhand. "If you didn't lie to me, then there is only one possibility. Come out with me."
After she finished speaking, she turned and walked out. Hyun Chi was stunned for two seconds before he came to his senses. He laughed as he got out of bed: "Is that all? Can't you ask nicely?"
Si Ling glanced back at him and said, "I'm feeling troubled, so asking this way is more efficient."
“…Okay.” Xuan Chi was helpless.
He followed her out and soon realized that she was in a bad mood. She walked out with a stern face, and she didn't say a word from his residence to the underground gate leading to Lingbo City.
Xuan Chi felt that the air pressure around her had dropped, and an aura of "keep away from strangers" lingered around her. Ghosts have stronger intuition than humans, so after she entered Lingbo City, although she still tried to restrain her ghost energy, the ghosts passing by her still avoided her. Some of them dodged completely subconsciously, and some seemed to notice something unusual, turned their heads to look at her, and then without exception quickly retracted their gaze, quickened their pace and hid away.
Seeing this, Xuan Chi wisely did not disturb her until she stopped in front of a small Chinese-style building.
Xuan Chi looked up at the plaque on the door: "Fox Market?"
Si Ling strode into the gate of Fox City and was greeted by a young male fox demon: "Hello, may I have a pre-order?"
Bang!
The male fox demon was slammed into the wall by the spell, and the wooden wall cracked in response. The male fox demon grimaced in pain, and his vision was still whitening. Suddenly, he saw a pale female ghost face approaching: "I want to see the Fox Ancestor. You can help me open the elevator directly, or I will kill you first and then go down myself."
"You..." The male fox demon stared at her in amazement, "Do you know where this place is?"
Si Ling's eyebrows jumped, and he suddenly changed his mind and let go of the male fox demon in front of him: "Okay, you go call the police, and I will kill him myself."
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The author has something to say: [Notes]
①【I'm frightfully sorry】literally means "I'm very sorry", but it is actually a very formal and pretentious way of saying it in British English...which means Lucifer was frightened by Si Ling.
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