Chapter 13: War
"Mr. Deer Skull."
On a small hill in the western suburbs of Igwynt, facing the "person" in the shape of a magic circle, Oswan and Goff leaned down and spoke respectfully.
The gray-all-white "person" did not immediately pay attention to the two of them, but began to move his limbs mechanically, as if adapting to something. As he adapted, his movements became smoother, and finally he slowly became as natural as a normal person.
Then, he looked toward the brightly lit school in the distance with his eyes without whites or pupils, and spoke slowly.
"Have you... found him?"
The "man" named Deer Skull said this, and it seems that because his vocal organs are extremely abnormal, his voice is dry, worn, harsh and unpleasant, just like the sound of sandpaper rubbed against each other.
"Yes, after many days of investigation, we can confirm that your archenemy is in that school over there. He... should have disguised himself as the principal of that school and is inside now!"
Os said with great certainty to the deer skeleton in front of him, and the deer skeleton took another look at the school in the distance and opened its mouth.
Then, more than a dozen invisible ghosts wailed out of the mouth of the deer skeleton. After dancing in the air for a while, they flew back and entangled around the deer skeleton and the other two people. Then these ghosts were swept away from the ground, flew into the sky, and flew towards the distant school. Before being taken away, Oswan and Gover did not forget to take their suitcases with them.
After flying for a distance in the dark, the three finally flew over the school. Just as they were about to hover in the air to observe the ground below, suddenly the ghosts that were originally dragging the three began to wailing and running around as if affected by something, and the three began to fall uncontrollably.
Faced with such a situation, Oswan and Goff could not help but panic, while Deer Skull waved his hand lightly, and forcibly controlled the group of ghosts, letting them drag all the people on their side slowly down, and finally slowly landed on the ground, on the open space in the center of the campus.
After landing on the ground, Goff and Oswan began to observe the surrounding environment. At this time, they found that there were brightly lit campus corridors and buildings all around. Many exquisite stone sculptures of various types were placed everywhere, decorating the campus at night and adding a strong artistic atmosphere. However, in this atmosphere, there was a hint of weirdness.
Goffer and Oswan were surprised to find that there were sounds coming from everywhere around them, discussions in the corridor, classes in the classroom, chasing and playing in the open space... All the sounds of this school were present at this moment, but there was no one.
Whether it is the corridor, classroom, or open space... although the sounds are echoing there, it is empty and there is no one there. The noisy sounds and the empty campus, such a phenomenon combined together, form a weird scene.
Looking at the scene around them, Goff and Oswan were stunned. They had thought that there were lights and sounds here, and that classes should be going on as usual. How could it be like this? This strange scene made them both feel a little uneasy.
"Why, why are there no students? Shouldn't they be in class at this time? Why are there only sounds?" Oswan said in astonishment as he looked at the scene in front of him, and at this time a slightly old voice replied him.
"I gave those kids a temporary holiday this evening to entertain guests. This is proper courtesy for old friends."
Gover and Oswan turned their heads in astonishment and looked in the direction where the sound came from. Then they saw a figure slowly walking out from behind the porch. He had gray hair, and wore a work hat, sleeves, and dusty work clothes. He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were narrowed, and he held a small music box in his hand. This was Odchi.
Under the astonished eyes of Goff and Oswan, Odrich slowly walked into the open space, then turned off the music box in his hand, and then the vibrant campus sounds around him suddenly stopped.
This music box is an extraordinary prop belonging to Odditch, with the attribute of "shadow". Odditch once used it to record the disguised voice of Dorothy in an extraordinary gathering, and then restored it. Finally, he relied on the restored voice to confirm Dorothy, who had just come to St. Amanda's School, and tested her.
Now, Odki used this extraordinary prop to record the sounds of the entire school at night, and then appeared in this deserted campus, confusing Gover and Oswan's judgment.
"It's been a long time since I last saw you, Huiqiu. You still like to do something imaginary."
At this time, Lu Skull also looked at Odeqi and said in a dry and unpleasant voice, and Odeqi responded easily.
"You're almost the same. You still don't like to show your true form to others. Let me guess which bone of yours this is. I guess it's the pelvis." With a hint of humor, Odqi smiled and said to the Deer Skull, and the Deer Skull replied indifferently.
"Hmph, I don't have time for your silly jokes. Spit it out immediately, and I might be merciful enough not to use your soul as fuel."
"Haha... it seems that you are very confident. Do you really think that you can defeat me in my workshop with just a Cursed Bone clone?" Odqi said with his usual smile, and Deer Skull answered with disdain.
"You are just a useless person who failed to advance to gold and was attacked by the backlash. How can you not do it? The spiritual energy you can retain in your body now is probably not even as much as that of a black soil. What can you use to fight me?"
"Then we can... give it a try..."
As he spoke, Odeqi put his hands behind his back and slightly opened his narrowed eyes, revealing a sharp look in them.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, the ground beneath the deer skeleton's feet exploded, and a pair of huge rock hands stretched out from it, grabbing the deer skeleton's body tightly. At the same time, the ground of the entire open space began to tremble, and cracks began to appear on the ground within a dozen square meters around it, breaking it off from the surrounding school.
Afterwards, this part of the broken land began to sink rapidly like an elevator, bringing with it Odeqi, Lu Ku and others who were standing on it.
"I am the principal of this school now. It would be bad if everything was destroyed. The battlefield I prepared for us is downstairs. Let's go there together."
Standing on the rapidly sinking ground, Odchi spoke slowly. At the same time, the ground above them began to slowly close like a lid. Facing such a scene, Lu Skull remained silent. He turned his head and glanced at Gover and Oswan who were panicking on both sides of him.
The Deer Skull controlled the ghost to drag the two people up and threw them upwards. Finally, before the ceiling above their heads closed, they were sent back to the ground. Then the lid closed completely, and Odchi was completely separated from the underground and the ground where the Deer Skull was.
Returning to the quiet campus, looking at the peaceful scene around them and the night sky above their heads, Goff and Oswan were stunned.
"Mr. Deer Skull... and that old guy went underground? Are they going to fight there?"
After sorting out what had just happened, Oswan murmured, and suddenly, the ground shook, and the surrounding buildings and them all trembled slightly with the shaking.
Then, the tremors coming from underground came one after another, as if there were some huge forces colliding with each other below.
"We can't intervene in their fight, so... Mr. Deer Skull sent us up here?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Goff murmured to himself, and at this moment, strange changes occurred all around him.
Along with the shaking underground, an exquisite stone bust on the corridor beside the open space suddenly cracked into extremely fine cracks, and then suddenly turned into fine dust and powder, which scattered on the ground.
Then, as if it was contagious, this phenomenon occurred every once in a while. The stone statues that decorated the surroundings suddenly turned into dust without any warning. Looking at the scene before them, Goff and the others were confused.
What happened? Why did these stone statues suddenly turn into dust?
At this moment, a bald ghost emerged from the ground, flew in front of Goff and Oswan, and spoke the words of the Deer Skull.
"Quick... destroy all the stone statues you can see above! Destroy them before that guy absorbs their spirituality!"
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