There was no trouble returning to the warehouse from Silver Cross Avenue, but Shade did not let the driver take him directly to the warehouse door. Instead, he got off the car on a nearby street and walked the last part of the way on foot, carrying the cat.
Only when we got closer to the warehouse did we realize that there was actually a fight going on in the courtyard, which looked like nothing was happening from a distance. Looking more closely, we could clearly see that it was Dr. Schneider, Luvia, and Dorothy fighting with two unfamiliar eight-ring sorcerers:
"Another attacker?"
Xia De was very surprised and wanted to join the battle, but Dr. Schneider told him to go to the warehouse quickly:
"We're fine, you go inside, the priest can't suppress it alone!"
"Okay... Fortuneteller!"
The glowing black key looked like a pure white seed in the foggy night. The key was thrown to Luvia by Shade, and when she caught it, the light had extended into a long staff. Although she had never seen this relic before, the moment she grabbed the Staff of Yggdrasil, she actually understood what it was.
Shade didn't explain and rushed into the warehouse with Mia in his arms. Luvia, with purple light in her eyes, turned around with her staff in hand. As the bottom of the staff tapped the ground, the normal time passed by in her eyes, but it became extremely slow.
"Priest, what's going on?"
After entering the warehouse, Shad saw Priest Augustus hurriedly sprinkling salt, and the long sword placed on the coffin was clanging with the vibration of the coffin.
The old priest was already sweating profusely:
"You're back? I don't know what the two Eighth Ring Warlocks outside used to make the relic almost go out of control... The coffin lid actually opened a gap just now, but I suppressed it with that kind of power. I can only come once in a short period of time. What is in it?"
"Mia, don't move."
As he said that, Xia De placed the orange and white cat on the shaking coffin. Because of the shaking of the coffin, Xiaomia was obviously not very happy, but since Xia De made a request, it could only cry out in grievance, and then watched Xia De grab the salt.
However, the cat's arrival was obviously very effective. When Mia sat down, the coffin that had almost seemed to be "dancing" on the ground actually settled down. Although it was still shaking, it was at least to an acceptable level.
Mia was not happy so she looked down at the coffin, swung her tail, and patted the coffin twice with her front paws. Then, the coffin finally became completely quiet.
Although the coffin was no longer shaking, it was still evaporating the salt that had fallen down at a rapid speed. Chad and Father Augustus had to repeat this process at least five times before the pattern of the school emblem could be completely covered with salt.
While they were working hard, the battle outside was also very fierce. Although Shad was worried about Luvia and Dorothy, he also knew that the girls he cherished also had their own pride and strength.
The door of the warehouse was wide open, so it could be seen that both sides in the battle were deliberately suppressing their strength to prevent the noise from attracting the attention of the church. Therefore, this battle was destined to restrain everyone, otherwise the ring warlock's battle would never have been delayed for so long.
But the battle could not continue forever. In the end, Luvia relied on the staff in her hand and used the basic spell "Wave Protection" - that is, using ripples to defend against energy attacks - to block the most deadly attacks for everyone, allowing Dr. Schneider to pull his hand away and seriously injure one of the enemies.
As a result, the originally stalemate battle finally showed signs of a winner. The strange ring wizards saw that there was no possibility of victory, so they retreated together. However, the sleeping princess in a long dress appeared behind them first and hit one of them with the spindle.
Originally, the "Sleeping Princess" would not have had an immediate effect on the Eighth Ring Warlock, but after his mental strength was weakened by Dr. Schneider, the Eighth Ring Warlock still closed his eyes and fell to the ground.
His companion, the man who could fly close to the ground, gave up on him without hesitation. But before the escaping man disappeared, he did one thing, which directly led to the efforts of Shade and Augustus priests being in vain:
"Praise you! The nothingness that does not exist! Send everything to the eyes of silence! The power of death that erases all things!"
With a bang, the lid of the coffin in the warehouse was blown open, and Mia, Shad and Priest Augustus were all blown away by the huge impact force. However, Shad grabbed the cat in time to prevent it from being injured.
The Eighth Ring Warlock vomited blood and disappeared, and Luvia suddenly looked up. In her eyes, which were filled with purple light, she reflected the night sky with huge black clouds gathering rapidly. However, in just a few seconds, the black clouds had completely covered the night sky where sporadic stars could be seen. Black thunder flashed in the black clouds, and the dull rumbling sound awakened countless people from their sweet dreams before dawn:
“Oh no!”
The doctor reacted faster and entered the warehouse first. The coffin lid exploded, causing the white ash inside the coffin to float out and filling the warehouse with thick dust.
In the choking dust, Bill Schneider was shocked to see a figure sitting up in the coffin. The bandaged body was originally lying down, and after the coffin lid flew out, the roof of the warehouse was visible, and the roof of the warehouse disappeared like a pencil mark erased by an eraser. Even the thick black clouds above the roof were wiped out as the sight appeared.
As it stood up with its hands grasping the side of the coffin, everything it saw was disappearing. Its eyes slowly moved from the top to the side, and the warehouse wall, the carriage outside the wall, the warehouse wall outside the carriage, the warehouse wall on the other side of the wall, and even any physical matter in the air were disappearing. If it weren't for the fact that the relic had just broken through the containment limit, it would definitely not be limited to the outer wall of the warehouse next door that disappeared at this time.
Dr. Schneider could even describe the line of sight of the corpse wrapped in bandages based on the disappearing wall extending from the roof to the bottom. The whispering elements were filling the area at a terrifying speed, and then disappeared quickly due to line of sight contact.
Even though Bill Schneider thought he had seen a lot of scary things, he was still frightened at this moment. When the terrified doctor came to his senses, he discovered another horrifying fact.
It was not the corpse that stood up and looked at him at the warehouse door. Instead, the corpse in the coffin turned its head and looked at Shad who was holding Mia and climbing up from the wall.
Xia De didn't know what was going on inside the coffin before. He could only feel the whispering elements filling the surroundings like an explosion. The mental interference ability of the angel-level relic was even unbearable for him. He leaned against the wall holding the cat and was about to stand up when he saw the empty sight of the figure in the drifting white ash.
"This is... ... "
He froze in place, unable to describe what he saw. It was clearly a bald young man wrapped in bandages, but in his perception, he saw nothingness. There was nothing, completely empty. When the other person's white eyes looked into his, he even felt that he was about to turn into nothingness.
The hot blood turned cold, the active mind stagnated, the body occupying the human shape in the space merged into nothingness, everything that was in my heart, everything I missed, everything I loved, everything I tried to grasp, all disappeared. This world no longer has meaning, and the "anchors" that made the outsider like this world are broken bit by bit, but at the same time, it also makes his soul try like never before... ...
"No!"
"Meow!"
Those figures that he loved flashed through Xia De's mind one by one, and his cold heart regained the feeling of longing for everything because of Ji Dong. Mia's voice made his thoughts return to normal for a short time, and the gentle voice of "her" in his ear filled the huge void in his heart caused by the momentary gaze just now:
Outsider, you have come into contact with "Whisper".
Stranger, you have some understanding of "disappearance", "indifference" and "nothingness".
"Indifferent..."
He leaned against the wall, holding his heart, and was sweating profusely without knowing when, while Mia meowed and looked very worried.
"Lie back down!"
The doctor's roar came from the doorway, and then a huge stone claw of the fire demon appeared from the void on the right side of the coffin, blocking the corpse's view of Shade and the cat. The burning flames pressed down on the coffin by the obsidian palm even made Shade feel the heat.
The sight caused the flaming hand to disappear, but it was summoned again by the Doctor to fill it.
The corpse was powerless to fight the doctor, because on the other side of the warehouse, a pure white light appeared in the white ash almost at the same time. The shadow of the wings flickered, and the prayer of the August priest seemed to drive all the miracle elements around to resonate with it, forcibly suppressing the continued spread of the power of the relic.
On one side was the flame, on the other side was the holy light. The power of the angel-level relic collided with the power of the demon and the angel. The chaotic spirits and elements caused dense cracks to appear on the remaining walls of the warehouse. After a loud bang that shook the ground, the "corpse" that turned its head to look at Shade, although it still grasped the edge of the coffin with all its strength, it still lay back little by little as if being pressed down by an invisible big hand. It was just very slow, and it didn't want to just go back into the coffin.
At this moment—
"Sunshine Gun!"
The Staff of Yggdrasil, surrounded by golden lightning, passed through the smoke and dust that filled the entire warehouse and was thrown out by Luvia in the courtyard. The crackling golden lightning spear almost pierced through the corpse's head, but the lightning was wiped out by the corpse's moving sight.
However, it cannot erase the Staff of Y'k'trasil, which is also an angel-level relic.
The Thunder Dissipation Staff continued to move forward, and with a dong~ sound, the staff hit the "corpse"'s head directly, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the corpse fell completely into the coffin.
After coming to his senses, Shad waved his hand to let the black staff fly towards him, then he waved the long staff to make the coffin lid that had just been bounced back.
"Night Watch!"
The warm cat curled up on his chest made his body feel warm and heated. The influence of the relic was completely eliminated, and the indifference that denied all love and care in this world just now made the stranger feel extremely ashamed.
The long sword that was bounced away also flew back into his hand. Holding the sword in his left hand and the staff in his right hand, Shad flew to the coffin with Mia who was holding onto his shoulders.
The orange-white cat jumped onto the coffin lid and squatted down, and the night watchman was used again as a relic to suppress riots. But this was still not enough, and Shade, who had made up his mind, turned his head and looked at the girl with long blond hair and short brown hair who came to the door.
He took a deep breath, and then, amid the worried looks of Dr. Schneider and Father Augustus, his whole body glowed with light.
Then, the four people saw in shock that in the light, Xia De's belongings fell to the ground, and the silver-white cat jumped out and squatted on the coffin. Under the suppression of the two "cats", the coffin finally calmed down.
"ah?"
Dr. Schneider didn't realize for a moment that this was a Transfiguration spell. He watched the orange kitten rubbing against the silver cat before he suddenly realized:
"Why did you just...?"
"If I turn into a cat, we will lose our ability to fight. Besides, before the coffin riot, I wasn't sure if the cat I turned into could be considered a cat."
"Now is not the time to talk about this! Hurry up, there's such a big commotion here, people from the church are coming!"
Dorothy's voice brought everyone back to reality. Although the carriage disappeared, she picked up the pumpkin that she had prepared in the warehouse, cast a spell, and smashed it to the ground.
Amid the colorful lights and the light effects of tiny stars, smoke rose and the pumpkin carriage drove out of the smoke. Unfortunately, there was no horse because the mice that had been prepared in advance escaped in the chaos.
Luvia blew Yin Luna's whistle hard, and as the skeleton horse walked out of the black fog, the silver cat waved its front paws and used the live rope trick to put the reins on. The cat form can cast spells, but the effect of the spell will be severely weakened. Fortunately, Shade has studied the "live rope trick" very deeply.
Father Augustus immediately jumped onto the coachman's seat. Luvia picked up the fallen staff and Shade's other relics, and together with Dr. Schneider, they moved the coffin with the two cats inside into the pumpkin carriage. Luvia even touched Shade.
Then, the three of them jumped into the carriage together. The priest waved the reins, and under the dark clouds flashing with black thunder, they fled for their lives from the warehouse that was about to collapse and disappeared into the streets before dawn.