Chapter 29: The Voodoo Statue
The collision of arcane light was silent at first, but then a gray shockwave suddenly spread out around the two generals. The waves mixed with earth and rocks stirred up several meters high, and although Lei Luo was far away, he was still affected by Yu Wei, and he could not control himself and rose into the air, falling far away.
Moros suffered a great loss in this hard-fought battle, and the flames around him dimmed, and he fled the scene without looking back, even faster than the galloping carriage.
"It's not hurt, is it?" Merkel asked Relo with a smile without any intention of chasing.
Lei Luo had already gotten up, patted the dust on his body, and couldn't help but ask, "You just let him go?"
Merkel laughed: "Yes! At such a young age, he is actually a little ruthless." Good boy, it's not that my old man doesn't want to kill. That guy is a war general, if he really wants to kill him, the Backfire Martial Arts Hall will definitely be endless. When the time comes, there will be big fights every day, do you want your family to continue living here? Let's go, follow me back to the branch!"
Lei Luo was silent and followed.
He didn't have the idea of killing people, he just felt that it was more enjoyable to see a strong man at the level of a warrior being completely sunk in front of his eyes.
Of course, if you do it yourself, it will be more enjoyable.
"Prepare to prepare, let's go to the martial arts test!" When he arrived at the Iwayama branch, Bard came up and said. Merkel touched her beard and nodded her head next to her, apparently knowing about it.
"Isn't it that you can't participate in the martial arts assessment without graduating?" Lei Luo was inexplicable.
Bud showed a smug expression and said in a rough voice: "It's true that minors who have not graduated can't come to the martial arts hall to take the exam, but the Secret Martial Arts Alliance has a special organization for young geniuses like you." β
"Why haven't I heard you say that before?" asked Relo.
"How did I know that you had such great potential?" said Bard with a smile, "When you officially become a martial artist, even if a guy like Moro Xing wants to be unfavorable to you, he will have to consider the protection regulations of the Secret Martial Alliance." β
"Where are the specialized agencies you are talking about?"
"The royal capital, the gate of steel. If you don't have anything to do, let's go tomorrow and Ms. Merkel will go with you. β
"Not tomorrow. Lei Luo shook his head resolutely and said seriously, "I still have an important topic that I haven't studied with my history teacher. I'm sorry I can't do this because Mi Wu has completely given up on school. β
Everyone in the martial arts hall stared at each other, and Bard simply dropped his eyeballs to the ground.
Early the next morning, as soon as the history teacher left the dormitory, he saw Lei Luo standing outside the door, carrying breakfast in his hand.
"Teacher, haven't you eaten yet?" said Lei Luo.
The history teacher glanced at the envious expressions of several colleagues not far away, and snorted heavily: "Forget it this time, don't take it as an example!"
Lei Luo was full of words.
The history teacher had already patted his chest and wanted to take Lei Luo to the dean's room to see the voodoo statue. When I really went into battle today, I seemed a little cringe and hesitant.
"Teacher, you're not afraid of Lady Martha, are you?" asked Lei Luo curiously.
"Joke!" the history teacher glared at him, and after a long time, he finally knocked on the door of the dean's office.
After a few moments, a soft and pleasant female voice came from inside: "Please come in." β
Lady Martha, about forty years old, with plump lips and big eyes, a suit and a skirt, and her pale red hair tied into an elegant bun, she was indeed a beautiful woman.
The history teacher was calm, and it took a lot of willpower to speak smoothly in front of the goddess in his dreams: "Dean, my student is very interested in the history of the sinking continent, and Zhilu said that you have a shadow soul relic here, so you beg me to bring him to open his eyes." β
"Yes. Lady Martha replied gently, and then said, "Teacher Ducky, why are you sweating so much? I'll pour you a glass of water!"
"Xie Lu Xie, Xie Lu Xie!" A huge sense of happiness hit, and the history teacher almost fainted.
After handing the glass to the history teacher, the dean opened the door to the inner room with a light and graceful step.
There are a lot of things in the room, which are well organized, and most of them are collections that are old. The most eye-catching thing is the glass case that stands in the middle, which is about two meters high. Inside, there was a dark humanoid statue, the material of which was not discernible was iron or stone, and although the body was indistinguishable from that of a human, the face was like that of a demon, and the hideous eyes seemed to be looking directly at everyone who walked into the room.
Only 11% of the potential moved unexpectedly, and the more reactive was the clear liquid in the spherical troughs, which had turned boiling blood when they sensed the deadly threat of Moro, and now a faint golden glow in front of the statue, like a surging bubble of restlessness.
Lei Luo's comprehension could associate blood with warnings, but he couldn't figure out what the gold represented at this moment. The more he looked at the statue, the more he felt faintly familiar, and he accidentally touched the mask in his arms, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Teacher, I'm done. Lei Luo walked out of the room and whispered.
The history teacher was talking to Lady Martha, and seemed to be entering the harbor, waving his hand without looking back. Lei Luo walked out of the dean's room quickly, his eyes wandering along the way, and secretly jotted down the main points of the route.
Finally staying up until midnight, Lei Luo quietly got up from the bed and slipped out of the back window. Far above the agility attribute of ordinary people, his movements are like a tanuki, without causing the slightest sound.
Twenty minutes later, he ran to the front of the academy at a constant speed, bypassed the duty room, and climbed over the wall into the courtyard.
Suddenly, a dull rolling thunder sounded, and the snow and lightning crossed the sky, reflecting the pendulum city in the night. All of a sudden, the wind was strong, and the sound of torrential rain came from afar, and it didn't take long to completely overwhelm the academy.
Lei Luo followed the route he had memorized during the day, and climbed through the hallway window to the dean's room. After unlocking the door with the thin saw blade he had brought, he flashed in like a tangible and intangible shadow.
The large floor-to-ceiling windows draw thick fringed curtains, and the electric light flickers outside, but the interior is dark. Lei Luo breathed a fetus, and waited until his eyes adjusted to the change in the environment and could see things nearby, and then he exhaled a breath of turbidity.
The lock of the second door was solved in the same way, and there was a corner of the inner room where the curtain was not closed, and the faint light of the rainy night penetrated through the faint cold. Relo stood silently in front of the glass case, trying to calm his drum-like heartbeat.
There was a soft "squeak" as he pulled open the glass case, and an indescribable putrid smell poured out.
Lei Luo's pupils contracted, and he froze in place.
Not stone, not metal, not sunken woodβthe statue facing him in a glass case was probably made of a real person. Through some kind of not very clever antiseptic technique, it has been preserved to this day.
The barbarians of the sunken continent...... Did they create this statue in their own form, or in the form of their enemies?
Lei Luo gritted his teeth, thinking of the unexpected discovery during the day, took out the bronze mask from his bosom and slowly pressed it towards the statue's face.
After a few seconds, there was a slight resistance in the palm of the hand.
Lei Luo saw that the mask was stuck on the statue's face, and there was no gap.
It's like a treasure map that leads to a huge amount of potential, and now the two fragmented pictures are put together, which brings even greater doubts to Lei Luo.
Another flash of lightning flashed outside the window, and he inadvertently saw the statue's eyes, and the cold hairs on his whole body stood up instantly!
The voodoo statue was still looking straight ahead as if it were daytime, and at this moment, facing Lei Luo, his eyes were actually turning slightly, full of real ferocity and cruelty, and there was even a "hissing" gasp sound from behind the mask!
Lei Luo subconsciously stepped back, but before he could make a defensive move, the cold right claw of the voodoo statue quietly stretched out and firmly clasped his wrist.
The pair of golden eyes in front of him, as if a whirlpool with strange suction, sucked in all of Lei Luo's spirit and sank into the endless abyss. In the last moments of consciousness, he saw his body fall straight down, like a stiff statue.