Chapter 251 - Large-Scale Sacred Art. (1/2)

[It's the inside of a mouth!?]

*Slam!*

As the mouth above John's figure closed, he could feel the ground getting soft and softer causing him to feel more and more anxious. If whatever was up there was the mouth, then that would mean that whatever was beneath him would be the stomach.

John's legs seeped into the ground as the walls began to bend as whatever he was inside of tilted its body to head back down into the ground.

Despite, all of this happening, John simply stood still with his eyes closed, as if he were waiting for something.

Without moving he stood there silently as the mud around his legs began to quickly rise, covering half of his torso in seconds.

The mud began to burn as if it were some sort of acid as it went up his body.

”AH... Come on...” John muttered

Suddenly, the sound of gears moving could be heard as it resounded through the area. The mud had reached John's neck but now slowed down.

*Clank* *Creak*

Following that, came the sound of a clock as a blue light was formed under the mud in front of John.

”Tick* *Tock* *Tick* *Tock*

As John saw this a grin was formed on John's face as he muttered

”Large-Scale Sacred Art: Revertatur” Translation: Revert

A blue clock was formed around John's face everything around him stopped moving, or more specifically, began to slowly move backwards.

The walls which were rising were now going back inside of the ground, and at a fast speed. John could tell as the mud beneath him was heading back down and slowly becoming more and more solid.

As this happened John quickly activated 'Sana' on himself, as what he was doing wasn't reverting time itself but only the regressing the time of the area around him. Meaning any objects which weren't part of the earth weren't affected. That included him and the corpses.

As steam was slowly released from John's body, he could feel the pain around it slowly weaken.

”Go back 5 minutes.” Said John as he clenched the handle of his dagger which remained on his waist

The time on the blue clock which was formed in front of him showed the time at around half past 3. The minute hand slowly turned back changing the time to around 3.26.

Right as that happened, the mouth of whatever it was that had swallowed John, opened up, letting the light from outside seep through.

***

Everything was exactly back to how it was when John was in the air, the corpses were back to their place above the ground and the ground was back to normal.

John let out a sigh before crouching down on to the ground. There was no need to go as far as to revert the entire area 5 minutes, but if he hadn't the corpses of all of these people may have been lost.

John wasn't the type to care about death of people as he believed in the afterlife, hell he experienced it first hand, so it would be strange if he didn't.

But this was different, for the bodies to be lost like this without a proper burial, it gave off a bad taste in his mouth. Especially when all he needed to do was give away a bit of magic power to prevent it.

”Now... How am I going to deal with you?” John asked as he raised his arm

He then clenched his hand into a fist before slamming it straight down on the ground, submerging it into in the process.

As this happened John's eyes widened as he moved his head around.

”The shape changed?” He asked

Confused, John maintained his arm submerged into the ground before turning to the right, there was an area with lots of trees to spare, whereas to his left there was the city.

”I'm not a fan of deforestation but... Right it is.” John muttered

The solid ground beneath John quickly harden itself to a higher point than before, and right after this, John pulled his arm out of it.

Without even wasting a second, he began running towards the area with the trees as he gathered wind behind him

”Levite, Velox Duplici!”