Volume 2 Chapter 9 (1/2)
Originally posted on RBKTR Translations
Author: Lan Qi Zuo Ren (藍旗左衽)
Translated by: Yujuan
The little band of people followed, passing through the streets and buildings to arrive by the outskirts The dragonfly halted before an e in one corner of the road
Feng Ping Lan gazed at the building in front of hiht Mang Nao in
”We're here” Liu Yi Chen tore off the incantation, ”What's our plan?”
”We go in and save the guy first I already knohat to do” Feng Ping Lan took in a deep breath, silentlya decision to himself He turned to look at his companions, ”Um, are you all sure you want to come with me?”
”To be honest with you, I don't really want to But Igor's already coor exasperatedly, ”Doormat…”
Igor reached out a hand, patting Ivan's head
”Humph”
”I' Lan is my friend”
Feng Ping Lan felt a little touched, ”Thank you, I'm so— aiyo!” He was unexpectedly whacked on the head, ”Why did you hit me!”
”Can you shut it with your sentimentalities?!” Liu Yi Chen said irritably, ”Do you realize howyou say before you die? If you get any s between your legs!”
”Yesyesyes…” Feng Ping Lan hurriedly confor his mouth wisely
”Are you co Yu, ”We don't have much to do with each other, and honestly, the way you talk is a little nauseating It's already pretty benevolent of you to help us to this point, so no one's bla you if you want to leave”
”…I have alanted to dissect a couidly, ”But I've always been prevented fro precious resources…” The glooer and tyrannical smile, ”I finally have a chance to attempt it, so I obviously can't miss this, xixixi…”
”You sound pretty cool and ht, but the point is that you have to win” Liu Yi Chen humphed, ”If you win, doesn't matter if you want to turn a demon into your spoils or a side-dish”
”Since nobody is leaving, let's go!”
Feng Ping Lan's group entered cautiously The abandoned hospital was pitch dark, but they found Kaido's location in no time at all
They arrived at the lounge to hear a whole streaure stood on the spiral staircase of the hall
”Are you really a Summoner?”
”Where is your Contract?”
”Who is he?”
”Why aren't you answering? I haven't cut your throat out yet, have I?”
A person was dangling on the banister of the staircase, head lowered, drooping helplessly His clothes were full of slashes, with streaks of blood on them
”Kaido!”
Jiu Shao heard the cry Turning, he furrowed his brohen he saw the newcomers
Kaido lifted his head, looking startled, but immediately returned to his usual fierce self
”What are you all doing here…” A hoarse voice travelled out from Kaido's throat
Jiu Shao parroted his words
”That's right, why are you here? To save him? Or to kill him?”
”Ah, wait a minute”
”There is a smell of an incantation You really are Summoners…”
Jiu Shao sreat, it saves up a lot of my time I will capture all of you, and take you to the Third Prince!”
He clapped his hands, and at the saravity and twisted up in the air, as if it had a life of its own
”Brace yourselves!” Liu Yi Chen warned
Jiu Shao clapped his hands once again, his hair lengthening, cracking towards where Feng Ping Lan and the others were like a whip
The hair-whip violently beat down, a deep crack appearing on the floor
Looking at it carefully, that bundle of hair had transformed into a stone-like awl, fully covered with suction pads containing thorns
The group ducked away, su their weapons one by one
Ivan's arms were crossed in front of himself, and when they released, an addition of two blades had appeared in his hands He turned, paring off the hard thorns into countless chunks
Igor snapped off a brooch that was shaped like an arrow, and the arrow enlarged instantaneously into the usual size that one used
He nih platform far away
”Ivan, arrow”
”Here” Ivan raised both his arms, then slaor's way
Igor drew the arrows out of the air, firing at Jiu Shao consecutively at inhuman speed
Su Li Wan took out her red string, which knotted into a net It coiled around the awl, blocking it fro the rock-hard awl into two
Feng Ping Lan could help but sigh in praise ”Woesome!”
They were so strong! Co on the rooftops of Shadow Academy!
Perhaps… They had a chance of winning!
During drills, the Shadow Academy's students would not display all of their abilities One of the reasons was to avoid letting too , and another was because some of their techniques were too powerful, and had a wide scope area, which would cause heavy injuries if not controlled properly
This was actual combat, and they had no qualms and limits The only rule was to find a way to survive and win
Jiu Shao knitted his brows
”It see a little troublesome”
”Let's get this over with”
Jiu Shao clapped his hands once more
The hair assereat bundles Jiu Shao also split hiht identical clones
Jiu Shao's clones locked on to their target, planning on defeating Feng Ping Lan's group one on one
Ivan and Igor were attacked by two clones
”Aren't you a demon?”
Jiu Shao spoke as he exchanged bloith Ivan
”That spell you cast earlier was a demon's”
”Is your Summoner the one that looks exactly like you?”
”That's right” Ivan grinned as he faced off the clone, raising his hand at the sa the clone sneaking up behind hi blow
”The Third Prince hates Summoners He also hates Contracts…” The clone behind him said
”It isn't even our choice to be suiven a contract” Ivan smiled wryly
”If you really feel wronged as you say, why do you look so happy?” The clone in front of him asked
”Have you started feeling so for the human that has enslaved you?” The clone behind him spoke
Ivan's body leaned to the side, and the short blades in both his hands shot into the clones' throats ”You talk too much!”
Liu Yi Chen had sumetting continuously forced back by a clone, she becaround
”Given up already?” Jiu Shao's clone tilted its head to ask
”Given upcards, and they instantly transforantic iron hath ”I just can't stand that sissy weapon!” With that she raised the ha it down
The clone's shoulder was struck, denting into an unnatural hole
”What a violent woman…”
”Could she actually be a man?”
”I can be even more violent” Liu Yi Chen flicked one card onto the floor, and when she stepped on it, both legs were enveloped in a green light
She rushed forth a few steps, using the hammer's handle as an axis to prop her body up With a twist, she gave the clone's head a perfect 180 kick
She had enhanced her legs and shoes,as iron
After being hit, the clone's head warped and turned, his entire being looking like a thoroughly kneaded lu after
”It hurts…” Jiu Shao sniffled as he complained
On another side, Zong Yu was in the middle of a battle with another clone
”There is a strange scent on your body…”
”A human, but with the faint aura of a demon Moreover, the odor is very mixed up”
”What do look like on the inside?” Zong Yu gripped his darts, staring unblinkingly at the clone, ”Is every clone the same? Or is the heart distributed in a different body?”
He tossed out the darts, blocking Jiu Shao's attacks
”I want to see…” He stepped forward, stabbing a sharp dark into Jiu Shao's abdo doards
”You ht be a little disappointed” As the hole in Jiu Shao's stomach was pulled wider, it immediately split into two
”How annoying…” Zong Yu frowned,resentfully
Su Li Wan flexibly controlled the red string, which morphed into all kinds of shapes in a short period of ti into an offensive chain to wring her enemy
”Your attacks are quite unpredictable”
Su Li Wan replied gracefully, ”Thank you You are also a respectable opponent”
”I don't understand Why are you taking such unnecessary actions?” Jiu Shao looked at the string around hihtened co me like this?”
The corners of Su Li Wan's lips hooked up, sht in it”
Feng Ping Lanthem
”Hey, take this!” He took advantage in an opening, shooting several nails at Jiu Shao
Jiu Shao avoided the quickly over
Feng Ping Lan thren several thumbtacks and starch paste
”Oh… I hate this…”
Jiu Shao's feet were sticky with starch paste and fell over, right on top of the thu the thumbtacks off his body, not a hair out of place
”Tsk…” Feng Ping Lan inwardly wrung his hands
As expected, a norainst a demon If only he had Quetzal's sword in his hands…
Jiu Shao shot attacks at Feng Ping Lan, leisurely looking at the other haggardly struggle to return the attacks
”Are you really a Summoner?” He asked curiously
”You guess! You'll know the anshen I seal you off!”
”Why aren't you using a spell?”
”I'll only use it when it's the right time to do it! I will seal you!”
”You weapon's a little weird…”
”Your weapon is weird! Tentacles and clones?”
”If you are an ordinary human, why are you here?”
Feng Ping Lan paused for a moment, ”To protect those important to me!”
”…How nice” Jiu Shao muttered under his breath, ”If you really are a Summoner, I wish you were my master…”
The Suave all their all to attack Jiu Shao, but although they succeeded in hitting him, Jiu Shao quickly recovered from it
The battle continued to draw out, and the Summoner apprentices ithout their Contract entered a bitter struggle, gradually turning disadvantageous for theot tired not long after
”Don't drag this on any longer”
”I don't like killing people, but that doesn't mean I won't do it”
Jiu Shao warned He glanced at Kaido
”That one see out of him”
”Out of all of you, who is in the know?”
The crowd exchanged glances, and nobody replied
”I was the one who sealed Ci Mu and Mang Nao!” Feng Ping Lan abruptly admitted
Liu Yi Chen and the others widened their eyes, not understanding why Feng Ping Lan was doing this
Jiu Shao knitted his brows, ”You don't look like it”
”That's because I hide it very well Although I' my identity”
”It really seems so You look like an ordinary human”
”Then, what did you do to Mang Nao and the others?”
”I sealed off Mang Nao and Ci Mu, they aren't here” Feng Ping Lan ad-libbed, ”Not only Mang Nao and Ci Mu I also subdued a demon named Quetzal”
”How could you defeat Quetzal with your strength?”
”They were battling with Mang Nao right then, and they were grievously injured after the battle Moreover, Quetzal's contract seeth, which was hoe had an opening…”
”Is that so… So Prince Shuekan wasn't with them?”
”There wasn't a de Lan said calmly, ”I sealed them off in a hidden place, a little distance away from here, in an abandoned te you there, so please let all of us go”
Liu Yi Chen, who stood by the side, suddenly understood Feng Ping Lan's plan
He wanted to beco Jiu Shao away fro the location so that later on when they found reinforces they knehere to save him
Feng Ping Lan had said this just when they were at a disadvantage, succeeding in creating an ath hopelessness that they had to ask for a co their persuasiveness
How daring There was a chance of success…
The group stared anxiously at Jiu Shao and Feng Ping Lan, watching the events that were about to come with rapt attention
”That doesn't sound bad, but how do I know if this isn't a trap?” Purple hair coiled, pulling Kaido down, ”He coe will do Since he has no way of resisting, this is just right”
”No way, Kaido has to stay here! I'll be enough”
Kaido opened his swollen eyes, looking at Feng Ping Lan
”How touching”
”Ah, only hu act”
”How enviable…”
”Alright, then it's like this You'll bringNao are…”
Jiu Shao's eight clones assembled into one
The h to be critical The injuries received by the clones would appear once they gathered back into the main body
Feng Ping Lan rejoiced inwardly, and the others also displayed joyful expressions
Just as they had thought the plan was advancing successfully, JIu Shao suddenly halted
”That's right, I suddenly re”
”Mang Nao and Ci Mao are already dead Why did you say that you sealed them off?”
The group's hearts sank
Oh no, they had been seen through!
”The Third Prince put a spell on inal form, I can't tell any lies”
”So I hate anyone that tells lies!”
Jiu Shao's hair for Lan
Sprawled at the side, Kaido took advantage of this, using his very last strength to push Jiu Shao away, fishi+ng out the necklace in his pockets to fling it at Feng Ping Lan
Feng Ping Lan didn't have tirab it, then waving doards
”Awaken!”
The crystal transformed into a jet-black sword
Jiu Shao frowned, looking at the sword in Feng Ping Lan's hands
”Ah, just this, this hateful aura…”
”Quetzal's aura!”
Jiu Shao's hair-whip brutally struck against Feng Ping Lan
Feng Ping Lan waved the sword, battling Jiu Shao with strenuous effort
Quetzal's sas fairly incisive, and even holding it he could feel the ih he knew the poas in his hands, he did not kno to use it
A precious sword filled with demonic poas just an ordinary sword in his hands It was no different froht from the marketplace
Feng Ping Lan returned the attacks, vexed and thwarted
If only he could use Quetzal's power…
If only he was just like the other Summoners, who kne to borrow another's power…
His ic ability
Thea demon's poere complicated, incomprehensible to him Wasn't there a simpler method to do it?
His mind flashed with an idea
—Bound by the fetters of Su circle and the conditions from the contract, the demons' poere restricted to an area Su the power out of that area
But There wasn't a Su condition binding theether
If there wasn't the existence of the roo their powers, as there to unseal?
Didn't that h the spells and procedures, and simply use it?
Feng Ping Lan gripped his sword, feeling out Quetzal's presence, shouting inwardly
QuetzalQuetzalQuetzal!
Lend me your power!
Quetzal—
In the distance The classroom of Shadow 1A
Even after the bell signifying the start of the period, there were still many empty seats in the class
Yin Su Shuang looked at the seven eloomy
”Feng Ping Lan, Su Li Wan, Liu Yi Chen, Ivan, Igor, Zong Yu, and Kaido” Yin Su Shuang asked the students below hione?”
”Ping Lan said he was going to buy reference books with Su Li Wan after school…” Dongya contemplated ”I wonder if the others had accompanied them?”
”If it were only the first six, that'd be fine” Morris spoke, ”But Kaido's naood”
The crowd's gaze turned to Tan Hua
”Kaido said that there were so along, and also forbidanymore…”