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Chapter 184 - Surrounded
A spirit puppet made from cork fleetingly rushed across the door of Ji Hao’s room. At exactly the same time when the puppet passed across Ji Hao’s door, a thumb-size, green magic crystal glowed on its chest. Simultaneously with that, a short and cold-sounding sentence darted out of the green crystal like a sharp arrow and only in Ji Hao’s room, none of the other apprentices who were nearby had heard it.
Before the puppet had arrived, Ji Hao had been carefully looking with his head down at the bone talisman. It was made from a bone of a Senior Magus Level beast and had exquisitely been grounded into a square piece. Nourished by the great internal power of the beast, the bone had a white glow, just like a piece of jade and was incomparable solid.
The edges of the bone talisman were embossed with exquisite phoenix-feather-like patterns, which represented good luck. In the middle of the bone talisman there were a few ancient-style spell symbols embossed. Ji Hao had learned pretty intensive about spell symbols in the Magi Palace for the past few months, but he still was unable to recognize the origin of these spell symbols that were embossed on this talisman.
Ji Hao was holding the bone talisman in his hands and felt it being heavy and cold. It had a special calming power that made people feel at peace. Ji Hao sensed also a slight trace of mysterious power that seemed hidden deep within the bone talisman, but with his current abilities he was unable to tell what kind of power it was.
Ji Hao had raised his said and was going to thank Taisi when the dark silhouette flashed across his door and the cold-sounding sentence had come in. Hearing the sentence, the scrawny face of Taisi suddenly turned deadly pale, and within his hollow eye sockets, his eyeballs turned completely black. Whether it were the pupils or the whites of his eyes, both had turned deep dark, frightening and full of despair black!
The black colour of Taisi’s eyes seemed so extremely evil and cold that even Ji Hao felt a bone-piercing cold when looking at those eyes.
“Do they…want to die? Why…why force me!” Taisi stood slowly up while murmuring in an ice-cold voice; the last bit of humanity within him instantly disappeared. Taisi was standing in front of Ji Hao, looking like a thin, pale paper doll that was surrounded by death and emptiness. In the next moment, a stream of death power gushed suddenly out of Taisi’s body. With only a slight vibration of this stream of power the stone table and the stone blocks in Ji Hao’s room had immediately turned into ash, which silently dissipated into the air. With only the slightest bit of movement of his feet, Taisi’s body glided swiftly away, as if he weighed absolutely nothing, just like a thin piece of paper. Only a shred of afterimage was left behind his body; even Ji Hao had been unable to clearly see him moving.
So fast, he moved astonishingly fast! Ji Hao’s eyes popped in shock. He didn’t have enough time to stop Taisi, and could only activate his fiery wings and catch up with Taisi. Creating large numbers of afterimages, Ji Hao finally rushed at the side of Taisi.
Usually, Taisi was so weak that even walking would cause him to be out of breath, but now he was gliding in the air like a real ghost, and was able to cover tens of zhang with the slightest of movements of his feet.
Streams of cold power continuously gushed into Taisi’s body. Ji Hao was rushing beside Taisi for a short while and sensed that Taisi’s body was turning colder and colder, and the power hidden inside his body grew more and more evil. Gradually, the cold power releasing from Taisi’s body made even Ji Hao begin quivering.
“Taisi, don’t be thrown into confusion! If you want Shaosi to be safe, you must stay safe first!” shouted Ji Hao. He then took a deep breath and abruptly grabbed Taisi’s hand. At the same time, the Golden Dan inside his spirit space started rotating rapidly, along with which, a warm stream of power was forcibly injected into Taisi’s body through his hand.
Taisi instantly quivered, and his black eyeballs slightly trembled, after which, his dark eyeballs, which were supposed to be white to begin with turned slightly lighter in colour, and he slowly regained his humanity. Taisi turned his head, glanced at Ji Hao, and nodded at Ji Hao, while a black stream of blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth.
All this time, the human-shaped puppet was rushing really fast ahead of them. These kind of puppets were made by the Magi Palace in great quantity as servants, with over-a-hundred years old cork. These puppets were specially made for the purpose of handling ordinary housework like laundry and cleaning for apprentices of the Magi Palace. Therefore, they were not made with too much fighting capacity, at the most they were as powerful as elementary-level Novice Magi.
However, the puppet rushing ahead of Ji Hao and Taisi, had obviously been remodeled and improved by some powerful and skillful Magi; it had a few ‘strong wind’ spell symbols embossed on its body, which would let out gusts of fierce cyan wind when it moved. These cyan gusts of wind would rotate around its legs and allowed it to move for over a hundred zhang within the blink of an eye. The speed with which this puppet moved, was amazingly great.
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