Chapter 289: Word Spirit Art vs. Time Returning Bird (Ch 289)

“Tick, tick…”
Inside the dormitory, the second hand of the clock was jumping tirelessly, making continuous sounds.
Emma lay in bed, covering her ears tightly with her hands, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
She wanted to turn around several times and remind Enid, who was sleeping in the middle bed, to remove the battery of the clock, but when she saw that she was sleeping soundly, she couldn’t bear to wake her up, so she could only endure it herself.
Damn, it’s like this every night…
Emma complained quietly, but her thoughts involuntarily drifted towards her distant home.
Home is still better. No matter how noisy it is around her, she can sleep peacefully without worrying about bad guys breaking in.
That’s right, the reason why she couldn’t sleep was because of the sound of the little wolf girl’s clock. She was completely worried that the group of strange people in human skins they had discovered before would attack them tonight.
Principal Pei turned a deaf ear to their warnings. Emma and Wednesday, who had originally planned to unite the entire school’s teachers and students to fight back, now can only fight alone and watch in this small dormitory.
Oh yes, and there’s also Enid, the little wolf girl who has no super powers and sleeps defenselessly.
Emma sat up on the bed, picked up the glass of water on the bedside table and took a big gulp.
She decided not to sleep tonight and spend the whole night waiting for the bad guys.
Anyway, I am in solitary confinement and I don’t have classes during the day, so I can use the time to catch up on my sleep.
Just as she was thinking this, a faint voice came from the bed opposite, “You can actually sleep for a while. I’ll be here at night, and I’ve also set up magic circles around us. If anyone breaks in by force, we’ll find out immediately.”
Emma turned her head and looked at Wednesday who was opening his eyes, and shook her head gently: “I’m not afraid that they will hurt us, I’m just worried about other students in school.”
She frowned and explained, “This group of human-skinned monsters have been lurking in the school for a long time. They were already there when we enrolled. It’s obvious that they have a bigger evil plan.”
When Wednesday heard this, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he wondered, “Why didn’t I know you were so compassionate? Now you care so much about the life and death of a stranger?”
“What strangers? They are our classmates. And Enid…”
Emma pointed at the sleeping little wolf girl and said seriously, “She is our friend. What if something happens to her?”
Wednesday curled his lips and was about to say something when his eyes suddenly froze and he turned sharply to the window.
At the same time, Emma seemed to have caught something. Her whole body tensed up and she looked outside cautiously.
downstairs.
In the courtyard, the man in the suit named Walter was walking leisurely, with his hands across his chest, his fingers tapping his arms lightly, and his steps were extremely relaxed.
Behind him, four cleaners had shed their human skin, revealing grayish-white skin. Their bodies suddenly grew to more than ten meters tall, with unusually long limbs and torsos as thin as dead branches. Their overall appearance was eerie and unpredictable, like those skinny ghosts in fairy tales that specialized in catching children, which was chilling.
As Walter approached the student dormitory step by step, the surrounding trees and grass seemed to be deprived of vitality by an invisible force. They quickly withered and turned into ashes. There was an ominous silence in the dead silence.
However, just as they were about to reach the student dormitory, countless invisible lines suddenly appeared in the air, tightly binding him and the monsters behind him.
Walter looked down, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
At this moment, the surrounding scene seemed to be controlled by the reversal of time, and Walter and his group actually retreated at a faster speed until they reappeared outside the school gate.
The two demon hunter guards who had already died were also miraculously resurrected and stood up again in the previous posture, as if nothing had happened.
When everything returned to normal, Walter returned to the starting point again, facing his subordinates who had not yet shed their human skins, and those guards who were obviously dead but strangely resurrected. They pointed their guns at him in fear.
“Wow~”
Walter exclaimed, with a playful smile on his face, “You Earthlings are really hard to understand. Ninety-nine percent of humans are as fragile as ants, but the very few possess power that even gods desire.”
Before he finished speaking, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up in the sky above the academy, and a small bird shaped like a crow flapped its wings and flew down, turning into a human form the moment it landed.
It was Principal Peregrine who had scolded Emma and Wednesday in his office during the day!
The “Miss Peregrine” who was famous in the dark world now looked so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping from her face, and she stared at the man in the suit in front of her with cold eyes.
“It only shows that you are shallow. Also, who said I am human?”
As he spoke, a pair of wings shining with black fluorescence suddenly spread out from behind Principal Pei. As he waved them gently, countless streams of air as sharp as blades shot towards Water like arrows.
However, these air blades that were powerful enough to cut metal and stone disappeared instantly when they touched Water, without causing any harm to him.
“Angel? Demon?”
Walter also showed curiosity at this moment. He seldom set foot on the earth on weekdays. He only sent his men to search the entire universe for children with powerful spiritual powers. Therefore, he did not have a deep understanding of this planet.
The thin ghost hiding beside him whispered in a timely manner: “Sir, this woman is the lifelong principal of Nevermore College. It is said that her true form is a ‘time-returning bird’ that can control time and space, and has a time control ability that is more powerful than that of an angel.”
“Time-returning bird?” A hint of curiosity flashed in Walter’s eyes.
At the same time, Principal Pei on the opposite side did not show any surprise when she saw that her attack missed. She spread her wings and gracefully retreated dozens of meters, creating a distance between herself and Watt.
The attack just now was just to test the opponent’s strength, and the result was obviously not satisfactory.
She had no idea how this man was going to resolve her attack.
Since it is impossible to win in a short period of time, as the principal, the most important thing for her now is not to stalemate with the other party, but to organize employees to protect the students and seek help from the outside world.
So, under Walter’s gaze, the female principal who was standing in front of the school gate with a stern face just a moment ago, instantly spread her wings and disappeared directly from his sight.
Then, in Walter’s sight, teams of fully armed demon hunters quickly rushed out from the surrounding buildings. They were wearing armor and holding submachine guns and automatic rifles.
If it weren’t for the row of silver bullets and silver dagger on his waist, he would look like a soldier who had just come off the battlefield.
Following the leader’s order, countless bullets engraved with exorcism inscriptions whizzed out from the soldiers’ guns and shot accurately at Watt.
Looking at these bullets, Walter suddenly thought of an old friend.
However, the opponent was using a revolver made by the Fairy of the Lake using the material of the Sword in the Stone. Its power was far different from these inscribed bullets that only had exorcism effects.
At this moment, facing the scene of gunfire and bullets, he still crossed his arms across his chest and walked forward calmly, as if those bullets were just empty phantoms.
Incredibly, the bullets fired at Walter suddenly stopped in mid-air, as if controlled by an invisible force.
Walter picked up a bullet from the air and rubbed it gently. The hard bullet turned into powder and drifted away with the wind.
“Who on earth is this guy…”
The guard leader widened his eyes. As a demon hunter and having worked in the Alien Academy for many years, he had seen many monsters that were not afraid of bullets, but this was the first time he had seen an enemy like Walter who could easily resolve their gun attacks.
It seems that this guy not only has strange methods, but also has amazing strength.
Without hesitation, he pulled out the grenade from his chest, bit open the pin, and prepared to throw it.
But at this moment, a devilish voice sounded in their hearts:
“Kill…..each other!”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, watching Walter walk past them.
Then, it was unknown who fired the first shot. The eyes of the demon hunters who had been fighting side by side turned dark, and they pointed their guns at the brothers beside them.
Gunshots rang out and blood splattered.
Hearing the gunshots behind him, Walter walked expressionlessly past the demon hunters who were killing each other and entered the dormitory building in front.
At this moment, in every building on campus, black magic speakers appeared out of thin air in the corridors, and the cold voice of Principal Pei came from the speakers. She urged the students to get up immediately and gather on the top floor because there was an invasion by foreign enemies.
In the office, Principal Pei was on the phone while observing the situation below with a gaze that seemed to be able to penetrate the wall. When she saw the demon hunters starting to kill each other because of Walter’s words, she couldn’t help but show astonishment on her originally calm face.
She suddenly thought of a legendary superpower.
Word magic?
What you say is the law, and your words carry the law of heaven.
A superpower that can decide the life or death of another person with just a word.
As an immortal, she had seen countless legendary gods with her own eyes, but no one except God possessed such powerful power, whether it was the immortals and Buddhas of the East or the gods and demons of the West.
“Who the hell is this guy?”
Principal Pei was full of doubts. She put down the microphone and informed the board of directors that the college was facing foreign invasion.
As an institution with thousands of years of history, Nevermore College’s directors are almost all big figures in the dark world.
Although her own fighting ability is not outstanding, with the superpowers of the Time-Returning Bird, she is confident that she can hold the opponent back until the members of the board of directors arrive.
“headmaster!”
Just then, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Emma, ​​Wednesday and the little follower Enid rushed in together.
From the moment the slender figure shed his human skin and Walter appeared, they had sensed the danger and witnessed Walter’s strange superpowers.
“Why are you here?”
When Principal Pei saw them, he immediately said seriously: “Didn’t you hear the voice on the loudspeaker? Hurry up and go to the top floor to gather. The teachers from the academy will protect you there.”
“No way, those teachers can’t even beat me.” Emma immediately shook her head and refused.
“you……”
Principal Pei was about to get angry, but when he thought about the other party’s record of defeating the school teacher with just one move, he didn’t say much.
She bent down slightly, put her hands on their shoulders, and earnestly warned them, “First of all, I want to apologize to you. As the principal, I did not discover the crisis on campus in time, which put you in danger. But this is my responsibility, and has nothing to do with you. For your safety, if you don’t want to go to the rooftop, find a place to hide first, and you can notify your elders at home to pick you up.”
As she spoke, Principal Pei stretched out her hand, and a feather shining with black fluorescence appeared in her hand.
“When you encounter danger, just throw it out. Go, kids, don’t stay here any longer.”
Principal Pei gently touched Emma and Wednesday’s heads, nodded to Enid, and then walked quickly downstairs.
Walter had easily dealt with the school guards and entered the student dormitory building. Although it was unclear what his purpose was, seeing that he had bad intentions, Principal Pei, who had already gathered the students and successfully asked for help, had to go down to stop him and buy time for the students to receive reinforcements.
After the principal left, the three people in the office fell into a brief silence.
Enid seemed a little anxious. She scratched her head nervously and asked Emma and Wednesday nervously, “What should we do next? Do we really need to find a place to hide?”
“Is there any need to ask this? We Winchesters would never give our lives to others to protect.”
“Neither does the Adams family.”
Emma put the feather given by the principal into her pocket, and then she and Wednesday chased in the direction the principal left without hesitation.
Although Enid was a little scared, she mustered up the courage to follow her two roommates after seeing how decisive and brave they were.
But just as they were about to reach the stairs, something strange happened.
Their bodies suddenly stopped, and then they retreated back to the principal’s office at a faster speed than before.
Everything around them seemed to have been replayed, and when their thoughts came back to life, they were back to dozens of seconds ago!
Several people looked at each other, their eyes full of surprise and confusion.
at the same time.
In the lobby on the first floor, the headmistress, Principal Pei, was breathing a sigh of relief.
As soon as she got downstairs, she heard a curse-like “suicide” echoing in the hall.
After hearing the sound, the school teachers who were guarding here used all kinds of magic and super powers on themselves without hesitation, and fell to the ground and died one after another. In just one encounter, they became corpses all over the ground.
Even she herself, after inadvertently hearing the voice, her fingers began to glow as if possessed by some magic, ready to point to her forehead.
But perhaps because it wasn’t specifically targeting her, she still activated her backtracking ability in time at the last moment and turned back time to dozens of seconds ago.
“Run!”
She shouted loudly to the school staff in front of her, and before Walter could speak again, she pushed her palm hard, and a huge airflow, like a violent hurricane, carried an astonishing impact force and slammed towards Walter.
But just like countless times before, any attack would inexplicably stagnate or disintegrate when it came into contact with this man, as if he was surrounded by an invisible barrier that isolated all harm.
But Principal Pei was not discouraged. She tapped her fingers lightly, and the ceiling seemed to be controlled by an invisible hand, collapsing and heading straight for Walter.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, streams of air burst out from her fingertips, like flexible vines, tightly wrapping around the employees in the hall and quickly transferring them to a safe place.
“You have a strong sense of professionalism. I admire dedicated women.”
Walter did not try to stop him. Instead, he pointed his finger at his chin and looked at Principal Pei thoughtfully.
After a moment, he slowly opened his mouth and made a suggestion, “How about this, I only want two girls, you hand them over honestly, and I can take them away now, and I will never hurt anyone else.”
“You’re dreaming!”
Principal Pei was not shaken at all. She didn’t even bother to know who the other party wanted, because no matter who it was, she would never hand it over.
Hearing this, Walter sighed softly, as if he felt a little helpless about Principal Pei’s stubbornness.
“Then I can only say sorry.”
Before he finished speaking, the air around him seemed to freeze in an instant, and an invisible force was quietly brewing.
Feeling all this, Principal Pei frowned. She was well aware of the power of the Word Spirit Technique. As long as the other party opened his mouth, the consequences would be disastrous.
So she quickly blocked her hearing, trying to block out the words that could change reality.
In her sight, she could only see the other person’s lips moving, but she couldn’t hear what was said.
But just when she breathed a sigh of relief, a deep voice suddenly sounded in her mind!
“Kill yourself…”
“Time, go back!”
At the critical moment, Principal Pei used her ability without hesitation. The surrounding scene began to distort, and time seemed to flow backwards, returning to the few seconds before the man in the suit spoke.
But such retrospection is not without cost. Every time she uses it, she feels an intense fatigue.
The battle thus fell into a cycle.
Every time of Walter’s spiritual attack was dissolved into nothingness by Principal Pei’s time travel, and Principal Pei was also constantly consuming his own strength and will.
Finally, Watt seemed tired of this endless cycle and contest.
He looked at Principal Pei with indifference. When the other party was about to start the next retracing, his words turned directly into characters and appeared in Principal Pei’s mind.
“Forget all your knowledge of time.”
“….”