The Spirit World

Chapter 536: Grudges between Old and Young

Heavy rain washed over Skarner's black windbreaker. He crouched, the rain pouring in large arcs, his back felt like it was being mercilessly beaten. While holding his breath, he looked down with his one blue and one yellow eyes, watching the movements of the crowd in the distance.

"Hurry up, hurry up! If this batch of goods is not delivered, our heads will fall to the ground! Hurry up!" A burly man waved his hands quickly and anxiously asked the people who were carrying goods next to him to get on the dragon cart.

"This batch of goods today! You must deliver it to me on time! Otherwise I will twist off your head on the spot!" The big man stared at the driver viciously, his eyes as big as copper bells. The driver nodded in fear and dared not speak.

The cargo was a small wooden box. Some people moved it by themselves, while others carried it by two people. It looked like they were different things.

He looked at the porters, counting the number of people.

He frowned and found that the number of people was inaccurate. The heavy rain rolled down in front of his eyes like beads. He roared angrily, pointing at all the porters and cursing: "Where is Jerryan! Where is he?"

"Here I come... Old driver! I just went to the bathroom. Sorry, sorry!" A thin brown-haired man apologized, pulling and tying his belt, and wiped his face. The rainstorm flowed down from the black mole on the tip of his nose, and it bounced very abruptly. After wiping his face, Jerian immediately went to move the small box.

"Are you still going to work? You little brat! You'll be busy all the time if I ask you to work! If you don't want to work, get out!" The old driver kicked Jerryan's thigh hard. Jerryan almost stumbled. He hugged the wooden box and shouted sorry. He slowly put the wooden box down on the carriage. The wooden box shook unnaturally.

Skarner stared at the wooden box. It had an abnormality that the other wooden boxes did not have.

What is it?
Skarner jumped from the shadow of one tree to the shadow of another, getting closer to the group.

An untimely strong wind blew, washing away all the trees. The bean-sized tree condensate beads fell down and hit the puddles under the trees, creating huge waves and splashes.

"Get in the car!" The old driver looked around. The wind made him clench his teeth and shout gloomily toward the trees: "Get in the car!"

The wooden boxes had been moved almost completely, and Jerryan was about to come up holding a box. However, the coachman heard the old driver's shout and whipped the dragon cart quickly. As the dragon cart started moving, Jerryan almost fell out and chased after the dragon cart holding the box.

The old driver picked up the last wooden box and threw it. The box flew over Jerryan's head into the dragon cart. The other operators jumped into the dragon cart. The old driver ran and kicked Jerryan on the thigh. He kicked the box and it flew onto the cart. He then flew onto the dragon cart.

Jerryan was kicked and fell to the ground, leaving a big mud pit. He got up immediately in fear and chased after the dragon car.

"I'm not in the car!" Jerryan waved his hands in fear and horror and shouted, "I'm not in the car yet!"

"Go to hell with you! Get out of here!" The old driver snorted, took out a pack of clean cigarettes from his arms, tore it open and shook it out, took one for himself, lit it with a match, and the smoke rose slowly in the rainstorm and was quickly washed away. He looked at Jerryan who was still chasing him with disdain and snorted again: "Lese, lazy guy! You deserve to die!"

"Salary! Salary! Old driver! Salary!" Jerryan chased and shouted, wiping the rain off his face in the heavy rain, and shouted anxiously: "Salary! Old driver!"

"You idiot! Go eat shit!" The old driver threw the cigarette butt out with force. The burning cigarette butt hit Jerryan on the head in the heavy rain. Jerryan felt the pain and fell down again on the muddy road where the dragon cart passed. The yellow soil and muddy water on his body soaked his entire clothes and made him look like a mud man.

The heavy rain washed over his back, as if hammering at his bones.

"Cough--" Jerryan coughed and spit out "you" from his mouth. He dug the mud in his mouth and sat down in the mud puddle with difficulty. He wiped his muddy face with his muddy hands, revealing his eyes. Under the entanglement of mud and his eyelashes, he watched the dragon carriage flying away.

"Shit!" Jerryan punched the puddle with his fist in the heavy rain, and mud and water splashed onto his face.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Jerryan hit the puddle hard, like a turtle turning over in the mud, causing mud waves, and that was all.

Skarner stomped his feet and flew over the trees. His continuous jumps brought him continuous tumbles. Blue and golden light bloomed from his eyes. He kicked and stomped, rolling among the trees.

【Those are living creatures.】

Tian Mujian was also a little surprised. He reminded Skarner, "This is a big deal. It's best to think long-term."

"What's the big deal?" Skarner kept his eyes on the dragon carriage, making sure that it would not be lost in the heavy rain. His black windbreaker was like a rolling ribbon in the rain. The heavy rain could not stop Skarner's progress at all.

[I don't know.] The Tianmu Sword flashed red on Skarner's waist [But I feel that something bad is going to happen. This rain is so strange.]

"What do you mean?" Skarner asked coldly, and the red light of the Tianmu Sword became brighter.

[I sense the presence of some old friends. For example, other magic swords like mine are emitting terrible pressure. They are angry.]

"Demon Blade, the same as you?" Skarner looked at the carriage in surprise. With each step, Skarner's footprints were left on the tree, and then they were burned by flames in the rainstorm, and the traces disappeared.

[Yes, it is angry. Little Kana, I can feel that the magic sword is sending out unprecedented fury. This rain was brought by her.]

"Does it have a name?" Skarner quickened his pace. In his golden eyes, the dragon chariot became bigger and bigger because Skarner was getting faster and faster towards it.

[Magic Sword, Artes. 】

"Magic sword, Artes?"

[It is the most powerful magic sword, and its sharpness is higher than mine. If it were me, I would not dare to fight it easily. The blades of the emperor level in the world can only match it, but they still cannot withstand its power in the long run.] Tianmujian paused for a moment and continued: [It has the ability to separate the living from the dead, because it has the crystal core of a powerful death god. It can make people die twice, that is, completely, and turn into ashes. There is no reincarnation.]

"..." Skarner listened, took a deep breath, and ran quickly in the mud. He adjusted his breathing so that he would not be noticed by his rapid breathing during the long chase.

[This is very scary... People who don't know the truth will just think they were killed by it, but in fact, they are equivalent to being cut in half by the scythe of death, and they will never be able to pass through the road to the underworld for the rest of their lives.]

[However, it cannot communicate with the owner of the sword like I can, although it has its own consciousness.]

[It dedicated itself to power. The sword's consciousness and its soul are perfectly combined. It is the magic sword Artes itself.]

"He's angry." Skarner stared at the old driver and slowed down his pace. He could clearly feel that the old driver was observing the surroundings intentionally or unintentionally. There were many shadow hunters coming under the rainstorm, or some frightening beasts and monsters. [Yes, angry. To be honest, I never thought it would be angry, and cause such a huge storm.]

"So where is it now?" Skarner asked, slowing down his pace. He stayed on the branch for a while, then stepped out again to create a gap to avoid being discovered by following too closely.

【I hope this is not the destination of this group of people. 】

"Frannos." A map suddenly appeared in Skarner's blue eyes. It was a map of the entire edge of Fran. Frannos was located in the south of Fran. It was originally a small town, but relying on Fran's geographical environment, it became a larger city.

Flannos is equivalent to the back garden of the Flan princes and nobles. It is of moderate distance, moderate temperature, and has abundant open land and beautiful scenery like mountains and flowing water.

"Antonio. It's time to end this." Skarner closed his eyes, and his blue pupils returned to normal, flashing a faint blue light.

【Twenty-one years ago, Fran】

Polos grabbed his cowboy hat to prevent it from being blown away by the wind. His long golden hair fluttered in the wind, and he was as handsome as ever.

He was walking on the way to the college, and Tang Zilong, wearing a white coat, was walking beside him. At that time, Tang Zilong still had a childish look on his face, and he didn't even wear glasses. He also had black hair without a single gray spot.

On the other side of Pylos was Ralfa, who was reading a book while walking, looking like a complete nerd.

Next to Ralfa was Skarner, who was still wearing Fran's magic robe at that time. He had a serious face, as if someone owed him money.

The person who owed him money was Kraft, who was walking behind them leisurely while eating bread.

There was another person walking behind them, his name was Kuro, he was wearing a wizard's pointed hat, Fran's magic robe, magic boots, and holding a broom.

The magicians of Fran generally do not ride brooms. Brooms are too useless in the prosperous city of Fran. There is a joke that only country bumpkins ride brooms.

At that time, Fran was a pure magic school, not a learning school with miscellaneous subjects. Later, the Forbidden Magic Society forced the school to reform. Although this is a later story, Tang Zilong and Pylos, who did not know magic, were the beneficiaries of that reform. They got what they wanted and became Fran's mentors.

Paros Tang Zilong walked in the middle, Skarner and Ralfa walked on the inside, Kraft and Kuro walked on the outside. They were all very handsome and heroic, so they were nicknamed "Flan Handsome Men's Group".

As soon as the [Flan Handsome Men] went out, there were basically screams. At that time, the handsome men and beautiful women in Fran would exclaim and shout when they met them. There was no one who didn't know their names.

Pylos is the favorite of their group, and everyone basically revolves around him. Pylos is humorous and witty, and his philosophical thinking has a background. He studied under the Phoenix mentor. Once a teacher, always a father. He took the Phoenix surname and was called Phoenix I.

Pylos was very brave, because he had followed his master, Mentor Phoenix, to do archaeological excavations in cemeteries since he was a child. He had seen many skeletons and strange cemetery wonders, and he would not blink an eye even if the sky fell.

I'm not afraid of anything except snakes.

The reason was that while tracking archaeological relics, Pylos accidentally fell into a dragon cart filled with edible snakes. Due to the driver's negligence, he did not discover it in time, resulting in Pylos being soaked in snake water during the entire afternoon of transportation and unable to open the door. When he came out, snakes became a shadow of his life.

Every time this matter was mentioned, Pylos felt weak in the knees.

What a coincidence. There was a man named Antonio, whose father, Anthony, was a mentor in snake research. Antonio also inherited Anthony's "father's career" in Fran and enjoyed studying snakes.

At first, the two men didn't know each other, but at a college party, Antonio overheard Pylos and the handsome boys complaining that seeing those long cakes reminded him of those fat-headed snakes, which made him unable to eat them. He wished there were no snakes in the world. Antonio silently held a grudge in his heart, thinking that this was the biggest denial of his father and his research, and even an insult.

At that time, Pylos complained about snakes an unusually large number of times, like a little nagging woman. The group tried every possible way to help him control his fear of snakes, but it didn't work.

To overcome snakes, you have to encounter the real thing. That is the real snake. Where are the most snakes?

Antonio's there.

Antonio already had a grudge against Pylos and wanted Antonio to help him. The group wanted to borrow a non-venomous snake, at least to pretend that Pylos could overcome snakes from the bottom of his heart. However, Antonio took out a highly venomous snake that had no obvious characteristics to distinguish it from a non-venomous snake and gave it to the group to help Pylos overcome his fear.

Unexpectedly, Ralfa's girlfriend, Alia, was also present at the time. She recognized the species of the poisonous snake on the spot and killed it with a magic bullet, thus saving Pylos' life.

The group was so scared that they didn't even dare to make a sound. They suggested using real snakes to overcome their fear. Tang Zilong, who wanted to borrow the real snake, got so angry that he took out a spiritual gun from his waist and went to Antonio's laboratory to shoot Antonio.

Antonio did not apologize at all. He just said that it was the snakes' problem that the venomous snakes were difficult to distinguish and that they should not look exactly the same, and it was not his fault.

From then on, their struggle began.

Antonio was naturally inferior to Scana Cav, Tralfa Cullo and others in the competition of magic and swordsmanship, but he mobilized his father's relationship with Anthony, so that Cullo lost a subsidy for training a great magician in the Dragon School because of his insufficient theoretical class performance. When the father of Ralfa and the father of Alea knew about the love between their children, Lei Ting was furious, severely reprimanded the two, and ordered them to break up. Then, Cav was plotted against by others in a competition and missed the championship. If he won the championship, he could directly enter the army and obtain a senior military rank, while the second place could only start over as a soldier. Fortunately, Longxu Gong appreciated Cav.

Antonio's actions caused Pylos and Tang Zilong great pain. This cunning opponent specifically targeted their good friends.

The whole thing seemed to be getting out of control until Pylos and Tang Zilong really brought spiritual guns to a showdown with Antonio, who spent all day in the laboratory.

The incident with the strange red and green snake, his favorite pet, was resolved only after he shot it. Once such a feud was formed, it was impossible to settle it with just a few words. Since then, Pylos was still afraid of snakes, but he was indeed much more cautious in his words and actions when teasing them.

Therefore, for everyone at 202 Charles Street, the matter of Shikash must be thoroughly investigated.

Those who bully the old come to bully the young.

There are no doors.

(End of this chapter)