He was clearly using the body of a barber, and his spiritual relative should be Blue Song Yun, but Zhongxiang called him "little kitten"...
Is this... has he been seen through?
...However, Russell was not particularly surprised.
Just when Zhongxiang yelled angrily at his filial piety, he was almost shocked back to his original shape on the spot.
At that time, Russell's body fluctuated violently, and his entire body turned into an illusion, translucent ultramarine, and lines like water waves rippled repeatedly from his body...
It was like the special effect when he was killed before in his transformed state and was forced to return to his original form.
When he looked down and saw his arms, Russell realized his condition.
When he was on the airship and was knocked out of Alice's transformed state by a robber, he could say that he would never forget that scene and it was unforgettable.
When the fluctuations reached their peak, Russell could even see his original image from his arms.
It's like being embedded in the ultramarine slime with no clothes on... When the slime fluctuates violently, the inner self will vaguely emerge. From that color block, at least one can
I saw his cat ears and his head, which was a full circle smaller than the Bluebird.
But, isn't he going to be exposed here?
The strangulation was still watching from the side...
Although his chest was still pressed against the anvil by Zhongang's left hand, Russell still reluctantly raised his head and tried to look at the wall where the strangled man was knocked away.
When he looked up, Russell was stunned.
I saw that Strangler had disappeared without knowing when, and only the pits on the wall were left to prove his previous existence.
"I just sent the big lion back."
Zhongxiang smiled hoarsely: "Since you want to hide yourself...I won't expose you."
"...Send it back?"
Russell murmured.
He immediately guessed Zhong Xiang's method.
It was the angry roar just now!
That roar not only nearly penetrated Russell's transformation, but also kicked him out of the dream world.
It sounds like this trick has a bit of Pokémon flavor...
"No one can remain calm and self-possessed in the midst of my anger. No one can. Not even this world."
Zhonggo Shen Shen muttered in a low voice: "Even this world will be shaken by my anger... This is the divine self I forged with pain and anger.
"Do you understand, this is the way of the melting pot. It is not suitable for you. You are not self-centered enough."
"...Then why did you catch me?"
Russell sneered and said: "Maybe I can also go to other schools after getting the certification..."
"That will happen later."
The lizard man smiled lowly: "You are Russell, right... I know you are coming.
"I want... to give you a gift."
Russell's words were stuck deep in his throat for a moment.
He opened his eyes wide.
There is no need to pretend anymore... Zhongang even named him directly!
If he were strangled, I'm afraid he wouldn't even know Ultramarine's real name.
But this old mage, who theoretically should have always lived on land, actually knows the name "Russell"...
...Does anyone know that "Russell" has relied on his own psychic powers to become a "legal mage" with a chip?
But this shouldn’t be right?
"...how did you know?"
"It's Tokifat."
Zhongxiang laughed softly and said: "She told me. She said you might come to my place and let me take care of you."
Tokifat...who is it?
Russell was confused for a moment, searching for this elf-like name in his mind.
Then he realized it quickly.
"Is it...a deer head statue?"
He suddenly remembered... the deer-headed statue once said that apart from her, there were other mages living on the ground in the Tower of Babel.
So it turns out to be this "Jingxiang"?
"Are you also from the Tower of Babel?"
Russell suddenly felt intense joy.
No wonder the strangulation who inherited the path of Zhongang still hasn’t got Zhongang’s name; but when Russell met him for the first time, Zhongang directly told him his real name...
This can be regarded as a kind of meeting an old friend in a foreign country.
"It used to be."
The scales on his body were as black as steel, reflecting the dull light of matte metal, and the bright red lines on his body... looked reminiscent of a lizard man like Godzilla. He sighed expressionlessly: "But
I can no longer leave the dream world.
"Nothing more than a mutilated piece of trash."
Zhonggo murmured in a low voice.
If someone else were to say this sentence, the tone might be decadent and powerless.
But although Zhonggo's tone was calm, it inexplicably frightened Russell.
It has a terrifying temperament of "he might really do something", just like seeing a furious murderer on the street, and you can tell at just one glance that you must not approach him.
...But he was still pinned down on the anvil by Zhongxiang's left hand.
Russell felt like his back was almost being burned.
"If you get hit by this hammer..."
Russell glanced at the heavy-looking mace covered with metal thorns, and said euphemistically: "I might die."
"No."
Zhongxiang replied good-naturedly: "This is the hammer of pain.
"If you get hit by it, you will only feel pain... but you won't die."
But I don’t want to feel pain either!
"...What gift do you want to give me?"
Russell asked worriedly.
Zhongxiang smiled lowly: "I'll give you a wedge.
"Nail a wedge of pain...into your heart."
As he spoke, without waiting for Russell to reply, he raised the hammer in his hand.
"Be patient for a little bit. If you are in the dream world, you won't die, and you will feel better after that..."
Zhongxiang said, knocking down the hammer in his hand hard.
The moment it landed on Russell's chest, Russell thought he would be hit until he vomited blood and his chest collapsed.
But it only made a crisp sound of hitting metal.
bite!
But with that blow, extremely severe pain flowed through his limbs and bones in an instant. His brain went blank and he completely lost consciousness.
Even the world in front of me stopped at that moment, stuck!
And when Russell's consciousness slowly recovered again, the scene at the moment when the weight fell was still like an afterimage, remaining in front of his eyes.
Only then did Russell notice that Zhongxiang was like an old blacksmith, lifting Russell's ankles and sinking him into the river of anger.
Remembering what he said before the strangulation, he struggled fiercely, but he couldn't break away from Zhongxiang's grasp like a steel pliers.
When Russell was sunk into the river of anger like Achilles...the boundless rage that could overwhelm his consciousness began to seep into his blood vessels using his skin as a medium!
If the pain hadn't made him feel numb, I'm afraid he would have gone completely crazy at that moment and wanted to destroy the whole world!
The dark red fire in his hole intensified several times in an instant, and was submerged into pure bright red.
He roared irrationally, lying on all fours like a wild animal, trying to escape, but Zhong Xiang caught him back and pinned him on the anvil.
As he swung the hammer again, something bright red seemed to be shaken off Russell's body.
His whole body was shaken, and the pain of being nailed miraculously neutralized the boundless power of anger.
With his rationality briefly restored, Russell was shocked to realize that his consciousness became extremely pure in an instant. It was as if some toxin had been expelled.
Zhonggo actually didn't lie.
Also, it feels a little comfortable...
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I have a cold and have slept...
Chapter 2 will also be a little later, but it’s still there!
