Chapter 553 – Disturbing the Scene

Chapter 553 – Disturbing the Scene
The passersby were shouting and scattering in all directions in terror, and the academy guards in front of them snapped their heads up while drawing the revolvers on their belts at the first opportunity.

Nina’s words just had time to get halfway through before she was suddenly interrupted by this change, and she subconsciously pulled Shirley next to her, and then she quickly turned back to the direction from which the screams had come.

(Past the curtain, past some unseen boundary.

The hissing and noise steeply expanded to unbearable levels, sharp agonies vibrated through perception, bright lights filled the ears, eyes stung from the noise, skin evaporated and boiled in the wind, while unnamable, gigantic orbs hung high in the equally unnamable sky, frantically rising and shrinking and writhing.

Things full of malice stirred – the rising and shrinking forms moved wildly around, shaking the world with their ghastly roars.

But …… where are their weapons? Where was one’s armor? Where is one’s partner? Where is one’s …… self?)
A horrible, indescribable black “mass” of some kind rushed out of the air and fell to the ground with a thud.

The lump seemed like some kind of flesh and blood, but constantly refracted a metallic cold luster, constantly reorganized and shaped the bizarre surface sometimes reflecting colorful phantom light, as if something hissed and throbbed in the light.

This horrible fearful thing set off panic in the crowd, and everyone was scattering to escape.

Only the two “Knowledge Guards” at the scene did not hesitate to draw their pistols, take out their spell casting props, and rushed towards the horrifying “reality intruder”.

Their shouts reached Nina and Shirley’s ears: “Children, run!”

The shouts of the guards woke Nina up, and in the sudden chaos, she stared at the center of the chaos with shocked eyes.

She wondered if she was hallucinating.

For in that brief moment, in that first second or two, or even less, she felt that she had seen something far more incredible than that horrible, terrified mass – yes, in that first second, it looked …… like a human being.

She wondered if she had been mistaken, for that moment was far too brief, and looking at the reactions of the others around her …… no one seemed to have noticed that scene.

The guards have already rushed up, because it is not yet possible to determine that the sudden appearance of the “intruder” has any strange characteristics, they did not hastily shoot, but first in the nearby ground broke a few test tubes, test tubes in the volatile agent quickly dispersed in the air, the formation of a mist-like cohesion does not dissipate the” wall of air”, the sun shines on the ground, and then the “wall of air”, and the “wall of air”. air wall”, the sunlight shone on it, refracting a psychedelic light.

It was as if some sort of rainbow-like crystal barrier had been created in the encircling air mass.

Two guards entered the interior of the “air wall” first, one of them pointed his gun at the rising and shrinking thing that was constantly rolling and writhing on the ground, while the other quickly spread potions and dust on the ground nearby, lit portable candlesticks, and then used crystals and metal blocks to build up a temporary protective barrier to suppress the thing’s activities.

Immediately after that, another sharp whistle came from the other side of the street, and the guards patrolling the rest of the bazaar arrived in time to support them. While dispersing the remaining pedestrians on the pavement, they stepped into the interior of the “Wall of Air”, and began to skillfully execute a series of sealing, suppression, and purification processes.

Nina and Shirley stood not far away, watching this scene with dazzled eyes, they did not feel nervous, but just found it very novel.

Because although they had been exposed to many transcendent events up to now, they hadn’t actually seen how professional guardians “disposed of events according to the process”.

Trained ordinary people according to strict operating rules and skillful cooperation to control the intruder suddenly appeared in the real world – this scene is not the same as the usual Uncle Duncan’s (Captain) style of problem solving.

At that moment, the “mass” in the center of the “wall of air” with a metallic luster, which looked like some kind of living steel, suddenly moved violently again, and the temporary seal that the guardians had hastily constructed with the ritual was immediately impacted – the layer covering the “mass” was covered with a layer of metal, which was covered with a layer of metal, which was covered with a layer of metal. The transparent shell-like structure covering the surface of the “intruder” shattered inch by inch, emitting a piercingly sharp tearing sound, and the two Knowledge Guards who were maintaining the ritual suppression immediately took a few steps back, and the crystal prism in the hands of one of them instantly cracked into pieces.

But this seemed to be the last resistance of the “intruder”.

The guards reacted in panic and were ready to strengthen the seal again, but they found that the mass of “living steel” in the center of the field was rapidly weakening and writhing, as if its vitality was rapidly draining away, and the strange hissing and friction sounds coming from its interior gradually subsided, and its undulating surface seemed to be gradually solidifying! Its undulating surface also seemed to gradually solidify as if it had come to a standstill, and its metallic “skin” spread a grayish hue, just like a rapidly weathering stone.

In the end, the whole of it almost ceased to make any movement, only a kind of residual, as if an animal’s muscle twitching after death, a slight tremor appeared on its surface from time to time.

“Target activity decreasing, stopped reacting to Catalyst #17.”

A Guardian holding a revolver in one hand and grasping several test tubes in the other said quickly.

Another guardian was holding an unusually heavy book in both hands, staring at the “living steel” in the center of the field while sensing something, and spoke a moment later, “Target has no thought activity.”

“There are still signs of activity in the center area, but they are still fading …… No external communication tendencies detected.”

“Class III catalyst group is insensitive and does not belong to any known ‘invasion species’ …… When will the team from the Academy arrive?” “Letters have been sent, it will take fifteen minutes at the earliest.”

“Understood. Everyone stay alert, pay attention to your respective mental states, don’t leave the barrier area, and report immediately if you see or hear any unusual information.”

The guards handled the situation here professionally and quickly, and even though this entry into the real world was a “brand new thing” that wasn’t in the records, they didn’t look at a loss for words – until an abrupt voice suddenly came from the side.

“Mr. Guardian of ……, what is this thing?”

Nina dragged Shirley to the side of the “living steel mass” that had almost stopped moving, and the two bold girls carefully observed the “substance” on the ground that was almost two meters in diameter, and the former couldn’t help but ask curiously.

The closest Knowledge Guard almost jumped up on the spot.

This middle-aged man in a burqa, who looked more like a middle school teacher coming out of a classroom rather than a warrior, turned his head in horror, only to see that standing behind him were the two young girls who had initially approached him, seemingly wanting to report on the situation – he had thought that they should have been evacuated the first time, but why were they still standing behind him now? been evacuated, why were they still here now?
And in the next second, the guardsman realized an even more unbelievable fact.

“How did you guys get in here?!”

He stared blankly at Nina and Sherry, and swept a glance behind them out of the corner of his eye – the layer of “air wall” used to block off the area of the incident was still intact and floating a few meters away, and the rainbow-crystal texture of the barrier in the air mist didn’t have any traces of being damaged, and he himself didn’t even have any traces of being destroyed. There are no traces of destruction, and he himself has not sensed any entity touching the barrier. ……

How did the two girls who looked like middle school students in front of him waltz in?
“I walked in,” Nina finally got a little nervous when she saw Mr. Guardian’s dumbfounded reaction, and saw the other guards around her look like they were on the verge of an attack for a split second, “Just …… just walked in. ”

Next to her, Shirley also hurriedly nodded her head, trying to use her acting skills that she had practiced since she was a child but hadn’t been put to much use in recent times, pretending to be good and innocent, “We were just curious, so we walked over to take a look, sir ……”

“Walked in?!” The guard stared, his years of practiced professionalism causing him to recite Rahm’s prayer in his mind at the first opportunity, while one hand pressed down on the hilt of his gun, while his eyes were locked on the two girls in front of him.

A faint layer of silver light surfaced under his eyes.

However, Nina and Shirley just stood there harmlessly, like two most ordinary, children out for shopping.

And Nina really didn’t know what was going on.

She had seen the surrounding mist, but had only thought of it as some kind of symbolic “demarcation”, like a frame on the ground painted with white paint, and she had walked right through it without feeling any blockage – just as the sunlight could rightfully through the glass.

As for Shirley, …… Shirley didn’t feel the barrier either.

Because she walked with the sunlight.

The tense and weird confrontation lasted for several seconds, the guardians on the scene were like enemies, half of them had a faint silver glow floating under their eyes, Rahm’s blessing allowed them to temporarily enhance their ability to peek into the real in order to observe the two girls who seemed unusual but whose words and behavior were vaguely suspicious.

However they did not find anything out of the ordinary.

Only the middle-aged knowledge guard who looked the oldest always had some vague violation in his heart, he always felt that there was something hidden in front of his eyes, hidden in the depths of one of the girl’s smile, so he couldn’t help but to look at Nina a couple more times, with a shimmering light flickering in the bottom of his eyes.

But all of a sudden, he felt as if there was no need for him to continue looking – this unexplained thought made him unconsciously put away the light in his eyes.

This guardian rubbed his eyes, forgetting in a trance the sense of dissonance that had just flooded his heart.

“Are we interrupting your work?” Nina said with some apology.

The guardsmen looked at each other in disbelief, a few of them exchanged quick glances and whispered a few more words of discussion.

The middle-aged guardian, who looked the most senior, took a step forward, wearing a serious expression while remaining slightly wary.

“Excuse me, two young ladies, can …… you please come with us?”

(Headache and fever, coughing and sore throat, I don’t know if it’s the second sun …… Wish me luck.)
(End of chapter)