When the [Hundred Ghosts Night Parade] began in Clown Town, at the town’s entrance, a luxurious carriage was parked there. The fine horse pulling it had already been sent to the town’s stables, leaving only the carriage compartment isolated and alone.
In the dim carriage compartment, bedding, a stove, and some small low tables were all complete. Calling it a compartment, this place could actually be used as a fully equipped room.
Now Denny was sitting beside that small stove, the flickering flames in the stove illuminating her face, revealing her expression mixed with annoyance and shyness.
She was still annoyed that she hadn’t realised for half a day earlier that Jacob wasn’t Ye Chui, feeling even more angry. This group of people were real scoundrels, deliberately deceiving her. She felt indignant, and finally couldn’t help but shed tears. She gently wiped her big eyes with the back of her hand.
At this moment, the carriage compartment suddenly shook violently, and outside came a “pa pa” sound like knocking.
“Go away!” she shouted from her mouth.
“Pa pa, pa pa,” the knocking sound continued.
“I don’t want to go out. Don’t bother with me!” she continued to shout angrily.
But this voice did not stop the knocking.
She immediately felt furious inside. She now just wanted to stay quietly alone in the carriage compartment, not wanting to pay attention to anyone. She stood up from the warm and comfortable seat inside the compartment, bent over, walked to the opening of the compartment, and yanked open the door: “I said don’t come bother me, get as far away as you can, you… you…”
What appeared before Denny was a twisted and terrifying ghost face. It was absolutely not a human or any other creature, more like a cursed ghost from hell. One arm was thick like an ox, the other arm was like a just-developed infant, and the mouth full of fangs was emitting a “he he, he he” cry.
Denny subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her eyes scanning the surroundings.
The terrifying ghosts didn’t know when they had completely occupied the surroundings of the carriage compartment. There were three or four of them, and if listened carefully, the sounds of ghost cries and wolf howls were echoing in this silent and terrifying small town.
Denny was momentarily stunned, thinking that she had only sat in the carriage compartment for a short while, how had the outside turned into this?
Boom,
At this moment, there was a loud bang. One sturdy-bodied ghost smashed its huge fist onto the top of the carriage compartment. The power of this punch made the entire compartment shake violently, then with a crack, three sides of the compartment walls collapsed, the compartment roof tilted to one side, and on top of the carriage compartment, only the front door remained standing upright.
Denny’s whole body trembled lightly. She closed that remaining door again, shivering as she returned to beside the small stove: “Illusion, this must definitely be an illusion…”
“He he, he he,”
“Hu hu, hu hu,”
Weird and hoarse cries sounded one after another. Those ghosts began to climb onto the carriage compartment, intending to grab Denny’s body.
Just at this moment, a brick suddenly flew over from the distance, banging onto the head of the nearest ghost. The brick was just an ordinary brick, but the aim was quite accurate, making that ghost’s body sway involuntarily. The other ghosts also roared angrily, looking towards the attacker.
Jacob was waving a kitchen knife in his hand, rushing over rapidly.
Earlier, when Denny ran away upon learning the truth, Jacob went to find her under the encouragement of Ye Chui and Debbie. Immediately after was the [Hundred Ghosts Night Parade]. Jacob originally didn’t know where exactly Denny had run to, and hearing the commotion here at the carriage, he hurriedly came over. He wasn’t a swordsman nor a magic tutor, just an ordinary person, but fortunately, the time he had adventured with Ye Chui’s group had honed his courage. Now he was swinging a brick and a kitchen knife as he charged over.
After waving the kitchen knife to drive away one ghost, he reached out and grabbed Denny’s hand, pulling her away to the side without explanation. Denny let out a string of startled cries from her mouth, stumbling and following behind Jacob.
The night was pitch black, with only faint starlight, but Denny quickly saw who the man leading the way with the kitchen knife was. Hmph, big liar!
The girl whose heart was originally filled with fear now felt a willful anger again.
“What did you come for?” she asked.
“To save you, to save you,” Jacob shouted while waving the kitchen knife.
“Who needs you to save… Can’t you use other weapons? What kind of thing is fighting with a kitchen knife,” Denny asked.
“…I’m just more proficient with a kitchen knife,” Jacob said somewhat awkwardly, “I’m the guild’s logistics vice minister.”
“What does logistics vice minister mean?”
“A fancy name for a cook…”
Denny suddenly forcefully shook off Jacob’s hand, “Enough!” she shouted from her mouth. When Jacob looked at her in surprise, she said in a cold voice: “People of the Anduin family would never flee in panic when facing danger. I want to fight. Just now I was suddenly scared, but I’m not a coward like you. I want to fight!”
“But Miss Denny, these things are very dangerous…” Jacob looked at the several ghosts rapidly chasing over. Now in the town, most of the ghosts had been drawn to Ye Chui and Debbie, and another portion was besieging Lessa and Green and the others, so the ghosts chasing Ye Chui and Denny weren’t many, but even if not many, to Jacob they were still fatal.
“Hmph hmph, don’t forget that I am a powerful summoner!” Denny announced to Jacob with a cold laugh. At this moment, she seemed to have completely calmed down from her previous panic. She raised one of her hands high, a golden bracelet on her wrist flashed with a white light, and a summoning gate appeared beside her. Only hearing Denny shout loudly: “Fierce beast Hal, come out and fight!”
As soon as Denny’s words ended, a “aowoo” wolf howl suddenly echoed in the pitch-black town. Hearing that cry, Jacob’s body straightened abruptly. From this sound, he could sense an extremely powerful aura. This must be a mighty and powerful summoned beast!
“She actually has some real skills…” Jacob thought to himself.
Under the dim starlight, a fierce animal appeared before Denny.
It was a wolf, but not entirely a wolf. Black and white interspersed fur, a cold and beautiful appearance, but how was this style so familiar…
Denny introduced from her mouth: “Hal is my fantasy creature. It is a fierce beast born from my imagination. I created it by observing various fierce beasts and fusing their characteristics. However, because it is too powerful, every time I summon it, it causes huge trouble for everyone, so only in dangerous situations will I let it appear!”
“…Who are you fooling? This is clearly a husky!”
After the initial shock, Jacob suddenly reacted. He subconsciously looked down at his chest. He was wearing a white long robe, and on the chest position was printed the guild emblem that the Whatever Name Magic Guild had just designed. One of the patterns was personally created by Debbie, a kind of magical animal that Guild Leader Ye Chui called a “husky”. And now, if he wasn’t mistaken, the one that Denny had just summoned seemed extremely similar to that so-called husky…
The guild’s pattern was completely created out of thin air by Debbie, and now Denny’s summoned heroic spirit coincidentally matched Debbie’s creation. What a f*cking coincidence this was!
Of course, after the initial shock, Jacob felt exhilarated inside. Guild Leader Ye Chui had called this kind of magical animal a divine beast. Who knew how powerful Denny’s summoned creature would be?
Those ghosts quickly arrived before them.
Denny put her hands on her hips, waved her palm heroically,
“Hal, go fight!”
“Aowoo woo,” the fierce beast Hal immediately raised its neck, letting out a series of loud and majestic wolf howls towards the sky. Its emerald green eyes stared fixedly at the approaching ghosts, and then… it just stared at those ghosts while shrinking back, ultimately retreating to Denny’s feet. Its body stood upright, hiding its entire form behind Denny, leaving only its head exposed outside.
“Aowoo woo~~~” The low cries, without knowing wolf language, Jacob seemed to be able to guess what it meant: So scary, master, protect me quickly!
Denny was momentarily dumbfounded.
“Fierce beast Hal, what’s wrong with you? Go fight!”
“Aowoo woo~~~”
“You, aren’t you pretty powerful? The cats and dogs at home see you and aren’t afraid to speak, go fight!”
“Aowoo woo~~~”
Standing beside them, Jacob had originally been full of fear all over his body, but at this moment he still couldn’t help but lightly complain: “You really live up to being Miss Debbie’s family descendant…”
This fierce beast Hal was summoned and was completely useless, no, not entirely useless… At least its cries successfully attracted more ghosts to march towards them here!
Jacob suddenly realised. Could this kind of magical animal be an existence at the pinnacle of silliness? Only people who had reached the peak on the path of being silly could imagine their true form?
“Run quickly!” Jacob hurriedly grabbed Denny’s arm, not looking back as he pulled her towards an open area.
“Aowoo,” the fierce beast Hal unhesitatingly ran ahead of them…
…
On the other side, under Gilga’s protection, Debbie was walking on a street littered with ghost fragments. The ghosts weren’t undead or evil spirits; they were heroic spirits, existences with physical bodies.
And just now, Ye Chui under the [Blood Battle Intent] plus vampire BGM buff had charged all the way, opening a bloody path ahead, leaving Debbie and Gilga amazed beyond words. When all the ghosts on this street were overturned by Ye Chui, Debbie and Gilga found Ye Chui standing in the middle of a ground full of ghosts. His back was to them, and blood-coloured flames were still burning on his body.
At that moment, Debbie suddenly felt that this youth was simply cool to the extreme…
