High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2635: Chapter 856: Inside and Outside the Sandbox

A sandbox is like a safe.

Knowing the distribution map of the magic nodes that form the foundation of the sandbox and the operation rules of the magic circuits is akin to knowing the combination to a safe. With just a brief adjustment, Korma made the bluestone slab beneath her feet reveal its true form. The slate, a subtle blue-gold color, was covered with countless tiny starlights that flickered one after another, resembling a real starry sky, shining brilliantly.

This time, she hesitated no more.

Her fingertips guided the magic, sliding back and forth among those tiny points of light, sketching a complex star map and directly opening the passage between the Sandbox Mini World and the outer world.

However, just as the passage opened, before she could transform into a rainbow light and enter the small world, a tinge of darkness rushed at her, with a violent and evil aura wrapped within it, instantly startling the North District Grand-Wizard into retreat.

Boom!

The dark light expanded with the wind, transforming in an instant into a giant raven as large as a small elephant. It opened its pair of scarlet eyes, and with its mouth open, let out a hoarse and dry screech. With wings spread wide, it easily shaded the sky overhead, casting the entire street into darkness. Its gleaming black claws, sharp and decisive, opened and closed over the street, making the small buildings covered by the array on either side look like tofu being sliced by a steel knife, leaving bottomless cuts.

”Where did this monster come from?!”

Fei Rui clung tightly to the witch’s long silver hair, letting out a piercing roar. The transparent sound waves spun in the air like cannonballs, crashing heavily onto the giant raven, sending it tumbling backward.

Almost at the same time.

Korma also opened her law book, the hastily spoken incantations condensing into a sharp whistle. A colorful storm of spell light rained upon the raven, which hadn’t yet stabilized, beating it until its skin split and its feathers flew in fragments.

In the next second, a high wall of green-black obscured the witch and the fat hamster’s sight.

Korma’s face turned pale, and she lightly tapped her foot, swiftly retreating.

By this time, she had clearly seen that what appeared in front of her was not a green-black wall, but an enormous green snake that extended serpentine, almost like the Great Wall.

Once the Green Snake appeared, it paid no attention to the two small bugs beside it, but instead stretched its neck, darting like a spring toward the giant raven that Korma had knocked over, swallowing it in one bite.

A few drops of scarlet blood dripped from its mouth, corroding the small buildings on the side of the street to ash with ease.

”Why so many monsters!”

Fei Rui bit his claws, his voice containing a hint of astonishment and fear: ”This physique can only be rivaled by Behemoth or Leviathan and their siblings!”

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Outside the sandbox, at the moment Korma opened the passage.

Inside the sandbox.

The three ravens originally pursued by the Green Snake suddenly split into three paths, transforming into three streaks of dark light. One darted straight toward the entrance of the passage, one counterattacked toward the three young wizards hiding behind the Green Snake, and the other dove toward an unassuming two-story building on the street, sweeping up several blurry figures inside the attic and frantically escaping in the opposite direction.

Zheng Qing immediately noticed those blurry figures.

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but he vaguely saw one of them giving a polite tug at the brim of their hat before being seized by the raven.

He intended for the Big Green Snake to catch those guys.

But the frenzied aura emanating from the looming raven was suffocating. Its body was swelling madly, and without divination, Zheng Qing could already guess what it intended to do.

”Bomber Black!”

The young wizard groaned out the name, his mind flashed to the image of the plump bomber bird from ’Angry Birds’—minus the game’s cuteness, they were almost identical.

The Green Big Snake had no choice.

Roaring angrily, it turned back to bite the nearest giant raven.

Crunch!

As if crushing a glass bottle, the crisp explosion was swallowed by the Green Snake’s massive mouth, a touch of humor in its face as it seemed to puff slightly.

After devouring this raven, the one that whisked away several wizards had already vanished. The Green Big Snake had no choice but to flick its tail in frustration and transform into a green light, chasing toward the other raven that fled from the Sandbox Mini World.

Zheng Qing looked around.

A mess, yet strangely silent.

”Should we go after them?” The Fat Wizard pointed in the direction where the wizards disappeared, evidently having noticed the shadows taken by the raven as well.

”Too late.”

Xiao Xiao, caressing his crystal ball—after the sandbox was opened, he had reestablished contact with the school’s guardian array, easily surveying the entire small world—said with some regret: ”They’ve already escaped through another exit. It seems the outside person opened two passages while opening the sandbox... Not sure if it was a mistake.”

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Korma certainly wasn’t aware she had opened both in-and-out passages of the sandbox.

At this moment, she stood at the end of the street, looking at the enormous creature spanning several blocks, still filled with trepidation—luckily, she had relocated everyone from the neighboring streets to be safe, just seeing the chaos now, if she had been even slightly lazy before, who knows how many innocents would have been harmed in the North District today.

But with such a commotion, why hasn’t the school responded?

She turned her head toward where the The First University’s School Works Committee was situated, a hint of confusion in her eyes.

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Time rewounds briefly.

When the Green Snake’s massive body crashed into the North District while hunting the raven, its violent and potent aura was released without restraint, sweeping through the entirety of Buji Island in an instant, with its reverberations even affecting Danghag across the ocean.

Behind the window of San You Bookstore, the Yellow Flowered Cat twitched its ears, uttering a light huff of envy and disdain.

Vice Principal Ruoyu, who had been stationed at the First University for years, sensed this aura and nostalgically glanced out the window.

Professor Yao, whose true body was still in the Black Prison Laboratory, felt the overwhelming aura from the North District and, in various places worldwide where he was having intimate discussions with dozens of ’old friends’, cleanly snapped the pipe by his mouth with his projections.

The Wandering Wizard, observing the sudden disappearance of a legendary projection and the terrifying aura emanating from the neighboring street, quietly held his breath, shrinking into the corner of the house, his expression uncertain.

And in the noisy Moonlight Council Great Hall, the moment that aura swept past, it was as if someone had cast a silence spell, and they all shut their mouths. Realizing this, they recalled the initiators of today’s meeting, and when they looked up at those seats, they were shocked to find that the five Upper House members had already quietly left at some point.