He turned back in surprise, only to see that the man had not passed out. At that moment, he was holding up something like a drumstick, struggling as he tried to climb to his feet.
At the same time, a doll made of clay and straw fell from his waist and split in two on the ground.
This thing... it couldn't be some kind of death-substitution doll, could it?
"Great Oak, spirits of the ancestors... heed my call... stop this train!"
Thud! The drumstick struck the floor of the train.
A muffled boom spread far and wide. Murphy felt something was wrong and grabbed Felix, throwing him into the Undetectable Extension Box as well.
The next instant, with a boom, Murphy felt the ground beneath his feet shudder, and his whole body was suddenly thrown into the air.
Several tree roots thick enough for a man to wrap both arms around suddenly heaved up beneath the tracks in the middle section of the train. Like tentacles, they flipped the rails straight over, their immense strength even lifting the entire train itself.
They were immediately smashed to pieces by the train, but the tracks had already been destroyed. The carriages behind derailed one after another, and the whole train instantly began thrashing madly like a long snake whipping its tail.
Very soon, the engine at the front was also dragged off the tracks. The huge inertia bent the entire train into a zigzag, and several of the forward carriages were wrenched over on their sides, yet were still pushed sliding across the ground for a long distance before finally coming to a stop.
A bolt of lightning suddenly shot out of the train and turned into Murphy's form in midair. He frowned, looked at the derailed train, and sighed.
Even with