"Master, save me, sob sob sob..."
"I'm so hungry, I want to die..."
"I don't want to become a monster..."
The heads hanging from the tips of the branches wailed and wept. There were men and women among them; they seemed to have been wizards of this academy in life. Their cloudy eyes rolled within rotten sockets as the heads swayed unsteadily with the giant tree, crying for help to Green and Evil Crystal, the two Stigmata Wizards striding across the water.
Had they been low-level wizards, they would have been so horrified by this sight that their hair stood on end. Yet Green and Evil Crystal paid it no heed, continuing forward with faint curiosity on their faces.
"It's them, those two powerful wizard monsters."
A cluster of ghostly green flame was actually pointing at Green and Evil Crystal and calling them monsters. The scene was truly bizarre.
However, after gazing at the ghostfire, Green said in a low voice, "Only one instance of Nightmare Rebirth power? It seems the powerful nightmare rules I sensed earlier are here."
That ghostfire was formed from the Nightmare Rebirth of the Plaster Frog from before.
Crack, crack, crack, crack...
Slowly, one green skeleton after another twisted upon the ground and struggled to rise. The many heads on the giant tree's branches also stopped wailing, turning stiff, as though controlled by the giant tree.
All the skeletons that stood up were headless. They gradually swayed into a row, and some of them were even holding magic staffs, gathering elemental power to cast sorcery!
"Wizards, flee to your hearts' content in terror. Nightmares will shroud this world. Not only will we reclaim the stolen nightmare fragments, we will also utterly refine every soul in this world into fear. Heh heh heh heh..."
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