Boom!
The violent blast from the Portable Spirit Wave Cannon echoed between the cliffs. Birds burst into flight and fled the area.
Crash!
Chunks of rock shot into the air like fireworks. Some plunged toward the river at the bottom of the gorge; others smashed onto the road, which was barely wide enough for one carriage. Dust and rubble blocked Odys's view.
The cannon's power stunned the Beyonders from the Rose School. For a moment, they thought it, too, was a Level 1 Sealed Artifact.
Odys seized the chance to pour spirituality into the Dream Bracelet, fortifying his soul and Spirit Body. He then fed Star Sand into the Gus Staff, and amid a blaze of starlight, simulated Holy Light.
A column of pure white light fell over him. The Wraith possessing him could not withstand its scorching heat. It broke off its Possession and hid in a crack in the cliff.
Odys stopped sustaining the Holy Light at once. He was red all over, like a cooked prawn, and his mind was still a little hazy. But with the Dream Bracelet and Scale Armor Scroll protecting him, he soon recovered.
He slipped the Gus Staff back onto his belt and hurled a Gravity Scroll at the Wraith as it moved to possess him again.
He had developed the scroll by studying the black crystal he had obtained from Whale Island.
The incorporeal Wraith, normally as weightless as a soul, suddenly felt several times the usual pull of gravity. It dropped straight to the bottom of the steep gorge.
The other Wraith had spent all this time kissing a rock. Neither the cannon's explosion nor the falling stones had roused it, but it finally shook off the Aphrodisiac Scroll's influence.
As it prepared to survey the battlefield, a bolt of