Zheng Qing knew of the Heavenly Dog devouring the moon.
It told of a gigantic dog swallowing the moon in the sky in a single bite—though in some versions, the dog swallowed the sun instead.
Whether it was the sun or the moon, the story had not arisen from nothing. Like the shadows of the enormous hounds now chasing Professor Emma and the Great Bird of Sizz through the distant sky, they were the original forms of the "Heavenly Dogs" from myth and legend.
And the magic cast by Old Man Ruo Yu, vice principal of First University, now went a step further.
Heavenly Dog Devours the Sky.
The low cry echoed in everyone's hearts. Accompanied by Old Man Ruo Yu's incantation, the silver wolf head atop his cane suddenly swelled and rose from the ground, transforming into a savage beast's head capable of swallowing heaven and earth. It opened its jaws.
For a moment, Zheng Qing had the hazy sensation that the Night Veil that had shrouded the Black Prison World for centuries had descended upon this world once more, and that only Cold and Silence were the eternal protagonists of this world.
But the Night Veil quickly retreated of its own accord. The light and heat cast down by the two suns drove away the darkness and chill that had briefly arrived.
Along with the two immense Qi Mechanisms that had previously hovered above the battlefield.
On the Inner Fort Battlements, the black cat rose from its crouch atop the crenellation. Zheng Qing shuddered and woke almost at the same instant. Then he realized that Old Man Ruo Yu and the chairman of the Dark Council opposite him had vanished.
"Where did they go?!"
The boy gripped the rune gun in his hand with one hand and braced