Clang, clang, clang!
The ancient bronze bell hung high above the pyramid, slowly turning as it let out deafening peals. Visible sound waves descended from the sky like invisible ropes, winding around the pyramid and holding it immobile.
The enormous serpent, like an anchor cable gradually tightening, worked with the wolf and bear to drag the pyramid suspended in midair down toward the ground bit by bit.
The pyramid's tough shell, gleaming with metallic sheen, made it difficult for the hunting teams present to break through it in a short time. So dragging it down from the sky first might have been the only way to make the School Guardian Formation "calm down."
But clearly, the Dark Wizard controlling the pyramid had no intention of accommodating the hunters.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Streams of multicolored smoke poured from the honeycomb-like holes surrounding the pyramid. They mingled, blended, and condensed in the air, as though someone were painting in midair with an enormous brush. In mere moments, they outlined a gigantic head that enveloped the pyramid.
In other words, what floated in midair now was a huge head.
Its face was aged, and its hair sparse. White-streaked hair fluttered in the wind behind its half-bald head, exposing a wrinkled old face like that of an aged monkey. In contrast to that face, its eyes brimmed with vitality—though beneath that vitality flickered madness and evil, enough to make anyone shudder.
"Wotrey!"
The Trident Sword wizard recognized the owner of that face at once. The great bear stood upright, its snout nearly poking the old man's beard. Its thunderous roar shook the entire battlefield. "A criminal wanted under the Alliance's Class B warrant, with a bounty of twelve hundred jade coins! You dared come to Puji Island? How dare you?!"
Zheng Qing had never