"An appetite that could never be satisfied? In that respect, it was a little like a person."
Fatty Xin had already heard Xiao Xiao tell the "story in the painting." He sighed and remarked, "But being neither fully human nor fully ghost isn't good for something like it... We don't think it's human, and the 'world' might not think it's a proper law anymore, either... Like the bat in the story."
"First of all, I didn't do anything to you," Dylan replied glumly.
On any other day, Xiao Xiao and Zhang Jixin would have laughed at a topic this interesting, even if they didn't join in. They might have chimed in or taken a side.
But now, apart from the Fat Wizard's cackling, everyone looked grim.
It made his laughter sound terribly lonely.
"The worst that can happen is 'Death' catches us, then Brother Qing straightens out the Timeline and fishes us back out. We'd miss out on the benefits of World Ascension... Do we really need to be so serious?"
The Fat Wizard looked around in confusion.
Once the battle formation was deployed, the Magic Power within it circulated automatically according to a fixed pattern. The wizards at its core only needed to serve as regulators and batteries for that power and stay where they were. The rest of the time, they had plenty of freedom.
At his words,
Xiao Xiao pushed up his glasses and said flatly, "I'm afraid of heights."
"You didn't seem all that afraid of heights when you used 'Python Wings' before." The Fat Wizard wasn't satisfied with that answer.
Dylan explained, "It isn't the height the Doctor is afraid of. It's this Vermilion Bird Magic Array of ours... There aren't many Magic Arrays that can lift a whole group into the air, and we