Chapter 98 - Art In Motion

Dorian slowly walked towards the object on the desk, staring at it intensely.

The comb was midnight black, with a tiny purple gem on it that beautified its being.

The comb's design was effortless yet very eye-catching, making one feel that it should be a family heirloom of some sort.

Its entire presence compelled one to grow fond of it. 

But for Dorian, who had his heavenly eye activated, the appearance that everyone saw, wasn't its true form.

Everyone watched as Dorian took several steps towards the table. And the closer he got, the more anxious they grew.

The ache in their gut kept telling them that something might happen any moment now.

So their bodies subconsciously prepared for the worst, leaving as hard as they could on the walls.

For Chindu, his entire body began shaking as he covered his face with his hands while peeking through the little gaps across his fingers.

And the moment Dorian picked up the comb, everyone subconsciously held their breath in stillness.

-silence-

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Dorian picked up the comb, calmly turned it around for a bit before inwardly chanting while waving his other hand across the comb.

And what happened next was something that made the Obyn family of 4 turn pale in horror.

They opened their eyes wide with quivering lips at the comb in Dorian's hand.

Hand! Hand! 

It was a stretched bony hand!

Everyone stared at it with transformed terror as they watched the finger of the comb merge and turned into skeletal fingers.

And of course, the frame that supported the fingers was also bony as well.

The tiny Purple gem was inserted in the mid-frame, making the skeletal comb look terrifying.

But maybe the scariest thing of all was that if one looked at the sharpness of the bony fingers, they would be able to see slight traces of dried-up blood here and there. 

And when Chiyou saw this, she almost fainted from fear alone.

She remembered.

She remembered that when that bastard classmate of hers combed her head for the first time, the girl accidentally injured her scalp with the comb.

But when she checked the comb, she didn't see any blood traces. So she thought that after the comb, she didn't know that the comb was the thing that caused the monitor injury on her scalp.

Hey! Who knows... Maybe she got that from accidentally hiring a sharp corner of her bed frame or something of that nature.

But who knew that her initial guess was correct?

Chiyou almost looked blood in rage while inwardly cursing that bastard classmate of hers in her heart ten times over.

'Damn you! After this is done and over with, you better pray that I don't see your evil figure around, or else I'll beat you to a pulp over and over again!'

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Dorian nodded as if confirming his suspicions before glancing at the crowd swiftly.

"I need a bucket of water fast!" 

Instantly, everyone was awakened but felt their feet were too heavy to move. 

"Those things won't come anymore. So go."

Phew.

"Yes, Grandmaster." Father Obyn responded while cautiously leaving the room to fetch the water.

Dorian then turned his attention to Butler Sheng: "Open the box, and let's begin.'

'Hmmm!' Butler Sheng nodded while doing as he was told.

And like so, the duo began constructing a formation around the room.

But this time, they weren't creating any protective formations or anything of that nature.

This time, they were making a Heavenly sealing formation!

Of course, Dorian didn't leave the others out too.

He calmly passed around the room, pointing to several places all around: "Drag everything to either one of these spots. But make sure that nothing is touching the walls."

"Yes, yes, Grandmaster!" Chiyou, Chindu and mother Obyn hastily did as they were told.

With stern expressions, they began acting as though they were F.B.i agents at the scene of the crime. 

Everyone had a stern expression on their faces, working so diligently.

In truth, they felt as though they were part of the process. 

And while they moved Chiyou's books and other objects at the sides of the walls, Dorian and Butler Sheng continued dealing with the formation.

Hmhm. 

The formation was a collection of several arrays, with the main array at the center of it all.

So they had strategically told everyone elsewhere to place things in the tiny room.

And as for the bed, they hauled to the side and left tilted on the floor. 

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Like so, Dorian and Butler Sheng continued their work, creating 4 arrays at each corner of the rectangular-shaped room.

And at the center, they also created the final array there too.

Now, they had 5 arrays for the formation!

Butler Sheng felt too amazed after watching Dorian write several Weird symbols of all sizes in several circular motions all around the room.

Each array was a cluster of these weird/rune symbols and was written as though Dorian was writing them on an imaginary circular disc/plate.

And one shouldn't forget the precision in which he wrote them.

F***! 

Butler Sheng couldn't help swallowing hard, wishing to know when he would ever get to this level.

He wasn't even sure he could adequately memorize this all.

You know, all the formations they had done earlier on required him to place objects in a particular manner without doing the rune parts.

Why? Because if one looked at each object, they would see that Dorian had spent his time carving the symbols on those objects, making it easier for them to place the objects where they needed to be.

But now, Dorian was using what he believed was chalk to draw giant symbols all over the floor in unique patterns and ways which made him one again understand how much he was lacking.

It wasn't just Butler Sheng who was amazed, as Chiyou and the rest also seemed blown away as well.

And by now, father Obyn had long arrived with the bucket of water, watching the scene as well.

They were just strange symbols and words on the floor.

But why was it that the more he looked at it, the more it seemed like an artistic masterpiece come to life?

Well, Father Obyn's thought wasn't wrong because, in the next moment, it did come to life.

And now, everyone stared at the floor in disbelief.

What was happening? What was going on?