Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 2 Templars Become Assassins
"Wow—"

The cold water splashed on Angel's face, and then flowed down along the smooth curve of her cheeks, taking away the remaining panic and tension in her body.

In the mirror is a dazed-looking girl, about 18 years old, maybe younger.She has long, smooth, light golden hair, and her sculpturally perfect facial features are inlaid on her delicate face. Her dark purple eyes are like a pair of swirls, attracting Angel's attention. The oversized, blood-stained top can't hide her tall figure.

"This is me...no, this is not me..."

Looking at this perfect female face, she fell into confusion.

Before waking up in the basement of this building, he was still a member of the "Agents", the top combat power of the Templar Order of the Church. Even among the few dozens of agents, Angel Gray was still among the best. Just by his number "007", it can be seen that there are only 6 stronger than him.

Each of the agents has unique skills, and they are fighting against heretics and evil forces from the beginning of their formation. After the world situation has changed and countries and religions have joined forces to fight against increasingly active evil forces, they are also the backbone of each "purifier" force, erecting the last barrier to prevent evil forces from invading the world.

It's a pity that all this is in the past tense. In the battle to siege the superior demons, in order to protect his friends, Angel was pierced through the heart by a flaming spear thrown by the demons before death. The last memory is that the team members surrounded him with sorrowful faces, and then lost consciousness.

She stretched out her hand slowly, stroking the delicate face of the girl in the mirror, and the girl in the mirror also extended her hand, touching her five fingers.The girl seemed to have a strange attraction, those purple eyes seemed to suck her soul in.

"Assassin approach..."

After the initial panic, the "memory" of this body slowly emerged in her mind, and she also had some understanding of the current situation.

First of all, it is obvious that she is no longer in her original world.

Steam engines, potions, gods, curses... This is a world whose technological level is roughly between the two industrial revolutions, but also has extraordinary powers. Through "potions", mortals can possess various special powers, but they also face crazy erosion, and there is a risk of losing control at any time.

This is Tingen City, a medium-sized city belonging to the Loen Kingdom of the Northern Continent, and "I", Cole Granger, is an unofficial Extraordinary in Tingen City.

His mother died of an epidemic shortly after giving birth to his younger sister, Lily Granger. His father, a sailor in an ocean-going caravan, raised Cole and his sister alone. He himself died in a pirate attack on his way to the Balam Empire on the southern continent three years ago...

Wait, brother and sister?
Angel continued to dig into his memory, then smiled wryly.

Even if I "travel" one day earlier, at least I'm still a man...

Just a few hours ago, Cole Granger took the potion he had prepared himself, and tried to advance from the assassin pathway's Sequence 8 "Instigator" to Sequence 7 "Witch". He lost control at the last moment, causing the ceremony to fail and died on the spot.

In this world, failure in promotion often equals loss of control or death. Relatively speaking, death may be a luckier ending.

The characteristics of the "witch" potion will force the user's body to become a female. Although Cole Granger failed in promotion, his body had already completed the transformation before his death. This caused Angel, who "successed him", to become the current weak female appearance.

She raised her hand and looked at the flawless skin and slender fingers. It was hard to imagine that this perfect female body was actually a man before.

"You guys deserve death, but it's a pity you left me with a mess..."

Angel didn't feel sorry for Cole's death, because this guy was not a good person in every sense.

Cole Granger's pursuit of extraordinary power in the early days was purely to help his siblings live better, but after taking the "Assassin" potion a year ago, in order to be able to meet the requirements of the "mentor" and to master the potion as soon as possible, he continued to play the role of assassin, and his hands were gradually stained with blood.

Then came the next sequence of Assassins, "The Instigator."

The instigator does not need to kill the target personally like an assassin, but hides behind the scenes, using words to induce evil thoughts in others' hearts, provoke conflicts, and create bloody cases.Cole was able to reach the stage of being promoted to a "witch", and the various murders on her body were no less than those in the assassin stage. In her vague memory, Cole was at least related to several student mass incidents at Tingen University, causing many deaths, injuries and disappearances.

By this stage, Cole Granger has been completely lost, forgetting his original intention of pursuing extraordinary power.

Being able to upgrade from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7 in one year shows that he is a very talented person. If such a person walks on the right path and gets the correct guidance from the Orthodox Church, he will definitely be able to safely increase his strength and make further progress, instead of rushing to promotion without being fully prepared and dying in his own basement.

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After picking up his mood, Angel Gray walked out of the bathroom.

The red moon unique to this world was still high in the sky. This strange sight made her not go out rashly, but carefully inspected the building.

This is a building with two floors on the ground and one basement. Judging from the building across the street, it should be a townhouse facing the street. There are two entrances, one in front and one in the back. The main entrance is in the living room, without a porch, and the street is currently empty.The second floor is another washroom and four bedrooms. Two of the smaller ones should have been used as utility rooms, with a lot of unused tools and broken furniture piled up. The two facing the street are in normal use, and the master bedroom has a small balcony. When she woke up, the entrance to the basement was located in the study on the first floor. The gas lamp on the wall was not turned on, but she found that she could clearly see the scene in the dark.

"This body has night vision ability... This should be the dark vision obtained by Cole Granger after taking the assassin potion. It seems that I, or this body still retains the extraordinary ability brought by the potion."

Using darkvision, she returned to the basement.

The radiating blood on the ground had already dried up. This was an ironclad proof that Cole had failed in promotion. The scope was so wide and the amount of bleeding was so large that Angel suspected that Cole had exploded into a cloud of blood at that time, but she was actually a completely different person now, but she just happened to appear in the same place.

"It's troublesome to clean up. Even if you wash it with plenty of water, the smell of blood won't go away within a week."

When she was worrying about how to clean the basement, she found a black jelly in the blood.

When I left the basement before, I didn't pay attention at all. I thought it was a piece of internal organs or a blood clot. Now I can clearly see the difference between it and the surrounding blood under dark vision.

This piece of jelly was about the size of an egg. Due to the effect of gravity, it was half spread on the ground. Its color was close to purple red. There seemed to be light flowing on the surface, but there was a kind of darkness around it that seemed to absorb the surrounding light, which made the color of the jelly itself very prominent.

When approaching the jelly, Angel heard whispers in his ears, and his mood became irritable. It seemed that a desire to destroy and kill surged in his heart, and the smell of blood in the basement became much stronger.

This is an extraordinary characteristic!
According to Cole Granger's memory, when an Extraordinary dies, the power in his body will condense into an Extraordinary characteristic that matches his own ability, and then separate out from the corpse.

This jelly was obviously left behind by Cole when he died. Considering that he had only taken three kinds of potions, "Assassin", "Instigator", and "Witch", Angel speculated that it should belong to the extraordinary characteristics of "Witch".

But in Cole's memory, the characteristics discharged by the dead Extraordinary should have the complete extraordinary power of his life, which means that his body should no longer have the power of an Extraordinary, but the unique "dark vision" is definitely not something ordinary people can have.

Maybe it was because of himself... no, it should be because Cole Granger was not completely dead?
According to his own abilities, this body should be an "assassin" now?
The former Templar Angel Gray could only smile wryly.

She didn't rush to put away the precious and dangerous Extraordinary characteristics, but left the basement first and went to the study above.

There is a small hidden compartment under a certain floor in the study room. In the dark compartment, there is a small metal box that Cole prepared when buying potion materials, which cost 20 pounds.According to the seller, it can isolate the extraordinary power and prevent the spiritual loss of the internal materials.

It's a pity that Cole doesn't have any extra Extraordinary materials. This box has become his storage box for weapons, and now it only contains a damaged revolver.

Although I don't know that it really has such an effect, it's still a bragging of the trader, but this small box is the most suitable container for storing Extraordinary properties that Angel can find now. With the mentality of a dead horse as a living horse doctor, she carefully picked up the piece of Extraordinary properties through the clothes, put it into the box, and put it together with the revolver that was damaged by the hammer in the box before.

Fortunately, the moment the box was closed, most of the whispers in her ears and the smell of blood in her nose disappeared immediately.

Although it is not completely isolated, at least the side effects are within an acceptable range.

Angel put the box back into the secret compartment and put a few more books on it. After closing the trap door of the secret compartment, the whisper finally completely disappeared.

After disposing of Cole's remaining Extraordinary characteristics, she came to the second floor. Near the stairs was the second bedroom where Cole's younger sister, Lily Granger, lived. The decoration was bright and in line with the girlish style.The dressing table and fitting mirror are all available, and the bedding is also lace, but they are all covered with dustproof cloth, with a thin layer of dust on it. It seems that no one has lived in it for a while.There were a few novels on the bedside table, and a buttoned photo frame. Angel lifted the photo frame, and with the crimson moonlight outside the window, he could barely see that it was a black and white photo of a couple.

There are several height lines marked with age on the side of the bedroom door. Next to the tallest height line is written "18 years old, 156cm".

Obviously, the clothes that a 1 meter girl can wear are not suitable for this body...

Angel stood by the door and compared his height. He was more than a head taller than the 156cm line, which means he was about 1 meters.It seems that I can only get a set of Cole's clothes and wear them first. Although the size is not suitable, at least I can put them on. It is better than wearing a little girl's clothes.

The master bedroom belonged to Cole Granger. The decoration style was simple and clean, with cold tones and no frills. The closet was full of men's clothes. There were two suits of the same color and several casual clothes. Angel took a shirt and made a gesture on it. It was the same size as the one he was wearing.

Taking out the shirt and a pair of slacks, she took off the blood-stained and hardened clothes, put on clean clothes next to the bed, took the group photo and went downstairs, returned to the relatively familiar study room, turned on the gas lamp on the wall, the soft yellow light dispelled the coldness brought by the red moonlight.

Using the light, Angel carefully looked at the photo frame in his hand.As she expected, the photo is a group photo of a man and a woman who are completely unfamiliar. The man is about 20 years old, with short blond hair, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and slacks. He is tall and thin, with a delicate and soft face. The corners of his eyes and the bridge of his nose are very similar to the current Angel.He wears black-rimmed glasses and has a slightly deliberate beard, trying to make his neutral face more masculine; the girl is about 16 years old, wearing a dress, with a round face, long blond hair tied into a single braid, holding a novel in both hands, leaning against the side of the man.

Based on the girl's height and the novel she had read in the bedroom on the second floor, Angel concluded that this was the owner of the second bedroom where the photo was taken, her "sister" Lily Granger who had left Tingen a year ago to study in Backlund.

The "brother" next to her whose face was three points similar to her current self was naturally Cole Granger when he was a man.

This was probably taken by the brother and sister shortly after their father died. The two looked melancholy, which was inversely proportional to their bright dressing style.

While Angel was studying the details in the photos carefully, a knock on the door interrupted her thoughts.

"Boom boom boom——"

who is it?

(End of this chapter)