Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 57 Ending the Battle
After helping Klein, who was rolling and crawling out of the range of 2-049, Angel's pain-sensing nerves slowed down by adrenaline felt the scorching pain from his left shoulder.

Regardless of dealing with the still bleeding wound, she held the gun and came five meters away from 2-049 and the clown controlled by it.

Just now, this sealed item showed its terrifying dominance. After squatting down, Klein kicked 2-049 in a circle with his hands on the ground, and kicked 2-049 towards the clown behind him. [-]-[-] did not disappoint the two of them. The moment the clown entered the range of influence, it exerted a negative influence on him. The clown with countless escape abilities didn't even snap his fingers.

Angel didn't want to experience this effect together in the past. She stood outside the influence range of the sealed item, raised her pistol, and aimed at the stiff clown. The latter maintained a funny posture with one hand on his shoulder and the other pinching his thumb and middle finger. His eyes tracked Angel with an extremely slow movement, but soon the look in his eyes disappeared and he no longer responded to external stimuli.

Dunn and the others didn't tell her what she would look like after being completely controlled by 2-049. She might maintain the same posture until she died, or she might become the "puppet" of Antigonus' puppet, fulfilling its desire to find family descendants.

But she dared not gamble.

The many strange and powerful abilities of the clown in the tuxedo allowed him to be besieged by many Nighthawks freely. If it weren't for being controlled by 2-049, even a few more Angels and Klein would have no way to deal with him. If the other party really had some means of escape, or started to act again under the control of the sealed item, the consequences would be unacceptable to her.

Having figured this out, Angel didn't hesitate to aim at the clown's head instead of other non-lethal locations.

Before shooting, she tilted her head and looked at Klein beside her.

Seeing that the other party did not raise objections, she simply pulled the trigger.

If it was a conventional attack, Angel would hit the chest with the highest hit rate first, and then shoot at the head, but the clown was like a living target at this time, so she shot directly at the head, and it was two consecutive shots.

Just like the clown's threat to her just now: to cut a hole in Klein's head.

The demon hunting bullets are very worthy of their worth, and the caliber of 0.38 inches is also powerful enough. Two bullets pierced through the clown's forehead one after another, leaving two finger-thick bullet holes.

No need to check, Angel also knew that this guy couldn't die anymore.

2-049 seemed to have no interest in inanimate objects. The clown's lifeless body escaped from the negative effect of the sealed item. He knelt on his knees, bent forward, and collapsed softly on the ground. The dark red blood mixed with sand and gravel quickly stained the ground under his feet.

Along with that, there was also a sense of relief in Angel's mind.

From Cole Granger's memory, she learned that this was not the comfort after defeating the enemy, but the "digestion" of the "Assassin" potion.

This feeling also appeared when she killed Mrs. Sharon, but she had no time to think about it, let alone think about it, as she had just experienced the intense battle at that time.

But today, after killing two Extraordinary people in a row, her intuition told her that the potion in her body might be completely "digested" just a step away.

But playing the role of an assassin shouldn't be so simple...

Putting aside the doubts in his heart for the time being, Angel turned to look at Klein, who stared blankly at the dead tuxedo clown, then looked away, frowning, as if feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Aren't you hurt?"

Angel asked curiously while reloading the pistol.

Klein shook his head: "It's just that I'm still a little uncomfortable. It's the first time I've seen a dead person so close. Just now..."

He looked at 2-049 next to the clown's corpse with some trepidation.

"...When I was controlled by the sealed item just now, I really thought I would die like this. Fortunately, it seemed that the guy shot at my feet, and the sand splashed on my legs. Maybe it was for this reason that I was awakened from the negative effects..."

Can he really wake him up from 2-049's control without touching him personally?
Angel looked at Klein suspiciously until the latter looked away guiltily.

"Let's take it as it is, let's go see the captain and the others first."

Angel still didn't pursue it in the end, although she was really curious about how Klein got rid of 2-049's control by himself, but it was definitely not the reason he said.

But now that the other nighthawks were lying on the ground, in urgent need of rescue, she could only ask about this matter when she was free.

As for the focus of the battle, the notebook of the Antigonus family is still quietly lying within the sphere of influence of 2-049, and the two of them are tacitly aware that no one has mentioned the matter of venturing into the sphere of influence to retrieve the notebook.

Anyway, when everyone is rescued, the notes and sealed items will not be able to escape.

Bypassing the center of the explosion and coming to the other corner of the open space, Angel approached Leonard who was moaning and opening his eyes.

Seeing that Leonard had regained consciousness even though his face was covered in blood, she was relieved.

In the few minutes of fighting wits with the clown just now, she was actually quite afraid that these teammates would die from serious injuries, but it seemed that no matter which sequence of potion it was, it had a certain strengthening effect on the body.

Klein, who was watching not far away, was helping Dunn Smith up, trying to wake him up from shaking his head.In the other direction, Borgia struggled to get up, took out a small bottle from his pocket and handed it to Lolotta lying beside him.

She also handed Leonard her hand.

"Would you like to lend a hand?"

The green-eyed poet was lying on his back on the ground, his eyes were bewildered, and he glanced around as if he had just woken up, before finally focusing on Angel's face.

"This is... Riel Bieber just now, exploded?"

He seemed to have just remembered what happened before he passed out, stretched out his hand to Angel, and asked slowly.

"Yes, all of you were knocked out, but luckily none of your lives are in danger, um, probably not."

Angel grabbed Leonard's hand and pulled him up from the ground. The latter shook a few times before holding onto the wooden box next to him to stand firm.

Taking off his tattered gloves, Leonard took out a sky-blue metal vial from the inner pocket of his windbreaker, shook the bottle, unscrewed the cap, and was about to take a gulp when he saw Angel beside him looking at the bottle curiously, and put down his hand again.

"Are you injured? If it's serious, I'll give you half. If you can continue to move, don't drink it. The side effects are serious."

"What kind of medicine is this?"

Angel was really curious. She found that the bottle that Borgia handed to Lolotta was also the same bottle. It seemed to be a drug commonly used by nighthawks. Perhaps the addition time was too short, and Dunn or Old Neil didn't tell her.

"'Gaze of the Goddess', a standard potion of the church, has a certain healing effect, but it mainly squeezes the potential of the body and maintains the best fighting state, but after the effect, it will become weaker and needs to be treated in time."

Leonard explained patiently. He carefully held the blue vial, as if protecting a precious treasure.

But to the injured Nighthawks, the "Gaze of the Goddess" is indeed a treasure.

"Then I don't need it for the time being. All I have is, um, I got a gunshot wound on my left shoulder, and my spirituality is somewhat exhausted, but my physical condition is fine." Angel is not going to take this "Goddess' Gaze" when he heard the side effects.

Moreover, she didn't consume much spirituality during the entire battle. "Assassin" lacked the high-consumption and high-yield ability of other Sequence 9s. On the other hand, she also found that her body's "reserves" in terms of strength, speed, and spirituality were higher than the stage when Cole Granger was still a Sequence 9 "Assassin" in her memory.

This may be consistent with her previous speculation - this body still retains a considerable part of the power of the Sequence 7 "witch".

Leonard drank the entire bottle of "Gaze of the Goddess" in one gulp, recovering his energy at a speed visible to the naked eye. After losing blood, his pale face also turned rosy, but it looked a little too rosy, like blood congestion after strenuous exercise.

He smacked his lips, screwed the cap on the empty bottle, and put it back in his pocket.

"Let's go, let's go and see the captain and the others. Riel Bieber doesn't seem to be able to put together a complete look, but that member of the 'Secret Order' may turn back at any time. We'd better leave as soon as possible with the sealed artifact and the notes of the Antigonus family."

Hearing a somewhat familiar term, Angel asked curiously, "Secret Order?"

"An ancient organization, established in the Fourth Epoch, is related to the fallen nobles of the Solomon Empire. The notebook we are looking for was accidentally lost by them." Leonard looked a little cautious, "They hide in the shadows, and they are usually hard to find, but they are often very difficult to deal with. The guy in the tuxedo who attacked us first, and then harassed us during the battle with Riel Bieber, the one with his face painted all over, is a member of the 'Secret Order'."

"He should be in the mid-sequence, with strange abilities. In our current state, we are likely to suffer a disadvantage against him. If the notes are taken away by him, then today's mission will fall short."

Mid-sequence, then at least the Extraordinary of Sequence 7...

Angel secretly recalled the knowledge about Sequence grading. Sequence 9 and Sequence 8, that is, herself and Leonard, are called low-sequences; upwards are middle-sequences, including Sequence 7, Sequence 6, and Sequence 5; starting from Sequence 4, upwards are high-sequence powerhouses.

The mid-sequence Extraordinary that Angel had seen, Dunn Smith, Daly Simone, and the dead Sharon Hoy, all of them were Extraordinary with various powerful and strange abilities.

From this point of view, the tuxedo clown, as another mid-sequence, does possess quite a few strange extraordinary abilities. As far as she has seen, she snaps her fingers to shoot invisible bullets, disappears and appears from the flames, hides her body and moves secretly, and turns into a paper man to avoid damage when she is blown away.

In the end, with a swipe of the palm, the fatal damage on the chest was moved to a non-fatal position like the shoulder.

If he hadn't been entangled with Angel and Klein for a long time at the edge of the range of 2-049 in order to snatch the Antigonus family notes, and was finally controlled by the negative effect of the sealed item, it would be absolutely impossible to die here easily.

"By the way, speaking of notes, did you find where it was dropped?"

After taking a few steps, Leonard suddenly thought of the goal of this mission, and turned around to ask Angel.

"Just now Ms. Loreta was found out of Riel Biber's body, but now it's within the control of the sealed item, we have to ask someone to take it out together."

Following Angel's gaze, Leonard looked at the cracked iron box in the center of the open space, and sure enough, not far away, he found the old notebook with the old cover covered in Rhyl Bieber's body fluids.

And a tuxedo clown with knees bent, hips raised, upper body lying on the ground, showing an indecent posture.

"Hmm... Who is that person lying on the side next to him? He was 2-049... No, he has already..."

Leonard quickly scanned the surroundings and found that several people in his company were there, so he squinted his eyes and observed the corpse next to the sealed object.

"If the 'occultist' you're talking about is the clown in the tuxedo, then you shouldn't have to worry about him going back and forth."

Angel pointed at the clown's body.

"He is dead."

(End of this chapter)