Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 617 Death Knell and Sacrifice

From the moment the demigod from the "Aurora Society" appeared, Angel decided the order of attack targets and focused all his energy on dealing with this saint.

Naturally, her first goal is to deal with the "Man in the Mirror" Pierce Turner, and the second is to assist Klein in herding Mr. Will die here.

But the threat of a demigod is greater than anything else. She believes that no matter how malicious the "man in the mirror" is, he will make the same choice as her when he appears to be a "Nighthawk".

Looking at the black-armored knight burning in the black flames, Angel did not immediately appear in the mirror, but turned his attention to Mr. Wayne.

He seemed to have recovered from the effect of losing his mind at this time. His eyes behind the bronze mask regained clarity. He looked at the carpet of flesh and blood around him, the burning "Dark Saint" and the Nighthawk with a huge spirit body pouring out of his body. He thought of What you have to do.

This damn "Flower of Blood" ring suddenly had negative effects at this time. I'm so unlucky... Mr. The reason why I suddenly became unhappy.

No longer hesitating, the illusory book appeared in front of him again, but before he could turn it over, he felt an extremely bad premonition in his heart. He stopped his movements instantly and used a short distance "travel" to reach the other end of the room. In this position, a ball of black flame gradually spread out because it had no attachments, burning out gaps in the surrounding flesh and blood carpet.

Mr.

The invisible "disease" still affects him.

The "Secret Puppet Master" who had been hiding behind the scenes maintained the thread that guided the spirit body with one hand. With the other hand, he reached into the pocket under his cloak and turned to the three pages in "Lemanor's Travel Notes" that recorded the demigod's abilities.

Mr. , to deal with the Nighthawks and the witch who attacked him inexplicably.

The four extraordinary people were in different positions. In the huge movement of the collision between the spirit body and the shadow, there was a vacuum of action for a short time.

The latter's expression remained unchanged, and a huge spirit body emerged from his body again. This was the original ability he retained when he was promoted from the "Gatekeeper" of the Death Path to the "Night Watch" of the Night Path. With the unique "Night Watch" in his body, "Underworld" accommodates multiple spirits and is used by oneself in battle.

Kosma didn't feel happy when he used "Blade of Soul and Flesh". His eyes only stayed on the two halves of Pierce for a moment, and then focused back to the side where the witch was, where stood an intact "Nighthawk" , and the human body that was hit by him turned into pieces of flashing mirror fragments and disappeared invisible.

But in the next moment, as the long sword chopped into pieces of the spirit body and roared towards his head, Pierce's expression finally changed. He had no time to dodge and was split in two by a sharp blade that could corrode flesh and blood, annihilate souls, and cut through barriers. Half, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

It turns out... that they... are... a group of...

"boom!"

Travel...short distances...

Except that all the other attendees had left, it was no different than five minutes ago.

The cry stopped abruptly as soon as it appeared, and "Dark Saint" Kosma's short and effective "incomplete mythical creature form" ended, taking less than a second.

The advantage that the sealed object "1-63" brought to us has disappeared.

The reason why he took such a huge risk to make this choice was naturally to drive the "Blade of Soul and Flesh" to wave it through the air with far greater effects than usual, directly severing the barrier between the world in the mirror and reality in front of him.

Suddenly, an invisible but slicing hurricane surged around, and all the windows and mirrors shattered in the vibration. Although they did not affect their true form in reality, in this mirror world, these mirrors were no longer usable.

Mr.

He shouted silently, but his mouth was tightly closed under the control of the resentful spirit that possessed him. Even the diseases that had caused him to have fever, cough, and nearly fall to the ground had stopped working, as if he was worried that these injuries would awaken the " Thread of Spiritual Body”.

As the "mirror world" shattered, Angel could clearly feel that the demigod-like feeling of Pierce next to her, which was not much different from hers, became weaker. On the opposite side, he briefly entered the form of an incomplete mythical creature. The black-armored knight, who was already exhausted and a little rickety, had returned to being a true "demigod".

The next moment, his thoughts that had become brisk due to the reversal of the battle situation suddenly fell into sluggishness, as if cement had been poured into his head, replacing his brain that had been transformed by magic potion and could record countless abilities.

He is not afraid of this kind of war of attrition at all.

This was exactly what the "Dark Saint" wanted. His goal at this time had not changed. When he saw the demigod witch, the Nighthawk who was still a little far away from the demigod stopped suppressing him due to a mistake in cooperation and quickly raised the gun in his hand. The long sword was struck down with one hand, pointing directly at "Nighthawk" Pierce with great force.

He raised the fallen sword again and swung out another "Blade of Soul and Flesh", but this time, the skin under his black armor was torn inch by inch, and the blood and flesh squirmed like boiling, mixed with deep black, inside the cracks, Each eye seemed to be hidden in the shadows, looking out.

All of this seemed to have slowed down ten times, forming a frame-by-frame image in front of him. Mr. Processing complex information can only slowly unfold the scene you see.

By using short-distance "travel", he can try to avoid other people's attacks on him, and as long as a "traveller" is freed, his ability to record will be a nightmare for other extraordinary people.

Angel's figure appeared from the last deserted corner. In this living room that has become a "mirror world", there is no mirror, and she cannot hide in the deeper mirror for a long time.

Despair grasped his heart like an invisible giant hand, causing his heartbeat, which had become slow due to being manipulated by the spiritual thread, to almost stop.

"what--"

He barely controlled his spirituality and drew complex symbols in his mind, but after just a few strokes, he was interrupted by the spontaneous movements of his limbs and body. His hands were raised forward and his lips wriggled, as if he was making a gesture to release the ability to "record" posture, but not really activating with spirituality, like being hesitant about which ability to choose.

In his eyes, the "Dark Saint" in front of him in black armor became taller again, wielding a giant sword and fighting with a witch who constantly changed her body, got into the mirror that had become complete again, and reappeared again. On the other side, the black-robed Nighthawks constantly summoned spirits to assist in the battle, making the Black Knight inconvenient and suffering misfortune. However, the Witch's momentum was high and she continued to suppress the enemy.

Behind him, Klein's figure, who had been invisible, gradually emerged. He was still wearing a hooded cloak and an iron mask on his face. He was almost attached to Mr. Wire.

Mr. Take care of yourself.

The invisible and illusory sound of shattering mirrors rang in everyone's ears, and the living room in front of Angel changed from a strange scene full of flesh and blood carpets to an empty but warm party venue illuminated by weak gas lights.

And now is the best opportunity!

Are there...other...enemies...on the field?

That's right, he was not "pushed" away from the mirror world by Angel before the battle began. Instead, she used demigod-level invisibility to cover his whereabouts. He has been hiding in the living room where the four of them were fighting. Mr. After falling into a sluggish state, he began to initially control the other party's spiritual body thread, waiting for an opportunity.

Help……

Magical item? Or is it the ability given to him by the mirror world?
Questions arose in Kesma's mind, but his original purpose was not to kill someone, but to solve the "mirror world" that suppressed his abilities, enhanced the enemy's combat power, and even prevented him from leaving.

what's the situation……

In an instant, both Angel and Pierce felt a strong aura of depravity enveloped the entire room. Angel just frowned slightly and felt slightly uncomfortable, but Pierce, who was also a "demigod", performed much worse and looked away involuntarily. , did not dare to look at the black-armored knight, and the spirit body that emerged from his body fell directly into the darkness, as if it had never appeared before.

It took a full ten seconds for Mr. Except for thinking, everything else does not belong to oneself, but even this little controllable thinking is becoming more and more stagnant and dull.

On the other side, the black armor on "Dark Saint" Kosma kept changing between the thick fog and the entity, and finally got rid of the black flames that burned him. The faint shadow under his feet suddenly stretched, pointing to Pierce in front, and then He rose up from the ground and turned into a black figure no less tall than Kosma but slimmer, and collided with the spirit body released by Pierce.

Moreover, he has recorded four kinds of demigods here, extraordinary, capable...

The touch of the browned and hard paper was obviously different from other pages. He quickly selected two of them with his nimble fingers, felt the uneven patterns on them with his fingertips, and then poured his own spirituality into them.

"Lightning storm!"

"tornado!"

The two abilities belonging to the demigods of the "Storm" pathway are activated in sequence, and the "Poseidon Scepter" roars and rains down divine punishment on every creature equally.

Streams of silver-white lightning emerged from the living room, entangled with each other, and fell along random paths. The first one to bear the brunt was the "Dark Saint" Kosma, who was wearing metal armor and holding a long sword. The darkness condensed on his body was instantly shattered. , the armor pieces collapsed one after another, revealing the young-looking face underneath, with outstanding features, but shrouded in dark shadows.

Before anyone else could be struck by lightning, another explosion sounded, and a tornado visible to the naked eye appeared in the center of the living room.

It circled, expanded, and rose, rolling up tables, chairs, sofas, and gas lamps on the walls, followed by the four not-so-solid walls and the ceiling overhead. This two-story building was horribly destroyed in almost a second. The hurricane destroyed it, and the debris was caught in it, turning into dregs whose shape was unclear. The same was true for the five people present. Kosma, who was closest to the tornado, was as light as a body with a height of more than two meters. He was swept up into the air by the demigod-level hurricane and thrown into the distance. Pierce and Angel beside him also flew up instantly. In the air, the latter reluctantly used a silk thread to hold the two together, spinning and flying to the other side.

Klein, on the other hand, chose the best direction in the process of controlling the tornado, allowing himself and Mr. On the flat roof, during this period, the distance between the two people never exceeded five meters, and did not exceed the control distance of the spiritual line.

According to Klein's idea, the tornado headed north along the deserted alley, rolling through the alleys filled with garbage along the way, sweeping them away, leaving behind a clean ground.

Bang, Klein and Mr.

Just...travel...leave...can...

His slightly closed eyes were forced open by the resentful spirit. Some short figures in front of him grew taller and stronger. He took off his mask with one hand, revealing a thin male face, and raised an iron-black revolver with a slightly longer barrel in the other hand. , the black hole of the gun was aimed at him.

Wait……

The next second, the muzzle of the gun in his sight lit up, the mask on his face shattered, and his brain, which recorded various demigod abilities, was shattered by the "death knell", and flew out from the back of his head together with the skull fragments, red. The sky is filled with white.

Then, these fragments stopped strangely in mid-air, as if they were pulled back to their original positions one by one by invisible hands, and pieced together into a head covered in bullet holes and blood. Although it was a little bigger than usual, the face could still be barely recognized.

Mr. X, Louis Vine, the bell tolls for you.

Klein's lips moved and he spoke silently. He quickly took out the dark brown-covered "Grossell's Travels" from under his cloak and placed it directly on Mr. On his face, he smeared his blood on the cover of the travel book, sucking him into the world of the book, leaving only his marionette in place. The latter jumped through the mirror and entered the gold coin in Klein's pocket at any time. On call.

After doing all this, he opened the "Lemanno's Travel Notes" from Miss "Magician" and turned to the page where "Travel" was recorded.

After a moment, his figure faded on the roof and entered the spiritual world.

……

Not far away, Pierce Turner flew far away under the influence of the hurricane, and slowly descended with the help of the spirit body. Next to him, the witch also landed gracefully under the influence of "lightness", and they were not affected by this strange situation. suffered substantial damage from the tornado.

Looking at the "Dark Saint" who was clearly targeted by the tornado and was still in the air but had not yet landed, Pierce frowned slightly, glanced at the witch beside him, hesitated for a moment, and asked softly:
"He probably hasn't been hurt enough yet. What are you going to do?"

The various spirits in his body were almost exhausted in the battle, and the extraordinary ability of the real Sequence 4 "Night Watcher" was difficult for him to use at full power outside the "Mirror World". At this time, it was almost equivalent to a powerful Sequence 5, obviously unable to defeat the saint of the Aurora Society in a head-on battle.

Although this witch started a war with the two members of the "Aurora Society" without hesitation, her identity and purpose were unknown, making him unsure of the other party's position.

"Aren't you an official Beyonder? Where's the support?" the witch asked.

"With such a big commotion, support from the three major churches is already on the way."

Pierce replied confidently.

This is the internal process of the church that he is familiar with. In Backlund, if such demigod-level lightning and tornadoes appear, it will take less than two minutes for the saints from the three major churches to arrive here, especially those from the "Aurora Society" and It was only after the "Witch Cult" made a big fuss in the capital.

This was also the reason why he was willing to delay when he discovered that the Aurora Society had demigod extraordinary people here.

This is a home game!
"That's good."

The witch, who had a slim figure under the cloak but her face was covered with an iron mask, said in a strange tone, which made Pierce take a few steps away from her with some vigilance. He looked at the black shadow that had just left the tornado in the distance and the witch in front of him. constantly moving between.

"I haven't had time to ask, who are you..."

As soon as he asked the question that had been in his heart for a long time but had no time to think about it because of the fierce battle, he felt his forehead was burning hot, and his body, which had consumed most of his spiritual energy, became limp. The figure of the witch in his sight continued to approach, but became increasingly blurry.

It's a "disease"!
But why did it happen so quickly? Could it be...that she had already attacked me in the battle just now?
This thought suddenly flashed through Pierce's mind.

He gathered his remaining spiritual energy and tried to release the spirit of the "underworld" from his body, but found that only black flames came out. The "bad luck" he had barely controlled had disappeared, and it seemed to have no effect on the other party.

Oops, now it’s Sequence 5 versus Sequence 4, and there’s no assistance from “Mirror World”…

The glass windows on both sides of the alley reflected his gradually collapsing figure with cursed flames all over his body, and also reflected the witch who was half-crouching and approaching Pierce.

"Pierce Turner, no, I should call you the 'Man in the Mirror'. How does it feel to be betrayed by the 'Sword of the Goddess', the Archbishop, and the Church?"

Angel's voice was as low as a whisper, but it sounded like thunder in Pierce's ears.

"You know that I am the person in the mirror? Then why do you want to deal with me?"

The "senior deacon" was so angry that he had more and more questions in his mind. He reluctantly asked. In addition to the hot gas, there was even a trace of black flames coming out of his mouth.

"Of course it's because I want to get rid of you, the mole in the Goddess Church," Angel stretched out his hand to show the secret holy symbol on his wrist, and successfully saw the despair in the other person's eyes, "Also, to harvest your 'despair'."

"You, it is indeed, 'desperate', why didn't you go to Trier..."

Halfway through speaking intermittently, Pierce's eyes and nostrils emitted higher and higher black flames, covering his entire body in waves of flames. However, except for his clothes that were burned away, his body was not burned in the high temperature. , but quickly faded away, disappearing from Angel's eyes like a shadow in a mirror exposed to strong light.

All that was left on the spot was a half-palm-sized piece with a dull surface, like a mirror fragment coated with black paint. Its edges were uneven, like a small piece removed from a complete mirror.

This is the last trace of the "Man in the Mirror" left in the world.

Mr. Pierce Turner, have you seen this? This is the fate of the "Man in the Mirror" who took away your identity and hid inside the church... Angel silently chanted and took out the "Night Watcher" seal from his pocket. He opened the small box, took it out, placed it gently on the ground, then picked up the black mirror and put it away.

Next, Angel used the surrounding window mirrors to create a "double" of the body like Pierce Turner, letting him in black robes lie on the ground as if sleeping, next to his own extraordinary characteristics.

After a second of silence towards this "corpse", Angel directly pressed on another window and entered the real "mirror world".

Behind her, "Dark Saint" Kosma finally escaped from the location where the tornado was raging, turned into a shadow, clung to the ground, and was about to rush in this direction. Suddenly, he froze on the spot as if he had noticed something, then quickly got into the sewer and disappeared.

In the distance, a hurricane swept through the haze and rushed here with a sonic boom. Closer, a group of darkness that absorbed all the light had penetrated from the North District into the East District. They first locked on the "Dark Saint", and then After the target disappeared, he approached the alley damaged by the tornado without hesitation.

The darkness arrived before the storm. The head of the Backlund Diocese and Saint Anthony Stevenson, one of the thirteen archbishops of the Goddess Church, walked out of the darkness and stepped into the alley. His eyes immediately fell on the " Pierce Turner".

Looking expressionlessly for a while, listening to the huge sound wave gradually approaching, Anthony showed undisguised sadness on his face, slowly approached Pierce's body, took off the robe outside the archbishop's robe, and gently covered it with On him.

Bang, there was a loud noise from behind, and the new archbishop of the Church of Storms who replaced the "Singer of God", "Dark Blue Priest" Rydal Valentine, landed with astonishing momentum. His hair was dark blue and stubby, and there was a storm brewing in his eyes.

"Anthony? What's going on here?"

As he approached, he asked the archbishop of the Church of the Night Goddess who arrived first.

The latter slowly turned back, and the sadness on his face made Leidar stunned.

Ever since the Archbishop was promoted to Sequence 3, there has been almost no similar expression on his face.

"One of the senior deacons of the church, the devout Pierce Turner, died heroically in the operation to capture the divine emissary of the 'Aurora Society'."

Anthony Stevenson said with a painful tone and a gloomy look.

(End of this chapter)