Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 709 Cooperation
The aura that he had sensed outside of Bayam City through Groselle's Travels was now spreading from the black vortex above the isolated island. Even above the gray fog, it made Klein tremble with fear.

Moreover, unlike the black giant hand that descended upon Bayam, a huge tree of strange shape was about to take shape within the vortex, and its branches were composed of arms that kept shaking one after another.

Each arm is as big as the black giant hand that day!
"There is no doubt that this is an attack by the Rose School against Angel. They used some kind of sacrificial ritual to summon the 'evil god' Sua out of thin air. Moreover, this time it might be his real body..."

Through the gray fog and connecting with the crimson star representing Angel, Klein saw the corpses scattered on the ground below the vortex, as well as the various werewolves and ghosts mutated by the black raindrops, and immediately made a judgment.

He subconsciously looked behind the high-back chair, his sight moving over the "Fool's Collection" such as the "Creeping Hunger" and "Luck Thief" spells, and finally stopped at the "Poseidon's Scepter".

Combined with the "Tyrant" card, it will be the most powerful means of attack that he can directly use.

But it is only at the demigod level, and even lacks a trace of my own divinity. It can barely deal with Angel, so how can it cause any harm to the "divine evil" that will definitely be Sequence 1 after its arrival...

He waved his hand to summon the scepter inlaid with blue gems and held it in one hand. With his other hand, he picked up the Card of Blasphemy that was lying upside down on the table and merged it into his body. An extremely majestic and terrifying aura immediately enveloped the bronze table. The image of The Fool turned into a Pope wearing a triple crown and a dark blue robe.

The new "Sea Emperor" held up a bone scepter that continuously emitted silver-white lightning. His eyes penetrated the star of the "Queen" and fell on the sky above the island where the pirate conference was held. He hesitated and did not send down thunder immediately.

The Queen Anne's Revenge is attacking the vortex. My strength is just a drop in the ocean. It's a waste of spiritual energy... Try to dispel the dark clouds around? That's just part of the summoning ritual, not a weather phenomenon, so it won't work... Klein's thoughts raced, and he suddenly grasped a key word.

ceremony!

With the Tyrant card in place and the help of the gray fog, Klein was able to look directly at the huge figure that was about to take shape in the sky without being affected. In the constantly emerging golden light containing the power of order, he keenly captured wisps of black smoke rising from the ground and being sucked into the vortex. They seemed like steaming viscous liquid, and even in gaseous form, strange bubbles kept coming out.

Following the smoke downwards, Crane's gaze fell on the chaotic dock, on the bodies of those who died from pollution, loss of control, or other pirate killings.

This strange killing is itself part of the "summoning ritual"?

Would killing them hinder or even destroy the ceremony?

But those were still alive and not truly dead. Even if they were pirates, they were not necessarily unforgivable villains... No, they had already lost control and had been contaminated by the aura of "divine evil". Their only fate was to serve as a breeding ground for Su'a to descend here... Or let thunder purify everything!
After a moment of hesitation, Klein convinced himself. He no longer hesitated and swung the arm holding the scepter. His spirituality was enhanced by the Tyrant and magnified by the Sea God, forming thunder that could blind the eyes. It drilled into the crimson stars and took shape near the Queen Anne's Revenge without any delay, shooting towards the pirates at the dock who were about to become new sacrifices.

Boom!

The light that cut through the black sky and the loud noise that followed shocked everyone present. Cattleya, who was resisting the black raindrops and the ghosts that kept floating in on the "Future", squinted her eyes and carefully looked through the thick lenses of her glasses with the corner of her eye. She found that this lightning was like a natural phenomenon formed in the clouds, but it fell towards the dock with a purpose.

Hit!
Above the gray fog, Klein opened his eyes slightly and looked at the location that was accurately hit by the thunder, but he found that there were only a few pirates fighting each other in the mutation. The blood turned black and the rising pirates turned into charcoal. This killing power is not even as good as that of a demigod, let alone a Beyonder who had just entered the middle sequence!
Klein, in disbelief, attracted another bolt of lightning. This time, he observed carefully and found that the falling black rain and the drifting black sticky mist weakened the lightning that passed through them, leaving less than 10% of the power of the lightning that could split a warship in half.

The ritual was summoning the "Evil God," and the "Evil God" was also protecting the ritual... No wonder He dared to descend directly on the island, and no wonder Annie did not choose to attack the dock, but instead directly bombarded the vortex in the sky... Klein frowned and swept his eyes across the battlefield, preparing to change the angle, avoid the black rain and try again.

At this moment, he discovered that the pirates on the dock who were killing each other in the pollution and fulfilling the conditions of the ritual with certain killings suddenly became more crazy. Some threw down their weapons and threw themselves into the flames, some cut off their own heads with strange smiles, and some extraordinary people who had already shown signs of losing control even accelerated the process, and they did not mutate, but died directly.

Are they...truly crazy?

The scepter in Klein's hand stopped above the crimson star.

This "unplanned" loss significantly slowed down the condensation of the black fog above the dock, causing the figure of the "divine evil" that was about to come into the real world from the void to pause, and several golden rays of light instantly covered His body.

……

boom--

Lightning flashed overhead, and Angel untied a string of tin dolls from his waist. They looked like they were made of metal but were incredibly light. He gathered his spiritual power, activated these magical items, and then threw them on the ground.

The nine tin men returned to normal size in a flash of crimson light, but only eight of them made Angel feel reassured. The ninth one had not yet fully repaired itself, so it was only about one meter tall. He was dragging a sword that was taller than him, and looked quite funny standing among the soldiers.

But they are all part of the "Reaper Legion".

Surrounded by temporary subordinates, Angel took out the extraordinary characteristic of "Iron Knight" and held it tightly in her palm. Although it has not been made into a magical item, using it directly can also make use of some of its power. With it, Angel gained two important abilities, "Flame" and "Connection". The former can make her temporarily immune to most damage, and the latter gives her the power to share damage and gather strength with her "subordinates".

After doing all this, she raised her head again and looked out the side of the ship. The breath of the "divine evil" in the sky made her feel a little uncomfortable, but she already had her own divinity and with Annie's protection, she quickly calmed down. She was surprised to find that the ceremony to summon Suea's arrival seemed to be destroyed by various forces.

The huge black vortex has stopped rotating under Annie's continuous bombardment, and the terrifying figure inside has become faint. Only the two black giant hands on the edge have successfully revealed their true shapes. Their arms, which are more than ten meters long, have skull heads or three-dimensional eyes arched on the surface.

As soon as they took shape, the two giant black hands caused the dock below to boil. The pirates who had long been dead but still retained their basic bodies slowly stood up and staggered towards the sea. Transparent and vague shadows appeared above the broken corpses, and as if receiving unified instructions, they floated towards the surviving pirate ships.

But there are still many pirates who "really" died. They were the ones who suddenly went crazy and hurt themselves just now... Angel immediately noticed these abnormalities and realized that the key to the destruction of the ritual might be here.

Were they infected by another rapidly spreading "disease" and committed crazy acts that were not in line with the requirements of the bloody ritual?
She seemed to understand something and looked to the other side of the ship.

In the fog, a pitch-black ship with three high-hanging triangular sails blown by the wind was seen. Cannons were in place on the deck. The sailors were busy with their heads down, their bodies seemed to be twisted by a strange force, and they were not affected by the "evil god" in the sky.

On the stone throne at the end of the deck, Nast, the "King of the Five Seas", wore a crown and a black robe, with the dark red in his eyes almost bursting out.

As soon as he entered the battlefield, this "mad wizard" discovered the key to preventing the arrival of the "divine evil" under the guidance of lightning. After the "King of the Black Throne" Barros Hopkins, who was hidden in the sea of ​​subconsciousness, used the "mental plague" to infect all the sacrifices, he "distorted" the time of the onset of the disease and greatly advanced it.

The two Sequence 3 Beyonders had no way to deal with the "divine evil" above their heads, but they not only had the ability to bypass the protection of the black raindrops and kill the "sacrifice" in advance, but it was also very simple...

The pirate king had just sneered when he heard a roar that pierced the spirit body in his ears.

That was the roar coming from countless mouths on the surface of two huge black arms in the sky.

Including Nestor, his sailors who were protected by the "Black Emperor", the pirate generals on the "Future" not far away, and all the people on the "News", "Golden Dream" and other ships that were fleeing the island, were trembling in the roar, their limbs were stiff, and thoughts of venting emotions and desires kept flashing through their minds.

Some pirates who were closer and of lower sequence had already begun to lose control due to the crazy thoughts filling their heads, and even started to directly attack their companions nearby, causing chaos on the sea.

"deprivation!"

Amidst the endless roars, a voice that was not high in pitch but rang in everyone's ears at the same time appeared.

The roar of the "evil god" Suea in the sky suddenly stopped.

His ability to scream was taken away by Annie, the "Balancer".

If the summoning ritual is complete, what will descend will be a complete Sequence 1 "divine evil". Annie's attempt to deprive him of his abilities will most likely fail. However, at this moment, the giant hand in the sky is not much stronger than the one in the battle outside Bayam City. The only difference is that there is more than one black giant hand...

Su'a, whose abilities had been partially taken away, seemed to have just found his goal for today. He clenched his giant fist and smashed towards the sea with tremendous force, with swirling black clouds and falling raindrops behind him.

Danger……

Angel on the deck suddenly found herself the target of the black hand, and subconsciously wanted to get into the "mirror world" and into Anne's body, using the angel's solid cabin to resist the attack. However, she immediately realized that her connection with the "mirror world" and even the entire spiritual world had become extremely weak. Leaving the real world in this situation would most likely lead to getting lost in the depths of the spiritual world.

Just like the situation in "Trier of the Quaternary Era"... An idea flashed through Angel's mind, and he looked up. The giant black hand that fell to the deck was shrouded in dark yellow light at Anne's "confinement" order, and paused for a moment. Then, it was hit by several golden rays of light and could not get close to the ship below for a while.

But while Annie was fighting against Suea's giant hand, Angel's eyes penetrated the light in the air and looked up to a higher place.

She found that the other giant hand had not launched an attack but was suspended in the air. Its "roar" was also deprived by Annie, but the countless mouths on the surface never stopped opening and closing repeatedly.

He was praying silently!
Each of His mouths uttered a different word in the ancient Hermetic language, overlapping and combining in a way that was impossible for a human to do, forming a word full of cursed power:

"The Bound God!"

(End of this chapter)