Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 728 Blood Moon

Since an evil sect was involved, Alger did not rashly open his psychic vision to look for traces of the "ghost", but that did not mean he had no way to find the other party.

As a Sequence 5 "Ocean Singer", in addition to his beautiful singing voice, he also has the ability to control water, wind, and weather, and can even control the terrifying power of "Thunder".

Snapped--

He raised the hand holding the scimitar, and a bright lightning appeared from the ceiling, slamming into the center of the living room, and scattered into countless electric sparks that crawled like worms, running along the floor and walls, electrocuting the members of the "Rose School" who were already tortured by the disease but could not die immediately, making them tremble all over, and causing Charles, who had not yet climbed up from the ground, to fall again.

In a corner of the wall, a transparent figure with electric light crawling all over its body surface immediately appeared in Alger's field of vision.

I got you... "The Hanged Man" Alger roared like thunder, causing the "ghost"'s attempt to escape through the wall to fail. It slammed into the hard wall with a bang and could no longer maintain its ghost form. It returned to the image of a short man wearing a black shirt and soft-soled cloth shoes.

Sure enough, when he saw the miserable state of his companions, he had no intention of fighting and only wanted to escape... Alger drew out his scimitar with lightning attached to it. He looked ferocious, but he was actually observing the state of the "ghost" carefully. After seeing that he recovered his form and was coughing like the others, with dark red liquid constantly flowing out of the corners of his eyes and nostrils, he felt a little relieved and took the initiative to meet him.

He had to prove that he could play a role in this battle, rather than just being an intelligence provider, so as not to lose all say when the spoils were divided later.

Having just gotten rid of the state of electric light all over his body, he was infected with a disease that he could not be immune to even if he turned into a "ghost". This short middle-aged man with brown skin and triangular eyes coughed and looked at Alger who was rushing towards him, his eyes full of uncontrollable resentment.

But the next second, he stood up decisively and used the "mirror jump" to reflect his shadow on the glass window next to him.

Alger continued to charge forward, raising his scimitar to draw a new bolt of lightning forward, but he discovered that the man in a black shirt and deep eyes through the glass window was like someone had thrown him out, flying backwards away from the glass and falling back into the room.

It must be Miss Queen who took action... Alger was both glad that he did not let the other party escape, and regretful that he had hardly made any contribution. However, he still carefully pointed the lightning at the man who wanted to turn into a "ghost".

Pah, pah - a series of crisp sounds were heard, and the brown skin of the "ghostly spirit" turned almost black. Its body switched back and forth between half-illusory and half-real several times, and finally stayed on the twitching form, no longer moving.

But even so, his skin took on the appearance of wax, gradually melting and dripping. The two members of the "Rose School" who had been infected with the disease had simply turned into a pool of shapeless mud. Only from the clothes floating on the surface and some epidermal tissues could they be recognized as healthy and lively humans.

It felt like Miss Queen was deliberately creating this atmosphere of terror and despair... Oh, by the way, her sequence was the Witch of Despair, so this might be a roleplay. Fortunately, she only did this to the followers of these evil sects... Alger looked away and looked at Sharf, who was trembling but had much milder "symptoms" than the other three.

The latter's face turned pale, and he had already taken out a pair of glasses with gray frames with one hand, but he didn't dare to put them on his face under Alger's cold gaze.

After a moment, he found that his illness had no tendency to get worse. He breathed a sigh of relief, put his glasses on the table, smiled helplessly, and stood there.

He could see that the pirate captain in front of him who often patronized his business was not the main force of the sneak attack, but only an obvious attacker, and he was not sure that he could escape the pursuit of multiple people with the help of the magical items in his hand.

Besides, as a "craftsman", he has a higher utilization value, which can be seen from the fact that the people hiding behind the scenes did not spread the deadly disease to him, so he has no motivation to escape desperately.

Soon, his guess was confirmed. A slender woman with a beautiful waist and hip curve and long blond hair exuding endless charm slowly appeared next to the window. She walked slowly and paused for a moment on the two members of the "Rose School" who died next to the trapdoor. She showed a trace of pity, then her eyes swept across Sharf's gradually dull face and looked at the "ghost" lying on the ground, about to turn into a pile of mud.

If she caught me...it would feel good, right?

This thought suddenly popped up in Charles' mind, and he gave up the last thought of resistance.

……

Even if they were members of a cult, it was too tragic for them to die like this... Angel glanced at the two people killed by her "disease" and secretly felt that it was not worth it for the digestion level of this potion.

Afterwards, she ignored Sharf's expected infatuated look, her eyes flashing with different colors of light, using the "mirror world" to isolate herself and observe the situation of the "vengeful soul" through spiritual vision.

In her spiritual vision, in the dim room, a familiar crimson aura wafted from beneath the glowing outline of the "ghost".

Could it be the "Mother Tree of Desire"...

Angel's heart tightened, and he bent the middle finger and ring finger of his right hand, pressing the Seal of Anne on the palm of his hand, and was about to ask for help from the "Balancer" with whom he had already communicated through the prayer of the Honorable Name.

But she soon stopped her excessive movements and looked with a frown at the breath that dissipated on its own before it floated far away.

It was not like the power that Angel had been infected with after his last contact with the "evil god" Sua, but was as powerless as a newborn baby. It could even be discovered directly with clairvoyance without the help of Mr. Fool's power, and it did not have much desire to attack surrounding targets or possess them, but quickly dissipated into an invisible state.

She used the thread to open the "ghost" and found a palm-sized doll under him. The dark red color that was invisible to the naked eye was emanating from the doll. Some magical item? But he didn't want to use it before he died, so it was obviously not...

Or maybe it was a tool used to summon the demigod of the "Rose School", but for some reason it had not yet taken effect and was ambushed by me and the "Hanged Man", resulting in it becoming a useless piece of scrap?

As he pondered, Angel used a silk thread to hang up the strange puppet with three crescents in the place of eyes and mouth, limbs made of wooden sticks, and a body like a straw bag. He threw it to the "Hanged Man" Alger, who carefully caught it with the blade of his scimitar, not daring to touch it directly with his hands, and put it aside.

"Sacrifice it later."

She didn't say to whom the sacrifice was offered, but I believe the "Hanged Man" would understand.

As for communicating with or fortune-telling an extraordinary person who might believe in the "Mother Tree of Desire", Angel didn't have the courage to do so.

Besides, isn’t there a living person here?
Angel looked at the "craftsman" Sharf, who was standing aside with an upright posture like a loyal guard, and smiled kindly.

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"...So, you did take the initiative to cooperate with these 'Original Moon' believers?"

While Alger took the initiative to pile the three bodies in a corner using air cushions, Angel and Sharf began the "interrogation" on the other side of the room.

It is not quite appropriate to call it an interrogation, because the person being interrogated was extremely cooperative at this time, and there was even a flattering smile on his face.

Yes, flattery, which reminded Angel of how Arrodes behaved when answering questions.

It seems that what Alger said about the craftsman being "addicted to beauty" is true... Angel smiled secretly as he looked at Charles, who had a dazed look in his eyes and answered every question.

"Yes, I don't know how they found out where I was, and they came up to me. They first used some disease to make me lose my resistance, and then they showed up and cured me. They also said that as long as I believed in their 'original moon', my stubborn illness could be cured. I didn't really believe it at first, but after trying it, I really got back the feeling of being a man when I was young..."

Having said this, Charles suddenly stopped talking and secretly looked away.

It was true that everyone had their own expertise. Money might not be enough to buy off a craftsman who could make money at any time through magical items, but curing his abilities that he had lost due to indulgence was a fatal temptation... Alger, who was cleaning up the corpse on the side, sneered in his heart when he heard this, but did not show it.

Angel also just smiled in his heart. After all, the craftsman in front of him might still be of use in the future.

Of course, from what Sharf said, he already believed in the "original moon", and Angel had always suspected that the so-called "original moon" was closely related to the "Mother Tree of Desire", and silently classified him as one of those people waiting to die.

If you believe in evil gods, unless you keep believing in them and become more and more crazy, even if you are protected by official extraordinary people, you may die in the middle of the night after a few years, and your death will be miserable!

"They asked you to pay attention to the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Puppet'?"

she continued to ask.

"Actually, I was the one who brought it up. At the time, I heard him..." Sharf looked at Alger on the side, then quickly turned his gaze back and secretly looked at Angel, "... saying that there was this Beyonder feature, so he told Sharma, the 'Grievous Spirit', and then he asked me to stay here and try to trick the feature into coming to me."

"So you were planning on leaving here?"

“They asked me to leave Bayam and go to the southern continent to help them make magical items… Also, also…”

Hesitantly, Sharf looked into Angel's gem-like purple eyes, as if he was lost in them. After a moment, he smiled ingratiatingly and continued:

"Also, they said that there is an important project that requires the assistance of 'craftsmen', so I am indispensable, but this project has not started yet, so I don't know what it is specifically."

The "Aurora Society", "Witch Cult", and even "The Man in the Mirror" all have their own "grand plans", and now there is also the "Rose School". Every evil organization is so busy... Angel muttered, and asked as if to confirm:
"Then, do you know that most of the followers of the 'Original Moon' in the southern continent belong to the 'Rose School'? They are an authentic evil organization that believes in the evil god 'Mother Tree of Desire'."

"I, by the time I knew it, it was already too late." The smile on Sharf's face disappeared, and his expression was somewhat helpless. "I have dreamed several times of a moon that looks bloody but extremely attractive, like a blood moon, a blood moon outside..."

He looked out the window. The crimson moonlight that was originally as light as a veil was now as bright as blood!

(End of this chapter)