Chapter 23 of the finale: The weeping ghost mother
Inside the cave.
The time of manipulation returns to normal. The "Weeping Ghost Mother" hidden in the shadows doesn't seem to have any intention of continuing to trouble Cassius and the others, or rather, in her eyes, Cassius and the others are not qualified to be her opponents at all. Anyway, she once again let Cassius and Alice live.
However, the partners don't seem to appreciate her kindness.
Resuming his movements, Cassius stepped forward heavily, and instead of a dull crashing sound, the contact of his boots with the hard ground made a crisp "ding" sound, like some delicate small piece of glass art accidentally falling to the ground and smashing it.
"Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", "Ding", ......
Immediately after, dozens of identical sounds rang out in succession, as silver-white silk strips appeared out of thin air, like spider webs, all over the entire cave space as far as Cassius could see.
What shattered and made a sound before was not small glass, but small Xiaoice crystals scattered around at some point. When he first entered the cave, Cassius secretly arranged countless small ice crystals on the surrounding walls, ground, and the roof of the cave, and fortunately, the electric ions of the agitated air element disturbed the energy fluctuations in the space in the small cave, covering up a large number of signs of movement of the water element, so that Cassius could arrange his magic array unknowingly.
To defeat the enemy, you must first see the enemy, otherwise you will not be able to do anything with your skills. The explosion of the ice crystal fragments caused the ice threads to connect with each other, successfully illuminating the "Weeping Ghost Mother" hidden in the invisible place.
Cassius was startled, he didn't expect the enemy to be so close to him, less than 1 meter away, almost face to face. The beautiful face on a pale face makes people feel a chill from the heart instead of any beauty, chapped and purple lips, slightly opening and closing up and down, although they do not make any sound, they can clearly hear the mysterious lullaby that frightens the soul; the sockets of her eyes are sunken inward, as if they have already cried so much that they have dried up their tears, but in the whites of those dry black eyes, people feel not only fear, but also feel inexplicable desolation and incredible kindness. She held a swaddling baby in her arms, staring blankly at the swaddling clothes and refusing to leave, the inaudible lullaby was clearly sung to the swaddling baby, if there really was a baby in the swaddling baby.
From beginning to end, the girl didn't raise her head to look at Cassius and Alice, which showed that in her eyes, the strength of the two was not worth mentioning at all.
Cassius, who had been mentally prepared early, woke up from the powerful psychological shock one step earlier than Alice. He quickly slid back a few meters, opening up some distance from the "Weeping Ghost Mother", and at the same time ejected all the ice crystals gathered on the "Endurance Grip"!
The strange ice also brought Alice to her senses, and she screamed, raised the dagger in her hand, and rushed to the "Weeping Ghost Mother" one step ahead of the ice crystals that had been shot.
"Babble, babble, ......"
The baby's cry rang out again, and the sharp ice crystals that poured into it, and Alice, who was about to pounce in front of her, were all frozen in place.
The revolt, which was determined to win, ended from the beginning, and months of arduous training seemed completely meaningless. For this obviously predictable result, the "Weeping Ghost Mother" did not have a trace of turmoil in her heart, she didn't even look at the countless ice crystals and two enemies that she had frozen in place, she hugged the swaddling clothes by herself, turned around and left deep into the cave.
"Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh"!
Four sharp whistles rang out, and four arrows were fired in succession from the direction of the cave entrance, hitting the back of the head and back of the "Weeping Ghost Mother". The young woman stopped, her head tilted back slightly, and she frowned, and the four sharp arrows stopped in the air in an instant, and the tail feathers of the shaft of the arrow still maintained a backward posture.
But as soon as the four arrows stopped, Alice and Cassius, as well as the countless ice crystals cast by Cassius, immediately resumed their actions and rushed towards the "Weeping Ghost Mother" towards the original trajectory. The young woman took a step to the side, and at the same time raised her hand backwards, and Alice, who rushed over, fell back into place, and countless sharp ice crystals that shot at her also flew backwards, returning to the top of the "Endurance Grip".
At the same time that Suina used "Time Rewind" on Cassius and Alice, the four arrows that had been stationary resumed their action and flew at their original speed!
"Sure enough!" Cassius smiled at the sight of this, which would not appear until the plan was presented.
Although the current situation was such that his side was still at an absolute disadvantage, Cassius had finally figured out - no, had identified the weakness of this formidable enemy whom he had studied for months.
When time magic is used to control other magic and living creatures, it is no longer possible to control inanimate items at the same time, and conversely, when time magic is applied to inanimate things, it cannot work on other magic and living creatures at the same time. This is also the reason why the partners are divided into two people.
Of course, those are not the only ones that make the partners. After passing the target, the four arrows continued to fly for a distance of 6 or 7 meters and fell to the ground, and then exploded from the inside out, and the magic potion that had been filled into the hollow arrow shaft in advance was finally activated after repeated friction. Such a precise dosage is also calculated in advance.
A large cloud of green poisonous mist poured out from the shaft of the exploding arrow, spreading out in all directions, and soon filled the entire small cave space. Cassius and Alice were unscathed in the mist, having swallowed the antidote crafted by the mist's creator, Ishnova, while the Weeping Mother was not so lucky, coughing in agony in the mist.
Although Suina studied dark magic and became a necromancer, her body was not completely undead, and she had no ability to resist toxins of her own - even more so as a baby in her swaddling clothes!
However, the embarrassment of the "Weeping Ghost Mother" only lasted less than 2 seconds, and the poisonous mist quickly retreated, and then shrank into four extremely small balls of green liquid, and the four fragments of the arrows that exploded also returned to the green venom, completely recovering the four sharp arrows.
But what she never expected was that when she was going back to the time of the poisonous mist, a spatial crack suddenly opened on the top of her head, and a sharp arrow burst out of it and fell from the sky, and the direct target of the attack was not Suina herself, but the swaddling baby she was holding in her arms!