Chapter 142: Small Town Horror - Unexpected Battle
When Master Alvin explained Barrity's mission, his tone was not only relaxed, but also very determined, as if he was very sure of the existence of the life box. Barrett didn't know how the mage, who had a strange interest, had learned about the strange things that were happening in this space.
Could it be from the mouth of the nagging guy in front of him? Barrett looked at the zombie Daniel.
"I'm telling you, the lich didn't actually make his life box into a box in the traditional sense, but ......," Daniel the Zombie said before he paused, staring out the window with wide eyes and screaming as he got up from his chaise longe. But because he was too flustered and inflexible, this zombie who liked to talk was just halfway up when he fell to the ground with a "poof".
"Oh no, Pamela is coming!" Daniel shouted at Barrett as he lay on the ground.
Barrett held the hilt of his sword and looked out the window, and the ghost of the woman in the nightdress he had found had floated out of the three-story building across the street from the house.
And the direction she traveled next was the house where Barrett was.
"I wish she could talk as well as you. Barrett took a few steps back with his sword in both hands, widening the distance between him and the floor-to-ceiling window.
Wraiths are not in the habit of walking through doors, and their spirits can penetrate any tangible wall.
"Then you're going to be disappointed, Pamela's sanity is nowhere near as high as mine. Daniel the Zombie struggled to stand up, but its inflexible body made it extremely difficult, "She was just an ordinary woman who liked to visit the neighbor's house and gossip when she died, but she still kept this hobby after death, and she didn't need to knock on the door." I remember that she was nowhere near as beautiful as she is now, but the ghost can change her appearance at will, which is a very useful skill. Her current appearance should be the kind she longed for when she was alive......"
"I said, can you get to the point. Barrett interrupted Daniel again, "Like, will she attack me?" ”
"I really want to tell you 'no,' but I don't want to lie to you. I was an honest businessman at the time, and although I was occasionally clever, I would never cheat anyone, because my mother used to tell me, 'A lie can get you a bag of gold, but honesty can get you a gold mine.'" While many people believe that gold coins will be easier to use, gold mines still need to be mined, smelted, and minted into coins before they can be used. But I have to tell you, the latter will get you more, even tens of thousands of times more than the former! Trust me, it's useful......"
Zombie Daniel's nagging seems to be a natural instinct. It perfectly overcomes the hatred of the living and the desire for flesh and blood, but it has this strange attribute.
The female ghost named 'Pamela' floated straight towards the floor-to-ceiling window, and with Daniel's chattering words, her pale cyan spirit came to rest above the coffee table through the floor-to-ceiling windows and gauze curtains.
"Hi Pamela, long time no see, I remember the last time you were here was three days ago. Daniel finally managed to stand up, "What do you want to talk about this time? Susan and Scott's affair? I tell you, it was hundreds of years ago." And Scott has already been eaten by the terrifying monster outside the town. ”
Ghost Pamela didn't pay attention to the zombies standing aside, but stared at Barrett in a daze, her eyes not blinking. Well, she's a spirit and doesn't have an "eye" organ.
"People?" she whispered, confused. The voice of the ghost Pamela was ethereal, as if far away, and it seemed to be close to the ear, very similar to the voice of little Eve in the tombstone, after all, they were all of the same kind.
"Alive?" she said again, tilting her head, and then drifted towards Barrett with a "glazed gaze", circling around the latter.
Barrett remembered that the small tombstone in the leather armor had the function of imprisoning such a ghost in front of him, but our barbarian adventurers had never remembered how to pronounce that awkward spell.
For now, Barrett only hopes that the tombstone will succeed in removing the ghost's hostility towards him, and then let her stay away from here and find another neighbor to talk to.
"Living!" the ghost Pamela repeats with each turn. As this continued to be repeated, her expression became more and more hideous, more and more vicious, and the cold and sweet appearance she had before disappeared.
The next moment, she stopped in front of Barrett and screamed at the latter, "!! alive"
Her howl roared harshly, and Barrett felt an inexplicable force rushing towards her. For a moment, he bent his knees slightly, leaned forward, and held his sword in front of him with both hands, but he was still half a step back by this force.
Not only that, but Barrett felt his head buzzing, his ears buzzing, and his vision blurred for a full heartbeat before slowly recovering.
At this time, the ghost had already floated in front of him, waving at him with its long arms.
He knew that a spirit attack like this, whether it was a weapon or a shield, could not be stopped, and the best means of defense were magic shields, spirit armor and other various defensive spells.
However, he didn't have any such magic ornaments on him, and perhaps the pendant given by Master Alvin would help him withstand a little damage, but Barrett didn't want to try it.
He ducked from the ghost's attack, and with a slash of his weapon, he passed through the ghost's body without hindrance.
"Ah~~~" The ghost let out a miserable cry, and the spirit dimmed a little in an instant. Then, she lunged at Barrett with a vicious fit, only to be dodged by the latter again, and then slashed at her translucent body with a sword, causing her to let out a cry of pain again.
"I said, don't fight anymore, Viscount Freed will hear the voice coming over in a moment, and you will all be punished, very severely!" Zombie Daniel hid in the corner and anxiously persuaded him, but neither of the fighting men paid attention to it.
Barrity's fourth sword slashed at the ghost's body, causing the latter's form to fade into a blurred shadow. But he himself was not satisfied with his attack.
Such an attack was still too slow, Barrett shook his head inwardly. In many battles from Hot Spring Town to now, he can clearly feel that the pair of magic iron bracers on his arms have a great impact on the speed of his sword.
Maybe I'll need to take off my bracers in the next battle, because I'm alone this time, and in such an enclosed space with so many enemies. Barrett was planning in her mind.
But even so, he still had the thrill to destroy the ghost in front of him.
When Barrett's fifth sword slashed down the ghost Pamela's body, she let out a deep sigh one last time, and then the entire spirit shattered and vanished. Only a tiny pinch of pale white powder was left on the original floor.
"Damn, you killed her, you cruel executioner!" Zombie Daniel jumped up from the corner and cursed loudly, "Fuck, you cold murderer, you killed Pamela, you killed this girl!!, you savage butcher, you made her disappear from this world forever, forever !! you know?"
"What do you want me to do?" Barrett retorted, "Stand still and let her turn me into your kind?"
"Say something nice, maybe she'll let you go......" Daniel's voice went deeper.
"Do you think it will?" Barrett asked rhetorically.
"People always change, and so do the undead. I didn't like to talk at all, but now......" there was a deep frustration in its hoarse tone, "maybe one day Pamela will be like me and come back to her senses." ”
"Unfortunately, I can't wait until then. Barrett was expressionless, "She's not going to give me that chance." Now, I want you to tell me what shape the lich's lifebox is. ”
"Hmph, I'm not going to tell you. Daniel leaned back in the recliner and looked away from Barrett, "You kill Pamela, and maybe Renaya, Susan, Isaac, Sandy, ......."
"I don't even know who they are!"
"But you're still going to kill them!!"
“......”
Just as Barrett was weaving the words in his head, trying to convince Daniel, he suddenly heard the crisp sound of horses' hooves outside, which rang again.
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