(65) Mastermind (Yuffie Steamiz, V)

"That damn bastard - damn it, if I had the skills of Jill or Sister Alicia, I'd cut him into seventeen or eighteen pieces!"

After barely recovering her breath, Annaville paced back and forth in the dimly lit space, looking rather angry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

No wonder she was anxious, they were temporarily out of the danger zone, but Gid Sheen was left behind in Winterfell.

No one knows what he's going to do during this time - if he takes the opportunity to leave, the 'resurrected' Crow Knights, and the populace who have taken the potion, will probably end up with nothing. Not to mention, if he deliberately made a big fuss in the city on the fly, the casualties and losses caused would be unimaginable.

That would be one of Winterfell's biggest failures in the years, and the entire Campbell family would be discredited.

"Maybe we can go to the church and ask for help." Elena, clasping her hands in front of her chest, whispered, "But the person in charge here is just an ordinary priest, and he needs to wait until he contacts the scout teams in the Empire." ”

"Then it's too late." Lynn shook her head, "I don't think Gid will leave Winterfell easily. God knows what he wants to do, but the more time we delay, the more trouble he will get into him. ”

Yuffie closed her eyes and thought hard, sorting through all the clues she had gotten to her, and then she thought of something, "I might have a way - albeit just a guess." ”

She looked around at everyone around her, and finally made eye contact with Lynn. The blonde girl nodded at her and encouraged her to continue.

"We may be able to defeat him in the psychic web." "No matter how strong Gide's body is, his soul is as fragile as a human being," she said. ”

"But, what happened to that mental attack just now?" Elena questioned.

"He took advantage of the soul he had imprisoned in a spiritual network." Yuffie replied calmly, "Judging by the fact that the inhabitants fell into a coma, and the methods he used to last use the psychic attack, there are certain changes in his psychic network. She licked her lips, "Maybe it's a change in our favor." ”

"Then, I'll go with you." Lin didn't think about it, "Anyway, that Gid guy is a warlock who is good at soul magic. This time, I can't let you leave me again - besides, don't say you can't, I don't believe it. ”

"It's up to me and Elena to keep that bastard in a hurry to keep him from jumping off the wall." Annaville said appropriately, "With the preparation this time, we wouldn't have given him the opportunity to use that kind of attack in the first place. But I'll leave it to you to get rid of that bastard. ”

"There's a helper." Lynn added with a smile as she put her hand on her chest.

She summoned her secret spirit, Grace the Griffon, and asked him to assist her mother and the nun in their battle. Grace let out a soft snap of agreement.

Everything was decided in just two minutes. As for the outcome, that's not something they can predict right now. Yuffie took two bottles from her fanny pack, one containing the potion Fael had given her, and one of the potions she had taken from the crucible in Kratos's workshop, and handed one to Lynn.

"When we enter the spirit world, the shadow movement will be lifted spontaneously." She told Elena and Annaville, "You, and our bodies, will probably be a hundred meters away from Gid's house. She thought about it for a moment and realized that she couldn't find any suitable words to express her feelings, "Come on." ”

Lynn hugged her mother tightly, as well as the young traveling nun, "Be sure to be safe, we'll definitely get rid of that guy as soon as possible!" ”

Then, the blonde girl opened the lid and drank the light brown liquid from the bottle. Yuffie glanced at Annaville again and did the same.

She felt the familiar, soul-liberating experience of being liberated from the body—though a little weaker, and the second potion she had made in Kratos was of limited efficacy. According to her previous experience, she took Lynn's hand and felt the sea of consciousness not far away, guiding her to go there with herself.

When the senses of the soul replaced the senses of the flesh again, Yuffie looked around and saw that the place had completely changed.

The boundless nothingness of the past is gone, replaced by a fence that emits a faint blue light. They stretched out in all directions into lattice-like structures, forming transparent cages of cubes, each containing at least one soul, and some as many as two or three, which had been partially fused together. The void in the middle of the lattice forms a zigzag passage where they are currently located.

She approached one of the lattices, trying to speak to the spirits within. But the soul kept repeating unintelligible babbles, not responding to her inquiries; She reluctantly changed several targets, and the results made no difference.

"They...... Are you alright?" An inquiring voice came to her head, and Yuffie didn't have to turn her head to 'see', and her friend had also finished a round of attempts and was returning to her.

"At least...... Most of them are still independent, and it's not the worst case." She replied, "It seems that Gid does not have the confidence to fuse these souls, so he can only imprison them here, and use their power if necessary."

"So, let's just get rid of that guy, shall we?"

"That was the first step, and it had to be done." Yuffie replied softly, "After that...... There's always a way."

She 'held' her friend's hand and flew deep along the narrow and winding pathway. The target is not hard to find, as the only 'free' existence outside of the two of them in this space, it belongs to the soul mark of Gid Sheen, as dazzling as a lighthouse on the cape.

Without hesitation, she approached and stood in front of her with Rin.

In response, several translucent swords appeared out of thin air, their blades glowing with a blue glow, striking her location from three directions.

There is no physical body in the mental network, everything depends on mental strength - and for a witch, this is her strength. Yuffie nimbly dodged to the side, but the blade deftly turned around and continued to chase her in a line.

At the same time, a golden flame swept by, shattering all three long swords.

"This is the original power of the golden dragon, which has been engraved in the soul since birth." Lynn satisfactorily passed the thought on to her, as well as to Gid not far away, "This time, you don't have that turtle shell."

"Ridiculous." The young warlock replied contemptuously, "This is the world I created. Just the two of you want to outperform me, who is a soul master—and sure enough, the so-called graduates of Eagle Academy are just a bunch of megalomaniacs."

"You're worthy of being called a master, phew!" Lin shouted angrily, aiming at the soul not far away, and forcefully spewed out a light gray breath.

Gid snapped his fingers, disappeared from the spot in an instant, and suddenly reappeared behind Lynn. A two-man tall hammer emerged from his hand and struck the blonde girl in the back without a sound.

Lynn quickly turned around and clasped her arms in front of her chest, but the sledgehammer still sent her flying far back. Thankfully, after only a few seconds, she floated back to where she was, seemingly unharmed.