CHAPTER XXVIII
"True fear comes from the unpredictable unknown. For some reason, when Sovereign faced the ghostly appearance of the Kujitan priest, this sentence suddenly came to his heart. The sound of a drum-like heartbeat sounded in his mind, and the air of ** crossed the throat and made a heavy sound, he had no time to take care of the Gadore next to him, and the "person" in front of him who exuded a strange atmosphere was the most dangerous existence.
Two gray black lights swirled and contracted in the priest's hands, and finally turned into two shimmering black spheres, the round spheres were extremely smooth, like a crystal ball in the sunlight. Although he didn't know how the other party did it, let alone what would happen next, the ominous premonition in Suo Weilan's heart became stronger and stronger, and his forehead was covered with a layer of fine cold sweat.
Suddenly, the priest's palm gripped the sphere tightly, and with increasing force, Sovereign even saw a clear crack in the sphere. With a crisp sound, the two "crystal balls" shattered in the priest's hands, and a thick, mud-like black liquid fell from between his fingers and smashed against the stone bricks with a low muffled sound.
The mud rolled and gathered on the ground as if it had life, and puffs of gray-white smoke came out, and finally, under the horrified gaze of Sovereign and Gadore, the two pitch-black figures slowly stood up. What's even more terrifying is that these two humanoids turned out to be exactly the same as the two people standing opposite them, and one of them even carried the same "long sword". It's just that it's not living flesh and blood that make them up, it's the sludge that carves the spell.
"Hell, is this a monster created from our shadows?!" Gadore gripped his sword and pointed it at the monster not far away, "It's not a good thing! Damn, it's definitely not a good thing!"
Sovereign did not speak, only nodded silently. Standing behind the monster, the Kujitan priest "stared" at the intruders of the Temple City with his mask, and the corners of his grinning mouth seemed to bloom with the most cruel grin. A string of hoarse words came from behind the mask, and the jerky syllables were filled with two simple words. "Taitinchi's ...... Soul urn!"
A gentle breeze blew, and the Kujitan priest's figure suddenly twisted and disappeared like a wisp of smoke, leaving only a brilliant purple feather in the air. At the same time, the two monsters seemed to break free from their restraints in an instant and rushed towards their respective "masters".
The mud-splashed fist smashed into the wind with the sound of the wind, and Soveran subconsciously raised his arms to block, but the next moment the huge force from his arm knocked him back two steps. "Damn!" Sovereign scolded, and before he could stand still, a storm of blows followed.
The monster's movements were extremely agile, and the arms that seemed to be tireless at all swung into a continuous fist that whipped at Soveland's erected arms like whips. The strength of the other party is far beyond imagination, and his tied hands are simply unable to organize an effective attack. Sovereign thought to himself as he took the blow, and suddenly removed his hands from a gap in front of him, and soon the monster's fist immediately killed him.
With a "bang", Soveland's jaw was hit hard, and the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth drew a bright red arc on his face, but his legs that were holding his body did not waver in the slightest, but hooked the monster's neck with his hands that gave up his defense. With a hard press, Sovereign leaned in and pressed his knee against the monster's ribs.
In a row, in a soft touch, Soviran could be sure that he had hit, but he could not guarantee that such an attack would inflict substantial damage on the monster. At this moment, the monster whose head was held down held down held up by his hand on the knee that struck him, and pounced on Soveran's body, his arms crossed behind his back tightly locked Soveran's body.
The stench of ** almost made Solweran breathless, and the pitch-black mud flowed on the monster's close face, pulling out a cruel smile. Sovereign stretched out his arms and pushed the monster's head as far away as he could, and in the dripping muddy water, he saw a pair of cloudy, bloodshot yellow eyes.
The strength of his body suddenly lightened, and Soveran found that the monster in front of him had melted and generally lost its original form, and all the mud rushed behind him to regroup, and the arms that locked his body had changed positions, and they were now tightly strangling his neck.
A tremendous force came, and with a momentary sense of weightlessness, Sovereign was thrown out, flipped in the air, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Hell, this monster can change form at will!" Sovereign spat out a mouthful of blood and stared at the monster standing not far away. Two vicious fights in quick succession brought his body to the brink of collapse, and the tingling pain from his body tore at his nerves, and a few unnatural twitches jumped out of his face. "Throw me a weapon, do you want me to die here?!If I die, you'll be next!" Sovereign yelled as he turned his head to Gadore.
At the same time, Gadore's condition is also not optimistic, and the sword is in the hands of the monster created by his shadow in a lightning-fast attack, and the sheriff of Kugil can only defend himself, with no power to fight back. "I know! I know! shut up!" Gadore drew an arc of light in front of him, temporarily pushing back the monster's attack, reaching out and drawing his dagger from the cuff of his boot, and throwing it at Soveland. "For the sake of the Lord God, give you a weapon and you can defeat this damn monster?!"
Sovereign rolled on the spot, grabbed the dagger that flew towards him, and twisted the scarf tied to his hand with his backhand, and suddenly felt his arms loosen. Whether he can win or not is no longer a question he can consider, because the "shadow" who followed him has been killed again.
Narrowly dodging the monster's fist, Sovereign slashed towards the other's chest, the slippery feeling of the blade alerting Sovereign that he had struck. There was almost no pause, and Sovereign, who had won the blow, immediately broke away from the battle circle and jumped backwards, but the sharp pain that followed instantly made his mouth grow in shock and look down at his chest.
A hideous wound hung there, spilling blood staining the clothes on his chest. Sovereign held the wound and looked up at the monster not far away, he had forgotten the pain, for the current situation had left him dead. "Obviously it was him who was hit, why was it me who was injured!"
Sovelan's "shadow" stood not far away and looked at his "master", his bright yellow eyes showed a hint of ridicule and disdain, and the grinning wound in his chest slowly healed again, you can imagine how much effect it would have to make a knife to the mud? Under Sovilan's gaze, "Shadow" suddenly raised his arm, and the pitch-black mud swirled in his palm, which quickly condensed into the shape of a dagger.
"Don't blame me for not reminding you, if you hurt your 'shadow', his wounds will be reflected on you!" Sovereign roared as he cocked the dagger stabbed at him, "and...... And I got the weapon, and my 'shadow' immediately got the weapon!"
"Yes, that's right! I just got myself a bit!" he snarled, flicking his injured left arm, "think of a way! Who's going to tell me how to kill this damn thing!"
However, there is no time for Soveran to answer this question, the strength of the monster holding the dagger in his hand has increased greatly, and compared with Soveran, whose physical strength is slowly exhausted, the monster does not show a trace of fatigue, and the thin blade seems to form a large net in front of him, covering Soveran in it, as long as he is not careful, what awaits him is a bright red wound.
The muffled sound of collision exploded in Soveland's ears, and the monster's onslaught had overwhelmed him. The power is endless, it can't be damaged, and it can't even be killed! What's even more terrifying is that this monster is really like its own shadow, and it knows its next move well, and it can't find any dead spots at all!
The cruel reality gave birth to a trace of complete despair in Soveland's heart, such a situation can no longer be described as decadent, it is simply an unsolvable dead end.
At this moment, a scream from the side attracted Sovelan's attention, and Gadore finally couldn't hold it anymore, and was pierced through the shoulder by his "shadow" sword, and red blood gushed out of the wound. The monster jerked out its sword and slammed it into the sheriff's head.
With a "snap", Gadore flew upside down, rolling on the ground and leaving a long trail of blood. "Hell...... I can't...... I can't die here!" Gadore struggled to brace himself up, gulps of blood spurting from his mouth to the ground, "For the sake of the Lord God, aren't you a knight of order?!
"Shut up, I'm just being sealed......" Saviran was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly paused, and he tried his best to block the monster's attack, and jumped backwards. The moment he landed, his expression changed completely, it was a bloodless paleness, as if the fear that suddenly rose in his heart far exceeded the threat brought by the current mortal battle situation.
"No! something is wrong...... Soveran looked at his "shadow" not far away, and then turned to stare at Gadore who was lying on the ground, "Gadore, who is far away in Kugil, has no way of knowing that I was once a knight of order! Even if it is a secret order from the Imperial Council, it is impossible to mention the matter of being a knight of order!" A cold chill spread on Sovelan's body. "People who can't know say things that can't be known, this Gadore is definitely not the real Gadore, so who is this 'person' lying on the ground?!"
The craziest questions spread out the most terrifying shadows, and Sovereign could clearly feel his scalp explode, and there was a tingling pain in the pores all over his body. Holding the dagger to his chest, Sovereign stepped back step by step, trying to distance himself from the "shadow", his brain racing. "Everything here is always revealing an indescribable weirdness, as if something has been ignored by oneself, something that has always existed, but has been ignored by oneself since the beginning......" Sovereign was stunned, "It's the sound! Taitinchi's 'click', the 'click' sound that strikes in my head like a pendulum swings...... I don't know when it disappeared......"
Gadoré's mouth opened and closed silently in the distance, as if shouting something, but in a trance, Sovereign noticed that the sheriff's face was a little blurry, as if it were covered with a layer of mist. "There must be something wrong!" Sovereign suddenly stared at his "shadow", "Could it be ......" There was a strange voice in his heart.
"Damn, are you crazy......" Sovereign looked at the dagger in his hand at the roar of Gadore, and finally threw it to the ground. The next moment, the "shadow" rushed forward and stabbed the blade into his chest.