Chapter 18: The Night Watchman

Flice's thoughts and movements slowed gradually, as if she was about to become someone else's marionette, and it took her a long time to realize that she was referring to her with the phrase "found" from before.

"You...... Be...... Who? ”

Flosis's mouth slowly opened and closed, her spirit triggered by madness, her instincts telling her that if she didn't find a way to break the deadlock, then she might never have a chance again.

The man smiled again, and walked slowly out of the shadows of the alley, wearing a green plaid shirt, a top hat, and a beard.

It was the 'faceless' Cass Wall worth 6,000 gold pounds on the previous "Wanted"!

But Fusie didn't know it, she just felt her body stiffen and her mind felt like it was filled with lead water.

Cass snapped his fingers, and the group of living corpses turned into shadows and sank into the ruby ring on his left hand.

Minutes ticked by, and Fluse wanted to say something, but too slowly.

“20,19,18,17……”

Cass leisurely counted as he played with the black wire wrapped around his hand.

"7,6,5......" he smiled as he looked at Foxie, whose eyes were gradually becoming blank, "It's time, Miss Mermaid." Come and be my ritual......"

I really didn't expect that he originally came here just according to the hints given by divination, and I thought it was just money, but I didn't expect it...... There's actually a mermaid here.

He is now a Sequence 6 "Faceling" of the "Fortune Teller" pathway, but he has digested all the potions, and with the magical item "Black Snake" corresponding to the "Master of Secret Puppets" and the method of separating extraordinary characteristics, he can be promoted to Sequence 5 without only a ritual.

But the ritual is very difficult to complete, and it requires the singing voice of a mermaid.

He had been divining constantly, but he had only received one hint, and that was the Church of the Night Goddess.

Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to go against the official extraordinary, so he kept stuck in sequence 6 and couldn't ascend.

But there is no end to it, and he will actually meet a mermaid in a small place like Tingen!

“3,21,!”

The secret puppet has been transformed!

Cass was relaxed for a moment, and was about to use the "Black Snake" to manipulate the spirit line, but he was suddenly stunned.

- He couldn't feel anything, a thread of spirits!

Plop, plop.

His inspiration was frantically triggered, and his instinct told him to get away from here at this time! Otherwise, something worse than death will happen!

He struggled to glance at Foxie, who had fallen to the ground, before gritting his teeth and preparing for the "Flame Shuttle".

Suddenly, he heard a loud wind, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly rolled away.

But what greeted him was wisps of white mycelium with a tyrannical aura!

Exactly the mycelium that Sissel had used earlier!

……

At Hoy University, Sissel, who was in class, suddenly felt a spiritual movement, his eyes darkened, separated a thought, and then "guided" him to observe.

"That's right......" he understood the situation at first glance.

It seems that this "Faceling" has a lot of courage...... Sissel shook his head helplessly as he watched as Cass was slowly devoured by the mycelium, looking at the despair in his eyes.

A long time ago, he had already used the ability of "Asahi Fungi" in Fusse's body to plant "spores".

The "spores" are equivalent in power to Sequence 2 and will resolutely protect the host, but will only be triggered if the host's life is in danger.

And Leonard has one on him.

……

Leonard followed Dunn, Corion, and the others to the Daffodil Street Market, as they had just received news of a monster in the Marketplace.

"Captain, is it the Extraordinary who is out of control?" Leonard asked suddenly.

Dunn nodded, shook his head again, held a whip-like "Level 3" seal in his hand, and said:

"There's a good chance, but it's also possible that something else, like that 'Faceless' Cass Wall made it."

Leonard nodded as if he didn't understand, his eyes darting over the deserted streets, a little nervous.

Everyone is fine, praise the goddess...... Leonard muttered, only to find that Dunn had stopped.

Dunn's face was no longer as mature and steady as before, but full of horror.

Leonard followed his gaze, his pupils instantly constricted, and a sense of absurdity spread in his heart.

Flosis! It's Flusie!

"No, boy, she should have been contaminated......"

Pales reminded Leonard in his head, but suddenly paused, and said in a strange tone:

"No, she...... No contamination on your body? ”

"No pollution? How could it be, old man! ”

Leonard glanced at Foxie, who was still in a coma, and then at the captain with a solemn look, and said hurriedly:

"She must have been contaminated with something! Or out of control! She may have been an extraordinary person before! ”

Parles was silent for a moment, constantly thinking back to what Flis had done before, but it was normal, and there was no extraordinary involvement......

"Perhaps, she is not human." Pales suddenly remembered a creature that his children had told him about before—mermaids!

They have handsome and charming faces, and they have a sweet singing voice that can make people addicted to them.

But they were so ferocious and powerful that whenever they came across a ship, they would first lure the crew with their songs, and then they would go and eat the foolish men......

"They are the embodiment of beauty, unknown and absurd existences." One of His sons had spoken to Him of this.

"Old man! What?! What does that mean?! ”

Leonard's hurried voice brought Pales's mind back to the present, and he looked at the scales and fins on Foxie's body, and made a conclusion:

"Boy, it's a mermaid."

Leonard was about to say something more, but noticed a group of people coming across the street.

They were all men, dressed in uniform, heavy black armor, and their blue hair was very coarse, but they showed who they were-

A substitute for the Church of the Lord of the Storm!

Dunn's face sank, and he looked at the substitutes opposite, not knowing what he was thinking.

The captain of the Punisher Squad only glanced at Foxie, and said mercilessly:

"Monster! Despicable women! Kill it. ”

When Leonard heard this, he was furious and his eyes widened, but he still suppressed it and said:

"Wait! Sir, wait! ”

The captain of the substitute punisher glanced at Leonard, but didn't care, instead looking at Dunn, the most vocal in the group.

Dunn nodded solemnly, apparently he also thought that Fluffie was an out-of-control extraordinary.

Behind the captain of the substitute punisher stepped out several substitute punishers, and they walked towards Flosis, with disdain for women in their eyes, and slowly raised their blades.

Seeing that the blade was about to fall, Leonard was about to rush forward despite the dissuasion of Paris......

"Hiss-la-la-"

A large amount of white mycelium erupted again, and a powerful, pure coercion crushed everyone present.

Pales was stunned for a moment, and then felt as if he had seen this thing somewhere, but he reacted and roared to Leonard:

"Run! Come on! This is Sequence 2! ”

Leonard froze in place, ignoring Dunn's order to evacuate or Pales' warning.

He just stared blankly, blankly at the hyphae waving in front of him, at the substitutes who were devoured by the mycelium.

He'd seen them before?

Leonard's mind was pulled back many years ago......