In Viscount Jonas's manor, Brian woke up from the living room of Ruoda, his forehead covered with cold sweat.

"This time it's ...... 'paper man stand-in'......"

While patrolling in the middle of the night, he somehow became sleepy, and he couldn't stop it, so he simply slept on the long table in the living room.

And this sleep, I unknowingly fell into that strange dream mirror, and mastered the extraordinary ability of another "magician".

Paper Man Stand-In: Creates a paper figure by dividing its own extraordinary powers, the paper figure has no autonomous consciousness and requires the "magician" to enter the control within 800 meters. And the paper figure can also take on the "magician" for the damage, curses, divination and other occult dangers. And when the paper figure is destroyed, the extraordinary power belonging to the "magician" will return on its own initiative.

Taking an old silver pocket watch from the inner lining, Brian pressed the round key above the pocket watch, and the cover popped open, revealing the hands turning inside.

11:27。

"I don't know if Lady Catherine made it."

Putting aside his worries, Brian spent 20 minutes patrolling around the manor, and after making sure there was nothing out of the ordinary, he found a few blank pieces of paper and prepared to try making a paper figure to see how it would work.

Sitting in a high-backed chair in the living room, Brian folded the paper figure according to the information that had just appeared in his mind.

The folding process is very simple, as long as you follow the knowledge in your head step by step strictly without any problems.

Soon, a palm-sized paper figure appeared in front of me, but the process of making it was not over yet. Last but not least, there is the infusion of supernatural power, a process that determines the strength of the paper figurines and their actual effects.

Paper figures with more extraordinary powers have more extraordinary abilities and can also bear more negative effects for the "magician". However, the production of paper figures is essentially to divide the extraordinary power of the "magician", that is to say, if the paper figure is stronger, the "magician" will be weaker, and this requires a degree.

"With my current ability, I can only make one paper figure at most, what should I do to make the most reasonable use of this ability......"

"Hide", "Exchange", "Paper Man Double", ......" Brian pondered his current abilities one by one, and soon fell into deep thought.

My abilities are not aggressive, but more of a surprise effect, and there will be no obvious protective effect in the face of sudden danger.

In that case, I will directly divide ninety percent of the extraordinary power to the paper man, and hide in the shadows to control it myself, it seems that it will not cause any effect, but can use the regenerative characteristics of the paper man to join the dangerous battle......

With an idea, Brian didn't hesitate anymore and acted decisively.

The process of splitting abilities was smooth and unhindered, and the paper figure was completed in a few minutes.

Brian smiled as happily as a child who had just gotten a new toy. he

I got up from my seat and prepared to try out the specific effect of the "paper man stand-in".

But just as he got up, several cups on the dining table suddenly shook without warning, and the frequency was still expanding, but before long, the whole living room also shook together, and the outside fell into a complicated noise.

"Is this an earthquake?"

Brian hurriedly rushed out of the living room, and then ran out of the manor with the street lamps in the manor, and saw the entire street in the night, and the houses and buildings on both sides were also shaking from side to side.

And the people who lived inside ran out in a panic, looking nervously at their residences. Those who were even more worried about their own safety kept their feet and ran all the way to the nearby open field.

At this moment, Brian heard a familiar voice nearby shouting, "Nayden Nora, you go back to the Inspectorate to gather people and arrange for the people to move!" The others will follow me to evacuate the crowd and take them to the nearby square or church!"

"Quick! Fast! Fast! Get me moving!"

The person who spoke was Josephine Hutt, the head of the Inspectorate, who, after he had given orders to the other inspectors, personally led three or five people to maintain order, take the people to safety, and prevent the panicked crowd from stampeding and causing unnecessary casualties.

Seeing that Josephine did not take care of herself, and that Lady Catherine and her party did not return, Bryce spontaneously filled in the places that the inspectors did not take into account according to the rescue knowledge she had handed over when she was in school.

Within three minutes of the earthquake, some buildings that had fallen into disrepair or had suffered major damage collapsed at the same time.

The broken and fallen wood and stones rained down on the street where pedestrians were fleeing, causing one scream after another.

"Run! Run! ”

"Can the people in front of you hurry up!"

"Ahhhh

“……”

Someone in the crowd was unfortunately hit by a heavy object, causing an area of people to fall for various reasons. Some of them are too flustered and lose their balance, some are unintentionally pulled by the people around them, and some are too fast to happen, and they are knocked down by the people in front of them or knocked away by the people behind them without reacting.

Some streets in Puze are buried by the rubble of collapsed houses, preventing anyone from passing.

"Let's go! Let's go this way!"

Brian shouted as hard as he could, giving directions to those who didn't know where to run.

Under the light of the street and the moonlight, his face did not appear red due to hoarseness, but turned gray.

He thought of his brother Noel, of Bertha, of the serious but gentle Professor Tyron, and of the three children Blake, Wendy, and Matt, who had just ended their wanderings by his sponsorship...... I think of many, many people who have been in contact with him.

Brian looked up into the distance, and under the crimson moon, a towering building fell diagonally to the ground as if it had been blown down by the wind.

The movements of his hands kept moving, and the shouts in his mouth did not decrease, but in his heart he was thinking about what else he could do to save more people in this sudden disaster.

What's the solution? What's the solution? What's the solution!

At this moment, Brian realized that even if he had mastered the power of the supernatural, he could do more......

Wait a minute! Extraordinary...... I know!

With a better solution in mind, Brian decisively left the crowd and ran into the most dangerous alley at this time.

But he had no choice, and if he wanted to go home quickly in such a situation, he had to walk the alley.

Dodging several debris that collapsed in front of him, Brian returned to his shaking home in a state of embarrassment.

He first made a quick search of the room, and after making sure that there was no trace of his brother, he rushed into his bedroom and took out a small golden oil lamp at the top of the glove box.

"Borg! I'm going to make a wish, I'm going to make a wish!"

The oil lamp was rubbed, and a wisp of green smoke came out of the lamp, gradually forming a figure with only the upper body, which was none other than Brian's former friend, Borg Wallis.

At this time, Borg's eyes were blank, his movements were sluggish, and he was completely devoid of the agility and weirdness he once had.

This is a situation that Brian had guessed, because after replacing the so-called "God of Lights", Borg's humanity is losing little by little, at first he has less communication with him, and later he does not communicate with him, but he never thought that this day would come so soon.

"What is your wish?" Borg's tone was cold, as if he were speaking mechanically.

Brian took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and thought in his mind about the specifics of his wishes.

Considering Borg's experience with the "magic lamp", there is a high risk that the undetailed wish will be distorted, and he will have to make it after careful consideration.

But the earthquake has not stopped the call until now, and he should not think for too long.

After about a minute, Brian opened his eyes and said with a determined expression, "My wish is to stop the disaster that is happening in Puze City."

"Yes." Borg snapped his fingers expressionlessly, and the still shaking earth immediately returned to its former calm, and the cries outside the house gradually subsided.

Brian immediately went to the bedroom window to check the situation outside, and after a while of observation, he was relieved to make sure that there was nothing out of the ordinary.

"Finally ......"

When it comes to making a wish, he certainly has more options on the surface, such as "get everything back to the way it was", or make the area bigger. However, this will increase some unstable factors, which will greatly increase the probability of distorted wishes.

The simplest example of this is that people who have already died cannot be resurrected, and in the process of studying the occult with Cole, he learns that even gods can hardly bring people back to life.

Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that he only has one chance, and if he makes a third wish, he himself will be trapped by the "magic lamp".

Brian looked back, and Borg had returned to the "magic lamp", and he recalled the experience with this friend with great loss, and his heart was full of helplessness and sadness.

"I'm sorry Borg...... I...... I've been running away from your and Mr. Wallis' deaths, and I was so scared, so scared that I didn't even dare to take your corpses......"

Holding back the tears that suddenly welled up, Brian didn't know what was wrong with him and what he was crying about.

"I'm so weird......"

There was silence in the bedroom for a moment, and Brian rubbed his face heavily with his hands, and when his consciousness was no longer in a trance, and after he gradually woke up, he put on the "magic lamp" and trotted all the way out of the house, trying to find his brother and other acquaintances in the crowd of refugees.

"You don't want anything to happen."