Esther stood up too, but that only made her height even more pathetic in front of Svein, the former captain of the Navy Substitute Punisher, who cast a shadow much larger than Esther's.

"Mr. Svein, the light—Esther is not a bad person." Ademisor added a sentence next to him, but his intercession only made Svein's suspicion of Esther even heavier.

"Not a bad guy? Boy, I'm telling you, all the bad guys tell you that! Svein shook his hard fist, the muscles in his arms bulging out from the tension, making him look stronger. He frowned and stared at Ashter, but he didn't act rashly, after all, this was still the realm of the underground market, and it would break his own rules if he did it casually.

Just as the atmosphere here was getting stiffer and stiffer, and Ademisor was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, another voice with some vicissitudes of life sounded.

"Esther, sure enough, you're with Ademisor again. Well? Svein, why are you there. ”

Klein turned his head from behind Old Neil, "Esther, I met Mr. Neil. Good evening, Mr. Svein. ”

"Ah, old Neil, you've come just in time." Svein immediately gave up pursuing Ademisor's changes, as he had more important matters to attend to, "I need your help. ”

Old Neil's expression immediately became serious: "What happened?" ”

Svein lowered his voice, "There's a member of the 'Substitute Punisher' team out of control nearby, we must deal with him before he can cause harm to ordinary people!" ”

Esther and Klein frowned at the same time, and subconsciously straightened their backs, "out of control" is the sword of Damocles that hovers over their heads forever for the extraordinary. Klein doesn't have to deal with the Runaway, and Esther remembers the cracked demon she once saw in the alley, the first time she came into contact with the true shadow behind the extraordinary powers.

"Where are the runaways? What do we need to do? ”

Old Neil asked calmly, and was willing to help without hesitation, much to Klein's surprise, but not Esther. Old Neil was originally a very reliable person at critical moments, otherwise he would not have been the "voyeur" of Sequence 9, and he had been a night watchman for so many years, and he must have faced countless situations.

For the night watchmen, the punishers and the mechanical hearts who are guarding the city of Tingen on the same front are the companions who should help each other.

Svein threw down only one sentence: "Be my assistant!" ”

Old Neil and Klein followed him closely, and Esther hurried after him, and she didn't forget to turn around and tell Ademisor: "Don't follow!" ”

Svein glanced at Esther, this time he didn't say anything, since it was the old Neil they knew, the eight achievements were the new members of the Night Watch, and the old Neil was measured, and he would not let irrelevant people be involved in the official extraordinary's affairs.

This is also out of a natural trust in the "comrades-in-arms", Svein has known Neil Sr. for many years.

A few men trotted after Svein, rushing out of the Dragon's Bar amid the whispers of the tavern guests, leaving behind the shouts of the race in the cage, and running across the street into the real dock area.

Svein pointed to a river cargo ship docked not far away: "That's it, and the two penalizers are still up there to deal with the runaway man, preventing him from entering the Tasok River. You help me influence him, control him, and I'll take care of the rest. ”

Old Neil gasped with difficulty, he was old after all, and he was not good at physical sequences, and at this time he said breathlessly, "Okay, but, but you need to give me a minute...... Whew, a minute to get back to the state. ”

Svein nodded, but his feet quickly rushed onto the cargo ship and joined the fight.

Old Neil handed Crane a "Sleep" charm, briefly described how to use it, and clenched one in his own hand, then he said to Esther, "You can't use spiritual items, you may need to stay away." ”

Esther backhanded a short knife from her bosom: "It's okay, I'll take this with me." ”

Klein pulled out his revolver, adjusted the firing position and trigger, and said to old Neil: "She has much better physical strength than me, and she didn't breathe for that part of the road just now." ”

Old Neil hadn't seen Esther in battle, and was obviously a little worried: "You must pay attention to safety." Don't be nervous, relax and think about something else. ”

Then he told Crane that the charm had been loaned, and that if Crane used it, he would have to make a new one and return it to him. A little smile appeared on Esther's face next to him, and Klein was full of helplessness. When the two of them were not looking, Esther pulled out a hair of her own and wrapped it around the bottom of the dagger, and a faint golden light flashed into it.

When the three of them passed through the gangway and boarded the converted steam cargo ship, they clearly felt a vibration from somewhere in the hull, and there was a loud collision along the way, and the battle seemed to be quite fierce.

The planks on the side of the cabin shattered, and a figure flew out, slammed into the ship's side and slipped limply to the ground.

The monster was tall and strong, its clothes were torn and full of tears, its exposed skin was covered with dark green scales, and between its hands and feet was a translucent connecting membrane, like the webbing of an aquatic animal, and its head was full of wrinkles, and only a human could barely be seen.

Corrosive slime was dripping from the monster's body, leaving traces everywhere it passed.

Svein struggled to hold the monster back and stop it from escaping, but his muscular fists couldn't break the scales, so he could barely entangle, and the substitute punisher next to him saw the right time to make up for two shots, so that Svein didn't fall completely behind.

There was a build-up of strength in him, and Esther could feel it.

The monster flicked its arm and repelled Svein so hard that the other punisher's vision was obscured, which allowed the monster to seize the opportunity to escape, and it was about to jump out of the cabin!

Crane raised his right hand and pulled the trigger decisively, the bullets he consumed in the shooting club made his marksmanship unprecedented, and this distance was enough for Crane to accurately send the demon hunting bullet into the monster's torso.

The monster let out a piercing scream, kicked its feet to the ground, and pounced like an eagle on Crane.

When Crane suddenly rolled to the side, Esther's figure a few meters away instantly moved, her blonde hair appeared on the other side of the monster like a fluttering streamer.

"Night!" Old Neil, who was close by, spat out the Old Hermetian phrase as he threw the spell in his hand at the monster.

At the same time, Esther's dagger had been driven into the monster's leg, and the scales that Svein had not been able to penetrate were stuck in the gap by the dagger, piercing with Esther's full force, leaving only the grip outside.

This caused the monster to let out another roar of pain, but the deep, serene power escaped from Old Neil's spell, and the monster's struggle slowed down, and it swayed as if it were drunk.

The power of the spell was insufficient, and Esther instantly made a judgment.

"Crane!"

"Night!"

Almost as if they were in the same mind, before Esther's words could be finished, Crane had already spat out the activation spell in the ancient Hermetian language again, activated the charm in his hand, and threw it on the monster's body.

The monster was unable to jump again because it was pinned through the leg by Esther, which caused Crane's spell to land precisely on its forehead, and this time, the monster's body fell downward, lying on the ground, briefly falling into a semi-sleepy state.

At this moment, Svein fell from the sky and smashed into the monster's body like steel, and when he raised his fist and slammed it down, even Esther felt the tyrannical spiritual power brewing in him.

With a crumbling skull, the monster's head was torn apart, and juices of various colors splattered out, leaving a mess in its wake. The monster's legs and feet twitched twice, and it was completely motionless.

It took some effort for Svein to pull out Esther's dagger, and out of nowhere he pulled out a deflated metal flask, which was washed clean of blood, and the liquor below was soaked in the monster's corpse.

Svein threw the dagger at Esther, pouring the remaining liquor from the bottom of the pot onto the monster's body.

After doing all this, his back seemed to be a little stiffer, his face showed old fatigue, and he stared at the corpse of the monster on the ground with a complicated expression.

Esther felt a certain grief, her heart tightening, and she sensed many unavoidable fates from the old man whose fate was close to that of the night watchman. Esther realized what the little bug's words, "Humans are much more fragile than you think," meant that she would protect the Tingen Nightwatchers, an oath that could be easily broken.

Esther clenched the dagger in her hand, exhaled deeply, and walked over to Old Neil and Crane.

Old Neil looked in Svein's direction and whispered to them, "I know this out-of-control substitute, who has followed Svein for twenty or thirty years, who has cleared out the water ghosts who came ashore to kill people, and captured the evil extraordinaires who tried to escape by diving from the Tasok River......"

He didn't say the rest of the sentence, but both Klein and Esther understood what he meant:

Such a "guard" who has made a lot of contributions and killed a lot of monsters eventually became a monster himself.

Esther couldn't help but think of the sentence she once read - "The brave man who kills the evil dragon becomes the evil dragon after all".

This is not an isolated case, such a thing can be staged in every official extraordinary's team, and it is an outcome that many night watchers, substitute punishers, and members of the mechanical heart may face.

Even though Esther was never fully recognized as the Night Watcher, everyone on the team was convinced that she was also extraordinary, possessing even more special extraordinary powers. Crane, who had seen Esther approaching the out-of-control form, felt a sinking in his heart, and he glanced at Esther, and the hidden grief was even thicker.

Esther clenched her arms and looked sadly as she watched as the substitute helped his unconscious teammate up, her eyes darkening.