Chapter 38: The Final Stage
A pure white, white bone claw covered with feather-like mysterious patterns poked out from behind the gate of the underworld that Dai Li had opened, and its appearance was very different from that of a human, which was also reflected in its head that poked out in the next moment.
It was a large two-meter-long white bone beak with a slight arc of a hook, growing on a spine that burned with a faint blue firelight. This spirit from the underworld has an incomplete skeleton, with two long claws extending directly to the ends of the bifurcated spine, but there is no skeleton of a body or wings.
If Crane had had had had the heart to analyze the object's appearance, he might have immediately thought of the skeletons he had seen in museums, the ancient fossils that had been carved from the ceiling. From the shape of the skull to the shape of the long hooked claws, this thing resembles a pterosaur in every way, except for the larger, slender claws, rather than ordinary birds.
However, it did have no body, and the flames that burned on its spine were also floating with dizzying patterns, and there seemed to be heavy overlapping feathers floating in it.
After breaking free from the attraction of the underworld, the bone bird turned its head directly, and its hollow eye sockets passed over Dali, who had made a contract with it, and stared at the young girl dressed as a nun.
The strange bronze gate phantom slowly closed behind it, and Dai Li took the "Spirit Flower" potion, and spent a lot of spirituality to summon this underworld creature of unknown origin, and it was difficult to maintain the state of attracting the "Gate of the Underworld".
Daly didn't refuse Dunn's arm, but she struggled to stand still, staring at the bone bird that made her cold.
Even Dai Li did not expect to receive a response from such a powerful creature, the high level of the "corpse collector" path has an absolute suppressive power over the low one, and Dai Li can clearly feel a surrender from extraordinary characteristics, which is not affected by her own will.
The same strong feeling is felt by another extraordinary person in the square who once served as a "gatekeeper", Ince Zangwill, who has shown an incomplete mythical creature.
His footsteps paused for a moment, and Ince's breathing became heavy due to the oppression of the high-ranking man, but the fourth sequence he promoted to was the "Night Watchman" after all, and this stagnation only lasted for a few seconds.
But that was enough for the other side, Daly's summoning was just the beginning, and she still lacked something to sacrifice to the underworld creature - a brief moment of freedom from the underworld was not enough, unless she gave her life.
Instead of looking back at the bone bird staring at her, Esther flipped up her left wrist, and with a slight sweep of her right fingernails, blood oozed from a slender slit.
"Asther" grabbed her right hand once, and the blood disappeared, and then her right hand opened in the direction of the bone bird, and the blood flowing with a little light had fallen into the dark blue flames on the bone bird's spine.
From the hollow eye sockets of the bone bird, there was a high-pitched scream with echoes, allowing anyone to hear the excitement in its voice: "Remnant, a valuable sacrifice, I agree......"
Esther's gentle pale eyes did not wave, and she was still looking at Ince Zangwill, who had raised her legs and feet again, getting closer and closer to several people, she did not look at the bone bird, but knew what it was waiting for, and she replied in the same Guversak: "Your contractor is not me. ”
"The living." With a somber exclamation, the Bone Bird's massive head turned sideways towards Daly, but only glanced at her proudly, and then turned to the eight-legged monster that had immediately pounced in front of everyone.
The lightning storm had subsided, only intermittently blasting around Ince, which he quickly dodged sideways.
And Ince Zangwill stared at Daly and Dunn beside her, they didn't die in his scheme, they didn't go crazy by looking at him in his current form! It shouldn't be!
This made him hate him even more, and the lowly, weak fools, all who looked down on him, became an outlet for the mad desire to kill, and Ince's claws fell to the ground, digging deep pits of cracked bricks and rubble.
His figure leaped into the air, and as he roared into the air, Ince's figure suddenly turned translucent, and a wriggling spirit took his place, shattered by the falling claws of the bone bird.
Ince's figure had already appeared in the rear, falling towards a few people, and Dunn didn't care about Dai Li's opinion, so he rolled to the side with her in his arms to dodge.
The distance was very close, and to be honest, Leonard himself did not have the confidence to dodge the lightning storm if this distance was released, but he still took advantage of Ince's approach and tightened the glove from "Gelman Sparrow".
The illusory chant of "I see, I see, I record" sounded, and the transparent book condensed out again, flipped wildly.
A majestic force erupted in front of Leonard, who recklessly unleashed a spell that bathed the eight-legged monster in silvery lightning.
Leonard's hysterical shouts smashed the clouds that reverberated over Tingen that day:
"Die! Ince Zangwill! ”
It was like a ray of sunshine with murderous intent and unwillingness to leave guilt, piercing the floating clouds in the sky, and the dark square gradually brightened up due to the escape of dreams.
The silver and white lightning in his sight danced heavily through the light curtain, Leonard thought that this was his end, but he didn't expect a huge pull to come from behind him.
Immediately afterward, his body was thrown out of the way, smashing into the ruins of the fountain that had long been blown up nearby.
The shock caused Leonard to cough twice, and then he suddenly realized that there was someone else beside him. Dunn was holding a weakened Daly, the two of them were covered in dust and were embarrassed, but they were also crouching on the side of the pile of rubble, keeping an eye on the situation outside.
"Leonard, it's too risky." Dunn's voice was serious, even deeper than usual, and he could tell that he was already suppressing his anger.
The "lightning storm" consumed a lot more spirit than Leonard had imagined, and he kept his mouth shut, not daring to respond to Dunn's words.
Then the person who grabbed him by the collar and threw him out of the vicinity of lightning just now could only be the strange lady dressed as a nun...... If only the old man were awake, he would have recognized who the lady was.
Hey, why do I think he must know him?
The thought only flashed through Leonard's mind, and he didn't have time to think deeply.
Ince Zangwill is not dead, and his body, strengthened by the mythical creature, is still alive after receiving the frontal power of the silver-white lightning.
However, his mind was completely unconscious, and he leapt from the ground again, biting down hard at the long claws that the bone bird swung again.
The bone bird made a high-pitched chirping sound that made the three Leonard dizzy, and the sound contained a direct impact on the spirit.
Ince was more resistant to this, and as the red light in his eyes became more and more vigorous, his body swelled even further, pressing the claws of the bone bird against his body, and Ince, who was almost completely demonic wolf, opened his teeth fiercely and bit down on the bone bird's spine.
However, the bone bird's spine suddenly bent and then stretched down violently, and one skeleton after another grew out, and the end stabbed into Ince's chest, picking him up and throwing him to the other side.
Before Ince's body hit the ground, the bone bird flashed to the other side, and the whip-like spine twitched again, lifting Ince's body high again, sending it flying past the ruins of the splashing fountain.
A faint blue flame lingered on Ince's chest, causing him to briefly lose control of his body.
Noticing that the shadow was approaching overhead, Dunn unceremoniously held up his gun, and he seized the opportunity to pull the trigger on Ince's chest and abdomen, seizing the moment to empty half of the magazine.
Dunn's luck at this moment was surprisingly good.
A "demon hunting bullet" burrowed through the wound, sending Ince Zangwill to the ground and struggle to his feet, then let out another roar of pain, a little blood spilling from his teeth.
And the position where Ince landed this time is fixed.
The silver-white lightning that had long ceased before smashed into the ground from the sky again, and the last wave of lightning storm that had been accumulated for a long time seemed to have landed here as if it had been agreed with Ince, embracing his entire body in the midst of destruction.
The Bone Bird's body was gradually becoming blurred, its white skull held high, and without even looking at its contractor again, it floated straight into a torn spiritual rift and left the messy Resurrection Square.
Dalie let out a long sigh of relief, almost fainting in Dunn's arms, her body was cold and large like a corpse, and it was only when she was close to Dunn's chest that she heard the sound of his rapid and steady heartbeat, and Dali realized that she was not dead.
She didn't want to die either.
Dunn took Daly's trembling hand back and looked at the thunderstorm on the other side of the square, tiny currents dancing in the air like fluttering ribbons.
Ince Zangwill is still alive.
It was hard to understand what was keeping him alive, or simply because the mythical creatures were stronger, so he still lay on the ground, his back heaving from the intermittent breaths.
The short fur and white feathers on his body had turned black, and it seemed that they would shatter if he stepped on them, and the cracks in Ince's patterned head had cracked, and the blood slowly flowed open, staining the water that flowed red from the mouth of the fountain.
His originally blind eye was half-closed, and in the other eye, there was still a blood-red ball of light, which was turning with malice and hatred.
Ince Zangwill dragged his body on the ground, stretching his barely intact three limbs, crawling out in the direction of Leonard, Dunn, and Daly.
A tarot card falls from the sky and is inserted in the direction of Ince.
On the card, a gentle goddess is pouring the holy water from the holy bottle into the pool, and above her head, several small stars are surrounding the brightest one.
The "star" card, in the interpretation of divination, represents hope.
Flames burst from the deck, and a man in a half-height silk top hat and a black suit stepped out of it.
He carried a long-barreled revolver in his hand, his black hair was finely shredded, with a strong bookish atmosphere, and his brown eyes reflected the eight-legged monster shape of Ince Zangwill.
The "death knell" was raised.
Gunshots beat thunder.
(End of chapter)