After chatting with Wagner, the people were almost there, and the two said goodbye to Lillian and began today's preparatory meeting.

Today's meeting was quick and only two things were decided.

The first is to immediately arrange personnel to fan the flames and create a rumor of a "balloon freak" to transfer the fear of "clowns" to "balloons".

This balloon monster is, of course, Luke's vest, and to a certain extent refers to Luke's distorted appearance in the image fabrication, and adds elements of balloons and crows to form a new terrifying demon lord of the ship.

The second is to arrange for extraordinary people with the ability to confine themselves to wait on the path prone to balloon clowns, ready to catch a few and give them to Wagner to use to cast curses.

Today's business was arranged, and people quickly went to their respective tasks.

Before the rumors boiled, Luke touched the branches that represented the ability of [Blasphemy] and tried to absorb these fears near Phoenix, but it seemed that he did not meet the requirements, and the ability remained motionless.

It seems that we can only wait for the rumors to completely ferment and spread among the crowd.

The captors who were squatting in Phoenix City also found nothing, and after squatting for a whole day, they did not find any signs of the balloon clown.

Fortunately, people were ready for a long battle, and they did not relax, and at ten o'clock in the evening, finally, those balloon clowns began to appear piecemeal.

The action of the capture team went very smoothly, and the three balloon clowns were captured intact.

Next, it's time for Wagner to demonstrate the technology.

Three clowns are enough for him to curse in different ways.

With the first clown in place, he pulls out a rusty butcher's knife from the material bag he was carrying.

The first curse, "Bloody Strangulation".

He took the butcher knife in his hand, approached the clown, and stopped when he was half a meter away, his mental power sketching a complex and evil spell model in the air, and slicing his fingers with the butcher's knife.

Seeing this, Luke couldn't help but worry about him, is he really not afraid of tetanus?

But Wagner is clearly confident.

He dripped the blood flowing from his fingertips onto the circle that appeared out of thin air, and the blood instantly dyed the circle red.

All of a sudden, the feeling of a cursed wizard came.

Then, with a flick of his free left index finger, the circle was imprinted directly on the balloon clown's chest.

As he muttered some words in his mouth, a red line on the clown's chest that was so subtle that it was almost invisible poked out, burrowing directly into the void and extending towards an unknowable location.

In this process, Wagner has been continuously exporting spiritual power to maintain the operation of the red line.

The whole process lasted more than 20 minutes, and Wagner went from full of confidence to sweating, and the blood-red silk thread still didn't seem to find the target on the other end.

Seeing that the time was getting longer and the consumption of mental power was getting bigger and bigger, he finally made up his mind and quickly took out a scarecrow from the material bag.

The scarecrow was no more than the size of an ordinary person's palm, it looked ordinary, there was no special aura to reveal, the only special point was that it had some blood-red hairs all over its body.

Wagner glanced at the scarecrow, as if he was a little reluctant, but finally made up his mind, pinched a red hair with his thumb and forefinger, and pulled it off with a force.

As the red hair was removed, the scarecrow visibly loosened a little, as if it was about to disintegrate if it was pumped again.

Wagner gave him a distressed look, put it back in his pocket, and then spat out an eerie gray-green flame from his mouth, setting the dark red hair on fire.

With a "boom", the hair burst into flames, and then instantly turned into ashes, which were also different from the black and gray of ordinary items after burning, but like the powder of dark red blood after drying.

The ashes floated towards the balloon clown under Wagner's manipulation, landing on the red silk thread sticking out of its chest, and then melting and clinging to it.

The silk thread became red and translucent, and the color of the crimson seemed to be dripping out at any moment, and an ominous sense of old age emanated from it.

The efficiency of the silk thread blessed by the red hair was greatly improved, and after more than ten seconds, it seemed to have found its target and became straight, as if the other end had entered another body.

Wagner's eyes were quick, the fingers of his right hand changed several gestures like seals, and countless dead souls struggled to surge outward with the rusty butcher knife in his hand.

He directly stabbed the knife into the position of the balloon clown's chest circle, and a dead soul in the butcher knife roared resentfully and disappeared without a trace, and the clown who was stabbed into the chest by the butcher's knife also fell to the ground directly without saying a word, and the balloon in his hand did not even explode.

The red thread instantly contracted, and went to the other end with a strange curse energy.

Faintly, there seemed to be a scream.

"Damn it!"

An eerie and crazy voice came from the chaos of the void.

This was followed by a bright dead light that broke through the space and headed straight for Wagner.

The light of death seemed to have a strong effect on creating fear, and the first time it appeared, the people present were all stunned, and a confused, frightened, and panicked look appeared on their faces, as if they were experiencing the most terrifying scene in their lives.

The same is true of Luke, who felt that the tree of power in his body began to drain his energy and flesh uncontrollably, growing and growing unlimitedly, and the branches and trunks of the tree also turned into entities, growing from his eyes, ears, and all parts of his body, turning himself into a pile of dead flesh foam.

Fortunately, he also possessed the divinity of "fear", and it was only a moment before he recovered.

Is that my biggest fear? Concerns about Goldfinger.

Yes.

Although he has improved so much, evolving from a mortal to a heroic transcendent, it all comes from the function of Goldfinger, and he has no idea how the ability tree came to be and how it works.

Luke was worried for a second, and then put the question behind him in an instant.

With his ability, if he is self-taught out of the ability tree, I am afraid that he will only be able to stand still in the past year.

If the ability tree is abandoned because of this concern, it can only be said that it is a choking and a brain-dead person.

Therefore, Luke easily got out of this dilemma with the logic of solving the problem of fear of ghosts in his previous life.

If there really are ghosts, then it's a big deal to kill me, and if there are no ghosts to kill me, it means that there are no ghosts.

Highlight a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

The reason why Luke has so many moments to think and not think about helping others is naturally because there is a strong man on the field who is completely unaffected by the death light - Albert.

Before the death light reached Wagner's body, he had already met it, and with an unpretentious punch, the power of dense ripples exploded, directly canceling out the death light and pulling back the people who had fallen into fear.

"How?" Albert looked at Wagner, "Eliminated?" ”

Wagner's face was full of confidence: "Eliminate it, I will use the red hair given to me by my ancestors, and if I can't kill it, it will be too embarrassing, and the remaining two balloon clowns are useless, so dispose of them." Also, the location where the clown is located should not be a forbidden area, it is like a different dimension cut out of this world, that space is very tightly blocked, and now the owner there is alarmed, I haven't found the specific coordinate location. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came to report that the two balloon clowns in custody had inexplicably disappeared automatically.

The plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle was successful.

But Luke's plan also had to try again.

In the evening, he stayed at Waldburg, continuing to look for the opportunity to launch the Blasphemy.

Minutes and seconds passed.

At four or five o'clock in the morning, Luke was meditating, when suddenly the branch of the ability tree representing [Blasphemy] shone slightly, and the skill that had been unable to work since the urging finally moved, and the branch also shook to send a message to Luke.

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If the caster is cautious and wants to be tricky, he can only steal it according to the proportion of one or two percent, so that unless he encounters a poor and sensitive person like Luke, the probability of being discovered by the original owner is relatively low.

If it's the kind of one-shot deal, you can also intercept it all directly, but this is not called stealing, this is called robbery.

Luke pressed an emergency button to remind the people of the Abnormal Affairs Handling Team that their side could act, but after a while, many people came to protect the Fa, because they were worried that the Joker would use the death light attack again, and even Albert came with him.

Once ready, Luke began to activate the [Blasphemy] ability.

His ultimate goal is to stop the Balloon Clown's actions, and the promotion of himself is only incidental, so he directly chooses the most violent and the easiest to detect all interceptions.

At the very first moment of his decision, a flood of fear rushed towards the Tree of Ability like a river.

The roots of the "fear" divinity gulp down these fears and nourish their own growth, but for a thin wisp of divinity, these energies are too huge and majestic, and soon, the energy at the roots is overflowing.

In desperation, the excess fear was diverted to the [Dread Crow] skill.

Albert and a few others kept watch over Luke from about four in the morning until the next evening.

The others took turns to eat and rest, but Albert, as Waldberg's supreme combat force, was firmly by Luke's side from beginning to end, preventing him from being attacked from another dimension.

The town of Drew, a remote town far from Phoenix, was formed by a gathering of lumberjacks during the Pioneer of the Americas.

For a long time, there has been a sense of peace and quiet, with the exception of the town, where the rate of children missing and dying is far higher than six times the average for the Lighthouse Nation as a whole.

Of course, this is just a thing of the past.

After all, every 27 years, such a ratio only occurs once.

And now it's different, for more than a year, since the appearance of that terrifying monster, it has never returned.

And Deli Town also completely lost contact with the outside world soon after the monster appeared.

At first, there is no way to get out, and some residents try to escape, but once they leave the town for some distance, it is as if they have encountered a common "wall of air" in the game, and they are stopped by a strange force.

At this time, however, people can still see what is outside the town.

After a month, the view beyond the "wall of air" gradually blurred, as if the outside of the town and the inside of the town became two worlds.

Another half a month passed, and even the sun in the sky became dimmer and dimmer.

Eventually, the sun and moon that shone over the town disappeared, replaced by a large, blood-red clown mask.

The mask would grin irregularly, irregularly, revealing rows of sharp teeth inside it and let out a weird laugh.

Every now and then, a townsfolk would be pulled into the air by an invisible force, chewed and devoured by the monstrous and terrifying giant mouth, and then turned into a rain of blood and flesh and fell to the ground.

This relatively prosperous town originally had two or three thousand people, but in this terrifying and oppressive atmosphere, in addition to those who were directly devoured by monsters, there were also some people who chose to commit suicide in despair, and now only about a thousand people are still alive.

Fortunately, the town's food reserves are relatively sufficient, and when only half of the town's residents are left, even if they sit and eat, it is enough for the remaining survivors to eat and drink for more than half a year.

As for more than half a year later?

It doesn't matter if everyone is alive or not, who cares so much.

On the afternoon of the day Luke intercepted the fear in Phoenix and surrounding towns.

The Balloon Joker is killed in Deli Town, and Pennywise is already very annoyed.

This clown who can clone a large number of clones is a perfect work born by accident, and there are basically no shortcomings except for the weakness of the body.

As a result, within a few days, the happiness disappeared with a snap.

He was annoyed and angry and fought back in the air, but he was easily crushed by a strange strong man.

Well, he endured!

Anyway, there is still a remnant of fear that can be absorbed.

While the influence of the balloon clown is still there, continue to enjoy the enhancement of a lot of fear.

Unexpectedly, eating living people and singing, suddenly, the fear was intercepted by Luke.

He sensed it a little, and he found out that his faith power had been stolen, no, robbed, and even the address was clearly perceived.

It's still a familiar place, and there's a familiar atmosphere next to it.

Fuck you!

The person who just killed me robbed me of my "money"!

It's tolerable, it's unbearable.

But most of Pennywise's energy and heritage are used to run Deli Town, and after thinking about the strong man who smashed the light with one punch and left the home of Deli Town, he really may not be able to fight.

The clown mask in the sky suddenly became irritable, and the three points of light above its head kept spinning and turning, as if it wanted to be excited, but after running for a long time, it finally stopped.

Then, the irascible clown directly opened his big mouth and swallowed more than a dozen people at once, grinding and chewing little by little for half an hour before spitting out the remains of those people.

(End of chapter)