Chapter 159: Prey
Ince Zangwill......
Crane looked at Ince Zangwill, who was originally dressed in the costume of the native of the Southern Continent, with a large amount of fire flowing out of the pores, white feathers growing outward, and four skinless arms full of blood vessels.
Ince Zangwill now looks closer to a runaway monster than any other monster, and he has been an extraordinary person in the "Death" path before the demigods.
After failing to be promoted to demigod, he chose to jump to the dark path of the Sequence 4 "Night Watchman", and now he has forcibly devoured the extraordinary characteristics of the "War Bishop" without performing a ritual.
Three completely different traits mingled together to form him as an out-of-control monster.
Although these traits are adjacent to each other, for any extraordinary person, even if the potion is completely digested step by step, there is still a rather terrifying risk of being promoted in this path after completing the ritual.
Now that Ince Zangwill is like this, it is hard to imagine that there is no arrangement of some angel and the influence of an external god.
Klein, of course, doesn't plan to approach Ince Zangwill directly.
Under the influence of the curse and blessing of the Mother Tree of Desire, any attack on Ince Zangwill be returned to the enemy who caused him harm.
Not only that, the destructive power that an out-of-control Sequence Three Extraordinary can do is also extremely amazing, and Ince Zangwill's ability to jump two paths in a row is more treacherous than that of ordinary demigods.
You know, among Tony Towne's extraordinary characteristics, there are not only the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence Three, but also all the characteristics of the "Hunter" path of Sequences four to nine, and in this case, Ince Zangwill now takes on a form that is more like a monster than a monster.
In addition to his own present arms and legs, there were four skinless and veined arms around his waist and in his ribs.
Due to the nature of the "Grim Reaper" path, that arm was covered with white feathers, and it had a deathly aura on it.
At the same time, his teeth had been pulled out one by one and sharpened when he had entered the form of an incomplete mythical creature. The surface of these teeth are inlaid with vague, small faces, all pained and pained by spirits that Ince Zangwill once controlled.
Before swallowing Tony Towne's extraordinary properties, he was already a strange creature with eight legs and white feathers. This is roughly equal to the sum of the mythical creatures of the "eight-legged demon wolf" and the "feathered serpent", and in a way, he had already combined the powers of "death" and "night" before that.
Unlike these two, the mythical creature form of the "War Bishop", aka "Red Priest", is the Flame Giant. And under the ascension of the person, the mythical creature form of Ince Zangwill has also been improved to a certain extent.
His eight legs were covered in scars from the flames, from which a seemingly never-extinguishing flame burned. The flames enveloped him, and the feathers were stained with oil, and the whole person was filled with a destructive aura.
Around him, terrifying and crazy spiritual power stirred around him. If it weren't for the fact that it had been expelled by Adam with the Chapel of Bones before the inhabitants and soldiers.
Then Ince Zangwill will be able to use the psychic power of the "War Bishop", coupled with the dominance of the "Grim Reaper" and the fear of the "dark" path, to forcibly turn the people around him into his own slaves.
But even the weaker ones of the floating spirits in the surrounding spirit world have been invaded by this crazy mythical creature. For a moment, it seemed that the gate of death was opened, and there were blood-red spirit creatures floating around.
The eyes of these spirit creatures showed a blood-red color, and they appeared in the real world.
In the distance, a tall and thin figure appeared next to several soldiers who had just been taken away by Adam. They were in a trance, slowing down as they were about to flee, watching from a distance as Ince Zangwill, who was in the process of being promoted but out of control.
Ince Zangwill turned his head abruptly and looked into a corner in the distance, and the next moment, darkness and fire mingled, turning the place he had locked in into a dead silence.
The corrosive flames spread into the soil, making the land uninhabitable until the extraordinary power of the attack was exhausted.
"Hello, Ince Zangwill."
"—long time no see."
A figure approached from a distance, and his plans had changed, and the Reaper's secret puppet had no way to block Ince Zangwill's attack from the front.
Now it seems that if Crane dares to let the "Reaper" secret puppet come to Ince Zangwill. The "Reaper" will be directly assimilated by Ince Zangwill's psychic connection and become the other party's lackey.
Although he was facing a Sequence Three, Crane wasn't worried about what would go wrong with his plan.
Klein was not arrogant, but because he was ready to face a Sequence Three Sage when he knew that Ince Zangwill was going to hunt down Tony Towne.
Magicians never put on an unprepared show. If Klein was facing a normal Sequence Three who had been fully promoted here, or even an out-of-control Sequence Three like Ince Zangwill, he wouldn't dare stay here.
Because, there is only one consequence of doing so, and that is to be reduced to ashes by the flames and darkness of Ince Zangwill's body, and there is no way to leave even the corpse.
Crane can only be reborn in the prepared resurrection land with the help of the resurrection of the "Source Castle".
But the current situation is different, first of all, Inc Zangwill is still Sequence 4 in essence, even with the blessing of the "Mother Tree of Desire", when he has not completely digested his demigod-level potions, and at the same time he has not completed the ritual and directly promoted to Sequence 3, it is when he is most vulnerable.
Ince Zangwill's attacks are all driven by instinct, and Crane has just used up a "paper man double" after divination, and then used "Flame Jump" to escape the aftermath of this attack.
It was this temptation that made Klein understand that Ince Zangwill was not yet in a state of promotion.
At best, this level of attack was only a little stronger than the demigods he had encountered before, and with the "Lost Country" attached to him, Crane could even resist this level of attack.
And, who said that Klein only had three helpers: Dunn Smith, Dalie Simone, and Leonard?
Hunting down an incomplete Sequence Three to complete the ritual is difficult, but it's also good for Crane. The essence of this ritual is to use one's own or others' cognition to stabilize one's own spirit and not be consumed by the spiritual imprint in the potion.
While the ritual of the Sorcerer calls for the murder of a demigod, Klein's further hunting of Sequence 3 will make the other people and himself more aware of it, more solid, and more rewarding in the occult sense.
It is precisely because of this that even if Klein relies more on the power of others, as long as he is still the director and he is the last person to kill Ince Zangwill, he does not have to worry that he will not be able to complete the requirements of the ceremony and lose control of his promotion.
"Star General" Gadelia is now in the distance, ready to come to the rescue. Sharon is already attached to the gold coin that Crane is carrying, and will be "possessed" by Ince Zangwill after that.
In addition to this, Klein also specifically asked his messenger, Renette Tinicole. It was only with the help of the gold exchange that Crane dared to show up.
And the most important thing is that what appears in front of Ince Zangwill now is not Klein's ontology, but just the secret puppet of the "Apostle of Desire" with the breath of "Source Castle" and "Lost Country".
Klein knew that the breath of Fort Source and the Lost Country would be a mockery for Ince Zangwill, who had been blessed by the Mother Tree of Desire.
Sure enough, Ince Zangwill turned his head around and stared viciously at Crane's secret couple.
Out of control, he didn't have much ability to think, so he could only instinctively move his eight legs, crawling like some kind of creature living in the dark underground.
Crane bowed slightly, and let his secret puppet raise his hand while guarding against Amon, and the deep darkness in his eyes swelled, directly detonating the almost violent emotions in Ince Zangwill's body.
Although the ability of Sequence 5 to encounter the "Apostle of Desire" to detonate emotions is not too strong, the loss of control itself brings the most intense emotions of an extraordinary creature.
Under such emotions, Ince Zangwill's mind exploded like fireworks, and even his eyes and ears overflowed with a little black blood.
Feathers grow rapidly where the blood drips. One after another skeletons and undead with flames wrapped around their bodies appeared. And as Crane controlled his secret mate and accelerated towards Ince Zangwill, he himself took a step back and entered a glittering door.
Since Inth Zangwill still has the terrifying ability to bounce damage from the curse under the curse, Klein has already asked Renette to use his abilities to help him counteract the curse.
In order to accomplish this, Klein buried his "Reaper" puppet in the ground, planting a curse on himself and on the "Reaper" puppet, so that the "Reaper" could share a portion of the curse damage for himself.
A green flame exploded in the sky, delivering the message according to the code agreed upon with Leonard and a few other helpers.
For these helpers, the same code represents a different meaning, and it is precisely because of this that the effects created by the various extraordinary abilities around them are combined under Crane's plan, and the scene forms a scene that competes with the crazy ideas of Ince Zangwill.
Patches of darkness emerge around the periphery, and a door opens through them, a "requiem" created by Dunn Smith and Leonard Mitchell. Dai Li, who has light makeup on her face, uses her ability to open the door to the underworld.
Under the effect of "Requiem", one by one, the souls that were forcibly controlled by Ince Zangwill were sent to the underworld.
A large, castle-like shadow suddenly appeared behind Inczanger with the opening of a light door.
Renette Tinicol, an angelic person, was not affected by Ince Zangwill's mad spirit when she possessed him, and although his spirit was raging and out of control, he was still sluggish in front of the former "ancient evil" who could draw power from the spirit world.
Sharon and her teacher are possessed by each other, and Ince Zangwill is in action, preventing him from using his inspiration to hit Klein, who alternates between "Fire Jump" and "Flash".
At the same time, starlight descended from the sky, and Gardelia, who had been in the air, continued to destroy the surrounding crazy undead and spirits, and let them return to sleep.
If Ince Zangwill is just an ordinary Sequence Four, then Klein can directly control his spirit thread, and use the two "resentful spirits" to control Inss Zangwill into his secret puppet at the same time, and complete this "murder".
Seeing Adam take the quill, the unexpected situation that could happen was a little less threatening to Klein, and without this Level 0 seal, Ince Zangwill would not actually be able to do the pre-war improvised behavior.
Now Klein's most important thing to guard against is the Amon in the shadows - the true creator's plan has succeeded, which means that Klein needs to guard against an angelic-level Amon who may attack at any time.
In order to prevent the few extraordinary people who participated in the battle who had not reached the demigods and lacked patience with the contamination of mythical creatures from being affected by the uncontrolled spiritual pollution, they stood far from the center of the battlefield.
At this distance, it was impossible to see Ince Zangwill in the thick darkness, but he was able to use his extraordinary abilities to influence the miscellaneous soldiers around him.
Ince Zangwill's body stiffened, and a door that shimmered white opened behind him.
Crane walked out of the door with a green flame burning and a long knife in his hand—the embodiment of the "Blade of Flesh"—and Crane stared coldly at Ince Zangwill.
Suddenly, endless darkness spread, and the burning wolf head suddenly turned his head back and looked at Klein, who was wrapped in green flames and gray mist.
In just an instant, the boundless darkness dragged Klein into a dream.
In the original book, Ince's description of the different paths is that he has the power of "death and darkness", so jumping another path can retain the previous characteristics.
(End of chapter)