Chapter 30: "Drag" (Second Shift, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Caterina Pelle, the "White Saintess", carried a girl wrapped in a black robe with black lubricated hair. The girl had fallen into an unconscious coma by this time and was taken elsewhere by Caterina
Around her, a little black flame gradually emerged, setting off her long hair as if it were fused with the black flame. At the end of her jet-black hair, it seemed to turn into a state of mist, merging with the darkness around her.
Tracy ...... My daughter. ”
Caterina let out a long lament, her white robe dragged long. If it weren't for the fact that Triss was going to be captured would have been handed over to the witch in charge of the transfer, she wouldn't have had time to rescue her daughter Tracy.
Among her many children, it was her favorite; She is most like her, and she is most like the original.
She knew that her daughter might have misjudged the strength of the other party, and the other party was not the "secret puppet master" of Sequence Five, but a real demigod.
It only takes fifteen seconds for Tracy to be transformed into a secret puppet.
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And as the ships guarding the "Black Death" around the flagship "Black Death" also suddenly turned into torches one after another, the steamer full of passengers quickly turned around, and drove farther and farther without checking whether the passengers on board were well.
Crane's figure appeared on the burning mast of the Black Death. He hummed a song as he chose the pirates around him who were of good physical fitness or had extraordinary characteristics to be his secret puppets.
Crane pulled a white piece of paper out of his chest and pinched it in his hand with two fingers, and a faint flame appeared on the paper, scorching it into leaping letters.
After doing all this, Crane removed the whistle that Mr. Azik had given him, and when it was blown, skeletons of white bones and black flames quickly appeared in the air. Crane gentlemanly folded the white paper and placed it in the hand of the messenger, who was trembling slightly.
A white figure in the distance returned, walking on the sea with every step, condensing the sea into mirror-like frost. And this is only a little more than a minute before the "Black Death" comes into contact with the ship.
Klein narrowed his eyes, and in the leap of his thoughts, he had already transferred to a distant place with the help of the secret puppet swap of the "sick girl" Tracy, who had just transformed into a secret couple. Let Tracy use the power of the "witch" to condense an ice cube around her body on the outside of her body and melt into the sea.
In a sense, Tracy's body and Caterina have a certain occult connection, and Catalina will most likely come here to solve Crane in the case of a sequence difference in strength, or destroy Tracy's body to prevent the use of other people's bloodlines and occult connections to lock her position in the opposite direction.
And Crane didn't want to leave, first of all, Caterina was obviously going to track down Tracy's killer, and Crane would not be able to get out of the ocean for a while after losing his "wriggling hunger".
And if he blends into the previous ship, there is a high probability that Crane will not be able to escape this witch's divination without the gray mist being able to cover himself, and at that time, the entire ship will suffer a catastrophe. While this would make Crane more likely to escape, it would also discourage him from doing so.
In that case, Klein might as well stay here and wait for Azik's rescue in the midst of a burning home field.
Although he really can't solve the "Ageless Witch" Katarina, he has already sent the letter to Mr. Azik!
Long before this operation, Klein had already prepared in advance on the gray fog in various ways because he was worried about Adam's arrangement, so that he could have room to escape when he encountered high-level extraordinary beings and even angels.
"Sure enough, it's the third sequence of the Witch Sect's 'Immortal'...... What is the Witch Cult doing? Even if I were prepared, I would not be her opponent. I could only delay as long as I could, until Mr. Azik arrived. ”
Klein said to himself, looking at the white-robed figure walking towards him not far away. This is the demigod of the Witch Sect, the "Ageless Witch" of Sequence 3.
And she condensed the sea around her into a mirror-like ice, not just to intimidate the "magician" in front of her, but because for a witch, the mirror is almost the equivalent of their home field.
In the occult world, mirrors are equated with a passage to another realm.
Strictly speaking, the world in the mirror is not the real world, but a collection closer to the concept of "door". This is closely related to the spiritual and astral realms, and if you get lost in them, you may end up in extremely dangerous places such as the "abyss" or "starry sky".
And the "Ageless Witch" has been able to turn the surrounding mirrors into a passage to the mirror world, where she can travel through the mirror world and turn the battlefield into her home with the help of the mirror world.
As Katarina's figure quickly approached, Crane took a deep breath. He believed that just as he had studied the relationships and abilities of the main members of the Witch Sect, some of the higher-ups of the Witch Sect must have also studied the abilities and relationships of the high-ranking members of the Aurora Church and the Night Goddess Church.
This made Klein can't help but feel that what appeared in the eyes of the Witch Sect at that time was his vest Sherlock Moriarty, which made the Witch Sect trace back to its roots, and at most it could only link the three identities of Dawn Dantès, Gelman Sparrow and Sherlock Moriarty.
As for Klein's original identity, he was already hidden behind Chanisgate with Ince Zangwill's attack at that time.
After all, with the help of the Aurora Society, Klein's disguised image of Sherlock this time is not the original bearded detective, but closer to the image of "Professor Moriarty" - of course, the younger version.
That's why he hid Tracy's body and didn't let Caterina take back her daughter's body, after all, no one knows if this "ageless witch" has a way to resurrect Tracy with the help of Tracy's remaining spirit.
While Crane is confident in the secrecy of the couple, it is best to be cautious in this situation. After all, after being transformed into a secret puppet, the secret puppet will also have a certain connection with its owner (Note 1).
After all, if Crane himself had an item with a occult connection to him, or a person with a occult connection was taken away by someone else, then Crane would also find a way to destroy the item or rescue the person to prevent others from having any unfavorable intentions against him.
Just like reciting the true and honorific names of the gods, this is an extremely precise point in the occult.
Under the blazing flames, Crane took off his top hat and saluted the seemingly slow, but actually extremely fast Catalina, and the moment Caterina entered the range of Crane's control of the spirit line, Crane began to try to control Caterina's spirit line.
The moment he began to try to manipulate Katerina's spirit thread, Crane sensed that this Sequence 3 Sage was more tenacious in the spirit than any enemy he had seen so far.
And with his movements, he also felt a curse power spread towards him along the thread of the spirit body he controlled, as if he wanted to use the power of the curse to curse himself directly to death.
Moreover, he saw that Katerina's jet-black hair was growing wildly outside while launching the curse, and the black hair was raised outward with thin threads that were invisible from the perspective of ordinary people, directly becoming a spider web, enveloping Klein's body inside.
But if you change to a sequence with a weaker ability to save your life, Klein will directly fall into a dangerous situation that is difficult to escape!
After feeling the spreading curse, Crane did not hesitate to stop his control of Katarina's spirit thread, and a "secret puppet swap" left the place, and the next moment, Crane appeared on another ship and felt that the secret puppet that had taken his place had turned into a lifelike statue.
Petrifaction!
The difference in strength between each stage above sequence four is really huge, which is completely different from the difference between the sequences of the lower sequences.
At that time, I only had Sequence 9, but I was already able to kill the Sequence 7 Extraordinaries with the help of extraordinary items and guns. And now, even if there is a difference of one sequence, the gap is almost irreparable, unless there are some exceptionally powerful magical items or a good combination of demigod-level abilities.
Crane thought silently, and the premonition of danger from the "Joker" suddenly lit up in his heart, and he once again used the "secret puppet swap" with the "flame jump" to keep himself away from this battlefield.
And the next moment, Caterina's figure appeared in front of the afterimage of Klein's "Flame Jump", but it was empty.
I can't beat you, but can I drag it out? Although the ability to regenerate is not as good as that of the ageless witch, the "magician" who is weird and difficult to kill understands too well.
Klein didn't let his guard down, because the next moment he saw a white figure sketching out of the mirror beside him. Crane was about to repeat the old trick, and a spark sparked on his body, but it was weighed down by the frost that Caterina had prepared for a long time, and it was extinguished instantly.
If there is no flame, how can you do a "flame jump"? Even if Caterina has not yet become a real angel and is not yet a "disaster witch" who can master various disasters, she can already use the background of some mythical creatures to control a wide range of frost and black flames.
Sequence 4 may still be considered "half human", belonging to the category of human beings; But the Extraordinaire of Sequence 3 can basically be regarded as a moving natural disaster. Even the "Silver Knight", who specializes in solo combat, has the ability to attack group targets.
But Crane's next move, Caterina, can't be stopped like just now, because there are too many puppets around Crane, and for every death of a puppet, a surviving pirate will be transformed into Crane's new puppet.
Note 1: Referring to the secret puppet Enyuni used by Amon when he caught Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke now has some Amon Adam PTSD, which is much earlier than the original book, and will be more cautious
I wrote a lot, and there will be a chapter soon hehe
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