Chapter 58: Deception
Following Angel's instructions, Leonard and Borgia quickly found the body of the "assassin".
Of course, it was not easy to bring the body down from the roof of a building six or seven meters high, and the two did not do so, but returned directly to the open space in front of the warehouse after confirming the body.
"The dead 'assassin' did look exactly what he looked like on the wanted notice, he had been shot in the jaw, the bullet had passed through the brain, and he had died instantly, and we found these on the rooftop."
Leonard handed Dunn a dark, shiny ball about the size of a grape, an eyeball-like object that Angel felt resembled the main ingredient of the "Assassin" potion in his memory, but not quite the same.
Borgia carried a dagger, a piece of silver that had become dim.
The former is a common double-edged short dagger, the grip is seriously worn, but the blade is carefully maintained and extremely sharp; The latter was engraved with various Hermetian incantations and symbols, and the material that made up the spell had lost its luster of pure silver, like an oxidized tin flake on the surface.
"This should be the spell used by the 'assassin' before, and the opening spell he recited is 'frost' in Hermes, which can plunge the surrounding area into extreme low temperatures, affecting the ability to move, and the radius is less than ten meters."
Taking the silver, Angel explained.
"Frost ......," Dunn repeated, "it should be a spell made by other Extraordinaries and given to him to use, the Esoteric Extraordinary's Extraordinaries had not shown similar abilities in previous battles, he was more of an expert at manipulating illusions and flames in battle." ”
"Well, it should be the extraordinary of the 'witch' or higher sequence, Lady Sharon has used the power of frost in battle, and of course it is not ruled out that there are other sequences with similar powers."
Angel analyzed.
In fact, she had basically confirmed that this was due to the ability of the "witch", and it was likely that behind this "assassin" was a mid-sequence extraordinary person standing in the same path.
"Witch Sect?" Leonard reacted immediately.
"Not necessarily, but it's worth reporting."
Dunn pondered for a moment, then took the used spell from Angel's hand and examined it carefully.
Unfortunately, the patterns on the surface of the silver sheet that have been exhausted have faded, and the material itself has become fragile, so these charms are disposable, and even if they are not broken on the spot after use, they cannot be recycled and reused.
After putting away the extraordinary items and silver pieces left behind by the Assassins, the men searched the entire field in a carpet manner, but found no other useful clues or items.
The body of the tuxedo clown is still lying in place, and the fragments of mutated Bieber are not accessible to passers-by. After discussing with the night watchers, it was decided to let Lorota stay where she was, she had the police badge issued by the diocese of Beckland, and it would not be a problem to bluff ordinary people, even if a nearby resident called the police, she could handle it when the police arrived.
The remaining five returned to Blackthorn Security with Seal 2-049, Antigonus Notes, and the Extraordinary Materials they had picked up, and they needed to return these Extraordinary Items to the "Chanis Gate" as soon as possible.
After that, the other Night Watch Officers in rotation will come to the battlefield and retrieve the bodies of the two deceased Extraordinaires in the hope of discovering clues to the Esoteric Order or the Witch Cult.
Borgia picked up the iron box sealed 2-049 again, and the five returned to the carriage at the corner of the street, with their arms stretched out as they had come.
At this time, it was already afternoon, and there were already many residents and dock workers walking outside the warehouse, and the fierce gunfire and explosions during the previous battle attracted the attention of many nearby residents and workers, but there were no fools begging for a living in the dock area, and no curious onlookers dared to approach the warehouse to check.
Still driven by Leonard, Angel, Dunn, Klein, and Borgia sat in the compartment around 2-049. By reactivating the seal on the iron box, the Antigonus puppet no longer controls the two at the same time, allowing them to chat in an intermittent state of staleness.
The first to speak was the taciturn Borgia who came, Angel had always thought he had such a personality, but now it seems that perhaps silence is just a knee-jerk behavior of the night watchman with a scar on his side when facing an unfamiliar colleague.
"I'm curious how you managed to kill that Secret Order clown, who can come and go in a hail of bullets, and I even suspect he already has Sequence 7."
Borgia seemed to have been brewing this question for a long time, and immediately asked as soon as he placed 2-049 in the center of the carriage.
"Angel, tell me about it first." Dunn chimed in.
It is normal for two Sequence 9s, one of whom is not even a soothsayer who does not have the ability to fight head-on, to join forces to take out an extraordinary person who is likely to have a Sequence 7......
Angel didn't intend to hide what had happened, the tuxedo clown of the Secret Order was not lightly injured, and he was so full of thoughts about how to take the notes that he was exposed and was controlled by 2-049, and there was nothing in this that his teammates couldn't know.
The only problem is ......
She looked at Crane, who was sitting across from her, who was calmly bending his arms and not squinting, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.
Pretending to bow her head to organize her words, she recalls the battle with the tuxedo clown, confirming the status of the other four night watchmen at the time.
The captain was already unconscious when he landed, Leonard was in the worst condition, and he didn't recover until he rescued him, and Lorotta and Borgia fell to the other end of the clearing, and they couldn't get up at that time......
After assessing the risk, Angel decided to help Klein withhold information that he was able to remove the negative status 2-049 on his own.
"After Ms. Lorota snatched the note back from Riel Bieber, causing the mutated Bieber to explode on the spot, Seal 2-049 was knocked to Klein's feet by the aftermath of the explosion, and he must have been immediately affected by the negative effects......"
After a rough draft, Angel began to tell Dunn and Borgia about the situation.
“…… The clown of the Secret Order used Crane's body as cover and asked me to hand over the notes, and I tried to bypass Crane and attack him, but he was agile and vigilant, and I never succeeded, and his attack was so obvious that it couldn't hit me......"
"You're at a stalemate?" Dunn asked, no longer flexing his arm, as if sensing something was wrong.
Angel nodded: "It is not good for him to stalemate, after all, you may regain your senses and join the battle at any time, and he is more and more eager to ask me to hand over the notes, otherwise I will kill Crane." ”
"I was thinking of stalling for more, so I threw the Antigonus Note at Klein, it would be best if I could wake him up through the collision of foreign objects, even in the worst case, the note would be protected by the 2-049 area of effect, and would not be easily taken away by the Esoteric Order."
From this point on, Angel's description is different from the real situation.
Hopefully, Klein is smart enough to pick up on his words......
She looked at Crane, who was sitting across from her, who seemed to be thinking about something, and slowly stopped with his right arm flexed.
No, he was affected by the seal, and he had entered a state of stagnation.
"As far as I know, it is not possible to wake up a person affected by 2-049 by throwing an object without direct touch." Dunn pointed out the flaws in her words.
"But only this 'thrown object' is different." Angel reached out to stop Borgia, who was about to touch Crane, and pointed to the Antigonus note that Dunn had placed on his lap.
Dunn looked at Crane, who had stiffened beside him, and nodded thoughtfully.
He picked up the note and gently tossed it onto Klein's lap.
Like someone who had been awakened by direct contact, Crane's arm, which had stopped swinging, began to move at a normal speed again, and his eyes regained clarity after a moment of confusion.
“…… Well, yes, Angel woke me up through a note, and the annoyed Esoteric Extraordinaire behind me was about to kill me with that invisible bullet, and 2-049 was right under my feet......"
Naturally, he took over the topic and continued to speak.
Good, yes.
Angel gave a thumbs up to the quick-thinking Klein in her heart.
The rest of the narrative was carried out by Klein until Angel decisively killed the Cult Joker affected by 2-049 with two shots, which did not differ from the actual situation.
Only Klein freed himself from the image of the seal, which was tacitly interpreted by the two as the peculiarity of Antigonus' notes.
"In that case, your luck is good, if the Antigonus Note can't remove the influence of the Antigonus puppet, then Mr. Moretti will die from the guns of the Esoteric Order."
Borgia, who was quietly listening to the conversation between several people, said.
Klein pulled out an ugly smile: "I've always been lucky. ”
"But you don't do things by luck, do you?" Dunn looked at Angel with no doubt, but conviction.
"That's right, I've been aware of Rare Bieber's approach to Seal 2-049 a few times, and he's completely unaffected by 2-049's effects. It wasn't until I was arguing with the Secret Order clown for the note, and I accidentally entered the seal's area of influence with the note, but was not controlled by the seal in the rage, that I basically confirmed this. ”
Angel did have some guesses about the effectiveness of Antigonus' notes against 2-049, but she didn't have the guts to try such an unreliable guess in battle. The actual effect of the confirmed note was that Dunn was never affected by 2-049 again after Dunn got on the train with the note in his hand - the other three people in the car had been controlled by 2-049 several times.
But now that Dunn himself has verified the effect of the notes, she doesn't mind a little tricking her captain to help her new teammates hide their secrets.
The premise is that Crane's secrets don't pose a danger to himself, to the night watch, or to other ordinary people.
For now, at least, Crane is a conscientious night watchman, and even if he hasn't been regularized yet, he's been involved in several missions, and it's said that he also has a lot of credit for finding Antigonus' notes this time.
After the conversation was over, the group chatted and chatted with each other, and Dunn used the captain's privilege to take the note back into his hand, allowing him to relax and rest in his chair, while the other three had to go through the arduous journey between flexing and extending their arms and waking up others.