Oops...... Now I can't move my body, I can't dodge......

Angel tried to get up from the ground, but found that with a person and a table pressed on his body, he couldn't move much except for his head and right hand in front of him.

Kaveh had fainted under the double blow of the bomb and the impact of the workbench, and at this time he collapsed limply on Angel, which became the biggest obstacle to her counterattack.

"Sleep Charm" ...... Dagger......

Other items that could be used flashed through her mind, and she found that the only thing she could use was the "thirst for blood" that had been taken off when she dodged the bomb.

Looking at the approaching figure, Angel's right hand moved slowly, at a speed that was undetected, groping under him and Kaveh, looking for the revolver that had fallen somewhere.

Perhaps it was a slight movement that caught Thomats's attention, and he stopped about three meters away from the two.

"I have no ill will."

I thought I would hear a few words of ridicule, but I didn't expect Thomas to say such things, and Angel almost laughed.

If it weren't for the fact that the old man, who had been mistaken for a "craftsman," fell to the ground and was nearly killed by a headshot and a bomb, I might have believed it......

In the groping, she finally held the cold "thirsty blood" all over her body.

Moving her right arm slowly, gradually moving the weapon from underneath her, she didn't make a big move, but looked at Tomas quietly to see what else he was going to quibble.

"I'm just here to get the extraordinary characteristics, and if she refuses to cooperate, it will only make her die."

"As for you, I don't know what you're going to do, but if you leave silently in the first place, I won't have time to care about you."

"You kill people and kill out of superiority?"

Angel couldn't help but retort after listening to Thomats's nonsense.

She finally held the "thirst for blood" behind the table, aimed at the other party, and could no longer bear Thomats's arrogant words, and directly pulled the trigger.

The reinforced bullets easily pierced through the wooden workbench and shot at Tomats with flying sawdust, and the other party seemed to have expected the attack, and moved sideways long before the gunshots rang out, easily avoiding the bullets.

"Whew-"

A strange whistling sounded, like the sound of steam leaking from a pressure cooker, and after avoiding the bullet, Tomats, who raised his revolver to deliver a fatal blow to Angel, slammed his body, his chest seemed to be cut by an invisible fist, and pieces of clothing and flesh flew forward, falling to the ground and landing on the workbench.

Bang –

The iron door behind Angel shook for a moment, and a two-finger-wide hole appeared about 1 meter away.

"Steaming... Steam... Rifle ......"

Wide-eyed, Tomats spat out a few words, orange flames erupted from his body, and the second rifle bullet passed through the illusory figure, leaving another bullet hole in the iron door, sending a whirlwind that blew away the ashes that were left behind.

The barely visible figure in the fire raised his unarmed left hand and swiped it on his chest, and the wound that was enough to fit into his fist disappeared and appeared on the shoulder.

"Poof—"

The last glimmer of flame vanished into the air, and there was no reappearance of Tomas around.

It's this trick again......

Attacks from outside the field of view prevent Thomas from having time to cast a paper man double, or perhaps there is a limit to the number of times this ability can be used...... However, after being shot in the chest, he escaped the scene with a fire jump and damage transfer in his near death.

If you have the opportunity next time, you should go straight to the beginning.

Angel thought to himself as he heard the heavy footsteps of the members of the "Heart of the Machine" carrying the off-white mechanical box on their backs.

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"I'm fine, I'm not badly injured, you guys hurry up and catch that bastard, he killed Bourne, (Rune foul mouth), what a white-eyed wolf......"

Awakened from a coma, Kaveh sat in a "high" chair with half the back missing, and a man dressed like a professional soldier was helping her to bandage a gunshot wound to her shoulder, and the craftsman had been shouting incessantly since he was rescued, eager to rush everyone with guns in the room to capture the escaped Thomats.

"Ms. Carveh, calm down and take care of the wound on your shoulder, the captain has already gone to chase, and Tomas can't run far."

The man reluctantly persuaded.

Amid the shards of glass and wood chips from furniture, two shooters armed with repeating rifles and one with a steam box on their backs and a high-pressure steam rifle attached to the box surrounded Angel.

The Steam Rifle Shooter glanced to the side, as if he hadn't expected Kaveh to spit dirty, but then withdrew his gaze to Angel in front of him.

After pulling out the Inspector badge of Ahowa County to prove his identity, Angel ended his treatment of being pointed at three rifles. But even if the guard has been lifted, the shooter of the "Machine Heart" on the other side is still unwilling to let her go, and asks with a gloomy face:

"But why did you happen to be here when Thomas attacked Lady Carveh?"

"If she hadn't happened to show up, I would have died at the hands of Tomas before you arrived."

Despite the fact that the gauze wrapped around his shoulder was still oozing blood, Carveh pushed past the several shooters surrounding Angel and stepped forward to explain.

"That guy was going to kill me when she came in, and if you really want me to die here, just be late like you did?"

The shooter who was questioning Angel's "mechanical heart" just now looked embarrassed and put down his weapon.

From the conversations of several people, Angel can guess that this "craftsman" should be a member of the "Heart of Machines", and I am afraid that his status is not low.

"Thank you so much this time, Thomas was recognized by Bourne as soon as he came in, but he used that ability to disappear from the flames and reappear, came behind Byrne through the doorway and killed him with one shot...... The bastard must have planned it, and the hour bell of the church next door rang just when he opened fire. ”

After reprimanding the belated helper, Carveh turned to thank Angel, and in her narration, Angel realized what had happened in Carveh's watch shop before she arrived.

The murderer, wanted by the Heart of the Machines, wore a cap and walked by the door of the Church of the God of Steam and Machines to the clock shop in Kaveh. Byrne, who was usually responsible for protecting Carveh and her shop, recognized each other at a glance and pulled out a short-barreled shotgun to attack, but Thomas used the "flame jump" to come behind him, and under the cover of the church bells, he shot him in the head, killing the dutiful guard.

Thomas then shoots and wounds Carveh again, and after asking about something, he is about to kill her, when Angel happens to be in the watch shop.

"Poor Byrne...... He always said that it was too dangerous to be an extraordinary, and he was glad that he hadn't taken potions...... I didn't expect that at such an old age, I didn't die at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of a traitor. ”

The shooter who had been pointing an automatic rifle at Angel muttered.

"Alas...... You take Byrne back first, tidy it up, and I'll go inform his daughter, I know her best. ”

Carveh lost the cunning and liveliness of yesterday's trade, and looked calmly at Byrne, who was lying on the ground, who had been too close to the ball bomb in the explosion just now, his coat torn by the blast, and his limbs twisted and not humanoid.

Immersed in the sad atmosphere around her, Angel is reluctant to ask Kaveh to help her design and manufacture new weapons, and since the shop has been blown up to ruins, it is clear that it is no longer in a position to trade and manufacture weapons.

But out of curiosity, she asked Kaveh, who bowed his head and was silent:

"Hasn't Thomas been wanted for two days? It stands to reason that he should have escaped from the port of Enmat after yesterday's arrest, so why would he risk coming here to find you? ”

Is there any hatred you have so much that he will kill you before leaving, even at the risk of his life--Angel did not ask.

There was a hint of anger in Kaveh's eyes.

"Didn't that guy just say? He wants my extraordinary characteristics, this guy must not be able to buy potion materials in the port of Enmat, and intends to use the extraordinary characteristics to ......"

Her words came to an abrupt halt, as if she was alert to say something that should not have been said, and her body tensed and looked at the several members of the "Heart of the Machine" who were walking out of the store holding Byrne's corpse on the carpet, and saw that they had not heard the conversation, and then relaxed their shoulders.

Her overreaction made Angel pay more attention to the second half of her unspoken sentences.

With extraordinary features? What to do?

Since she couldn't find the potion materials, she needed to kill Kaveh to get the extraordinary properties that appeared after her death...... Could it be that the extraordinary properties of an extraordinary being can be used as a material for potions of the same sequence?

Shocked by this terrible thought, Angel's scalp was numb, Angel subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to ask, but seeing Carveh's expression of saying the wrong thing, he estimated that the other party should not continue the topic, so he didn't ask boringly, but bluntly changed the topic:

"I didn't expect that Tomas had reached Sequence 7, and I read that the wanted notice said that he was looking for potions by himself and secretly became extraordinary?"

"Sequence 7? Of course not, he only has Sequence 8, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered me as Sequence 7. ”

Kaveh shook his head and replied.

This validates the idea from another angle, that Thomas really needs Kaveh's extraordinary characteristics to move from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7...... Wait, is Tomas sequence 8? But he was able to use abilities that were apparently used by the Tuxedo Joker in Sequence 7?

"Ms. Carveh, will you use the abilities that Tomats just used? Flame jumping, paper figure stand-in? ”

Angel asked, frowning.

"How is that possible! I...... At best, I know a little bit about ritual magic, the identification of magical items, and the crafting of normal weapons, and the crafting of magical items even has to wait until ...... of sequence 6."

After Kaveh retorted loudly, his voice became quieter and quieter, and he seemed to feel a little embarrassed.

But then she reacted, straightened up, and looked at Angel, who looked back with the same thought in her eyes.

"He's carrying magical items with these extraordinary abilities?"

(End of chapter)