Chapter 167: The Man Behind the Scenes

"Bang-"

The delicate figure slammed to the ground in front of Crane.

His heart seemed to fall with him, sinking to the bottom.

It wasn't until Angel slowly got up in the dust and staggered towards him that he breathed a sigh of relief and felt the sharp pain in his left arm again.

Doesn't she have the ability to be "light"? How can it fall straight from a height?

Klein was curious about why the other party did not use the light ability of the "assassin" to fall slowly, but fell to the ground as if in free fall, fortunately, the stone slab on the ground had been lifted by the bomb, and it was mainly soft soil, otherwise it would fall from a height of more than ten meters, and even the body of an extraordinary person would have to lose half of his life.

But seeing Angel's injuries clearly, Klein's newly put down heart hung in the air again.

Her face was covered with blood and dust, and the light-colored dress that was supposed to be delicate and decent was now full of tears, stained with blood and dust, and was stained tan, and the wound that ran through her abdomen continued to ooze blood, continuing to soak the long dress.

The right hand from the elbow down the area became charred black, and the palm of the hand could not be seen in its original shape, as if all five fingers had been fused together.

The fall just now also caused a lot of damage to her, Angel's left shoulder twisted at an unnatural angle, her entire left arm was limp at her side, her steps were unstable, and she had to pause after a few steps.

Only her purple eyes were still clear.

"Where's your hand, I'll see if I can get it back, hurry up, it's time for the pocket watch to come soon."

Angel's hoarse voice, which was completely different from usual, came.

Crane squirmed his lips at the loss of what to say, then turned back, trying to find his forearm that had been cut off in battle.

He suddenly remembered the captain's action of tearing open his chest just now, using his own blood to feed St. Selena's ashes, and activating the Sage's relic ability.

"Save the captain first, he's more seriously injured!"

Ignoring the search for the broken arm, he shouted anxiously.

Now only "Damage Transfer" can save Dunn!

Angel was stunned for a moment, glanced at Crane's left elbow, which was still dripping blood, and nodded hesitantly.

Staggering to Dunn Smith, who was still holding the urn and lying limply, Angel crouched down, his charred right arm on his dislocated left hand, and stroked his chest, which was still gushing with blood.

Klein stood behind her, looking at the two of them anxiously, expectantly.

After a few moments, Angel got back to her feet and turned around, her face covered in dust and blood with no expression visible.

Suddenly, horror welled up in her purple eyes.

Was it a success, or a failure?

Crane looked at the other party suspiciously, and then remembered the time limit and negative effects of the "magic pocket watch".

Is it the time of the pocket watch......

He felt a pain in his chest and the illusion of being clutched to his heart.

Didn't the captain save it?

No, it's not an illusion.

Crane's pupils constricted, and he looked down at his chest.

A slightly pale palm peeked out of his left chest, stained with blood.

Who is it? The halfway Bishop of the Rose? But he was dead, a mass of flesh that couldn't see its shape.

Is it Megaoos, who has eaten two Yang Flame Charms and is not yet dead?

She also died with the evil god in her womb.

The palm of the hand jerked back.

Numerous thoughts crossed Crane's mind, and then his thoughts melted down, his legs lost strength, and he fell limply to the ground on his side.

In his near-out-of-focus gaze, a pair of new, shiny leather boots straddled his body towards Dunn, who was lying motionless on the ground, and Angel, who was angrily rushing towards him.

Thinking and breathing were almost stagnant, Klein watched in a daze as Angel held his left arm with his right hand, holding the dagger and stabbing at the dark blonde man, but the other party easily dodged it, holding the dagger with his backhand, and stabbing her in the chest.

The thin body lay on its back, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The man in the double-breasted long gown half-crouched down and took the urn of St. Selena from the captain's arms.

Crane's eyes went dark, and all consciousness vanished.

……

After a few minutes, Leonard Mitchell, leaning against the stone podium, shook his body and slowly opened his eyes.

In the bloody aura so thick that it could barely dissipate, he struggled to his feet and looked around.

In the devastated park, he saw countless stumps and broken arms, countless innocent citizens with wide eyes and dead eyes.

He saw Megoos, whose head was gone, whose limbs had melted together, and whose abdomen had been pierced.

He saw Dunn Smith, who was lying motionless on the ground, his shoulders were bloody, and Klein Moretti, who was lying on his side with a hole in his chest, his left arm missing from the elbow down, but still struggling to reach forward.

I saw Angel Granger with a dagger in his chest, his right hand as black as charcoal, and his dress in tatters.

No...... Not really......

Leonard has a voice inside him that keeps denying it all.

He staggered over to his teammates, walking back and forth beside several corpses, verifying and verifying, but eventually had to accept the reality that could not be changed.

"No...... No...... No! ”

He repeated the word in his throat as he fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face.

After an unknown amount of time, his neck twitched, and he listened, and then his teeth clenched, and a suppressed roar squeezed out between his teeth.

The "substitute punisher" team, who had just arrived in a carriage and carried the seals into the park, were frightened by the roar that sounded like hell, and they didn't know what to do.

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On Red Moon Street, on a mercenary carriage slowly heading towards the steam train station, a pale hand opened the note on his lap and quickly flipped back from the original page.

After turning over the part full of Juanxiu's font, a page with almost an entire page of text was revealed.

(It's almost entirely painted black.)

"Cole Granger was lucky enough to die in the runaway promotion, and she regained her role as an Assassin, a female Assassin, with some of her extraordinary traits."

"Miss Granger, who came to her senses, reported herself and her upline Mrs. Sharon, which caught the attention of the night watch, and Dunn Smith led the investigation of the case, which happened to be accompanied by Dalie Simone in Tingen."

"Dunn, who has been working overtime to solve multiple occult incidents in a row, did not pay attention to secrecy, and Mrs. Sharon's eyeliner spotted Angel Granger's movements, and after a simple divination, she decided to go to Black Thorn Security Company herself to solve the problem. The Tingen squad was almost out of the nest, and the rear was weak, and this choice made sense. ”

(painted a few lines)

"With the help of Angel Granger and her out-of-the-box Assassins, the Nightwatchmen killed the intruding Lady Sharon, and frustratingly, Daly survived."

……

(Smeared with most of the page)

"Crane, who should have died in the warehouse, survived again, and with the help of Angel, who was also supposed to die here, killed the magician of the Esoteric Order."

"But things are still going well, and Dunn has access to the notes of the Antigonus family, which are covertly tainted."

"In any case, the man who has repeatedly sabotaged Ince Zangwill's plan must leave the city of Tingen immediately."

……

(Line after line of text is scribbled out, more than the previous ones combined)

"Dunn Smith's condition has improved significantly, he has mastered the 'cosplay method', found his own coping rules, and began to quickly digest potions, which has mitigated the contamination he was exposed to."

"Angel Granger, who was in a hurry to be promoted, was supposed to secretly take the 'Instigator' potion after leaving the sight of the Tingen team, and then died out of control caused by the pollution left behind, but she actually returned to Tingen alive and revealed the trick to her captain, Ince was puzzled, but he could only accept the reality."

"The story has taken on a new wave."

……

"Azik, who has many secrets hidden in his body, sees the traces of Ince's influence on Angel's body and reminds the other party, just as he once reminded Crane."

"With the help of the information gathered, the two survivors began to split up in search of the 'Red Chimney House', and although they always chose routes that did not contain targets, delaying the search for the truth, this still disrupted Ince's plans, and he had to speed up his pace."

……

"Mitis, the witch of pleasure whose lover died at the hands of Angel, is always looking for an opportunity to kill her enemies, and she has teamed up with the Aurora Emissaries who have been summoned by the Creator to infiltrate the city of Tingen to deal with their common enemy, the Nightwatch."

"Ince felt they could be their help, and the kind Ince didn't mind helping them."

……

"Mitis approached New Party Councillor Maynard, who aspires to the mayor's office, and after helping him deal with his political opponents, she gets an order to renovate the street park on Red Moon Street in the North Side, which also makes her spiritually unstable, but the Witch of Painful Joy just wants to end it quickly."

"Meanwhile, Ms. D of the Aurora Society is collecting funds for the arrival of the gods, and her subordinate Gabrio has been caught by the tail of the night watchmen after leaving a clue during a ransacking of the rich."

"Angel met Gabrio on his way to the bank to deposit money, recognized him, and the night watchmen confirmed the hiding place of the Aurora Society through divination."

"The Red Glove team arrived as promised, they stormed Ms. D's house, and after a fierce battle, Ms. D managed to escape, directing the Red Glove's eyes outside the city of Tingen, while Mr. C, who was hiding behind, continued their secret plan."

"At the same time, Lanrius once again came into the sight of the night watchmen, and soon, the clues he left behind would be found by the night watchmen."

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(About half a page of paper is painted)

"Dunn Smith digested potions faster than Ince expected, so he will soon complete the role of 'Nightmare' and become the 'Requiem' of Sequence 6, and his contributions over the years have long exceeded the need for promotion."

"Ince has to speed up his plans."

"Klein and Angel decided to submit a special application at the suggestion of Daly, who had briefly returned to Tingen, and that they would teach their teammates how to play before making a vow, which was very reasonable for their personalities."

"This will make the senior deacons who come to Tingen for the examination follow the process of asking all the night watchmen who know how to play the trick one by one."

"Neil, tainted by the Hidden Sage, was exposed under the scrutiny of the High Deacon, and as a last resort, Dunn killed the teammate with his own hands, which shook the code he adhered to, made his spiritual stability unstable, and delayed his promotion, and luckily Ince Zangwill gained valuable time."

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"Mr. C and Mitis set up a grand venue that attracts the baby in Megoos's womb, and under the baby's guidance, she will travel to the renovated street park in the North District to give birth to the child of the gods in the sacrifice."

"Passing by the Black Thorn Security Company, Megoos happened to remember the soothsayer who had helped her, so she came there and caught the attention of the night watchmen."

"The calm Dunn Smith tried to bring it into Chanis Gate to fight with the help of the environment and items, but Megaoos felt called again, and she was ready to go to the street park immediately."

"The Night Watch Squad must make a choice between Mingzhe and fighting to the death, Dunn took out the ashes of St. Selena, and together with Crane and Leonard, went to the street park to stop Megaoos, this is their way of doing things, it is very reasonable."

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(A few lines have been redacted)

"Mr. C detonated the bomb that had been buried in the ground during the renovation, but due to the interference of Angel, who had been warned in advance by unknown means, the number of sacrifices in the park did not reach the predetermined amount, which made the baby in Megoos's womb even more weak, but it was exactly what Ince had planned, yes, just right! He was not prepared for the true gods to descend on the city of Tingen. ”

"The battle between the monster-turned, Megoos, and the Nightwatchers began, and with the help of the Sage's ashes, the vascular thieves, and the strange appearance of advanced charms, the Nightwatchers inflicted heavy losses on Megoos, and Angel's strange bullet killed the runaway Mitis, the sacrificial Mr. C, and the soon-to-be-incomplete descending Divine Heir."

"Dunn Smith died in battle, and St. Selena's ashes were severely traumatized. Angel Granger, in order to preserve her spirituality, uses magical items to save her teammates and falls directly from a high altitude, which makes her lose her last combat effectiveness. Ince was a little frustrated that he didn't get a chance to fight him head-on, but that didn't detract from his purpose. ”

"He honored Mitis's wish and killed Klein first, and then the other. After dealing with the pair that always disrupted his plans, Ince took St. Selena's ashes, passed by the substitutes who had been belatedly trying to activate the seals, and left the scene. ”

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The note turned to a blank page, a middle-aged man with dark blond hair, blind one eye, and profound facial features picked up a classical-style quill and wrote a sentence in the margin:

"The story of the city of Tingen is coming to an end."

Closing his note, he looked out the window with dark blue eyes, two four-wheeled carriages with police logos passing by, and inside the open doors, a group of "Mechanical Hearts" members were fully armed and had serious faces.

"It seems that something big happened to the new park we passed by just now, there was smoke and explosions, do you know what happened?"

The driver also looked curiously at the police carriage, and then asked from the window in front of him.

"It seems like there's a bunch of bad guys trying to blow up the park, even the city of Tingen, where a lot of people are dead."

Ince Zangwille didn't want to answer the casual coachman, but he was in a good mood today, so he decided to make a small talk with him.

"Wow, awesome, awesome. But I don't think you're in a hurry at all, someone must have managed to stop them, right? ”

The young coachman asked in surprise, his right eye narrowing involuntarily.

Ince's lowered mouth grinned a mocking grin.

"Yes, they saved Tingen."

The two chapters are really hard to dismantle, so they were sent together......

If nothing else, it's here today.

(End of chapter)