Chapter 69: After the Stage
The handsome man in mid-air, dressed in a crisp double-breasted gown and shiny leather shoes, seemed to have just stepped out of the banquet and stepped on the invisible floor in the air.
His golden eyes instantly locked onto the ruined dining room of the villa, the mysterious woman who had disappeared after a flash of fire as it approached the ground.
With a cold snort, the man's left hand was raised lightly, and mysterious and complicated patterns and symbols poured out around him, and he was about to form a new gate in front of him, but immediately, these symbols and patterns drifted away in the wind and disappeared.
"Can't lock it...... Anti-divination beyond the demigods? β
After a while, he muttered, his left hand held in place, and for a moment he didn't know whether to put it down.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew around him, and the figure that had been looming in the distance had already flown next to the man in the dress.
Lifted up by the wind, wearing a black robe embroidered with storm symbols, a soft hat of the same color, and a serious face, it was none other than the cardinal of the Storm Church, the archbishop of the diocese of Beckland, the "singer of the gods" Ace Snake.
"Selt? What are you doing here? β
The Jowood district is under the authority of our Storm Church, the "Substitute Punisher" of the Cathedral of the Holy Windβhis stern countenance speaks for itself.
"I live nearby, I heard the movement and came to take a look."
The handsome man known as Celt replied, his eyes swept over the still burning villa and the citizens on the road who were watching the scene of the explosion and the girls huddled together, his face was not very good.
"Who was that?"
Ace, who was a step too late, only saw a figure jumping from the attic in the distance, while Selte, who had already arrived, stood in the air and couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, but she has strong anti-divination measures."
After a brief exchange between the two floating in the air, they came to the top of the villa and slowly descended to the lawn.
Ace Snake looked at the wall of the dining room with a large hole in the door, and a violent hurricane blew up, rolled around the hole several times, and the negative pressure formed absorbed the flames and smoke in the hurricane, and then they poured into the fountain pool in the middle of the lawn as if commanded, and the heat and water collided with each other, creating a burst of steam.
Seeing the flames extinguished and the smoke cleared, Celt walked quickly into the dining room and looked at the corpse of the servant crushed by the rubble, Parker with a bullet hole in his forehead, Katie with a blur of flesh and blood and no breath, and Kapin lying on his back on the ground, covered in tarot cards.
On each of his eyes is a main card, which is "Judgment" with an angel blowing a trumpet and "Emperor" with a crown of armor.
For no reason, he remembered the woman in similar armor who had just disappeared in front of him.
"There are some attendants in other rooms, and there are some guards on the periphery, but they don't dare to approach."
Ace's voice came from behind him, and the archbishop slowly approached, looking around at the miserable state of the restaurant, and his face was still ugly.
"Tarot cards?"
Looking at the only strangely dead Caping in the field, the archbishop asked, puzzled.
"This is the second case of this kind in recent times," said Selter, who is from the military and therefore knows some information that has not yet been made public, "In early October, the 'True Creator' tried to descend on Bakeland through a fraudster, who was tortured and killed in the sewers and was also covered in tarot cards. β
"This seems to have some kind of meaning, 'judgment' is the motive and purpose, the 'emperor' may represent the woman who just disappeared, and the tarot cards all over the body ......"
Halfway through the analysis, Ace got stuck, and he looked at Selt, who answered:
"I also think so, she should belong to a new secret organization, and after committing the crime, she will cover the dead target with tarot cards, and use this as a sign to announce to the other members that the target has been solved, and show her existence to the outside world."
But last time it was all the same big card sprinkled on the deceased, this time it looks like all the big and small cards in the same deck, maybe it's the style difference between the different members, "Empress", and "Emperor", heh, is it provoking the House of Augustus......
Celt recalled internal sources in the military and tried to find other similar cases.
"Maybe you'll know all about it when you caught up with that mysterious woman just now."
The "Singer of the Gods" looked at Celt, as if it had only then remembered that the military Extraordinary was also responsible for the extraordinary events that had taken place in Beckland.
He was a little late, only to see the woman's figure fall to the ground, and then disappear, it should have used some kind of fast-moving method, there are too many extraordinary sequences with this ability, even the high sequence of the military in front of him can do this through magical items.
With this ability alone, it is impossible to determine the identity of the other party, but as long as Seist uses his teleportation ability to block the other party, it will ......
"She's only a mid-sequence, up to 6, but she has an angel-level anti-divination," Celt glanced at the archbishop, who was often late for important events, "I think you should have a little respect for the big man behind her, maybe you can try to negotiate?" β
Ace Snake didn't answer.
An angel, even if he is not good at fighting, as long as he moves his fingers, even if there is an extraordinary person in the middle sequence standing in every room in this villa, he will die silently, and there is no need to make such a big noise.
Unless, there is some special meaning to this ceremonial scene, or the angel himself is inconvenient to deal with it, but has sent a subordinate to deal with it.
To track down, to provoke this angel, or his men?
The two of them were silent for a moment, and tacitly decided to report it afterwards, rather than discussing whether they should catch up here.
They split up and continued to search the corners of the restaurant, intending to piece together clues and find out what was going on.
On the outskirts of the villa, a team of substitutes arrived in a horse-drawn carriage and began to cordon off the scene with the assistance of the police to drive people away.
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"That's it, it should be not far from Minsk Street."
Angel said.
After meeting up with Sherlock, she ran more than a kilometer down the sewers, away from Capin's house, to the other side of the Jowood district.
By this time, the effect of her "magic pocket watch" had long passed, and the next 12 hours would have been difficult, but fortunately, the sewer conditions in Joewood were slightly better than those in the East and Beckland Bridge areas, otherwise their journey would have been extremely difficult.
Although it was already dawn at this time, there was no shortage of people in Bakeland who had the luxury of gaslighting during the day, and after seeing off the zealous detective, Angel would continue to return to the safe house in the East End through the sewers, waiting for the negative effects of the pocket watch to wear off.
Overhead, a glimmer of sunlight poured in from the underground manhole cover, illuminating the small area around them, and the two stood still in the light.
Angel pulls out a copper penny and tosses it to Moriarty, a pre-agreed "reward" for the commission. The latter took it, bounced up with a "ding", the coin landed in the palm of his hand, and the head of "George III" glittered in the sun.
"The head says yes, I think you're divining the safety of those girls, right?"
Looking at the familiar coin divination, Angel asked with a smile.
After the pre-battle discussions, arrangements, and the other party's behavior during the battle, including the familiar "Flame Jump" and "Paper Man Double", she already knew that this detective was the "Fortune Teller" path Sequence 7, "The Magician", which made her self-proclaimed "Fortune Teller" yesterday seem so ridiculous.
But compared to this embarrassment, she was more confused in her heart.
At the first gathering of the "Eyes of Wisdom", Moriarty was like an ordinary person who knew little about the occult realm, and was embarrassed to find a way to survive because he had provoked the Extraordinary, before taking the potion and becoming the Extraordinary.
But if this is the case, he is equivalent to being promoted from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7 in a month's time, even Angel, who knows the "way to play" and can "play in advance", is ashamed of himself.
More likely, he lied in front of the others and hid his identity as the Extraordinary, who was already an Extraordinary, and even had Sequence 7 at the time, which also made his experience of solving the Sequence Extraordinary with a magical item of 400 pounds believable.
Moreover, his incredible ability to "spiritualize" clearly does not belong to the "magician" sequence, and Angel has fought a magician of the Esoteric Order in addition to having a magic pocket watch, and the other party has not shown similar abilities. Spiritualization may be a follow-up sequence for the magician, but if Moriarty is Sequence 6, he won't be anxious to ask for help from a group of low-level Extraordinaries who are not as strong as him at the Extraordinary's party.
So he must have possessed some magical item that allowed him to transform into a Crown of Armor Ghost, be able to plant explosives through buildings, be able to inflict negative effects on his body by touching his body, and even be able to hurt an entire restaurant by screaming.
Of course, everyone has secrets, she didn't ask in detail, the two only worked together for a short time, they can't be called acquaintances, didn't she tell the existence of the "Ring of Madness" and the "Hidden Holy Emblem"?
But the magician, the soothsayer sequence 7......
If he were still alive, he would be a "magician" by now, right?
Looking at the penny with his head up, Angel was a little stunned.
(End of chapter)