"You ......"

Angel squeezed a word out of her mouth, but didn't know how to say it.

"Meow-"

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the body of the black cat Winsa rolled violently, broke free from the bite of the blonde red-eyed skull, and landed lightly on the altar table, grinning and looking upwards, a pinch of black short hair floating in the air, disappearing before landing.

The headless messenger stopped attacking, but elegantly straightened up, floating in the air, four heads in his hands, and four pairs of eyes staring at the black cat, Angel, Crane, and the location of the door.

If it weren't for the fact that one of the heads still had a few scratches on his face, the scene would have been more serious.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Alger, who had stopped to knock on the door to ask, felt a stir in his heart, slowly lowered his outstretched hand, and continued to walk, walked through the door, and circled back to the deck from the other side of the corridor.

It's as if he's just come here for a walk.

Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't look at what you shouldn't see...... "Hanging Man" feels like he's back to the state of participating in the tarot for the first time.

But isn't this my ship?

Before returning to the deck, this was the only question left in his mind.

In the room, the two messengers and their owners looked at each other, falling into a long, awkward silence.

"Summoning ......", "I ......", "What's ......", "Something."

Eventually, it was the headless Miss Messenger who broke the silence, and the four heads in her hands spoke in turn, distributing the words as evenly as she could, as if she were acting in a comical comedy.

"Miss Renette Tinicole, on the island ahead of this ship, we may encounter some dangers, and I hope to summon your help later to deal with those creatures that travel through the spirit realm, shall we?"

Hearing his words, the headless messenger Renette's four heads withdrew their gaze and looked in a certain direction at the same time.

That's where the ghost ship is targeted, the location of the nameless island.

After a moment, her heads turned back.

"...... you're going to deal with", "...... deal with it", "Which one?"

It seems that because of a problem with the distribution, the last head failed to get the lines, the lips were very pale in color, and the mouth that seemed to be insufficient in blood opened slightly, and he was stunned on the spot.

"'The Gazer'."

Angel replied for him.

"Yes."

The head hurriedly added a word, and then all the heads spoke again:

"However," "need to ......", "pay ......", "two thousand gold coins." ”

2,000 gold coins...... Even the most valuable rune gold is only 2,000 pounds...... Of course, this is not to say that 2,000 pounds is not high, but it is very cheap compared to the Sequence 4 Potions main material......

Angel didn't hesitate too much and immediately agreed.

"No problem, but I'll have to wait until it's done, because it takes some time to raise the coins."

Although it was only the first time she had seen the headless messenger, Renette Tinicol, Angel was impressed by her approach to the black cat she had contracted with, Lady Winza, and had high expectations for the role she could play.

At the very least, as a messenger who can travel through the spirit realm, she can also track down the escaped "gazers".

Hearing the answer, Renette's four heads nodded at the same time, making her hands holding her hair shake a little.

With a sigh of relief, Angel looked at the black cat Wensa who had not moved on the table, and saw that its blue eyes were looking at him with some sadness, and he suddenly felt guilty.

After all, he summoned it with a spell, but he agreed with someone else's messenger in front of him to assist in the battle, and there was always a kind of face-to-face ...... feelings.

As soon as she squeezed out a smile and was about to sincerely apologize, she heard Wensa open her mouth and meow, and then said:

"All I need is 1,500 gold coins."

After being stunned for a full second, Angel realized that Winsa was ready to compete with Ms. Renette Tinicol for this "contract".

But then, a burst of joy welled up in her heart, no matter what the battle ended up, at least Winsa could fight with Tinicol in the spirit world, if her offer was relatively low, could it......

As soon as the thought arose, Angel felt several lines of gaze linger on her face, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw that Renette's head had all been turned, and the pair of scarlet eyes were staring at her.

Are you, intending to, now, break the covenant?

Without waiting for the other party to speak, a word-by-word threat sounded in her headless courier's style.

But Winsa's offer is very cost-effective, and in addition to being excited, she has a trace of expectation, hoping that Renette can also feel the pressure of competition and take the initiative to reduce the price.

"Or, we can ......" At this moment, Crane, who was beside him, suddenly stepped forward and whispered, "Both?" ”

In an instant, twelve eyes of different colors looked at him.

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On the sea, which was somewhat golden by the twilight sun, "The Hanged Man" Alger paddled hard with his sculls and carried Angel and Crane to the beach, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and look back at the "Blue Avenger" docked not far away.

Finally get them out, or I'm worried that something strange will happen to my ship...... He silently praised Mister Fool and the Lord of the Storm in his heart, and then said aloud:

"It's dusk, we will wait a maximum of 24 hours, and if I don't see you tomorrow night, for the safety of my sailors, and for the sake of keeping this ship that is not just mine, I will choose to leave.

"Of course, if you pray to Mr. Fool and have Him relay it to me, asking to wait a little longer, I will consider it as appropriate."

This is basically a polite word, if there is a chance to pray to the fool, it means that the situation is not too bad, then it is naturally not a problem to wait for a while, if you really encounter a crisis that cannot return to the "Blue Avenger", it is likely that you will not even have a chance to ask for help.

"Thanks, we'll be there in time."

Angel nodded in thanks, and walked with Klein towards the woods in front of the beach, behind them, where Alger was struggling to leave the shallows in a small boat.

Compared to the pristine island that the three of them explored at night last week, this nameless island is pitifully small, with sandy beaches and not too lush jungle on the side of the "Blue Avengers", with two mountains about 300 meters high in the center, one south and one north, and a narrow canyon in the middle.

According to the information provided by Arodes, the "Gazers" are hovering in the canyon between the peaks, and that will be the target of the two tonight.

Of course, Angel first took Klein to the east side of the island, where she saw a stranded ship in a dream by Pierce, the senior deacon of the Night Church on the island of Parra.

When she looked through the telescope from a distance, she didn't find the ship, so she kept worrying about it - wasn't this the island she was looking for?

But when the sun was setting in the west and night had just fallen, the two of them came to the cliffside on the east side and looked out into the sea below, and they immediately understood the fate of the ship.

In the waves that keep lapping against the cliff wall below, floating wooden barrels, wooden boxes, various cables, glass bottles and other daily necessities continue to rise and fall, looming between the waves and the reef.

Farther away, two broken masts were stuck in the reef, swaying slowly under the water.

There are also countless fragments of wooden planks between the reefs, drifting away under the turbulence of different directions.

The stranded ship had been reduced to pieces by some powerful attack.

Of course, Angel could tell at a glance that this was not the effect of the "Calamity" charm, and that the ship hit by the power of the Calamity would show obvious signs of decay, as if it had passed a thousand years in an instant, while the various fragments below were very new, as if the hull of the ship was intact a few days ago.

The surrounding reef also has many sharp fracture marks, as if formed after being attacked by large-caliber artillery.

"No wonder I didn't see it in the telescope, it turned out to be shattered like this......"

Angel was a little disappointed, if it was a complete stranded ship, maybe there would be something of value left inside.

"Judging by the time, the fleet of 'Lieutenant Admiral Dusk' Bratov Ivan passed here just two days ago, and the ship may have been destroyed by them."

Crane judged, tossed a coin, and did a divination, confirming his thoughts.

"Or loot and destroy it so we don't have to go again......"

Angel said with some deflatedness.

With that wish fulfilled, the two quickly returned to the jungle and headed towards the canyon between the two iconic mountain peaks.

At night, the jungle was quite lively, completely different from the pristine island that Alger took them to, but unfortunately all the animals that appeared, mostly small herbivorous animals, and there was no sign of otherworldly creatures.

But in fact, this is a common ecological group of isolated islands in the sea, even in the capital of the Rorsted Islands, the Blue Mountains Island, where Byam is located, it is rare to see traces of extraordinary creatures, even if there are a few of them, they have been hunted and killed.

The scene of the southern continent's curly-haired baboons, Intis's hunting black spiders, and Sunia's blue shadow falcons gathering together on the pristine islands is nothing short of a miracle to the experienced extraordinary, like a hodgepodge of adventures designed for the protagonist's experience.

"Even the trees on that island are not the type that the climate of the archipelago can breed, but are like snake scale trees on the southern continent, and the species is quite single."

Following Angel, who was using dark vision to find his way ahead, Klein analyzed while holding a horse lamp and looking around.

"But it's much more normal here, with towering palms and low shrubs...... Much like the rainforests of the Blue Mountains Island. ”

"So there's something weird about that island?"

Angel asked casually, looking forward vigilantly, although there are no transcendent creatures here, there are more dangerous "gazers", you know, being stared at by them for too long, but they will fall into various negative states, once surrounded, it will be difficult to escape.

"There is no doubt at all that so many creatures from different regions and habits are gathered together, and there must be some kind of force at work. Maybe it's the magical item that Alger is talking about, or maybe it's the man who made "Lieutenant General Hurricane" Zielingers and the "Apostle of Desire" assassinate Duke Negan. ”

Indeed, the purpose of the "Apostle of Desire" is a certain "blasphemy card" that will allow him to advance to a high order, and Ziringus is also pursuing the "magical items" that can be obtained after completing the mission, and they are likely to be provided by the mysterious organization behind it, the "Dusk Hermit Society".

Wait, Mr. Fool also seems to have a "Black Emperor" card, could it be that he is also somehow related to this organization?

And in the ruined city I arrived in after my death, there are also two blasphemous cards, "Witch" and "Red Priest......

Angel vaguely felt that there was some kind of hidden connection between them, but she couldn't grasp the vein.

The two of them analyzed sentence by sentence, and soon crossed the jungle and came to the entrance of the canyon between the peaks.

"It's ......"

Pushing away the bush branches in front of her, Angel stopped, and Crane behind her glanced curiously and stood in place.

It was a deliberately cleared lot with a makeshift camp in it.

Random balustrades from shrub branches, collapsed and broken tents, rusty iron pots, bonfires with ashes in pieces, and simple stone stoves all show that the place has been abandoned for a long time.

One carrying a lamp, the other using dark vision, they quickly explored the small abandoned stronghold, finding nothing useful other than a few documents written in Fursak that were illegible by time and rain.

"It looks like a shelter built by shipwrecked sailors, it is well equipped, there is plenty of fresh water, fruit and small animals nearby, and there should be no shortage of survival supplies, but it has obviously been abandoned for many years, and it is ...... Not even the bones were found. ”

Angel concluded, holding in his hand a cutlass that was also badly corroded, a weapon that sailors and pirates at sea loved, which could be cut and sliced, and was easy to maintain.

"The sailor on the ship that was sunk by Lieutenant Admiral Dusk?" Klein analyzed.

"Probably not, the fragments of that ship are very new, and if they had been stranded here for many years after the same time as this camp, without maintenance and repair, they would have rotted in the wind and rain."

Angel shook her head, denying Klein's speculation.

Fortunately, both of them present were masters of divination, and Crane directly found an open space to sit down, and used the rusty scimitar he picked up to perform a dream divination, and soon got part of the answer.

"They were pirates who were stranded on the island five years ago because another ship got lost and ran aground here...... After the balance of the number of people, choose to live here. ”

After waking up from the dream, Crane frowned and explained the results of his divination, and from his face, it was clear that this "balance of numbers" had been achieved by some violent means.

After all, a pirate ship has at least a hundred sailors, and this camp can only accommodate a small half at most.

"But after a month of primitive life here, they mysteriously disappeared again, and my divination was disturbed to a certain extent, and I have no way of knowing their whereabouts."

Maybe this kind of distraction can be eliminated in the gray fog space, but I can't do it in front of Angel, even if it's convenient, it's not long before I get off the ship, I really can't say it...... Crane gripped the scimitar, hesitating.

"That's probably the work of the 'Gazers', who can easily kill the average sailor, and the anti-divination properties make it difficult to restore the scene."

Angel didn't notice his tangle, stared around the abandoned camp and came to her own conclusions.

"The odds are high, so these 'gazers' have pure hatred and malice towards humans, and we have to be careful."

Throwing aside the rusted scimitar and standing up from the ground, Crane patted the dirt on the hem of his trench coat and said.

Even if there was no malice, wouldn't I have killed it to get the material? Every step of the promotion of the Extraordinary is to step on the corpses of countless transcendent beings...... Angel quickly shook off this sentimentality, took out the "Good Luck" pistol in her right hand, cautiously left the camp, and continued to walk forward.

Whether or not the desolation of the camp had something to do with the Gazers, her goals hadn't changed.

As you step into the narrow valley, the moonlight above you has become clear, and the crimson light sprinkles on the canopy of the trees, and then passes through the branches and leaves, revealing an eerie atmosphere in the quiet valley.

The two of them took turns turning on their visions, searching for traces of the gazer, but there was no sign of biological activity at the bottom of the valley except for clumps of bushes, large trees, and pieces of rubble.

Phew, boom.

The only crept of their footsteps over the gravel and dirt in the night, and the occasional breeze in the air rustling through the leaves.

After a lagging Crane walked past a bush, a pale figure slowly rose from under the flat stone he had stepped on.

It was dressed in a white robe made of an unknown substance, and its hands and feet were shrunk in it, only the head was exposed, but on the top of the skull, which had the same facial features as a human, there were thick tentacles where the hair grew.

At the tip of each tentacle, an eye with no whites and only pupils opened, and these eyeballs quickly turned and stared at Crane, who was at the back of the team, unaware of the danger.

In an instant, Klein, who was being stared at, felt a cold touch from behind him, followed by a feeling of weakness that spread throughout his body, and the stiffness of his limbs. He wanted to call for help, but he felt that it was difficult to breathe, and the vision of his eyes was rapidly weakening, and it became dim from the sides to the middle like an old television, and even the figure of Angel, who was constantly wiping the sweat from his forehead and carefully patrolling in front of him, gradually dimmed.

His "clown" instincts could sense the gaze of the "gazer" emerging from the ground behind him, far more than they had expected before they acted.

This will make him even too late to call for help, he will fail and die here!

In the next second, Klein maintained a forward stride posture, and fell to the ground stiffly, turning into a rough-cut, translucently thin but equally stiff paper figure under the gaze of more than a dozen eyes.

At the same moment, the healthy Crane stepped out from behind the tree next to him, stretched out his palm, and snapped his fingers.

A bright yellow flame erupted from the white-robed and tentacled-eyed gazer, licking the spirit creature that had failed to sneak attack, but could not do any effective damage.

But this provided an excellent landing point for another extraordinary person, "bang", the flames fused and skyrocketed, and the figure of Angel, who was still ten meters away just now, was drilled out, holding the "Good Luck" revolver in her right hand, and pulled the trigger without flickering, and the "sun brooch" on her chest flashed continuously, and all the bullets with the power of "purification" were injected into the body of the white-robed figure.

In the left hand of the void, a sharp bone blade appeared out of thin air, burning with a raging black flame, and slashed straight at the eyeball-covered tentacle on the head of the "Gazer".

Before he could even withdraw his gaze from the paper man, the gazer was hit by the Black Flame Blade and the Purification Bullet, and the thin and fragile figure instantly disintegrated, shattering like an illusion.

Mirror stand-in, this transcendent creature can actually use the extraordinary abilities of the "witch"!

Far away from the two of them, the pale figure of the "Gazer" emerged from the void, and one of its tentacles had shattered the eyeballs that had grown, the result of the blow that had taken place of the main body as a stand-in.

But there are still more than ten eyeballs left, which means that it is nearly invincible in a short battle, unless it can somehow consume all the "stand-ins".

"Boom-"

Without hesitation, Klein activated the "Creeping Hunger" that he had not dared to activate because of the side effects, and his left hand bloomed with a sun-like brilliance.

"Divine Light!"

A thick pillar of light descended from the sky, enveloping the gazer who had used the stand-in to distance itself, its pale face as if a layer of golden yellow had melted into it, and all tentacles had their eyeballs closed, wriggling to dodge the blinding light.

Angel's gaze also locked on the gazer bathed in light, and she summoned the invisible silk thread, grabbed the surrounding trees, and catapulted her like a projectile, re-approaching the other party at a speed that almost pulled out the afterimage, and the bone sword with black flame on the tip of the sword slammed into the body of the divine light with her speed, and once again smashed it into shards that were still reflecting the holy light all over the ground.

High in the air, the white-robed figure with a trace of black flame on its body reappeared, and as soon as its missing eyeball tentacles looked down, it suddenly lit up and felt a heat in its brain in its lightning-like gaze, and the "spiritual shock" was like a burning knife inserted into its skull, bringing severe pain and suppressing all its thoughts.

"Bang-"

The black flame that was about to be extinguished exploded violently, and Angel once again used the "flame jump" to track the opponent into the air, raising the bone blade to slash it down.

At this moment, all of the eyes of the "Gazer" that had been narrowed by the severe pain suddenly opened, and the cold gaze condensed on Angel, and her left hand immediately became slow.

Taking advantage of the instantaneous opportunity, this spiritual creature did not hesitate to turn to the other side, and its body gradually became illusory, and it was about to leave here with the help of the spiritual world.

As Arodes said, the creature will flee if it feels unfavorable for the battle.

"Here, it is forbidden to escape into the spirit world!"

As his gaze faded, Angel, recovering from his sluggishness, used his lightness to stay in place for a short time, while switching the Rose Necklace to the soul of the Judge, making the surrounding space a forbidden entry into the spirit realm.

The white-robed figure that had become illusory paused, then became clear again, and a fiery bone blade thrust from behind it, piercing through its chest, and in the black flames that suddenly jumped, fragments of illusions were scattered.

The figure of the "Gazer", who had once again escaped with a stand-in, emerged from the sky below, and without hesitation, it flew towards the ground with the help of gravity, it wanted to escape from this space that could not enter the spirit world, burrow into the ground or fly into the mountains on both sides, avoiding these two terrible hunters!

On the ground below, Crane switched the "Wriggling Hunger" from the interrogator to the living corpse, and his whole body strength skyrocketed, his movements were like a beast, his fists formed frost, and he ran towards the landing point of the "Starer" step by step.

At the moment when the two sides were about to make contact, Klein once again felt the sluggish and weak feeling when he was attacked, he squinted his eyes and looked up, and all the eyeballs of the tentacles of the "Gazer" stared at him again, superimposing layer after layer of negative effects on him with a condensed gaze.

This momentary sluggishness caused him to stagger past the white-robed figure.

"It is forbidden to escape into the spirit realm here!"

The ancient Hermes language came from above again, and the illusory figure of the "Gazer" who was about to burrow into the ground became solid, and the pale head with tentacles hit the hard ground, more than half of the tentacles no longer writhed in the violent impact, and the eyes at the tip were tightly closed, no longer looking around.

Seeing that it could not burrow into the spirit realm, it did not hesitate to move its legs under its robes and ran towards the depths of the valley at a speed that surprised the two of them.

If it is allowed to leave the scope of the ban again, I am afraid it will be difficult to keep it...... Angel and Klein tacitly pursued in that direction, alternating between igniting black flames and throwing them, or igniting flames on dead branches and hay in the distance, and then jumping forward, clinging to the "gazers" who fled in a hurry, but were never able to enter the spirit world.

It seems that the "Desperate Lady"'s ability to use her eyes as a magic mirror stand-in comes from the "Gazer", and this guy actually has so many eyes...... Three of its eyeballs have already been consumed, and there are still ten or so left, and if you continue to follow this tactic, you should use up its stand-ins and keep it...... Disappearing and appearing in the flames, Angel calculated in his mind as he chased the pale figure in front of him.

When she stepped out of the flames again, she was less than ten meters away from the fleeing "Gazer", as if sensing danger, and the tentacles above the other party's head that could still move turned back, staring at her one after another without the whites of their eyes.

"Mental Storm!"

Without hesitation, Angel raised his right hand, and the "Good Luck" pistol released a dizzying fluctuation, and the tentacles immediately shook and closed their eyes.

But at this time, Angel had no way to catch up, and she slashed down, she was also stiff, and her limbs were weak to stand in place, and behind her, the same was true of Klein, who used the flame jump to catch up.

Around the two of them, pale figures floated from the ground, and their eyes stared at them indifferently.

The fleeing "Starer" turned his head, a smile on his pale face with human features.

It succeeded in luring two enemies into its own people's lair.

(End of chapter)