Chapter 43: The Death Knell and the Sacrifice
From the moment the demigod of the "Aurora Society" appeared, Angel decided the order of the attack and focused all his energy on dealing with this sage.
Naturally, her first goal is to deal with Pierce Turner, the "Man in the Mirror", and secondly, to assist Klein in grazing Mr. X, who can barely need to "travel" to die here as long as he fully drives the "disease" ability.
But a demigod is more threatening than anything else, and she believes that the "Man in the Mirror", no matter how malicious he is, will make the same choice as her when he is ostensibly a "night watchman".
Looking at the black-armored knight burning in the black flames, Angel did not immediately appear from the mirror, but set his eyes on Mr. X, Louis Vane, who was unlucky enough to stand on the battlefield due to the negative effects of some magical items.
It was as if he had only recovered from the effect of losing his mind at this time, and his eyes behind the bronze mask had regained their clarity, and he remembered what he was going to do when he looked at the carpet of flesh and blood around him, the burning "Dark Sage" and the night watchman who was pouring out of his body with a huge spirit gushing out of his body.
This damn "Blood Flower" ring, at this time, suddenly has a negative effect, and I am too unlucky...... Mr. X complained in his head, and suddenly remembered the "Empress of Doom and Fear" in the name of the Goddess of the Night, and seemed to understand the reason why he suddenly became unlucky.
But in the next moment, as the long sword shattered the spirit and rushed towards his head with a whistling, Pierce's expression finally changed, and he was split in half by a sharp blade that could corrupt flesh, annihilate souls, and cut through barriers, like a hot knife cutting through butter.
"You, know I am, Man in the Mirror? Then why do you want to deal with me? ”
Pierce replied confidently.
Not far away, Pierce Turner flew out of the air under the action of the hurricane, slowly descending with the help of the spirit body, and beside him, the witch also landed gracefully under the effect of "lightness", neither of which was physically injured in this strange tornado.
"Tornado!"
The next moment, his thoughts, which had become light due to the reversal of the tide of battle, suddenly fell into a stagnation, as if cement had been poured into his skull, replacing his brain that had been transformed by potions and could record countless abilities.
The witch with a slender figure under the cloak and an iron mask on her face said in a strange tone, making Pierce take a few steps away from her with some vigilance, and her eyes kept moving between the black shadow that had just left the tornado in the distance and landed on the ground and the witch in front of her.
On the other side, the black armor on the body of the "Dark Sage" Ksma kept changing between the dense fog and the entity, and finally got rid of the black flame that burned him, and the faint shadow under his feet suddenly elongated, pointing at Pierce in front of him, and then rose from the ground, turning into a black shadow no less tall than Ksma, but thinner, colliding with the spirit released by Pierce.
It swirled and expanded, elevated, rolling up the tables, chairs, sofas, and gas lamps on the walls, and then the four not-so-solid walls and the ceiling overhead, the two-story building had been destroyed by a terrible hurricane almost in a second, and the wreckage had been swept up in it and turned into scum of illegible shapes.
The same was true of the five people present, the closest to the tornado, the body of Kosmana with a height of more than two meters was as light as nothing, and was swept into the air by a demigod-level hurricane and thrown into the distance, Pierce and Angel beside him also flew into the air in an instant, and the latter barely held the two together with silk threads and flew to the other side in a whirlwind.
Magical items? Or is it the ability given to him by the world in the mirror?
Doubts arise in Kersma's mind, but his original purpose was not to kill someone, but to solve the "mirror world" that suppressed his abilities, increased the enemy's combat power, and even prevented himself from leaving.
His slightly closed eyes were forcibly opened by the resentful spirit, and some of the short figures in front of him became taller and stronger, and he took off his mask with one hand, revealing an emaciated male face, and raised a slightly long, iron-black revolver with a slightly long barrel in the other, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at him.
As long as...... Travel...... Leave...... You can ......
The charred and stiff paper felt so different from the other pages that he quickly selected two of them with his nimble fingers, felt the uneven patterns with his fingertips, and then poured his own spirituality.
Despair gripped his heart like an invisible hand, causing his heartbeat, which had been slowed by the spirit thread, to near stop.
Klein, on the other hand, chose the best direction in the process of manipulating the tornado, allowing himself to fly towards the roof of a nearby building with Mr. X, whose spirit line was controlled and his body was manipulated by resentful spirits, and gently fell on the flat roof, during which the distance between the two did not exceed five meters, and did not exceed the manipulation distance of the spirit line.
It's a home game!
"That's good."
"I haven't had time to ask, who the hell are you......"
He barely controlled his spirituality, drawing complex symbols in his mind, but with just a few strokes, he was interrupted by the movements of his limbs and body on their own, his hands raised forward, his lips squirming, as if in a gesture to release the ability to "record", but he did not use his spirituality to really activate, as if he was hesitating which ability to choose.
Crane and Mr. X landed on the ground, and the latter regained some consciousness from the pain of the fall, and although his limbs were still out of control, complex symbols had been quietly drawn in his mind.
Mr. X, the only one present who could not withstand the damage caused by the mythical creature, also reacted, and his resentment towards the "Dark Sage" turned into gratitude, and the subconscious idea of wanting to leave with "travel" turned into a demigod to assist him, solve the night watch and the witch who inexplicably attacked him.
In the next second, the muzzle of the gun in his vision lit up, the mask on his face shattered, and his brain, which recorded various demigod abilities, was shattered by the "death knell", and flew out of the back of his head along with the skull fragments, and red and white sprinkled all over the sky.
Now, there's no better chance than ever!
And although this witch did not hesitate to start a war with the two members of the "Aurora Society", her identity and purpose were unknown, making him not quite sure of the other party's position.
Suddenly there was an invisible but slashing hurricane around them, and all the windows and mirrors shattered in the vibration, although they did not affect their original figures in reality, but in this mirror world, these mirrors were no longer usable.
This is also the reason why he found out that the Aurora Society has demigods and extraordinary beings here, and he is willing to delay time.
The darkness preceded the storm, and the head of the Diocese of Beckland, one of the thirteen archbishops of the Church of the Goddess, the Sage Anthony Stevenson, stepped out of the darkness and stepped into the alley, and his eyes immediately fell on "Pierce Turner" on the ground.
It took a full ten seconds for Mr. X to understand what was happening in him, he slowly opened his mouth, wanting to call for help, but his body suddenly became cold and numb, and an invisible spirit burrowed into his body, making him not belong to him except thinking, but even this bit of controllable thinking became more and more sluggish and sluggish.
What was left in place was a half-palm-sized, matte shard, like a shard of a mirror coated with black paint, with uneven edges, like a small piece removed from a complete mirror.
The invisible, illusory sound of mirrors shattering rang in everyone's ears, and Angel's living room changed from an eerie scene covered with a carpet of flesh and blood to an empty but warm meeting place illuminated by faint gas lamps.
Klein's lips quirmed, and he said silently, quickly took out the dark brown cover of "Grossell's Travels" from under his cloak, and put it directly on the face of Mr. X, who was possessed by the resentful spirit Seignior and used his extraordinary ability to reassemble the corpse, smeared his dirty blood on the cover of the travelogue, and sucked him into the world of the book, leaving only his secret puppet in place, and the latter jumped through the mirror to enter the gold coin in Klein's pocket, ready to be called.
Oops, it's sequence 5 vs. sequence 4, and there's no "world in the mirror" aid......
On-field ...... And also...... Other...... Enemy...... Person?
Angel's figure emerges from the last no-man's corner, and in this living room, which has become a "mirror world", without a mirror, she cannot hide in a deeper mirror for long.
"Of course, it's because we want to deal with you, the inner ghost in the Goddess Church," Angel stretched out his hand to show the hidden emblem on his wrist, successfully seeing the despair in the other party's eyes, "Also, harvest your 'despair'." ”
Next, Angel uses the surrounding window mirrors to create a corpse "double" like Pierce Turner, making him lie on the ground as if he were asleep in a black robe, next to his own extraordinary properties.
"Why, didn't go to Trier......"
Angel's voice was low as a whisper, but it sounded like thunder in Pierce's ears.
After a second of silence towards this "corpse", Angel directly pressed the other window and walked into the real "world in the mirror".
Casting the "Blade of Flesh", Kerma did not feel happy, his gaze only lingered on the two halves of Pierce for a moment, and then he re-stared to the side of the witch, where there stood an intact "Night Watchman", and the human body that was split by himself was reduced to pieces of glittering mirrors, disappearing into nothing.
Except that the rest of the participants have run out, it's no different than it was five minutes ago.
That's right, he was not "pushed" from the mirror world by Angel before the battle began, but was covered by her demigod-level stealth and hid in the living room of the four-person battle.
This is exactly what the "Dark Sage" means, his goal at this time has not changed, seeing that the demigod witch, the night watchman who is still a little distance away from the demigod stopped suppressing himself because of the mistake of cooperation, quickly raised the long sword in his hand, and slashed it with one hand, with the momentum of ten thousand jun, pointing directly at the "Night Watcher" Pierce.
"Aren't you an official extraordinary? What about support? The witch asked rhetorically.
Mr. X, Louis Wayne, the bell is for you.
Wait......
This kind of war of attrition, he is not afraid at all.
What...... Circumstance......
Mr. X's nerves, already tormented by the disease, finally snapped, and his mouth opened to let out a high-pitched, frantic shout.
The "senior deacon" was angry, but there were more and more questions in his heart, and he reluctantly asked, in addition to the scorching gas, there was even a trace of black flame coming out of his mouth.
Using short distances, he was able to avoid attacks from others as much as possible, and if he freed up a "Traveler", his ability to record would be a nightmare for other extraordinary.
As soon as he asked the question that had already appeared in his heart, but he had no time to think about it because of the fierce battle, he felt that his forehead was hot, and his body, which was mostly spiritually consumed, became paralyzed, and the figure of the witch in his sight kept approaching, but it became more and more blurred.
The tornado followed Klein's idea and headed north along uninhabited alleys, sweeping through rubbish-filled laneways along the way, sweeping them away, leaving clean ground.
The four Extraordinary Beings were in different positions, and in the huge movement of the collision between the spirit and the ghost, a vacuum of action briefly appeared.
Mr. X, who escaped the disaster, was not spared, he felt the air he exhaled becoming hot, his head was groggy, his lungs seemed to be filled with fluid, and even his breathing became difficult.
The two demigod abilities belonging to the "Storm" path were activated in turn, and the "Seagod Scepter" roared and rained the divine punishment on the heads of each living being equally.
A moment later, his figure faded from the roof and entered the spirit realm.
Silver-white lightning bolts emerged from the living room, entangled with each other, and cleaved along random paths, the first to bear the brunt of the "Dark Sage" Kerma wearing metal armor and holding a long sword, the darkness condensed on his body shattered instantly, and the armor pieces collapsed one after another, revealing the face below that looked young and had excellent facial features, but was shrouded in dark shadows.
No longer hesitating, an illusory book appeared in front of him again, but before he could turn it, a very bad premonition welled up in his heart, and he stopped his movements in an instant, and used a short distance to "travel" to the other end of the room, where in his original position, a black flame gradually sprinkled due to the lack of attachments, burning the surrounding carpet of flesh and blood into a gap.
Immediately, the fragments came to an eerie halt in mid-air, as if they had been dragged back into place piece by piece by an invisible hand, and pieced together into a head full of bullet marks and bloodstains, a little larger than usual, but still barely recognizable.
"Anthony? What's going on here? ”
"Lightning Storm!"
As soon as the cry appeared, it came to an abrupt end, and the short and effective "incomplete mythical creature form" of the "Dark Sage" Kersma came to an end, which took less than a second.
In his eyes, the black armor of the "Dark Sage" in front of him became tall again, wielding a giant sword and a witch who constantly changed his position, from time to time drilled into the mirror that became complete again, and reappeared to fight, on the other side of the two, the black-robed night watchman continued to summon spirits to assist in the battle, making the black knight inconvenient and doomed, but the witch was full of momentum and constantly suppressed the enemy.
Travel...... Short distance......
"With such a big commotion, the support of the three major churches is already on the way."
Watching expressionlessly for a while, listening to the loud sound gradually approaching, Anthony showed undisguised sadness on his face, slowly approached Pierce's body, took off the burqa outside the archbishop's robe, and lightly covered him.
Suddenly, Angel and Pierce both felt a strong aura of depravity enveloping the entire room, Angel only frowned slightly, feeling slightly uncomfortable, but Pierce, who was also a "demigod", performed much worse, he looked away involuntarily, not daring to look at the black-armored knight, and the spirit body that came out of his body was directly returned to the darkness, as if it had never appeared.
"Pierce Turner, no, you should be called 'Man in the Mirror,' how does it feel to be betrayed by the 'Sword of the Goddess,' by the Archbishop, by the Church?"
The invisible "disease" still affected him.
Halfway through the intermittent speaking, Pierce's eyes and nostrils erupted with higher and higher black flames, enveloping his whole body in flames, but except for the clothes being burned, his body was not burned in the heat, but quickly faded away, like a phantom in the mirror exposed to strong light, and disappeared from Angel's eyes.
This is the last trace of the "man in the mirror" left in the world.
Behind him, the figure of Crane, who had been invisible, gradually emerged, still wearing a hooded cloak, and his face was covered with an iron mask, almost attached to Mr. X's back, manipulating the opponent's spirit thread at the closest distance.
This is the internal process of the church that he is familiar with, in Beckland, this kind of demigod-level lightning and tornado appears, and it will not take two minutes for the saints of the three major churches to rush here, especially after the "Aurora Society" and the "Witch Sect" have made a big fuss in the capital.
"Ahh
Save...... Life......
The advantage that the seal "1-63" gave to his side was gone.
"Bang!"
He condensed the only remaining spirituality and wanted to release the spirit of the "underworld" in his body out of his body, but found that only black flames gushed out, and the "bad luck" that he barely manipulated was sunk into the sea, and it seemed that it had no effect on the other party.
With the shattering of the "world in the mirror", Angel could clearly feel that the demigod of Pierce beside her, the feeling that was not much different from her became a little weaker, and on the other side, he briefly entered the incomplete mythical creature form, and at this time he was exhausted, and the black-armored knight with a somewhat rickety body returned to the real "demigod".
Mr. X watched himself die in slow motion, and although the "Dark Sage" sensed that something was wrong and wanted to get close to this side to help his companions, he was confined by the invisible silk threads and attacked by frost and black flames in turn, and had no time to care about himself.
It's a "disease"!
But how did it come on so quickly? Don't...... In the battle just now, she already attacked me?
This thought suddenly crossed Pierce's mind.
The latter slowly turned his head, and the sadness on his face stunned Lei Leier.
In the distance, a hurricane swept through the haze, sending out a sonic boom towards this direction, and closer to the point, a cloud of darkness that absorbed all the light had burrowed from the North to the East, and they first locked onto the "Dark Sage", and then approached the tornado-damaged alley without hesitation after the target disappeared.
After doing all this, he turned to the "Travels Notes of Lemanor" from Miss "The Magician" and turned to the page where "Travel" was recorded.
Before the others were struck by the thunder, another boom sounded, and a tornado visible to the naked eye appeared in the center of the living room.
Behind her, the "Dark Sage" Ksma finally escaped from the tornado-ravaged location, turning into a shadow that clinged to the ground and was about to rush in this direction. Suddenly, he froze as if he had realized something, and then quickly dived into the sewers and disappeared.
The long sword he had slashed was raised again, and another "Blade of Spiritual Flesh" was swung out, but this time, the skin under his black armor was torn inch by inch, and the flesh and blood were squirming like boiling, mixed with a deep black, and inside the crack, one eye seemed to be hidden in the shadows, looking out.
Ever since the archbishop had been promoted to Sequence 3, there had been few expressions like this on his face.
As he approached, he asked the Archbishop of the Church of the Goddess of the Night, who had arrived first.
Moreover, he has recorded four kinds of demigods here, extraordinary, and can ......
Looking at the "Dark Sage" who was obviously targeted by the tornado and was still in the air and had not yet landed, Pierce frowned slightly, glanced at the witch beside him, hesitated for a moment, and asked softly:
"He shouldn't have been hurt enough, what are you going to do?"
The glass windows on both sides of the alley reflected his figure as he gradually collapsed, with cursed flames coming out of his body, reflecting the witch who was half-crouched down and approaching Pierce.
Originally...... So, they ...... Be...... A gang ...... Target......
And the reason why he took a huge risk to make this choice was naturally to drive the "Spirit Flesh Blade", swinging it in the air with a far more than usual effect, directly cutting through the gap between the world and reality in the mirror in front of him.
The "Master of the Secret Puppets", who had been hiding behind the scenes, maintained the thread of guiding the spirits with one hand, and reached into the pocket under the cloak with the other, turning to the three pages of the "Lemano's Travel Notes" that recorded the demigod's abilities.
The latter's face remained unchanged, and a huge spirit appeared in his body again, which was the original ability he retained when he jumped from the "Gatekeeper" of the Death Path to the "Night Watchman" of the Night Path, using the unique "Underworld" in his body to contain multiple spirits, and use it for himself in battle.
The various spirits in his body were almost depleted in the battle, and the extraordinary ability of the real Sequence 4 "Night Watchman", which he could not use with all his strength outside of the "Mirror World", was almost equivalent to a powerful Sequence 5 at this time, and it was obviously impossible to defeat the Aurora Sage in a head-on battle.
……
He cried out silently, but his mouth was tightly closed under the manipulation of the possessed resentful spirit, and even the illness that had caused him to have a fever, cough, and almost collapse stopped working, as if he was worried about awakening the "spirit thread" in his body because of these injuries.
Bang, there was a loud bang behind him, and the new archbishop of the Storm Church in place of the "Singer of God", the "Deep Blue Priest" Radar Valentin landed with amazing momentum, his hair was dark blue and short, and a storm was brewing in his eyes.
It was like slowing down all of this tenfold, forming a freeze-frame image in front of him, and Mr. X knew that it was not that the other three demigods were as slow as toddlers, but that his own brain was too slow to process complex information, and could only slowly show what he saw.
Mr. Pierce Turner, see, this is the fate of the "Man in the Mirror" who took away your identity and hid within the Church...... Angel chanted silently, taking out the locket with the "Night's Watch" trait from his pocket, opening it and taking it out, gently placing it on the ground, then picking up the black mirror and putting it away.
"One of the church's senior deacons, the devout Pierce Turner, died a heroic death in the capture of the Aurora Society' envoy."
Anthony Stevenson said in a pained tone and a gloomy expression.
(End of chapter)