Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Cowardly Assassin Before Fighting
Lucy continued to move forward, although the 'magical deterrence' emanating from the laboratory from the distance made Lucy have a clearer and deeper understanding of the strength of her target.
'The target this time is definitely not what my current level of 'mask' can deal with, it is a monster that surpasses my common sense. ’
However, the subconscious impressions planted in Lucy's heart for many years by the "masquerade ball" such as "you can't resist", "the punishment for disobeying the order is desperate", and "even if you escape to other planes, you will be wiped out by the ball", Lucy has no choice to disobey the order. Instead, with the ridiculous luck mentality of 'just being strong, not necessarily experienced', he continued to move towards the church, or the goal.
"Damn the Intelligence Department, those incompetent wastes, cowards who only eat and drink at public expense, won't they take a little care to gather information? Such a crucial piece of information about strength should at least be determined, is this a rookie priest who has just graduated? Trick the undead! This monster should obviously send personnel above the 'Silver Mask' to carry it out, right?! Don't be just lazy and perfunctory! Work hard! These damn garbage!!"
Lucy muttered to herself complaining and cursing in an unintelligible way that would normally be uttered.
In fact, this can't be blamed for the poor work ability of the intelligence officers of the Dakle Church, after all, who would have thought that a newly appointed little country priest would be a 'Duke's Highness' with forty-eight open magic circuits who can access the sixth layer of the Great Demon Net and use the six-ring Titar magic at the same time.
Lucy was helping to distract her with her boundless resentment towards Command and Intelligence, otherwise she would not have been able to continue on her mission with her state of mind, frightened by the coercion of Kyleus.
Lucy herself is fully aware of this fact.
However, this method was not entirely effective, and even complaining and complaining, Lucy's inner dissatisfaction with the church hierarchy was completely singled out, so that her emotions gradually lost control, from the first muttering to the almost roaring low at the back, the voice grew louder and louder, resounding through the silent night sky.
"So, what are you going to do with those incompetent cowards? A faint, magnetic baritone through the dense jungle reached Lucy's ears with a thick banter and provocation, as well as a terrifying fear.
'Run!' Lucy didn't have any other thoughts, or no energy to think about other possibilities, and at the moment when the voice came, Lucy used all her might—all her strength to escape.
Drink a bottle of acceleration potion, throw the mist potion, hypnotic potion, and all the alchemy bombs on your body towards the place where the sound came from, and regardless of whether it has any effect or not, with the help of the stalker skill called 'Hurry', with the acceleration effect it produces, he runs desperately away from the church without looking back.
As for the punishment for ignoring the failure of the command mission, let's talk about it later, after all, even if you want to chase and kill, it will be a matter for the future. Now, there is only one most important thing for Lucy in this matter, use all the liliang and try her best to escape from the hands of the 'monster' behind her. As for the rest, that's just for later.
Ignoring the explosions behind her and the rapidly rising puffs of smoke, a mixture of yellowish and pinkish-white gases obscured everything in the place, but she knew that those little tricks would definitely not be able to deal with the 'monster'. So she quickly turned around, ignoring the ropes and hooks that she had thrown aside, and ran desperately into the distance.
She threw away everything that was useless, and even if it weren't for the magic scroll and that fine iron dagger as her life-saving means, she would have thrown them away.
The stalker girl just like that, desperate to run away with all her might.
'Run!'
'Run!!'
Lucy had only this thought in her mind at this time, to run away from the monster, to do everything she could to get away from the monster, no matter what, the farther away the better.
Lucy, who has never had a good impression of the church and the Shadow Lady since she was sold to the church by slave traders, has never had a rebellious heart because of the strength of the church, but she has never had any gratitude or faith in the gods she belongs to. But at such a critical moment, there was only one god that came to Lucy's mind at the first time - Dakor.
Forgive your humble servant for the sin that he never prayed to you before, and please send down your glory and let your humble servant escape this monster behind you. I will spend my life serving you, worshipping you, developing your business on this earth, spreading your glory, and thanking you for all that you have given me. God, please help me. Lucy ran as hard as she could, praying to the true God in her heart.
I don't know if Miss Dakle really heard Lucy's prayer, but no one caught up behind Lucy.
The dark shadow in the forest slowly revealed its figure, and it was not surprising that it was Father Keleus, who was dressed in a black priest's uniform that looked less clear in the night, but his golden hair and red eyes were still dazzling in the night.
Kylelius was still standing in the forest, which had been reduced to ruins and fire, and Keleus looked at the darkness where there was no longer a human figure in the distance, and did not chase it.
With his indifference to most people, and his own immortality, he didn't really care about this sudden assassination, and it was not surprising that he made this choice. It was only through this assassination that his doubts about Father Tom's death deepened.
He would not be naïve enough to think that this assassination had nothing to do with the previous assassination of Father Tom, and that the fact that the two of them had served as parish priests here in succession proved that it was not a coincidence that two successive serving priests were assassinated.
Thinking of this, he stopped his thoughts, and the current clues were not enough for further analysis, so he could only put down the doubts in his heart first.
He looked at the branches and leaves of the tree trunks that burned around him and made a "crackling" sound, sniffed the pungent smell in the air, touched the bridge of his nose, and muttered with a wry smile: "Am I so terrible?" He obviously didn't realize the pressure on his body, and it was really a little scary for a person like Lucy, who was accompanied by blood and killing all year round, and who was very keen in breath judgment.
If Lucy heard this, she would vomit blood angrily, "With the pressure you just exuded, anyone below the ninth level will have to flee, this is no different from looking for death, a proper rhythm of death!"
However, the current Miss Stalker has been frightened, and she has no notice that there is nothing chasing after her at all, and she is simply running desperately.
He looked at the figure in the distance, smiled helplessly, and then waved his hand casually, and a ring of elemental magic "Clear Spring Like Water" suddenly unfolded, and the clear water column extinguished the flame that had just been ignited, and it was not too big now.
Turning around, he walked slowly back to the church, as if nothing had happened here.