Chapter 366: Escape

Nantivian, Episcopal Square.

In the dark night, the crowds in the square were still celebrating the coming of the new year. Brilliant fireworks continued to bloom in the sky, and colorful lights illuminated the crowds below.

On the rooftop somewhere at the edge of the square, Bertholdt stood there with a sword in his hand, staring at the large piece of rotten flesh on his shoulder with wide eyes and a look of astonishment. The wound on his shoulder had indeed healed, but he had never expected that it would heal into such a disgusting appearance that he had never seen before. The pain and itchiness coexisted, and the severely uncomfortable rotten flesh made him feel nauseous just looking at it.

"How can this be...?!"

Biting his teeth, Bertholdt murmured in astonishment with his eyes wide open. He couldn't understand why he injected himself with blood to recover from his injuries, but turned out to be like this!

Suddenly, Burton recalled that when he was attacked on the back and slashed by a sword at the beginning, the split wound seemed to feel a strange warmth when he rolled to avoid it. It was obvious that something went wrong with the wound at that time, and this problem was caused by the robed swordsman.

"Such a filthy cup of power... You are from the Afterbirth Cult! What did you do to me?!"

Pointing his sword at the swordsman in front of him, Burton shouted loudly. The sword that healed itself like a living creature and the ability to create rotten flesh, combined with the huge force, Burton immediately determined that the other party was a Beyonder of the Afterbirth Series. The swordsman in the robe on the other side did not respond directly to his words, but silently clenched the sword in his hand and continued to rush towards Burton.

Faced with the renewed attack from the swordsman in robe, Bert had no choice but to meet the attack with his sword. Once again, the two high-speed figures engaged in close combat.

Enduring the severe discomfort in his shoulder, Burton once again engaged in close combat with the robed swordsman. Amid the continuous sounds of fighting, he finally found an opportunity to look into the opponent's eyes, ready to use his vampire hypnotic ability to hypnotize him during the battle.

Although the light behind the eyes of the swordsman's mask was very dim, making it difficult for Burton to see his eyes, Burton judged that since the opponent was not fighting with him, his eyes must be looking at him. Therefore, he took advantage of the momentary eye contact to hypnotize the opponent and issued an order to stop attacking immediately. However, he found that this had no effect at all. The robed swordsman's attack on him did not stop, but became more fierce!

"Hypnosis... doesn't work? What kind of ability does this guy have to protect himself..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Burton was shocked and realized that his situation was becoming increasingly pessimistic.

Hypnosis was ineffective, the confrontation was eroding, and he was unable to gain the upper hand in the fight due to his injuries. The impact of the rotten flesh on his shoulder was still getting worse. Faced with such a situation, Bertrand knew in his heart that he could not defeat the opponent in front of him.

"Jeffrey was taken away... the group of natives have not made any movement yet... it's obvious that the plan has been exposed. There is no way to deal with this guy in front of me for the time being... it's bad..."

In the fierce battle, Bertholdt thought seriously in his heart. He originally wanted to continue the assassination after quickly dealing with the robed swordsman, but according to the current situation, this kind of opponent could not be easily dealt with.

Now that my plan has been exposed, the possibility of completing the assassination by myself is extremely small. Since the main goal cannot be achieved, continuing to fight the enemy here is definitely not a good choice.

After realizing that dragging on like this would only make the situation worse, Bert chose to retreat. Having the advantage of speed, he looked for an opportunity to distance himself from the robed swordsman. Then he transformed himself into countless tiny black bats, which quickly flew away in all directions. Seeing this, the robed swordsman immediately ran up and swung his sword in the air, beheading several bats, but more bats disappeared into the dark night amid the chirping sounds.

After seeing the bats in front of him flee, the swordsman in red robe stood in the cold wind for a moment with the sword in hand. Behind the lifeless red mask, the face belonging to Vanya breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great Aka, the One who records everything, please tell Miss Dorothea that the threat on the roof opposite the royal balcony has been resolved."

Vanya was not in a hurry to open her eyes which were closed for the purpose of making her heart see. She prayed devoutly in her heart. The sniper who threatened the royal balcony had been expelled. At this time, she had completed the task given by Dorothy.

At the same time, on a deserted and cold street near the square, Dorothy, who was shivering with cold because she was away from the crowd, blew a breath of hot air into her hand, and murmured with a red face and trembling voice.

"Look... it looks like Vanya's side is over too. This... the threats are all resolved now... Vanya is indeed so reliable... A-choo!!"

Dorothy, who was left by Greg to freeze on the roadside where the cold wind was blowing, wiped her nose with a towel while calculating the current situation in her mind. At this moment, she was very glad that Vanya was here to perform the medical emergency mission.

After Vanya reported her new job to Dorothy, Dorothy had always known that Vanya was on medical standby near the square. Therefore, after she realized the problems in the square, she always regarded Vanya as an important adjustable force, and unexpectedly the other party soon played an important role.

After being arranged by Dorothy to put makeup on Greg, Vanya continued to rush to stop the sniper disguised as a guard upstairs. Since the other party was an assassin arranged to assassinate the Duke, Dorothy did not dare to be negligent in dealing with it, and directly brought out the strongest combat force of the Rosicrucian, Sister Prayer.

Qian!";Xun..,free novel!:;:skirt!!!2,5,5"5:.9;.5?3:,!0!.0 To be on the safe side, Dorothy gave the Heart-Eating Sword to Vanya. After experiencing many extraordinary events, Dorothy valued this extraordinary item from Luer more and more. After dealing with countless Black Soil and even Chalk-level extraordinary people, Dorothy also realized that the sword was not a treasure that an extraordinary person of Luer's level could possess.

After learning about the extraordinary nature of the sword, Dorothy asked Beverly to appraise the sword, and the preliminary conclusion of the appraisal surprised Dorothy.

This sword from the Afterbirth Cult is a living creature, a product of the Living Forging Secret Technique passed down by the Afterbirth Cult. According to Beverly, this secret technique is very mysterious, and it can use living creatures as materials to create living weapons with biological characteristics. And this sword that can absorb the "cup" of others and then convert it into life-saving and healing effects is a product created by this Living Forging Secret Technique.

In Beverly's inspection, the Heart-Eating Sword's hard iron-like blade was actually a keratinous substance like the claws of a living creature. The inside of the blade actually had flesh and blood tissue, and the iron-like outer shell of the sword grew out of the tissue inside the sword.

The Heart-Eating Sword is essentially a biological weapon. Dorothy was surprised by this discovery. She immediately thought of the human head sword made by Adele's teacher Darlene, so she immediately suspected that the sword in her hand was made by some extraordinary person or extraordinary creature of the Afterbirth Cult.

The nature of the Heart-Eating Sword surprised Dorothy, and it also gave rise to the idea of ​​using the Heart-Eating Sword to fight against the corrosive effect of the "Shadow" enchantment. Because the Heart-Eating Sword is essentially a living thing, its own healing effect can also be used on itself. Therefore, when fighting against the "Shadow" enchantment, it can repair the damage caused by itself. However, this behavior also requires the consumption of the "Cup" stored in itself.

With the fully charged Heart-Eating Sword, Vanya can fight against the "Shadow" corrosion more effectively. Finally, Dorothy gave Vanya the last remaining Feast Seal, allowing her to consume her own spiritual power to activate it, allowing Vanya to have power beyond the second-level "Cup".

Afterwards, Dorothy added a whispering talisman to Vanya and covered the effect of the ring of concealment, allowing her to successfully approach Burton from behind and stab him silently. Although this backstab did not kill Burton directly, it successfully injured him. Vanya also took the opportunity to give him a vicious treatment.

The vicious treatment healed Bertrand's wound in a distorted way, and the result was that when Bertrand later treated his own wound, the treatment was not only ineffective, but also misled the trend of treatment, causing the wound to deteriorate and even deepen.

If it weren't for the seriously worsening malignant injury that kept hindering Burton's movements, Vanya would not have been able to fight Burton so easily. After all, vampires are one of the Cretaceous class with the strongest melee ability.

Being able to resist and suppress does not mean being able to kill. It is very easy for a vampire who has transformed into a bat to escape. The reason why Dorothy was able to kill Claudius was because of the terrain. The battle site at that time was in the underground ruins. Claudius's bat group could only escape upwards along the only exit passage if they wanted to escape. Therefore, they could be killed in one fell swoop by setting an ambush at the entrance of the passage.

But now the environment is outdoors, and Burton can flee directly after transforming into a bat. Dorothy has no way to deal with a large group of bats running in all directions, so he did not intend to stay and kill Burton from the beginning. Anyway, as long as he can stop him from assassinating her, the purpose has been achieved.

What's more, Bertrand also left something behind.