Chapter 1044: Horizon
In the dark night of Igwinter, the Knight's Road is illuminated by dim orange lights.
Upstairs on the 26th floor, in Anna's bedroom, Anna, who was awakened by fierce gunfire, was now huddled on the bed in panic. Beside her were two hunters disguised as servants who were protecting her.
In front of her, Elena, who was wearing a maid outfit, was standing on the balcony with a rifle, shooting at the enemies below. The melee was so chaotic that both sides were fighting hand-to-hand. Elena had no time to aim, and as a "light" shooter, it was difficult for her to play a role in this situation.
"Damn it... they're all so messed up that I can't even aim..."
Faced with such a scene, Elena complained angrily. However, after the gang of thugs attacked each other inexplicably, the whole situation was reversed. The thugs were in disarray, and the hunters who lost the debuff immediately fought back. After several of their companions were chopped down in succession, the thugs, whose morale collapsed, immediately scattered.
Standing on the street of Knight Road, Gregor, who had regained his freedom of movement, breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the gangsters fleeing sporadically. He then turned his attention to the mostly injured members of the Seeker team and asked.
"Are you okay?"
"Hu... Hu... It's okay, Captain. Those guys' weapons are very poor. It's difficult for them to cut through our protective gear... Everyone basically just has minor injuries... We were in such a mess recently because our bodies inexplicably didn't obey us..." A member of the hunter team answered, and Gregor nodded after listening.
"I understand. Just now, I was also unable to move my body suddenly, as if I was possessed by an evil spirit. Thanks to these people who suddenly came to our aid, otherwise I might have been lying down now..."
As Gregor spoke, he looked to the other side of the road, where stood a burly thug holding a hammer. It was he who had just rescued his companion. Beside him were two other thugs of the same type.
At this moment, the three thugs were staring around, as if they were on guard against something. Seeing this, Gregor wanted to say hello.
"Hey, brother over there, can you come over and say ..."
“Whoosh!”
Before Gregor finished his words, a sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard in the space, and a shadow rushed over from the darkness, grabbing the thugs who stayed behind. The thug holding the hammer had his head chopped off in an instant, and blood began to spurt out from his neck.
"What……"
Seeing his "savior" killed on the spot, Gregor's eyes suddenly widened. Then, there were continuous sounds of breaking air in the space. Something in the darkness was pulling the gangsters and hunters flying at high speed. One of them was flying towards Gregor. Feeling the danger, Gregor blocked it in the air. With a bang, he blocked the thing that hit him and knocked it away. When he looked closely, it was a serrated bone blade without a handle!
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Amidst more sounds of breaking through the air, the serrated bone blades rushed into the hunters' team. Some reacted in time and bounced them off, while others were directly cut by them, leaving a big wound and fell down screaming. Then the bone blades circled in the air again and attacked the hunters again from a different angle. The hunters had no choice but to draw their swords to fight back.
For a moment, the crisp sound of weapons hitting each other echoed continuously in the night. Facing these bone blades that attacked from all directions like mosquitoes, Gregor and the hunters persisted with difficulty.
Compared to an opponent holding a weapon, a bone blade that is simply flying in the air without anyone holding it is very difficult to deal with. There is no limit to the attack angle, and it can only be blocked but not counterattacked.
The speed of these flying bone blades was not slow, and it was very difficult to block them. Even if they blocked them once, there would be a third time. If they kept being attacked passively, they would always be exposed and chopped down. Now, more and more hunters were being chopped down, and their losses had exceeded 700.
"Come in!"
Faced with this absolutely disadvantageous situation, Gregor gave the order to go into the house. Facing these bone blades in the open area outside was even more disadvantageous.
"Hmph...don't even think about escaping..."
Behind the fourth-floor window of a house, Godfrey, who was secretly observing the situation below, saw this scene and began to change his strategy. He manipulated the bone blade to stop the hunters' retreat and even reduced the attack to focus on defending their entry, as if he was trying to eliminate them all outside.
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At this moment, on a rooftop somewhere, Dorothy began to get anxious as she looked at the situation in front of her.
"What the hell is this... Sword control? No... These things were all flown by the ghosts that just attached to them. They are using ghosts to control objects! The guy hiding here is not simple..."
Dorothy thought that this level of extraordinary ability was not something that an apprentice-level extraordinary person could achieve. The guy hiding in the dark and controlling these things might be an extraordinary person above the apprentice level, most likely a black-level one!
"Heh...it looks like Igwinter has been a visitor recently..."
With a cold snort, Dorothy turned her attention back to the battlefield. She was startled when she saw the bone blades on the battlefield reducing their attack frequency and moving to blockade the area, trying to lock the hunters on the street.
"Would you rather give up the offensive force... and drag them to the street? Why? If the hunters enter the house, will these bone blades not be effective because of the small space? Or is there some other reason? Could it be..."
Seeing this scene, Dorothy thought a little puzzled, and then, an idea came to Dorothy's mind.
"Maybe... we can try..."
As she thought about it, Dorothy began to seriously manipulate her corpse doll.
Under the attack of the bone blade, Dorothy had lost all the gangster corpses below except one, a short, sturdy and agile gangster who seemed to have been a thief in his life. He was killed by a stray bullet in the previous melee. After Dorothy lifted him up, she found that this guy's corpse was unusually flexible.
Relying on his excellent physical fitness, this thief has become Dorothy's only surviving corpse puppet on the field. The others have been pounded by the bone blades and are unusable. Now Dorothy needs to rely on him to complete some experiments.
Under Dorothy's control, the thief corpse doll was dodging the pursuit of a bone blade, which had already smashed all of Dorothy's other zombies. This thief corpse doll was the last one, and the bone blade was determined to smash it as well. Under Dorothy's full control, the thief corpse doll burst out with movements that were even more agile than when it was alive, constantly dodging the pursuit of the bone blade.
At one point, the thief puppet controlled by Dorothy suddenly rushed into the already open door of Room 26, while the bone blade that was originally following it suddenly stopped at the door and did not follow the puppet into the room.
Seeing this scene, Dorothy's eyes lit up, and when the bone blade was about to join the battle against the hunters, Dorothy controlled the thief corpse to run out again.
The bone blade seemed to have reacted to the situation and chased after the thief corpse that had run out again. Dorothy controlled the thief corpse and ran out of the illumination range of the street lamp without looking back, and ran into a dark bush of flowers. This time, the bone blade stopped again and did not follow the thief corpse into the darkness.
"Heh... As expected, that guy can't let the thing he's having sex with out of his sight. He can't enjoy the senses with the ghost he's having sex with in real time..."
Seeing this scene, Duo Luoxi couldn't help but chuckle and murmur. Obviously, she had found the reason why the ghost controller couldn't let the hunters into the house. It was because after entering the house, the hunters would be out of his sight and he would not be able to use bone blades to continue attacking them!
That ghost controller's control of ghosts is not like controlling a corpse puppet himself. He can share senses with the corpse puppet and thus achieve beyond-visual-range control. But if he wants to control the ghost in real time, he must keep the ghost within his field of vision!
During the day, Dorothy saw ghosts entering No. 26 for investigation. At that time, the ghosts seemed to have a certain degree of autonomy, and often showed signs of confusion or fear, which was something that a simple puppet should not have.
At that time, Dorothy thought that the ghost should be close to the familiars and servants, so she obeyed the order to come to investigate, and then reported the investigation results after a while.
At this time, the ghost in the battle is more like a remote-controlled weapon. The ghost has no autonomy and is controlled by the controller in real time. The controller remotely controls the ghost's movements at any time and anywhere from a long distance. This is more efficient than controlling it like a familiar. The controller can adjust the battle strategy according to his own will at any time and adapt to changes on the battlefield, without having to shout orders to his ghost like in a Pokémon battle.
Dorothy controlled her own corpse dolls in the same way. Those corpse dolls were not her servants or familiars, but her puppets.
Dorothy and the other person were both controlling the puppets remotely, but the difference was that Dorothy, who could access the puppet's vision, could control the puppet's activities beyond visual range, with a wide range of remote control. The ghost controller on the other side could not access the ghost's senses, or humans could not handle the ghost's senses, so this remote control could not exceed his own vision.
"You can only manipulate ghosts within your field of vision... This is interesting..."
Knowing clearly this characteristic of the opponent's ghost, Dorothy chuckled and said that after receiving this important information, she had begun to think about how to fight back against the opponent who was also hiding in the shadows and had never been masked.
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