Chapter 378 Holy Emblem
A cobblestone road between dark woods on the southwestern outskirts of Tivian.
On the side of the road at night, in the dark carriage, Dorothy was sitting upright on the seat of the carriage, her eyes wide open, full of surprise. Her little face, which had turned red from the cold and was rubbed by herself, was now pale.
Just now, Dorothy saw that all the corpse puppets in the Barrett Villa in the distance were instantly destroyed. No matter it was the corpse puppet of the male servant who was reading the documents in the secret room, or the other corpse puppets who were monitoring in the villa, they all turned into blood at the same time.
"Oh no... I was discovered by that guy! What happened? How did he find my corpse? And how did he find my real body through the corpse? "
Dorothy thought to herself in a panic. Her heart was beating wildly in her petite body. Cold sweat was pouring down her thick cotton clothes. She hadn't experienced such a violent emotional fluctuation for a long time.
"Huh...Huh...It's been a long time since I've seen such a crisis...Suddenly a Red Formation derivative appeared, which was totally unexpected...But now is not the time to be in a daze..."
Dorothy took two long breaths and tried to calm herself down. After relieving her panic a little and regaining her senses, she immediately controlled the coachman's corpse and asked him to quickly restart the carriage. He turned the horse around and galloped towards the city. The neighing of horses and the rolling of wheels could be heard in the dark woods.
In the shaking carriage, Dorothy began to rub her temples, frowning and thinking seriously, wondering what went wrong just now.
"Calm down...Calm down...Think about where you went wrong and got discovered...
'First, there is the Red Stage derivative called Spider Fang Priest. Judging from his performance just now, he should have some ability to transform into blood mist. This blood mist ability should be an advanced version of the Cretaceous Stage vampire bat ability after reaching the Red Stage.
'The blood mist from that guy should have been created in the sky above the villa, a place I couldn't see. Since I didn't see what happened to him, I was caught off guard for a moment and was hit by that guy.
'After he turned into blood mist, I didn't feel anything wrong from the vision of the corpse doll. Combined with the process of the blood mist gradually appearing from light to thick, from sparse to dense when the guy turned into his real body in the villa, this guy should be able to control the distribution and density of the blood mist in the air.
'As long as the area is wide enough and the basic substances that make up the blood mist are dispersed sparsely enough in the air, the blood mist will be so light that it cannot be observed by the naked eye. Therefore, it can cover the entire villa silently without my noticing.'
Touching her chin and frowning, Dorothy used all her brainpower to analyze and ponder the nature of the other party's ability. Although the ability of the Spider Fang Priest was strange and abnormal, it was not without traces to be found. As long as Dorothy could grasp a small number of clues, she could still deduce a lot of truth.
'If the other party can really decompose itself into countless tiny red particles that are invisible to the naked eye to complete the blood mist... then this invisible large-scale blood mist can completely cover the entire villa invisibly. Before I noticed, those tiny bright red particles released by the Spider Fang Priest filled the air in the villa. According to common sense, these particles should be tiny blood dew.
'Last year, when I first went to the school's underground ruins, Claudio targeted me and hunted me. He then used the countless bats that split from the bat's limbs to quickly search the entire underground ruins. Now, the countless tiny blood dews that are released from the Spider Fang Priest's blood mist limbs should also have a reconnaissance effect. Since the Spider Fang Priest's blood dew can find the location of the Barrett secret room, its penetration ability must be very strong. If... these blood dews can penetrate into the human body and the corpse, then he should be able to determine what is a real corpse... and what is a corpse puppet.
'That guy found my male servant corpse in the secret room, and then judged that he was a corpse, not a living person, by letting the blood mist enter the body of the male servant corpse. From this, he knew that there might be something wrong with the corpses in the villa. Then he infiltrated the blood dew into all the corpses, and in this way, he was able to identify all the corpses among the corpses I hid one by one.'
Dorothy's mind was working quickly. While sitting in the carriage, she quickly restored the possible truth of the series of events in her mind. At this time, she had already found a reason why her corpse was exposed. The next step was to understand why she could not disconnect the strange situation of the corpse.
'The reason why I inferred that the corpse dolls were infiltrated by that guy's blood is that when that guy started to gain power, my control over all the corpse dolls was resisted. This resistance came from within. I could feel... the corpse dolls were all alive. I felt a strong resistance from within the corpse dolls.
'This guy used the blood to corrode the shadow man named George and created the derivative standing here. From this phenomenon, his blood may have a corrosive effect. After the blood dew diffused in the air entered the corpse doll, it quietly corroded the corpse doll, and the corroded corpse doll became a part of him.
'My spiritual thread should have been affected by the erosion at this time, and thus became unable to be disconnected. After all, the nature of the spiritual thread itself is 'cup' and 'initiate'. That guy's ability to corrode flesh and blood is so strong, it makes sense that he can affect the absorbed spiritual thread.
"Now that guy is following the spiritual thread to chase me, my best option is to quickly run into the city, to a place where the archbishop has a stronger influence. I am eight kilometers away from that guy, so this long distance should be enough for me to run to a safe place..."
Using the powerful information processing ability of the scholar, Dorothy quickly analyzed the situation in the villa, and then she decided to run away immediately, towards the city. Since the Spider Fang Priest said that because this place is far from the city and the influence of the Archbishop's rank is weak, he dared to appear here as a derivative because of some tricks, then as long as he ran to the city where the Archbishop has a strong influence, then this guy would be helpless.
Thinking of this, Dorothy continued to drive the carriage with greater concentration. At the same time, she also kept a close eye on the Spider Fang Priest in the distance through the spiritual thread. Although she could no longer use the faulty spiritual thread to perceive information, she could still locate him.
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At the same time, in Barrett's villa, the Spider Fang Priest in the form of an old man was silently looking at the scene in the distance, and Kenke, who was kneeling in front of him, couldn't help but spoke loudly in astonishment after hearing what he had just said.
"You...what did you say? You said we were being monitored by meat puppets? But aren't meat puppets extraordinary creations of the Cup? I have the spiritual perception of the Cup? Why didn't I feel it?"
Listening to Kenk's words, the Spider Fang Priest silently turned his head, glanced at his stunned face, and slowly spoke.
"This extraordinary world...everything is possible. The spiritual thread used by this person behind the scenes to control the corpse puppet is very special. Maybe he has some means to add some kind of concealment effect to his corpse puppet."
"Some kind of...special method?" Kenke's eyes were filled with confusion as he listened to the Spider Fang Priest's words, and at this time the Spider Fang Priest spoke again.
"Once I catch him... I'll know everything."
As he spoke, the Spider Fang Priest looked into the distance as indicated by the spiritual silk thread. After noticing some unusual movements, he chuckled and continued.
"It seems that the person behind the scenes has realized that things are not going well and has started trying to escape, but at this speed..."
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