A violent explosion went off directly at the door of a room on the third floor. Dazzling flames and violent shock waves burst out violently and swept around. The corridor and room at the center of the explosion were filled with flames. All of a sudden, the windows on the entire third floor were shattered, and countless debris was sprayed out along with black smoke and dust. The glass downstairs was also shattered, and the ground trembled slightly. The loud noise in the dark night startled the barking of dogs among the neighbors.
After the explosion, the entire mansion was engulfed in thick smoke, and the point of the explosion had turned into a devastating ruin. Walls collapsed, and the ceiling and floor collapsed. A large area of the third floor and the roof collapsed to the first floor, and broken bricks were scattered everywhere. The servants' broken bodies were buried under the broken bricks and the collapsed ceiling. One third of the entire mansion was completely reduced to ruins in an instant, and the damage was concentrated on the third floor.
In the ruins of the mansion, in a pile of broken rubble, an old figure slowly stood up. At this time, Gochel's coat was almost completely torn, his whole body was covered in dust, and his angry eyes were full of resentment.
He was located not far from the center of the explosion and almost bore the powerful impact head-on. The people around him before had now turned into broken limbs everywhere, while Gochel's body only had a few inconspicuous tiny cracks.
"Damn it... I got tricked, Araujo! Those who are still here, get up now!"
With a feeling of resentment, Gochel gnashed his teeth and shouted towards the ruins around him. At this moment, in another pile of rocks not far from him, another survivor was slowly standing up in the dust.
In the ruins of Bana Station, in front of him were two broken bodies. One of them was bloody and had no breath. It was Farol. The other was covered with tiny cracks and bloody cracks. Although the body was relatively intact, it was also dead. It was Araujo.
At the critical moment, Bana grabbed Farol and Araujo who were closest to him and used them as shields to block most of the damage from the explosion. Although Farol and Araujo were both wanderers and had strong defenses that could resist firearms, they still couldn't withstand the explosion of explosives at such a close distance, and the two people who were used as shields were killed on the spot.
After hearing the voice of Gochel not far away, Bana in the ruins immediately looked at the fallen Araujo. Then, under a strange force, Araujo opened his eyes again, stood up, and responded in the direction of the distant voice.
"Ahem... ahem... Mr. Gocher, I'm here!"
After this response, Araujo took a pistol from Bana, and then he and Bana walked towards Gochel. After climbing over two obstacles, they saw Gochel standing among the rubble and corpses. Gochel wanted to say something when he saw Araujo and Bana, but they immediately raised their hands and shot after seeing Gochel.
“Bang! Bang!”
As the trigger was pulled, the bullets in the revolvers in Araujo and Bana's hands poured out and shot straight at Gochel. Gochel stood still and was hit by all the bullets, but these bullets bounced off his body directly. Gochel, who stood still, did not even sway.
"I've been accused...Is it a meat puppet?!"
Seeing the Araucanian pointing a gun at him, Gochel seemed to understand the situation and spoke through gritted teeth, the anger in his tone becoming even more intense.
Faced with this scene, Gochel first touched his ring, then swung the cane in his hand. Suddenly, the front end of the cane fell off and swelled into an iron ball as big as a basketball. A sharp blade popped out of the iron ball, and an extended iron chain was still connected to the body of the cane. The whole cane turned into a heavy flail in an instant.
Gochel swung the flail, and as the chain stretched, the heavy iron ball on it hit Araujo hard. Araujo was knocked to the side by the huge force, and his entire upper body was smashed to pieces. Large amounts of blood splattered and his bones were broken. He completely lost any ability to move.
With one swing, he dealt with Araujo, and Gochel immediately started the next swing. The chain carried the heavy iron ball and smashed towards Bana. Bana didn't have time to dodge and was hit as well. He was knocked to the ground and large cracks appeared on his body. If Bana, as a living puppet, had not had the hardened skin of the Black Earth Stage to withstand the massive damage, this blow would have been enough to make him lose his ability to move.
Seeing Bana fall to the ground, Gochel wanted to make another attack, but when he swung the flail again, he felt his arm sink and missed. The flail did not hit Bana but hit the ruins beside him, splashing a lot of dust. Gochel looked around and found that his right hand was held by a broken body of a male servant. It was this force that caused his attack to fail. This body was just lying at his feet.
In an instant, the broken corpses scattered throughout the ruins, with missing limbs, exploded at the same time and rushed towards Gochel, hugging him tightly from all directions and pressing him down. Gochel wanted to swing the flail to fight back, but found that the head of the flail was already firmly grasped by Bana.
Just as Gochel was trying harder to break free from his restraints, in the distance of the mansion, in the dark night, a dazzling, fiery orange light cut through the night sky and directly hit the bound Gochel. Gochel's back, which was shot, suddenly burst into a high-temperature, scorching light, and a large amount of flames gushed out from it, completely engulfing Gochel and the corpses that bound him. Gochel's entire body instantly turned into a burning torch.
At this moment, on the roof of a low building hundreds of meters away from the mansion, Dorothy, wearing a black cloak, was squatting there. In her hand, she was holding a rather long rifle.
This was a rifle of exquisite workmanship, made of brass and cypress. The brass body was engraved with exquisite patterns, and the cypress buttstock was smooth and comfortable. The lenses were supported by tiny brackets on the side of the gun body and overlapped on top of the gun body. Dorothy looked through these overlapping lenses at the mansion in the darkness in the distance.
"Focused Scorching Flame" is the name of this gun. It has the ability to transform the spirit of "Light" into high-temperature projectiles, projecting them like beams of light thousands of meters away, and violently burning the target. The "Insight Overlapping Lenses" installed on it have the ability to give ordinary people the same long-sighted night vision as the extraordinary "Light". When using these overlapping lenses to see things, it can also increase the user's concentration, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of sniping.
This gun was the prop that the Eight-Pointed Nest originally intended to use to assassinate Lord Barrett. After their original plan was ruined by Dorothy, the gun was forced to be abandoned at the scene. It was eventually seized by Vanya and given to Dorothy. This is the first time Dorothy has used it in actual combat.
"It feels good... This gun, at least it's reliable in terms of accuracy, and the destructive effect is also good... at least it looks good."
Through the lens, Dorothy stared at the scene in the ruins of the mansion in the distance and murmured. Although she successfully hit the target and turned it into a ball of flames, the alert look on Dorothy's face did not disappear at this time. She was still observing the burning flames through the lens. She could clearly see that the raging fire was in the process of being quickly extinguished.
In the ruins of the mansion, the flames that engulfed Gochel gradually died down. When the flames dissipated, the first thing that emerged was the charred corpses, followed by the objects that the charred corpses tried to restrain.
Its entire body was covered with smooth black rock skin, and its limbs were adorned with sharp claws like those of a wild beast. Between its pointed ears was a ghostly and ferocious face, and behind its back grew a pair of broad stone wings.
When the flames dissipated, what appeared before Dorothy's eyes was Gochel's new form, like a terrifying stone statue carved in detail.
Gochel, who had transformed into a terrifying stone statue, was now standing on the ruins. He glanced at the surrounding scene and saw that other broken corpses were constantly gathering towards him in the ruins. Faced with the situation, Gochel's entire body was suddenly lit up with orange-yellow runes, and many of these runes showed the symbol of "lamp".
Then, Gochel opened his mouth and spewed out blazing fire towards the moving corpses. This was the flame of the "lamp" that he, as a gargoyle, had absorbed and preserved in his skin from the previous attack.
As a higher-ranking Wanderer and a Cretaceous Gargoyle, Gochel possesses the ability to absorb and return nearly any spiritual attack that can be materialized.
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