On the other side, after floating out of the negotiation hall, Mukhtar floated through many corridors and walkways, and soon caught up with Vanya in a beautiful palace garden with lush vegetation. After crossing the garden, he could leave the Baruch Palace from a side door.
"You can't run away...heretic nun..."
While muttering, Mukhtar floated towards Vanya who seemed to be fleeing, then he waved his hand and continued speaking as if making a declaration.
"Rules... No one may leave Baruch's palace."
Mukhtar read out the commandments, and then he secretly arranged the rituals around the palace last night. The rituals that could activate his abilities began to take effect at this moment. Relying on these small ritual sites arranged in various secret places outside the Baruch Palace, a large-scale ceremony enveloped the entire Baruch Palace.
At this time, Vanya also came to the edge of the palace garden, where she saw a side door leading to the outside of the palace. When Vanya saw the side door, she immediately rushed over, but when she just stepped out of the side door, something strange happened.
Suddenly, several long and thin cuts appeared inexplicably on Vanya's white nun's uniform. Under the cuts were deep bloodstains, as if they were severely whipped by a whip.
Vanya was punished for violating the rules and stepping out of the palace. Without any weapons attacking her, bloody scars appeared on her body out of nowhere. Vanya cried out in pain, and she couldn't help but take two steps back, covering the wounds that appeared out of nowhere, with a look of surprise on her face.
At this moment, Mukhtar had caught up from behind. He stretched out his hand forward, pointed the white jade ring on his right hand at Vanya, and then an illusory light yellow ray shot out from it. It seemed that Vanya was about to be hit directly by the illusory ray.
At this moment, Vanya, who was running away, dodged the rays from behind that she should not have seen with an extremely agile movement, and then turned around quickly and rushed towards Mukhtar. At this time, a sword appeared in her hand.
Holding the sword in hand, Vanya stepped forward and stabbed Mukhtar with the sword. As the two were far apart, Mukhtar had plenty of time to react. After seeing Vanya coming, he wanted to use some ability, but at this moment, a chilly wind blew from behind Mukhtar. It was too late for Mukhtar to realize the abnormality. He was surrounded by the cold wind in an instant. In this icy breath, a thick layer of frost quickly condensed on Mukhtar's body. He was frozen to the point of being unable to move. The stream in the garden quickly froze under the attack of the cold air, and countless leaves were covered with a layer of white frost.
In the frozen state, Mukhtar turned his head to look in the direction where the cold air came from. Standing there was a familiar figure, it was Shadi.
"Shadi... is a traitor..."
Seeing Shadi, Mukhtar's face showed anger, and soon his expression was covered by frost, and his whole body was frozen under the ice, motionless. At this moment, a bright light flashed in the sky over the palace garden, and a thick lightning bolt broke through the sky and pierced down, hitting Mukhtar who was frozen in the ice. In an instant, Mukhtar's ice sculpture was shattered by the lightning, and the shattered ice also tore his flesh at the same time.
After suffering the double damage of electric current and broken ice, Mukhtar's entire body was covered with scars, and blood immediately covered his entire body, staining his badly damaged robe red. At this moment, Vanya rushed over from a distance. She took this opportunity to stab out with the sword in her hand, and sent the blade directly into Mukhtar's chest, directly piercing his heart.
The heart was pierced, ordinary people... ordinary extraordinary people should have died at this time, but Mukhtar was different. After his heart was pierced, he screamed in pain, and then pointed the ring in his hand at Vanya, and fired another illusory ray at her. With the help of her mind's eye, Vanya dodged the ray and pulled out the sword that pierced Mukhtar's chest. Mukhtar retreated back and created a distance. After seeing that Mukhtar did not die after his heart was pierced, Vanya and Shadi at the scene could not help but be a little surprised, and Shadi even sighed in his heart.
"He didn't die even after being stabbed in the vitals... I used to think this ability had some limitations, but now it seems that this soul substitute's ability is too terrifying...
"That guy is now in a state where his soul is the main thing. As a secondary being, he relies entirely on the strength of his soul to sustain his physical life. In essence, he can already be called a half-undead. It is impossible to kill him in one go. So continue to attack and inflict damage to him continuously. As long as the damage accumulates to the point where his soul can no longer bear it and collapses, the damage you inflict on his body will be effective!"
Leaning on Shadi's body, Setut explained this to Shadi's question. After listening to him, Shadi also prepared for the next attack. However, Vanya, who was faster than him, rushed forward with a sword in hand.
Seeing the nun in front of him whose temperament changed completely after holding the long sword, Mukhtar was not moved at all. As Vanya approached, he threw a glass bottle shining with subtle light. The glass bottle shattered immediately after falling to the ground, and a dazzling white light burst out from it. Vanya paused after being dazzled by the light, and then immediately closed her eyes. After capturing Mukhtar's movement with her mind's eye, she immediately swung her sword at her, but Vanya's delay just now was enough for Mukhtar to complete what he wanted.
Mukhtar closed his mouth in the dazzling light and made a solemn declaration in the language of his soul.
"Commandment: Do not harm. Anyone who harms me will be punished tenfold!"
Mukhtar made a declaration and activated his ability. After hearing this declaration that ordinary humans could not hear, Shadi, who was a "Silent" Extraordinary, couldn't help but feel uneasy, and then he spoke loudly to him.
“Stop!”
When Shadi shouted this, Vanya immediately became alert and wanted to stop, but at this time Vanya's sword was already on the opponent's neck, and the power had been used, so it was not so easy to stop.
With this sword, Vanya used almost all her strength. With the blessing of the second-order "cup", even if Mukhtar had more than a dozen heads put together, Vanya could cut off his neck in one breath. Vanya's reaction time was too short. This terrifying force could not be retracted easily. Even if she used the force-retracting technique among her sword skills, she could not completely stop this powerful blow. Seeing that Vanya could cut off Mukhtar's head in the next second, Vanya's pupils could not help but widen.
But at this moment, another force came through the puppet mark on Vanya's body and spread throughout her body. This strange force instantly took control of Vanya's body and ordered her to stop slashing. With the help of this force, Vanya finally stopped the huge force she had released. She did not cut Mukhtar's neck directly, but immediately drew her sword back. But in the process of drawing the sword back, Vanya inevitably cut the flesh on Mukhtar's neck, leaving a bloody mark.
In an instant, ten intersecting bloodstains appeared out of thin air on Vanya's fair neck, with blood flowing out of them. Vanya opened her eyes wide in fear, covering the wound on her neck and stepped back a few steps.
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