Chapter 20: The Teacher of Truth
In the dark night, on the shore of Starry Lake, Gsmore with eight limbs and eight pupils stared at the sparkling lake water under the moonlight in front of him, the strange water monster and Francisco on its back. After a moment of surprise, he gritted his teeth and spoke.
"That is...what the hell! How dare you go against me!"
While speaking evil words, he then exerted force with his feet, leaped up from the ground, and rushed rapidly towards the water monster on the lake. Francisco was on the back of the water monster, and after seeing Gasmore's attack, he tried hard to support his body. He just recovered from the severe pain and swung the sword in his hand, summoning a huge wall of fire above the lake to hinder Gasmore's advance.
Facing the wide wall of fire in front of him, Gsmore quickly went around it from the side and continued to rush towards the target. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the water monster in the lake began to dive actively. Francisco, who was impossible to swim, saw the strange creature that rescued him start to dive, so he jumped from its back and turned into a beam of fire again and flew into the sky.
After bypassing the fire wall, Gusmore looked at the lake again. What she saw was not the scene of Francisco taking off and the water monster diving. In her eyes, the water monster was still in the same position as before, and Francisco was still on the back of the water monster. Facing this scene, Gusmore continued to rush forward at high speed without hesitation, wielding the blood blade to cut at the water monster and Francisco, and after the attack hit, she watched them turn into a phantom again.
“Damn it!”
Seeing that she seemed to be deceived again, Gasmore couldn't help but speak. At this moment, Francisco had taken advantage of the opportunity when Gasmore attacked the wrong target to successfully distance herself from her, and released a fireball out of Gasmore's sight. Gasmore was hit by a fireball immediately behind her right after she attacked the phantom. In a loud explosion, Gasmore's back was blown to pieces, and she almost fell into the water with a scream.
The Full Moon Water Monster is an anecdote creature created by Dorothy using her ability as a trickster after being promoted to a Mentor of Truth, combined with local folk tales in Gramorn. The manifestation of anecdotes is exactly the ability possessed by the Red Stage on the Path to the Gods.
As a strange writer, a special person can turn a piece of anecdote he knows into a real creature. This anecdote creature will have the appearance and ability of its legendary story and be controlled by the strange writer. The strength of the anecdote creature is affected by many factors.
The first factor is the spread of the anecdote. The wider the spread of the anecdote, the more people know about it, and the stronger the anecdote creature is. The second is the occasion of summoning the anecdote creature. The closer the occasion of summoning the anecdote creature is to the content of the anecdote, the stronger the anecdote creature is. Then there is spirituality. The more spirituality the trickster pays to summon the anecdote creature, the stronger the anecdote creature is. Even if the first two factors are very weak, as long as the trickster has sufficient spirituality and piles spirituality on the anecdote creature regardless of cost, the anecdote creature can be greatly made very strong.
Finally, anecdotes are not beliefs, so the writer of a mystery is not capable of creating supernatural anecdotes. The anecdotes chosen as the blueprint should preferably have a certain horror and thriller tone to fit the characteristics of the "shadow".
For example, the Full Moon Water Monster summoned by Dorothy now, in terms of the popularity of anecdotes, the Full Moon Water Monster is actually not strong, because the legend of the Full Moon Water Monster is only circulated around the Star Lake, mainly in Gramorn. In essence, this legend is caused by some anomalies caused by the extraordinary system of the Quiet Moon Temple on the Star Lake, which was misunderstood by mortals.
Although the Full Moon Water Monster is not widely known, the occasion where Dorothy summoned the Full Moon Water Monster is very suitable. This is the place where the anecdote happened, and it is a full moon, which is very consistent with the anecdote of the Full Moon Water Monster. Therefore, the factors of the Full Moon Water Monster summoning occasion are almost full. Finally, Dorothy has many "shadows" of her own, which gives the Water Monster a lot of "shadows", and also ensures the strength of the Water Monster, allowing the Water Monster's ability to affect Gosmore, the initial apostle.
The ability of the Full Moon Water Monster is to make any creature in the water area where it is located and the surrounding areas have hallucinations, and subconsciously see what they think they should see. Just like when Gasmore bypassed the fire wall just now, she lost sight of the water monster and Francisco. When she bypassed the fire wall and focused her attention again on the original location of the water monster, she saw the illusion that the water monster and Francisco were still there.
Using the illusion created by the Full Moon Water Monster, Dorothy rescued Francisco and successfully kept a distance between him and Gosmore, even injuring Gosmore. However, two consecutive illusions targeting Chi Cheng also caused the Mirror Moon Water Monster to overload its abilities. Next, the Full Moon Water Monster will temporarily be unable to affect Gosmore, and Dorothy also controlled it to dive underwater and slowly recover.
However, although these operations slightly saved the situation, they were still some distance away from defeating Gosmore. Therefore, Dorothy immediately started the next action. As her will extended, Dorothy's corpses also began to move. From the fallen huge golem, a figure with its face covered flew out and flew into the night sky.
On the other side, after seeing that he was deceived by the illusion again, Gusmore couldn't help but roared in anger, looked at Francisco in the sky, and attacked him again at high speed.
Seeing Gusmore attacking him again, Francisco, who was flying in the sky, immediately fired fireballs at him continuously, trying to shoot him down in mid-air. However, since Francisco's long-range attack missiles were too slow for Gusmore, none of these fireballs could hit the target.
Just like that, through extremely fast speed and body skills, Gosmore dodged the fireballs while approaching Francisco at high speed, and it seemed that he would soon be in front of him. Under the divine enchantment of the Spider Queen, once Gosmore successfully attacked Francisco, one blow would make him lose his combat effectiveness.
At this moment, in the dark night, a dazzling orange-red light broke through the night sky and shot towards Gusmore. Gusmore was caught off guard and was hit directly by this rapid ray. Her abdomen was directly penetrated. The strong impact and high temperature burning made a big hole in her abdomen.
“Hmm…”
Suffering this sudden attack, Gasmore, who was originally attacking, fell from the sky slowly, and stopped only when she was half the distance to the lake surface. When Gasmore struggled hard to fly again, she turned her head angrily and looked in the direction where the ray came from. Then she saw a row of men in different clothes, floating above the lake.
“Who…is it again!?”
Looking at the figures, Gasmore gritted her teeth and said, "Just when she was about to do something, several huge fireballs from above had already flown to her face. While Gasmore was knocked down by the rays and adjusted her posture, Francisco released another fireball attack on her, accurately hitting the target.
"boom!"
With a loud bang, Gasmore was engulfed by the explosion. She was blown away from the air and fell into the lake. She didn't even have time to scream.
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