Chapter 206 The Death of the Bishop
The attacker was obviously afraid of the witch's black flames. He nimbly dodged the cursed flames thrown by Angel, but the frost under his feet greatly affected his movements, and a black flame still touched his elbow.
In an instant, black flames ignited his entire left arm and quickly spread upwards, with the momentum to ignite his entire body along his arm.
The "giant" with a gloomy face immediately pressed his left shoulder with his other hand, tore off the burning arm completely, and threw it towards Angel along with the blood gushing out of the wound.
"boom--"
The arm exploded in the air like a bomb, and with the shock wave generated by the explosion, a rain of blood splashed towards Angel who was dodging backwards.
This is a flesh and blood bomb, he is the "Rose Bishop" of the secret prayer path!
Quickly determining the opponent's potion sequence, Angel let the cold air quickly condense into frost in front of her, creating a thin, almost translucent, but extremely tough frost shield to block the spilled blood.
The dirty blood corroded the ice surface with a "sizzling" sound, burning holes in it, but Angel had already bypassed the ice shield and came to the side of the "giant".
“Bang, bang—”
Angel pulled out the revolver from his waist like lightning, activated two "Storm Gathering" bullets, and shot them at the tall body of the Rose Bishop, not seeking to kill him with one shot, but only to cause effective damage.
The "giant" and his bloody hand, which quickly grew out from his left shoulder and was temporarily not covered by skin, used his arms to block his fragile head and neck, but he was shot in the chest and abdomen, leaving two bloody bullet holes on his body.
“Uhh—”
He roared out, not knowing whether it was pain or anger. Just as he lowered his arms, he saw several black flames floating towards him. He quickly rolled away from the spot. He was hit by another bullet in the waist and crawled towards the door of the apartment he had just come out of.
"Without using 'Into the Shadows'?"
Angel, who had dealt with the Rose Bishop many times and even predicted his next move, was stunned. He retracted his right foot with the power of ice and continued to shoot and chase the figure of the "giant" until the other party fled into the apartment in a panic.
Looking at the dark entrance on the first floor of the apartment, Angel did not chase in immediately. Instead, he used the spiritual detection of "Flame Jump" to choose the landing point and look for a usable fire source in the apartment.
Although she could see in the dark, it was not in her habit to rush into something that was obviously a trap.
Don't be impatient, even if this guy is very likely related to Lanevus.
Finding the flames that had not yet been extinguished at the explosion site on the third floor, her body emitted bursts of bright yellow flames and she disappeared into the street. The next second, Angel's nostrils were immediately filled with the stench of burnt flesh and blood as she stepped onto the third floor.
Did someone just die in the explosion here?
Quickly observing her surroundings, she discovered that there were spots of blood on the walls of the room after the explosion. Although a skylight was opened on the ceiling during the violent explosion, and the remaining part was blackened by smoke, radiating, smoked-out flesh and blood could still be seen.
He died before the gas explosion. This death was very similar to the flesh-and-blood bomb of the "Rose Bishop"...
Thinking of the question the "giant" had asked, Angel guessed that the other party was most likely looking for someone who was tracking Lanevus. After killing him and silencing him, he was about to leave when he ran into him. He mistook him for a bounty hunter named "Hugh Dilcha" and attacked him directly.
This is a good thing. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that Lanevus was in the East District, right under my nose!
Gritting his teeth, Angel reloaded his revolver, turned on his psychic vision and took a quick look around. He found nothing unusual, so he left the house and went to the corridor on the third floor.
The gas leak automatically shut down the gas supply, causing all the gas lights on the entire third floor to go out. The corridor was pitch black, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you, but in Angel's eyes, who had dark vision, it was as bright as day.
After a brief search, she found no trace of the Rose Bishop on the third floor. She held her breath and listened carefully to the subtle sounds. A faint sound of metal friction came from the second floor.
Sure enough, he was on the second floor. Was he planning to ambush me when I came up from the first floor?
Angel took out a handful of powder made of fish scales from his pocket, sprinkled it on himself, and silently chanted a spell, and quickly made his figure disappear in the apartment.
With almost silent steps, she walked around to the stairwell at the other end of the corridor, holding a gun in one hand and a dagger in the other, and was about to go down to the second floor and approach the "giant" from behind.
The sound of metal rubbing stopped.
Then came the gurgling sound of flesh wriggling and the sizzling sound of fingers rubbing against each other.
No, he is igniting the spiritual fire?
A terrible thought popped up in Angel's mind. The next moment, orange flames surged out from the second floor, swallowing Angel's invisible body in one gulp like a wild beast, and rushed to the third floor.
Angel, who appeared under the streetlight on the other side of the street, watched the flames caused by the ignited gas burst out from the half-collapsed room on the third floor, from the remaining windows, from the row of windows on the second floor, and from the door of the apartment on the first floor, almost covering the entire apartment building.
The flames shot up into a fireball above the apartment, drifted upwards, and gradually died out, leaving only thick smoke.
That "giant" actually used himself as bait, tricked me into coming in, and then set fire to the gas pipes in the entire building?
The passersby who were injured in the first explosion and had not been able to escape were shocked by the second explosion. Those who could still move even crawled away from the burning apartment, leaving Angel standing in the middle of the street looking lonely.
But soon, a shadow emerged from the burning apartment building, and flesh and blood surged in front of her, transforming into a body nearly two meters tall. The newly regenerated left arm was still bloody and not covered with skin, and under the light yellow curly hair were a pair of beast-like eyes.
The corners of his drooping mouth twitched as he looked at the apartment engulfed in flames, very satisfied with his masterpiece. He then turned around and was about to turn into a shadow again and leave, but what caught his eye was a nimble figure and a dagger burning with black flames in her hand.
"Frenzy!"
Approaching the panicked "giant", Angel used the extraordinary ability of the Madness Ring at the same time as he swung the Black Flame Dagger, stirring the fragile spirit of the Rose Bishop.
The giant who was about to sneak into the shadows had his brown eyes turned red, like an enraged bull. He even forgot the extraordinary ability he was about to use, and instead clenched his fists as big as sandbags and rushed towards Angel.
The latter nimbly avoided the chaotic counterattack, swung his dagger, and cut off the opponent's left arm, which had just grown less than ten minutes ago, from the root. The second knife went straight for the opponent's throat.
The pain made the Rose Bishop's red eyes regain some clarity. He detonated his left arm that had fallen to the ground without hesitation. A rain of blood accompanied by the explosion attacked the two of them, but the first to be hit was Angel in front of him.
The corrosive blood covered her entire body, making a sizzling sound, but her blood-stained body suddenly became smaller and thinner, turning into a tattered paper figure.
This is a "substitute paper figure"...but isn't she a witch?
A trace of doubt arose in the heart of the Rose Bishop. He hurriedly mobilized his spirit, which was almost out of control in the frenzy, and summoned back the flesh and blood around him, letting them surround him like a whirlwind, and were about to condense into a deep red "flesh and blood cloak" that could withstand the penetrating black flames.
"puff--"
The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh reached the giant's ears, followed by a sharp pain in the back of his head.
"Blood and flesh explode..."
His last dying thought dissipated in the black flames that shot up into the sky.
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A few minutes later, two police carriages came galloping and stopped in front of the apartment, where the flames were almost extinguished but still shrouded in black smoke.
Several policemen jumped off the carriage and stared at the devastated Dharavi Street in amazement. It was not until they heard the groans of the injured on the roadside that they remembered their duties and scattered to save lives and put out fires.
A sheriff with two Vs on his shoulder straps squatted on the ground with a frown on his face, looking at two radial bloodstains that were clearly not caused by fire or explosion. The ground had been corroded by the bloodstains into shallow pits. Next to one of the bloodstains, there was a bloodstain leading to the sewer manhole cover next to the street.
He called two policemen to remove the heavy manhole cover. The sheriff ignored the blood and dust on the ground, lay on the ground, and looked down. In the dark sewer, there were only a few sounds of water dripping on the surface, and he didn't find anything else.
"Sheriff, here you go."
A police officer handed over a still-burning stick. Judging from its square shape, it seemed to be a surviving part of a table or chair.
Taking the torch, the sheriff threw it into the sewer, watching as the bright flames enveloped the entire passage, then fell into the shallow water and went out with a "puff".
In the brief moment when the firelight illuminated the sewer, he quickly shifted his gaze and looked down, but found nothing unusual except the sewage reflecting the firelight.
After thinking for a moment, the sheriff gave up the idea of going down the ladder to search carefully.
Standing up and brushing off his muddy hands, he directed the police officer beside him to close the manhole cover again, and then walked towards another colleague who also wore a double V on his shoulder.
"Call those people over. This scene clearly involves supernatural elements. We will not be in charge of what happens next."
Pointing to the frost that had not yet melted on the ground and the two pools of blood that had corroded the paving stones, he spoke with a serious face.
"I don't dare to care..."
He added secretly in his heart.
…
Watching the torch fall from the sewer exit not far away, Angel suppressed his fear, curled up in the corner of the sewer, and tried his best not to make any sound.
What a bunch of reckless people! If the sewers hadn't been redesigned and rebuilt over ten years ago, this little flame would have been enough to ignite the methane gas below and blow the entire East District to the sky!
It wasn't until the manhole cover was closed again and darkness enveloped the area once again that she slowly stood up, dragging the "Rose Bishop" who was soaked in sewage and burned beyond recognition, and left the East District's sewer network before the official Beyonders arrived.
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