Chapter 279 "Passionate" Reunion
The Eslant that Audrey knew was actually Ms. D in disguise?
Angel's heart sank. Although she had noticed something unusual about the other party from the vision of the "Scarlet Eye" and guessed that Audrey had fallen into the trap set by the other party, she was completely unprepared to run into her "old friend" the Aurora Society's messenger here.
Especially since he was a "shepherd" who had demonstrated his ability to fight against many enemies alone in Tingen City, and had escaped unscathed from the siege of an entire team of Nighthawks, which fully demonstrated the strength of Sequence 5.
Although he had been promoted to Sequence 6, he had no confidence of winning against such a cultist with diverse abilities.
"You are not Ms. Eslant?"
She pretended to be shocked and asked slowly. A rustling sound came from the living room behind her. It must be the guests leaving. As long as she could buy time, there would be no need for her to engage in a head-on battle...
Ms. D obviously didn't recognize Angel wearing the "Frenzy Ring". A smile appeared on her beautiful face and she whispered:
"You don't need to care who I am. Just disappear from my sight and I won't kill you."
Sure enough, the other party's target was Audrey.
Although it's unknown what method this "shepherd" used, perhaps flesh magic or some kind of magical item, to transform into the Eslante that Audrey knew, his purpose is likely to lure Audrey here, use the same method to transform into her, replace her, and then use her identity to approach Earl Hall, or even replace him...
Angel thought of many things in an instant.
"I'm afraid you won't be so kind."
After hearing Angel's answer, the last trace of smile on Ms. D's face disappeared.
The next second, Angel suddenly pried open the hammer of the "Good Luck" revolver and fired a preemptive shot. The demon-hunting bullet fired by the revolver with a passive increase in accuracy accurately hit Ms. D's forehead. Unfortunately, this shot triggered a power reduction effect with a probability of up to 4/5. The silver-white large-caliber bullet produced a handful of sparks on the shepherd's head and then bounced off at a strange angle.
No, it was not Ms. D who was hit, but a gorgeous armor that appeared on her body. The armor covering her whole body immediately made Ms. D's height increase to about 2 meters. A two-handed giant sword with a length of more than 1.5 meters appeared in her hand. The sword was shining brightly, making it impossible to look directly at it.
The sword-wielding "Dawn Knight" was like a steel wall, filling the narrow corridor. She bent her legs slightly, with the tip of her giant sword pointing forward. The next moment she rushed forward, striding towards Angel amid the sharp sound of tearing carpet.
In front of this high wall, Angel felt as if he had nowhere to hide and was about to crash into it and die in the next second.
Fortunately, during the battle in Tingen City and the battle with Father Utravsky in his dream, Angel was already familiar with the mobility of this armor made by the "Knight of Dawn". In addition, in addition to his own extraordinary abilities, the Shepherd can only use one soul at a time, which in turn limits the opponent's various means.
She took the initiative to move forward, with countless invisible threads spreading out around her, wrapping around the armored knight who was approaching step by step.
The strong knight was only hindered by the silk threads for a moment before he broke free. Ms. D waved her hand, and the two-handed sword was swung downwards by her one-handed grasp. Angel's body under the blade turned into bright yellow flames, which drifted away in the strong wind caused by the dancing giant sword. On the back of the armor, the faint black flames of the silk threads that had been broken free suddenly lit up, and Angel, who was at the other end of the threads a second ago, flashed out from them.
This is the perfect combination of Cursed Black Flame and Flame Flash.
Even the imposing Ms. D was stunned. She had not expected that the "Joy" witch in front of her would use another extraordinary ability. The giant sword split the flames and ashes, smashed the carpet, and created a crack on the ground. Before she could raise the sword again, she heard the continuous sound of trigger pulls and the roar of gunpowder behind her ears.
Bang, bang, bang—
Instead of cocking the hammer to try his luck, Angel fired three shots directly with demon-hunting bullets, which created a gap in the seam at the neck of the silver-white armor, revealing the long brown hair gathered underneath.
"Whoosh" was the sound of a sharp blade tearing through the air. Alarm bells rang in Angel's mind. He subconsciously lowered his head and rolled over to avoid the two-handed giant sword that was slashing horizontally. Ms. D spun half a circle like a top. The giant sword passed by the place where Angel had just stood and smashed a decorative vase beside the corridor into pieces.
She was not idle while dodging. The carpet that her left hand was supporting instantly hardened and turned into an ice blanket. The cold quickly spread to Ms. D. In just a moment, the exquisite armor boots were frozen on the long carpet. Angel cocked the hammer, stood still after rolling, took aim, and pulled the trigger.
"...The Yellow and Black King who controls good luck..."
The Fool's honorific name popped up in her mind.
"Bang!"
The recoil, much greater than the previous shots, almost knocked Angel away, and the muzzle flash illuminated the entire corridor. After a teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting, Ms. D raised her two-handed sword again and was about to break free from the frost under her feet. A fist-sized hole had already appeared in her upper abdomen, and she could even see the corridor behind her and the constantly collapsing walls, with pieces of debris falling along with dust.
The shot completely penetrated her armor and the house behind her.
As if she understood that this armor was useless against bullets with a power more than ten times the normal power, Ms. D took off the majestic "Dawn Armor" and freed her feet from the shackles of frost. She stroked the wound on her abdomen, smiling instead of angry, and then snapped her fingers with her blood-stained right hand.
"boom--"
Two almost overlapping muffled sounds came from the living room behind her.
It was an explosion... Was Audrey gone already?
Angel's heart clenched, but before he could distinguish the sound carefully, a handful of sticky, rich flesh and blood floated from the direction of the living room and wrapped around Ms. D, who had returned to her normal height, melting the ill-fitting dress and turning it into a blood-red robe.
The wound on her abdomen was healing at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, the wound that was transparent from front to back was blocked by new flesh and blood, and the delicate skin covered the defect.
Confidence returned to Ms. D along with the handful of flesh and blood. She smiled elegantly, but there was only coldness in her blue eyes. She looked at Angel as if she was looking at a corpse.
"Let me introduce myself. I am the god of the Aurora Society..."
Before she finished her words, with the spreading frost and flashing black flames, Angel followed the flaming dagger and instantly crossed the distance between the two of them and appeared in front of her.
…
Audrey Hall, her personal maid Anne, her golden retriever Susie, and two guards had just left the villa when two loud noises with almost no intervals were heard from behind. The closed door was blown open by the blast, and the glass windows on both sides were shattered to the ground. A thick smell of blood wafted in with the air flow, making people feel nauseous.
She couldn't bear to imagine what would happen to the two servants who remained in the living room.
But the continuous gunshots and the sound of heavy objects colliding just now made Audrey realize that "Queen" Miss Irene Watson was still fighting hard to let her escape, and she must not let her efforts go to waste.
Several people quickened their pace and came to the outside of the garden. Two carriages were parked on the side of the street. The diligent coachman was sitting in the driver's seat, looking in surprise in the direction of the explosion along with passers-by.
It was already night, and the streets of Hillston were densely lit, so there were quite a few people. Some had already left the villa, but many more stopped to watch. Audrey boarded the carriage with Anne's help, and the maid followed, anxiously urging the driver to leave immediately.
"Go to the North District, St. Samuel's Church!"
Audrey ordered.
She knew that calling the police was completely useless in this situation. Her home was in Queens, even further away. The only way to solve the problem was to go to the nearest Church of the Goddess of Night and ask the official Beyonders for help.
"Annie, please keep everyone away from here. It's too dangerous."
Feeling the slight bumps in the carriage as it started moving, Audrey spoke to her personal maid, who was looking at her feet, which were scratched while running, with heartache.
When the other person stuck his head out of the window and shouted to drive away passersby, she clasped her hands on her chest, lowered her head and closed her eyes, chanting in an almost inaudible voice:
"A fool who doesn't belong to this era..."
She wanted to report everything that happened here to Mr. Fool, and he should have a follower in Backlund!
"Bang--"
Behind the receding carriage, a violent explosion erupted in a room on the second floor of the villa. A bright light flickered in the window, like dazzling sunlight. The glass shattered from the inside, and a figure flew out, slamming heavily to the ground.
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