Chapter 366 "017"
More ice spears quickly formed beside "Lady Despair" Panatia, and were pulled by invisible spider silk and thrown towards the hooded woman in the sky. She herself used another bundle of spider silk to fly in another direction without touching the ground, and her target was the alley where she had just met Irene Watson.
She now deeply regretted that she had played with her target like a cat and mouse in order to relieve the boredom caused by the interruption of her plan, and thus missed the best time to escape.
There was no doubt that the woman in the sky was a High-Sequence Beyonder from one of the three major churches. She approached and appeared silently, and silently "confiscated" the Frost Spear in her hand. The strength she displayed made Panatia not even think of fighting back. Her only thought was to "escape quickly."
As for why he was located so quickly, and why the enemy didn't go after Mr. A, who was a more obvious target, but found him instead, he could think about these things slowly after escaping.
There was no sound of the ice spear hitting the target. Panatia, who had already rushed to the alley, subconsciously looked back. In the thick haze, the hooded woman was still floating quietly in the air, and the several ice spears disappeared as if they had never appeared.
"She's just defending, not attacking?"
As soon as this thought came into her mind, her body, which was being pulled by the spider silk and flying, stopped in place and did not move.
Mirror double!
One of her eyes shattered, and her figure turned into translucent pieces of varying sizes like fragile glass, but under the stand was Panatia, who was still in place with a look of horror on her face.
Her stand-in and her real body were fixed in the same position!
The next second, starting from her right foot, which was closest to the other person, her body became transparent centimeter by centimeter and disappeared, like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser.
This invisible eraser quickly "erased" upwards, revealing the white thighs, slender waist, chest, neck...
Her bright, holy face was now filled with panic, and the mirror-like pupil on the other side shattered, but the body with only the head left did not move from its original place in the mirror substitute.
"No! You are..."
The words that came out of her mouth stopped abruptly, and the remaining part of her body was completely erased by the eraser.
The witch of despair disappeared without a trace in her final despair, and it seemed as if there had never been any trace of her existence in the alley.
The hooded woman in the air seemed to have accomplished something insignificant. She retracted her dull gaze and looked at another woman curled up in a ball at her feet.
…
"No! You are..."
Angel heard a faint cry, which seemed to come from "Ms. Despair".
Did the Nighthawks arrive? Or the Machine Heart, the Mandated Punisher? Or perhaps Mr. Fool's followers?
Her head was dizzy and she could no longer think carefully. After that shout, there was no other sound in her ears. It was so quiet that it seemed lifeless. Only her own intermittent and heavy breathing, like the sound of an old bellows being pulled, remained.
Lady Despair was right. The disease she released would kill her in a minute at most. So how many seconds were left? Even if the Nighthawks or other reinforcements could take care of her, would they be able to save her in time?
Angel forced himself to open his cloudy eyes and found a woman wearing a hood and a classical robe standing in front of him. Her face was difficult to see under the hood, but a strand of black hair extended from the brim of the hat and fell on her chest.
"Ms. Arianna?"
Remembering that she had used the secret holy symbol to chant the goddess's name in an attempt to pray before fighting the Lady of Despair, she asked with some speculation. When she opened her mouth, she found that her voice had become as hoarse and low as that of an elderly person.
The latter did not answer, but stretched out his right hand, with two objects placed in his open palm.
A sapphire ring and a soft substance that looked like it was covered in dark green bile.
The ring... the one on Triss's hand. It seems the official Beyonders have already taken action to control this unstable factor... But why did she give it to me? Could the other dark green substance be Triss's Beyonder characteristic?
Angel felt relieved at first, but then she felt a little confused. However, her brain had become dull due to the disease, so she could only take the object from the other person's hand.
This subtle movement caused her to cough twice more, and it seemed that her subsequent breathing became a little smoother as the phlegm was coughed out.
No, not just my breathing, all the "symptoms" in my body seem to have eased... She understood something in her heart and looked at the object in her hand.
After coming into contact with the dark green Beyonder characteristic, Angel's diseases stopped spreading throughout her body, and even showed signs of improvement. As she came to understand its effects, pneumonia, heart failure, high fever...all kinds of diseases disappeared from her body almost instantly, as if they had never existed.
Ability to suppress... no, control disease? Is this the extraordinary characteristic of a higher-ranking witch? Is it "pain" or "despair"?
She recalled the information Laura had revealed: in addition to the three Witch Cult witches of pleasure and the recently returned Lady of Despair, Backlund also had a Sequence 5 "Pain" witch. This Beyonder characteristic might have come from this "superior" she had never met...
As for Lady Panatia of Despair, even though she had just died at the hands of Arianna, she should not have developed any extraordinary characteristics at this time.
As the disease eased, Angel's thinking speed gradually recovered, but her damaged vision could not be restored. She looked at the blurry black-haired lady in front of her. The latter had bent down and lowered her head, moving closer to her who was kneeling on the ground.
"He's still fighting, but are you going to continue to stop this smog?"
The woman's voice was soft but devoid of emotion.
This wasn't Lady Arianna's voice... Who was she? Another saint from the church, or perhaps an angel?
The latter is more likely to be able to easily deal with Panatia... Is she talking about Sherlock, no, Klein?
Just now, when Panatia mentioned "the intruder who died in the ruins", although she subconsciously thought that the other party was lying and using words to instigate her, she still felt a little panic in her heart. When she heard the words of the mysterious lady, the panic was finally replaced by peace of mind.
"How can we stop the smog?"
Without taking the time to think further, Angel asked, his voice still hoarse and with a hint of trembling.
It is not caused by illness, but by a combination of spiritual exhaustion, injury, and other factors, and is a precursor to losing control.
In her hazy vision, her palm holding the ring and the Beyonder characteristic was gradually covered with patterns like black oil paint. More patterns extended from her arm, covering every exposed skin.
There is no doubt that this is a sign of loss of control.
"Put on the ring and take the Beyonder characteristics."
With the guidance of these words, Angel instantly understood what he should do.
Looking at the sapphire ring in her hand that had once frightened her, recalling how Triss was sometimes confused and panicked, and sometimes lost herself when she wore it, as well as the extraordinary properties of the dark green sapphire ring that seemed to have mist surging inside, Angel's mouth curled up slightly.
Yes, since your death is inevitable anyway, why not try to do more?
If I could save more people, I could help him a little more...
Without hesitation, she put the sapphire ring on the index finger of her left hand, tilted her head back, and swallowed the dark green "pain" property into her mouth.
The heat quickly surged from his throat into his stomach, followed by a chill that spread throughout his body... Angel's eyes once again recalled the feeling of his soul being pulled out when he was promoted to "Instigator", as well as the perspective of looking down at the ground from the air.
Next to the quietly standing hooded lady, her own body was kneeling on the ground, her exposed skin covered with terrifying black lines, and her brown hair was tangled together like venomous snakes, with the ends constantly wriggling.
Above the thinning haze in the sky, countless translucent souls flew towards the outskirts of the East District, but were blown into the sky by strange explosions.
I can see my "Faceless Man" form under the "Ring of Madness" and can also directly see the unwilling souls of the victims in the East District? Is it because I am also in a spiritual state?
As soon as this thought came into her mind, a sharp pain as if piercing her brain came from all over her body.
It was the stinging pain from the body tissues damaged by the disease and yet to be repaired. It was the burning sensation of the Beyonder characteristics entering the body and fusing with it in the abdomen. There was also the exhaustion of spiritual power and the various abnormalities caused by the loss of control of Beyonder power...
Amidst endless pain, Angel's spirit, which had left his body, quickly returned to his body.
At the same time, a new ability gained after the promotion also entered her body: disease control.
At least at this point, she was already a Sequence 5 Witch of Pain.
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