Chapter 84: Killed with One Strike
After stabbing a knife into Tomac's body, Angel, who was blind, did not relax immediately.
She pulled out the dagger with her backhand, waited a second, and stabbed it again in the original direction. With a muffled groan from Tomas, this time the attack accurately returned to the original wound.
With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, her whitened retinas regained their function, and the cellar, which had been darkened by her vision, lit up again. In front of her, Tomas, who was lying on his back, covered the wound on his chest with one hand. The dagger had pierced through his palm and heart. The fist in his other hand slowly loosened, and an exquisite pocket watch rolled to the ground.
"Clement is right. Without his weapon, this guy is like a rookie, completely incapable of fighting..."
Angel thought to himself as he watched Tomac twitch for a moment and then collapse.
"No, am I also affected by the seal? How could I have such a thought of underestimating the enemy?"
Angel was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly took off the "2-031" on his right hand and stuffed it into his pocket.
As the "Hand of Declaration" left her body, her inflated confidence quickly waned.
Fortunately, I had seen Rupert's miserable condition, so I was able to wake up from the negative effects of the seal so quickly... Angel was a little scared. She approached Tomac, squatted down and pulled out the dagger from his chest. The body with stopped heart did not spurt blood high like a living person, but dark red blood flowed along the punctured gap.
Oh, right, blood...
Angel remembered the "Thirsty Blood" that he had thrown aside, and the bloody smell it emitted had spread throughout the cellar. He picked it up through the corner of his windbreaker and returned to Tomac.
Even without direct contact, the negative effects of "blood thirst" still made her dizzy and weak in her hands and feet, as if she had severe anemia.
Placing this magical item on Tomac's bleeding chest, the blood gushing out of the wound was immediately absorbed by the "bloodthirst" that was craving for blood. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that the other party's body had become a little shriveled.
This guy must be dead...
Angel watched the revolver drinking the blood of the Beyonder, and his eyes caught sight of the strange, exquisite pocket watch on the ground.
She thought about it and bent down to grab it.
This is a pocket watch with a diameter of about 2 inches, which is a bit too small to be used as a portable timepiece, but it has an oversized and bulky crown located at the three o'clock position.
The part where it connected to the watch chain was empty. The brass case was etched with a triangular holy emblem, and the interior was filled with gear and lever decorations. The holy emblem was covered with scratches, and it was obvious that it was very old.
The triangular holy emblem... Is this the holy emblem of the "God of Steam and Machinery"?
Angel opened the watch cover and found that the pocket watch was damaged. The hour hand pointed between 11 and 12, the minute hand was slightly left of the hour hand, and the second hand was rotating counterclockwise, but the interval was no different from that of a normal watch.
11:58, and it's counting down?
She tried pressing the crown, and the pocket watch made a "click" sound, but the hands did not move at all, still counting down accurately.
Angel searched Tomac's clothes again and found that apart from the pocket watch, some cash, and several sets of pistol bullets, there were only two coin-sized silver talismans.
This should be the "flash" he used just now... Angel tried to identify the Hermetic text on the talisman and found that it was very different from the talismans used by the Nighthawks. It seems that each church has its own inherited way of making talismans.
Then, there was a high possibility that this pocket watch was the basis for Thomas to display his extraordinary ability as a "magician", unless his magical item had already been integrated into his body, or was stuck in some strange place...
Not daring to put the pocket watch directly into his pocket, Angel searched his body and found a bullet box. He put the small pocket watch in it and carefully closed the lid.
This is important evidence and a powerful magical item. I should hand it over directly to the captain later...
It's not that she hadn't thought about keeping this magical item, which was likely derived from the characteristics of a Sequence 7 Beyonder, secretly, but the news that Tomac possessed the magical item had already been passed on to the "Mechanical Heart" through the craftsman Kavi, and soon all the official Beyonders in the entire Enmat Port would get the news, so she didn't have such an opportunity.
After figuring this out, Angel put the bullet box back into his pocket, picked up the "Bloodthirsty" which had absorbed enough blood and had returned to normal appearance and the bloody smell had been restrained again, put it in the holster, and returned to the center of the gravelly cellar.
Clement was huddled behind a stone slab, holding his abdomen.
Just now, when the ceiling was blown up by Tomac and large pieces of rocks fell, Clement was affected by the negative effects of the seal and was unable to leave the place where the rubble fell for a while. Even though he had the agility provided by the "Sleepless" path, he was inevitably hit by the rubble while escaping.
When Angel dragged him out from the rocks, the captain of the Nighthawks of Enmat Port had already covered his head and fainted.
It seems that even if he had the confidence to face the gods, he would still remember to protect his head when being crushed by the rubble...
Angel originally wanted to drag him out of the cellar first and then carefully check his injuries, but Tomac blew up the cellar ceiling and reappeared at the door on the other side. She had no choice but to take off Clement's "Hand of Declaration" and put it on herself, and used the "Assassin"'s ability to sneak into the shadows to launch a sneak attack from behind Tomac.
While she was struggling with Tomas, Clement seemed to have regained consciousness, but he was hit several times in the chest and abdomen by stones, forcing him to curl up to reduce the pain.
"Captain, are you okay?"
"Do I look good to you... that guy has been dealt with?"
Clement's voice was distorted by pain.
"He was stabbed twice in the chest. He's dead." Angel couldn't help but sneer. "It's just as you said. Once his abilities are blocked, he won't be a threat anymore."
She kicked the gravel at her feet.
"...At that time, I was influenced by the 'Hand of Proclamation' and became, well, a little arrogant."
Clement smiled bitterly, grunted and endured the pain, and took out a small blue metal bottle from the inner pocket of his windbreaker.
Is this the "Goddess's Gaze," the precious potion that temporarily heals the user?
"Thank you, I don't need it. It won't do anything for gunshot wounds, will it?"
Seeing Clement handing the bottle to him first, Angel shook his head to refuse, watching him tilt his head back, put the bottle to his lips, and take a cautious sip.
Almost instantly, the injury that made it difficult for Clement to support his body was relieved. He stretched out a hand, Angel caught it, pulled him up from the ground, put his hand on his shoulder, and the two walked towards Rupert who was lying by the door.
"I didn't expect that after killing the 'Rose Bishop', I almost fell into the hands of this traitor, the 'Mechanical Heart'."
Clement sighed as he staggered along, breathing heavily through gritted teeth.
"Rose Bishop? What kind of Beyonder is that?"
Angel was a little confused when she heard the name of this sequence during the battle. She did not find any potions of this sequence in the Nighthawks' internal information, but she had no time to ask at that time. This was a good opportunity to let the other party clear up her confusion.
"The Aurora Order possesses Sequence 6 of the Secret Prayer pathway. I heard this from the Red Gloves. Many Nighthawk documents haven't been updated yet. They are fanatics so mad they're willing to self-harm in battle, but this also makes them difficult to deal with. Their flesh, limbs, and even their entire bodies can be used as weapons. They can slip into the shadows and launch surprise attacks, and even bury their flesh into ordinary people's bodies as bombs."
"Just now, the flesh and blood bomb..."
Angel recited the ability that was just banned by the "Hand of Declaration".
"Indeed, this Mr. C was probably already injured and hasn't fully recovered. Otherwise, relying on just the two of us, even with the seal, we could at best repel him. Killing a 'Rose Bishop' would be extremely difficult."
The two men came to Rupert, and Angel squatted down to check on him. He found that the impulsive and reckless "Midnight Poet"'s breathing had returned to normal. Although he was still unconscious, he should be fine.
"When I retrieved the seal just now, I performed some emergency treatment on him, but further examination is needed. Eye contact with the evil god statue may have secretly contaminated him. If this contamination is not addressed promptly, he may one day lose control, or even worse."
The evil god statue refers to the man hanging upside down?
If you turn it 180 degrees, it does look a bit like a statue on Earth...
Angel resisted the urge to look back at the cross and the statue again, and together with Clement, he helped Rupert, who was still unconscious, up the stairs with difficulty.
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