Chapter 74: The Use of Beyonder Characteristics
Oh no... I can't move now, I can't dodge...
Angel tried to get up from the ground, but found that with a person and a table on top of him, he couldn't move any part of his body significantly except for his head and his right hand that was protecting him.
Kavi had fainted from the double blow of the bomb and the collision with the workbench. He now collapsed limply on Angel, becoming the biggest obstacle to her counterattack.
"Sleeping Charm"... dagger...
Other items that could be used on her body flashed through her mind one by one, and she found that the only thing she could use was the "Thirsty Blood" that she had lost when she was dodging the bomb.
Looking at the approaching figure, Angel's right hand moved slowly, at a speed that no one else could notice, groping under himself and Kavi, looking for the revolver that had fallen somewhere.
Perhaps the slight movement caught Tomac's attention, and he stopped about three meters away from the two men.
"I mean no harm."
Angel almost laughed out loud when he thought he would hear some ridicule, but he didn't expect Thomas to say such a thing.
If the old man who was mistaken for a "craftsman" had not fallen to the ground and was almost shot in the head and killed by a bomb, I might really believe it...
While groping, she finally grasped the icy "thirsty blood".
She slowly moved her right arm, gradually removing the weapon from under her body. She did not make any big movements, but looked at Thomas quietly, wanting to see how he would argue.
"I'm only here to get the Beyonder characteristics. If she refuses to cooperate, then I can only let her die."
"As for you, I don't know what you're planning to do here, but if you leave quietly from the beginning, I won't have time to care about you."
"You feel superior after killing people?"
After listening to Tomac's nonsense, Angel couldn't help but retort.
She finally raised the "Thirst" behind the table, aimed at the other party, and could no longer tolerate Tomac's arrogant words, so she pulled the trigger directly.
The reinforced bullet easily penetrated the wooden workbench and shot towards Tomac with flying wood chips. The opponent seemed to have expected to be attacked. His body moved sideways before the gunshot was heard, easily avoiding the bullet.
"Squeak—"
A strange whistling sound was heard, as if the sound of steam leaking from a pressure cooker. After dodging the bullet, Tomac raised his revolver to prepare to give Angel a fatal blow, but his body paused. It was as if an invisible fist had opened a hole in his chest. Pieces of clothing, flesh and blood flew forward and landed on the ground and on the workbench.
Bang--
The iron gate behind Angel shook, and a two-finger-wide hole appeared at a height of about 1 meter.
"Steam...rifle..."
With his eyes wide open, Tomas uttered a few words, and orange flames surged from his body. The second rifle bullet passed through his illusory figure, leaving another bullet hole in the iron gate, and brought up a whirlwind that blew away the remaining ashes.
The almost invisible figure in the fire raised his left hand, which was not holding a gun, and wiped it across his chest. The wound that was big enough to stuff a fist into disappeared and reappeared on his shoulder.
"puff--"
The last trace of flame disappeared in the air, and Tomas' figure did not appear around again.
This trick again...
The attack from out of sight prevented Tomas from using his paper substitute, or perhaps this ability was limited in how many times he could use it... But even after being hit in the chest, he still managed to perform a fire jump and damage transfer before escaping the scene.
If I have the chance next time, I should hit him directly on the head.
Angel thought so as he listened to the heavy footsteps of the "Mechanical Heart" members carrying gray-white mechanical boxes.
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"I'm fine now. My injuries aren't serious. Go and catch that bastard! He killed Bourne. (Rune curses). What an ungrateful person..."
Kavi, who had regained consciousness from her coma, sat on a "high" back chair with half of the back missing. A man dressed like a professional soldier was bandaging the gunshot wound on her shoulder. After being rescued, the craftsman kept yelling, wishing he could send all the gunmen in the room to capture the escaped Tomac.
"Ms. Kavi, calm down and take care of the wound on your shoulder. The captain and the others have already gone after him. Tomac won't be able to get far."
The man persuaded helplessly.
Amidst the glass fragments and furniture sawdust all over the floor, two shooters holding automatic rifles and one shooter carrying a steam box and holding a high-pressure steam rifle connected to the box were surrounding Angel.
The steam rifle shooter glanced to the side, as if he didn't expect Kavi to swear, but then he retracted his gaze and looked at Angel in front of him.
After pulling out her Ahowa County Inspector's badge to prove her identity, Angel finally ended up being pointed at by three rifles. But even after she had lifted her guard, the "Mechanical Heart" shooter across from her refused to let her go, and asked sullenly:
"But why did you happen to be here when Tomac attacked Ms. Kavi?"
"If she hadn't happened to show up, I would have died at Tomatz's hands before you arrived."
Regardless of the fact that the gauze wrapped around his shoulder was still bleeding, Kavi pushed aside several shooters surrounding Angel and stepped forward to explain.
"That guy was about to kill me when she walked in. If he really wanted me to die here, couldn't he have just arrived later like you did?"
The "Mechanical Heart" shooter who had just questioned Angel looked embarrassed and put down his weapon.
From the conversation between several people, Angel could guess that this "craftsman" should be a member of the "Mechanical Heart" and his status was probably not low.
"Thank you so much this time. Bourne recognized Tomasz the moment he came in, but he used that ability to disappear and reappear from the flames to get behind Bourne through the doorway and kill him with one shot... This bastard must have planned it all. When he fired, the hourly clock in the church next door just rang."
After scolding the late helper, Kavi turned to thank Angel. Through her story, Angel learned what had happened in Kavi's watch shop before he arrived.
This murderer, wanted by the "Mechanical Heart," walked brazenly past the church of the "God of Steam and Machinery" in a peaked cap and arrived at Kawi's watch shop. Bourne, who had relegated himself to protecting Kawi and her shop, immediately recognized him and drew his sawed-off shotgun, but Tomasz, using his "Flame Leap" to gain cover, shot the diligent guard in the head with a single blow, killing him.
Then Tomac shot and wounded Kavi again, and after forcing her to confess certain things, he was about to kill her when he was met by Angel who happened to come to the watch shop.
"Poor Bourne... He always said being a Beyonder was too dangerous and was glad he didn't take the potion back then... I never thought that at such an old age, he wouldn't die at the hands of an enemy, but at the hands of a traitor."
The shooter who was pointing an automatic rifle at Angel murmured.
"Well... you guys take Bourne back first and sort it out. I'll go inform his daughter. I know her best."
Kavi no longer had the cunning and liveliness he had during yesterday's transaction. He looked sullenly at Bourne, who was lying on the ground. The latter had been too close to the spherical bomb in the explosion just now. His coat had been torn to shreds by the blast, and his limbs were twisted, no longer in human form.
Immersed in the sad atmosphere around her, Angel was reluctant to ask Kavi to help her design and manufacture new weapons. Besides, the store had been bombed into ruins and obviously no longer had the conditions to trade and manufacture weapons.
But out of curiosity, she still asked Kavi, who kept his head down and said nothing:
"Hasn't Thomas been wanted for two days? Logically, after yesterday's arrest, he should have escaped from Enmat Harbor. Why would he risk his life to come here to find you?"
Is there some deep hatred between you two that would make him disregard his own life and kill you before leaving? Angel didn't ask this question.
There was a hint of anger in Kavi's eyes.
"Didn't that guy just say that? He wants my Beyonder characteristics. This guy must be unable to buy potion ingredients in Enmat Port, so he plans to use the Beyonder characteristics to..."
She stopped talking abruptly, as if she was aware of saying something she shouldn't have. Her body tensed and she looked panicked at the several members of the "Mechanical Heart" who were walking out of the store holding up Bourne's body with a carpet. Seeing that they hadn't heard the conversation, she relaxed her shoulders and felt relieved.
Her overreaction made Angel pay more attention to the second half of her sentence.
Use extraordinary characteristics to? What to do?
Because they couldn't find the ingredients for the potion, they had to kill Kavi and obtain the extraordinary characteristics that appeared after her death... Could it be that the extraordinary characteristics of a certain extraordinary person could be used as ingredients for a potion of the same sequence?
Angel's scalp tingled with fear at this terrifying thought. He subconsciously wanted to ask more questions, but seeing Kavi's expression as if he had said something wrong, he guessed that he would not continue the topic. So he did not ask any more questions, but abruptly changed the subject:
"I didn't expect Thomas to have reached Sequence 7. I saw on the wanted poster that he found the potion on his own and secretly became a Beyonder?"
"Sequence 7? Of course not. He's only Sequence 8. Otherwise, he wouldn't bother me, a Sequence 7."
Kavi shook his head and replied.
This confirmed my previous thought from another perspective. Tomac did indeed need Kavi's Beyonder characteristics to advance from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7... Wait, Tomac is a Sequence 8? But he can use the abilities used by Tuxedo Joker, who is clearly a Sequence 7?
"Ms. Kavi, can you use those abilities that Tomatz just used? The flame jump, the paper doll stand?"
Angel asked, frowning.
"How is that possible! I... I only know some ritual magic, the identification of magical items, and the crafting of ordinary weapons. The crafting of magical items requires reaching Sequence 6..."
After Kavi loudly retorted, his voice became smaller and smaller, and he seemed to feel a little embarrassed.
But then she reacted, stood up straight, and looked at Angel, who looked back with the same thought in his eyes.
"He carries with him a magical item with these extraordinary powers?"
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