Chapter 72: Battle: It was just an illusion! It was...
That night.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The servant on night watch yawned drowsily, ignoring the rustling sounds in the forest.
The shadow of the big tree in the distance produced some strange fluctuations and made a slight noise, but it immediately returned to calm before attracting anyone's attention.
A player who narrowly escaped death by climbing over a wall in the blind spot of the NPCs squatted in the grass and took a deep breath as he looked at the dense but orderly red dots around him.
After making a gesture to the venomous snake that was also hiding nearby, the player immediately began tapping rhythmically on the small instrument next to his ear.
Willdi, who was sharing the signal from a distance, immediately translated it.
"There are a lot of people inside, it seems like they're having a party?" Wille took off his headphones, a little puzzled. "Strange, why choose to hold a party at this time?"
"Banquet?" Reborn frowned. "Something's wrong. Let Aurora retreat first. Let's go take a look."
"Okay." Wille didn't say any more nonsense.
"How are Aurora and Viper doing now?" Feng asked him as he ran.
"The vital signs are all normal, but I feel something is not right." Reborn looked at the props in his hand and did not explain clearly.
"They actually chose such a coincidental time to hold the banquet. It seems that the other party has noticed our carefully selected opportunity first." Lal Mirchi held the weapon in his hand and hurried on with a cold face.
"If Viper doesn't notice anything's wrong..." Feng frowned. "Blood magic, this strange and unfamiliar style is too hard to defend against."
"Yes." Reborn nodded and said, "Muzan Kibutsuji has hidden his true subordinates very well. The actions he took earlier to verify the feasibility of the Nichirin Blade and the loss of those ogres did not shake his foundation in the slightest."
Apart from the two ghosts killed by Yutaro, all the others he killed were cannibal ghosts that could be easily recreated and had no words in their eyes.
"It seems we need to hurry up." Lal Mirchi took the lead in speeding up.
After conveying Reborn's words to Aurora, Wilde, who stayed behind, shifted most of his attention to the various large robots he had sent into the Yansong family, ready to provide support at any time.
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The killer's sixth sense is indeed good—
The player and Viper stood back to back, looking at the group of ogres with serious expressions - these ogres suddenly appeared in front of them.
"Viper, these people suddenly appeared in front of us." The player said, "The ones I sensed before were not this close at all."
These red dots were almost on their faces!
"Ah, if it's not an illusion, then it can only be blood magic." Viper took out his weapon and said solemnly, "It seems that this place is really a den of ghosts." He naturally knew that these cannibal ghosts appeared suddenly.
"Emperor Will has sent me a message asking us to retreat first." The player smiled stiffly. It was so funny. There were three layers of people inside and outside, and he couldn't run away at all.
"Can we just leave whenever we want?" The black robe on Viper's body was fluttering.
"Isn't it a bit too late to think about escaping now?"
"Who was I thinking? Turns out it's the little mouse that snuck in." Upper Rank Two Uto Ayumu put his hands behind his abnormally shaped head and smiled wickedly, "I guess you're the ones that Master Muzan mentioned, secretly investigating our whereabouts?"
"It really is effortless!"
"From the very beginning, your actions were within our expectations." Upper Rank Five Kazuya Katabawa stroked the flowers that appeared out of nowhere beside him, a melancholy expression on his face, but his eyes were indifferent. "Although I don't know what you intend to do, Master Muzan will not allow any threats to exist."
"That's right, there is a way to avoid death, but unfortunately I just want you to die here now!" Uto Ayumi laughed wildly.
"Wow." The worry on the player's face disappeared instantly. "You didn't really think we were exposed accidentally?"
"Hmph, Aurora, don't talk too much with idiots." Viper said in a light tone, "It will damage your brain, which doesn't like to move much to begin with."
"? What do you mean?" Uto Ayumi frowned fiercely.
"What I mean is... we did this on purpose to make you let down your guard so that you can show up on your own initiative!" A strange voice came, stabbing towards Uto Ayumi with a powerful attack force.
"!!!" Before Uto Ayumi had time to question it, the bloodstains that suddenly appeared on his body told him that what this woman said was true.
"Upper String Two?" Lal Mirchi, having succeeded in his attack, didn't hesitate to fight. He looked at the two men surrounded by layers of enemies and quickly returned to defend. He said in a provocative tone with an expressionless face, "Let me be your opponent."
"Who are you?! I've never seen you before?" Katabayashi Kazuya suddenly opened his squinting eyes.
"Hmph, you don't have the mind to pay attention to others." The hooded man who was originally surrounded by ordinary ogres appeared in front of him at some point. Katabayashi Kazuya subconsciously dodged backwards to avoid having a big hole in his body like Uto Ayumi.
"What is this...?" Katayama Kazuya was a little surprised.
Looking again, where was the person in the original encirclement? Only two scarecrows in human form, with mocking smiles on their faces!
The woman who hadn't injured Uto Ayu disappeared like invisible smoke, while the cannon fodder cannibals had already been killed by the two men and turned into ashes.
"Hallucination? That woman is also hallucinating?" Katabayashi Kazuya suddenly realized!
"Hehe, Viper, your illusion is really useful." The player who killed those ogres stood aside with a golden sword in his hand, grinning.
"Mumu, if it weren't for your eyes, would I have to perform such a troublesome illusion?"
The venomous snake, quite confident in his illusion, raised his chin and said, "However, this trick only works on ordinary cannibal ghosts. It won't work on ghosts of higher rank like this."
He looked at Katabayashi Kazuya, his expression expressionless, but his heart heavy - the illusion he had carefully arranged only had such a short effect on this ghost.
"Upper Five...?"
"Huh, do you really think there are only two of us?" When he realized that the real enemy was only the two of them, Uto Ayumi's body quickly recovered and he shouted to the sky, "Uchihara Yuuna!"
The moment the words fell, ripples appeared in the air, and what appeared in the ripples were the ogres that had never appeared before - Upper One, Upper Four, and Upper Six!
"It seems this is your true hidden power." Viper truly drew his long sword, muttering to himself something that players were tired of hearing, "I hate close combat. Warlocks who know physical skills are heretics..."
"It seems Uchihara Yuina is an Upper Rank Three." The player held the red sword and asked tentatively, "One, two, three, four, five, six... Muzan Kibutsuji is here too, right?"
"Wow, looking at your complicated expressions, my guess should be correct. Muzan Kibutsuji is really here too."
"...Even if you knew that Lord Muzan was here, what could you do, little sister?" The Upper Rank Six-Tails, Qu Sao, a woman dressed in gorgeous clothes and as beautiful as an oiran, smiled while covering her lips with an exquisite little fan.
"Six against two, your outcome is already determined—you must stay here."
"Oh? Really? It seems you're very confident." The player and Viper exchanged glances, then turned to look at Taiqu Shakui with an ambiguous smile. "But, that's hard to say for sure."
The Fourth Upper Moon, Toru Iriya, raised his eyebrows slightly, not quite understanding where the confidence of these two people came from. Even if they could use some small tricks to kill those man-eaters, there was an insurmountable barrier between the Upper Moons, let alone between the Upper Moons and ordinary man-eaters?
And one of the Upper Moons, Nagatsuki Keijin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly clenched the sword in his hand and looked somewhere.
"Who said it was six to two?"
"Six against two, with more people defeating fewer, it's really unfair."
"Why waste time talking to a cannibal? Just fight and it's over."
Three voices of different styles instantly resounded throughout the scene.
"You finally show up." Viper looked at his colleagues with displeasure.
"Whoosh——" the player whistled.
"Who told you to plan such a stupid appearance for us?" Reborn said mercilessly. "I won't let a fool who hasn't even reached the advanced level of stealth take on such an unknown mission."
They had clearly come in a long time ago, so who were they performing that part for?
"I haven't reached graduation level... I've made great progress, okay? It's obviously because Mr. Reborn's requirements are too high." The player, knowing that he was being talked about, complained quietly.
Thinking of the devilish training that Reborn developed under the inspiration of the wind, the player's poor little heart trembled instantly.
"I am the strongest illusionist. Those plots are enough to fool idiots." Being stepped into his professional field, Viper was not willing to be outdone.
The upper ranks, who were called idiots and whose guard had indeed been lowered by being separated by them, all had some anger in their eyes.
"It seems that you have somehow exploited Uchihara Yuuna's abilities, making us think that there were only two of you sneaking in, but there were actually five." Iriya Toru said this, looking at the conspicuous black-haired girl, and understood, "So this is your confidence."
"The outcome is still unknown." The black-haired young man in a red robe had a smile on his face and was muttering in a language that the ogres could not understand, but his actions made his intention clear at a glance.
"Upper Three is not here. Now, it's five to five." The short-haired woman, who was wrapped tightly in a military uniform, held the sword across her eyes, with a cold and chilling murderous intent flashing in her eyes.
"Are you hallucinating again?" After seeing the woman in military uniform, Uto Ayumi immediately doubted the authenticity of their existence.
But judging from the aura she exudes and her leisurely demeanor, this woman doesn't seem to be a trick performed by the strange hooded man.
"Is it an illusion? Why don't you experience it yourself later?" Lal Milch, who witnessed his own friendly appearance, naturally knew what Uto Ayumi was talking about and choked him.
Viper looked at Katabayashi Kazuya. The hatred they had just formed was enough to make him lock his eyes on this Upper Rank Five.
"Interesting. It seems that you are my opponent." Reborn looked at the ghost with snow-white hair, raised his eyebrows and sneered.
"Then let's give it a try." The taciturn one of the Upper Moons, Nagatsuki Keijin, looked straight at the most powerful man among the five players - the man in the top hat who had been emitting terrifying murderous intent towards them.
Reborn!
The silent fluctuations sounded again, and Uchihara Yuina, the Upper Three who was hiding behind the demons, took action again!
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