Chapter 92: War Correspondent Chloe
Chloe, who was hiding in the shadows, was stunned.
Although she already knew that the Noble Red Society was going to take revenge on Aiwass before she came - the scale of this revenge was too great!
Princess Isabel is still inside, and there are also a large number of officials and businessmen. The Supervisory Bureau and the Inspectorate are also present...Are you guys not going to act anymore?
Before, Chloe was still wondering, the defense here is so tight, how on earth are they going to assassinate Aiwass?
But when she saw the deformed-limbed demon being forcibly recalled by someone using sacrifices, she couldn't hold it in anymore.
Very good, this time Aiwass will definitely not survive, and it is not her turn to assassinate him.
The problem now is that she may not be able to escape.
A high-ranking demon is at least a fourth-level demon. There are probably fewer than a handful of fifth-level transcendents in all of Avalon who can single-handedly defeat them head-on.
The Deformed Demon is the weakest of the higher demons. Due to its low intelligence and lack of particularly complex abilities, it is also the easiest to contract and the most recognizable higher demon.
Even Chloe didn't dare to provoke the deformed-limbed demon.
Its limbs and organs can be deformed at will, which means that the assassin's "vital strike" ability is basically ineffective against it.
It was also immune to curses and poisons, and had a high probability of resisting laws and petrification. Furthermore, it could keep up with Chloe's speed, possess strength comparable to Gordon's, possess a powerful vitality capable of infinite regeneration as long as its limbs were not severed, and possessed an exuberant energy that hardly ever tired...
The Deformed Demon didn't have the strange and complex special abilities of other higher demons, but it didn't really need them. This was simply and brute-force powerful, the kind of enemy assassins hated to encounter the most—they couldn't outrun, couldn't fight, couldn't kill, and couldn't withstand it.
Unless Chloe could successfully advance to the fifth energy level, she would surely die if she was targeted and hunted. This was far more terrifying than the Supervisory Bureau.
So when she saw the deformed-limbed demon, her first reaction was to run away.
If this deformed limb demon were to run around the field, he could easily pull Chloe out of the shadows when he passed by her.
But she can't escape!
Because those damned mages had somehow managed to seal the wall... She originally had a tool to break the barrier, but she'd used it up a few days ago. Now she had to wait for them to remove the seal themselves before she could leave. It wasn't a big deal, after all, Princess Isabel was trapped too. You guys have to let her out, right?
But she quickly gave up.
Because those demonologists had obviously set up a ritual here in advance, fixing and demonizing the sealed walls that blocked entry and exit. This way, even the lawmage who set the seal couldn't break it...
Not only the ordinary people on the second floor, but even Princess Isabel couldn't escape for a while. The only one who could easily cut through the magic wall was Gordon, the air cavalry, but he was also entangled by the deformed limb demon.
"You Avalonians are really no good!"
Chloe thought bitterly, "Does it really have to be me, an Iris person, who has to take action?"
It was obvious that a spy had infiltrated the supervisor or inspector preparing the venue. He took advantage of the opportunity to place the seal on the wall and prepared the demonic ritual in advance.
That's what a prepared demonologist does.
For a demonologist, the strength of the extraordinary person is completely different in encounters and ambushes.
...In this case, she must find its summoner or contractor while the deformed limb demon is restrained.
She really couldn't kill the deformed limb demon, but that was when she faced it alone - assassins have their own solutions.
Unlike the Ironhook Demon, the Deformed Limb Demon didn't have the ability to teleport. It suddenly appeared, either having just been summoned or having been summoned back to its side by the contractor through a sacrifice.
And it obviously has an owner.
The Deformed's attack priority prioritizes healthy individuals over disabled individuals, and healthy individuals over sick individuals. The younger the individual, the greater the likelihood of attack. Aiwass is in a wheelchair, so under normal circumstances, the Deformed would definitely not prioritize him, so manual control is necessary.
This kind of operation has a delay, and it can't be made to speak or perform overly complex movements...
Its limbs transformed much more slowly than a normal deformed limb, and its reaction time was also much slower. Otherwise, after a few rounds of fighting, Gordon would have been strangled by it. It wouldn't have been possible to fight back and forth like this.
The controller is human, after all. He lacks the instinct to flex his limbs and dodge attacks at will. His reaction speed is certainly not as fast as a limp demon. For a demon like a limp demon, having a brain is clearly a disadvantage. But without a brain, he lacks precise control, leaving him to attack at will, driven by anger and hatred towards healthy humans.
But even if Gordon could hold on, he couldn't hold on for long.
If Gordon's partner the Griffin was still with him and he could fly and fight guerrilla warfare, he might be able to hold off the enemy for a few hours.
But as a cavalryman and an air force unit, he now had to stand alone, fighting the limb demon head-on to protect the vast majority of ordinary people in the clubhouse. The demonologist hadn't yet adapted to the limb demon's body. Once he did, that would be Gordon's defeat.
Chloe must kill the Devil's Contractor when Gordon is defeated. This place is sealed, so he must be inside.
If a demon that has signed a contract is killed, the demon will be immediately forcibly deported.
So, there are so many people on the second floor. How can we tell who is the summoner?
...Just kidding, she's not from Avalon, why should she tell the difference?
As long as they look like them, just kill them all.
Of course, you have to confirm it first, but you can't act first.
She had to wait until Gordon and Aiwass were killed, and then she would kill all the suspected targets. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to escape later.
She didn't want to be chased again—this time she had no life-saving items on her, so she couldn't act rashly. She had to be more cautious than last time. Once most of the people here were killed, she could turn around and kill the demonologist and escape.
Thinking of this, Chloe took advantage of the chaos, left the shadows under the camera, quietly walked under the crowd, and spread towards the second floor.
Demonologists usually worked in pairs, and she easily found her apprentice.
The jar that the spell had bounced back into her hand was called the "Eye of Terror." It was a ritual spell crafted from twenty fresh eyeballs of humans who had died of fear. When activated by infusing it with dark mana and shattered by an external force, everyone within a thirty-meter radius would instantly be plunged into intense fear and chaos, fleeing in all directions or attacking one another.
Although this was a very low-level ritual spell, it was quite useful. Even if a high-level transcendent could use their willpower to exempt this spell, the chaos it caused to others was enough to disrupt the situation in an instant.
Chloe had a can before, having bought it from the wild elf bartender at the Pelican before it was shut down.
If this thing is used well, it can accomplish very advanced assassination missions.
But a few days ago, in order to escape, she used it almost meaninglessly...
...But are you sure it's okay to just throw it? This thing is usually used to set traps, right?
Chloe thought.
If this jar fell, half of the low-level transcendents below would be crippled. But if she threw the jar from this height, even if the spell didn't rebound, she would definitely be terrified as well.
Didn't she think about the fact that the second floor was only a few meters away from the first? Such a young person? A newcomer?
...I see. Am I being treated as an abandoned pawn?
Did her mentor, who had specifically sent an apprentice completely clueless about the details of the mission, think he could still get away with it? The demonologist had no means of concealing himself. How could he possibly escape from Glass Island under the noses of the griffins?
Or is there someone in the royal capital who can pick him up and temporarily protect him?
Ah, it should be the Minister of Trade.
So it's you... Are you anxious? I should be credited for that feeling...
Chloe thought so and looked towards the other side of the second floor.
The young apprentice also revealed another thing—that her mentor should be symmetrical to her, at least thirty meters away. Taking into account the throwing distance, that could be extended to forty-five meters...
Lurking in the shadows, she had roughly located the area where the mentor was.
But at this moment, she suddenly noticed that the deformed-limbed demon suddenly became anxious for some reason.
As if sensing a threat, it shifted its primary target from Gordon to Aiwass. Even after absorbing two blows from Gordon, resulting in two bursts of blood, it still managed to forcefully attack Aiwass, who was far from the battlefield.
"——What are you doing, devil!?"
Chloe, who was watching from the shadows, thought with dismay, "If you try any harder, Gordon will be dead! If the suppression stops, Gordon will recover if any of the priests here use illumination magic!"
Just as she was thinking about whether she should throw a poisonous dagger at Gordon from behind while he was receiving treatment, she suddenly froze.
Because she saw an extremely brilliant glow bursting out, completely covering the entire club!
I saw Aiwas take out a holy sword spewing fire and light from somewhere, and easily cut off the arm that the deformed-limbed demon stretched out!
The deformed-limbed demon suddenly whimpered like a wounded wolf and shrank back abruptly. Black smoke rose from the wound, and golden-red cracks like spider webs slowly spread from the wound.
...That is a sacred weapon!
Only a sacred weapon could cut through the body of a higher demon so easily!
It turns out this is his trump card!
Chloe's pupils shrank. She first felt scared, then felt lucky that she didn't do anything - then she felt a strong desire for greed in her heart.
—I want this! I want it so much!
She was only one step away from reaching the fifth level, and she had already killed more than fifty dignitaries and high-ranking transcendents along the way. But among those she had personally seen, only the leader of "Eagle Eye" possessed a sacred weapon!
As greed grew in her heart, the emerald light of the path of adaptation that overflowed from Chloe's soul... gradually became stained with a dark shadow.
That is the influence that comes from the path of love.
Chloe clearly saw that on the side opposite the petrified demon apprentice, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man suddenly cried out in pain and trembled violently, as if he was suddenly awakened from a nightmare!
There is no doubt that person is the contractor!
Chloe noticed this. And she wasn't the only one.
Edward, who had been watching the second floor, immediately noticed him and hung him up with a shout of "Arrest"!
Although the other mages didn't know what was going on, they immediately cooperated with Edward's spell and cast the law spell on the middle-aged man.
The assembled lawyers were terrifying.
As long as they weren't completely immune and their speed wasn't so fast that they couldn't be locked onto, immunity was basically non-existent after the number of Law Mages increased.
[Standstill], [Silence], [Arrest], [Search], [Shackles], [Cage]...
Although the mages subconsciously did not use lethal spells, the middle-aged man was wrapped in layers of extremely gorgeous light effects in just a moment and was completely controlled!
Before he could even make a move, he was bound by dense silver-white light chains and shackles, unable to move at all.
It seemed that the enemy was captured successfully, which made the mages subconsciously breathe a sigh of relief.
But only Bishop Meiya was suddenly startled and shouted without hesitation: "Kill him, immediately!"
Before she could finish her words, she saw the deformed-limbed demon, which was missing an arm and had shrunk in size, suddenly raise its head and howl like a wolf.
The next moment, its speed suddenly increased several times—
It did not avoid Aiwass who was sitting in a wheelchair, but instead launched a thunderous attack on Aiwass who had just severely injured it in revenge!
(End of this chapter)
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