Either the hunter was too stupid, or the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and he was killed instantly. ,咸_鱼+墈.书,蛧. *無`错*內*内容/
Edward believed it was the latter. In other words, with the strength of the others, they would likely be killed instantly - so the so-called "delaying time and waiting for rescue" plan was simply not feasible.
Since Intis knew Crisemena well, how could He not have expected this result?
Then why did He issue a commission and ask everyone to help Him guard the brass stick?
Is it just a last resort? Or is it a chance to try your luck? Or is it... all of this within His expectations?
In the gathering just now, "Intis" also said that in addition to Christamuna, there are other forces and strong people who are also eyeing the brass stick. This makes the plan of "delaying time and waiting for rescue" seem extremely stupid!
In addition, why did everyone choose these days? It seems like they had made an appointment.
coincide?
Saying "coincidence" in front of the Twilight Hermits? It would be better to say that it was arranged by Father Mao.
There must be some conspiracy behind this matter!
So, just put the brass stick back and give up the commission?
It's a bit unpleasant.
In fact, with this method of "praying to yourself and responding to yourself", Edward is much safer than anyone else, but the problem is that this method consumes a lot of spiritual energy.
He couldn't maintain this state for long.
So before that, I would make sure I was going to a certain place to do something before I could have a clear goal.
Now, it is completely unknown when the enemy will come. If he uses this method too early, and the enemy comes after his spiritual energy is exhausted, then he is doomed, right?
Tsk,
There is only one way.
Edward popped out the gold coin——[The madman is on the right].
Chapter 540 Coward Amon
The April sun was so warm that Edward, who was sitting in the yard, felt a little sleepy. He simply covered his face with the book Groselle's Travels, which he had read several times when he was bored, and lay there in the evening until sunset, hypnotized by the sun.
The whole day was still calm. +5+4￠Read+Books/¨Military!Waste￠Cantonese_Read.
It's not that Edward is careless or fearless, but it's really boring to just wait like this, otherwise he wouldn't have taken out "Groselle's Travels", a book that he had read many times and had memorized by heart.
Why take out this book?
Of course, it's because of its invincible defense. In the original novel, Klein used it to take a blow from the evil god S'ea and escaped unscathed.
Although a Sequence 4 Mystic possesses powerful recovery abilities and vitality, if his head is destroyed, he will be seriously injured even if he does not die.
The most important thing is, if you really can't get any better, just smear the blood (the original book seems to say that it is body fluid, so you can enter by spitting? Then people who are used to turning books with saliva, wouldn't they have to get in in minutes after getting it) and hide in, at least you can get more opportunities.
As it gradually darkened, Edward went to a nearby restaurant to have a meal. He came back around eight o'clock and then stared with alertness, waiting for the enemy to come.
However, it is another "Christmas Eve".
Time came to the third day, which was the last day of the commission.
The newspapers no longer mentioned where explosions or deaths had occurred, and Intis no longer convened a party to announce that someone had died, but Edward knew that there would be waves beneath the calm.
Around noon.
Edward felt that someone had broken into his [false reality]. The maze he had set up did not take much effort for the intruder.
However, it was just enough for Edward to complete the "response to himself" so that he could cancel the summons and return to the special state of Sefirah Castle at any time, waiting for the other party to arrive.
A few minutes later,
An old man in his seventies or eighties pushed open the door and shouted anxiously, "Come out and help! Someone is chasing me! Who is guarding here? I am a coward."
coward?
The invisible Edward raised his eyebrows. Didn't he quit?
He then popped out the gold coin, with the head facing up, to show his confirmation. This old man wasn't lying?
Just then, another person broke into the [false reality].
Suddenly, Edward felt a strong sense of crisis, and immediately quickly evacuated through the wall. Countless invisible threads spread throughout the villa.
"boom!"
The next moment, the hundreds of years old house was cut into countless pieces, collapsed with a loud bang, and raised a cloud of dust.
The old man immediately rushed out from the dust, cursing: "Fuck, didn't we agree to support each other? You can run faster than me?! Cough cough cough."
He suddenly coughed and covered his mouth with his hand. There was a lot of scarlet blood on his palm. Then he [Steal] the distance and appeared a thousand meters away.
As he landed, black flames filled the sky and fell like raindrops. He quickly [stole] the position of a tree outside the range of the black fire rain and exchanged positions with it.
Then he turned around and reached out to the void, and a beautiful woman in a white dress appeared out of thin air, while the old man used his innate [Invisibility] ability to disappear.
Edward, who witnessed all this, frowned more and more. Was this witch too arrogant? She acted so recklessly in public. Did she really not worry about the angels and seals of the Intis royal family and the church?
The witch, who had lost her target, was obviously quite angry. She landed gracefully in the shocked and curious eyes of the ordinary people around her, and dispersed a thick yellow mist visible to the naked eye.
This fog looked very familiar to Edward. It was the same pathogen that the Desperate Witch in the future used when she created the great smog in Backlund.
Soon, the people around her fell to the ground in pain due to violent coughing, and died quickly in confusion and despair. Others who reacted fled in panic, but they could not outrun the fog, and fell to the ground and died one after another like harvested wheat stalks.
"…"
A strong anger rose in Edward's heart. He thought that he could not be as kind as Klein, but he also could not watch the Beyonders slaughtering ordinary people in front of him and remain indifferent.
"Damn coward!"
He cursed inwardly, stretched out his hand to grab the witch, and used [Enlarge] + [Steal] to try to steal her disease ability, but failed.
Naturally, his move allowed the witch to immediately capture his location. Invisible silk threads appeared like a spider web at Edward's location, but before they could take effect, the scorching fire ignited them. Edward took off his invisibility cloak and quickly flew out of the city in the southeast.
The white-robed witch immediately chased after her.
A few minutes later, Edward passed through the walls of Trier and arrived in the wild outskirts of the city.
He turned around and stopped in mid-air. In his eyes, ancient gears turned and silver-white electric light flashed.
boom!
The next second, along with the rushing silver-white electric snakes, the terrible thunder, with a violent and destructive aura that was so strong that it seemed tangible, struck the white-robed witch whose aura suddenly weakened.
Bang!
The moment she was struck by the thunder, the witch in white robe turned into a broken magic wand, and her real body appeared hundreds of meters away. However, another thunder had been brewing for a long time, and as soon as she appeared, she was swallowed up by the silver-white lightning.
Although she used the mirror substitute again this time, she did not completely avoid the damage of the lightning storm. When she appeared again, half of her body was charred, and she staggered and fell to her knees.
Her pupils were filled with fear. If she had not recovered her demigod strength at the last moment, she would have fallen to Sequence 5 and would have been chopped into charcoal!
escape!
The white-robed witch had only this one thought in her mind, and she turned and ran away quickly.
Just as Edward was about to chase after her, he discovered that the witch's hair was turning white at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her skin was rapidly becoming old and dry. Then, her legs collapsed weakly to the ground, and she turned into an old lady.
Her pupils were filled with fear of death; the light in her eyes quickly faded, and finally she completely lost her vitality.
"Let you chase me!"
The old man "Coward" lifted his invisibility and stood beside the corpse of the white-robed witch, his face full of satisfaction. He looked at Edward with a little surprise: "You are stealing and lightning storm, a mystic? Are you number eight?"
Edward remained alert, his tone devoid of emotion: "Why not a shepherd?"
"Hahaha, there can't be a shepherd member in the Dusk Hermit Order."
Well, it was unexpected, but also reasonable.
"Didn't you quit? Why are you still being hunted down?"
The coward said angrily, "I did quit, but I was so angry at the time that I took the brass stick from the ground away. I didn't expect it would bring me trouble."
"Then how did you know that there were members of the Twilight Hermits in that villa just now?"
"The hunter told me, before he died."
"…"
Did the hunter go to see the coward again after he left me the night before? Or was the coward lying?
Edward would not deal with him no matter what, so he said, "Well, you have killed the man who was chasing you, so run for your life."
"Hey, you don't need to remind me of this."
The coward smiled and took out a brass stick from his arms. "Do you want this thing? I'm afraid it will bring me trouble if I keep it. I'll give it to you."
As he spoke, he gently threw the brass stick towards Edward, who caught it in mid-air with his invisible hand.
"I owe you this time, and I will definitely pay you back when I have the chance."
After saying that, the coward's figure disappeared again.
Edward looked at the brass stick held in the air by the invisible hand, frowned and thought for a moment, then teleported to the front of the Intis Palace, threw the brass stick hard toward the highest point of the palace, and then disappeared with a backward step.
The brass stick shot out and after flying hundreds of meters, it suddenly seemed to hit an invisible wall, fell straight down, and was caught by a white and slender little hand.
Christine, who was wearing a black dress, took the brass stick and examined it. She was very surprised: "Mom, don't you always say that there is no such thing as a free lunch?"
"Who is so kind that he gave me a big gift as soon as I arrived."
The lively voice sounded a little puzzled, "Are you sure it's okay?"
Christine looked up and down again. "I don't see anything wrong."
"Then put it on first."
She spun the stick around, stuffed it into the small pocket at her waist, and then walked lightly towards the palace. "I don't know what's waiting for us."
"I'm really looking forward to it."
...
Edward returned to 11 Aden Street.
At this moment, the members of Mechanical Heart have taken over the street, dealing with passers-by who died from the germs while comforting and searching the scene.
Edward saw two old acquaintances at a glance, the future Archbishop Horamick and his captain, both of whom looked very serious.
Because of [spatial concealment] and [false reality], Villa No. 11, the first crime scene, was not noticed. To outsiders, it was still intact and nothing had happened.
Edward hesitated for a while before standing in front of the collapsed ruins. He waved his hand gently and said, "Restore it to its original state."
For a moment, the broken pieces on the ground recovered quickly as if time had gone back. It only took half a minute for them to be restored to their original state before the collapse.
After stepping in and ejecting the gold coin to confirm that there was no problem, Edward ended the summoning, returned to Sefirah Castle, and then returned to reality.
He walked to the bay window on the second floor and looked at the busy Mechanical Hearts on the street. He became more and more confused: Demigod-level Beyonders have appeared and killed people on a large scale, so why hasn't the Archbishop of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery shown up?
It can't be that... the church reached some kind of agreement with "Intis" to not get involved in this matter, right?
Why?
How could Intis convince the church?
"Huh?"
At this time, an old voice suddenly appeared behind him. It was the "coward" who had returned. His old face was full of surprise: "I didn't expect you to know the Mercury Snake. You even recorded His [Restart]."
Edward was shocked. How did this guy appear without making any noise? With the invisibility that he [stole] from the witch, he shouldn't be able to hide from my spiritual warning.
"I knew that since you had relocated the residents here in advance, you would not sit idly by and watch the witch harm ordinary people. Ha, interesting human nature."
The coward smiled slightly, pinched a crystal-carved monocle and put it on his right eye.
"Well, you probably can't use that special ability to return to Sefirah Castle at any time now, right?"
Chapter 541 Fraud and Anti-fraud
"!!!"
Edward suddenly looked panicked, "Zoom in, parasitism is prohibited here."
"No need to bother."
Coward... or rather Amon put on his iconic monocle, "I let you escape last time, but this time..."
Before he finished speaking, Edward suddenly disappeared.
The smile on Amon's face froze for a moment, but he continued to laugh after a moment: "Interesting."
He stretched out his hand, and everything around him shattered like a dream bubble. The house that had been "restarted" and repaired suddenly turned into ruins all over the ground. Amon was standing in the ruins, talking to the half of the broken wall that had not completely collapsed.
"What a fraud! I, Amon, would like to call you the strongest fraud under me."
He walked among the ruins, with a look of curiosity on his face: "Is this an illusion created by the strange magician? It actually deceived my eyes?"
Amon was suddenly surprised. "Huh? Stealing, teleporting and creating illusions, I actually have the initial ability of three paths. A little 'secret', huh?"
clatter.
He paused, "Forget it, I'll let you go one more time. I look forward to seeing you next time."
As soon as he finished speaking, Amon disappeared.
The ruins fell into silence.
More than ten minutes later, Amon, wearing a black classical robe and a monocle, appeared again. He pinched his chin and thought: "Did he really escape?"
A faint light flashed in his monocle, and countless profound and difficult words emerged, trying to decipher the illusion before his eyes, but the result of the deciphering was... that what he saw was not an illusion.
"But why do I feel like you're still here? Is this an illusion you're leaving for me, or is this another fraud?"
"Oh, if you take the trickster's potion now, it will melt in your mouth."
Amon walked around the ruins and said, "Why don't you consider taking the thief path? Then you can serve as an angel under me."
He suddenly turned around, stretched out his right hand, and grinned: "I found you."
1 second,
2 seconds...
10 seconds,
...half a minute.
He remained in this position for 1 minute.
"Why!"
Amon suddenly drooped his head in frustration. "You know what? When playing games, if one party does nothing and lets the other party use their brains and hands, it will be very boring..l+a^n¨l_a?nwx￠..c~o?m¨"
"Speaking of which, your trick is very interesting. If I can learn it, it will be easier for me to cheat others in the future. Would you like to consider teaching it to me? I will let you go this time."
"From what I know, one must be at least a Sequence 1 Mystic Servant to use illusions that I can't see through. Who did you record this ability from?"
"Little Zaratul? No, He should still be a miracle worker now. That means it can only be Antigonus, but He should be in a state of madness. How did you convince Him to help you record His abilities?"
"Has He returned to normal, or do you have some special way to fight against loss of control and madness?"
Amon kept talking on and on, as if he was performing a one-man show.
But Edward knew that "He" might have used some method to confirm that he had not left.
That's right, what Edward reversed through [Madness on the Right] was a huge enhancement of [False Truth], so strong that it could deceive Amon.
However, this "fraud" only deceived Amon's eyes and spirit, but could not deceive the intuition of a veteran "fraudster" like "Him", which caused his original plan to take the opportunity to escape to fail.
It's not that Edward is unwilling to perform a stronger "reversal", but that he must consider the "negative consequences" after the reversal - for example, if the "reversal" kills Amon with a bolt of lightning, it is very likely that Amon's true body will descend in the next second.
The only solution now is to use layers of [false reality] to nest dolls, making them thick and deep enough, and then sneak away quietly.
"You are only Sequence 4. Although your spirituality is sufficient, it is not infinite. Although I am also only Sequence 4, I just devoured the descendants of Jacob and the witch, and my condition is several times better than yours."
Amon was still chattering, "Your spiritual power will definitely run out before mine, and then you really won't have a chance to escape."
"Why not try your best now? Maybe you can escape."
You are right!
But coming out of your mouth...that's a problem.
Hey, wait.
Is there a possibility that Amon deliberately threw out a "correct answer" in order to make himself mistakenly believe that He was cheating, and then continue to fight with Him to the end?
But it could also mean "I anticipated what you anticipated."
"Do you know... why I can accurately find the descendants of Jacob's family and also accurately find you?"
Amon smiled slightly, "Because... from the beginning, you were the bargaining chip for others to ask me to help you."
"Tsk tsk tsk, you are eyeing other people's rewards, but others are eyeing your lives. This is the price of greed. How come Jacob's family has not learned this lesson for so many generations? They are obviously as timid as mice, but in the end they still succumb to greed, just like their ancestor."
"Are you curious about what the guy who commissioned you...oh, you call him 'Intis', right? What exactly does he want to do by doing this?"
Amon lowered his voice and said, "I'll tell you quietly, He actually wants to..."
Just as he said this, he suddenly stretched out his hand and the space in front of him seemed to be torn off, revealing a scene hidden behind the ruins - inside the restored villa, Edward opened the traveler's door and left.
Amon reached out his hand slowly and Edward, who had entered the portal, immediately flew backwards into his hand and turned into a stone.
"Um?"
The next moment, the illusion around him shattered. No, at this moment, Amon could not tell whether what he saw was real or an illusion.
Dozens or even hundreds of "Edwards" emerged like gushers, swarming in all directions. Large and small portals opened one after another, allowing them to rush through.
Amon's monocle flashed mysterious patterns again, and those portals quickly collapsed and dissipated under his cracking, but... those people who flew away were actually "real".
No, to be precise, they are not illusions, but are transformed from stones and wood.
Just as Amon raised his hand, he suddenly felt a strong sense of weakness. It was a feeling he had never experienced before. He had inexplicably fallen to Sequence 5?
Then, He slowly put His hand down and just watched quietly as hundreds of people disappeared before His eyes.
At this time, His strength had returned to Sequence 4. He was standing on the second floor of the small villa with a faint smile on his face. "Your deception was successful.
interesting!"
...
The remains of the war of gods.
As soon as Edward stepped out of the spirit world, there was a series of flashes and he came to a ruin. Then he used a set of [Space Hide] + [False Reality] before he dared to stop and breathe a sigh of relief.
bite!
The gold coin popped out again, "Amon is following."
Numbers facing up indicate a negative.
My heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally felt relieved.
Edward looked up and around, "I didn't expect to end up here."
This was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations. Although most of the dozens or hundreds of portals just now were illusions created by [False Reality], some of them were opened by him at random in order to disrupt Amon's judgment.
Then he dived into one of the portals, running around without paying any attention to direction or destination, and when he came out, he found himself at the ruins of the war of gods.
"Is what Amon just said true or a fraud?"
Thinking of what Amon said about "Intis", Edward's face darkened slightly. If what he said was true, then it could be basically concluded that Intis had deliberately given him the map of Amon's ruins last time.
He should have cooperated with Amon a long time ago.
But, this is reasonable.
At that time, Edward was very confused as to why "Intis" wanted to trick him on purpose. Apart from the Fun People, who did everything for fun, other people... especially the High-Sequence Beyonders, should have a clear purpose in doing most of the things they did.
I couldn't figure it out before, but now it all makes sense.
"What a coward. He was probably really sacrificed. He was cautious for so long and refused to make deals with anyone. I didn't expect that he couldn't resist the temptation the first time and gave himself up."
The descendants of Jacob... were really badly betrayed by Amon.
Well, but it's better than Pales, he has no descendants.
"I don't know what the current situation is in Trier."
Edward suddenly felt a little conflicted, not knowing whether he should hope that Intis' commission would succeed or fail. If it succeeded in the end, regardless of whether Intis wanted to exchange him for Amon's help, he would definitely have to give the Wanderer's extraordinary characteristics that he promised. After all, he had the approval of the Maozi priest and he couldn't deny it.