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Inside the carriage, Leyton noticed Leonard's body stiffen for a moment, then the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as if he had heard Pallez's exasperated cursing, unable to maintain his composure.
A moment later, Leonard sighed, quite speechless:
"Is this the combat style commonly used by Beyonders skilled in spellcasting?"
"No, this should be the combat style favored by the Marauder and Seer—they just love to scare people for no reason."
Leyton responded with a sarcastic remark.
In mid-air, Leyton did not put the monocle on his right eye; he merely brought it slightly closer before putting it away again.
As he dragged his right hand, a long spear quickly condensed. The spearhead was engraved with mysterious symbols, and the shaft resembled a tree branch.
The Spear of Certainty, "Gungnir"!
The next moment, the spear in his hand flew out, transforming into a bright, searing white lightning bolt, streaking towards the parasitic rat.
Flora Jacob had no time to dwell on whether this person was truly Amon; the strange spear made her feel a fatal threat.
She tried to steal Gungnir's lock on her, and, as expected, failed.
This lock involved fate; it wasn't something a Sequence 4's "Theft" could resolve. While contemplating, she stole the position of a street tree on the ground and made herself appear there.
In the sewer, a street tree abruptly appeared, and the next moment, it was pierced by a meteor-like searing white light, turning into countless fragments.
The searing white light, like lightning, swiftly cut through, completely ignoring the surrounding mud and concrete, quickly changing direction, breaking through the ground, and striking towards the parasitic rat.
The rat's figure flickered repeatedly, but it could never evade the searing white stream of light chasing it from behind.
Damn it! What kind of Beyonder ability is this? Why does it keep chasing me? As the thought spun, she controlled the rat's body, crashing directly into the searing white light behind her.
Purple light swirled in Leyton's eyes, then suddenly vanished.
Stole my Eyes of Mystery Prying? This is the Mystery Pryer's most core Beyonder ability, can it be stolen so easily? Am I too unlucky or is it too lucky?
"Ah!"
As thoughts raced, he heard a faint but shrill scream.
It seems it was too unlucky; it wanted to use the Eyes of Mystery Prying to find flaws in this world, but through the connection, it glimpsed the remnants of the Hidden Sage. As soon as the scream began, Leyton instantly realized the cause of the matter.
Immediately, a trace of silvery-white flashed in his eyes.
He reached forward, condensing an ancient-style long spear, burning with clusters and points of bloody dark red from tip to hilt.
He then threw it out, transforming it into a dark red stream of light that plunged into the ground, heading towards the location he had foreseen.
"Ah!"
Another shrill scream, as if enduring extreme pain, a defiant roar.
Having done all this, Leyton lightly clapped his hands, his eyes surrounded by a faint blue glow. He directly simulated the ability of the Eyes of Mystery Prying and, through the connection, found the Marauder demigod, who was no longer rat-like.
A bit too simple. As he pondered, Leyton extended his left hand forward, conjuring a ball of yarn out of thin air that could guide direction.
He held one end of the yarn and casually tossed the ball of yarn down.
As the ball of yarn rolled straight down, it began to gradually shift its position, heading in the opposite direction from the pile of non-rat-like things.
"Indeed!"
Leyton muttered softly, his figure instantly becoming transparent, transforming into a statue composed of countless starlight.
The statue shattered at once, turning into brilliant starlight surging forth, rushing in the direction the ball of yarn rolled, then sinking into the ground.
Inside the carriage, Pallez's now calm voice echoed in Leonard's mind:
"Go to the sewer. That Marauder demigod abandoned some of its characteristics; go retrieve them first."
"Them?"
Leonard subconsciously asked in return.
Pallez was silent for a moment, then said in a tone that indicated he didn't want to elaborate:
"Just go."
In the dark sewer, Leyton's figure condensed amidst shimmering starlight. Just as he was about to raise his hand, he suddenly froze.
What was I going to do? ...After a moment of stunned, he couldn't recall what he was there for at all.
Leyton frowned slightly in thought for a moment, then he raised his right hand again.
Nothing happened, he had forgotten again what he was supposed to do.
Thieves, what an annoying ability... What was I just thinking?
In silence, Leyton subconsciously raised his hand and created the radiance of the Sun Domain to dispel the surrounding darkness.
With his actions, nothing happened around him. Continue!
The thoughts in his mind were very strong, constantly surfacing.
Subconsciously, Leyton reached out and pulled an invisible object from the void, draping it over himself.
"Emperor's New Clothes," turning him into something that simply did not exist.
Suddenly, Leyton felt his thoughts become clear, no longer appearing fragmented as before.
The Marauder has been stealing my thoughts. Did it realize that I possess too many Beyonder abilities and stealing them would be useless? ...Or does it want to steal the most crucial ones?
As thoughts spun, he casually reached into his pocket, pulled out a pea, and threw it on the ground.
The pea instantly grew, transforming into thick, green vines that covered the surrounding area like a downpour.
A gray-black figure quickly appeared and darted out.
As Leyton had expected, a white jade chess piece appeared and vanished beneath the middle finger of his right hand.
Under the influence of the "Chessboard of Time," Flora Jacob's movements were as if she had entered an area where time flowed slowly; both her thoughts and actions were remarkably sluggish, and her figure was almost rigid in mid-air.
In this interval, the surrounding emerald vines intertwined and rapidly formed a forest, layer upon layer upwards, its top completely out of sight.
The gray-black rat figure abruptly disappeared and reappeared, constantly repeating the theft of distance and position, yet it could never escape this emerald deep forest.
"Unless you can steal this space, you cannot leave voluntarily, but in your current state, you shouldn't be able to do that."
As he spoke, Leyton extended his left hand forward, summoning an illusory, fleeting figure around the constantly shifting rat. Her eyes were peacefully closed.
Around her, an irresistible drowsiness emerged, and the constantly shifting gray-black rat figure paused, falling into a state of extreme fatigue, wanting to sleep.
The next moment, the illusory, fleeting figure suddenly vanished.
The pervasive drowsiness around them suddenly dissipated, and the originally sleepy-eyed gray-black rat's gaze suddenly cleared again.
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