Drip, drip, drip. The telegraph machine in Captain's office suddenly made a noise, as if a new telegram was about to arrive.
But Klein and Leonard couldn't spare a single bit of attention. Their eyes were red and they were silently counting the seconds:
"10."
"9."
"8." ...
At this moment, Dunn Smith entered the reception hall with a square box that looked like silver or bone in his left hand, his expression solemn.
Megoos, who had been constantly pulling out clumps of blonde hair and leaving deep, bone-exposed scars, seemed to be stimulated by something and suddenly stood up, pointing at Dunn Smith, who was wearing a black thin windbreaker, and shrieked:
"You want to kill my child!"
"You want to kill my child!"
Bam! This sharp and terrifying sound reverberated, and Klein felt as if he had been hit hard on the head with an iron hammer. He suddenly forgot to count silently and felt both a headache and dizziness.
His vision was instantly tinted red, and he felt something liquid flowing uncontrollably from his nose.
Subconsciously turning his head to look, he saw Leonard Mitchell with blood all over his eyes, nose, and mouth, his face as pale as death, and his body swaying as if about to fall.
I seem to be like this too... Klein suddenly pulled his thoughts back, continued counting from where he left off, and voluntarily skipped two seconds:
"5."
"4." ...
In the sharp and terrifying sound, Dunn Smith's deep gray eyes were filled with red threads, each one clearly visible. The veins on his face also protruded, like poisonous snakes, and blood-red liquid was flowing out of his ears. But he didn't faint. His right hand paused for just a second, then, driven by a powerful will, he held onto Saint Selena's urn and opened the lid. Inside was the deepest darkness, with tiny, brilliant grains of sand. The scene was dreamily beautiful, as if the night sky had been put into a box. Suddenly, the surroundings darkened, and a deep gloom enveloped the entire reception hall. Countless black, cold, and slimy threads swirled in the air. They rushed towards Megeous, almost instantly wrapping her up. This wasn't like spider silk; it was more like the tentacles of some unknown creature! Megeous' right eyeball had been torn out by herself and was hanging below her eye socket, stained with blood and tied with a string. She glared at Dunn Smith and shouted loudly, "You must die!" Bang! Dunn was thrown away by an invisible force and crashed into the opposite wall, causing it to crack and bricks to fly. He spat out a mouthful of blood, but still held onto Saint Selena's urn tightly, not letting it fall to the ground. The black, cold, and slimy threads tightened more and more, firmly binding Megeous in place. Neither the suddenly rising "mold-spotted" flames nor the liquid secreted from her skin, full of blasphemous meaning, could cause any harm to them. "3!" "2!" "1!" Klein and Leonard simultaneously rushed out from behind the partition. One held a warm, thin gold plate, and the other had already wrapped the "Vascular Thief" around his left wrist, aiming at Megeous and opening his fingers. Megeous, who no longer looked human, was struggling desperately. Blood and flesh protruded from both her shoulders, mixed with veins and blue veins, round and plump like a child's head. On these two "heads", cracks were spreading rapidly, as if they were about to become eyes. Suddenly, Megeous sensed the danger and opened her mouth wide, with the corners of her mouth stretching all the way to her ears. She was going to curse every enemy in front of her with "blasphemous words" who wanted to harm her child! At this moment, Leonard's left hand suddenly closed, and his wrist rotated half a circle. His pale face turned liver-colored, and the veins on it protruded, like tiny poisonous worms. "..." Maggot's "blasphemous words" got stuck in her throat and stopped abruptly.
It seemed that she had lost the ability to speak, the ability to curse others.
Klein seized this opportunity and spoke in a low voice, uttering a word in Ancient Hermes:
"Light!"
Where there is my will, there is light!
He felt the thin golden plate in his palm, covered with mysterious patterns, become scalding hot. He saw it emit a blinding light, as if it had transformed into a small sun.
Immediately after, Klein poured most of his spiritual energy into it and threw the "Solar Flame Talisman" at the restrained Maggot!
The reception hall suddenly became bright. The darkness and gloom vanished simultaneously. The black threads entwining Maggot retracted sharply, as if instinctively avoiding something.
But before Maggot could gain her freedom, she saw the sunlight.
A large hole had appeared in the ceiling of Blackthorn Security Company at some point, penetrating through the roof of the third floor, allowing the blue sky and the scorching sun to shine in at the same time.
The golden plate merged with the sunlight above Maggot's head and immediately expanded, lighting up a ball of light at the original spot, surrounded by countless flames.
Boom!
The entire building shook violently, and all the glass on the nearby streets shattered.
However, the power of the light ball was concentrated at the core and did not dissipate much.
It enveloped Maggot, and the light was so intense that Klein, Dunn, and Leonard couldn't open their eyes.
Klein, holding back his tears, squinted and saw that the light had dissipated, but the flames were still soaring, and among them, there were many black ashes swirling and dancing.
Maggot and the baby in her womb had vanished without a trace, just like the coffee table, water cups, newspapers, and the combination sofa in that area.
Solved? Did he manage to eliminate her and her unborn child before the suspected offspring of a deity was truly formed and born into the real world? Klein still couldn't quite believe it.
From his gaming experience, such a powerful boss was never so easy to defeat!
Suddenly, his hair stood on end. The premonition of "The Jester" told him that an extremely dangerous situation was about to come!
Without thinking, Klein rolled to the left.
At that moment, a bone knife as long as an arm, abnormally sharp, emerged from somewhere and appeared in mid-air, with an extremely eerie beauty. Its speed was so fast, and its posture was so difficult to dodge.
Swish!
Klein's right chest was split in two, his skin was split in two, his flesh was split in two, and his bones were split in two!
The wound was so deep that he could almost see his lungs.
If he hadn't sensed the danger in advance and evaded in time, this knife would have split him in two, killing him instantly!
Even so, Klein froze, intense pain filling his head and driving away his thoughts.
At the end of the white bone knife, a figure quickly took shape. If it weren't for her protruding belly, no one would have recognized her as Maggot.
Her hair and dress were burned clean, her face and body's skin were all charred black and falling off piece by piece. Her nose had melted, leaving only two black holes in its place, and her eyeballs were gone, with pale white flames leaping in the hollows.
The "heads" protruding from Maggot's shoulders had also been burned off, and her left arm had transformed into the white bone knife she was holding, both eerie and holy.
Clang!
Amid the shaking floor, Maggot ignored Dunn, ignored Leonard, and ignored the black, cold, and slippery threads that were once again curling around her. She appeared in front of Klein, who had stopped rolling, with the white bone knife aimed at his neck, about to strike. Suddenly, she heard a voice filled with strong blasphemy:
"Submit!"
Leonard raised his left hand, and the seal "2-105" wrapped around his wrist transformed from thick, pale, and blood-red veins into dark red, swollen "intestines".
He had just stolen the "blasphemous words" from Megeous with the "Vascular Thief", and now he was trying to control her with her own ability!
Only abilities of the same level could have an effect!
Influenced by the "blasphemous words", Megeous bent slightly at the waist, her knees kept trembling, and her movements came to a halt. The countless black threads around her, like discovering a delicious prey, swarmed towards her. Klein seized the opportunity to roll to another direction, leaving a trail of bright red blood.
However, he also eased from the intense pain. He reached into his pocket and took out the last "Sunfire Talisman".
While Megeous was being controlled again, he would completely eliminate her!
If she managed to give birth to the "baby", the consequences would be unimaginable!
Bang!
Megeous' head exploded on its own, and her charred skin and flesh scattered everywhere.
But her headless body thus escaped the influence of the "blasphemous words"!
Bang! Megeous' charred body turned into a cannonball and shot towards Leonard at a launching speed. And because the "blasphemous words" were forcibly disrupted, Leonard was briefly frozen in place.
At this moment, Dunn Smith still tightly held the urn of Saint Celine, his face extremely pale. The cold black threads created by him were just about to encircle, about to blacken all the surrounding space.
Clang!
Megeous collided with Leonard, knocking him against the wall and causing it to collapse with a loud crash.
Leonard's bones cracked one by one, blood continuously spilling from his mouth. He didn't even have the impulse to struggle and directly fainted.
Megeous raised her white bone knife, but the countless black threads spreading from the urn of Saint Celine wrapped around her again, trying to tightly bind her and confine her in place.
Klein didn't have time to care about his injuries. He took out the thin gold plate.
Just as he was about to recite the ancient Hermetic incantation, a sudden cry broke the deep, dim, and quiet room:
"Wah!"
It was the cry of a baby.