Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 284 Help, Mr. Hanged Man

Scared? It had been a long time since Katarina had felt this way.

Thanks to the war period, she completed the role of the Witch of Despair very quickly after being promoted to Sequence 4. Including the ceremony, it took her less than two hundred years to be promoted to Sequence 3. In the history of the Witch Cult, this is a very fast record.

Compared with other saints, the Immortal Witch has a longer life and a stronger body. Moreover, the position of Pope has already been taken, so there is no need for her to continue to strive for the angel rank. Therefore, she has stayed at the position of Sequence Three from the Fourth Epoch to the present.

As one of the oldest saints on the Great Road, Katarina's long experience has taught her a lot of things, and she knows what to do and what not to do. Even if she is not as strong as others, she can find a way to solve the problem through negotiation. Even when facing the annoying red evil spirit and falling into the other party's trap, she just pretended to be very scared and finally reached a cooperation.

However, the flowing color at this moment brought her a feeling that she had not experienced for hundreds of years. Fear instantly took control of the saint's entire body, causing her body to become stiff for a short time.

Her spiritual intuition told her that those seemingly insignificant blocks of color were hundreds of times more terrifying than the seal she was dealing with now. If she had not just flown upwards a little, most of the blocks of color would have chosen to bypass the sun. She would have been completely contaminated by them and even lost control and died.

The strange color coiled and twisted, wrapping Catalina and the sealed object in the middle, and completely isolating them from the outside world along with "Annestora's jewelry box". Wherever Catalina looked, she saw strange colors that did not belong to any color known to mankind.

Fortunately, I am located next to this sun... It seems that the origin has not abandoned me!

Catalina perked up and continued to activate the magical item in her hand. While weakening the fierce sunlight, she intentionally let some of the sunlight in to keep the creatures away.

It took less than five minutes for all the blocks of color to flow to the other side of the island. As long as she waited until they all flew away, she could avoid these strange and contaminated creatures and return to the ironclad ship to reunite with Tracy with the sealed magical items.

After the attempt just now, Catalina discovered that her ability could not penetrate these strange creatures that were not completely material. They seemed to be only afraid of the sun and strong light. Therefore, she did not continue to waste her spiritual energy on them, but quietly waited for the moment when the flood stopped.

However, five minutes passed quickly, and the mysterious color was still everywhere in Catalina's eyes, and even the concentration had not changed at all.

"How could this be?"

Catalina was a little confused. After careful consideration, she decided to take the risk and use the silk thread to connect to the spiritual world again to confirm her corresponding position in reality.

The spirit world and reality completely correspond in some unknown way. Different sequences have different ways of entering the spirit world. For example, the witch, who uses lines to cling to the corresponding positions in the spirit world and uses the lines of the spirit world to pull the body in the real world, requires the user to have a strong dynamic spirit world vision.

Catalina activated her spiritual vision and looked around, but within a second, she let out an uncontrollable scream.

It’s not because of the impact of pollution, but because of the impact of reality.

In her spiritual world, the invisible blocks of color around her, which symbolized the real world, were changing rapidly and gradually taking on an indescribable mysterious color. The blocks of color corresponded to the scenes in the real world, and the changes in the blocks of color meant that she was moving at an extremely high speed in the real world.

Those colors indeed did not dare to approach the sun, yet they lifted up the entire sun and flew towards the real surface and even the real starry sky!

Katarina groaned. Although she tried to calm herself down, the color blocks around her body that always appeared in her vision even when she closed her eyes made it almost impossible for her to think calmly.

As a saint, she can indeed go without food for a long time to cope with extreme environments. There are actually quite a few preparations she can make, and now is far from being completely helpless.

However, the malicious information contained in the colors and the knowledge that does not belong to humans are gradually transforming Katarina, causing her body and mind to slowly and steadily degenerate. Although the seal can help her fight this degradation, it is not permanent.

The colorful cloud enveloped the sun in the center and rushed towards the real surface like a blowout.

……

"Mother!"

On the Honeysuckle Queen, Tracy discovered early on that Katarina was caught in the color block, but she was helpless. Even a saint could only be taken to the starry sky without resistance, so what could a Sequence 5 do?

In the ruins left by beings beyond the gods, safety is not due to sufficient strength, but to being lucky enough not to violate the rules they left behind. Saints are ultimately just human concepts, and the gap between them and real gods is even greater than the gap between saints and ordinary people.

"What should we do now? Without Ms. Katarina, how can we get the Honeysuckle Queen out of the ground?"

Wendy rushed out of the engine room and hurriedly shouted to Adele, "The dividing line is approaching us. It will probably spread to the entire sea area in another hour or two!"

Adele frowned and said to Wendy:
"First, find the river's estuary and drive the boat into the island. Ms. Catalina is a saint, so maybe she has other ideas. Let's delay as much time as possible."

Although the pollution in the outside ocean is deadly enough to the human body, it is not very effective for inanimate objects. As long as Adele and the others stay on the ship, they are not in as dangerous a situation as Catalina.

However, this so-called "not too dangerous" is only temporary. Originally, this was a sealed and polluted island. Now that the seal has been lifted and the pollution from both inside and outside is coming together, no one can predict what will happen.

In fact, after parting with Qiao Qiao and returning to the underground space under the violent sea, Adele felt that her connection with the mist had been restored. Even at the moment of falling from the observatory, Adele received a message from Miss Audrey, asking if there was any accident.

Therefore, she was not actually too worried about her own safety, because Mr. "The Hanged Man", who had also been promoted to Sequence Three and overcome Aquaman's lack of away combat capabilities, was now her backup and had enough ability to send the "Honeysuckle Queen" back to the surface intact.

However, Adele couldn't be sure whether Katarina had really encountered an accident, and she was afraid that she would fall into the trap again. What if this was another trap she set to attract Gegelan? She went to seal the sun in order to force Gegelan to come out and fight her, so it was unlikely that she would not have a backup plan.

The mind of a witch like this who has lived for thousands of years is very complicated. Even though she is now entangled by those strange creatures, Adele dare not let go and ask for help from other forces.

Adele was not only worried about Katrina, but also Tracy's attitude. Because of Gaglan, Tracy's attitude towards Adele was also complicated. Apparently, Tracy subconsciously trusted Gaglan more than her biological mother Katrina.

"If the situation is urgent and Katarina is indeed dead or missing, I can indeed pray to Mr. Fool as Mr. Hanged Man said, and then call for his help directly through the gray fog. But what should Tracy do next is still a big problem..."

Adele looked worried on the surface, but she had already started weighing the pros and cons in her mind.

Since the ocean he controls has certain characteristics of grey fog, the "Hanged Man" can indeed use the grey fog to send his abilities directly to almost any corner of the world, but this convenience is not unlimited: he cannot perform too precise operations and controls.

He could throw lightning accurately to the person praying across thousands of meters of rock layers and thousands of kilometers of horizontal distance, and he could also create a waterspout to roll up an ironclad ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons and send it to a height of thousands of meters. However, it was too difficult for him to control who to hit and who not to hit at such a long distance, or to be able to knock out but not kill.

In fact, it is impossible for a saint who is good at large-scale killing to control all range attacks to hit the target and not accidentally hurt flowers and plants, even if the opponent is standing not far away from him. Although Adele thought she was stronger than ordinary flowers and plants, that difference was nothing under the lightning of the Sea King.

"I can only try my best not to kill you." Mr. "The Hanged Man" said frankly when Adele asked him about the details. "So you'd better make sure your men are not around you, or pray when they will die even if I don't take action."

Thinking of this, Adele couldn't help but shudder and shook her head vigorously.

……

In fact, Catalina did have a backup plan, but she prepared in the wrong direction.

The sealed object "Annestora's Jewelry Box" is recorded as "continuous use" within the Witch Sect. That is to say, during use, the user can hardly move and needs to continuously input spirituality into the body. Only small adjustments can be made in the middle, otherwise the user will be regarded as an attack target by the shadow, and the soul will be dragged directly into the jewelry box.

However, only after actually using it once can you learn all the information about this seal from the Pope of the Witch Cult. Anisdora's jewelry box actually has a temporary interruption spell. As long as the correct spell is recited, the jewelry box can be started and closed at any time.

Since Gagran had intermarried with a member of the Death Cult and had not spent much time in the sect, it was impossible for her to know the secret of the jewelry box. Catalina deliberately went up to seal it with great fanfare to see if Gagran would catch this flaw. If Gagran fell into the trap, Catalina would hit her head on.

However, despite her full preparation, the current situation did not require the spell to close the jewelry box. If she closed the jewelry box while being wrapped between the sun and the color block, she would be burned to charcoal because she was too close to the Beyonder characteristic of "Light Chaser"; even if she wanted to run, she could not cross the light flow around her that was nearly a thousand meters thick.

……

Finally, as Adele and her group waited anxiously, the ball of color that wrapped Katarina in the middle finally hit the top of the dark rock wall.

Because the sun that was originally inside this underground space was wrapped in the middle by those creatures, Adele and the others could not see what was happening on the top of the cave. They could only perceive the boat shaking slightly under their feet and some disturbing roar coming from all around.

Adele didn't realize what that meant at first, until a few seconds later, when a louder sound swept across the entire void.

It sounded like a mixture of the long sounds of a tsunami, a landslide and a falling meteor, or like the sound of a crazy symphony orchestra playing at the top of their lungs amplified a thousand times. However, the sense of oppression that resonated in everyone's heart and the resulting changes in air currents were beyond the reach of any band in the Northern Continent.

The huge noise almost made the crew lose their hearing for a moment. However, from Tracy's pale face and her lip movements, it can be seen that she and Adele made the same judgment.

The distorted colored mass between dead and living things was much stronger than it looked. After all, it must be strong enough to be able to fly upward with an angel-level seal. And now, they should have crashed through the earth and flew into the depths of the stars.

In fact, the location where this color mass chose to protrude from the surface is not on the ground, nor in the downtown area of ​​the southern continent, but on the seabed of the violent sea near the coast of the southern continent.

For the residents of the Southern Continent, this location was obviously lucky. Even if a new whirlpool formed on the sea, it would make no difference to them, as they would hardly cross the waves of the violent sea to the Northern Continent anyway. However, for the church's dispatched troops from the Northern Continent, this was obviously bad news.

Originally, the violent waves on the sea were an insurmountable obstacle for the coalition forces of the Church of Evernight, which had not yet been fully equipped with ironclad ships. Thanks to the cooperation of the ironclad ships and the demigods, they were able to barely send the army across; and now, the colonial supply fleet of the Church of Evernight suffered heavy losses, which had a great impact on the subsequent offensive.

Of course, these are all later stories. In fact, when it comes to bad luck, both the Church of Evernight and the residents of the Southern Continent have to stand aside. After all, one of them is in the north and the other is in the south of the underwater hole, while Adele and her group are right under this hole!
This place was too far from the surface, and the sound, seawater, and rock fragments fell from the sky almost at the same time. If it weren't for the strange order that remained here that slowed down the acceleration of the fall, the seawater and rocks would have hit Adele and the others on the head before they noticed anything unusual.

In this situation, Adele didn't care that Tracy was right next to her. She turned her back and prayed quickly while everyone else's hearing had not yet recovered.

"The Fool who does not belong to this era, the mysterious master above the gray fog, the yellow and black king who controls good luck;"

"I pray for the help of your followers, and hope that you can pass my request to the Hanged Man;"

This was the universal format used by the Tarot Club to communicate with each other. Only prayers in this format could be responded to by the automatically-operating gray fog, which would directly convey the third sentence and the scene seen by the petitioner to the corresponding member.

Looking at the terrifying water flow above her head, Adele took a deep breath and shouted loudly without caring about her image:

"Help, Mr. Hanged Man!"

(End of this chapter)