Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 360 Acting
However, just as Sophie was about to launch a surprise attack while the other party was weakened by listening to the mumbling, she suddenly heard Salvatore muttering:

"I heard it... You said there was a girl hiding in the ventilation duct above my head, ready to assassinate me?"

At the same time, his neck was strangely bent, forming an exaggerated sharp angle with his spine, and his dark eyes stared straight at Sophie in the air.

Sophie knew something was wrong when she heard it. She suddenly contracted her body, then burst out with strength, twisting the thumb-thick hollow iron fence directly in half, and fell towards Salvatore from the air, with the revolver in her hand roaring and spewing flames.

However, Salvatore was not shot. His figure melted like wax and flowed directly into the shadow on the ground. With his ability to hide in the shadow, he avoided Sophie's first wave of attack.

Sophie landed lightly on the ground, but the room was empty now. Instead, a layer of dark shadow covered the ground, spreading out like water waves with Sophie's footsteps.

Sophie moved cautiously, until she was close to the wall, to prevent Salvatore from attacking her from the blind spot.

There was a moment of silence in the house. Salvatore did not move, but the shadow on the ground still rippled, which meant that Salvatore did not leave, but was hiding in the shadows and watching Sophie.

He was very cautious. He didn't reveal his attack methods or give away more information. Instead, he hid himself and waited for me to reveal my abilities first...

Sophie's mind raced, and she couldn't help but lean towards the wall, as if the wall could give her a sense of security.

Then, as Sophie watched, the pool of flowing shadows in front of her suddenly began to move, as if it was boiling, bubbling and splashing with sticky, greasy black liquid.

Sophie gripped the revolver tightly in her hand and carefully pointed the muzzle at the black shadow on the ground.

As she moved, purple flames suddenly rose from the magazine gap and the barrel of the revolver in her hand.

This is a poisonous fire with a corrupt connotation. Even the believers of the true Creator cannot completely ignore this flame that is like impurities. They will also be burned and harmed by the flame, but the destructive effect is not as obvious as that to ordinary humans or extraordinary people who control positive power.

Bang! Sophie pressed the trigger, and the bullet burning with purple flames shot straight at the black shadow, leaving a faint purple trail in the air.

However, at the moment when Sophie fired and the sound of the gunshot covered up other sounds, her own shadow on the wall behind her suddenly moved like water waves. Then, two tentacles-like shadow tentacles silently emerged from the shadows behind her and suddenly attacked at the moment Sophie launched the attack!

The extraordinary abilities of Sequence 7 hermits, in simple terms, revolve around shadows. They can transform into a liquid-like state and blend perfectly into the shadows. They can also use shadow magic to manipulate shadows to form weapons of various forms for attack, and they can also rely on the opponent's shadow to curse the enemy.

While blending into the shadows, the Hermit can still use the latter two abilities, which means that simply leaning against a wall is useless, because the Hermit can directly summon attacks from the shadows behind the enemy without the need for his entire body to appear in the real world.

Launching the attack from the shadows within Sophie's sight was Salvatore's deliberate plan. For him, diverting others' attention was as normal as eating and breathing.

The attack from her own shadow was hard to defend against, and even if Sophie wanted to dodge it was too late.

There were two "puff" sounds, and Sophie's body tilted forward slightly due to the impact, but she quickly straightened her body. The two tentacles made of shadows seemed to lose their strength all of a sudden and fell limply on her shoulders.

Sophie turned slowly, and the pigtails on her back had unraveled at some point. Her green curly hair split into two strands like real snakes, biting the attacking tentacles and trying to pull the opponent's body out of the shadows.

Salvatore was lying in ambush, but wasn't Sophie also lying in ambush on him?
Even if the Demonic Path is a partial demonization of Sequence Seven, it can significantly change human cognition of this type of Beyonder. For example, it can use snake-like hair to disguise itself in normal hair for reconnaissance. In this way, even if Sophie is attacked from behind, she can easily deal with it.

She got close to the wall not because her back was her blind spot, but because she wanted to tell others that this was her blind spot, so that she could make many targeted arrangements. It was obviously much more efficient to know in advance which direction or place the opponent would attack from than to wait for the opponent to make every effort to attack from behind.

Apart from anything else, a scheming guy like Salvatore would be more likely to fall into Sophie's trap.

Sophie's eyes turned red, and more snake-like hair grew wildly, pulling Salvatore who was hiding in the shadows out!
The hermit can indeed turn into pure liquid, but there will be some loss after each use, and this loss is related to the user's spiritual richness. At Sequence 7, the hermit can only use this spell three times a day, and he has already used it once to avoid an assassination from the sky!
He still has one last chance, and among the mid-sequence extraordinary people, this ability is a miracle.

However, Sophie would not let Salvatore regroup, so she bit his body tightly before it could be fully digitized, and dragged him out of the shadows. Her right hand had grown sharp claws, and she grabbed Salvatore directly.

Unexpectedly, Salvatore did not use secret techniques to escape, so this claw really grabbed hold and accurately cut off a piece of Salvatore's flesh from the opponent's body, causing him to scream in pain. However, he quickly suppressed his cry of pain and hid in the shadows again at the cost of having another piece of flesh cut off by Sophie.

But now, Sophie was no longer afraid of Salvatore's ability to hide.

She quickly grabbed the bloody piece of meat on the ground, activated some of her demonization, and cursed at the piece of meat in the demon language.

As soon as Sophie finished her words, she heard a muffled groan coming from the shadow behind her; and when Sophie said the second sentence, Salvatore could no longer bear it, spat out a large mouthful of blood, fell out of the shadow, and no longer had the strength to maintain his previous hidden state.

The area around his waist and abdomen where Sophie had dug out the wound suddenly began to rot and decay rapidly, which directly interrupted his prayers and caused the spell that had already been accumulated to fail in his womb.

Seeing Sophie, who had disguised herself with a "lie", getting closer, Salvatore's brain did not shut down immediately. Instead, he thought calmly. Realizing that there was no hope of escape, he sat down against the wall dejectedly.

"What is your purpose in coming here?"

Sophie asked directly, "If you explain clearly, I can let you go in a more decent way."

"This is not something you should know." Salvatore replied calmly, "But if you are really interested...why don't you listen to it yourself?"

Just after he finished his last sentence, his face suddenly changed, becoming distorted and weird. It seemed that all the blood in his head flowed to the ears and mouth. Other parts turned pale, and these two parts were congested.

The noisy, unreal, evil mutterings that sounded like a prelude spread instantly, making Sophie's scalp tingle and making it difficult for her to concentrate.

There was no human language that could describe the sound. All the blood vessels on Sophie's head bulged and curled outward.

The prerequisite for becoming a "Hermit" is "Listener", also known as "Whisperer" in ancient times. They can directly hear the whispers of the corresponding hidden existence, so they can often obtain a lot of powerful, twisted, and unique abilities, but correspondingly, if they cannot get promoted, it is difficult for them to survive for more than five years.

All "listeners" are crazy. Even if they behave normally, they are definitely hidden crazy.

Even if one does not actively use the Beyonder Ability of "Listening", one will hear more than ordinary people and most of the mid- and low-sequence Beyonders in a normal environment. When the sound source is close enough, one will be more affected and receive more dangerous information.

Among the extraordinary abilities of the "Listener", the most classic one is the almost unreasonable "retelling", which allows the other party to hear the same mumbling as himself, and his own resistance to the mumbling of the real Creator is definitely greater than that of most enemies.

However, the range of this relay was very small, less than two meters. In order to make Sophie enter this area on her own initiative, Salvatore did not hesitate to use himself as bait to lure Sophie into the effective range.

However, he soon discovered in despair that this short lady, after hearing the whispers of the "True Creator", actually had a unique resistance and recovered from her confused state before she could take action!
In fact, Sophie was not afraid of the whispers, but because Cecilia, who was once an angel, was parasitic in her body, and the cold-blooded nature of the demonic path made her resistant to similar mental pollution. As a result, she was clearly hit by the whispers, but woke up earlier than Salvatore.

Sophie staggered towards Salvatore, threw away the empty pistol, and pulled out the sailor knife tied to the side of her leather boot, but Salvatore was still unable to move.

Relying on the innate characteristics brought by the demonic path, Sophie accurately stabbed Salvatore's heart and completely killed this peripheral member of the "Iron Cross".

Long before she took action, she had already built a spiritual wall outside the door to isolate the sounds from inside.

At the moment of killing the other person, Sophie had a strange feeling in her heart, as if something in her body had shattered. Having received relevant education long ago, she understood that this was a sign that the potion was initially digested.

The "serial killers" of the Demonic Path have mastered many knowledge and rituals of worshipping demons, and like to use special serial murders to please demons. If they are given enough time, they can summon the projection of demons from the abyss. They can effectively interfere with divination and spiritualism.

The requirements for their roles are also quite harsh: committing serial murders. The more cruel the means and the more people killed in succession, the better. And only killing people of the same race will be effective.

In addition, the nature brought by the demonic part in them makes them actively please the demons and hold various cruel rituals using humans as materials, which leads to their titles often appearing in many horror stories, including the "Bloody Butcher" who killed five girls in a row, some of whom took their hearts and some of whom took their stomachs, and the "Ripper" who murdered women with signs of depravity one after another.

"In order to digest the potion, there is a series of rituals to please the devil."

Cecilia reminded.

The Demonic Path has always been feared by everyone. The rituals with primitive demon worship symbolism they left behind after committing crimes are also one of the important reasons.

Among these rituals, the most representative are the evisceration and the "blood eagle". Generally, the executioner personally makes two cuts on the victim's back near the chest along both sides of the spine, then breaks the ribs, and finally pulls the victim's lungs out of the chest with both hands.

When the lungs leave the chest cavity, they will shrink rapidly due to pressure and sufficient space, and the prisoner will suffocate to death due to lack of breathing. Since the two lungs extending from the back look like folded wings, this punishment is commonly known as the Blood Eagle.

As for the ritual of removing the internal organs, it is even more varied. Countless demons have continued to "innovate" in this regard, adding countless precedents to the sacrificial ritual.

"Do you have to do it?"

Sophie was silent for a while and glanced at Salvatore's body lying on the ground. At this moment, his extraordinary characteristics were slowly precipitating, and a long black crystal cluster was growing from the chest of the corpse.

Cecilia didn't say anything, just nodded.

Sophie didn't continue to be awkward. She bent down and chanted in a low voice in the demon language. One after another, faint rays of light flew out from the other's body and were swallowed by the flying snake hair around Sophie. That was Salvatore's spirit. This would allow these spirits to be preserved for a longer time until Sophie found someone to communicate with.

Then, Sophie pulled out the knife, moved Salvatore's body to the center of the room, and continued to release demonic curses, causing the skin on his wrists and ankles to crack and the bones to stick out, but not much blood flowed out.

Sophie grabbed the exposed bones. The connection between bones and flesh had been eliminated by mystical means. Sophie pulled out the ulna of the opponent's forearm without much effort, and then nailed ulna through his palm. She also used the same trick with her feet, nailing Salvatore into the appearance of a martyr in the church scriptures.

Sophie felt something disappearing inside her, but the potion was indeed digesting.

(Today is the same. I was so sleepy after working on the car all afternoon. I updated it first and then revised it. There may be a heavy part in the front.)
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