Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 362 Deduction
Vinata stood in front of Sophie, the flames surrounding her body only now extinguished.

She had hardly held back in the previous fire attack, yet the feeling of hitting the opponent was a little off, as if Limanu King had not been seriously hurt but was merely pushed away by the shock wave of the explosion.

"Sister Venata..."

Sophie readjusted her posture and stood slightly behind Vinata, looking warily in the direction where Limanu King flew backwards.

Vinata's eyes fell on a burnt leather glove on the ground and another glove on Limanu King's wrist.

Throwing the gloves at me at the last minute, completing the prerequisite for bribery and weakening my attack?
Vinata frowned, realizing that the opponent's combat experience and on-the-spot reaction ability were quite outstanding, and it might not be easy to win the battle quickly.

As expected of a famous pirate, he dared to usurp Tracy's position. He must be quite capable...

Vinata took a deep breath and fixed her eyes on Limanu King who was lying on the ground, ready to attack at any time.

No matter how powerful Limanu King is, he is only a Sequence Six. He is not powerless to fight. Moreover, Indo Port is now Vinata's territory. Limanu King has no pirate followers to escort him. The one who is more anxious now must be Limanu rather than Vinata.

Sure enough, Limanu King just staggered slightly and was about to stand up from the ground.

The other leather glove on his hand cracked again, as if some extraordinary power was brewing.

Seeing that her opponent was preparing to attack, Vinata naturally did not want to be left behind. Six flaming spears with scorching wind pressure pierced straight towards Limanu, and she herself turned into a jet of fire, following closely behind the flaming spears, determined to kill with one blow.

However, Limanu King stretched out his left hand and pulled hard to the side, and the six spears deflected 45 degrees in the air and hit the wall on the side, causing bricks and stones to fly and dust to rise.

This certainly could not obscure Vinata's perception. After all, finding prey in a chaotic situation was also a compulsory course for hunters, so Vinata was not worried about the opponent's sneak attack. She first stopped, and then let a red flame ring spread out from her body to the surroundings.

This move is intended to prevent the opponent from launching a sneak attack when your fire run ends and you reveal your true form, and it can push the enemy away.

However, this determined resistance fire ring did not push anyone down. The fire ring broke through the smoke and dust, leaving only a vague shadow.

Run, run away?

The corner of Venata's mouth twitched, and she found that Limanu King was more decisive than she thought.

We only have one Sequence Six and one Sequence Seven on our side. You, the pirate general who claims to be comparable to a Sequence Five, just fought with us and ran away?

"Does this qualify as a pirate general?"

Vinata spoke loudly to the empty street unwillingly. This was her own ability of taunting. It was not just an ordinary insult, but had a certain extraordinary effect of attracting hatred.

However, even Vinata herself knew that this was no longer effective.

Limanu King is a believer of the True Creator, a Beyonder who holds the Seal of the Rose Bishop and hears the True Creator's mutterings from time to time. His mental resistance must be quite high. A "provocation" of the eighth sequence is obviously not enough to make him risk turning back.

Sure enough, the streets were still empty, and the debris knocked down by the battle rolled around in the streets, making gurgling sounds.

It wasn't until the hunter's premonition of danger disappeared that Vinata realized that the guy in the shadow had really run away.

"How did you meet this guy?"

Vinata carefully picked up the glove on the ground with the tip of the knife. Judging from Limanu King's attitude towards the other glove, this glove also seemed to be a magical item. In order to avoid suffering strange side effects, she did not want to pick it up with her hands.

"He was Salvatore's contact. After I killed Salvatore, I hid in the room to avoid attracting attention. But he suddenly came to my door and seemed to want to exchange some information with Salvatore. I had no choice but to break the window and escape."

Sophie answered truthfully, then asked curiously, "Have you been following me from the beginning?"

Vinata's expression became a little unnatural, and she changed the subject abruptly:
"Salvatore? Is that the Intis guy on that list?"

"Yes, a member of the Iron Cross peripheral organization who is suspected to be a believer of the true Creator." Sophie nodded. "I checked his room and didn't find anything that could be used as a clue. After all, he is a hermit."

As she spoke, Sophie made eating gestures, and Vinata immediately understood.

Although the hermit does not have the ability to control flesh and blood magic like the Rose Bishop, and cannot just tear off a piece of body organ to send out as information (strictly speaking, it is not impossible, but without the corresponding flesh and blood magic treatment, the torn off part will leave permanent disability, which cannot be restored even if he is promoted to Rose Bishop later), the most he can do is unilaterally accept information from other "Rose Bishops".

"So, what about Salvatore's body?" Vinata continued to ask, "Although it should no longer be able to communicate with spirits, I plan to arrange an autopsy on it later, and I should be able to find out something."

"Uh, he was eaten directly by Limanu King." Sophie was helpless. It was indeed troublesome that the Shadow Lieutenant General had the ability of the Rose Bishop. Whether it was saving his life, destroying corpses or attacking, the Rose Bishop's performance was very outstanding, which could make this up-and-coming pirate general not much weaker in strength (at least in personal strength) than other lieutenant generals.

"Is that so? Well, we can't force it. Let's go back first."

Vinata was somewhat helpless, "At least your performance should be going smoothly."

"There have to be some good things." Sophie raised her head slightly. "Let's go back first. You'll be busy later."

Vinata looked serious. Sophie's words were not all a joke. After all, Limanu Jin had dared to sneak into Indo Port alone, which meant that his fleet was not far from here.

The last time pirates invaded a large city on a large scale was when Nast, the King of the Five Seas, took back his fiefdom of Earl White Maple, and that fiefdom was an isolated island overseas.

And now, after nearly a hundred years, a small shadowy lieutenant general actually wanted to break this taboo that had been untouched for a long time and attack Indo Port, the former bridgehead city and important coastal trade center? Who gave him the courage?
Vinata couldn't figure it out, and Miss Audrey had very limited information on this aspect, which made her feel a little annoyed.

——As a conspirator, it is a very uncomfortable experience to be able to only passively respond to each move.

It would be much easier if Adele was still around, at least there would be someone to take over the shift with...

Vinata thought to herself, and at the same time, she was a little worried about Adele's condition.

Nearly half a month had passed since the last telegram was received. During this period, Adele had not sent any news, and Vinata's telegrams to Adele fell on deaf ears. Although she kept urging the transfer station, the only news she received was that the telegraph lines along the way had not been repaired yet.

Vinata was very annoyed but had no way to deal with this: since all the lines were unusable, how did Adele's telegram get through?

However, considering these things now is obviously of no help to the current situation, so Vinata forced herself to cut off her thoughts and took Sophie to the distant pier.

……

At number 57 Dangerous Rock Street, astrologer Sonya Moran, wearing a lavender wizard robe and a pointed hat of the same color, was drinking from a bottle of gin as usual. Beside her were the more than twenty cats, who were resting with her by the warm fireplace.

Although she had reached a cooperation with Vinata, her daily work had not changed much. She still ran the fortune-telling house here during the day and occasionally went to the headquarters of the Queen Island Company at the pier to report her work status.

And Sophie had almost used up all the extraordinary materials that she had left here before, which meant that Sonya would not be disturbed for a long time to come. This was a good thing, as it gave her enough time and energy to observe the changes in the stars.

However, just when she wanted to put aside all worldly troubles and enter a meditative state, the shabby wooden door was knocked again.

Sonya sighed, put the cup of vanilla tea aside, walked out of her room, and answered casually:
"Sophie? I'm coming right over..."

Then she opened the bolt and looked down subconsciously, only to see a blue wizard robe and white bare feet.

With this body proportion, it was obviously impossible for her to be Sophie. Sonia looked up in surprise, and what came into her eyes was a beautiful and somewhat charming face, a feature that Sonia had only seen on one type of person.

"Witch?"

Sonya's expression suddenly became serious. She quickly looked around and when she found that there was no one there, she quickly moved aside and let the witch into her room.

Then Sonya stretched out her hand into the air, and the glittering planet-shaped sequins hanging in the room began to rotate, forming a unique barrier that separated the inside and the outside.

"Is it someone from the sect?" Sonya finally had time to ask.

"Yes, let me introduce myself first. My name is Lenara, also known as the 'Full Moon Witch'."

The man took off the huge pointed hat that reminded people of the dark night sky and bowed slightly to Sonya. "I should have directly informed Miss Sersi, the highest administrator of this area, but she is not in the North Continent right now, so I can only ask you to continue to carry out the plan."

"What new developments have the sect made?" Sonya asked cautiously. "With my current abilities, I may not be able to help."

During this time, under the care and protection of the Queen Island Company, she lived a very comfortable life and even somewhat forgot that she was still a member of the Spiritual Knowledge Society.

"Everyone will encounter various troubles. Either you go looking for troubles, or troubles will come to you. Even if you hide in Dangerous Rock Street, they will come..."

What Sophie said when she first met her suddenly came to Sonia's mind, making her a little dazed.

As if she had noticed Sonya's little thoughts, Lenara smiled with some contempt:

"Don't worry about those trivial things. The sect is here just to inform you of some things and give you a mission."

"The Feysac royal family previously possessed a Hunter Path Sequence 1 Sealed Artifact. Have you heard of this before?" Lena asked directly.

Sonya nodded. After all, she had also developed step by step from the Spiritual Knowledge Society to the middle level. At the same time, as adjacent paths, the forces represented by the hunters and witches often had various entanglements. The other party's top-secret knowledge was naturally no secret among their own extraordinary believers.

"Now, this seal has been lost."

Without waiting for Sonya to continue explaining, Lenara already went on.

"The leader of the Feysac Empire was very cautious. It was not until recently that we saw through his deception and discovered the truth inside the port."

"Lieutenant General Shadow and the Undead King are approaching here. It can be seen that the other party wants to plan here for a while. If we continue to fight with them for this place, unexpected situations will occur."

"You said that the Feysac people failed in the fight for the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence One?" Sonia was a little dazed. In her mind, the Feysac people were all very good at fighting. Even if they had declined a little in recent years, they shouldn't have let others snatch away the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence One, right?

"If it was really stolen, then wouldn't it be unnecessary for the sect to do this?"

Reinara said, "What the sect is worried about is that the Conqueror attribute of the Feysac Empire has been lost this time. I'm afraid the empire itself is the driving force behind this. If this is true, then the sect's plans here must be adjusted."

"The church once obtained a copy of the Conqueror extraordinary characteristic from the Augustus family, and the Blasphemer Amon tried to steal this characteristic. However, Yuanchu personally intervened later, and the characteristic is now in Yuanchu's hands. But in the end, Amon still got a copy of the Conqueror. Now that I think about it, the copy of the Conqueror should have been obtained from the Einhorn family of the Feysac Empire."

"With these two extraordinary characteristics, if we add uniqueness, then even the original will be threatened."

"The mastermind behind this is...Feysac himself?"

Sonya repeated it doubtfully, and then she seemed to remember something and subconsciously covered her mouth.

"……No way?"

"That's right." Lenara nodded, "Feysac now needs a true god to end the chaos in the country... no matter who it is."

(End of this chapter)