Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 379: Stand-in War
The opponent of Sequence Five...

Adele felt her heart pounding nervously.

It’s not like she hasn’t faced Sequence Five opponents before. Whether it was the craftsman Matafari or the hybrid monster on the Nebuchadnezzar, both were at Sequence Five level.

However, Matafari himself had no combat experience, and his demonic state with combat instincts was suppressed by himself, so he was unable to fully display his abilities.

The stitched monster fought entirely on instinct, and its movements were not flexible enough, so it could only stand still and attack with Adele.

Simply put, none of them were complete Sequence Five, and Adele was not facing them alone, but it still caused her a lot of trouble.

The only thing to be thankful for now is that he has some understanding of the Puppet Master and knows that the other party's most critical initial control ability must be within five meters of the target. Even if the potion is digested, this range will definitely not be that large.

But now, Adele was in a warehouse with simple terrain and deserted surroundings. Sothoth couldn't hide in the crowd to approach her, let alone control her.

Having said that, Adele couldn't just take this guy back, because she knew that if she left Sothoth here, it would be difficult for her to catch him again.

This time, I caught the opponent off guard and forced Sothoth to retreat. If I had waited until he could stabilize his position, it would have been difficult for me to gain an advantage over him with the secret doll in his hand.

Adele pondered for a while, glanced at the surrounding environment, couldn't help but shiver, and finally gave up the pursuit.

The danger of leaving Frank's mushrooms alone is definitely far greater than that of a puppet master...

Adele was somewhat helpless, and finally gave up the idea of ​​pursuit, and began to use black fire to clean up the possible fungi in this space.

Balls of black flames quickly emerged from her fingertips and flew to different corners of the warehouse under her deliberate control. Then, like real flames, they began to use the mycelium in the air as fuel and quickly spread around.

Soon, in the entire warehouse, only a small area protected by frost where Adele was standing was left untouched by the black fire. The rest of the warehouse had been engulfed by raging flames, which looked quite spectacular.

In the presence of spiritual fuel around, the spread of black fire does not require the user to continue to infuse spirituality, so clearing these fungi does not consume much energy for Adele.

Black fire is different from ordinary flames. There is no smoke when it burns, so Adele does not need to worry about problems such as lack of oxygen. She just needs to wait quietly in the center of the fire.

After more than ten minutes, the black flames in the warehouse slowly went out, and the originally transparent mycelium in the air was burned into light gray ashes, which fluttered down and accumulated in a thin layer on the ground.

Almost all the mushrooms in the warehouse were burned, even the mushrooms on the bodies of the dead were not preserved.

It's almost time to leave...

Just as Adele was thinking this, she suddenly heard footsteps in the distance.

Could it be that those two guys wanted to come back? Adele had some doubts in her heart, but she still wisely hid herself and planned to see what the newcomers were up to first.

The moonlight tonight was not very bright, but the person who came was holding a lantern, so Adele could easily see his attire.

He was wearing a black and white police uniform, with a solid wooden baton on his waist. He had a typical southern continental appearance and was not very recognizable.

It seems that the sound of the explosion just now attracted the nearby police, who came over from their patrol area to check...

Adele felt relieved a little, but she didn't completely let her guard down. She still hid in her hiding place, observing the other party's actions.

This policeman was obviously just a street patrolman. He did not carry a gun and only had a baton in his hand. He looked around cautiously at the door of the warehouse for a while. He seemed to be frightened by the corpse in the room. He sat down on the ground, struggled for a long time before he stood up trembling and walked into the warehouse.

With Adele's hiding skills, it was completely impossible for ordinary people to discover her, so Adele was able to find a good angle to carefully observe the patrolman's actions, while also paying attention to the movements at the door and guarding against another possible enemy.

After a brief observation, Adele was unable to find any flaws, so she came out from her hiding place and called out to the policeman:

"Which patrolman are you from? What are you doing here? This place is currently under the control of the military."

When speaking, Adele deliberately left her hands exposed so as not to cause unnecessary tension to the other person.

However, the mysterious woman who suddenly appeared behind him still scared the patrolman so much that he turned around suddenly and bumped into the iron box in front of him.

"Don't panic, this is my ID."

Seeing the other party's reaction, Adele frowned and took out her ID from her pocket. "Lieutenant Adele Searcy of the Navy, currently in charge of the investigation of the Ayahuasca incident."

The patrolman reached out his hand tremblingly and took the ID card handed over by Adele. He tried several times but failed to open it. Adele could only stand aside and wait.

Am I that scary? This question flashed through Adele's mind unconsciously, and she tensed up a little.

"You you you, what are you going to do?"

As if he noticed the change in Adele's condition, the policeman immediately raised his baton and tried to distance himself from Adele.

"No, I have no ill intentions. It's just that a battle just took place here, and there are some residual effects... By the way, there is a mushroom on your shoulder."

An idea suddenly occurred to Adele, and she raised her hands, bent her wrists, and pointed at the policeman's shoulders.

The next second, the policeman's face showed an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He suddenly jumped backwards, with an agility that was unlike that of a middle-aged patrolman, and his speed was frightening. It was completely an instinctive reaction.

However, when he subconsciously turned his head to look at his shoulder, he was shocked to find that the uniform on his shoulder was clean, and there was no mushroom at all.
"Oops……"

As soon as the patrolman had this thought, Adele rushed into his arms like a cheetah, and the survivor's hidden blade in her hand popped out. Almost at the same time when the patrolman thought "I've fallen into a trap", the blade had already penetrated his chest, almost halfway!
Afterwards, the patrolman's body gradually became lighter and thinner, forming a pierced paper man, slowly falling to the ground. The black fire on the tip of the hidden sword missed the target and slowly exploded in the air.

His real body appeared at the other end of the container, holding his chest, with flesh buds surging on his face, and finally transformed into Sothoth's Intis-like face with hatred.

The previous attack was too swift, and the distance between the two sides was too close. For the assassin, this distance was almost reached in an instant. Even though Sothoth used a substitute in time, he was still pierced in the lung by Adele.

Adele had originally aimed at the heart, but halfway through the assassination, Sothoth gave up his disguise and his body shape changed slightly, causing the stab that Adele thought would never miss to deviate from the target, and the subsequent black fire also failed to hit.

Sure enough, this guy has the ability to change his appearance...

Adele was extremely grateful that she had made the right bet.

The information shared by Gagran and Adele only included the "Master of Secret Dolls" and not the pre-sequence. So although Adele had seen the magical items corresponding to the "Faceless Man", she did not know that the pre-sequence of the Master of Secret Dolls was the "Faceless Man". Therefore, she did not immediately realize that there was something strange about the appearance of this patrolman.

What really alerted Adele was the patrolman's reaction after seeing her.

Normally, it is understandable that ordinary people would be frightened when suddenly stopped in similar circumstances, but Adele is a "witch". From the moment she decided to show up and negotiate with the police, she took the initiative to use her attraction to the opposite sex. In this way, it seems not so normal for an ordinary person to still be hostile to her.

Moreover, he can see my disguise...Gegran didn't tell me that the Secret Puppet Master has similar abilities?
Adele thought about it for a long time, and finally she guessed that this was a branch of the other party's ability to manipulate the spirit thread.

Originally I thought I was hiding well, but it turned out that the other party could see my position from the beginning, and he was playing dumb while waiting for me to come to him... If I hadn't taken the initiative to step forward and remind him to be careful of the residual influence, I'm afraid he would have completed the initial control!
Adele sighed in her heart, but her hands did not slack off at all. Countless visible and invisible threads spread out with her body as the center, covering every corner of the room, like a huge spider web, trapping Sothoth in the middle.

Seeing Adele chasing him relentlessly, Sothoth did not dare to be negligent. He stretched out his hand and pressed the wound on his chest. The huge wound that had pierced his lung was directly transferred to his left hand, directly penetrating his upper arm, causing the entire arm to droop down. However, at least the injury was alleviated, turning a fatal injury into a serious one.

Then, the matches in his pocket quickly exploded, forming a fireball more than a person tall, which swallowed him whole and appeared at the other end of the warehouse.

This is the magician's ability to flash fire. Sothoth intends to use this ability to fight with Adele and find a chance to control her.

However, as soon as he landed, he touched a transparent silk thread, and the end of the thread was connected to Adele.

Adele reacted quickly, reaching out and pulling in the direction of the vibration. Countless tough silk threads flew towards Sothoth like blades, forcing Sothoth to roll awkwardly to avoid the pursuit of the silk threads.

However, in the process of dodging, he encountered more silk threads. These silk threads spread throughout the warehouse were very thin and not very strong. The only advantage was that they did not consume much spiritual power. Even with Adele's spiritual power, they could cover the entire warehouse.

Most of the witch's skills are continuous, and abilities such as black fire, plague, and silk thread can last for a long time. However, except for plague, other abilities will only consume a lot of spiritual power when they are activated, and the spiritual power consumed when operating them is not much.

Every time Adele pulled the silk thread, only a few of them were actually infused with enough spirituality to have the strength to cut through the human body, but Sothoth didn't dare to take the risk. In a hurry, he couldn't tell which thread was truly threatening, so he had to dodge them all.

Adele, who was perched in the center of the silk thread, was like a real spider. She attacked the prey caught in the web based on the vibrations from her own web. Sothoth could never get within ten meters of her.

However, relying on his two effective displacement abilities, fire jumping and paper doll substitute, plus his own flexibility which was no less than that of an assassin, Sothoth moved swiftly and swiftly in the tidal web of silk threads, like a small boat in a storm, which refused to capsize despite being pushed to the forefront.

Unfortunately, I am not at Sequence 5 yet. If I could add a covering plague aura now, the other party would be sick in half a minute...

Adele sighed in her heart while calmly controlling the distance.

The witch who failed to advance to Sequence Five still lacks a stable means of output in the combat system. Simply put, the hit rate of her skills is not high, and she needs the Plague Aura to provide a reliable weakening skill.

During this time, Sothoth was also trying to attack Adele. Although he did not bring a pistol, he could create air bullets with power and speed comparable to bullets fired from a high-pressure steam rifle by snapping his fingers and simulating sounds.

Combined with his flexible Flame Flash, he was, after all, a Sequence Five, and his spirituality was inherently more abundant than Adele's, forcing Adele to concentrate fully on dealing with him.

However, at this moment, the ceiling above Adele's head suddenly collapsed, and a figure holding an unsheathed heavy sword that he had taken out from somewhere, with a blazing white fire burning on the blade, chopped straight towards Adele.

He also kept a secret doll, was it the Cassian he took away? !

At this time, Adele was creating a hexagonal ice shield to block the air bullets fired by Sothoth. It seemed that she had no time to dodge the purifying slash that fell from the sky.

The next second, the broadsword pierced straight into the ground, and the sacred energy contained in the blade surged in all directions, igniting the spider silk that had not yet disappeared around it.

The sound of glass breaking was heard in the air. It was not Adele that was shattered by the giant sword, but the ice shield that she used as a cover. Now it had transformed into a prop for a mirror substitute.

At this time, Adele's true body had already appeared behind the secret doll Cassian. Her right hand covered in black flames directly grabbed Cassian's shoulder, and black flames immediately rose where it was touched.

The spell of substitution is not exclusive to fortune-tellers. Witches are also very good at it. In fact, in terms of variety, witches even have more tricks than fortune-tellers!
If I could use a substitute to destroy the opponent's Sequence 7 puppet, this deal would still be quite cost-effective...

Just as Adele was thinking this, she saw a ray of holy light falling on Cassian's head. The originally overbearing black flames were purified by the holy light before they even had time to spread.

Well, it seems there is still no way to take shortcuts... Adele smiled bitterly, looked around, and found that Sothoth had disappeared from her sight.

(End of this chapter)