Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 380 Designing for Each Other
This is going to be difficult...

Adele took a deep breath and focused her attention on the secret doll Cassian in front of her.

Cassian's sequence is not as high as Adele's, but his path is the "Sun" path that is quite restraining to the witch. Even if he is only a "Sun Priest" of Sequence 7, it is quite difficult for Adele to deal with him, and the pressure is even greater than when dealing with Sothoth himself.

This is not surprising. After all, Sothoth's left arm was seriously injured. Once Adele got close to him, he would hardly be able to withstand Adele's attack with just one arm.

Although many of the witch's moves are difficult to have a decisive effect when facing extraordinary beings such as "Guardians" and "Druids" who have thick skin and amazing defense, when dealing with fortune tellers who have no means of defense, as long as they are stuck by the black fire, they can only hand over their paper substitutes.

To put it simply, the damage of black fire, curse, and ice spear depends on who the target is. With the fortune teller's physique, it is difficult to use his physical body to resist the witch's attack, and the injury to his left arm has seriously affected Sothoth's balance ability, which makes him look embarrassed.

But Cassian is different. Black fire can be washed away directly by his holy light, and the same goes for curses. The Sun Priest's bright fire can not only burn objects with negative spirituality, but also has no difference from real fire in other properties. It can even block Adele's ice cone.

Sothoth took this opportunity to hide again... Maybe he's hiding in some corner, waiting to manipulate my spirit thread?
Adele began to quickly analyze the situation in her mind, and at the same time began to retreat towards the center of the warehouse, trying to get to an open area as much as possible to continue confronting Cassian.

Since he chose to disguise himself as a patrolman to approach me, it also indirectly shows that he has no reliable ability to hide himself. Even if he has illusions, it can only work temporarily. As long as you observe the surroundings carefully and make sure he doesn't sneak within ten meters of you, there will be no problem!
Adele made a quick judgment and began to concentrate on fighting against Cassian, while at the same time being alert to any movement within a ten-meter radius around her, guarding against Sothoth's sneak attack.

The assassin's path gave her a talent for concealment rather than simple invisibility, so Sothoth failed several times in his attempts to sneak into the battle circle between her and Cassian and had to withdraw from the circle.

However, Adele's combat capability was still affected by her distraction in paying attention to the movements within ten meters around her. She was unable to take down Cassian for a while, but she did inflict a lot of damage to the secret doll.

Since the secret puppet is always connected to the main body during the battle, when the secret puppet's instincts conflict with the main body's opinions, its reaction will be slower.

When fighting with others, they may simply not notice the difference. Even if the opponent notices it, the Puppet Master can achieve complementarity through the cooperation between multiple puppets, preventing the opponent from having the opportunity to expand the victory.

However, the seriously injured Sothoth was now suppressed by Adele and dared not show his head. He could only control Cassian to barely resist Adele of Sequence 6. The shortcomings of the secret doll were immediately revealed.

In just less than two minutes of fighting, Adele's hidden blade had already slashed Cassian's throat and wrist, pierced his right chest, and almost cut off the biceps of his left arm. If it were a real person, he would have died three or four times.

It seems that this secret doll can only move like a living person, but in essence it no longer has the characteristics of being alive...

Adele adjusted her breathing, and after realizing that attacking vital parts didn't work, she began to try to attack Cassian's joints and the muscles in his limbs, depriving him of his ability to move.

This move seemed to be very effective. Cassian suddenly had more parts to defend, which made his parrying movements flustered. Finally, when he released the purifying light in a panic to try to force Adele back, Adele found an opportunity.

As the pillar of purifying light gradually shrank and dimmed, Adele infused a large amount of spirituality into the two transparent spider silks under her feet, making them as tough as real steel wires. She then pulled the steel wires, and her entire body was under Cassian almost at the moment the pillar of light finished shrinking inwards.

The shining purifying light also obscured Cassian's vision for the first moment, preventing him from immediately noticing Adele who was flying almost close to the ground.

At this moment, Adele stomped on the ground and raised her hand to throw a fierce hook punch. Of course, she used the hand that ejected the hidden blade. The sharp blade pierced into Cassian's jaw almost unhindered, cutting it off completely, and blood splattered all over Adele's head and face.

This fatal injury caused Cassian, who had become a secret puppet, to be slightly slow in his movements for several seconds. At this time, Adele ignored the blood on the other party's body and directly stuffed the burning black fire in her palm into Cassian's exposed head.

This time, Cassian was no longer able to use holy light to extinguish the black flames. His body twisted wildly under the stimulation of the flames, but he couldn't even use his extraordinary abilities.

The ability of the puppet master is also limited. The puppet is not indestructible, but it will not die. If the whole head was cut off, it might be possible to save it, but this was the front half of the head. Even the puppet should be damaged.

The black flames once again blazed in the warehouse. Adele breathed a sigh of relief and checked around, only to find that there were still no signs of abnormalities.

At this moment, she suddenly saw a dark shadow flash past the door of the warehouse. He was wearing a police uniform with one arm hanging down, but it did not affect his fast pace at all. In a blink of an eye, he ran nearly a hundred meters and disappeared in the warehouse area after twists and turns.

Run, run away?
Adele's expression was a little dull. She really didn't expect that a strong man of Sequence 5 would run away when facing the Witch of Pleasure who was only Sequence 6, showing no dignity of a strong man at all.

However, despite all the complaints, Adele really had no intention of pursuing the matter.

In the fight just now, she found that although the Beyonders of the Fortune Teller's Path were not very capable in frontal combat, they had countless abilities to save their lives, and there was almost no pre-swing. Even Adele's close-range assassination could be avoided by the magician's paper substitute with the final black fire spray. It can be seen how difficult these guys are.

Moreover, in a situation where one is escaping and the other is chasing, it is easy for the distance between the two to remain unchanged for a long time. If I were to be controlled by Sothoth, it would be a big loss...

If I stop now, Sothoth will probably think I am a member of the Church of the Earth, and will definitely act more cautiously and won't dare to attack me casually...

Adele comforted herself in her heart.

——Besides, there are still five free Beyonder Characteristics to collect, which means I have already made a lot of money... After losing a Sequence 6 and a Sequence 7 puppet, why would Sothoth fight with me?

Moreover, once the craftsmen of the church helped her make the magical item for "travel", she could return to Indo Port and complete the preliminary preparations for the ceremony with Vinata, and officially be promoted to a Sequence 5 Witch of Pain. By then, wouldn't it be easy to defeat Sothoth?

Thinking of this, Adele relaxed her guard a little and walked to the broken body of Esdeath in the distance.

It had been a while since Esdeath died in battle, and the extraordinary characteristics of his body had long since been released. It was a brass-colored gear-shaped solid that shone with a metallic luster and seemed to have an oily coating on its surface.

It can be sold to Wendy, so that Queen Island Company will have its own "craftsmen"... Adele thought with relief. As for how many years Wendy would have to bear the debt for this, she didn't even think about it.

——Anyway, after being promoted to a craftsman, you will only make money faster, so you won’t lose that many years if you calculate it all, right?

The Extraordinary characteristics of several other Extraordinary People were also revealed. In addition to the "Instigator" characteristics that Adele was familiar with, there was also a piece of charred volcanic rock with red light shining through the cracks, and a piece of gelatinous residue that was as blue as sea water.

I don't know what sequence it is, I'll go back to the military and do a detailed divination...

Adele nodded with satisfaction and walked to Cassian's side, waiting for his extraordinary characteristics to emerge.

Santana's body fell not far from Casian, and Adele wiped the blood off her hands on Santana's clothes and hat.

After a long wait, Adele finally saw a shining white sphere gradually condensing on Cassian's body in front of her. That was the extraordinary characteristic of the "Sun Priest".

Just as Adele was about to reach out and take the extraordinary characteristic, her vision suddenly blurred, her head felt numb, and she felt as if there was a thick piece of glass around her.

She found that her movements of reaching out were becoming slower and her thoughts were becoming sluggish, as if all the parts in her head were rusted.

She had experienced this feeling before, when she was still in the East District. It was when she first obtained the pendulum and tried to divine its source, that the angel Mr. World from the fortune teller's path had an influence on her.

This is, the secret puppet transformation... But, Sothoth has clearly already escaped...

Adele was thinking hard, and at this moment, Santana, who was supposed to be a corpse in her eyes, slowly stood up. He was originally lying on the ground, but now Adele could see his face clearly:

The eyeball that should have been pierced and shattered by the mushroom was still hanging in place intact; and the muscles on Santana's face began to wriggle and deform strangely, and finally turned into Sothoth's face.

Adele suddenly realized that she had overlooked something very important.

Even though Cassian's puppet was beaten into that state by himself, it could still be controlled by the puppet master. Santana's injuries were not serious, so why do you think he can no longer be controlled?
I'm afraid that this was Sothoth's idea from the beginning. After his disguise was exposed, he first used a series of preparations to make others think that he had given up. Then he took the initiative to give up a Sequence 7 doll. When the Sequence 7 doll attracted his attention, his real body secretly exchanged clothes with Santana's doll.

The last one to run away was Santana's puppet. The puppet master's effective range of controlling the puppet was over 100 meters, which was enough for Santana to run out of Adele's sight. The real Sothoth was hiding next to Cassian's body, and he calculated that Adele would stop and wait for Cassian's extraordinary characteristics to emerge!
With a flash of thought, Adele immediately mobilized her spiritual power and tried to use the magic wand substitution method to escape.

However, as her spirituality surged, the glass in her mind seemed to thicken again, making it impossible for her to use a skill like Stand that required a high level of spiritual control.

"It's useless. I have completed the initial control." Sothoth turned around slowly, his expression distorted by pain and blood loss in his arm.

“I have to say, you are indeed a more difficult type of witch that I have ever seen. But after all, you are only a ‘Pleasure Witch’. There is an insurmountable wall between you and a true Sequence Five.”

From Adele's perspective, Sothoth's movements were broken down into frames.

It's not that the other person has become slow, but that her thinking has become increasingly sluggish.

Adele still did not give up and tried to counterattack Sothoth with black fire. Several fist-sized fireballs formed at her fingertips.

However, Sothoth raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. The black fireballs suddenly disintegrated, losing the power to maintain their shape and falling to the ground. Under Sothoth's control, the black fire couldn't even burn Adele's fingers, for fear that Adele would rely on the pain to break free from his control.

Adele felt that her movements were becoming slower and slower, and it was too late for her to make any more moves.

But at this moment, Sothoth discovered that the witch in front of him smiled with a look of success.

Adele slowly opened her mouth and lip-synced a word, pointing to Sothoth's body.

"mushroom"

"Want to lie to me again?" Sothoth snorted coldly. He did not take Adele's words seriously. Instead, he increased the speed of manipulating the spirit thread.

The speed of his manipulation was so fast that his brain could not bear the load and he felt a slight tingling sensation, but Sothoth knew he could still hold on.

Finally, his manipulation was successful. Adele's resistance completely disappeared and she stood there in a daze.

Sothoth suppressed his inner excitement and ordered Adele to recognize him as her master, which was a way for the puppet master to play.

Adele did come over as he said, and Sothoth saw her dark and deep pupils, and saw his own reflection in her eyes.

His hat had long been pierced by the mushroom's aerial roots, and the huge cap was sewn to his head by the dense aerial roots, which were continuously injecting hallucinogenic tissue fluid into Sothoth's brain, making his eyes turn white and his mouth foam. His body seemed to be hardened into a piece and he could hardly move.

Adele's hidden blade was against Sothoth's eyes, but Sothoth had no reaction to the sharp blade in front of him: the mushrooms had completely destroyed his brain nerves.

"How can an assassin not tell if his target is actually dead?"

Adele rubbed her dizzy head and said, "Your acting is indeed good, but it's a pity that you picked the wrong opponent."

After saying that, he pushed the tip of his sword forward and went straight into Sothoth's eye socket.

(End of this chapter)