Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 381 Blood-sucking
Watching Sothoth's body slowly fall down in front of her, Adele breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first Sequence Five opponent she had dealt with alone. Although the process was within Adele's calculations, there were still many dangerous parts.

Due to the opponent's sequence characteristics, Adele was not hurt much, but this was entirely because Frank's mushrooms were too terrible and the opponent's final control failed.

Adele had already discovered that Sothoth had been replaced by Santana, so she deliberately smeared Cassian's blood on Sothoth's body and quietly poured the last bit of mushroom powder on it.

Although the other party can see creatures with spiritual lines through the ability to observe spiritual lines, it obviously cannot see the mushroom powder without spiritual lines. Adele's original plan was to wait here for a while, using herself as bait to stabilize Sothoth and wait for the mushrooms on his body to grow.

This plan was actually quite risky. If Frank's mushrooms had grown a minute or two later, Adele would probably have been completely transformed by Sothoth.

Of course, if he hadn't concentrated on manipulating the thread of my spirit, he wouldn't have been so focused on dealing with the mushrooms on my body... In fact, even if the mushrooms grew slower, I wouldn't have been completely transformed. At most, he would have been forced to interrupt the manipulation of the thread of my spirit, and I would have to fight him again without the secret doll.

Adele reviewed the fight in her mind, trying to find out where she had handled it incorrectly.

However, this time Sothoth still taught me a lesson, don't rely too much on abilities that are not your own, especially uncertain factors like Frank's mushrooms...

Adele composed herself a bit, and summoned black fire to cover Sothoth's body, burning the red cap with white spots on its head to ashes.

Then, a few points of deep light emanated from Sothoth's bloody eye sockets, attracted each other and condensed into a ball, transforming into a completely black eye without a pupil.

This is the extraordinary characteristic of the Secret Master...

Adele put a thin layer of frost on her hand and picked up the completely black eye without a pupil.

Including the black eye in her hand, she has gained a "Master of Secret Dolls" extraordinary characteristic, a "Mechanical Expert" extraordinary characteristic, a "Sun Priest" extraordinary characteristic, a "Instigator" extraordinary characteristic, and two more extraordinary characteristics from unknown sources tonight.

As expected, murder and robbery are always the fastest way to make a fortune... Adele sighed as she looked at the Beyonder Characteristics that were organized into categories.

The value of this batch of extraordinary characteristics alone is about 15,000 pounds. If the premium is taken into account, it can even reach 20,000 pounds or even more. This money is enough to buy a high-quality manor in the best city in Ahowa County and to purchase an industry that is sufficient to sustain life on the manor for a long time.

What's more, Adele has the pendulum from "The Fool" in her hand, and she can use divination of these extraordinary characteristics to obtain the potion formula of the corresponding sequence and make another fortune.

However, the Mechanical Expert's Extraordinary Characteristics had already been determined to be given to Wendy, and the Puppet Master's Extraordinary Characteristics, due to its own high sequence, was already the highest-ranking Extraordinary Characteristics that Adele could get. Adele did not intend to simply exchange such a good thing for gold pounds.

If Wendy is promoted to Sequence 6 and can use this Beyonder characteristic to create a magical item that can replicate the ability to manipulate the spirit thread, then she will make a lot of money...

After briefly imagining the uses of these magical items, Adele quickly gathered her thoughts and carefully searched the remains of Esdeath. She found the only high-energy explosive she knew among a pile of unnamed mechanical devices, and based on the knowledge she had learned from Vinata, she placed it on the load-bearing columns of the warehouse.

After doing all this, she felt the remaining spiritual energy in her body, hesitated for a moment, and then cast a simple black magic, causing Sothoth's body to quickly weather and disintegrate, leaving only a black skull that shone with spiritual luster.

This magic can use a part of the deceased's body (preferably the skull) to temporarily seal the deceased's spirit. The skull can be broken during spiritual communication, making it suitable for handling corpses in unsafe environments.

Adele didn't dare to perform a spiritual ceremony casually on a strange street, because she would be almost defenseless during the ceremony.

After doing all this, Adele felt a tingling sensation in her brain, a sign of spiritual exhaustion.

In the battle just now, she not only used a large amount of black fire and made silk threads, but also used several curses that consumed a lot of spiritual power in succession, which had already reached her limit. If she had not already digested a lot of Sequence 6 potions, she might not have been able to hold on.

Curses in black magic require equal exchange. If you want to curse someone, you need to pay the same spiritual power as that person. If you prepare in advance, you can reduce this consumption to about 30%. Adele directly cursed Esdeath, who is also a Sequence , which consumed a lot of her own spiritual power.

It's time to leave... Adele rubbed her aching forehead, took Sothoth's skull and other trophies, and staggered out of the warehouse.

When she walked to within a few hundred meters of the warehouse, a deafening explosion was heard behind her. The hallucinogenic drugs and the mutilated bodies were reduced to ashes in the fire caused by the explosion.

After the patrol officers who arrived at the scene put out the fire, they were quickly driven away by the military personnel who followed closely behind, and the latter took full control of the investigation of the incident.

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The next day, Adele slept very late and the effects of spiritual exhaustion had not yet completely subsided, which made her lose her appetite even for breakfast.

After quickly taking two bites of the high-calorie breakfast prepared for the soldiers at the naval base, Adele felt nauseous. Even her favorite jam muffins tasted like chewing wax.

After all, I went through such a fierce battle last night. Compared to Sothoth who was killed, I am very lucky to have only suffered such a few side effects...

Adele comforted herself and completely gave up the idea of ​​continuing to eat. She began to look around. The sailor she saw seemed to be electrocuted. He quickly looked away, then turned his head furtively and glanced at her out of the corner of his eye.

If it were any other time, Adele might not care about these things, or even find them very interesting, but today, not only was she facing abnormal conditions such as migraines and nausea caused by spiritual exhaustion, she was also suffering from negative effects such as "sleepiness" from the Veil of Night, "reduced luck" from the Survivor's Hidden Blade, and "fear of water". The evasive looks of the sailors seemed a bit annoying to her.

Adele tried hard to control herself and not care about other people's eyes, while picking up the plate to leave. At this moment, she suddenly saw a conspicuous long white hair in the restaurant. It was Leila who was transferred to the back.

Leila seemed to have just woken up not long ago, with a bit of sleepiness on her face. She was sitting near the door with a plate full of vegetables.

Adele walked over with a plate and sat down opposite Leila and greeted her.

"Good morning," Adele said dryly, sounding listless.

"Morning, you don't look very energetic."

Leila looked at her in surprise, as if she had rarely seen Adele like this and was a little curious.

Of course, fighting a puppet master is not an easy task...

"After a battle, my spiritual energy was severely depleted, but fortunately I didn't suffer any injuries."

Adele smiled bitterly and didn't explain too much. Anyway, when Leila arrived at her office and saw the documents and information left for her, she would know what happened last night.

"That's good." Leila's tone was flat, but it was not her fault. After all, she had been avoiding Adele since she watched Adele and Natalie act out their pleasure under Tracy's half-forcement.

"Come to my office at ten o'clock. I need you to do a divination for me. My spiritual energy is very depleted and I am not suitable for doing such things."

Seeing Leila's calm reaction, Adele breathed a sigh of relief. Then, while she wasn't paying attention, she poured the contents of her own plate into Leila's plate and rushed out in her stunned eyes.

Back in her office, Adele took today's newspaper off the shelf and opened the South Continent News to read it carefully.

As soon as Adele opened the newspaper, she saw the eye-catching headline:
"The military warehouse in Port Berens was blown up, and the terrorist organization Rose School claimed responsibility!"

What the hell is going on here? It was clearly an abandoned warehouse, and it was chosen by Intis's spies as a meeting point. Where did the military supplies come from? And what does this have to do with the Rose School?
Adele, who had experienced it personally, was completely confused. She began to read the news in detail, suppressing the discomfort caused by her lack of spirituality.

According to the news, the arsenal stored a large amount of spare military supplies, including tents, military uniforms, etc., with a total value of nearly 30,000 gold pounds. The terrorists from the Rose School originally wanted to attack the arsenal, but they found the wrong place, fought a fierce battle with the guards, and finally died in the sea of ​​fire together with the brave guards.

According to an eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous, there were signs that cultists from the Rose School had attacked the warehouse. During the subsequent investigation, letters left behind by the Rose School were also found, claiming responsibility.

The report was followed by a picture of a burning warehouse, with smoke rising, flames shooting into the sky, and patrol officers running around putting out the fire. This composition deserves a news award.

Adele held the newspaper, her facial muscles twisted slightly.

No, is it really just a picture at the beginning and all the content is made up?

Although Adele could understand that this was one of the means to unify public opinion during wartime, the people of Loen often let these evil cults take the blame when there was no war, and it made sense to do so now that the war was going on. However, as a party involved, she felt a little amused when she saw this fabricated news that was completely different from the truth.

And if it were revealed that the people causing trouble behind the scenes were the Intis people who had temporarily stopped fighting, it would very likely lead to a falling out between the two sides and trigger another war across the entire continent, which was something no one wanted to see.

However, why do we need to make up a name for a military supply warehouse?
Adele was a little confused. After all, according to the news, the "Rose School" had found the wrong target. Then why didn't they say they found an empty warehouse, but instead made up the name of a military supply warehouse?
Confused, Adele turned to the next page and saw the following report:

"Prince Grove Augustus has returned from the front and will inspect the working conditions of the logistics base tomorrow."

Adele seemed to understand something all of a sudden. She quietly put the newspaper aside and stopped pursuing these excuses.

As expected of the Loen Navy, they caught fire as soon as they checked the accounts...

Adele rubbed her temple with one hand and crumpled up the investigation report she had already written to the entire Navy Logistics Command with the other hand. After thinking about it, she felt that it was inappropriate, so she unfolded the report and simply copied it again on letter paper. However, this time the wording was more concise and she omitted a lot of etiquette words that were necessary when reporting to superiors. It seemed that she wanted to write it as a private letter.

Give this report directly to Mr. Moon and read it to everyone at the next Tarot meeting. As for the report to the superiors, just follow what the newspaper says...

Although Adele had no experience in dealing with similar matters before, the instigator's ability allowed her to excel in guessing people's minds, so she naturally would not insist on telling the truth and offend others.

However, even so, Adele was not worried at all that the Loen Navy would suffer in this regard, because the military system of the Rose School was even more heavyweight than that of Loen. After all, it was the army of the indigenous princes of the colony. According to incomplete statistics, the number of people who were drawing empty salaries even reached more than 40% of a unit, nearly half.

If the head of the Loen military is corrupt but has a normal IQ, then the intelligence level of the Rose School's indigenous coalition generals is between a brainless zombie and an ayahuasca-induced drug addict.

In comparison, Loen's army was simply a model in the industry. At least their soldiers only lacked food and clothing, unlike the loose coalition forces in the southern continent, where even the soldiers were fake. In a fully staffed legion, 40% of them were empty soldiers, 30% were slave soldiers, and only 30% of the soldiers were truly useful.

If it weren't for the natural cover of the rainforest, it would have been difficult for the demoralized Loen soldiers to directly attack Alessor from a long distance. Coupled with the attack of the evil god Suea, the Loen army has now been pushed to the end of the Pas Valley.

I originally thought that I had hunted so many Beyonders, and that I should be the one who took the biggest advantage last night. I didn’t expect that the military officials took advantage of the fire and directly laundered twice the money. These guys are really better at sucking blood than Mr. Moon...

Adele sighed a little. The blood race only sucked blood for fun. If they really wanted to suck blood, they had to rely on the Loen industrialists...

(End of this chapter)