Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 391 Wandering
Adele had just put away the magical item when the sound of the lock turning came from the door, and Leila, looking tired, walked in.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you sitting on the ground?"

She was a little surprised to see Adele sitting barefoot on the carpet.

"I fell down."

Adele said casually, finding a replacement pair of skirt and pants in the locker in the room and putting them on.

"Did you drop and lose your socks?" Leila obviously didn't believe this explanation, but she didn't pursue it further.

"You went to stake out near Sothoth's room today, didn't you? What did you find?"

Adele didn't want to talk more about the harpy's protection, so she changed the subject and asked about Leila's gains.

"It didn't go well."

Leila's face was a little pale and her movements were shaky. Adele saw that the situation was not good and hurried forward to support her. She vaguely smelled a faint smell of blood.

"You are hurt?"

Adele's face changed. She had promised Natalie that she would ensure Leila's safety, but now she was injured because of such a thing. She felt ashamed to face Natalie.

"It's just a minor injury. The Beyonders of the Church of the Earth are very good at healing."

With the help of Adele, Leila sat down on the recliner and slowly lifted up her shirt. There was a hideous knife wound on her fair skin, which almost cut half of her ribs.

Fortunately, the wound has healed, apparently due to intensive treatment by doctors from the Church of Mother Earth. Although blood is still seeping from the bandages, it is no longer life-threatening.

"The doctor's extraordinary ability cannot be effective on the same person multiple times in the same day, but fortunately he was saved."

Leila said with a wry smile, which hurt her wound. She hissed in pain and almost cried.

"What happened? Why are you injured like this?"

Adele asked distressedly, "Didn't I just tell you to hide behind the official Beyonders? Aren't they all dead?"

Leila also knew that Adele was just saying that out of anger, so she didn't take it seriously and started telling about her experience today.

Today, Leila went to Sothoth's base in the city as planned. Everything went smoothly at the beginning. She quickly found and located Sothoth's base, and indeed discovered two suspicious people coming to the door of the room.

According to the plan, the people in ambush launched a sneak attack directly, relying on the team's "Nightmare" to pull people into dreams and take the initiative. Then the harvest priest of the Church of Mother Earth immediately scattered the seeds, relying on extraordinary abilities to bring them to life, and tied up the two suspicious people tightly.

However, when Leila was about to go over to check on the captured prisoners, the Nightmare in the team suddenly let out a scream, and then a bolt of lightning flew out from the corner, piercing through the Nightmare who had not yet emerged from the dream state. Then, various extraordinary abilities were combined to temporarily suppress the ambushing extraordinary people.

"Another compound extraordinary ability?"

Adele interrupted Leila's narration. During this period, she was really impressed by the extraordinary people who used compound abilities, and she felt a little frightened.

"Yes, his appearance matches that of the priest in the information you gave me."

Leila nodded. "The body is highly decayed, but in return, inspiration is enhanced, spirituality surges, and multiple types of abilities can be used. But there will be a short pause before using the ability, it seems that there is some kind of limitation."

"Of course, they don't have any extraordinary characteristics in their bodies, and there is still a big gap between them and true extraordinary people."

Adele commented. She had had a brief exchange with Geglan about this matter before. Geglan believed that the origin of this monster's ability seemed to be some kind of ritual. By putting its own body in a state of high corruption and about to return to the spiritual world, it could better resonate with a certain existence in the spiritual world and rely on the ritual to borrow power from Him.

"The power that can be borrowed is related to the strength of the original body. There are many types, but because it requires the transfer of rituals, there may be a certain delay."

This was what Geglan speculated at the time. "If it is really as I speculated, this is most likely the high-level existence you are about to face."

"Well, he had been hiding in the dark, using his extraordinary powers in the mental realm to lure the two ordinary people forward, tricking out the extraordinary powers of Nightmare, who posed the greatest threat to him, and then used lightning to penetrate and kill Nightmare directly."

Leila nodded, agreeing with Adele's judgment. "Fortunately, the Beyonders of the Church of Mother Earth were very strong and withstood the attack head-on. However, the monster had already lost his mind and began to flee towards the slums. I hid and attacked him, causing him severe injuries, and was also hit by the wind blade he released."

"I could have been killed by the seriously injured monster, but luckily we bought enough time and backup arrived at the scene quickly, killing the monster with just one strike."

After Leila finished speaking this long paragraph, she took two deep breaths and felt a little exhausted.

"The one who was able to kill the rampaging mutant with one strike, could it be the saint who stayed behind?"

Adele was a little curious and couldn't help asking.

"I didn't recognize her. I just remember that she was a tall nun carrying an equally huge coffin."

Leila shook her head. "She created a pair of huge steel arms out of thin air from the ground and flattened the mutant."

"Oh, it's Sister Vespe, that's normal."

Adele was a little surprised. She didn't expect that the other party had not returned to the front line yet, or had arrived at the front line and returned to the rear for some reason.

However, according to Leila's description, Sister Vespe seemed to have been forced to change her path during her last resurrection, and she also crossed the threshold of demigod and half-human. Under the appointment of the Mother Goddess of Earth, she directly became a "paffin bearer" of Sequence Three.

It can be considered as a wish come true...

Adele was not surprised. In her heart, Sister Vespe was almost unmatched in terms of piety. If such a person could not become a saint, then there would probably be no saints in the Church of Mother Earth.

At this time, there was another knock on Adele's office door.

Adele stood up and opened the door. The moment she grasped the door handle, her spiritual intuition directly outlined the image of the visitor in her mind.

The man was nearly 1.9 meters tall, wearing a simple gray cloth robe, with brown curly hair that Adele was very familiar with. There was a silver chain hanging around his chest with a baby pattern made up of ears of grain and flowers on it.

"Sister Vespe, what brings you here?"

Adele hurriedly opened the door. She had always been very respectful to this devout nun.

"I heard that Leila was here, so I had time to send her medicine over."

Sister Vespe smiled gently, "She acted very bravely today."

"It was still too reckless." Adele seemed to be chatting with her neighbors about her child's parents. "In the end, I still have to trouble you to help me clean up."

"It doesn't matter. This is the purpose of nuns' existence."

Sister Vesper shook her head slightly, her loose ponytail swaying slightly. She placed the bottle of potion in her hand on the table and said to Adele:
"Can you come out for a moment? I have something to tell you."

"No problem," Adele agreed doubtfully, and walked out of the room with Sister Vespe.

"What's the matter..." Adele was about to ask as she left the room when she saw Sister Vespe reach out to the side. Adele immediately found herself being cut out of the naval base directly. This seemed to be the unique ability of the "coffin bearer".

"This is the inside of the coffin."

Sister Vespe did not explain too much. She said to Adele in a serious tone, "Next, you must be careful to protect the child. There may be enemies infiltrating the coalition forces."

"what?"

Adele asked subconsciously, but Sister Vespe had already walked in front of her and stuffed a turquoise crystal column into her hand.

"This is what the alien took out from that room. Keep it well and don't let anyone find it."

Before Adele could react, Sister Vespe had already lifted the blockade and said to the confused Adele: "Remember what I just said."

Then she immediately turned and left, not giving Adele any time to react.

Are there enemies infiltrating the coalition forces?
Adele frowned, realizing that this matter was not simple.

Adele learned that the "Red Angel" Medici had infiltrated the expeditionary force through the Tarot Club's intelligence network. But judging from what Sister Vespe said, there might be other forces that had infiltrated the city.

For a moment, Adele even wanted to take Leila back to the Northern Continent first, send her to a safe place, and then return using her ability to travel through the spirit world.

But soon, she forced herself to suppress the thought. The reason was that the spiritual world travel that came with the Harpy's blessing was limited. Different sequences of Beyonders had different strengths of their own spiritual bodies and could withstand different teleportation times, so the effects and distances of spiritual world travel were also obviously different.

If she teleported by herself, the longest distance she could reach in a single teleport would be from here directly to Bayam, but if she brought the injured Leila with her, the farthest she could reach was only the mid-range island, and she would need to transfer several times to reach a safe area.

Frequent transfers would increase the probability of accidents. Adele couldn't just abandon the injured Leila in a strange city. After all, Leila's identity certificate was only valid in the Navy Headquarters of the Southern Continent. In other cities that had not yet recognized her official Beyonder status, the instigator would not be very welcome.

I'll go find Mr. Moon later and ask him to strengthen the security around Leila's ward...

Adele had a headache and felt like she had suddenly gained more things to worry about.

……

At the same time, Fors, who was far away on the Reflection Star, was standing beside Amon with a nervous look on her face. The other party was holding Fors's divine scroll in his hand and looking at her with a familiar mischievous smile on his face.

"Is it really reliable?"

Although Amon and Antigonus had assured her many times, she still felt a little worried about taking the Sequence 3 potion directly without digesting it.

"You've asked me this six times already. I didn't know I could be so patient."

Amon's tone was a little impatient. "If it were me before, I would have parasitized you and made you take the potion."

Seeing that Fors was frightened, Amon laughed evilly again and added, "You can also think about the good side. Now that Antigonus has fallen into a deep sleep again, even if there is a problem with the rules he modified, you will not find anyone to complain to."

"You call this a good thing?!"

Fors sighed, but there was nothing she could do, so she had to resign herself to her fate and sit down at the stone table in front of Amon.

"That's right."

Amon nodded and reached out to grasp the edge of the frame.

The bronze frame seemed to groan for a moment, and then countless spots of light began to emanate from the frame. They were impurities that were gradually stolen by Amon.

First, there were a few extraordinary properties from other paths, emitting a bluish-grey light, then the concept of the picture frame, and various fixed materials added by the craftsmen. In the end, only a miniature starlight door and a ball of quietly burning bright fire were left, suspended in Amon’s hand, and the other impurities that had been stripped away were surrounding it like satellites.

"This is the extraordinary nature of the Rover..."

Fors subconsciously reached out to the Starlight Gate in Amon's hand. When The Fool and Amon were fighting, The Fool had transmitted the Beyonder characteristics of each sequence that he had stripped back to the Abraham family. At that time, Fors had seen the high-level characteristics of each sequence of the Apprentice Path.

"Don't worry, you'll be drinking it soon."

Amon slapped Fors's hand aside, stretched out his hand into the air, grabbed out a large pot of unknown material and a bunch of strange materials and threw them into it.

"Hey, watch out when you add the ingredients!"

Seeing Amon throwing the messy materials in without even looking at them, Fors's face turned green and she quickly stopped him.

This potion is not like making soup. If you add too much of a certain ingredient, it will really get out of control. At Sequence 3, even the auxiliary ingredients are taken from extraordinary creatures with specific extraordinary characteristics. The effect of adding too much auxiliary material is similar to that of adding too much low-sequence main material.

"Don't worry, I stole these from Bethel before, there shouldn't be any problem. You have to trust your ancestors."

Amon laughed, poured the potion from the pot into the cup, and pushed it in front of Fors.

Of course you're fine, it's not like you drank the potion...

Fors mustered up the courage to take a look at the potion in the cup. She felt as if there was a whole galaxy spinning in that small cup. She felt dizzy and did not dare to pick up the cup for a moment.

"Drink it, why not?"

Amon looked at Fors's timid appearance and said with regret.

“This, this…” Fors knew that resisting here would be fruitless, but she still wanted to try to delay it.

"You don't want to drink, right? If you don't drink, don't even think about running away."

Amon snapped his fingers, and Fors found that the control of her body was stolen all of a sudden. She could only watch Amon opposite her stretch his hand forward and make a gesture of grasping, and she followed Amon and slowly grasped the cup in her hand.

(End of this chapter)