Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 288 Lindsay and Miranda (Thanks to Yu Guannan and Shi Ke Wu Shi Guo for their Qidian Coin donations)
While Roger was engrossed in the illusion, the "Shadow of Corruption" he had previously released had been defeated by Katarina Pelle and had now become part of Roger's shadow again.

However, Roger remained calm and composed; he simply muttered to himself:

"not enough……"

He took a deep breath, stepped over the bursting fireworks, and once again clashed with "White Saint" Katarina Pelle.

It must be said that if we only consider head-on combat ability, the "ageless witch" is indeed no match for the "black knight". In addition, with Roger's assistance from two Sequence 4 level seal artifacts, he killed Katarina again in no time.

Katarina managed to use a "stand-in" once, but that was all.

Roger didn't even look at Katarina, who had been cut into pieces. Instead, he listened to the sound of a mirror shattering in the shadows, and his dark eyes flashed once more. He twirled his sword and launched a long-range "Spirit and Flesh Blade" slash at Katarina, who had reappeared.

At this moment, Katarina was no longer as calm as before, and her eyes began to show extreme panic.

Because the moment Roger killed himself, another "Mirror Image" was cut off from her connection!

This is completely different from the state of severance of mystical connection that the "sleeping mirror figures" were in, which was caused by anti-divination magic. Rather than saying that the "mystical connection was severed," it is more accurate to say that Roger used some means to temporarily transfer the symbolic existence of the two "mirror figures" from secrecy to a state of "publicity" in a mystical sense.

In this way, even if those "mirror figures" still exist, Katarina cannot resurrect herself by exchanging her existence with them.

Although this severance is not permanent, but only temporary, the intense combat did indeed create the possibility that Katarina could be killed.

This gave Katarina a huge headache. In her perception, her son, or rather her daughter, "Disease General" Tracy, was also being attacked by two forces with divine auras, and was clearly beginning to lose ground.

However, she couldn't spare the time to help Tracy because Roger was sticking to her and fighting her. The "Black Knight" armor could absorb a lot of damage, and Katarina's "stand" was restricted by the "Concerto of Light and Shadow," so she was having an extremely difficult time.

She couldn't escape, and she couldn't win. The last time Katarina was in such a predicament was when she fought against the saints and angels of the Church of the Night during the "Pale Calamity".

For over a thousand years since then, this is the first time Katarina has been so disheveled!
Furthermore, Roger's use of "Concerto of Light and Shadow" to imbue her with a multitude of "urgent" thoughts further increased the difficulty of Katarina's battle against Roger.

At this moment, the "Shadow of Corruption" of the "Black Knight" in front of her was separated again. Taking advantage of the restraint of the "Shadow of Corruption", Roger seized an opportunity and briefly controlled Katarina with the "Troublemaker" ability under the "Amplification" power of Chunas Korg!
In the brief moment that Katarina was distracted, Roger finally managed to "catch" Katarina's "shadow" and cut off a small part of it with the "Spirit and Flesh Blade".

With a crash, as the last hidden mirror shattered, Katarina triggered her resurrection once again. However, unlike before, Katarina found that she seemed to have lost some of her memories.

Memories related to the Quaternary period!
Moreover, Katarina's spirituality showed obvious signs of depletion, as if a hole had been opened in her soul and a large amount of spirituality was flowing out from it.

These are all signs that the integrity of the spirit has been compromised!
What made it even stranger for Katarina was that her connection to the third "mirror figure" also disappeared.

And this is also the last "person in the mirror" besides the "sleeping person in the mirror".

She felt a chilling fear.

That was the fear brought about by the possibility of death.

So she subconsciously turned her head and looked in a certain direction on the Black Death.

That was somewhere near the lower deck of the "Black Death," which was in the direction of Captain Tracy's cabin.

"found it."

Roger smiled slightly:
"When a mother is in danger, she will always subconsciously look at her child."

"But it seems you care more about your own life than about Tracy."

"After all, who would have thought that the famous 'White Saintess' would hide her 'Sleeping Mirror Person' on her daughter's flagship?"

In fact, Roger had already discerned the mirrors that the "ageless witch" used to create "multiple mirror images" the moment he began his battle with Katrina Pelle. However, he did not deliberately expose her, because Roger knew that if he did not eliminate the last hidden "sleeping mirror image," he would never be able to truly kill an "ageless witch," no matter how many times he tried.

To achieve this goal, Roger first had Bendit attack "Disease General" Tracy as originally planned, while he himself used "Concerto of Light and Shadow" to disable Katarina's "Stand" and "Occult Pathogen" in order to avoid being dragged into a protracted battle by these two abilities.

After doing this, Roger launched a fierce attack to force Katarina Pelle to resurrect. Each time a resurrection was triggered, Roger used his "amplified" "leaking" ability to seal and destroy the occult connection between a mirror used for resurrection and Katarina, ultimately sealing off all of her resurrection methods except for the "Sleeping Mirror Man".

In addition, as Katarina continues to accumulate injuries during her battle with Roger, under such immense pressure, she will inevitably fall into a kind of suspicion: whether Roger has the ability to seal off her last trump card for resurrection?
Under such mental pressure, Katrina Pelle unconsciously turned her attention to her last hidden mirror. It was through her anxiety and unease that Roger was able to pinpoint the approximate location of the last mirror.

As Roger finished speaking, the flesh and blood within the "fallen shadow" that had been entangled with Katarina Pelle began to churn rapidly, and an eye sprouted from it.

An eye with a black light gleaming in its center.

Those are eyes with the ability of "secret insight"!

The "shadow of corruption" quickly disappeared into the cabin and then vanished.

"White Saintess" Katarina Pelle understood that the "Fallen Shadow" wanted to find and destroy the last mirror she had buried, and instinctively tried to stop Roger, but Roger would never give her that chance.
The figure of "Fallen Earl" Chunus Colger quickly appeared beside Roger, and the entire deck of the "Black Death" began to appear with densely packed distorted spaces!
Roger, wielding the "Blade of Spirit and Flesh," held the sword to his chest. With the "amplification" power of Chunas Korg, he instantly closed in on the "ageless witch" Katarina Pelle, slashing the greatsword at her with terrifying kinetic energy!

"Roger Abraham!!!"

Katarina roared angrily, and her appearance immediately began to change. Not only did her skin begin to grow dense green snake scales, but her hair also turned into dense little snakes!
Her eyes turned yellowish-green, her vertical pupils fixed on Roger, reflecting his image.

In a moment of desperation, Katrina Pelle risked activating her incomplete mythical creature form in an attempt to instantly kill Roger!

"Fog grass."

Roger was shocked. He immediately remotely controlled "Fallen Earl" Chunus Korg to launch "Chaos" from a distance, which helped him to narrowly escape from Katrina Pelle's "Petrifying Gaze"!
In an instant, starting from Katarina, everything she looked at—the air, the deck, and even the cargo containers on the deck—transformed into stone sculptures from near to far!

Roger's body tumbled rapidly in the air, but then he saw two snake-like strands of hair behind Katarina staring at him!

Roger immediately used the "Parasite Gloves" to "steal" a large distance. As he dodged the next "Petrifying Gaze," Roger's aura began to change.

His already exceptionally tall figure grew even taller, and a dense, almost tangible, desolate mist began to appear on the surface of his black armor.

The thick black fog completely enveloped Roger, and in the darkness, flesh and blood could be vaguely seen undulating irregularly amidst the shadows, but even so, Roger still retained his human form.

A chain appeared between his arms, binding Roger's hands as if inflicting torture, forcing him to hold the suddenly enlarged greatsword vertically in his hands.

A chilling aura of blood and depravity permeated Roger's surroundings, and a deep red inverted cross, resembling dried blood, suddenly appeared in the darkness of his chest.

At this moment, Roger also activated his incomplete mythical creature form!
Even as Katrina Pelle activated her incomplete mythical creature form, many of the leaders and crew of the "Star Fleet" and the "Black Death Fleet," who were fighting amongst themselves on other ships, heard the noise and looked over.

It would have been better if they hadn't looked, because once they did, a large number of people lost control and turned into twisted monsters, attacking and devouring their companions without any rationality!
Fortunately, Dionysius was knowledgeable and immediately realized that this was the result of an incomplete mythical creature form. He immediately shouted for all the remaining crew members of the "Star Lord" to stop looking at Katrina Pelle, disengage from the battle, and retreat to the lower deck!
As for the crew members of the "Black Death Fleet" who were still on the deck, they were not so lucky. They began to mutate and go out of control one after another. In an instant, the situation of the various ships of the "Black Death Fleet", which were already at a disadvantage in the melee with the "Star Fleet", suddenly deteriorated. In an instant, the deck became a hell on earth where monsters and "people" devoured and merged with each other, which can be described as the most cruel breeding site.

Roger's scalp tingled at the sight, but he couldn't care less about the lives of those people for the time being. He simply let his aura of corruption form a thick curtain of shadow, layer upon layer, enveloping the entire "Black Death"!

……

The Black Death, in the ship's corridor.

A dark, one-eyed figure resembling Roger was running silently. Due to the effect of the "Eye of Insight," this not-so-intelligent creature had only one obsession: to follow Roger to a coordinate location that Roger had secretly revealed to it through "leaking" information, and to go there and destroy something.

Along the way, it mercilessly killed several crew members of the Black Death who blocked its path, and soon arrived near the door of Captain Tracy's cabin.

There, a short, stout middle-aged man with a greasy stubble and a black finger cot was staring intently toward Captain Tracy's cabin, seemingly doing something shady.

The "Fallen Shadow" tilted its head in confusion, hesitated for two seconds, and then suddenly pounced on Klein, who was blocking its way!
Klein's spiritual intuition gave him a great sense of danger. He didn't even have time to turn around and see what had attacked him. He just subconsciously used the "paper doll substitute"!
"Sizzle!"

The moment the "paper doll" was torn apart, Klein Moretti, who had just landed and was on high alert, saw a black figure resembling Roger ignore him and rush straight into the captain's cabin!
"Roger, I'm at 8 AM!"

Klein was still shaken. He immediately recognized that "Fallen Shadow" looked a lot like Roger and couldn't help but curse inwardly. Although he didn't know what his brother was up to, if Klein hadn't reacted quickly enough, "Source Castle" would really have been preparing to launch the next round of injustice candidate releases.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the "fallen shadow" rush straight toward Tracy, who was blocking his way!

Seemingly because Bandit carried Roger's "Black Knight" aura, "Fallen Shadow" selectively ignored the tabby cat and went straight to fight "Disease Lieutenant General" Tracy, who was using the demigod-level sealed artifact and whose body tissue had begun irreversible metallization mutation!

"good chance!"

Klein was inwardly delighted. He once again manipulated the "witch" Mavis, who was standing there in a daze, and fully unleashed the "Demon Slayer" to attack Tracy!
Under the combined attack of multiple demigod-level powers, Tracy finally succumbed to the overwhelming force. As the sword light of "Demon Slayer" flashed, the body of this "Disease Lieutenant General," which had not yet been metallized, completely disintegrated!
Blazing white flames began to spread outwards from Tracy's body like liquid. Bendit immediately used his "Wand Substitute" to dodge, while simultaneously shouting at Klein at the end of the corridor:
"Hey you, you threw 'Demon Slayer' to Roger's shadow!"

Although Klein didn't quite understand what was happening, he reacted quickly and manipulated Mavis to throw "Demon Slayer" at "Fallen Shadow".

The next second, Mavis's tall but aged figure, resembling a fifty-year-old, was completely engulfed by the flames. The "Fallen Shadow," unafraid of the flames, finally regained its sanity after receiving the "Demon Slayer."

It immediately unleashed the "Demon Slayer," then plunged its sword into a spot on the captain's cabin ceiling, followed by a powerful slash!
A faint, mournful scream and the sound of a mirror shattering rang out simultaneously. The mirror that the "ageless witch" Katarina Pelle had buried for resurrection had finally been completely destroyed!
On the deck of the Black Death, Katarina's body, which resembled a Gorgon, suddenly trembled. The next second, signs of petrification began to appear on her right cheek, and her movements became stiff.
Roger knew that this was the result of the elimination of the last sleeping "Mirror Man". He was immediately excited and quickly moved through the curtain of shadows he had created. Then he concentrated all his power into a single strike of "Spirit and Flesh Blade"!

"Wow."

As the "Blade of Spirit and Flesh" slashed down, the "ageless witch" Katarina Pelle's figure suddenly turned completely to stone.

Then, her upper body slid down to the lower right, revealing a perfectly smooth cross-section moments later.

"boom!"

Katarina's upper body fell onto the deck and then quickly rolled to the side.

A small, azure blue handbag fell to the ground, and on the "pedestal" formed by Katarina's upper body, a fist-sized, spring-like crystal was revealed.

This is precisely the extraordinary characteristic of the "ageless witch".

Roger took a deep breath. With the help of the Source Prayer with Gherros, he dispelled the incomplete mythical creature form on his body and returned to normal. He then completely absorbed and enslaved the soul and extraordinary characteristics of Katarina Pelle, which had not yet completely dissipated, and thus completely mastered the abilities of this Sequence 3 "ageless witch".

"As expected, activating the mythical creature form was too risky. I originally had almost a month left, but now it seems that I don't have much time left."

Roger sighed, then used his "Singer" ability to let out a loud howl, and the "Star Fleet" members, who had temporarily hidden back inside the ship's cabins, finally poked their heads out.

Roger looked at his men and made a victory sign. The crew members finally breathed a sigh of relief, and cries of relief, shouts of joy, and curses filled the air.

Soon, the crew began boarding the various ships of the "Black Death Fleet" and the flagship "Black Death" to clean up the mess, eliminate the monsters, and capture the remaining personnel.

Roger sat on the deck, trying to open the azure blue handbag while looking in the direction of the supply ship "Fear".

Sure enough, as the "Fear" approached the "Black Death," Lyncel Louise led her crew onto the deck and began searching for the spoils.

On the surface, it seems that Linsaya had her subordinates take vampire potions as soon as the occult pathogen attacked, which successfully minimized casualties.

"captain."

After arranging the work, Lindsay walked to Roger's side, looked at the "ageless witch" Katarina Pelle who had turned into rubble on the ground, and tentatively spoke:
"This is?"

"Ah."

Roger nodded as he finally found the mechanism to open the azure blue handbag.

It appeared to be a bag similar to Bandit's small cloth bag, with an independent extended space inside. Roger emptied out a wooden wind-up alarm clock, some money, and a large number of seemingly everyday personal items.

One of the silver bracelets caught Linssaya's attention.

The "Pleasure Witch" trembled violently. She tried to calm herself down and squatted down, holding the silver bracelet in her hands.

The silver bracelet was still as clean as new, and on the inside of the bracelet were engraved two names and a sentence.

Lindsay Louis;

Miranda Hayward;
"To tie the knot."

Linssaya immediately knelt on the ground, her shoulders began to heave violently, and she began to breathe heavily through her nose.

Roger sighed, then squatted down and pulled Linssaya into his arms, patting her head, but he didn't say a word.

A moment later, Lyncel Louise burst into tears, her loud sobs attracting the attention of many onlookers.

"Thank you, Captain, thank you, Captain..."

Linssaya showed no sign of stopping; she continued to sob as she spoke intermittently.

The crying grew louder and louder, until after a long while, it suddenly turned into a relieved laugh.

The laughter came from the bottom of my heart; though it originated from pain, it was mixed with genuine joy, like a cloudless clear sky.

At this moment, Linssaya's "pleasure" potion was completely digested.

……

The cleaning of the Black Death was faster than Roger had imagined. In the lower deck, which was almost burned to ruins, he met Bandit, who had survived, and heard him talk about the strange, greasy middle-aged man who fought alongside him with "Demon Slayer".

"Yes, that's a friend of mine."

Roger stroked the tabby cat's head, but the cat suddenly spoke:
"I feel like he's someone I know, but I don't know who he is."

Roger stopped abruptly and chuckled to himself.

He didn't answer the question, but changed the subject, looking at the most important piece of soft armor in the ashes of the fire, which was emitting a dark red light, as well as the broken sword "Demon Slayer" stuck in the ground not far away and the "Veil Finger Gloves" hanging on it, and a stack of banknotes worth 200 gold pounds, before looking around.

"It appears that he took away the extraordinary property of 'pain'."

Roger quickly made a judgment: the extraordinary properties of Sequence 5 were still very valuable, and Klein was short of money recently, so he took it to cash out.

On the other hand, this cash-strapped evil god leader still maintained considerable composure and restraint. Not only did he not take the soft armor, but he also kept the "Demon Slayer" and "Veil Finger Gloves" for himself.

Of course, I also paid the rent at the same time.

This doesn't count as exposing one's actions, because everyone within the Tarot Club knows that "Admiral Galactic" is actually Mr. "Wheel of Fortune".

However, Bandit, relying on his keen animal instincts, vaguely sensed the true identity of the "Faceless Man".

Based on current observations, both the soft armor and the wooden alarm clock appear to be sealed artifacts, but Roger still needs to make further assessments regarding their specific levels and abilities.

He crouched down and used his "Shepherd" ability to extract the extraordinary properties of "Corrupted Baron" Godric Heisenberg and "Witch of Pain" Adeline, and release their souls.

After doing all this, Roger stood up, took a deep breath, and said to Bandit:
"Go and fetch Dionysius and Linseia for me."

(End of this chapter)