Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 130 Reunion

In the cemetery chapel, layers of transparent figures were crowded together, like countless moths flying into a burning black flame.

"Beth" stood in the flickering black flames and pushed the coffin open with force.

But at the moment the coffin was pushed open, "Beth" did not see the body in the coffin, and suddenly a lake shrouded in mist appeared in front of her eyes.

The lake is sparkling and has a quiet beauty.

The force with which "Beth" pushed the coffin rippled the lake water.

Ripples spread out on the surface of the lake.

A beautiful and illusory figure slowly floated up.

She is pure and holy.

As beautiful as a female deity in the lake!
The image of the Lady of the Lake caught Beth's eye, taking up all of her attention... and captivating her spirit!

"Beth"'s eyes gradually became dull.

Daly, wearing a psychic robe, floated in from the chapel door. Her eyes fell on "Beth", but she was cautious and did not approach. She just controlled the "Lady of the Lake" to intensify the charm of the petite woman.

Before "Beth" fell into complete stupor, a round object rolled out from the hanging cuff of "Beth".

The sphere didn't explode, but the moment it landed, it suddenly released an extremely blazing light! This light penetrated the holy and enchanting body of the "Lady of the Lake", but did not cause any harm to her!

The undead spirits circling around them burned themselves with blue flames in the scorching light. These blue flames shone on the delicate face of the goddess of the lake, making her holy smile look weird and distorted!
The "Lady of the Lake" is a powerful nature spirit!

The light that restrains the undead has little effect on the natural spirits!
But when this light bloomed, the female figure in "Beth"'s eyes was completely swallowed up by the light. With this moment of clarity, "Beth"'s figure shattered like a mirror.

The church was placed in the center near the entrance, with a huge mirror used to project the murals on the roof, and at the same time, tiny cracks appeared!

"Beth"'s figure gradually emerged from the wooden frame!

Using the mirror substitute to break free from the spiritual charm of the "Lady of the Lake", "Beth" took the opportunity to approach Daly who was floating at the door.

But Daly just sat with her legs crossed in the air, staring at her coldly without any movement to avoid.

Behind "Beth", the "Lady of the Lake" follows her like a shadow. Although the mirror stand-in broke free from the control of the charm, it could not break free from the entanglement of the "Lady of the Lake"!

"Beth"'s running body froze, a sign of falling into enchantment again!

At this moment, an ice spike rose from the ground beneath Daly, but was shattered by the sword-wielding evil spirit protecting Daly.

The broken ice reflected various colors of light in the gas lamp and the fire.

Then the ice cubes shattered into even smaller pieces!
The figure of "Beth" once again emerged from the shattered ice crystals, and a dull dagger pierced through the shattered ice crystals and stabbed into Daly's chest!

But the weird thing is!
When the dream dagger in her hand pierced Daly, "Beth" felt the touch of the dagger piercing her flesh and blood, but she also felt the pain of being pierced by the dagger!

The stinging pain is accompanied by an even stronger feeling of drowsiness!

"Beth"'s eyelids drooped heavily. In the real world, she was standing next to a wooden mirror, stabbing the dagger in her hand into her own chest!
It turned out that everything that happened just now was just an illusion that she was enchanted by!

It turned out that although "Beth" had used the mirror substitute with the help of purifying strong light, the charming effect of the "Lady of the Lake" had already enveloped the entire church!

"It wasn't inserted into the heart?" Daly looked at the place where the dagger in "Beth"'s hand was inserted, a little confused.

The petite woman in front of him who was acting as an "assassin" was most likely Tai Perslan, who had disguised her appearance in some unknown way.

Daly had read Tai Poslan's information. Although it could be seen from the information that this man was not a heinous criminal, he was definitely a ruthless madman.

Daly didn't think such a person would hold back in a fight unless he was extremely confident that he could win even if he held back.

"Am I being underestimated?" Dai Li shook her head and chuckled.

Daly carefully stabbed the dagger deeper into Beth's chest, breaking her limbs. She also took out a sealing mask produced by the Mandated Punisher, which was used to restrict Beyonder criminals, and printed it on the woman's face.

After doing all this, Daly confirmed that "Beth" lying on the ground could no longer resist, and then she took back the "Lady of the Lake" in the church that continued to consume her spiritual energy.

At this time, some sweat appeared on Daly's forehead.

Summoning and manipulating a powerful natural spirit like the Lady of the Lake was a heavy burden even for Daly, a "Necromancer." Daly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to reach the coffin to wake Galadilla, who had been unresponsive for some reason.

But just as Daly came to the coffin and was about to push open the coffin lid that "Beth" had not pushed open just now, she felt pain in her back.

A woman with black hair and black eyes, wearing a tight-fitting dress, silently stabbed Daly in the back with a dream dagger in her hand.

"How could this be..." The irresistible desire to sleep engulfed Daly's spirit. When Daly fell limply to the ground, she saw "Beth" lying on the ground not far away with her sleepy eyes that were about to close. Only an empty shell was left!

After knocking down Daly with the Dream Dagger, "Beth" did not choose to finish her off. Her original intention was not to kill the Nighthawks and become a complete enemy of the Church of Evernight.

Tessa walked over to the shell, checked the extent of the damage to "Beth's shell", and murmured softly: "It can still be used..."

The bronze zipper and black tights are a pair of magical items that work together to transfer fatal damage or control to the external body.

She relied on these two magical items to survive the Battle of Tingen from Ince Zangwill.

Tessa wiped her palm across Beth's body, and Beth's body on the ground disappeared without a trace.

Arriving at the center of the church, Tessa faced the coffin in front of her, took a deep breath, took two steps back, and released an invisible thread from her hand, blowing the coffin lid off.

"It's not safe here. Don't lose your composure..."

Even though she kept warning herself in her heart, Tessa still lost consciousness for a moment when she saw the person she had been thinking about day and night lying quietly in the coffin.

"Finally...finally found you..."

Tessa quickly came to her senses, muttering something. As she waved her hands, invisible threads emerged from thin air and gathered together, reaching into the coffin, lifting the body inside and holding it in front of Tessa.

Tessa wanted to reach out and hold him in her arms.

But out of vigilance against the Church of Evernight, she suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart and simply supported Claire with an invisible thread without making any contact.

But Tessa could feel the coldness of Claire's body...

In silence, Tessa carried Claire out of the church and walked into the dark night outside.

The cemetery was silent, with only the rustling of the night wind. But just as Tessa reached the edge of the cemetery, she realized that her spirituality was inexplicably and rapidly fading away!
The speed at which her spiritual energy was consumed was too fast for Tessa to think about what was happening. She even lacked the spiritual energy to maintain the invisible thread!

The invisible threads like a spider web broke one by one, and Claire's body, which was originally held up, fell from mid-air.

Tessa's eyes widened, and she no longer cared about her worries. She quickly reached out and took Claire into her arms.

And at the moment she fell into Tessa's arms, Claire, who was disguised as a corpse, suddenly attacked!
Claire stretched out her hand, grabbed Tessa's right arm and dislocated the joint, while also trying to lock Tessa with fighting skills!

Claire was certain that Tessa couldn't use any extraordinary abilities to evade her physical blockade at this moment!

This confidence comes from the magical item "Spiritual Glutton" she exchanged from the church!
That was what she exchanged for by exhausting her merits!
The records behind the Chanis Gate stated that this magical item was formed by the fusion of two Sequence 6 Beyonder traits from different sources. Because Claire's current Sequence was too low, she couldn't rely on her "Appraiser" abilities to determine the specific nature of these two traits.

But according to records and experiments, the "Spiritual Glutton" can devour the spirituality of the holder.

How much spiritual energy it devoured from the holder during the preparatory stage, then within the time limit, it can absorb the same amount of spiritual energy from other people within a certain range!
The effect of this artifact is very powerful, and any Beyonder below Sequence 4 will be affected!
The reason why Claire lay in the coffin and did nothing before was because she had basically fed most of her spiritual energy to this magical item.

Under the influence of the "Spiritual Glutton", Tessa, whose spiritual energy had already been greatly depleted after the battle with Daly, had almost all of her remaining spiritual energy absorbed by this magical item!

The lack of spiritual power prevented Tessa from using any extraordinary abilities. Facing Claire's threat, Tessa, whose left arm was twisted off, folded her body in half with a movement that ordinary people could hardly do, and narrowly escaped from the gap blocked by Claire.

Then, he rolled over a few times to distance himself from Claire.

Having barely dodged the attack, Tessa looked shocked, happy, and angry. She looked at Claire, who was squatting not far away, in disbelief and asked in astonishment, "You...you're alive?"

Claire was so spiritually deficient at the moment that she couldn't even reactivate the "Heart of the Goddess", so naturally she could only maintain the youthful and delicate appearance of her Tingen period.

Claire stood up, staring at Tessa, smiled with a complicated expression, and said, "Aren't you dead too?"

"It's good that you're not dead... Claire, it's good that you're alive!" After living with Claire as Sharon for a while, Tessa had become accustomed to calling the person she loved by her former name.

Claire found it ridiculous. The woman before her had rudely taken away the male body that belonged to her, and then unceremoniously threw the identity of "Claire" onto her...

No matter what considerations or hidden secrets this woman had in her mind, she never communicated with her from beginning to end, and never gave her the respect that a lover deserved!

Claire chuckled, her voice hoarse. "You call me Claire, so what should I call you? 'Claire' or 'Tai'?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Claire rushed towards Tessa. She mixed various fighting styles and techniques to form a pace that suited her best. It seemed slow but was actually fast. She got close to Tessa in an instant and punched Tessa's right cheek hard, knocking Tessa, who was not yet adapted to the state of spiritual exhaustion, out.

Tessa, with a swollen mouth, didn't care about her image. She rolled over and got up from the ground as quickly as possible. She spat out a mouthful of blood, looked at Claire with complicated eyes, and said, "You hit me?"

After Claire threw the punch, she didn't feel any relief from the pent-up anger in her heart. Instead, it seemed as if the ferocity buried deep in her heart was aroused, and she looked at Tessa even more fiercely.

Her gaze at this moment seemed to be staring into the depths of Tessa's soul!

A look that wants to eat people!
"Can't I fight?"

"You're not going to tell me something about women not being able to hit you, are you?"

Claire ripped open her collar, revealing her feminine features, and smiled sarcastically, "I've wanted to beat you up for a long time..."

Facing Claire's appearance, Tessa was somewhat dazed.

Taking advantage of this trance, Claire attacked Tessa again without hesitation. Even though Tessa raised her left arm to block this time, Claire's movements were clean and precise, and she hit Tessa's abdomen hard with a hook punch.

Tessa bent over in pain and barely managed to dodge Claire's next attack by rolling over.

"That's enough!" Tessa yelled at Claire while gasping for breath.

"Do you think it's enough?" Claire asked, looking at Tessa coldly.

Tessa's expression froze as she stared at Claire deeply, her eyes unfocused. It was unclear what she was thinking...

Then she smiled bitterly and gave up all resistance. She dragged her broken right arm and walked towards Claire, looking like she was ready to vent her anger.

Seeing Tessa's expression, Claire became even angrier. She gritted her teeth and swung her fist at Tessa again.

Tessa retched in pain, but she got up and walked towards Claire again.

In response, Claire irritably grabbed Tessa's collar with one hand and pulled out a small pistol from her clothes with her right hand.

The muzzle of the gun was pressed against Tessa's forehead.

Tessa was about to reach out to grab the gun from Claire's hand, but when her left hand, which was the only thing she could use to hold onto Claire's right hand, fell down powerlessly, muttering, "I don't want to die... I really don't want to die... Tessa..."

The fragile "Tai" trembled and made Claire's heart ache, but she couldn't let go of her anger towards this woman. She said coldly: "You took my body because you didn't want to die, right?"

Tessa was trembling uncontrollably under the gun. "Yes, I'm sorry. I'm afraid of death... Just as you guessed, the cases I committed in Tingen for promotion have aroused suspicion among the Witch Cult. If I don't do something, it's only a matter of time before they find me..."

Claire laughed, a laugh that was somewhat sarcastic: "A lunatic like you is so afraid of the Witch Cult?"

Tessa held her shoulders with one hand, her body trembling even more violently. "The memories left behind by those female witches after their death... the various ways they were killed and persecuted are all passed down in my mind... You don't understand what kind of perverts the witch cult is!"

Memories… Claire frowned. This woman had inherited the tragic memories of many female witches? Had she been instilled with these memories before the reincarnation ceremony?

Claire was stunned. For a moment, she felt that all her actions were very boring...

Claire loosened her grip.

Without support, Tessa collapsed to the ground, curled up and trembling like a little white rabbit. It was a look Claire had never seen before - neither in Tessa's memory nor in her memory of living with "Sharon" after becoming a Nighthawk.

In these memories, this woman always looks confident.

Claire felt an inexplicable pain in her heart. After taking several deep breaths, she finally calmed down. "Have you ever thought about discussing these things with me?"

Tessa remained silent.

Claire felt angry, but she wasn't sure what she was angry about. Perhaps she was still angry at the woman in front of her, or at this fucked-up world, or perhaps at her once-weak self...

Why did the once innocent and beautiful lovers gradually become what they are today?
Claire's interest was growing dull. Her gaze fell on the woman in front of her, and she asked the last question she wanted to ask: "Tell me, how did you know about 'mobile phone' and 'oil'?"

Hearing this question, the lifeless woman's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at Claire expectantly, "You...what did you remember?"

Claire frowned slightly, not knowing what this woman was up to. "I've met Jessica, and she told me. Tell me, you used to mutter these strange words... What do they mean? Why is there a discrepancy between the memories you left me and the ones Jessica told me?"

Following Claire's words, Tessa's eyes, which had once lit up, dimmed again. She whispered, "It's just... I just heard this from a friend."

(End of this chapter)