Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 473 Audrey's Superb Display of Wealth
Herwin Lambis felt as if he had suddenly been plunged into a white expanse, as if he had snow blindness on the snow.

What is this? A mystical flashbang?
Although surprised, Herwin Lambis instinctively flapped his wings and swooped down, moving away from Audrey standing on the rainbow. He planned to rely on abilities that were more focused on control and mental influence, such as "Battle Hypnosis," "Mind Deprivation," "Mind Breath," and "Mind Storm," to gradually turn the tide of the battle and escape his predicament.

The next moment, two black symbols appeared in front of him.

[Original God]
start up!

The next moment, his thoughts went blank for a split second.

[Compiling shaders...]
[Please wait……]
Just as his thoughts faltered, ice spikes flew up from the ground and pierced his stomach and lower abdomen, attempting to penetrate his dragon scales.

Herwin Lambis forced himself to land on the ground without hesitation, shattering the frozen ground with his foot, and controlled his slightly stiff body to perform a forward roll.

Then, the enormous dragon simply vanished into thin air.

Psychology is hidden.

This is not simply invisibility, but rather hiding in the blind spot of the enemy's mind, so that even if you stand right in front of the enemy, they will not be able to detect you.

However, Audrey, who had done her homework over the past two months, had basically figured out all of Herwin Lambis's secrets, understood any skills he might use, and had developed corresponding countermeasures.

Therefore, don't challenge "intellectualism".

This psychological invisibility was very easy for Audrey to overcome. She would still interact with her surroundings, but her presence would be eliminated, placing her in a blind spot of attention.

But if you zoom out a little, the slight sway of the trees and the passing of the wind can clearly reveal Herwin Lambis's movements.

Audrey looked down, her golden eyes behind her sunglasses becoming translucent like colored glass, with the numbers zero and one flashing rapidly through them.

This is the insane chess player.

In a sense, she gained the ability to glimpse fate. She could deduce a great deal of information from seemingly insignificant details and make predictions about the future.

She would ignore Herwin Lambis, so she paid no attention to him, instead looking at the air currents, the ground tremors, and the changes in wind direction.

This quickly yielded a rough, ugly outline of a half-dragon. While not entirely certain, it clearly defined a portion of the area.

In that area, the originally orderly natural phenomena all became disordered; for example, the wind, which could normally blow directly, inexplicably took a detour.

This incredibly abrupt anomaly was impossible to conceal.

Herwin Lambis's psychological cloaking could not affect Audrey's observation unless he could bring everything within Audrey's field of vision into the scope of this psychological cloaking.

But that's clearly not realistic.

She can use her calculations to interfere with the results she predicts, treating everything in the world as a chess piece.

Of course, all of this depends on her computing power.

As you can see, the area of ​​the agenda is moving, as if Herwin Rambis is planning to escape.

Audrey didn't stop her; she just watched.

Beyond their small area, the trees further away had also changed at some point, becoming exceptionally tall, like wooden mountains.

Herwin Lambis soon crashed into a transparent barrier.

"We can explore the area ahead later."

This barrier is not hard, but it is quite resilient and very bouncy, like a huge, unbreakable soap bubble.

Herwin Lambis then noticed the abnormality in his consciousness and realized the anomaly he had previously ignored because his brain had become rigid.

Previously, he had always thought the glowing sphere above his head was the moon, but now he realized that the moon was actually black.

It was an eye.

A giant eye.

No, it's not that his eyeballs are huge, it's that they're too small.

The space he was in had somehow shrunk, and along with a small portion of the soil underneath, it had been encased in a round "soap bubble," which was being held in someone's hand.

He was a middle-aged man around forty years old, whose height was impossible to discern. His black hair was streaked with silver, and his blue eyes were as deep and dark as a lake at night. His features were quite pleasing to the eye, exuding a mature charm and refined elegance.

He wore a warm smile, leaned on a wooden cane with his right hand, stood upright, and held a soap bubble the size of a head in his left hand, inside which were miniature versions of Herwin Lambis and the others.

Although the face was so large that it was difficult to recognize, Herwin Rambis recognized him at a glance.

Dawn Dantes.

“Good evening, sir.” He nodded gently.

The sound reached Herwin Lambis's ears, as loud as thunder.

…………

"Soap bubble"
The headless Edsack was not idle either.

She completely ignored the personality clones that were trying to attack her mental island, raised her slender left hand, and snapped her fingers.

Because Herwin Lambis focused most of his energy on Audrey and Dawn Dantes, the attention he gave to her, an ordinary Sequence 5, was naturally much less, and the effect of her extraordinary ability was greatly reduced.

Now, Herwin Rambis, whose brain has been implanted with unknown information, causing his thinking to become sluggish, is completely unable to control his alter ego.

Edsack's slightly protruding belly returned to normal in an instant, while the belly of one of Herwin Lambis's alternate personalities suddenly bulged.

At the same time, Edsack raised his hands, revealing the sealed artifact "Sin and Punishment".

The body, composed of countless insects, emitted a buzzing sound that coalesced into an ancient Hermetic phrase: "Personality splitting is forbidden here; violators will have their personalities reassembled."

This was not a harsh punishment; it was easily achieved.

One by one, the personality clones in Edsack's Mind Island disappear. The one who was "pregnant" attempted suicide, but Edsack used his "bewitching" ability to imagine a pair of shackles to bind her tightly.

The calamity that befell Herwin Lambis has arrived. One by one, his alter egos returned to their original form, bringing with them an infant skilled in assassination, instigation, and possessing calamity-related attributes, and merged into Herwin Lambis's subconscious island.

After doing all this, the headless Edsack suddenly pulled a potato out of his pocket.

This is a strange object that she borrowed from Audrey.

[Cube Server]

The ability is to exploit bugs.

She transformed back into a swarm of insects, scattering in all directions, emitting bursts of buzzing.

The next moment, all the insects disappeared, went to the "child's" side, and entered Herwin Lambis's subconscious island, appearing in the form of the "Bewitching Worm".

4A throws the child out, then teleports over to pick him up and counter-attack.

Using her "Traveler" level door-opening ability, "Bewitching Servant" illusion, witch's curse, and "teleport to the child's side" ability, she successfully exploited a bug to enter the enemy's mind island.

Edsack and Triss were indeed truly committed.

These insects quickly coalesced and transformed back into a headless woman, but it was not Edsack.

It's Triss Chick.

Edsack used the connection with the "child" to mimic Triss, who did not resist and voluntarily lent her power.

Herwin Lambis's Mind Island, in its incomplete mythical creature form, is filled with madness, pollution, and spiritual plague. But the current "Edsak Triss" has no head or spirit, resembling a living doll, with the spiritual plague spread to every insect that makes up her body.

Unfortunately, the combined intelligence of these insects is less than that of an adult curly-haired baboon, so the mental plague has little effect.

Herwin Lambis sensed the anomaly deep within his mind. A dragon head appeared out of nowhere, roaring angrily, which made Triss take a few steps back and push her to the edge of the island.

Before leaving, the incomplete witch of pain raised one hand and unleashed black, soul-scorching flames.

Although she was quickly forced off the island of the mind and thrown into the sea of ​​the collective unconscious, returning to the material world, the black flame did not disappear; it remained in Herwin Lambis's mind. ...

Audrey calmly took out a horn, brought it to her lips, and blew it loudly.

"Woo..."

Crimson flame spears and silver lightning bolts appeared out of thin air, filling the entire sky above, densely packed, all aimed at that unusual area.

One spear after another fell, exploding with sparks and flashes of lightning, turning the area into a blazing, silvery-white forest.

Lightning crackled and surged, an aura of destruction swept across, leaving no corner untouched.

The gray-white dragon, whose head still retained a human shape, reappeared, its face contorting uncontrollably.

Tiny electric snakes darted about on his stone-like scales, and some barely noticeable cracks appeared. His grayish-white scales were covered with scorch marks, and tiny arcs of electricity occasionally flashed through his wounds.

The person who was blasted out, Herwin Lambis, stared wide-eyed, and through those eyes, one could see the black flames burning continuously in the depths of his eyes.

He shook his head and looked at Audrey, completely unaware that Audrey could produce more than a hundred "extraordinary items" at once, nearly half of which were pre-stored with spiritual energy, serving as power banks and hidden energy sources.

Throughout the battle, she hadn't even used the same extraordinary item twice.

Aren't you bullying honest people?

I hate rich people...

But Audrey gave him no time to be sad, and took out a new weapon, which was an ultimate display of wealth.

It was a slender ceremonial sword, which Audrey held above her head, her arm outstretched, the tip pointing to the sky.

Come again?

A golden flower bloomed from the tip of the sword, and tiny specks of light splashed from its center, scattering like meteors in all directions, or as if they were pre-positioned, all flying toward Herwin Lambis.

Of course, one cannot use the same extraordinary item twice in a row, just as one cannot wear the same dress twice at a large ball.

This is polite.

Herwin Lambis's mind was still a mess at this moment. In addition to the black flames that kept burning his mind, there were also various light pollution and strange noises.

For example: "Damn it, Klee will blow you up, you bastard!", "Heavenly justice tastes maggots and feeds them to the Rock King", "Hehe, heart~ sea~" and so on.

Suppressing the pain, he raised a blue metal cylinder held in his left forepaw and aimed it at the enemy above him.

This is a sealed artifact of unknown origin called "Rotten Meteor," which Herwin Lambis obtained from some being. It is only known that some of its materials came from the stars.

This ice-blue metal cylinder can fire strange, dark green projectiles. Anyone hit by them will be instantly poisoned and begin to rot. Even spirits cannot escape it. It is equally effective against demigods.

The bullet hit Audrey easily.

Then it passed through, like passing through a body of water.

"Damn it!" Herwin Rambis finally couldn't help but swear.

The ice surface that Audrey had initially frozen over reflected her image like a mirror.

The next instant, Miss Sarah, carrying Audrey, leaped out of the ice mirror.

Did you really think that the skill used in the initial empty slot was to demonstrate leeway?

boom!
Audrey's manicured nails shot out like bullets.

[Claw bullet].

It's a classic case of comparison; while Klein was still agonizing over a few extraordinary items, Audrey had already armed herself to the bone.

The claw bullet struck Herwin Lambis's wing, and under the influence of an inexplicable force, his wing was twisted into a pretzel.

"Ah!" Herwin Lambis let out a painful howl.

Just as Audrey was about to press her advantage, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head and an uncontrollable surge of rage welled up inside her.

Then, she became extremely depressed, seemingly unable to feel any joy, filled with self-loathing, and wished she could just give up her life to avoid causing trouble for others.

In an instant, she became agitated again, her vision seemed to be filled with blood red, and she was filled with hatred for everything, wanting to destroy everything she saw.

Let's just give up...

I'm sorry for being born...

Blood sacrifice to the Blood God, skull sacrifice to the Skull Throne...

Spicy Braised Foodie, I've brought you braised noodles...

Audrey's mind raced through a series of thoughts belonging to different people.

A slight smile appeared on Herwin Lambis's face, which was covered with gray-white scales.

Although he underestimated Audrey's immense wealth and quickly fell into a near-desperate situation, he hadn't been idle before.

This is where Herwin Lambis just stood, where he left a seed of spiritual plague.

Audrey came from here and was naturally infected.

But his smile quickly faded, as the burning sensation in his mental island reminded him that he wasn't really fighting one-on-one.

He kept a wary eye on Audrey while turning his gaze to Dawn Dantes in another direction, and also diverting some attention to the weakest of them, Edsack.

Dawn Dantes wasn't looking at Herwin Lambis, but rather at Audrey, who had just been infected with the mental plague.

Seeing that she was not alarmed, she raised her right hand, the back of her hand against her forehead and her palm facing Herwin Lambis.

A mark that Klein was quite familiar with appeared on that white palm.

He used this engraving frequently for a period of time.

The painting depicts a leaf with an eye in the middle.

[Tianhui] · The cycle of cause and effect.

On Herwin Lambis's mental island, a mental plague quickly broke out, merging with the "instigating" black flames that remained from "Edsack Triss," rapidly causing Herwin Lambis to develop a severe personality split.

Already severely injured, he suddenly developed a split personality, and while still retaining an incomplete mythical creature form, he immediately went out of control.

With one hand supporting her weight, Audrey leaped off Miss Sarah's back, a huge, scarlet cleaver appearing in her hand, the blade alone nearly a meter long.

This is both a rare artifact and a true sealed artifact, its extraordinary properties being those of the Corpse Collector's Path Sequences Nine to Six, which were previously purchased at the Tarot Meeting.

The blade was filled with the aura of "death" and "corruption," and countless screaming vengeful spirits hovered and roared over it.

Using the momentum, Audrey turned sideways and spun two and a half times in the air, landing with the huge cleaver in her whirl, striking Herwin Lambis's half-human, half-dragon neck.

The aura of death rapidly encroached, and the vengeful spirits clinging to it relentlessly tore and gnawed.

*Clatter*.

The ugly head fell to the ground, rolled several times, and then slowly came to a stop.

P.S.: It's almost the end of the month, time for monthly tickets!
Then, some readers seem to want to see me compile the extraordinary abilities and advancement rituals for each destiny path.

So I wrote it, although it's not finished yet, it's in the work's related section, before the first chapter.

But just like the ritual of the selfless clown before, if you know about the ritual in advance, you can't be fooled by me, so I can't tease you anymore.

So if you're interested and don't mind spoilers, you might want to consider watching it.

So far, only intellect and nothingness have been written.
(End of this chapter)