Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 365 364 Attack
Alone, admiring the red moon, preparing to gradually devour the entire Zmanger gang, and finding incriminating evidence against Ambassador Intis, Tang abruptly felt a stirring of his own spirit.

As a master of puppetry, hiding in a secluded building in the East District to conceal oneself and avoid being directly exposed to the enemy is a basic tactic for a master of puppetry.

Staying behind the scenes and observing the puppet show is one of the principles of a master puppeteer.

He has always been serious and conscientious in fulfilling the role and attitude expected of a master puppeteer.

Everything was going smoothly until just now, when one of his secret partners lost contact with him.

"Although it was made from an ordinary person's puppet, as a puppet master, my senses shouldn't be so bad that I only realized the puppet was being killed before I did."

Tang pondered to himself, the spiritual thread in his hand twitching slightly, observing his surroundings from the perspective of the other puppets through a wall.

The Master of Puppets can only control a maximum of three puppets. In the Zmanger Gang, only the Executioner is an Extraordinary. So, he had no choice but to use these small fry to make up the numbers and barely managed to control three useless ordinary puppets.

Even if an ordinary person is transformed into a puppet, they still possess certain abilities of a puppet master.

He has already wiped out one of the Zmanger Party's strongholds in the East District. Even if some extraordinary person with some ability passes by and discovers the problem here, they shouldn't just arbitrarily come to the rescue or something, right?
Are all the extraordinary beings in Backlund this free?
The spiritual thread twitched slightly, and Tang saw the slain puppet through the puppet's gaze. It lay on the ground, bright red blood flowing from its forehead.

A dark bullet hole pierced through the skull, originating from a great distance. Before Tang and his puppet could react, it was an instant kill, a headshot.

"Harvesting?"

It should be noted that he has not yet "invented" a sniper rifle specifically for sniping. Only extraordinary individuals like the Hunter Path, who utilize supernatural abilities such as reaping, can achieve such a long-range headshot.

Tang pondered for a moment, then his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a figure reflected in a mirror beside him.

He paused, his spiritual intuition triggered, and his figure suddenly vanished from the spot. A bright yellow bullet pierced the place where he had just stood, leaving a charred bullet hole.

Has it been discovered?
As the Puppet Master departed, the two puppets quickly reverted to corpses and collapsed on the ground.

Tang ignored the useless puppets; in the battle of a mid-sequence extraordinary being, using ordinary puppets would be completely ineffective.

He stood not far away from where he had just been, a subtle glimmer of light flickering in his eyes. He used the authority of the Euclidean space slightly to see who was hiding in the mirror world.

Triss Chick?
Tang muttered.

Why is this guy coming to see him at this time?
Could it be that he's finally had a change of heart and is planning to advance to Master of the Mystic Puppet and then force his way into the Mystic Servant or the Time Worm?
As for the one who just fired the shot...

Once again, Don, with his extraordinary intuition, foresaw where he was going to be shot, and once again skillfully dodged the bullet that was about to hit his forehead, thanks to the Joker's flexibility.

But the attacks against him were not just that.

A figure suddenly darted out from the shadows. It was an assassin wearing a hood, though it wasn't Triss Chick, but a Sequence 7 witch.

A pure witch, not a transgender witch.

Wow, that's rare.

The witch wanted to restrict his movements, but as she approached him, Tang had already grabbed her spirit thread, intending to hang her up and use her as a puppet.

"Don't even think about doing that!"

A shout came from the darkness, followed by intense flashes of light.

Tang's inspiration was triggered once again. With the help of a level 2 sealed artifact on his body, his figure flickered and disappeared from the spot, dodging the sudden storm of light behind him.

"Sequence 6 Dawn Knight, Sequence 7 Witch, Sequence 4 Triss Chick, and Sequence 5 Reaper sniping from afar."

The setup is quite complete: tanks, assassins, observers, snipers...

Is this the level of the resistance forces in Backlund now? Come to think of it, he hasn't been paying attention to the situation here for a long time; Brooks and Archerley have been handling Backlund affairs.

"So, why are you targeting me?"

Don, wearing the face of "executioner" Meursault, looked utterly bewildered.

Logically speaking, his current status is only a Sequence 9 Hunter, so it shouldn't be worth these people going to such lengths to deal with him, right?

Tang selectively ignored what he had just done.

The Dawn Knight, who had raised his greatsword to charge, scratched his head upon hearing Tang's question.

He turned to the young woman in the black assassin's suit beside him, looking somewhat naive, and asked, "Yeah, Fatima, why are we targeting him? He's not some kind of executioner or anything, he should just be an ordinary person, right?"

"Idiot," the black-robed assassin cursed. "Look at his skills, how could he be an ordinary person?!"

If it were an ordinary person, they would be shattered into pieces the moment they encountered the storm of light. How could they possibly be asking these three questions?
"Oh oh oh."

The Dawn Knight, who didn't retaliate even after being insulted, raised his greatsword and looked at Tang seriously, saying, "You've definitely been hiding your strength..."

The assassin, driven to the brink of madness, desperately wanted to deliver a headbutt to the Dawn Knight, but mindful of being facing the enemy head-on, he could only shout, "Hurry up and do it!"

Triss Chick, hiding in the shadows: "..."

Tang, who had been watching for a long time, thought: "...?"

Are these two trying to be funny?
Triss, how did you find your teammates?

Okay, enough of that. Dawn Knight swiftly approached Tang, intending to use his physical advantage to suppress him and create opportunities for his teammates.

"His magical item can only teleport for short distances; it cannot teleport long distances."

In the darkness, Triss Chick gazed at what was happening outside the mirror, thinking calmly.

Not long ago, Triss Chick happened to pass by this place and noticed the anomaly. After lying in wait to investigate, she discovered that a puppet master had disguised himself as a member of the local gang and stayed here...

Master of the Puppet.

Triss chewed on the name of the potion, a Sequence 5 potion of the Diviner's Path.

"Backlund is riddled with holes and extremely dangerous because of a high-ranking diviner. The appearance of the Mystic Master here at this time may have a close connection with the person behind it."

The number of secret couples in Backlund was found to be larger than they had imagined during their two-month investigation.

Why hadn't a group of puppets of this size attracted the attention of the official Extraordinaries and the Rune royal family? Triss Chick suspected that the Rune royal family had some connection with the puppet masters who were manipulating the puppets behind the scenes.

"It's even possible that the mastermind behind the entire operation was one of the culprits behind the Backlund smog incident."

She didn't think this life would be so different from the last; perhaps it was just a fact she had overlooked.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to correct this mistake now.

With that in mind, Triss acted without hesitation when she discovered the trail of a Puppet Master.

It must be said that Triss Chick, who received the blessing of the "Sinner" from the Ring of Fate, possesses an exceptionally sharp spiritual intuition. And the "Eternal Burst" pathway, where the Ring of Fate resides, is adjacent to her own... The Law of Extraordinary Attribute Convergence is certainly going to cause him some unexpected trouble...

Tang thought to himself.

He skillfully dodged two "harvest" bullets aimed at his head using the clown's extraordinary abilities, then used the Dawn Knight's greatsword to leap over his opponent, preparing to take down the witch first.

A female witch? What is Triss trying to do?

This shouldn't appear now, the Primordial Witch will be angry.

The Dawn Knight and the assassin who had infiltrated the darkness had their spiritual threads completely exposed to Tang.

For a puppet master whose true form is the Angel King of the Diviner path, whether it's the speed or precision of manipulation, even at the Sequence 5 puppet master level, they are still faster, stronger, and more unpredictable than other extraordinary individuals.

He began manipulating the spiritual threads of the two extraordinary beings, while remaining wary of Triss Chick and the reaper lurking in the shadows.

"That reaper..."

While manipulating the two extraordinary beings who had suddenly frozen in place, Tang noticed something: "Medici is on him."

Soren Einhorn Medici, influenced by "destiny," made a pact with Tang.

As a condition of a reasonable exchange, Tang chose to use a conqueror's extraordinary characteristics as payment for Medici's assistance in the Mirror of the Primordial Witch's involvement with the First Creator.

Of course, Medici was still too weak at the moment, so he wrote a new "fate" for him, giving him a non-human of the same sequence to serve as a vessel for a period of time.

What a coincidence! Fate is truly a wondrous thing.

The process of transforming the two extraordinary beings into puppets was interrupted by the sudden shattering of the mirror. Tang was already wary of Triss Chick, who was hiding in the mirror. After seeing her join the battle, he used the seal on his body to constantly flash to avoid sniper shots and Triss's attacks. At the same time, he quickly calculated the sniper's position by observing the bullet trajectories.

Then, he disappeared from their sight once again.

This time it was a remote teleportation. Tang appeared behind the sniper and quickly began to manipulate the opponent's spiritual threads.

Take care of the ranged mages first; that's common sense.

"team leader!"

"team leader!"

Upon seeing that the person had disappeared, both the Dawn Knight and the Assassin realized that something was wrong.

Triss Chick's figure moved swiftly through the mirror world, and her expression became somewhat solemn.

There's something strange about that puppet master.

She had previously used the magic mirror to divine that this person possessed any magical items that could teleport quickly. Given that she possessed the Sequence 4 Despair level, she didn't think her divination would be wrong unless there were any interfering forces.

Yes, it didn't exist before, but it came to us by clearing away the fog of history.

Although it's only at sequence level 5, cheating is still possible.

Tang doesn't consider himself a good person who likes to follow the rules. If he can commit a foul without getting caught, why not do it?
He's not some inflexible old-fashioned person.

Of course, in order to play the role of a master puppeteer well, there are some things that cannot be done too much.

For example, suddenly pulling out a "Dongfeng Express" device, leaving everyone in the midst of radiation without even knowing what radiation meant...

After being targeted by Tang, the reaper also reacted quickly.

He threw away his gun, drew a dagger from his tactical belt, and stepped forward.

The best way to deal with the Puppet Master is still close-quarters combat.

Quick, ruthless, and accurate, resolving the issue in one fell swoop, leaving no chance for the opponent to manipulate the spiritual threads.

It must be said that those who are extraordinary in the Diviner path have always been weak in close combat below Sequence 4. They are like fragile mages who can take away half their life with a single hit from a mage who is good at close combat.

Tang's gaze shifted slightly, his eyes sweeping over the gleaming dagger.

The response was indeed fast.

Behind him, another figure appeared in the full-length mirror.

She wiped her hand across the mirror, and black flames instantly scorched Tang's reflection in the mirror.

This is a curse from a witch.

Meanwhile, the witch's plague spread silently.

Attack from both front and back.

Tang made no attempt to dodge. He had been prepared and released what he had been holding in his hand. A talisman covered with strange symbols silently began to glow.

Just as the dagger in front of him tore through Tang's clothes and the witch's curse and plague behind him were about to take effect, Tang's figure disappeared from the spot once again.

He teleported elsewhere, leaving only the Reaper and Triss Chick, whose attack had been abruptly halted.

After Tang left, their eyes immediately locked onto the talisman he had left behind.

"I borrowed a little bit from it, after all, I think ritual magic can do this kind of thing."

"So, art is Patrick Star~"

Suddenly, the talisman began to flash with light.

Ritual magic unfolds rapidly based on the symbols drawn on the talisman paper.

One copy was increased in value and became two talismans; two talismans were increased in value and became four talismans.

Each copy of the talisman causes the symbols drawn on it to fade a little, but the exponentially increasing number of copies still makes them numerous before the symbols completely fade.

After the talisman paper stopped being copied, new patterns appeared on each of the copied talisman papers.

Nested ritual magic adds the conditions for completing the second ritual magic to the end of the first ritual magic, thus completing a nested doll-like ritual.

Then, after the number of talismans increased to a terrifyingly large amount in a short period of time, they exploded.

With a deafening roar, the entire building was completely destroyed, and countless mirrors shattered. Everything, from the buildings in the real world to the areas behind the mirrors, was reduced to a wasteland after the explosion.

(End of this chapter)