A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 347 The Mind Dragon!

The Takamagahara host club, with its entrance and exit woven from fresh roses, feels like a world apart.

Inside the Rose Gate lies a chaotic ruin, shrouded in dust and with a collapsed ceiling. Outside the Rose Gate is a wide corridor leading into the night, its floor paved entirely with Italian obsidian, reflecting the crystal chandeliers above.

As Xu Lie walked down this luxurious yet quiet corridor, he could still smell the lingering aroma of expensive cigars and the scent of crushed irises in the air.

The leather shoes tapped the ground with a rhythmic, light sound. The pace was leisurely, even relaxed. The hand reached to the dark velvet-covered wall on the left, picked up a lemon slice that was about to fall, flicked it with the fingertip, and sent it into the corner trash can. The movement was as elegant as arranging flowers.

Abruptly, without any warning, the instant the lemon fell into the bucket, Fingel, his body a grim blue, appeared before Xu Lie in a flash, like a hundred-ton king speeding along at high speed, carrying enormous kinetic energy, hurtling towards him.

It's quite puzzling where he achieved his initial acceleration.

The impact was so powerful and unstoppable that it shattered Ince into pieces!
That's it? In a second? Fingel, who suddenly appeared, and Chen Motong and Su Qian, who caught up from behind in time, were all in disbelief.

Sequence 4 Night's Watch? That can't be right, can it?

Suddenly, the fragments of Ince turned into tiny pieces of paper.

Paper doll substitute!

The three Fingels, no longer complete novices in the mysticism, suddenly had this thought in their minds: Mr. Fool had never said that the Night Watchmen possessed the ability to create paper dolls, so it must be the soul of the [Crawling Hunger] shepherding.

Without a second thought, the moment Susie saw the scraps of paper, she immediately unleashed a mental storm around Fingel.

If Ince were to attempt to launch a sneak attack on Fingel at this moment, he would inevitably run headlong into Susie's mental storm.

Chen Motong used her Psychology Stealth ability to chase after them the whole way. When she saw scraps of paper, she simply hid herself, gathering her mental power to take care of Su Qian.

If Ince, who used the paper doll substitute, didn't ambush Fingel but instead chose to ambush Susie, Chen Motong would definitely give Ince a big surprise!

“I also have the psychological stealth of the audience approach.” Strangely, Chen Motong, who was fully on guard protecting Susie, suddenly heard Ince’s voice behind her.

"!" Chen Motong's first reaction was panic. Before she could even observe Ince's location, she was plunged into darkness.

The crystal chandelier overhead was shrouded in the deepest, darkest darkness, shutting out all light. In the darkness where Chen Motong was, the sound of chanting poetry could be heard, peaceful and tranquil, lulling one to sleep.

"Nono!" Susie was completely unprepared for Chen Motong, who had always been very safe in battle by using psychology to become invisible, to be chosen as the first target for a sneak attack.

She unleashed her winning power without reservation, letting her usually restrained good fortune erupt at this moment, while simultaneously bestowing upon Ince a degree of misfortune.

Xu Lie felt as if he had encountered "Final Destination". The crystal chandelier above his head broke and fell down at just the right moment. Just as Xu Lie could have taken a few steps back to avoid it, he stepped on a bottle of wine that someone had dropped and slipped!
It's a bit absurd, isn't it? In the brief moment between slipping and falling, Ince, played by Xu Lie, reaches out slightly and activates his thieving ability.

Stealing a small portion of Susie's good fortune to offset some of his own misfortune.

Those who are extraordinary during the low-sequence period truly need to revere fate.

But Xu Lie is now a second-order Trojan horse of destiny, with a clear path ahead and even uniqueness already in his grasp. In many ways, he should be free to roam his destiny.

A sudden inspiration struck Xu Lie, giving him a completely new understanding of so-called fate. The Trojan Horse of Fate potion that had been digesting a lot of things in his body was further dissolved, leaving only a small, stubborn element that needed time to be worn down.

"What good luck!" As he slipped and fell, several sharp streaks of light flashed past Xu Lie at high speed, just centimeters above his cheek!
It's probably some kind of offensive secret technique of Fingel.

Having dodged the secret technique with good luck, Xu Lie, agile as ever, used his waist to gain the strength to stand upright. He glanced at Su Xi again, thinking that this girl had a lucky charm constitution, which could even help him comprehend another rule of playing the role of the Wooden Horse of Destiny.

Susie was completely unaware of Xu Lie's inner thoughts: "Be careful! Ince also has the ability of the Fate Domain! He transferred a small portion of my good fortune!"

Fingel charged in again in Time Zero, slamming down with a heavy punch. Just as Ince was about to defend, his movements suddenly froze. A massive mental storm was sweeping across the mental island that Susie and Fingel could not see.

The storm relentlessly battered Ince's mental island, drastically destroying the mental barrier while simultaneously manipulating consciousness and stripping away the mind.

A series of psychological blows nearly crippled Ince's mind.

In the real material world, Ince was completely unresponsive and took Fingal's punch head-on, his body being forcibly pierced through!

A small paper figure with a hole in its abdomen suddenly fell down, but this time, Fingel did not lose Ince's position again. He quickly turned back and returned to Susie's side.

As expected, Ince appeared there the next moment. As a Sequence 4 prophet, Fingel had not lost his previous skills. His rich knowledge of occultism allowed him to gradually analyze the extraordinary ability of the paper doll substitute while fighting.

Seeing this, Xu Lie decided to retaliate by giving Fingel psychological cues during the battle.

Fortunately, Fingel had previously sought out Chen Motong and imitated his extraordinary ability to use psychological suggestion. After analyzing the ability, Fingel had some resistance and was not psychologically influenced to pursue Susie.

But the offensive also slowed down, as they needed to be distracted by psychological suggestion and couldn't keep up with Ince.

Susie moved quickly towards Chen Motong, distancing herself from Ince. As she ran, she continued firing at Ince, but he blocked all her shots. At that moment, Chen Motong emerged from the darkness. Susie looked at her with concern, but Chen Motong quickly shook her head, indicating she was alright.

The price is three virtual personalities that replace her original consciousness and fall into a deep sleep, while eleven other virtual personalities are available for use.

The stagnation that Ince just experienced was due to the invasion of the Mind Island by several of Chen Motong's virtual personalities, and the manipulation and mind deprivation by several other virtual personalities.

At the same time, Chen Motong was also quite puzzled as to why Ince was able to regain his mind and use the paper doll substitute for the second time despite being attacked by so many virtual personalities.
What Chen Motong didn't know was that when Xu Lie had just been attacked, his consciousness had already risen to the very top of the Mind Island, looking down at everything below.

The one that got hit was just an unlucky Time Worm that Xu Lie happened to choose. This Time Worm was manipulated, hit by a mental storm, and stripped of its mind. It can be isolated, and it won't affect Xu Lie's main body.

We can just steal it back later.

In other words, Xu Lie couldn't reveal his thieving abilities in front of the other members, otherwise he could steal all of Chen Motong's skills, leaving Chen Motong helpless.

Xu Lie couldn't possibly kill the members he had trained for so long. Facing Chen Motong's questioning gaze, he smiled leisurely: "There's nothing strange about it. It's just that a Dream Walker happened to be grazing in the [Crawling Hunger]."

"I never imagined that the commissioner of Kassel College was also a member of the Old Church. What an incredible secret."

These words did not sway the three men's minds. Back when they chased after Ince, they had already decided that even if it meant exposing their identities as members of the church, they would still kill him.

Having finally discovered Ince's whereabouts, we absolutely cannot let this despicable apostate escape.

Seeing that they remained unmoved, Xu Lie raised his hand with interest. He originally wanted to make a gesture of pushing up his monocle, but then remembered that he didn't have one on his face, so he changed it to a butler's salute with one hand on his heart: "In order to prevent the three of you from killing me to silence me."

"I think it would be best if I took my leave first."

Upon hearing this, Chen Motong hesitated for a moment. In the bustling city, should she use her mythical creature form? She had also come from the Dream Walker background and knew the convenience of jumping between dreams.

If Ince is allowed to leave here, it will be very difficult to catch this apostate again.

But considering the other party's apostasy, his Night's Watch abilities, and the [Crawling Hunger], who knows how many more crimes he might commit in the future? Since he had encountered him, he couldn't let him go. Chen Motong made up his mind: "Fingal!"

Secretly, a virtual persona of Chen Motong has quietly helped Fingel cancel the psychological suggestion from Ince, and at the same time left a message on Fingel's mental island, letting Fingel understand Chen Motong's plan.

Immediately, Fingel activated his abilities, and with the infusion of his spirituality, thick black smoke gradually spread outside the host club in Takamagahara.

There were no fireworks outside, and even the wealthy women and male escorts were persuaded by the humpback whale to evacuate immediately, so no one could spot the black smoke outside Takamagahara at first.

This is a special upgraded version of the secret technique "Black Smoke," which imitates the "Word of Power: Illumination."

When Fingel was promoted to arcane master, he saw the power of words and wanted to upgrade it to arcane arts, so he created a lot of strange and unusual arcane arts, one of which was the arcane arts: Black Smoke.

Originally intended to obscure the enemy's vision and facilitate Fingel's covert operations, it is now being used to protect the civilians.

Chen Motong's straight back bent slightly, his body suddenly expanded, covered in dragon scales, and his pupils were golden.

"Sizzle, sizzle!" Accompanied by the sound of tearing silk, a colossal, gray-white mental dragon stood tall on the streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo!

It pierced through the ceiling of Takamagahara, bursting the walls on both sides and creating a huge, rumbling noise.

The dragon's head was still Chen Motong's head, unchanged, and it even retained that bright red hair. However, its limbs were thick, its wings covered the moon, and its gray-white dragon scales were engraved with one complex and three-dimensional mysterious symbol after another.

The symbol seemed to connect to the deepest chaos. Ordinary people could easily become mentally disturbed and have their thoughts distorted just by seeing it. Even hybrids and extraordinary individuals would experience immense mental pressure upon seeing it, and would be unable to unleash six or seven tenths of their full strength.

This is the mythical creature form of the "audience" pathway! A mind-bending dragon!

Other extraordinary individuals still need to reach Sequence 2 before they can fight in the form of mythical creatures. Viewers can use the incomplete form to fight briefly by employing various methods such as psychological suggestion and psychotherapy.

However, it was never quite complete, so Chen Motong's human head was preserved instead of transforming into a dragon's head. Fingel thoughtfully used black smoke to surround and cover the area around the head, ensuring that Chen Motong's head would not be seen.

"What is that? What is that... Haha, hahaha! The world, the world is broken!"

"Quick, hey, why is it blocked by smoke? Is it on fire? I'm not kidding you, I think there was something big just now... Ugh! My head hurts."

"Run! It's scary! There's a fire! Everyone move aside! Run!"

The streets of Shinjuku were bustling with people. Those who were a little further away could only see thick black smoke and mistook it for a fire, so they all dialed the fire department hotline.

Not everyone who was a little closer looked up at the sky. A few dozen unlucky, curious people caught a glimpse of the Mind Dragon and their minds went mad.

Chen Motong stared intently at Ince, secretly dispatching all his virtual personalities to provide emergency assistance to the people who had caught a glimpse of his incomplete mythical creature form.

(End of this chapter)