Mystery: The Witch of Desire

"Lady Nightingale, let me kill him with my own hands! I recognize him! This bastard is the traitor who received the great master's favor but betrayed us! I can feel the statue within him. No wonder he never dared to attack us directly; it was all because of the restrictions of the Book of Notarization!"

"Oh?" Nightingale raised an eyebrow, a hint of amusement flashing in her eyes. "So you're the traitor? That's interesting. Are you a man or a woman? But it doesn't matter anymore."

She raised her chin and made a throat-slitting gesture towards Evelyn:

"Let's do it, let him become the nourishment for our great master's sacrifice."

A glint of wild joy flashed in Evelyn's eyes. She eagerly moved forward, her blood-stained claws gleaming coldly, and took steps toward the defenseless Levi.

She raised her leg high and stomped hard on Levi's head. She was bathed in a wave of frenzy and desire. Levi could smell the stench emanating from beneath her. He felt nauseous and a deep sense of despair welled up in his heart.

"The surroundings have become an ocean of desire, and only the followers of that evil god can move freely. Although I have also been corrupted by the evil god, the statue inside my body is frantically fighting for control of my body, and I really can't muster any strength."

Levi struggled to control the statue within his body. He tried to activate the extraordinary properties on his chest to suppress the statue, but the two forces were locked in a fierce battle within him, leaving him exhausted and powerless to resist Evelyn.

Evelyn stomped her foot down hard, wishing she could bury Levi's head in the dirt, and then she raised her gleaming claws.

"Is this the end?"

Levi lay on the ground, a surge of indescribable grief and indignation welling up inside him. He suddenly realized that he was not afraid of death, but filled with resentment—resentment for not being able to save those innocent people who were consumed by desire, resentment for not being able to punish those deranged cultists, and resentment that this mad sacrifice would ultimately end in despair.

Just as Evelyn's claws flashed with a cold light, Levi's gaze inadvertently fell upon a pair of black women's boots, lined with white stockings that encased slender, shapely legs, which were walking quickly toward him with steady steps.

Levi froze, his heart pounding. The outline of those legs, the way they walked, gave him a strange sense of familiarity.

Nightingale also sensed something amiss and abruptly turned around, her gaze warily fixed on the approaching figure. It was a tall woman dressed in a black hooded robe that covered most of her face, revealing only her beautifully shaped jawline.

However, what puzzled Nightingale was that this woman exuded the same aura of desire as her Great Master. Yet, she clearly remembered that her Great Master only had three true followers in Tingen City. Where did this fourth person come from?

Before the doubts could dissipate, the tall woman suddenly moved, her originally steady steps instantly becoming rapid, rushing towards Evelyn like an arrow released from a bow.

She abruptly pulled back her hood, revealing a stunningly beautiful face. The next second, she plunged her long fingernails into her smooth cheek, leaving three shocking, bloody scratches.

In an instant, she completely lost her mind, her eyes turned bloodshot, and she roared like an angry beast. Her body was enveloped in a violent aura as she pounced straight at the unsuspecting Evelyn.

"A madman in Sequence 8!"

Nightingale's brows furrowed suddenly, and she was about to unleash her spiritual power to stop it, but it was too late. The woman's speed was astonishing, and she slammed into Evelyn's lower back like a bull. Evelyn, who was already severely injured by the Punisher, let out a shrill scream and was sent flying, rolling to the ground, foaming at the mouth and twitching.

Before Evelyn could react, the woman straddled her, and then a dark gun barrel was shoved into her mouth. Evelyn's eyes instantly filled with terror, and she tried to struggle—

boom!boom!

Two muffled gunshots rang out in succession, the bullets piercing straight through the back of Evelyn's head, splattering red and white matter on the ground, completely extinguishing her life.

Levi lay prone on the ground, his gaze fixed on the figure straddling Evelyn. Looking at that familiar yet frenziedly beautiful face, his excitement and shock were palpable.

"Rowling!?"

Meanwhile, on a distant hillside, Ms. B stood quietly, watching everything that was happening in the direction of the theater, her expression solemn and her gaze sorrowful.

She slowly knelt on the ground, gently placing her hands on her lower abdomen, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

"O witch who rules over chaos, if all this is your will, your servant begs for your mercy, and begs that the innocent child may be completely freed..."

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Inside the theater, Nightingale stared at Evelyn, who had died before her eyes, her gaze burning with extreme rage. Her hands transformed into claws, stained with eerie green poisonous flames, and she swiftly pounced on Rowling.

Rowling leaped from Evelyn's corpse to meet Nightingale's attack, her crazed yet sorrowful eyes sweeping over Levi's unfamiliar male face.

"I'll hold her off; go and stop the sacrifice."

Levi paused for a moment, then quickly got up from the ground and rushed towards Sharani, who was mutating wildly in the light screen.

"You must live on, Livre."

Rowling murmured something softly, then turned and resolutely faced the approaching nightingale.

With no one stopping him, Levi smoothly rushed into the green light curtain, but the next second, an overwhelming aura of desire surged forth.

The aura of desire within the light screen was far stronger than he had imagined. In an instant, Levi felt his will was about to collapse, and he almost lost control of his body. The aura of the female statue within him suddenly surged, and the torrent of desire spread to his limbs and bones. The sapphire on his chest was still struggling to hold on, maintaining the last piece of pure land.

Meanwhile, Xia Lani, who was undergoing a transformation within the light screen, also turned into a mindless monster. Her body was entangled in vines, covered with tumors and pus-oozing flower buds, leaving only her beautiful face emitting a maniacal laugh, making her appear extremely eerie.

Levi gritted his teeth, and with his last ounce of strength, detonated the explosive talisman—

With a deafening bang, violent energy swept across the light barrier. Levi was violently thrown back by the aftershocks, his body riddled with wounds and bloodied. But Sharani only paused briefly, suffering only minor effects.

Enraged, Sharani instinctively manipulated the vines and stabbed at Levi, piercing his chest with a soft "thud".

"No, you mustn't compete with me for the master's gift..."

Sharani hissed, staring intently at Levi like a hyena guarding rotting flesh.

Reeve's chest cavity was pierced, and the excruciating pain brought him back to some consciousness, but his body was truly exhausted.

His gaze struggled to find its way beyond the light screen, where a hellish scene unfolded:

Countless people, driven mad, were drained dry by the vines and engaged in debauchery.

The official extraordinary one fell to the ground, waging a painful struggle with desire, powerless to change it.

Even Rowling, who had just appeared, was subdued by the powerful Nightingale and was in imminent danger.

Dark clouds filled the sky over Tingen, as if no one could stop the disaster.

Reeve smiled.

He looked at the pillar of light descending from the sky, at the dark, cloud-covered sky, and at the pair of eyes hidden some unknown distance away.

"Fine, so it's a gift? I've also been corrupted. If you've got the guts, give me this gift!"

Levi roared in fury, completely relinquishing control of his body and letting the statue erode him.

In an instant, a violent spiritual fluctuation erupted within the green light curtain.

The vines that had been flowing steadily toward Sharani suddenly changed direction, coiling around Levi like mad snakes. The thick vines dug into his wounds, binding him tightly. The immense torrent of desire that had belonged to the core of the sacrifice was also redirected, flowing wildly into his body along the vines and through his skin.

The torrent was so violent that it instantly shattered the fragile balance within his body.

The female statue and the sapphire on her chest trembled violently, their surfaces cracking with fine lines. Under the heavy impact of the power of desire, they shattered and melted together, transforming into the purest extraordinary qualities.

As that extraordinary sapphire-like property shattered, Levi suddenly entered a state of profound enlightenment.

A seductive female voice rang clearly in my ears:

"In the name of the Primordial Witch Chik, I declare that River Garcia has successfully instigated the Mother Tree of Desire to grant him power, thereby absorbing all of the Instigator's potions."

In that instant, Levi clearly felt that his body was undergoing a qualitative change:

An immense aura surged through his body, reaching every corner, as if to destroy every single cell in his body.

Bang! After countless washes, Levi's body collapsed. Flesh, cells, bones—everything shattered, then reformed, shattered, reformed. Levi felt himself gaining fresh flesh and blood through countless cycles of breaking and reforming, transforming into a completely different, unfamiliar body.

When this body was born, the extraordinary sapphire-like substance and the female statue simultaneously melted into Rivi's blood, becoming a part of his body.

At this moment, Levi felt that he had undergone a qualitative change in his extraordinary abilities and achieved a promotion:

Sequence 7, the witch.

At the same time, the power of desire released after the female statue collapsed merged with the aura of desire from the outside world, making the pollution in her body even more serious. She directly jumped from a Sequence 9 miser to a Sequence 8 sex addict and became a Sequence 7 actor.

However, Levi felt no joy from the promotion, only a deep-seated absurdity and despair. She clearly felt that she had become a monster.

Her body swelled and twisted wildly, transforming into a giant flowering tree covered with hideous patterns, its skin replaced by rough bark; its limbs disintegrated, turning into countless writhing vines that lashed wildly; the flower buds covering her body oozed foul-smelling pus, filling the air and making her nauseous.

Sharani, whose blessings had been taken away, suddenly stopped expanding.

She let out a shrill and furious scream, wildly lashing out at the surroundings with her vines:

"I'm going to kill you! That's my blessing! You're mine!"

Just then, the deep green pillar of light that had enveloped the sky and earth suddenly vanished, and the heavy, oppressive clouds dispersed, allowing sunlight to pierce through the clouds with difficulty.

At this moment, the green beam of light disappeared, and the dark clouds in the sky also dispersed.

The sacrifice is over.

The nightingale, who was standing nearby, was also taken aback by this situation and stood there stunned.

Things had completely exceeded her expectations:

The sacrificial ritual, which was supposed to produce a Sequence 5 Fallen Treant, was instead split in two due to Levi's interference, ultimately resulting in the birth of two completely out-of-control monsters.

At this moment, the aura of desire in the air rapidly dissipated, the frenzied masses gradually regained their senses, and the struggling officials also awoke one after another.

"The plan has failed."

The nightingale's face darkened, and it spread its wings, its figure instantly blending into the night and disappearing without a trace.

Levi and Sharani, who remained in place, were like two pathetic, strange trees growing from the same root system, intertwined with each other, stealing nourishment and strength from one another.

Levi felt his consciousness growing increasingly blurred, his mind about to be completely consumed by the monster's instincts.

But before she completely succumbed, she had only one last thought:

Kill Sharon.

Completely enraged, Xia Lani had lost her mind, waving her countless vines and charging forward like a madwoman. The vines tightened their grip on her flowering tree trunk, more and more, trying to crush her alive.

Levi let out a hysterical wail, instinctively opening his gaping maw full of fangs and lunging forward, biting down hard on Sharani's neck.

In that instant, she saw her own reflection in Sharani's crazed eyes:

A monster, a twisted monster, a monster covered in vines and pus, even its face had turned into a monster, no longer resembling a human.

"Perhaps, this is for the best."

Levi gave a bitter laugh, and with the last shred of his sanity, he bit through Sharani's neck.

As she felt the foul-smelling blood flowing into her throat, she felt a sense of relief, and her mind went blank.

Through her blurred vision, the last image froze in her mind's eye:

That was Tingen, where war was raging.

Those were fearful people.

That was a vigilant, extraordinary official.

Those were Dunn Smith's deep eyes.

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[Presented by the Night Watch Headquarters of County Ahowa and St. Milos Church:]

This report details the cult activities that occurred in Tingen.

This was a large-scale sacrificial event led by the Rose School.

The Rose School, using the "Hyena Gang" gang in Tingen City as a cover, secretly developed a cult network, during which they trafficked a large number of civilian women as sacrificial offerings; the core member Nightingale transported the mummy of Yeren Tinicol, the seventh king of the Highland Kingdom, from the Southern Continent to Tingen City, using it as a medium to launch a sacrificial ritual against an unknown evil god.

During the ritual, the descent of the evil god caused widespread spiritual pollution and the erosion of desire, resulting in severe casualties and property damage. Preliminary statistics indicate that the incident resulted in 427 civilian deaths and 827 injuries, with over 2000 people suffering from the aftereffects of the desire invasion and undergoing further treatment. Three official extraordinary individuals were killed (two Punishers and one Mechanical Heart), and eight were wounded. 218 buildings of various types were destroyed. A total of 119 cult members were arrested, and 272 abducted and imprisoned civilians were freed. Except for Nightingale, who escaped during the chaos, all other key cult members have been executed.

At present, on-site handling, treatment of the injured and post-disaster recovery work have been fully launched.

During the incident, unofficial Beyonders Rivi Garcia (preliminarily identified as an Assassin pathway Sequence 8) and Rowling (preliminarily identified as a Prisoner pathway Sequence 8) proactively intervened and provided crucial assistance. Rowling was severely injured in the battle and was rescued by a woman in black robes. However, Rivi Garcia suffered severe contamination during the battle, ultimately mutating into a non-human creature and completely disappearing after the mutation, leaving no trace of flesh, clothing, or spiritual energy at the scene.

An investigation into his social relationships revealed that Rivi Garcia has no living immediate family members and previously lived with his brother's fiancée, Emily (who died in a previous conflict with the Hyena Gang).

Through dream verification, Emily was found to be unaware of the extraordinary events and Reeve's related actions, and she does not possess any extraordinary characteristics or have committed any illegal or criminal acts. For security and protection purposes, she has been recruited as a civilian staff member of the Tingen City Nightwalker team and placed under close surveillance.

Rivi Garcia has been severely contaminated, and his behavior is unpredictable. For the sake of public safety, it is recommended that a nationwide arrest warrant be issued for Rivi Garcia. Furthermore, during the arrest, his life should be spared as much as possible without endangering human safety. This objective is of significant research value for analyzing the Rose School's sacrificial system and tracing the evil god characteristics behind it.

Tingen Market Night Watchers Squad Leader

Dunn Smith

After checking the contents of the telegram several times, Dunn signaled to Luo Yao to send it.

Then, he walked out of the room and into the lounge, looking at Emily, whose expression was sorrowful and whose eyes were red.

Today is her first day working as a civilian employee of the Tingen Market Nightwalker squad, and also the seventh day since Rivi Garcia's sacrifice.

A faint sadness appeared in Dunn's deep eyes.

He poured a cup of hot coffee and slowly placed it in front of Emily.

But Emily ignored his kindness and said in a choked voice:

Why was an arrest warrant issued for him?

"He had already sacrificed himself, and he sacrificed himself to protect the people of Tingen."