Whispering Verse

Chapter 3172 Doom Cultist

As for the exam week after the end of the year, the doctor claimed that he would definitely be able to make it back in time; last year, Dorothy had the worst grades among the group members because she did not review well. This year, she was very confident that she would be able to excel in all subjects.

Because this year, Lecia studied very hard.

"Okay, okay, it's about time."

The Doctor paused in his discussion of the recent local human trafficking incident while he stared at his watch. Dorothy retracted the flame, and everyone stood up under the tree.

After a brief movement, Luvia handed the last blank card in the envelope to Shade, and the others spread out a few steps in other directions, ready to deal with unexpected situations.

The doctor's countdown sound was quite clear:

"Three, two, one."

The spirit was guided into the card along the fingertips, and Xia De saw the blank card surface gradually covered by the silver-blue background.

However, he did not rush to check the content above, but vigilantly observed the surroundings to see if there was a "big spider emitting silver moonlight all over its body".

The other four were also on high alert. Two seconds later, a dull crash and a slight explosion were heard. But the sound was not coming from nearby. The five members of the team all looked towards the darkness in the southeast. Dorothy asked in confusion:

"Is the place where the Fate Weaver appeared so far away this time?"

The doctor immediately shook his head:

"Of course not. It will definitely appear near the activated card. There is no mistake about that. What's happening over there has nothing to do with us. It seems that the detective's luck is the same as the fortune teller's. Is it my illusion? Why do I feel like something is rushing towards us over there?"

This was not an illusion. As the doctor spoke, the other four people had already seen what appeared in the darkness.

It was not just one person, but three humanoid creatures running quickly in that direction. But it was a bit wrong to say "running", because two of the men were riding on wooden horses, and the horses' limbs moved, leaving hoof prints on the snow.

The third "person" traveling with them was not a human, but a one-meter-tall child-like puppet wearing blue overalls, black buttons for eyes, and several bandages on its arms. It was not running on the snow, but was "flying" towards this side as if it were stepping in the air, controlled by invisible threads.

No one knew the two ring sorcerers riding wooden horses. They should be on their way to escape, because the "three people" were obviously being chased in this direction. The strange ring sorcerers were all in the middle ring, and they only discovered later that there were five people standing under the tree not far ahead.

Normally, when running away and seeing so many people in front of them, no matter who they are, they should not rush forward. But when the people on the wooden horses were about to turn around, the corners of the mouth of the puppet flying beside them, which seemed to be made of a cross of black lines, turned up, and then the two wooden horses accelerated and rushed towards the cypress tree.

The puppet boy's voice appeared in the ears of the two ring magicians:

"The last scene of this puppet show, Speed, has entered the final battle phase. The last enemy standing in the way is the final enemy, the Cat Knight, and his minions. Defeat them and you will get the final reward."

The Trojan Horse was completely out of the control of the two ring wizards, so it was useless for them to rush over even if they didn't want to.

Although the five people under the tree have not yet figured out what is happening, the three "people" rushing over are obviously not their friends.

"Quick and decisive, there are people from the church behind us."

Father Augustus whispered, and took a step back with Dorothy and Luvia. The high-ringed Shade and the doctor walked forward. When they took the third step, Shade turned into a cold silver moonlight, and the doctor's body suddenly became larger.

The silver moonlight passed directly through the wooden horse on the left, splitting it into two pieces. The ringmaster on the horse was caught by the moonlight ring on his hands and feet and rolled onto the snow, and only stopped when he hit a tombstone.

The ring wizard on the wooden horse on the right aimed at the doctor and cast an unknown spell, but the light immediately dissipated after hitting the black light covering the doctor's body. The three-meter-tall doctor smashed the wooden horse with one punch, but just like Shade, he did not kill the other person, but knocked him out.

They all thought that the main enemy was not the human, but the flying puppet boy, and Shad even recognized what it was.

But the ring warlock who was knocked away by the doctor fell to the ground in mid-air, and after he stood up with the help of the snow, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of black blood. The black blood condensed into two extremely complex rune strings in the air, and then turned into a dark light and shot towards Shade and the doctor.

Before the two could dodge or defend, a light purple light flew out from Luvia's hand and instantly shattered the rune string made of blood.

She reminded in a serious tone:

"This is a divine spell from the cultists who believe in the evil god [Mr. Doom]. It cannot be defended against or dodged. If you are hit by it, you will suffer serious damage to your luck."

"Someone from the Prophet's Association!"

The eight-ring warlock, who had spurted out black blood, spoke in unstandard Draerion language from between his teeth. He looked at the puppet boy again, then grabbed his imprisoned companion and ran into the darkness on the right without looking back.

"Don't run! You've already performed your last scene. It would be a shame to give up like this!"

The puppet boy was still shouting there, but Shad and the doctor were afraid of the existence of this thing, so they didn't chase after it. They both knew very well what it was, because Shad had encountered it in the Randall River Valley before this spring:

"The puppet boy in the sage-level relic [Crazy Puppet Theater]!"

The last time I encountered this relic was when I first met Vanessa in the Randall Valley. At that time, the Witch of the Earth was damaged by the influence of the "filthy earth" and was accidentally caught by the puppet. So the "puppet maid" Siris traveled in the puppet kingdom with Shade and embarked on the road to save the "princess" (Chapter 1199).

The puppet obviously still remembered Shade, and it laughed in the snowy cemetery:

"Although the participants this time still failed to complete the final act of the puppet show after paying a huge price, it is great to meet you again, the guy blessed by the toy merchant wearing a clown hat. But you came a step late, otherwise I would have arranged an interesting role for you this time.

The vicious cat that wanted to tear down my puppet kingdom isn't here this time, is it? Wish us good health! "

Behind it, the team of the Church of Darkness finally broke through the obstruction of a large number of palm-sized puppet soldiers. Although the puppet soldiers wearing red uniforms, black tall hats and carrying guns were small, they fired unrecognizable magic spells.

At this time, the puppet army was suppressed, and the high-ring warlock leading the church team soon saw that the cultists they were tracking disappeared, and five unfamiliar people appeared not far in front of the relic.

The doctor thought that they were now going to cooperate with the church team to defeat this unfriendly puppet that was laughing crazily, but the puppet in overalls ignored them:

"Since the participants have run away, then I'll give you this reward for the failed performance. I look forward to seeing you next time. Of course, it's best not to bring the cat with you!"

The puppet casually threw the box that appeared from nowhere to Shade from a distance of ten meters, then turned right and ran into the darkness on the left. After passing two marble tombstones, even Shade could not sense it.

At such a close distance, it was impossible for the church ring warlocks who were chasing behind to not see the actions of both parties. So they split into two teams, one team continued to chase the puppet, and the other team slowed down a little and walked towards the group of five people under the tree:

"You are"

None of the five members of the team wanted to engage with the church team in this inexplicable scene. As soon as the other party opened their mouths, the five of them tacitly prepared to retreat. Shade even thought about throwing the unknown box thrown by the puppet again, but was pulled by Luvia and gave up.

"Let's go!"

A silver mist floated in from the void and enveloped the five people, and in the mist, dozens of figures moved in different directions of the cemetery in different ways. Among them, there was even a figure that looked like King Larus III, who rushed straight towards the church team, and then because it was an illusion, it passed through them directly.

"Catch up!"

The church sent a team of only four people to rush into the silver mist. They used reconnaissance magic and a divination relic, but the magic could not penetrate the illusion under the silver moon. The divination of the five people just now led to an extremely outrageous result.

The dazzling moonlight shining on the mirror-like relic almost caused the mirror itself to lose control.

The leader of the Peace Church was a ring sorcerer of the eleventh ring. After taking off his hat, he released a flock of pigeons that immediately disappeared into the night, chasing after every escaping figure, even "Larousse III" was not spared.

But before the tracking pigeons could fly far, they seemed to be swallowed up by the cemetery and dissipated in the thick deathly aura. When the large force in the rear eliminated most of the puppet soldiers and joined the small team in front, the five strangers standing under the tree had already disappeared.

"What happened? Are there any cultists who are helping?"

The tenth-ring sorcerer with a cane walked under the tree, and the eleventh-ring man put his hat back on his head:

"It doesn't look like the cultists' support, but more like the academy's correspondence ring sorcerers who always appear inexplicably and disappear in the blink of an eye after causing trouble. I hope that the box contains not the most important reward of this 'Puppet Theater'."