novelraw Chapter 362: Playing with Curses in Front of Me?
Chapter 362: Playing with Curses in Front of Me?
There's obviously only one reason.
The grand event I held for Miaomiao today has drawn the attention of some malevolent beings.
Lynn didn't hesitate for even a second. The Night Doctor equipment on the clothes rack instantly flew over and automatically donned itself on him.
"Miss Puppet, are you there?" Lynn narrowed his eyes.
"I am here."
That utterly emotionless female voice sounded in the room.
His gaze flickering, Lynn crouched by the bedside, pulled out his Demon Hunter Revolver, and clicked off the safety.
"Do you sense anything unusual?"
The female voice said calmly, "Stay inside the room, don't go out. That creature is in the hallway outside."
Lynn's eyes gleamed as he asked, "What is it?"The female voice replied quietly, "A white raven mask."
Upon hearing this, Lynn's brow instantly furrowed. The information the Matriarch had told him about the Plague Doctors flashed through his mind almost immediately.
The pale raven mask represented a complete divergence from the Night Doctors' philosophy.
They were a group of traitors standing in opposition to the Night Doctors, spreading plagues and evil throughout the Dark World.
"Plague Doctors?"
Lynn narrowed his eyes.
"Indeed, when the forest grows large, it's no surprise that something unsavory might sneak in."
Other things might still be surprising.
But as traitors to the Night Doctors, their presence in the City of Night didn't surprise Lynn at all.
He was just very puzzled.
If it really were Plague Doctors, why would they choose to target him?
Was it simply because of this morning's grand event?
If so, was this premeditated?
Or a spur-of-the-moment decision?
Lynn narrowed his eyes and asked, "Can we get away?"
He quickly activated the Night Doctor's Ghost Mode, reaching out to touch the wall. But almost the instant he made contact, a web of bloody veins flashed across the wall's surface.
His hand was instantly repelled.
Ghost Mode failed.
He then tried to transmit his consciousness into the Sight.
As expected, his consciousness was also obstructed by some indescribable force.
Entering the Sight failed.
Lynn smiled and rubbed his temples. "Just as I guessed. The ones who understand Night Doctors best are always other Night Doctors themselves. If I'm not mistaken, with this, I've truly become a turtle in a jar."
Probably the moment the mission prompt appeared, the hotel he was staying in had already been dragged into some kind of barrier.
And since they dared to make a move against him within the City of Night, right under the Matriarch's nose...
It seems...
The mastermind behind this is probably not so simple.
They just probably don't know yet that he's not alone right now.
"Miss Puppet, it seems your first test has arrived."
Lynn smiled as he adjusted his monocle.
"Does that creature know of your existence?"
The female voice sounded in his ear.
"He underestimated the enemy."
Indeed, why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?
It's just very unfortunate. While the chicken is still that same chicken, there's also an eagle hiding in the shadows beside it.
Lynn smiled mysteriously, slapping the Plague Doctor Mask onto his head. "In that case, I'll leave him to you, Miss Puppet. Confident?"
But the moment his words finished, a series of rustling, skittering sounds suddenly arose from every corner of the room.
It was as if something in the darkness was being gnawed on by a swarm of insects.
Suddenly.
A bloody, chilling wind materialized and blew through the room.
Lynn immediately felt the unique, sinister cold of a curse instantly envelop the entire room he was in.
And in the very next moment, under his night vision, he clearly saw the walls of the entire room begin to peel away bit by bit, as if weathered.
After the surface layer of the walls peeled off, what was revealed was actually Flesh Walls composed entirely of dark red bloodstains and muscular curses.
It was as if he had suddenly been dragged into the interior of some living creature.
The entire walls and floor began to squirm like living flesh.
Even more terrifying, rapidly appearing within those Flesh Walls were one squirming hollow after another, from which swarms of densely packed insects began to crawl out.
[Warning! Warning! Abnormal Curse Spreading! Abnormal Curse Spreading!]
"Get the hell back!"
Lynn closed his eyes, instantly reaching out and pressing his hand against the Flesh Wall.
In that instant.
The Limited-Time Curse Removal ability activated.
*Hum—*
The squirming Flesh Walls that had just transformed the entire room were instantly washed away with a *whoosh* under the spread of intense white light.
[Ding! The curse has been purged. You have recorded the special curse: Alien Insect Hatchery!]
Meanwhile, in the thick bloody mist within the hallway outside.
The bone-white hand pressed against the wall trembled violently.
Intense white light came washing over with a *whoosh*. The Flesh Walls in the hallway that had just completed their transformation instantly reverted to their original state.
"???"
A brief pause.
Is this a bug?
*Slap, slap, slap!* The hand frantically pressed against the wall several more times.
But the Alien Insect Hatchery curse had been purged clean, wiped away as thoroughly as a Little Girl's body, leaving not a single trace behind.
"???"
Back in the room.
Lynn glanced at the curse he had just recorded.
[Alien Insect Hatchery]: A special field-type curse. Once the curse spreads, it will rapidly transform all structures within a large area into hatcheries for alien insects, swiftly absorbing large amounts of flesh and blood to create bloody alien insects that obey the curse caster. However, it also causes the caster to endure the endless whispers of the alien insects.
"Miss Puppet, hold off for now. Let me play with him first."
Lynn opened his dead-fish eyes.
Then he yanked off his Plague Doctor Mask.
He fished out his Cursed Eye from the System Space. With a *squelch*, three fingers plunged into his own eye socket. With a smile, he violently gouged out his right eye.
"Sorry, you know how to cast curses? Well, I know a little bit too."
*Slap—*
Lynn forcefully slapped the pitch-black Cursed Eye into his empty eye socket.
The Cursed Eye, dark as an abyss, instantly caused dense black blood vessels to spread across half his face with a sickening *crackle*.
"Curse! Alien Insect Hatchery!"
With a smile, Lynn suddenly reached out and pressed his hand against the wall. Black blood instantly streamed from his right eye. For a moment, it seemed as if an Evil Spirit within his eye let out a piercing shriek.
*Whoosh—*
Crimson Flesh Walls instantly spread out from the spot on the wall where Lynn pressed. The entire room began to weather once more, reverting to the bloody Flesh Walls from before.
In the hallway, the hand that was still desperately trying to figure out why the curse wasn't working suddenly froze.
He abruptly felt a bloody wind blow through the corridor.
And then, in the next moment.
The walls surrounding the hallway began to peel away with a *whoosh*, revealing the nauseating, flesh-like Flesh Walls.
His hand relaxed slightly for a moment.
Then suddenly.
The hairs on his hand stood on end.
Because he sensed something was wrong. Because this curse... it didn't seem like it was cast by him, damn it!
"Squeak squeak squeak—"
In the very next moment, he whipped his head around. Reflected in the eye sockets of his pale raven mask were the walls that had begun to squirm incessantly, and the human-faced insects that were continuously hatching from within them.
Almost instantly.
Those insects shrieked as they pounced at him from all directions, *plopping* onto his mask and tentacles, madly tearing into the insects he himself had summoned.
He instantly went into a frenzy!
...
Inside the room.
[Ding! You have suffered severe backlash from the "Cursed Eye." The pain you have received has been converted into pleasure by your achievement "In the Name of Love's Bath!"]
[Current pleasure has reached MAX. Please use it as soon as possible!]
Alongside the immense backlash pain from the Cursed Eye came the incessant buzzing of insect chittering in his mind. But Lynn's formidable Will, bolstered by the Angel's Kiss blessing, allowed him to endure it all.
Clutching his grotesque right eye, Lynn said,
"What a joke. Do you even know that before I officially joined, I was once considered a Plague Doctor by Master Raven and the others? Playing curses in front of me? I still have two Root-level curses stored away!"
"Miss Puppet, let's go mess him up! A sick cat not showing its claws doesn't mean it's a pushover!"
"I've been saving up half a month's worth of MAX pleasure punches, little buddy. Watch me make you die from ecstasy right here in this hotel today!"