novelraw Chapter 364: The Puppeteer’s Ultimate Control
Chapter 364: The Puppeteer’s Ultimate Control
And just as he was staring in shock, that gothic girl who moved like a phantom suddenly made a grasping motion in the air toward his direction.
Rip—
A flash of cursed arts brilliance passed by.
Accompanied by a sharp, tearing shriek.
Under the cutting of those crystalline threads, his body was instantly sliced into countless neat chunks of flesh, clattering as they fell to the ground.
The timing of this move was extremely precise and perfect, striking like lightning precisely at that moment when his thoughts were in turmoil.
She did not act until the moment came, and once she did, it was a killing blow!
"Well done, Miss Puppet!"
Lynn shouted loudly, without any hesitation, he immediately retrieved the Arm of Dragon Breath he had treasured for so long and been reluctant to use from the System Space.
Because he knew, in a situation like this, he absolutely could not give that Plague Doctor any chance to catch his breath.In an instant.
The pitch-black and ferocious Arm of Dragon Breath violently linked onto his shoulder.
In the eyes of the ferocious black dragon head, a furious, magma-like fiery might suddenly ignited.
"Dragon Breath!"
Lynn gritted his teeth fiercely, the savage dragon's mouth instantly filling with raging flames.
Whoosh—
The scorching dragon flame instantly enveloped those twisted chunks of flesh on the ground.
Accompanied by sizzling melting sounds, what was horrifying was that the chunks of flesh and organs being smelted within the flames actually emitted sharp, scorched shrieks.
He wasn't dead yet!
Because the System notification hadn't sounded.
This was also why Lynn acted without hesitation, because this was the Dark World after all, and what he was facing was a Plague Doctor. If they could be killed so simply and easily, then they would be too undeserving of their reputation.
[Ding! Target's vitality is continuously decreasing!]
"You dare—trick me!"
From within the billowing flames, Sen Yi's ferocious roar suddenly came.
He immediately saw that on the shattered flesh being crazily smelted, ferocious mouths abruptly opened one after another.
Whoosh—
In an instant, a cacophony like a flock of crows, directly piercing into the mind, resounded throughout the entire corridor.
It was as if countless people were whispering in your ear, frantically assaulting your brain and nerves, making you uncontrollably fall into madness.
It seemed like the whispers of an Evil God, or like nightmares from the deepest recesses of the mind.
Frantically stripping away your sanity.
[Warning! You are being continuously affected by "Maddening Cacophony"!]
[Ding! Your SAN -30]
Almost immediately upon contact, Lynn's sanity began uncontrollably and rapidly being stripped away and reduced.
But almost simultaneously, Hei Xianyue raised her head, countless threads shot out from her slender hands, weaving the entire corridor into an exquisite net.
She gently raised her hand and plucked.
Hum—
Accompanied by the vibration of the threads.
Like plucking the strings of a soul, the maddening cacophony was instantly suppressed.
[Ding! You are affected by "Soul String Tone," your SAN +35]
Hum—
Accompanied by the second vibration of the string tone.
The maddening cacophony was directly suppressed to within a range of less than two meters.
And within the melting flames, the scorched flesh and corpse oil were still frantically writhing and struggling, continuously emitting bursts of sharp shrieks.
And then in the next moment.
That flesh abruptly swelled, then exploded with a boom into countless streams of blood, splattering in all directions.
Squelch—
The viscous blood landed on the walls, melting the walls and producing wisps of corrosive mist.
At the same time the blood splattered, Hei Xianyue appeared before Lynn like a phantom, instantly opening the black umbrella in her hand, blocking the splashes of corrosive blood.
"He's still not dead?! What a tenacious fellow!"
Lynn suppressed the pain in his temples, suddenly raised the Arm of Dragon Breath, and vigilantly looked toward the bloodstains all over the floor.
His body had been completely melted.
But clearly.
The System still hadn't shown a kill record notification.
That meant he must have used some special method at the very last moment to transfer his consciousness elsewhere.
"Miss Puppet, can you locate his position?"
Lynn turned his head and asked.
Hei Xianyue slowly extended her hand, a black thread quietly emerged from the cracks in the floor, winding around her little finger.
"I can."
...
At the same time, in a room on the first floor.
A corpse with a torn neck lay on the bed, the entire room filled with a strong stench of blood and rot.
And then in the next moment, within that eerie silence.
The chest cavity of that corpse began to writhe.
Rip—
Accompanied by the sound of eerie, twisting flesh and blood.
A bloody hand suddenly pierced out from the chest cavity of that corpse.
Followed by an arm, a head, a torso.
Like the birth of an infant, a humanoid creature with skin that was constantly writhing all over its body arduously climbed out from within that corpse.
"Damn it!"
He gritted his teeth, his face full of ferocity, and suddenly pushed the door open and rushed out.
He had been too careless, he never expected that human to have a Transcendent-level puppet protecting him.
He once again recalled what that guy had said.
Could it be that everything he said was true?
Had the Inverted Angel already noticed their movements in Nightfall City, and thus turned their scheme against them, specifically setting a trap for him to jump into?
Otherwise.
How else could that puppet be explained?!
If that was really the case, then an operation to round them up had probably already begun silently.
He truly never expected.
That human's mind was so meticulous, this time they had underestimated him.
"I must quickly notify the others, if there's still time!"
He clenched his teeth tightly, suddenly rushed to the center of the first-floor Main Hall, and abruptly pressed both hands onto the ground.
Whoosh—
In an instant, a massive blood-red Magic Circle slowly emerged on the ground, precisely the restrictive formation he had specially prepared for this hunting operation.
He had cursed the entire hotel, shaping it into a cursed arts space isolated from the outside world.
If that puppet hadn't appeared.
He believed he could have quietly eliminated that human.
But at this moment, this blood formation meant to prevent that human from escaping had instead become a cage restricting him.
"Hurry! Hurry!"
He clenched his teeth tightly, his eyes bloodshot.
Staring at the blood-red patterns spreading outward, every second felt like torture to him.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
But just as the blood formation was about to be dispelled.
His fingers suddenly froze there, as if time had stopped, his body maintaining that posture, unable to move.
His pupils trembled, all the muscles in his body straining with cracking sounds.
But his body seemed unable to receive his commands, completely out of his control.
One after another, crystal-clear threads reflected faint brilliance in the dim light of the hall.
This is...
When did...