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  Chapter 236 Be My Assistant

  "Are you doing dream divination or some kind of spiritual ritual?"

  Angel asked coldly, looking at Sherlock Moriarty who seemed to have just woken up from a dream.

  She opened the door with the master key and slipped to the second floor to catch the secret sentry for questioning, but she didn't expect to meet Detective Moriarty, who was still working together during the day and said that they would meet again tomorrow to discuss clues when they separated.

  The other party secretly came to this villa in the middle of the night, and sat on the chair motionless as if his soul had left his body. He didn't even notice that he had been standing in front of him for a long time. Obviously, he entered a special state.

  Could it be that after this guy solved the problem of being targeted by the mid-sequence extraordinary person, he became inflated and thought that a newcomer in the mysterious field could solve Kapin and so many extraordinary people in his villa by himself?

  After opening his eyes and looking at this side with a surprised look, Moriarty came back to his senses, pursed his lips, as if to comfort his frightened heart, and answered after a while:

  "I just tried to confirm the internal situation of Kapin's villa through dream divination." He moved his eyes from Angel to the villa outside the window that was still brightly lit. "I just came to investigate and prepare for a better exchange of clues tomorrow."

  Moved his eyes away? This lie was too obvious, wasn't it?

  Sherlock Moriarty's enthusiasm obviously exceeded the point of "investigating", and Emily's disappearance and the death of O'Neill's family had little to do with him. Why would he take such a big risk to do dream divination near Kapin's house?

  Angel didn't believe the other party's excuse at all, but no matter what, he would take action tonight, and it would be better to know more about the situation.

  "What did you divination? Did you find those extraordinary people in the villa?"

  After hesitating for a moment, Angel decided to ask for information first, and then send this bold detective away to avoid him getting hurt in the subsequent battle.

  "Yes, in addition to Kapin, I found four other Beyonders in the villa."

  Moriarty nodded and began to tell about his findings in divination.

  "A middle-aged man with a long and thin face who gives people an unusually cold feeling, named Heras, has some ability to restrain and command others. He gives me the strongest sense of danger. I think he is at least Sequence 6, or even Sequence 5."

  "Bellis, a bearded man with a cold and intimidating look. He can use a high-pressure steam rifle. This weapon is extremely powerful and is also a threat. And his potion sequence is unknown."

  "Katie, a woman in her thirties, has old scars on her face. She should have experienced many battles and is good at using a soft whip. She is at least Sequence 8; Parker, an old-looking man, looks unintimidating, but no Beyonder can be underestimated."

  Angel listened and compared it with the bright red figures in his memory. He quickly confirmed the location and actions of the four Beyonders. They were all in the villa. Some were resting upstairs, and some were on duty next to the basement.

  It seems that even at night, these Beyonders still have a clear division of labor and are in good order.

  However, kidnapping a few girls, even if there is a family member like Emily O'Neill who has some money and status, does it need the protection of four extraordinary people?

  "Is it that Capin's purpose is not only to kidnap girls, but he also has other more important businesses, so he hired so many extraordinary people to protect him?"

  Angel asked with a frown.

  "No, these extraordinary people are not hired by Capin, at least that Heras is not. The latter's status in the villa is even higher than Capin, as if he is the owner of the villa, and Capin is just a helper, um, a follower."

  Moriarty answered, tapping the armrest of the chair with his right index finger, as if he was lost in thought.

  This was beyond Angel's expectations. She originally thought that this "Mr. Capin" was the culprit who kidnapped Emily and other girls, but she didn't expect that he was just a role similar to an executor.   

  This reminded her of the president of the Labor Mutual Aid Association in the dock area of ​​Tingen City who was involved in the human trafficking incident between the Witch Cult and the Aurora Society, and eventually took the initiative to participate in it. The final investigation of the Night Watcher confirmed that he was only a small role.

  Could it be that Kapin was also in such an identity, acting as an accomplice of some Beyonders?

  "Moreover, Kapin seemed to know many big shots in Backlund. I saw the party in the villa in my dream. There were members of the House of Commons of the Kingdom, the deputy director of the police department, and many other wealthy businessmen and nobles who had appeared in the newspapers."

  "They beat and scolded and played with the kidnapped girls in the villa at will, and Kapin flattered them to the utmost. Even his servants and subordinates participated in the evil deeds. Obviously, Kapin and his forces were just small roles serving these big shots. Those Beyonders probably didn't come to protect him, but to monitor his actions, prevent him from leaking secrets or rebelling, and urge him to be more "efficient."

  In Angel's dark vision, Moriarty's face, which was covered by a beard and glasses, showed a rare expression of anger.

  "No wonder rumors are spreading everywhere, but Capin is unharmed. This time the police easily determined that the O'Neill family committed suicide, and ignored Emily, who didn't find the body. Your report also fell on deaf ears. It turns out that Capin really has 'someone above'..."

  Angel muttered, finally figuring out the whole chain of events.

  It seems that O'Neill's "suicide" was also the work of these Beyonders. Maybe they had their eyes on Emily, or they accidentally kidnapped her when they kidnapped those low-level residents in the East District, and then in order to cover up the facts, they simply killed the O'Neill family who were looking for their daughter... The

  more he thought about it, the more chilled he became. Angel forced himself to turn his thoughts to the Beyonders in the villa and began to think about how to deal with these guards.

  There were four Beyonders that could be confirmed. Even if they were all Beyonders of low sequence, it would be difficult for him to deal with them together. What's more, the other side had a Sequence 6, and he, a Sequence 7 witch, might not be able to win against him alone.

  This Sequence 6 named Heras, his ability sounds very similar to the "Hand of Proclamation", the seal of the Night Watchers of Port Enmat, which is produced by the Beyonder characteristics of the "Arbiter" path. Angel has seen the powerful effect with her own eyes. I

  'm afraid I can only sneak in and find a way to rescue those girls first. As for the subsequent handling... If the police are not trustworthy, maybe they can be handed over to the Orthodox Church in Backlund, to those official Beyonders who still have justice in their hearts?

  Thinking of this, Angel looked at Moriarty, who was looking at her in the dark with his brown eyes open.

  "Thank you for your divination clues. It seems that Kapin and his Beyonders are difficult to deal with. We can only take a long-term view..." She pretended to make a frustrated expression, looked away, and said slowly, "Let's go back first, meet at your house tomorrow morning, and think of other ways..."

  In her dark vision, Moriarty showed a mysterious smile.

  "Are you going to send me away and face those Beyonders by yourself?"

  Angel was stunned.

  "To use your words during the day, 'Let's not test each other'," he stood up from the chair, his eyes almost level with Angel's, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, and the gas lamp behind him suddenly lit up, "I am not as weak as I look, and you dare to break into Capin's mansion alone, you must have made full preparations."

  "Miss Irene Watson, are you willing to play my assistant and perform a grand magic show with me?"

  Sherlock Moriarty, with his back to the light of the gas lamp, said with his arms open.

  (End of this chapter)

  Chapter 237 Grand Debut

  At the beginning of a new day, Kapin sat at the brightly lit dining table, watching the servants bring plates and portions of delicious food to the table. He had a smile on his face, but his heart was not as good as he looked.

  One of his men had a conflict with the Zmanger Gang in the East District last night. He was besieged by those barbaric highlanders and died under a dagger handed out in the dark.

  Although he had left the underworld for a long time and was dissatisfied with his stupid men provoking other gangs, his men were still his men. If he did not retaliate, others would see it and it would affect his leadership.

  Unfortunately, Mr. Heras stopped him in front of the other men, just like scolding a dog.

  Thinking that his family was still under the other party's "surveillance", Kapin put away his inner dissatisfaction, put on a smile, and said to Heras, who was the last to sit down:

  "Good morning, Mr. Heras, today's breakfast includes roast pigeon, pumpkin shortbread, cheese baked cream mushrooms, fruit caramel pudding and fruit salad," Kapin signaled the waiter to pull out a chair and let Heras sit down. "They come from different restaurants in the North District and are transported here at full speed, just to appear on our table when they are freshest."

  "Huh, eating dessert so early in the morning, this is the style of our country."

  Heras tied his napkin with the help of the waiter, grinned, and sneered without a smile. One of Kapin's men died in the East District in the middle of the night yesterday, which made him think that this place was targeted by some malicious extraordinary people. Until he confirmed that the limitation of his "secret-keeping" ability had not been broken, he settled down to rest, so that he was not as energetic as usual this morning.

  Ms. Katie had arrived at the restaurant early and started eating. She was "dissecting" a roasted pigeon with her knife and fork. The pigeon's flesh and bones were gradually separated under her precise cutting. The pigeon's neck moved slightly when she heard it, but she didn't say anything.

  Parker was enjoying caramel pudding. Hearing what Heras said, he smiled and put down the spoon, saying:

  "But sweets can make people happy all day. Mr. Heras, think about the goods in the basement. You can pick them first today. Is it worth a piece of pudding?"

  Hearing Parker's compliment, Heras's face, which had been stern, finally showed a smile. He was about to answer, but suddenly his spiritual sense was sensed, and he felt a little uneasy.

  He quickly threw down his knife and fork and frowned to look up.

  There was a large gas lamp with a complicated shape and multiple sets of reflective lenses hanging there. In the late autumn morning, the entire restaurant was illuminated as if it was under the scorching sun.

  An invisible scream came from the gas lamp above his head, and instantly swept over Kapin, the three extraordinary people, and the maids and waiters standing by the side in the restaurant.

  Pah—

  Heras' eardrum felt a sharp pain, but he only felt a little dizzy and his vision became blurred. After he stood up with the help of the chair armrest, he could see the table in front of him clearly again in a few seconds.

  At this time, Katie, who had also stood up, covered her head with her hands, and a few drops of sticky blood dripped from the tip of her nose and fell on the plate in front of her. She covered her head with one hand and grabbed the holster at her waist with the other hand, ready to take out the revolver to deal with the attack.

  Parker beside her was even worse. His eyes turned white, and he kicked his legs and fell backward with his chair. Kapin, who was sitting at the main seat, fainted without making any sound, and fell on the fruit caramel pudding that had been rushed in early in the morning.

  The waiters and maids around were just ordinary people, in a similar situation to Kapin. They staggered and quickly lost consciousness, and their faces were smeared with blood oozing from their mouths, noses, and ears.

  A tall woman appeared on the dining table at some point. She had long black hair and a round face full of indifference. She lifted her right foot slightly and stepped forward. Ice that could freeze everything flowed out from the bottom of her feet, blowing away the pudding and shortbread on the table and rushing towards several extraordinary people.

  Heras had already retreated from the dining table. Although Katie was a step slower, she dodged the attack in time and took out her revolver.

  Parker, who had fallen over, had just stood up and could not dodge in time. His body instantly became stiff.

  Then, in Heras's subconscious spiritual vision, a translucent figure wearing black armor and a black crown jumped down from the gas lamp and pounced into Parker's body.

  Kicking away the powerless Kapin, Angel quickly took out the revolver at his waist and shot him in the head, killing Parker who was possessed by Moriarty's magical ghost spell.

  This extraordinary person did not reveal the specific potion sequence and extraordinary ability in the divination between Moriarty and Angel, but Angel quickly selected this weakest extraordinary person in the scream of ghosts, used him as the breakthrough point, and eliminated one person on the field.   

  Heras then realized that there was more than one intruder, and the other one was even a strange ghost.

  No wonder the danger warning of his spirituality became stronger and stronger.

  The woman stepping on the frost should be a "witch". He knew these extraordinary abilities, which were fancy but not powerful. Even with the strange ghost, he could handle it. There was also Katie who had recovered from the dizziness in the restaurant. The two had cooperated many times in the battle. They could catch the turtle in the jar!

  Thinking of this, Heras did not get angry but laughed. He pointed to the door of the restaurant and read out the words composed of ancient Hermetic language:

  "Isolation!"

  The whole restaurant seemed to be swept by invisible waves, as if there was an extra layer of wall outside the brick wall and wooden door that even spirits and certain special abilities could not pass through, and the inside and outside were separated.

  Katie held a revolver in one hand and a soft whip in the other. She stepped on the chair and jumped onto the dining table and attacked Angel. The latter stood on the layers of frost, with her black hair loose, like a female ghost in the rising cold air.

  Suddenly, several black flames appeared around her, and a thick ice spike with a forearm in between hit Katie's head. Katie was about to raise her gun and aim at the ice spike, when Heras shouted from behind:

  "Be careful of the flames!"

  Out of trust in her companions, she no longer tried to attack, but rolled back and rolled directly off the dining table, dodging the flames and frost that hit her body amid the crackling sound of dishes.

  Angel chased after her with a dagger in his hand, waving it from above, and Katie could only deal with it awkwardly for a while.

  Heras' eyes gradually turned cold, and he opened his mouth to read out the next ban, cooperating with Katie to kill this agile witch. He caught a glimpse of the strange armored ghost floating from Parker, who had turned into a corpse, and flew towards him just like he attacked Parker just now.

  He snorted coldly, raised his hand and pointed forward, and said in ancient Hermetic language:

  "Flying is prohibited here."

  The ghost wearing a crown, like an emperor, was grabbed from the air by an invisible giant hand and torn to the ground. His speed suddenly slowed down. Heras took out a gold-studded, extremely exaggerated revolver, aimed at the tall ghost's head wearing a black crown and a mask of the same color, and was about to shoot a special bullet that could harm spirits and resentful souls.

  Pah -

  bright yellow flames emerged from the gaps in the ghost's armor, as if they began to burn on their own, and the same flames appeared on Angel who pounced on Katie.

  The flames jumped!

  In an instant, the two exchanged positions in the flames ignited by Moriarty. Angel appeared in front of Heras, and the ghost Moriarty pounced on Katie, who was terrified.

  Katie, holding a gun and a whip, was unable to dodge and rushed forward into the body of the ghost who had exchanged positions with Angel. She was covered with a translucent armor and felt her limbs cold and her joints stiff. She was frozen in place and could hardly hold her weapon.

  "Bang--"

  Heras pulled the trigger, and the gold-plated revolver that was originally aimed at the ghost's head fired a bullet with strange patterns, which passed over Angel's head. The latter's dagger emitted a dark flame and stabbed at him at an almost invisible speed.

  (End of this chapter)

  Chapter 238: Splendid

  At the critical moment, Heras lost his usual grace and elegance in battle. He bent his knees and fell backwards, narrowly avoiding the dagger burning with black flames.

  He didn't even bother to pick up his revolver when it fell to the ground. He rolled several times to avoid the subsequent attacks. Finally, he found a chance to get up and spoke the words of ancient Hermetic language at a very fast speed: "Imprisonment!"

  "Crack!"

  While activating his ability, an ice spike flew at high speed and pierced his right shoulder. The translucent ice pierced out from behind, bringing out a handful of blood.

  The air around Angel became sticky, as if forming a huge, transparent amber, surrounding her and making her unable to move.

  Heras recovered and didn't bother to pull out the ice spike on his shoulder or pick up the exaggerated revolver. Instead, he took out an iron-black metal glove from the hidden pocket of his clothes and prepared to put it on his left hand.

  If the ghost touched her, she would lose body temperature in the cold. The unconscious Katie finally pulled the trigger and fired a light golden purification bullet at her side. The bullet shot from the armored ghost took away the black mist that made up his body, turning him into a paper figure that slowly fell from the air.

  Katie's limbs trembled, and she slowly recovered her mobility. Then she raised her head and turned on her spiritual vision, and found that the armored ghost reappeared in a corner of the restaurant. It seemed that he could not leave this place because of Heras's confinement order. She smiled coldly and raised her gun to continue chasing the hateful ghost.

  Swish -

  a dagger with black flames flew over like lightning. Katie saw it from the corner of her eyes, and her hair stood up. How could she dare to aim and shoot? She quickly bent down to avoid it.

  Bang -

  the two invaders, one in front and one behind, used this wisp of fire to leave the invisible wall formed by the "imprisonment" order from the corner of the wall and appeared in front of Katie.

  Why are you all attacking me? Is it because I am weaker than Heras!

  Katie gritted her teeth in anger. She swung out the whip that she had never used before and whipped it at Angel who was closer to her. The distance was too close, so Angel grabbed the middle of the whip before she could completely swing it away. However, the end of the whip still had some power left, so it rolled back from the side and hit her waist.

  The attack was not heavy, but the strange power attached to the whip seemed to hit her soul directly, like pressing a red-hot iron on Angel's waist skin, making her scream.

  The next second, Moriarty's spirit opened his arms and enveloped Katie's body again. She was about to pull back the whip to attack again, but her eyes suddenly became straight and her limbs became stiff, as if she was wrapped in layers of ice and could not move.

  Angel raised his right hand, and ice spikes appeared in his palm. He was going to deal with Katie who was frozen by the ghost just like he dealt with Parker.

  "It is a crime to illegally invade someone else's home."

  Heras's majestic voice came, speaking so fast that it was emotionless, and the tone gradually rose. He had recited it in ancient Hermetic for the third time, but it was not until the last time that the voice was loud enough for Angel and Moriarty to hear.

  The voice reached Angel's ears, and she felt a chill in her heart. She saw from the corner of her eyes that Heras had put on the metal glove on his left hand, raised his front finger, and his face was serious and firm.

  "Frenzy!"

  Angel's brown eyes turned golden, and his pupils stood up, like a legendary dragon. He stared at Heras who raised his finger to point at him, and activated the ability attached to the frenzy ring to disrupt the enemy's mind.

  "Guilty...guilty?"

  The Beyonder wearing the magical glove felt like he was being stared at by a high-sequence enemy. His heart was pounding, and he forgot what he was going to say for a moment.

  He was annoyed and crazy about this phenomenon. Should he specify that those who break into the house should be restricted? No, he should get rid of Katie, the useless waste, first!

  Heras's mind was in a frenzy, and he was about to interrupt the new "rules" that were halfway through being promulgated, and use the "death" decree to execute his companions who were more trouble than help.

  No, that's not right, this is not my idea, what... am I going to do?

  Heras, a Sequence 6 "Judge", who already possessed some of the abilities of a Sequence 5 "Punishment Knight" after putting on metal gloves, finally recovered quickly after being affected by the frenzy. He looked at Angel who was holding the ice spike and aiming at him, and gritted his teeth and shouted:

  "The guilty should be restricted!"   

  Moriarty, who had just emerged from Katie's body, and Angel, who was holding an ice spike in his hand, were surrounded by invisible shackles in the declaration made by Heras with the metal glove. Their joints seemed to be filled with glue and they could no longer move.

  Heras exhaled a foul breath. Although the uneasiness that was gradually rising in his heart had not been eliminated and the wound on his shoulder was still bleeding, he finally controlled the situation.

  Katie was still covered by the armored ghost that could not move. Her face was pale, as if her soul had been sucked out. Parker's brains were scattered all over the floor, deader than dead. Kapin was kicked to the corner of the restaurant and lay motionless on the floor.

  Looking at these teammates who could not help, Heras felt a little disdainful in his heart.

  "I still have to rely on me to solve the problem here."

  This time it was his real thought, not a crazy idea that emerged in the "frenzy".

  He was about to pick up the gold-plated revolver that fell on the ground and deal with these intruders, but he sensed that someone was approaching outside the "confinement" range of the restaurant.

  It was Bayliss. He finally heard the noise and came to help?

  If this guy had arrived two minutes earlier, why would I be so embarrassed?

  With a thought, he pointed to the door and said in ancient Hermetic language: "Remove."

  The door was kicked open with a "bang". Belis, with a beard on his face, carrying a gray-white mechanical box and holding a complex high-pressure steam rifle, entered the restaurant cautiously. Seeing the servants lying on the ground, his teammates whose lives and deaths were unknown, and Heras with a face full of anger, his blue eyes flashed with surprise and a hint of fear.

  "Mr. Heras, I heard it downstairs..."

  "It's an intruder, and I've controlled it. Belis, deal with that woman, and leave the other weird ghost to me."

  The high-pressure steam rifle has limited effect on ghosts, and will kill Katie who is "possessed" together, so he asked Belial to kill the witch, and he used purification bullets to deal with the ghost.

  Unfortunately, this witch has a good figure, but her age is not suitable. If she is the same as the ones in the basement...

  Heras's thoughts even flew to the basement, to some strange places.

  At this moment, he saw the ghost's fingertips, which were restricted by the magical item generated by the Beyonder characteristic of Sequence 5 "Punishment Knight", move, and the translucent face covered by the mask seemed to have a smile.

  Strange, how could there be a smile on the mask?

  As soon as this thought flashed through Heras' mind as he picked up the revolver, the uneasiness in his heart, which came from the spiritual reminder, surged wildly. Under his feet, around him, and above his head, fierce danger warnings came at the same time.

  Everywhere? Were they other intruders, or pre-set spells?

  "This place is forbidden..."

  "Boom--"

  Before the law that came up with a quick idea was finished, a thunderous explosion sounded in Heras' ears.

  Large pieces of stone, fierce shock waves, and scorching flames surrounded him, surrounded Baylis who had just raised the high-pressure steam rifle, surrounded Moriarty and Katie in his "body", and Angel who was unable to move.

  The explosives that Moriarty had buried in various places in the villa using his spiritual state the night before finally ignited under his flame control and exploded!

  (End of this chapter)

  Chapter 239 Perfect Ending On

  the busy Iris Street in the early morning, citizens passing by Kapin's mansion were frightened by the earth-shaking noise and hid everywhere. Only when they found that they were not in danger did they raise their heads and look at the place where the sound came from.

  All the windows of the villa located in the vast lawn were shattered, and a large amount of flames and black smoke poured out of each door and window. A huge hole was directly blown out of one of the walls. A figure flew out of the hole with black smoke, drew a parabola, and landed on the lawn outside the villa.

  The figure stood up shakily, his steps were weak, and he stumbled and was about to fall again, but he finally stabilized his body before falling into the fountain pool. Half of his face was covered with black ash, and the other half was torn. There were only a few pieces of cloth left on his windbreaker. The shirt inside was on fire, and there were still a few yellow flames. He wore a black iron glove on his left hand, and his right shoulder was bloody. It was Heras who escaped from death.

  He rolled into the pool nearby and used the fountain to extinguish the flames on his body. He coughed twice and spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, then looked at his exposed skin, which was covered with dense blisters. The

  continuous use of extraordinary abilities, the consumption of magical items, the influence of "frenzy" on the spirituality, and the seriously injured body, the superposition of several factors, have made him on the verge of losing control.

  Feeling that his life was in danger, he decided on the next action almost instantly.

  Regardless of the life and death of Katie and Belis who were affected by the explosives, regardless of Kapin and the girls he had captured, Heras jumped out of the fountain pool, ran away without looking back, dragged a trail of water, pushed open the side door of the garden, and disappeared in the stunned crowd on the street. Belis, who

  came to support from the basement, was standing at the door of the restaurant and did not enter it, so he did not suffer much damage from the explosion, but the backpack he carried on his back was deformed and failed in the huge impact, and the high-pressure steam inside quickly leaked, and the secondary explosion almost killed this Sequence 7 extraordinary person on the spot.

  Struggling to get up in the steam, Belis glanced at the restaurant full of broken limbs, flames, and black smoke, took off his backpack, threw away the steam rifle connected to it, and stumbled out of the villa.

  Heras had already run away, so why did he stay?

  Only then did Angel, who had escaped from the center of the explosion with the magic mirror, return from the second floor to the first floor lobby. He looked at Belis's bloody back, hesitated for a moment, and still did not chase him.

  The most urgent task was to rescue the kidnapped girls, not to chase the two extraordinary people. The huge explosion and smoke must have alarmed the police and official extraordinary people in this area. This area was under the charge of the "Substitute Punishers" of the Storm Church. In a few minutes, he would be blocked here by those irritable law enforcers and face a second, more difficult battle.

  "As expected, the basement is intact. Heras's confinement blocked most of the impact, and the remaining guards inside have been dealt with by me."

  The translucent armored ghost drilled out from the ground, and the voice of Detective Moriarty came from inside, as if it came from afar, distant, and with endless majesty.

  "That's good. Just let them out as soon as possible and let them escape to the street. The police will probably arrive soon. I will retreat after cleaning up the battlefield."

  Angel replied to the armored ghost who was a few points taller than him. Not only the servants here, but even the guards participated in the torture of the kidnapped girls. Angel and Moriarty did not consider their lives when they took action.

  Ghost Moriarty nodded, dodged and went underground again, heading to the basement where the girls were imprisoned.

  Angel returned to the restaurant that was bombed and transparent on all sides. The servants who fainted in the ghost's screams had already died in the explosion. None of their bodies could be found. Kapin, who was kicked into the corner, was a little luckier. At least he had a complete body.

  Turning over this slightly fat guy with burnt pudding on his face, Angel took out a deck of tarot cards according to the agreement with Moriarty, sprinkled them around this evil rich man, and finally covered his eyes with two special main cards.

  After creating this mysterious scene, Angel picked up Parker's extraordinary characteristics, came to Katie, whose skin and flesh were charred and no longer breathing, searched around, and picked up her characteristics.

  Unfortunately, the whip that could directly attack the soul had been broken into three pieces in the explosion and had lost its use value, but Angel still kept it carefully, perhaps he could find someone to repair this item, or obtain some extraordinary characteristics from it.   

  After cleaning up the battlefield, Angel flashed through the flames and appeared in the attic of the villa. She climbed up the stairs to the roof, looked at the terrified but curious crowd on the street, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and prepared for the final "performance".

  ...

  "Click-click-click-click"

  the sound of door locks opening rang out. Klein, whose spirit was wrapped with a "master key", had no time to identify which cell had someone in it, but walked through the cell doors of the basement one by one and opened them all.

  In the separated cells, the ragged girls only felt a gust of cold wind sweeping past, and the cell door in front of them opened automatically.

  They were stunned and dared not move, worried that it was a prank by those fierce adults, until a brown-haired girl took the lead in pushing open the door and came to the corridor. She looked at the guard who was usually ferocious, but now lying on the ground with blood gushing out of the bullet hole on his head, and looked at the basement entrance which was also open.

  "Everyone, run! The door is really open!"

  Emily shouted, and ran towards the stairs at the entrance, towards the light of freedom. Hearing the sound, the other girls also moved their scarred legs and rushed to leave the basement. Under Emily's leadership, they passed through the smoke-filled villa hall, ran across the gravel-covered lawn, and came to the bustling street.

  The citizens attracted by the explosion and smoke first dispersed in confusion, and then exclaimed a few times. Some people had recognized the girls who had been missing for a long time and even put on the missing person notice. Two policemen attracted by the explosion squeezed through the crowd and walked towards them. The girls

  huddled together, not knowing whether to believe these policemen. Most of them came from the East District and had no good feelings towards the police. Moreover, they had just escaped from Kapin's mansion. Some

  of them were kidnapped on the street, some were tricked into a corner and knocked unconscious and taken away, and several girls had the experience of escaping the clutches of the devil by luck, but soon returned to the basement after calling the police.

  But this time, those fierce adults were gone. Maybe... they could really be rescued?

  Emily didn't care about that. She turned around and looked at the villa, which was covered in smoke. A big gap had been blown out on the first floor, and half of the wall had collapsed.

  A woman with a hazy face stood on the top of the attic. Her long hair fluttered in the wind. Her tall figure faced the morning sun and seemed to be looking into the distance.

  At the end of the woman's sight, an illusory door appeared in the air, with complicated symbols carved on it. The translucent door opened silently, and a figure walked out of it, observing the messy villa and street from high above; in the distance, a strong wind blew, and another figure approached rapidly in the wind.

  Emily seemed to see the corners of the woman's mouth on the top of the attic grinning, revealing a mysterious smile.

  Then, a large amount of fog surged out of her body, and black armor and a black crown emerged from the fog, wrapping her up, like an extremely majestic queen.

  More people noticed the movement in the attic. The girls being questioned by the police and the citizens who were confused by the explosion all looked up. The

  armored woman jumped down from the sky and fell into the burning ruins below. She disappeared without a trace amid the people's exclamations.

  (End of this chapter)

  Chapter 240 Behind the Stage

  The handsome man in the air was wearing a neat double-breasted suit and shiny leather shoes, as if he had just walked out of a banquet, stepping on an invisible floor in the air.

  His golden eyes instantly locked onto the villa's restaurant that looked like a ruin, and the mysterious woman who disappeared after a flash of fire when she was close to the ground.

  With a cold snort, the man raised his left hand lightly, and mysterious, complex patterns and symbols emerged around him, about to form a new door in front of him, but then, these symbols and patterns drifted away in the wind and disappeared.

  "I can't lock... the anti-divination that transcends demigod?"

  He murmured for a while, his left hand raised in place, not knowing whether to put it down for a moment.

  At this time, a gust of wind blew by his side, and the figure in the distance that was previously looming had flown to the side of the man in the suit.

  The man was lifted up by the strong wind. He was wearing a black robe embroidered with storm symbols and a soft hat of the same color. His face was serious. He was the cardinal of the Church of Storms, the archbishop of the Backlund Diocese, and the "Singer of God" Ace Snake.

  "Celt? Why are you here?"

  The Jowood District belongs to our Church of Storms and is managed by the "Substitute Punishers" of the Holy Wind Cathedral. His serious face expressed what he didn't say.

  "I live nearby. I heard the noise and came to see."

  The handsome man called Celt answered, his eyes swept over the still burning villa and the citizens on the road who were watching the explosion scene and the girls huddled together. His face was not very good.

  "Who was that just now?"

  Ace, who was a step late, only saw a figure jumping down from the attic in the distance, while Celt, who had already arrived, stood in the air and couldn't help asking.

  "I don't know, but she has powerful anti-divination measures."

  After a brief exchange, the two people floating in the air came above the villa, slowly descended, and landed on the lawn.

  Ace Snake looked at the wall of the restaurant with a big hole opening outward. A fierce hurricane blew up and rolled around the hole for several times. The negative pressure formed absorbed the flames and smoke in the hurricane, and then they rushed into the fountain pool in the middle of the lawn as if someone was directing them. The high temperature and water collided with each other, and a burst of steam rose.

  Seeing the flames extinguished and the smoke dissipated, Celt walked into the restaurant quickly and looked at the servants' bodies pressed by the ruins, Parker with a bullet hole on his forehead, Katie who was bloody and breathless, and Kapin lying on his back on the ground with tarot cards all over his body.

  There was a main card on each of his eyes, which were "Judgment" with an angel blowing a horn and "Emperor" with a crown and armor.

  For no reason, he thought of the woman wearing similar armor who had just disappeared in front of him.

  "There are some servants in other rooms and some guards outside, but they dare not approach."

  Ace's voice came from behind him. The archbishop walked slowly and looked around the miserable situation in the restaurant. His face was even uglier than Celt's.

  "Tarot cards?"

  The archbishop asked in confusion, looking at Kapin, the only one who died in a strange way.

  "This is the second similar case recently," Celt said to himself. He was from the military, so he knew some news that had not been made public. "In early October, the 'True Creator' tried to come to Backlund through a swindler. After the incident was solved by the military and the Nighthawks, the swindler was tortured and killed in the sewer, and his body was also covered with tarot cards."

  "This seems to have some kind of meaning. 'Judgment' is the motive and purpose, and 'Emperor' may represent the woman who just disappeared, and the tarot cards covering her body..."

  Es was stuck in the middle of the analysis. He looked at Celt, who continued:

  "I think so too. She should belong to a new secret organization. After committing a crime, she covered the dead target with tarot cards as a sign to announce to other members that the target has been solved and to show her existence to the outside world."

  But last time, all the cards sprinkled on the dead were the same big card. This time, it seemed that all the big and small cards in the same deck were used. Maybe it was the difference in style between different members. "Queen" and "Emperor", huh, is she provoking the Augustus family...

  Celt recalled the internal military information and tried to find other similar cases.

  "Maybe you can find out all this if you catch up with the mysterious woman just now."

  "God's Singer" looked at Celt, as if he remembered at this time that the military's Beyonders were also responsible for the extraordinary events in Backlund.   

  He was a little late, and only saw the female figure fall to the ground and then disappear. She must have used some method of fast movement. There are too many extraordinary sequences with this ability. Even the high-sequence in the military can do this through magical items.

  With this ability alone, it is impossible to determine the identity of the other party, but as long as Sester uses the teleportation ability to block the other party, then...

  "She is only a mid-sequence, at most Sequence 6, but she has angel-level anti-divination," Sester glanced at the archbishop who was often late for important events, "I think we should have some respect for the big man behind her. Maybe you can try to negotiate?"

  Ace Snake did not answer.

  An angel, even an angel of those paths who are not good at fighting, can just move his fingers, and even if there is a mid-sequence extraordinary in every room of this villa, they will die silently, without making such a big fuss.

  Unless, this ritual-like scene has some special meaning, or the angel himself is not convenient to take action, but sent a subordinate to deal with it.

  Go to track, to provoke this angel, or his subordinates?

  The two were silent for a moment, and tacitly decided to report it later instead of discussing whether they should chase after him.

  They continued to search every corner of the restaurant separately, intending to piece together clues to see what happened.

  Outside the villa, a team of Punishers arrived in a carriage and began to block the scene and drive away the people with the assistance of the police.

  ————

  "Let's stop here. It should be not far from Minsk Street."

  Angel said.

  After she met up with Sherlock, she ran more than one kilometer along the sewer, away from Kapin's residence, and came to the other side of the Cherwood District.

  At this time, the effect of her "magic pocket watch" had long passed. The next 12 hours would be difficult. Fortunately, the sewer environment in the Cherwood District was slightly better than that in the East District and Backlund Bridge District, otherwise their one-kilometer journey would be extremely difficult.

  Although it was already dawn, there were many people in Backlund who were so extravagant that they lit gas lamps during the day. After sending off this enthusiastic detective, Angel would continue to return to the safe house in the East District through the sewer and wait for the negative effects of the pocket watch to disappear.

  A ray of sunlight shone through the underground manhole cover above their heads, illuminating the small area around them. The two stood still in the light.

  Angel took out a copper penny and threw it to Moriarty - this was the "reward" for the commission agreed in advance. The latter took it and it bounced up with a "ding" sound. The head of "George III" shone brightly in the sun.

  "The head indicates affirmation. I think you are fortune-telling the safety of those girls?"

  Looking at the familiar coin fortune-telling, Angel asked with a smile.

  After the discussion and arrangement before the battle and the opponent's performance in the battle, including the familiar "flame jump" and "paper man substitute", she already knew that this detective was Sequence 7 of the "Fortune Teller" path, "Magician", which made her claim of "fortune teller master" yesterday seem so ridiculous.

  But compared with this embarrassment, she was more confused.

  At the first "Eye of Wisdom" gathering, Moriarty was like an ordinary person who knew only a little about the field of mysticism. Because he had offended the Beyonder, he was embarrassed to find a way to survive, and then took the potion and became an Beyonder.

  But if so, he was promoted from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7 in a month. Even Angel, who knew the "acting method" and could "act in advance", felt ashamed.

  More likely, he lied to others and hid his Beyonder identity. He was already a Beyonder, and even Sequence 7 at that time, which made his experience of dealing with a mid-sequence Beyonder with a magical item of 400 pounds credible.

  Moreover, his incredible "spiritualization" ability obviously did not belong to the "magician" sequence. In addition to possessing a magic pocket watch, Angel also fought with a magician of the Secret Order, and the other party did not show similar abilities. Spiritualization may belong to the subsequent sequence of magicians, but if Moriarty was Sequence 6, he would not be anxious to ask for help from a group of lower-sequence Beyonders who were not as strong as him at the Beyonder gathering.

  So he must have some magical item that allowed him to transform into an armored crown ghost, able to pass through buildings to bury explosives, able to exert negative effects by contacting the body, and even able to hurt the Beyonders in the entire restaurant by screaming.

  Of course, everyone has secrets. She didn't ask in detail. The two of them had only worked together for a short time and could not be considered acquaintances. Didn't she also not reveal the existence of the "Ring of Madness" and the "Secret Holy Symbol"?

  However, the magician, the fortune teller's Sequence 7...

  If he is still alive, he should be a "magician" by now, right?

  Looking at the penny with the head facing up, Angel felt a little disappointed.

  (End of this chapter)