old dream

Chapter 248 Dark River
"The City of Silence."

When Nancy pronounced that name, there was a slight but scalp-numbing creaking sound all around.

That is the sound of high-density ether condensing and forming.It was as if there were ancient ice layers tens of meters thick, slowly squeezing each other in the air.

A figure began to agglomerate from the bones, and in the long, lightless night, those crystals did not reflect any color.

"Oh...is that so?"

Herwig sneered for a long time.

Nancy patted the dust on the hunting clothes, and at the same time looked up at her terrifying opponent.Enemies at this level can no longer be measured by the heavenly rank system. After all, it was the standard hundreds of years ago, and only underground wizards with no information are still using it.

But the ever-evolving witchcraft has been beyond recognition for centuries and has reached another level.

"What are you, a nightman?" Herwig said in a jewel-like voice:

"Has Shengsheng forgotten the lesson again?"

Because of the silent church hymns overnight, Herwig is called the city of silence.

Danalo San Province after the prophecy of the catastrophe is just a fig leaf for the Principality of Edmond.And the Jackdaw Hunting Group under its jurisdiction is still allowed to exist in Stade, the reason is that they abide by their duties and never participate in any disputes of interest among the principality's upper echelons.

There was a slight smile on Nancy's face, of course it couldn't be an order from Danalo.After all, just the unknown death of Prohibition Commissioner Linus has already frightened those nobles in the Holy Province.

Nancy hooked her toes randomly among the weeds and kicked a black iron rod.Her rough-skinned but slender fingers brushed across the stick, and a moonlight-like halo began to spread.At the same time, another slender arc of light burst out from the end of the stick.

It was a sickle, as if condensed by the light of Ziyue.The thick spiritual essence slowly flowed down from Ziyue Passage without encountering any obstacles, because the Silent City still hasn't locked the surrounding ether.

"Looks like tonight, you won't be able to silence witchcraft anymore."

Nancy said as she looked at Helvish whose skin had condensed.

The sub-moon, the female moon, the sun, the ether channels of the three celestial bodies point to the earth at the same time tonight.In addition, this place was originally a wide node in the Stade ether network.So even Helvig couldn't lock all the passages now.

Tonight's interception was definitely not a temporary intention.

Silent City glanced at the abandoned factory building not far away, wanting to ignore Nancy and destroy Colin's ceremony first.But while he was gaining momentum, the moon sickle was already lying across his path.

So Herwig changed his target and planned to crush Nancy first.

"Ding", "Ding".

The instant two blows were blocked by Nancy with the Moon Scythe.As soon as the moonlight was disturbed, it shattered like a broken shadow in the water, but it condensed again the next moment.Therefore, the destructive power was not fully transmitted to Nancy's hands.But even so, the violent air waves caused the hem of her men's hunting jacket to fly up and down. Nan Xi floated back two steps like a butterfly, but she was still nailed to the opponent's forward route.

"Who are you?"

Herwig asked in a deep voice, there should never be such a wizard in the Jackdaw Hunting Squad.Neither the Grand Duke nor he will allow it.

"Why do you have to come and kill Colin?" Nancy asked in confusion:

"Do you think the prophecy of the new century is true?"

Swinging the butcher's knife at the believers, he believed in their demonic words in his heart.

In the 600th year of the new calendar, the fall of the saint of the order at that time triggered the martyrdom of spiritual elements, and Herwig's body was evaporated into dust in an instant.

The moment before his consciousness disappeared, he, who was proficient in ether manipulation, miraculously condensed a body made of pure ether for himself, and survived.

But he also became a ghost who wanders forever between the virtual world and reality.

During the conversation, the two fought several times. Nancy's movements were clumsy left and right, and it seemed that she would lose if she was not careful.But it turned out that Herwig was blocked every time.

"But you had countless chances to kill Colin. Why did you wait until now?" Nancy stood still again and asked quietly.

During the past few weeks, the City of Silence had also been lurking in the ether around Colin, so he deeply knew that the ritual must be stopped, and at this moment his heart became more urgent.

"Is it greed and arrogance?" Nancy said casually:
"Or can you get rid of Edmond's control only on days when the sun doesn't rise anymore?" Nancy showed a cold smile:
"Have you ever thought that Edmond didn't let you come here to protect you?"

Herwig paused.

After the Archduke ordered him not to kill Colin, he stopped communicating with Danalo.

But this kind of information cannot be known by anyone in the sect.

"Who are you?"

"In order to get rid of you, we prepared for four years."

Time is still ticking, and the several great astral ethers will soon completely overlap.

We can't continue to be entangled like this.After several unsuccessful attempts, Helwig immediately let go of his condensed body and began to sneak back into the ethernet.

No one can stop him who has lost his form.

So no one can kill Silent City.

Seeing the opponent's figure gradually fading away, Nancy didn't intend to stop it in a hurry.

"I've been picking the right witchcraft for four long years," she said.

Keep exploring in those dangerous and unpredictable abnormal frequencies.Finally, Nancy learned how to condense the Moon Scythe.

She put the sickle tree across her back and stood upright.Although she is wearing a men's hunting suit, her figure is as graceful as a professional dancer.

"This is really a very weak spell. It can hardly cut anything. Even if it is used as a kitchen knife, it is not good enough."

Nancy said mockingly, closing her eyes at the same time.

The etheric web is flickering, and from a plane beyond the physical senses, Herwig flocks to the old factory building.

At the same time, Nancy stretched out the moon sickle in her hand at an inexplicable angle.Her eyes were still closed, but the Moon Scythe paused in the air, as if it had touched something.

"It's just a coincidence that it happens to be able to cut off the ether."

As the handle of the sickle rotates, it is like changing the phases of the moon, and the brilliance of the moon sickle also explodes.

The next moment, the sickle had already been swung down, and there was a crackling sound like a broken mirror.Helwig in the ether had to re-condense his body, but it can be seen from the half-formed skeleton that his left arm has been cut off.

Only then did he realize that in the series of fights just now, all the etheric interconnection channels within a range of more than ten meters nearby had been cut off by Nancy.

So his foothold has been completely stripped from Stade's ether network.

Like a fish trapped in a dry puddle.

Herwig stared at the black hair and eyes of the other party, who was a nightman.

Because there are no fixed "coordinates" and will not be polluted by abnormal frequencies, nightmen will be used in hunting groups in all countries of the alliance.Even because of the convenience of status and the cheapness of life, some intelligence agencies also have this tendency.But Herwig did not support this approach from the beginning to the end, because he felt that it was for a small profit for a while, and it planted huge hidden dangers for the future.

They're not human after all.

"Who are you guys!"

asked Herwig one last time.If he still understood the attack as an internal struggle in the Principality before, he now understands that the Nancy in front of him does not belong to any known force in the Principality.

This is not a threat to the principality, but a threat to the alliance and even all human beings.

"The dark river deep in the ground." Nan Xi put the moon sickle behind her again and said quietly:

"Forever flowing."

(End of this chapter)