Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1085 Each has its own advantages

Can those puppets really walk on their own?
Were they directed by a team of "experimenters" who were on duty to replace the puppet soldiers in the underground mausoleum? Now that a riot had broken out in Morola, shouldn't the law enforcers have gone to protect the church?

Or is it that the iron puppet has truly become a puppet of the Sealed Object and is patrolling on its own?
Several questions popped up in Elaine's mind one after another. She immediately held her breath, hid in the corner, used her body to cover the dim light of the lantern, and listened carefully to the noise coming from not far away.

Bang, bang, bang.

The slow, dull footsteps came closer and closer to her and stopped about twenty meters away.

Then, a voice that sounded familiar to her, but with an extra metallic texture, came:

"Look what I've got, a blindfolded, apprehensive mouse.

"Did you come here specially to be my subordinate?"

It was "Count" Gu Xin... Even though she knew that the other party was provoking her, the ridicule and malice contained in his words made Elaine's blood boil, and she wanted to stand up and curse at him.

She simply stood up, holding the lantern, pointed her blindfolded eyes in the direction of the sound, and counterattacked without any hesitation:
"You were not in the cathedral square directing the riot you instigated, so why did you come to the underground mausoleum? Did you want to find a good place to lie down in advance?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she tiptoed silently away from the place where the sound was made, trying to mislead the other party.

But no matter which direction she walked, Elaine could feel that someone was following her closely, as if there was someone standing in front of her who did not need to be blindfolded and dared to see directly in the underground mausoleum.

Just now, Gu Xin recognized me directly. Is he really not afraid of violating the taboos in the mausoleum? What's going on with the heavy footsteps of the soldier dolls... Yilian thought while waiting for the other party's answer, but what followed was the sound of footsteps getting closer.

Bang, bang.

The iron puppet took a few steps closer to him.

"Of course I came here to find that item. Aren't you the same?" Gu Xin's slightly sarcastic words came from the same position, as if they came directly from the tall soldier puppet, "Are you interested in being my subordinate? When I get the sealed object, you will have the opportunity to pray to the great existence and gain the power of demigod and half-human, surpassing mortals!"

This is the philosophy of the "Iron Cross". They always think that extraordinary powers should be revealed in the world, and the status of extraordinary people should be far higher than that of ordinary people... Elaine hesitated for a moment, and continued to ask:

"Great Being? Aren't you following the 'True Creator'?"

This question made Gu Xin silent for a long time. Just when Elaine changed her position for the third time but was still locked in sight, she heard the answer with the sound of metallic friction:

"This is not a conflict. That great being also serves the true Creator, but He gave me the power to control the puppets here, to be able to...see..."

The voice seemed to be obscured by something and became increasingly low, until it was almost inaudible. Elaine leaned forward involuntarily, frowning, and subconsciously said:

"what?"

But her brain, which had to work at full capacity to prevent unexpected events because her inspiration was suppressed, suddenly burst into thoughts:

The great being that Gu Xin mentioned gave him the power to manipulate the puppet soldiers, so he gained a vision that did not belong to him. This is almost an absolute advantage in the underground mausoleum. In this underground mausoleum where everyone regards others as competitors, why would he want to recruit her as his subordinate?

Why did his always loud voice suddenly become low?
Knowing that I can't see, why do you want to expose the location of your voice?
Elaine came to the conclusion quickly without any hesitation. She reached into the huge ruby ​​of the "Rose Necklace" on her chest with her spiritual power and found the soul of the "Apostle of Desire" from it.

Malice perception!

A bright yellow color like magma appeared inside the gem, and a line of sight as sharp as a blade immediately appeared in Elaine's perception. The sound did not come from the steel puppet in front, but from an enemy hidden in the branch of the underground passage on the side.

That was where Gu Xin really was. He used a puppet that could see and speak, and the cooperation of the "great being", to attract Elaine's attention, intending to take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack!

As if he sensed that Elaine had discovered him, Gu Xin immediately changed his crouching posture and produced a white-hot spear with a hint of green flame in his hand. In the vision shared by his "soldiers", Elaine's neck, heart and other vital parts were highlighted like torches.

whoosh-

The spear that harvested lives was thrown out from his hand, aiming directly at Elaine's chest. The soldier puppet that was originally standing more than ten meters away from her, holding the giant sword in both hands, strode towards her. The heavy footsteps caused stone chips to fly in the stone-paved underground passage.

Long before entering the underground mausoleum, he borrowed the power of "war" from the great being with the help of Iris Medici's prayers, and possessed a power exceeding Sequence 5. In Morola, where demigods cannot enter, this will be the key power to determine victory or defeat!
And when I find the sealed object and dedicate it to the great existence, this power will truly belong to me... Before the imagination in his mind faded, the flaming spear that shot out suddenly exploded in the air. With the sound of a mirror shattering, the flames obscured Elaine and the charging puppets, leaving Gu Xin's "sight" blank.

"slow!"

From the depths of the flames came Elaine's filthy words that sounded like they came from the abyss.

Her "Rose Necklace" was still in the state of herding the "Apostle of Desire". In her anxiety, she could only use one hand to create the flame of destruction that was a combination of cursed black flames and high-temperature flames to block Gu Xin's flaming spear that was obviously stronger than the "Reaper". With the other hand, she threw down the lantern, pointed at the soldier puppet rushing towards her, and activated "Slowness" to almost freeze its body as it raised the giant sword and was about to chop down.

Afterwards, Elaine took the initiative to use the "mirror substitute" to make her real body appear above the two-meter-tall soldier puppet. She determined the location of the puppet's weak point, the neck, through the perception of "malicious perception" and stomped on it hard.

Infused with incandescent and deep black flames, the kick, which had both the power of "harvesting" and "charged attack", directly penetrated the thick metal armor of the iron puppet. The compressed energy was injected into it, and it repeatedly surged inside the empty full body armor, with the energy superimposed on each other.

boom--

The exterior turned red, and the softened and melted armor exploded from the inside, with metal droplets flying everywhere, dyeing the entire passage with an orange glow like dusk.

Gu Xin, who had lost his external vision and had to reconnect to another puppet, was able to see the situation on the battlefield clearly. His expression was dull with shock and he could hardly believe the puppet's eyes.

It gained vitality due to the pollution of the underground mausoleum, and was "connected" by him. It was almost equivalent to half of the Sequence 5 Iron Doll, but it was "harvested" by Elaine's kick?

How was that terrifying black flame created? Even if he became a true demigod, the flame of the "Iron Knight" could only reach cyan with a hint of blue... Didn't Lisa, the "pain" witch, say that the other party was just a "reaper" who possessed a magical item of the witch path and could use a mirror substitute?

Gu Xin immediately realized that he had misjudged the enemy's strength, and without hesitation, he manipulated the other two steel puppets behind him to step forward. One raised his bow and aimed, and the other swung a huge hammer and smashed it at Elaine.

He held his breath, squatted on the ground, and slowly moved away from the passage with almost imperceptible steps, preparing to "connect" a few more puppets to strengthen his team, and then try to attack the strange woman in front of him who had both the courage of a hunter and the charm of a witch.

But before Gu Xin had left far, his already dry throat began to itchy, and then it felt stinging as if he had inhaled a stream of hot air.

Oh no... He resisted the urge to cough and quietly took a few steps, moving a little further away from Elaine who was entangled by the puppet soldiers and temporarily unable to escape.

But the dizziness and fatigue that followed the pain in his throat made him realize that he had been unknowingly affected by the disease of the "Pain" witch.

Combining the previous mirror substitute and the terrifying black flames, no matter how stupid Gu Xin was, he realized that Elaine was not just a "reaper", but a dual-path extraordinary person who also possessed some of the power of the witch's path!
How can this be?

The questions in Gu Xin's mind burst out from his mouth along with the cough he could no longer hold back. Elaine, who couldn't find Gu Xin because the hostility had disappeared, immediately turned over here and gathered a ball of black and high-temperature flames of destruction in her hand again.

At this moment, the puppet holding the bow and arrow dropped its longbow and rushed towards her with both hands, while the puppet holding the giant hammer swung its weapon without any defense and smashed it horizontally towards her.

Both "soldiers" received orders from Gusin to "stop the enemy at all costs."

Elaine could only crush the black flames in her hands, allowing the flames that could devour spirits and burn matter to explode radially with herself as the center, covering the two tall steel puppets at the same time. She then used the invisible spider silk to swing into the air, and with a graceful posture with her legs almost completely split apart and her body constantly spinning, she kicked the back of the puppets' necks one after another.

The "harvest" targeting their weaknesses instantly destroyed their fragile necks. Before the black flames were extinguished, the two lifeless steel armors fell to the ground with a dull sound.

And Gu Xin's suppressed cough had faded away, with only a faint echo reaching Elaine's ears.

Among the hunters I have seen, he is considered to be the fastest runner... After continuously using the black flame that consumed a lot of spiritual energy, Elaine did not risk chasing after him. Instead, she found the lantern she had thrown away based on her perception of the flames, and put herself in the warm and safe light again.

"It seems that it's not just me. Other Beyonders who dare to enter the underground mausoleum also have their own advantages... The 'great existence' that Gu Xin mentioned allows him to borrow the power of the puppets. Once these iron puppets form a group, it will be very troublesome... I don't know if Lisa of the 'Witch Cult' has hidden her power. I don't believe that she is just an ordinary Sequence 5...

"Guxin must have gone to look for other puppets. I can take this opportunity to enter the depths of the mausoleum in advance and ambush him, and look for Lisa's trace..."

After thinking for a moment in the lingering heat, Elaine silently walked to the wall, found the direction according to the map in her mind, and continued to walk deeper into the mausoleum.

After passing through several winding passages and downward stairs, she regained the familiar feeling she had when she first entered the mausoleum. In addition to the map, her mind also contained the scene of moving forward along the passage with rusty lamps hanging on it.

The hall with so many corpses piled up that it almost forms a mountain is coming!

(End of this chapter)