The red moon returns

Chapter 496 Game
This is a confrontation between calculation and counter-calculation, a game of trap and counter-trap.

This is a gamble with your life at stake.

The attackers set a most dangerous and hidden trap for Lynch and his two companions.

How should the trap be set to make it most likely to lure people into the trap?

Trying to make it invisible is certainly one way, but no matter how concealed the visual effect is, as long as the target is careful enough, the trap may be discovered.

Therefore, the truly effective trap is to make people relax their vigilance. In other words, when you think there should be a trap here, there is really a sophisticated and hidden trap here. So when you are proud of thinking that the trap has been discovered as expected, the real trap has appeared behind you.

Yes, the effective trap is not set visually, but in people's hearts.

That's exactly what the attacker did, putting the attacker in the exact spot at the exact time, and performing a textbook psychological trap technique in a matter of seconds.

The first psychological trap is to attack the target when they are unprepared and place the attacker next to the target from a distance.

The second psychological trap is to use three cannon fodders to paralyze the target's vigilance, use one strong man to attract everyone's attention, and create ample space for another strong man to attack.

Once the target is mentally prepared, escapes from the killing situation to a safe area, and thinks that this is the entire trap, the real trap will quietly arrive.

[Power: Shadow, Ability: Shadow Escape]

The attacker can use this ability to directly emerge from the target's shadow and launch a fatal attack. This is an extremely dangerous assassination ability in itself, and coupled with the previous preparations, the target is almost certain to die.

But they were up against Sir Lynch Leviev.

As a otaku, Lynch didn't understand these conspiracies, but he was willing to be on guard against the insidious enemy, the Shadow Alliance, with the utmost caution, so he decided to take a gamble at the beginning. Since he didn't know what the other party could do, he might as well take out all his cards and go all in.

The trump card included the most disgusting thing, the Hound of Tindalos. When he realized that the enemy had launched an attack, he began to chant the spell, and he did not stop no matter how urgent the situation was. Finally, at the last moment, he gave the attacker a surprise.

The ups and downs of life happen in just a second.

The sudden change made the attacker's face change drastically, and he subconsciously took a step back.

In this step, blue smoke has formed, and several strange hounds have emerged from the sharp angle of the attacker's dagger. As soon as they are formed, their cold eyes are fixed on the attacker. Obviously, the victim dog he killed has marked him, and the same victim dog at another time has come to take revenge.

The attacker cursed and swung his dagger. The powerful force easily defeated the fully formed hound. However, as he swung the dagger, more mist groups emerged from around him.

The attacker let out a howl and disappeared into the shadows. When he reappeared, he was already at the living room window. He flew out of the window and landed in the courtyard.

The servants passing by stared in amazement at a stranger jumping out of the window. Before they could react, they saw several familiar blue mists emerging from the pruning shears nearby and rushing out of the mansion in pursuit of the fleeing attacker.

Lynch breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that the attacker had panicked in the end and wasted his last chance.

At this point, he had already played all his cards, and the attacker only needed to stab him again to kill him. Although he could rely on the substitute puppet to escape death, the miracle light would inevitably be snatched away by the attacker. Although this did not help the opponent's situation, it could at least allow the opponent to find a scapegoat before dying, and complete the mission by the way.

But the other party obviously had no experience of being chased by a dog, and made the wrong choice, choosing to escape at the first opportunity. This made Lin Qi smile a little, it doesn't matter if you lack experience, you will soon accumulate rich experience, as long as you can surpass the gods before you die, maybe you will have a chance to start over.

As soon as a smile appeared on my face, I heard another howl in my ears.

When the other attacker who controlled the cold saw that the situation was not right, he chose to retreat immediately. His power suddenly burst out, forcing back Ms. Skye Milt who was entangled by him. Then, before Lynch and the other two rushed over, he followed his companions out of the window and rushed into the courtyard.

Ms. Skye was stunned and immediately chased after him. As soon as she reached the courtyard, she found that Lin Qi and the other two had followed him out.

You want to run away after someone stepped on your head?
In the courtyard, the assassin had already gone far away being chased by a pack of hounds, while the other attacker was fleeing out of the yard. The force that sent them in seemed to have failed at this point. He could not disappear on the spot like he had come, and could only escape on his legs.

Seeing that he had run quite a distance and was not far from the courtyard wall, Lynch knew he could not catch up with him. Reluctantly, he fired three consecutive Death Coils at the opponent's back. Unfortunately, the opponent was already out of range, and the green skeleton dissipated halfway through its flight.

Damn, he ran away. What if... huh?

Just as he was secretly resentful, Lynch suddenly felt something was wrong, and seemed to see something strange out of the corner of his eye.

When they looked up, they saw a person floating above their heads, looking down at them.

He was a man in his thirties, with a handsome face and an aristocratic temperament, but he was completely naked and was smiling at the people below.

The smile was elegant and kind, but some parts were a bit eye-catching. Before the three people could react, the man raised his head and pointed at the back of the fleeing attacker.

"Prosperity will eventually end, life will eventually wither, and at the end of the passing years, everything will turn to dust."

As he chanted softly, the attacker he pointed at seemed to have no idea what was happening behind him and continued running forward.

With the first step, his body gradually became hunched, and his golden hair turned gray in an instant.

In the second step, the body shrank rapidly, and the clothes blown by the wind wrapped around the body, revealing that the body had become like a skeleton.

As soon as he took the third step, his body collapsed to the ground as if it had fallen apart. Then his clothes became tattered and old at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally, together with the body underneath the clothes, they turned into a pile of dust.

[Power: Time, Ability: Years]

The man smiled at Lynch again, but the next moment, countless clouds of blue smoke spewed out from all over the yard, almost covering the entire courtyard.

So the next moment, the man suddenly disappeared into the air with a stiff smile, just as abruptly as when he appeared, and the gathering blue mist seemed to have lost its target and dissipated into the air again.

Lin Qi and the other two were left staring in amazement at the corpse that had turned to ashes, as if they had just experienced an unreal dream.

The cards have been revealed and the winner has been decided.

The gamble finally came to an end.

(End of this chapter)