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Chapter 66: Leave it to you, Rust

The illusion shattered into countless mottled fragments.

The sky, the ground, and every direction were covered with blood-stained white silk threads, like a giant spider's nest.

Outside the window, the distorted red moon was still surging and wriggling.

Rast's spirit returned to his body along the spiritual path.

He rubbed his forehead and took a deep breath, and the discomfort caused by his spiritual return was slightly alleviated.

According to the "Fool's Library", Hiltina's self-will should have broken through the illusion.

As soon as this thought arose.

The next moment, he saw the sudden shining light like the morning star in front of him.

The tip of the sword dragged a thin silver light in the air, cutting and piercing at a terrifying speed, leaving a cross-shaped trajectory.

One ten-thousandth of a second later, the huge cocoon in front of Last was annihilated into nothingness in the gust of wind blasted by the rapier.

Hiltina emerged from the cocoon, and the overwhelming silk threads did not touch her slender body at all.

She sheathed the Twinkling Morning Star and came to Rast's side. Together they stared at the flesh-and-blood moon that replaced the moon in the night sky outside the window.

"Is this the mastermind behind Frozen Water Town?"

"Considering the calamity reverberations that restrict the entry of third-tier night travelers, isn't this level of enemy a bit too much?"

There was a hint of shock in Hiltina's voice, but no fear.

"This red moon made of flesh and blood is not a real creature, but merely an illusory projection with no real personality."

Luster smiled.

His pupils turned silver-white, with a mysterious color flowing in them, and the "Eye of Prying Mysteries" was activated silently.

"A creature that can take on the image of the moon must be at least a true evil god."

"If its true form truly descends, then there's no point in us resisting. We can just wait to die... The Night World's Echoes of Disaster may be dangerous, but they won't arrange such a mission where you're guaranteed to die."

He slowly scanned everything in Dongshui Town with his silver-white eyes.

"Of course, being able to materialize a projection of an evil god, even if it's just an illusion and superficial, is enough to explain a lot."

"'Vermilion Moon', I use this name to refer to the projection of the evil god in the night sky... And the culprit behind the current strange situation in Frozen Water Town is a pollutant associated with 'Vermilion Moon', just like the pollutant sculpture in Deep Blue Harbor."

"However, the sculpture in Deep Blue Harbor is sealed, and the evil god behind the Iron Cross Plague seems to be restricted in his interference in the world. He can only passively create certain coincidences and be passively carried by the cultists, leaking his aura and causing Iron Cross contamination."

"And right now, the pollutants in this town seem to have entered a state of activation... They're even actively creating a domain, enveloping the entire town in this blood mist."

This reminded Last of the description he read in the diary of the shore keeper at the lighthouse when he first entered this remnant of the disaster.

Starting with the outbreak of the Iron Cross Plague... the order of the Sixth Epoch after the Cataclysm seems to be increasingly broken.

The gods who were originally in a different dimension from the present world and could only interfere with the present world through means such as cultists, were able to descend frequently after the catastrophe.

And those pollutants that were originally sealed or inactive and could only passively wait for the opportunity to come have become much more active after the disaster.

No longer needing to create coincidences or rely on the driving of others, he can actively release his power and destroy countless human towns.

It is precisely because of this that the once prosperous civilization of the Sixth Epoch became riddled with holes, and humanity could only linger under the shadow of alien races and disasters.

Luster withdrew his thoughts.

He looked out the window at the Frozen Water Town shrouded in endless silk threads.

"These threads are the means by which pollutants corrode living things, enveloping all living beings and creatures in a dream they weave, like a cocoon of mist."

"Once completely lost in the dream, your soul and self-will will be erased by these threads," Hiltina interrupted Rast's narration. "You'll become a puppet with only a physical body, controlled only by these strings, right?"

"Yes."

Last nodded slightly and looked at Hiltina with some surprise.

He did not share the "Eye of Secrets" with Hiltina this time, so he had no idea how Hiltina got this information.

After all, all of Hiltina's abilities are focused on strengthening herself and fighting, so she probably doesn't have any detection skills.

"My intuition told me that."

Hiltina smiled, and there was some inexplicable meaning in her smile.

Intuition?

Luster was slightly stunned.

But the next moment, the voice in his ear told him the answer.

wow-

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A faint sound was heard in the thick fog.

The sound was very strange, like the sound of a chick pecking open an eggshell and breaking out.

It was as if the coffin lid in the grave was pushed open, and the rotten corpse saw the light of day again.

At first, it was just one or two subtle sounds that people subconsciously ignored.

But soon, that subtle sound expanded into hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands...

There was a rustling sound, as if coming from all directions.

boom--

Luster jerked his gun out, and the muzzle of the revolver shot out a burst of fire into the empty darkness.

The bullet shot out with a swirl, then quickly sank into the floor, leaving only sparks and a few uneven bullet holes on the ground.

At the same time, in the darkness where Last was shooting, shadows suddenly began to riot wildly.

Like boiling ink, several spears formed by shadows shot out towards Last's body.

Snapped--

In a flash, Rast quickly switched the card equipped in the "Fool's Library" from the original "'Hermit' Ishtar" to "'Chariot' Hiltina".

The silver light in his eyes quickly faded, and Night Blade's "Eye of Secrets" lost its effect.

But in contrast...Last regained the long stage of the chariot sequence and some of the abilities of Hiltina's "Infinite Sword" Night Blade.

"Intuition" is activated.

No extra thinking required.

Just based on the sound of the shadow spear breaking through the air and the changes in light in the room, Last instantly determined the optimal solution at the moment.

The trajectory of the shadow spear evolved into a clear and distinct trajectory in Rast's mind.

Then, in a fleeting moment, he turned sideways and slid, avoiding them all with a gap of millimeters.

While dodging sideways, Last quickly loaded new ammunition into his revolver.

It was not the ordinary full-metal jacket bullet, but a black bullet with intricate runes engraved on the bullet head, like a work of art.

This is custom ammunition that Last had commissioned from the "House of Ashes" at Starry University, a company specializing in weapon forging, to be made specifically for his "Iron Moon" heavy-hitting revolver.

Alchemical Bullet "Demon-Breaking Bullet".

Compared with ordinary full-metal jacket bullets, the physical lethality of this type of ammunition is insignificant.

Its only effect is to "break demons" as its name suggests.

It can destroy the normal flow of magic circuits, and has unimaginable special attack capabilities against Night Blades, Sequence abilities, and other extraordinary fields.

The black bullet, amplified by "Infinite Martial Arts", shot out from the muzzle of the revolver.

Perhaps because the practice cost of shooting is lower than that of swinging a sword, every time Last shoots, the permanent increase in lethality brought by "Infinite Martial Arts Training" can only be described as negligible.

But during the few days at Star University, Last fired tens of thousands of bullets. Such a large amount of practice has greatly improved his shooting skills.

If he returned to Deep Blue Harbor again, even without using armor-piercing bullets, Last would be confident that he could use ordinary ammunition to penetrate the steel diaphragm of the Iron Cross's heart with one shot.

boom.

It was clear that the direction in which Last's revolver was aimed was still the empty shadow from before.

But this time, the magic-destroying bullet did not sink into the ground as silently as before.

Instead, there was a loud roar as bullets entered the flesh and pierced through the body.

In that corner, there was an area that was originally dormant quietly, with only a faint shadow visible. But at this moment, the shadow suddenly twisted.

The shadow spread out like ink, transforming into a human figure wrapped in shadow.

The silver-white thorn flashed and disappeared in mid-air.

Almost at the moment when the shadow began to twist and transform under the effect of the "Magic-Breaking Bullet", transforming from a shadow into a human form, Hiltina's crystal-like rapier pierced through.

The twisted human figure wrapped in shadows had its neck pierced by Shiltina's "Shining Morning Star," instantly creating a huge bloody hole.

His figure fell to the ground and disintegrated like a shadow. He twitched slightly and then stopped moving.

at the same time.

Strands of silk threads condensed from the blood mist also appeared silently in the air, detached from the shadowy figure, and then disappeared.

"Roya."

"Member of the reconnaissance team, ranked twenty-seventh in the Starry Obelisk, Night Blade's skill is 'Shadow Jump'."

Looking at the figure lying on the ground and twitching, Hiltina spoke softly and determined the other party's identity.

"To be more precise, the person here right now is no longer Roya."

"But after his soul and self were devoured by the blood mist... that contamination controlled his body and Night Blade, leaving him a mere puppet."

Luster added.

At the same time, he also understood what those thousands of unusual rustling sounds that had just echoed throughout the town were.

Since it is a woven cocoon, there will inevitably be a moment when it breaks out of the cocoon.

However, for those creatures who are trapped in dreams and have never been able to break free from the dream by their own will—

The products that emerge from the cocoon are naturally no longer their original selves, but puppets and dolls whose consciousness and soul have been erased and whose bodies are controlled by the blood mist.

Among these puppets that have been transformed into slaves of blood mist threads, there are not only the original residents and creatures of Dongshui Town.

Even those night travelers and members of the strategy team who had previously entered the remnant of the disaster and never returned became slaves of the blood mist.

Possessing the Night Blade "Shadow Jump", Roja, who arrived first, was only the first, but definitely not the last...

At this moment, these former teammates of Hiltina and Last, classmates of Star University, were all transformed into cold combat puppets under the control of blood mist threads.

Using the sequence ability and night blade that were originally meant to conquer the night world, he wanted to keep Hiltina and Rust by any means necessary and turn them into puppet companions who had lost their souls and selves like himself.

……

"Seventeen members of the reconnaissance team were lost in the reverberations of the disaster. Excluding Luo Ya, there are sixteen more people."

"Even though most of their Night Blades are Reconnaissance and Concealment-type... as members of the Clearance Team, they are at least Tier 3."

"It was a tough battle indeed."

Last calculated the difference in combat power in his mind.

In addition, there are the original residents of Frozen Water Town and other animals.

Even if they were originally ordinary people, after being controlled by the blood mist threads, they would lose the restraint of pain and would likely be strengthened by the blood mist, just like the Iron Cross before.

To some extent, this was an even more difficult and dangerous situation than the previous battle in Deep Blue Harbor... After all, in this remnant of the disaster, Rast did not have the experience of rewinding more than 8,000 times like he had in Deep Blue Harbor, and he did not have the experience of memorizing almost all the details inside the port.

And, most importantly—

Even if they destroyed all the puppets controlled by the blood mist, it did not mean that they could escape the aftermath of the disaster in Dongshui Town.