Ronan ended his call with Blood Demon and shifted his full attention to Death Witch. He wondered whether he should give her a warning. After all, she was technically a client—though in her current stealthy state, she did not look much like one.
As he pondered this, the Aberrant falcon doubly parasitized by the "straw" network and Death Witch began to flicker with hazy spiritual light. Death Witch detached herself from it. Yet on that separated, indistinct spirit body, there was clearly an even vaguer and more ethereal "straw."
So the straw network was truly attached to Death Witch?
Before the thought had fully formed, the Aberrant falcon's magnificent body suddenly shriveled and withered, turning into a desiccated corpse that plummeted from the sky. At the same time, a streak of bloody light entered Death Witch's hazy spirit body and swirled within it.
At that moment, the Demon Rune beside Ronan stirred slightly.
Ronan glanced at it, then extended both his gaze and perception into the void.
At this instant, bloody light flowed across the Altar Spiderweb closely linked to the Demon Rune. A gamble began and ended in an instant.
Its corresponding location was where Death Witch stood, more than three hundred kilometers north of Xi City.
Ronan had not set up this game. The "straw" network, Death Witch, and the marked Aberrant falcon had together enacted this "three-way gamble." But in fact, at that moment, the "straw" network and Death Witch had become one. Winner Takes All, and they obtained all the Aberrant falcon's vitality.
The bloody light transformed from that vitality circled briefly around Death Witch's separated spirit body before settling. Part of it then flowed through the ethereal thin tube on the spirit body and entered the "straw" network, where it was swiftly divided up and