The blood-stained spear, seemingly from an ancient era beyond reckoning, absorbed all presence in the room and pierced the body of " The Saint of Secrets," Botis.
The sturdy, brown-haired figure of Botis suddenly blurred, transforming into a pair of deep black doors.
At the same time, he appeared behind the "door," existing in two different worlds from that terrifying spear, gazing at each other from afar.
In the next instant, the spear stained with dark red blood pierced through the deep black door and entered the space where Botis was located.
Botis's figure kept retreating and transforming, becoming one virtual door after another. Some of them were composed of two bent stone figures, some had a fist-sized hole next to the door, some were inlaid with silver nails, and some were covered with mysterious patterns. One after another, layer upon layer, countless in number.
Silently, the Spear of Longinus pierced through these illusory doors without stopping, giving the " Saint of Secrets " Botis no chance to escape.
In less than a second, the blood-stained spear, exuding a strong sense of destruction, shattered countless illusory gates, and after its aura noticeably weakened, it finally pierced its target's chest.
Botis's body instantly cracked open with countless fissures, just like a ceramic object that had fallen to the ground.
With a crack, the " Saint of Secrets " turned pitch black, disintegrated into fragments, and scattered all over the ground.
This doesn't seem like his true form, but rather like his shadow.
This was the Shadow Substitute technique that he had " Record " from a Sequence 3 Saint under the " True Creator ".
Of course, without those layers of "doors" weakening the " Spear of Longinus," Botis felt he might very well have shattered along with his shadow.
Having narrowly escaped the attack, Botis, enduring the dizziness in his head and the shock of Cattleya's incomplete Mythical Creature Form, allowed a giant, scaleless, silver-white Serpent to materialize in his eyes.
The Serpent was so large that it filled Botis's eyes, and its surface was covered with dense patterns and symbols that formed one mysterious wheel after another.
It connects end to end, merging with countless illusory rivers, evolving into a vague, unreal, slowly rotating giant wheel, around which various symbols represent different futures.
Suddenly, the remaining black fragments on the ground flew up one after another and Reorganization into Botis.
The " Spear of Longinus," stained with dark red blood, retreated rapidly from one illusory gate after another that was forming at lightning speed, until it returned to the Distortion "black mass."
The aura that instilled intense fear receded like a receding tide and left the room.
The "black mass" covered in cracks and eyeballs wriggled and recovered, transforming back into a woman wearing a dark hood and a black robe with purple patterns.
Everything returned to the state before the " The Ugly Duckling " magic was used.
" The Restart of Fate!"
This is one of the rewards that " Saint of Secrets " Botis received for overthrowing the Abraham Family, Sequence 1 extraordinary ability " Record " from " Angel of Fate " Ouroboros.
Of course, this is vastly different from the original. It can only " Restart " reality for three seconds, and can only " Restart " this one connected room. It can't even affect the entire first floor of the apartment.
As soon as the " Restart " ended, the " Dark Saint " Kisma, who seemed to have been prepared, immediately took action.
The Distortion black shadow originating from Sanguine Count, which he was Grazing, opened its arms as if to embrace the red moon.
The darkness surrounding Cattleya surged, instantly forming illusory yet solid black chains that bound her firmly to the spot.
The flesh and blood that covered the ground, walls, and ceiling surged together and transformed into a knight covered in black full-body armor, wielding a heavy greatsword, exuding an extremely imposing aura.
Two crimson lights flickered slightly through the gaps in the " Black Knight " mask, instantly locking onto the hooded woman beside the pumpkin carriage.
Suddenly, the shadow beneath Cattleya's feet came to life, grabbed her ankle, and surged upwards like water, binding her tightly.
" The Black Knight," " Shadow Domination!"
Then, the giant knight, who seemed to be from a mythical legend and was almost touching the ceiling, took a step and rushed to a place not far from the target, and swung his long, wide and deep greatsword.
On the other side, the " Saint of Secrets," Botis, had a silver-white illusory book rapidly flipping through his eyes, finally settling on one of its pages.
Botis then stretched out his left hand, reaching for the pumpkin carriage from a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and for the mysterious woman in the black robe with purple patterns.
His arm suddenly grew longer, its surface black and sticky, seemingly flowing with an evil liquid.
From these liquids grew pale skulls, eyeballs with prominent blood vessels, tongues with sharp teeth, and all sorts of bizarre things, rapidly spreading a feeling of extreme evil and madness.
Inside the room, the floor instantly cracked, and the few cockroaches that were still alive stiffened and died.
This is an attack from some state of the " God's Abomination " Suah!
When the " Saint of Secrets " Botis was attracted by the " Kindling " glove outside Bayam City, he seemed to just observe for a while, pick up the item, and leave directly. But in reality, he was desperately " Record " the abilities or states of high-ranking beings.
After many failures, he finally got what he wanted thanks to a series of Fate breaks. Of course, he only had time to " Record " one of those encounters.
Beneath this sinister, dark arm, Cattleya's consciousness was tainted with a touch of madness, and she was momentarily unable to mount an effective response.
Furthermore, bound by the shackles of darkness and her own shadow, she could only stand frozen in place, watching helplessly as the greatsword of " Dark Saint " Kisma slashed down and the left hand of " Saint of Secrets " Botis reached for her.
At that moment, an invisible wind suddenly swept through the room, which was no longer separated from the outside by flesh and blood walls.
The wind became violent as soon as it appeared, sweeping towards the minds of the " Saint of Secrets " and the " Dark Saint ".
" Manipulator ", " Mind Storm "
Faced with this mental influence mixed with complex thoughts, Botis was not surprised or flustered; instead, he curled the corners of his mouth and revealed a slight smile.
As the switch to " Restart," he naturally remembered that the Demigod riding in the pumpkin carriage had an assistant of the same level, hidden somewhere outside the dilapidated apartment.
The reason he continued to focus on the visible enemies was to lure out the Demigod lurking in the shadows!
Between the " Restart of Fate " and the " God's Abomination State," Botis quietly Hypnosis himself, allowing him to naturally separate most of his " Worm of Star " to bear the burden when he encountered " Mind Deprivation " or the onslaught of information, leaving only a small number to Manipulation his body and lock onto the "invisible" enemy.
--The previous Awe Dragon Might power and the inability to find the target convinced Botis that what was lurking was a Demigod from the " Spectator " pathway.
With his thoughts paralyzed and blocked, a few small pathways quickly sprang into action, helping Botis to initially pinpoint the source of the attack.
At this moment, however, the thoughts echoing within most of the " Worm of Star " were not the meaningless torrent of information that he had imagined.
In his mind, it was as if a voice spoke thousands upon thousands of words in a single second:
At the bottom of an abandoned castle in the Delaire Forest, there is a double bronze door that seals off the underground pollution. The High-Sequence, the more easily it is affected...
" The Starry Sky is extremely dangerous; unknown entities are watching..."
"' Dark Angel ' is suspected to be the negative personality separated from the Ancient The Sun God..."
What? Botis was taken aback, feeling that these thoughts were both dangerous and irresistibly tempting him to learn more.
In that moment of hesitation, the enemy he had already located vanished once again, escaping his notice, while the " God's Abomination " hand that had been reaching for the pumpkin carriage and the female Demigod also slowed down.
Similarly, " Dark Saint " Kisma was also affected by the " Mind Storm," his movements freezing for a second.
By the time they recovered, Cattleya had opened her mouth and spat out a pea.
The pea instantly grew into thick, green vines, lifting Cattleya towards the door, allowing her to break free from the shackles of darkness and regain some freedom of movement.
When the " Dark Saint's" deep greatsword and the " Saint of Secrets's" pitch-black arm struck her, they merely shattered her shadows, failing to harm the " Mystic."
At this point, Cattleya is like " the Emperor's New Clothes," something that doesn't exist at all, so naturally she won't be hurt!
The next second, the woman in the purple-patterned black robe and dark hood suddenly became transparent and turned into a pile of foam.
The bubbles dispersed quickly, bursting one after another, leaving nothing behind, while the green vines grew all the way to the sky, bursting into flames and illuminating the surrounding streets.
Everything returned to silence; the brief but intense battle at the Demigod level seemed as if it had never happened.
" The Saint of Secrets " Botis and " The Dark Saint " Kisma exchanged a glance, not surprised by the change.
Clearly, after their surprise attack failed, the two enemy Demigod were at a disadvantage and could no longer achieve their objective. Moreover, since they were in Backlund, the longer they stayed, the more dangerous it would be. So, they seized the opportunity and fled the scene.
In addition, they deliberately created a huge commotion to distract Backlund's official forces in order to disrupt the tracking.
As for the " Lemano's Travel Notes " and the Sequence 7 or Sequence 6 " Apprentice " Beyonder, they are both baits that can be discarded.
After nodding slightly, " Saint of Secrets " Botis took out a crystal ball from a hidden pouch in his black robe, made it shine brightly, and then quickly shattered, merging into the void.
He's doing this to avoid being tracked down by the occult.
He dared not linger any longer and planned to " Teleportation " away, return to the Aurora Order headquarters, and then "interrogate" the decoy to find out the truth and decide what to do next.
A second later, Botis's figure became transparent and disappeared, while " Dark Saint " Kisma entered the shadows and sped away, constantly erasing his traces along the way.
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