Chapter 262

But at this moment, the corpse of a beheaded wizard suddenly turned into mud, and then a figure suddenly emerged from the ground on the other side.

Sophie was indeed not dead yet. As soon as he appeared, he held a doll in his hand. He reached out and wiped his bleeding neck, smeared the blood on the doll, and then aimed the doll at Murphy.

The latter felt something was wrong and immediately flashed in front of the other party, preparing to cut off his head with a sword, but the other party was faster, slapping the doll onto his own body.

"Thump!"

Murphy seemed to hear a thumping of his heart, and immediately after, his body suddenly froze in place.

And opposite, Sophie Christian also stood there with his body stiff, motionless.

The two stared at each other from a distance of less than a meter, but both seemed to have been hit by a Petrificus Totalus spell, unable to move a single finger.

Even, Murphy felt that he couldn't mobilize his own magic power at all, and this situation seemed to be the same on the opposite side. In Murphy's magic vision, the magic power on Sophie Christian was also like a pool of stagnant water.

Curse?

The speed at which this curse was activated was much faster than Alexei's curse, and it didn't seem to have so many prerequisite steps. But perhaps precisely because of this reason, its side effect was that the curse caster was also "frozen" together.

This was probably the reason why the other party didn't use this curse at the beginning.

But now, in the other party's view, he undoubtedly occupied the advantage.

After all, this was Grand Duke Ivan's mansion. Except for Murphy, everyone else was his own people. Even the soldiers lying on the ground were not completely without the ability to act. If one stood up, they could pick up a sword and slice off Murphy's head.

But at this moment, "bang," the door from the courtyard to the inner hall was suddenly pushed open.

Two teenagers rushed out. Both were covered in blood, but their eyes were shining with fanatical light.

They saw Murphy and immediately shouted: "Lord Murphy! We have brought you the heads of Father and Eldest Brother!"

Sophie Christian was startled. He recognized these as the voices of George and Alexander.

How could they come here?

And, Lord Murphy?

What heads?

But immediately, his confusion was answered. George Frederick and Alexander Frederick each carried a dripping head and came between Murphy and him.

He immediately discovered that the head in George's hand was none other than Ivan Frederick.

The Grand Duke... died?

"Lord Murphy, look, this is my father's head, I just cut it off." George Frederick held up the head as if asking for credit. "He was so shocked before he died, he seemed completely unable to understand why I wanted to kill him. Sigh, it's really sad, I still love him very much, but he threatened Lord Murphy, so he had to die."

Sophie Christian was almost going crazy.

Why?

How is it possible?!

George and Alexander were watched by him as they grew up, and their relationship with Ivan and Ras was very good. How could they kill their father and brother?!

But at this moment, Murphy actually moved suddenly. At first, his arm just trembled, but the next moment, his right arm holding the greatsword swung violently, cutting into Sophie's neck.

The doll fell from his hand, and the curse was immediately lifted.

Murphy breathed a sigh of relief. He reached out and took the head from George Frederick's hand and waved it in front of Sophie. "You must have many things you don't understand, but it doesn't matter, go down and reunite with your brother."

After speaking, the greatsword exerted force again, directly cutting off the other party's head.

Then, whoosh, countless lightning crows flew out from the door of the inner hall, one by one giving electric therapy to the injured soldiers still struggling in the courtyard, sending them to their deaths, and then they all turned into lightning and submerged into Murphy's body.

Murphy glanced at George and Alexander. "Well done. Do you know what to say in front of others later?"

"Know, Father and Eldest Brother intended to rebel, we heard their plan to hold the Empress hostage, and we had no choice but to kill them."

"Okay."

This chain is like this:

First, the Empress wanted to contain Felipe Carlos through Granny Yaga, so that Murphy could kill Grand Duke Ivan. And for some reason, Grand Duke Ivan knew their plan very well, so he asked Sophie Christian to kill Murphy—because Murphy was the only trump card for the Empress's side to turn the tables.

To get rid of Murphy, Sophie followed the plan, asked Felipe Carlos to contain Granny Yaga instead, and designed many traps to finish off Murphy.

Through his superb skill in invisibility magic, he had trained troops that were literally "invisible." He believed that through the triple traps of these troops, poison, and curses, it would be enough to kill Murphy.

In fact, he did quite well.

However, what he didn't expect was that before his plan was implemented, Murphy had already transformed George and Alexander into his puppets through the Imperius Curse, Command Charm, and Seed of Soul.

They were the ones who truly executed the mission of assassinating Grand Duke Ivan in Murphy's plan.

And Murphy himself was the bait used to attract Sophie Christian's attention and create conditions for George and Alexander and his own lightning crows.

This wave, the Empress is on the first floor, Sophie is on the second floor, and Murphy is in the stratosphere.

As for Murphy's method of breaking free from Sophie's curse—the moment he discovered he was cursed, he controlled the genetically modified adenovirus in his body that was originally used to repair cells and delay aging with the Seed of Soul, using this virus that had already spread throughout his body to stimulate his arm nerves and complete the interrupted slash.

It's just that George and Alexander's actions were faster than he thought. Otherwise, he could have actually waited for the two to come over, and he wouldn't have needed to activate those adenoviruses.

This might have caused some inflammation again, and maybe his arm would be sore for a while.

Finding the antidote to the poison gas from Sophie, Murphy drank it, and his physical discomfort improved a lot.

"Find me a box, pack these heads, and let those people in the mansion who are loyal to you clean up this place, and by the way, appease them. The Grand Duke is dead, you are the only two heirs, you will have to inherit the title in the future, and the relationship with the subordinates must also be handled well." He ordered the two young masters who had become loyal servants.

"You are really... too thoughtful, even though we could die for you."

"Keeping a useful body can do more things for me."

"We understand, Lord Murphy."

Packing the heads, Murphy brought a few empty boxes and left the Duke's mansion. A moment later, a great battle broke out at the ancestral mausoleum, and ten minutes later, Murphy appeared on the Sky Street Terrace outside the Spring Palace.

He walked directly toward the palace. Halfway, Azir walked over hurriedly. "Mr. Murphy, are you okay? I heard..."

Before he finished speaking, Murphy suddenly waved his right hand, his fingers like knives slashing at Azir's neck.

But the latter seemed to have anticipated his attack and instantly earth-escaped more than ten meters away. But before he could catch his breath, Murphy suddenly hooked his hand, and only a few swishes were heard, and Azir was slashed into several pieces by invisible blades.

"Wind, wind blade?" Azir died with his eyes wide open.

"Saw Lady Yaga use it a few times just now, basically learned it." Murphy said.

Under the magic vision, the way magic power operated was presented in front of him in an unprecedentedly intuitive scene. As long as he imitated it slightly, he could learn a magic spell.

"You, how..."

"How did I know you were a mole?" Murphy sighed. "Besides you, who else could leak the plan so thoroughly? And, the blood Sophie used to curse me was obtained from you, right?"

Although he had been hit by a wind blade when fighting Sophie, he had long been wary of the curse methods of Su shamans. Almost the moment he was injured, he used lightning to evaporate the blood that had been spilled. And according to the curse principle he understood, for a curse to take effect, it must use the body tissue of the cursed person as a medium.

After coming to Arkaim, thinking about it, only Azir had taken his blood and hair when he was performing the shaman dance before. At that time, he looked like he had burned all of them, but he probably still kept a hand.

It's just that Murphy still didn't quite understand, "Why do this? The Empress trusts you very much."

"With, tiger... you are, more... than I... van..."

But his words were never finished, and he breathed his last.

Murphy used a wind blade again to cut off his head, put it in a box, and then walked into the Spring Palace.

The battle was over, and now, it was time to ask for the reward.

(End of chapter)