Chapter 681: Spirit Medium

Seeing Luo Bote, who was wearing ice armor and dragging a frost giant sickle, rushing toward the stained glass window that Camus, Ruya, and Lu Jianuo were facing, Camus immediately pulled out his special large-caliber revolver and aimed forward.

At this time, he felt his feet were cold, and his body was in a state of being frozen, so that his joints were sluggish and his wrists were shaking.

Camus saw from the corner of his eye that although Luo Bote hadn't really approached, the white frost on the ground and the ice edges on the wall had already spread over.

Within this range of ten or twenty meters, the chill was heavy, like the far north.

With a "whoosh," Ruya shot another arrow wrapped in silver-white electric light.

Luo Bote didn't dodge, used both arms with force, and violently swung the frost giant sickle forward.

Clang!

The giant sickle knocked away the arrow, and a small amount of electric light remained, rushing toward Luo Bote's body rapidly.

Amidst the "zzzz" sound, Luo Bote was paralyzed for a moment, and then continued to rush toward Ruya and the others.

Camus, who saw this scene, was a bit stunned.

He wasn't surprised that Luo Bote could drive the frost giant sickle so lightly and create a not-so-small freezing domain, but was surprised that the other party had rushed to his close proximity like this, about to rush into the five-meter range.

"Doesn't he know I have the 'Spirit Piercing' ability?

"Doesn't he know the effective range of 'Spirit Piercing' is within five meters?

"Doesn't he know that he has never encountered a mid-sequence Beyonder of the 'Arbiter' pathway and had a battle?

"Also, neither the patrol team nor the General's Guard knows that Luo Bote and Miss Amandina are Beyonders. After they obtained supernatural abilities in the 'Dream Festival,' they should have used them very little in the outside world, and only the 'Dream Festival' every year allows them to play to their heart's content. There are not many Beyonder enemies to choose from..."

As thoughts flashed, Camus didn't let go of this opportunity. As soon as Luo Bote stepped into the five-meter range, two brilliant lightning rays lit up in his eyes.

"Spirit Piercing"!

Two lightning rays shot out and drilled into Luo Bote's head instantly.

Luo Bote let out a scream, completely unable to control his running momentum, fell forward, and rolled in pain.

That frost giant sickle was thrown to the side by him.

Ruya's arrow, nocked on the bowstring again, moved along with Luo Bote's instinctive rolling. In her eyes, anger erupted from within her body, causing even her muscles to bulge.

"Rage Strike."

This was the "Rage Strike" that Ruya used by accumulating anger.

It belonged to the Sequence 8 "Rage Folk" of the "Sailor" pathway, allowing one's own attack to be greatly improved by releasing accumulated anger.

Ruya was currently at this sequence, but the hunting bow in her hand was a fairly powerful Beyonder item, which was a powerful weapon she bought with all her savings before arriving in Tizamo Town, called "Thunder Boom," and could be used for two years.

Soon, Luo Bote stopped rolling, but hadn't completely broken free from the severe pain brought by "Spirit Piercing," and froze in place for a short time.

Ruya didn't hesitate anymore. Watching the arrow wrapped in bright, piercing layers of electric light, she released her right hand holding the bowstring.

The arrow shot out, but the electric light on it strangely split into two strands, one strand continuing to wrap around the arrow, and one strand rushing toward the right side.

This... Ruya's pupils dilated, unable to understand why such a thing happened.

She instinctively turned her head and looked toward the destination of the electric light that had separated.

Then, she saw Louis Berry, who was leaning against the window, eyes closed, and sliding down.

A few seconds ago, hearing Louis Berry's words, Amandina was a bit blank and a bit excited, locking onto the other party.

You said it, then I won't be polite!

In her spiritual perception, Louis Berry's soul and the gloomy soul body were entangled together, using various parts of the body as a battlefield, fighting fiercely, but the original owner was clearly at a disadvantage.

In this situation, Amandina couldn't separate them.

She vaguely understood why Louis Berry had ordered that way just now, locking the other party's head together with the soul entangled into one body into her own spirituality.

And Lu Mian, who let Amandina use her ability on himself, while spitting out words one word at a time, moved his left hand inserted in his pocket with difficulty.

His left hand wasn't inserted in his pants pocket, nor in his coat pocket, but in the "Traveler's Bag."

After arriving outside Saint Cien Church and prying open the stained glass window, Lu Mian had inserted his left hand into the "Traveler's Bag," preparing to take out a suitable magical artifact at any time.

This was preparing for the battle that might happen next.

—If this wasn't a dream, then the left hand he inserted should still be in his coat pocket, where Mr. K's finger was.

Before his body was completely controlled by the "Vengeful Spirit," Lu Mian struggled to take out a brooch from the "Traveler's Bag" relying on the soul strength of a "Reaper."

That was a gray-white lightning-shaped brooch, "Sea's Fury"!

Lu Mian held this brooch tightly and saw Amandina leaning against the side wall, clenching her fists, and closing her eyes.

His thoughts suddenly became blurred, and his eyelids closed heavily.

He fell asleep and slid down slowly.

Father Cali in his body lost movement accordingly.

This "Vengeful Spirit" seemed to have fallen asleep too, not knowing whether it would fall asleep itself, or because it had already possessed a body and received a reverse influence.

Amandina opened her eyes and saw this scene with joy, wanting to praise herself.

A "crackle" sound rang out, and the lightning that had separated from Ruya's arrow hit Lu Mian, turning into several small electric snakes wandering everywhere.

This was the negative effect of the "Sea's Fury" brooch! 【

It would make Lu Mian have a high probability of being struck by lightning if he went out on a rainy day, even if he were just carrying it; and if he were wearing it without attacking anyone else, the possibility of suffering such an incident would increase significantly.

Lu Mian felt that since the "Sea's Fury" brooch had a probability of attracting lightning strikes on rainy days, it meant it had a special attraction to lightning.

Under these circumstances, although it was not currently raining, what would happen if there were another source of lightning very close by?

It would likely draw a portion of someone else's lightning over!

Stimulated by the pain of the electric shock, Lu Mian, no longer continuously affected by the Nightmare ability, woke up from the dream at once and regained his thoughts, but his body remained paralyzed.

He was like this, and Father Cali was the same.

This "Wraith" instinctively left Lu Mian's body as soon as he woke up to avoid the damage from the electric current.

His face stood out on the nearest pane of glass, his figure flickering in and out of existence.

Lu Mian seized the opportunity to put on the gray-white lightning-shaped brooch while taking out his revolver from the "Traveler's Bag."

He raised his right hand, aiming at the still somewhat dazed and trance-like "Wraith" Father Cali, his eyes reflecting the multiple colors on the other's body.

That streak of pale white rapidly expanded in Lu Mian's vision.

Bang!

Lu Mian calmly pulled the trigger, firing a gleaming yellow bullet.

Accompanying this action, a silvery-white electric light lit up on the "Sea's Fury" brooch, instantly darting into the bullet and crackling as it wrapped around its surface.

This was one of the abilities of the "Sea's Fury" brooch; it could allow the wearer's every strike to carry an electric shock effect!

After temporarily losing the "Armor of Arrogance," this became one of Lu Mian's most effective means of dealing with soul-type creatures.

The gleaming yellow bullet wreathed in silvery-white electric light struck the stained glass, causing the latter to shatter with a crash and sending numerous tiny electric currents darting everywhere.

But this did not hit Father Cali; the moment Lu Mian pulled the trigger, this "Wraith" disappeared from the glass, instantly leaping to the glass-like surface of the crystal chandelier high in the church.

"Mirror Blink"!

On the other side, Lyra's arrow accurately struck Luo Bote, emitting a "pong" sound like heavy objects colliding.

Crack.

The ice armor covering Luo Bote's body instantly cracked, turning into chunks of ice that fell to the ground.

The blurry shadow attached to his body was forced out by the attack of the crackling electric snakes and disappeared into the void.

Because the ice armor blocked most of the damage, Luo Bote was not significantly affected, only feeling a tightness in his chest and a brief paralysis of his body.

At this moment, he deeply regretted not wearing clothes, because all the various materials he needed for "Spirit Mediumship" were in the hidden pockets of his garments—for example, moon essential oil, for example, corpse scent potion.

There were very few spirits he could communicate with safely without the help of materials, and the one just now was considered the most powerful among them.

Seeing the special revolver in Camus's hand and Lyra's arrow aimed at him again, Luo Bote felt a sense of urgency and thought of a "Spirit Mediumship" he could complete in the current situation.

He frowned and bit the tip of his tongue hard, fearing the pain.

Pfft!

He spat out the tongue blood mixed with saliva in front of him, and a strange sound came from his throat.

A pair of palms like weathered stone reached out from under the church's stone tiles, grabbed Luo Bote's body, and pulled him into the ground.

That patch of ground had become as soft as a swamp at some point, and the blood in mid-air suddenly vanished.

Camus's bullets and Lyra's arrows arrived one after another, but they could only spark against the stone tiles on the ground.

"Spirit Medium"? With this, Camus corrected his judgment of Luo Bote's pathway and sequence.

Was he actually not on the same pathway as Miss Amandina?

Hadn't his supernatural abilities also been obtained from that black megalith?

Camus hurriedly retreated a few steps, took out a bullet pouch, and began to replace the special bullets in his revolver.

—As the official agency of the Matani State, the Inspection Force, although not wealthy and lacking accumulation, found it relatively simple to obtain Beyonder bullets with different effects. After all, there was the Church of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" here, the Church of the "God of Steam and Machinery," the Church of the "Mother Earth," and many adventurers coming and going. Moreover, the key targets the Inspection Force needed to guard against were certain branches of the "Rose School of Thought" and the "Demoness Sect," so they definitely had to have targeted preparations.

Camus quickly pressed the golden purification bullets into the revolver's cylinder and snapped it shut with a click.

Just then, Father Cali, having shifted his position again and jumped to another stained-glass window, once again revealed his figure.

He opened his mouth and emitted a sound that could pierce eardrums and damage spirits:

"Ah!"

"Wraith Scream"!

PS: I mentioned the prototype for Father Cali's character on my public account when I was writing my reading notes. He was that assistant deacon who, after finding a woman for the first time, had an allergic reaction to the perfume and suspected he had contracted a venereal disease. Once he recovered, he immediately confessed to the Lord and decided to switch to playing with young men. Of course, the character trait I used wasn't this part, but rather that as an assistant deacon, he had no right to preach, lecture, or preside over Mass alone. Thus, later, when he organized male orgies, he would always preach, lecture, and preside over Mass for the participants while naked at the beginning of the session—he was obsessed with power to a certain degree.

Not all of the men who were toyed with were willing, and people constantly reported him to the church, but no one believed it, and no one was willing to conduct an in-depth investigation. Later, one time, the whistleblower incidentally mentioned the preaching, lecturing, and Mass session at the start of the party. Not long after, this assistant deacon was arrested on the charge of usurpation—actually daring to covet the rights of priests and bishops by secretly holding Mass, lecturing, and preaching!

A very black-humored reason and ending.

Hmm, the source is "Montaillou."

(End of chapter)