Chapter 920: Seamless Coordination

As the resurrected female corpse’s frost-covered ice spear was about to pierce the surveillance screen, a gunshot rang out—a golden bullet, fired later but arriving first, struck the spear’s midpoint, causing it to shatter instantly into fragments.

Seeing the resurrected corpse’s movement from behind another mirrored ornament, Francia immediately understood its intent, pulled out the “Gun of Inevitability” again, extended it through the mirror, and pulled the trigger.

After successfully blocking the ice spear’s thrust, she immediately retracted her hands, pretending to teleport with Jiana, Anthony, and Ludwig into another mirror, luring the resurrected corpse to chase after them and surround the enemy.

But the resurrected corpse didn’t even glance in her direction; instead, sharp ice spears materialized one after another before its body, all striking the large screen simultaneously.

It was like a giant carved ice flower blooming open.

Francia’s pupils dilated instantly; while her hands were still not fully withdrawn behind the mirror, she pulled the trigger of the “Gun of Inevitability” again.

Bang!

The classical brass revolver fired a jet-black bullet that, upon striking one of the ice spears, triggered a small explosion.

The explosion engulfed all the ice spears, tearing them apart and scattering shards everywhere.

“Heavy Strike!”

Papatapa, some ice shards inevitably struck the surveillance screen, leaving multiple dead pixels and large smears of distorted color.

Francia nearly died of fright—the screen was almost completely destroyed!

She immediately left the mirrored ornament and returned to the monitoring room, launching a full assault on the resurrected corpse.

In this situation, only by overwhelming the enemy with offense could they prevent her from freeing her hands to destroy the screen; pure defense wouldn’t last long, since the object needing protection was a fragile technological device.

A thief can only hide for so long—no one can guard against theft forever. A hundred precautions still leave one vulnerability.

Bang, bang, bang—Francia kept pulling the trigger, firing bullets to force the resurrected corpse away from the area near the large screen.

Jiana also left the mirror’s rear, standing directly before the monitoring console to shield the screen from stray bullets.

Almost simultaneously, Jiana felt herself collide with an invisible spiderweb, bound by countless transparent threads wrapped tightly around her body.

These threads bound her limbs, tugged at her state, striving to restrict her movement and disrupt her black magic.

Fortunately, Jiana now had considerable combat experience; as soon as she stepped away from the mirrored ornament, she had already summoned several eerie “Witch” black flames around her. Now, she made them fall, burning the spiritual essence of the transparent threads and spreading outward.

The intense binding sensation lessened slightly; Jiana swiftly stepped sideways, placing herself directly in front of the large screen.

Crack!

She used “Mirror Double” to block the resurrected corpse’s sudden strike at the screen and Francia’s continuous stray bullets.

During this exchange, Francia emptied six standard bullets, landing one hit on the resurrected corpse and consuming one of its “Mirror Double” uses.

She then retreated to the front of the large screen, using a specialized loader to reload, while Jiana, in perfect sync, lunged forward to replace Francia, attacking furiously with her pistol, ice, and black magic to suppress the enemy.

Everyone is currently at Sequence 7—unrestrained bursts of power still work effectively in the short term!

Thus, Francia and Jiana kept alternating: one defended, one attacked; one reloaded, the other fired rapidly as if never running out of bullets, temporarily confining the resurrected corpse near the entrance. But because the enemy possessed “Mirror Double” and had strong spiritual intuition, Francia had not yet used bullets like “Pregnancy” or activated the effects of “Inevitable Hit” or “Inevitable Death.”

She was waiting for an opening—Sequence 7 “Witches” shouldn’t be able to use “Mirror Double” many times!

Even if the resurrected corpse had once reached Half-God level and gained the trait of reduced “Mirror Double” consumption, allowing her to use it more than Francia and the others at Sequence 7, it couldn’t be much more.

After dozens of seconds of fierce combat, both Francia and Jiana felt weakness creeping in, their lungs like blazing bellows, exhaling fire-hot breaths.

At the same time, pain spread across various parts of their bodies.

They knew this was caused by the diseases and decay spread by the two plague bombs; since sticky flesh and yellow-green pus coated every corner of the monitoring room, the occult pathogens and decay forces continued to intensify, and infection finally took hold on the two “Witches of Pain,” who had disease resistance, growing steadily worse.

Neither Francia nor Jiana dared use “Mirror Double” immediately to cure the disease and decay—their “Mirror Double” reserves were extremely limited, and they wanted to conserve them to protect the large screen.

What puzzled Francia was that her “Gun of Inevitability” was continuously spreading disease and decay, yet the resurrected corpse seemed unaffected, only slightly weaker than before.

Was she truly a living corpse or a puppet, immune to most occult pathogens and possessing strong resistance to decay? Had she abandoned the spiderweb strategy after initially using it on Jiana because the web was a spiritual, combustible substance that would allow the “Witch” black flames—limited to being created one by one, cluster by cluster—to spread and burn away occult pathogens and decay forces in the air, slowing our infection and symptom progression? As this thought flashed through Francia’s mind, she deliberately created a spiderweb.

The invisible threads wrapped around both the resurrected corpse and Jiana, forcing the former to use “Witch” black flames to evade, while reminding Jiana to produce and consume her own flames, plunging the entire area into the burning of “Witch” black flames to purge occult pathogens and weaken decay forces!

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Inside the surveillance footage of the Mingyue Mall.

Lumian was suppressing the resurrected corpse on all fronts, but hindered by her “Mirror Double,” strong spiritual intuition, and extensive combat experience, he couldn’t finish her quickly.

Now, flames had spread, turning over half of the mall’s fourth floor into a sea of crimson. Lumian released his pent-up spiritual energy and flashed again behind the “resurrected” corpse.

He did not swing the “Sword of Courage” directly; instead, he pushed forward with his left palm.

In his palm, he had been holding a cheap silver-and-black bracelet; his eyes now glowed silver-black, as if a phantom river flowed slowly within.

The resurrected corpse didn’t hesitate—guided by her spiritual intuition—she prepared to activate “Mirror Double.”

At that moment, toxic smoke from the burning fire entered her throat, and the intense heat caused her black hair to spontaneously ignite.

These environmental effects triggered a reflexive flinch, causing her to hesitate a fraction of a second.

“Amplify Fate!”

Lumian had already used “Amplify Fate” twice without satisfactory results; the “Weakness” pathogen he secretly spread, designed to survive longer in high heat, had also failed to act as expected, merely accelerating the resurrected corpse’s spiritual consumption unconsciously.

Now, aided by the environmental changes from prolonged burning, he finally seized the opportunity, making the corresponding fate stream become the main channel.

As the resurrected corpse slightly recoiled, the crimson flames covering the “Sword of Courage” abruptly vanished, revealing its iron-black metal blade.

Part of the blade’s surface was smooth and flat, reflecting the corpse’s back.

The next instant, the black “Flame of Destruction” Lumian had pre-concentrated landed on the metal “mirror” and penetrated it.

Unable to activate “Mirror Double” in time, the resurrected corpse screamed in agony, her body shattering and reappearing at the edge of the crimson hell—but the dark flame erupting from within, filled with violence and terror, still burned her, only partially extinguished.

Once the “Witch of Despair” curse succeeded, its trait of being untransferable via substitute was suppressed to Sequence 7 level, becoming a limitation: each “Mirror Double” could now only transfer part of the curse’s damage.

Papatapa!

The resurrected corpse activated “Mirror Double” repeatedly, finally breaking free from Lumian’s curse.

But at that moment, Lumian directly “Teleported” before her, smiling as he asked:

“How many ‘Mirror Double’ uses do you have left?”

As he spoke, he swung the “Sword of Courage.”

The resurrected corpse was dazzled by his charming smile and only reacted when the sword was nearly upon her, diving desperately to the side.

She had no “Mirror Double” left!

She was fast—but Lumian was faster. He halted his wrist, and the “Sword of Courage” slashed through the air, producing an explosion.

Boom!

Crimson flames erupted, engulfing the resurrected corpse entirely.

Though the explosion possessed only Sequence 7 power, it was enough to severely wound a Witch without “Mirror Double”!

Thud—the resurrected corpse was slammed hard against the wall, bones snapping, blood spurting from her mouth.

Ripples of water-like distortion rippled across her body, stripping away her dazzling appearance, revealing a young man with a blank expression and ordinary features.

Lumian frowned slightly and swung his sword again.

Roll, roll, roll—the young man’s head rolled away, spurting blood.

His body, head, and the splattered blood instantly vanished like a phantom, never to reappear.

“A deep mirror image of the real corpse?” Lumian had encountered similar gender-reversed “Mirror People” in Trill of the Fourth Era.

The special fragments of the mirror world held by Francia and Jiana could also create similar deep mirror images, nearly perfect replicas with certain unique traits.

Realizing this, Lumian suddenly lifted his head, staring at the surveillance camera obscured by smoke.

He suspected the resurrected corpse also carried a special fragment of the mirror world!

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Inside the monitoring room.

Already infected, Francia and Jiana grew weaker by the second, their movements inevitably impaired.

The resurrected corpse was about to seize the chance and destroy the surveillance screen when suddenly something leapt beside her.

It was Ludwig, crouched like a frog.

He had somehow exited the mirror world without anyone noticing.

The resurrected corpse instinctively thrust her ice spear at Ludwig.

Ludwig suddenly opened his mouth, his lips stretching to the back of his skull.

His sharp teeth snapped shut, clamping onto the spear’s tip.

Then he quickly inhaled.

Using the ice spear connecting him to the resurrected corpse, he performed a “Deprivation.”

He deprived her of “Mirror Double”!

—At his current Sequence 7 level, he could only deprive one ability at a time, and only for one minute, so Anthony had instructed him to choose “Mirror Double.”

“Attack with everything,” Anthony’s voice echoed in Francia and Jiana’s ears.

Francia didn’t ask why—immediately raising the “Gun of Inevitability,” she aimed at the resurrected corpse and pulled the trigger.

A dark yellow bullet flew out with a bang.

“Inevitable Hit!”

(End of Chapter)