Chapter 4179: Frogification

Although the croaking of frogs outside the window was not frequent, it could be heard from time to time in the gaps of their conversation. There was no pattern to how long the three stages of the Rain Man were separated, but the longest interval was no more than 24 hours. Now, the massive breeding of frogs and the bad weather, as if someone were pouring water from the sky, already indicated that the third stage would likely arrive at any time.

Finding such a specific target with an uncertain location, asking Ai Li to help is actually the best choice. Xia De thought that if things were still worsening by noon, he would go to St. Byrons to find Ai Li for help.

This heavy carriage continued to travel through the streets and alleys of the Outer City. The rainy weather made the business of rental carriages better than usual, so this carriage was not conspicuous in the Outer City.

On the way to find the relic, Xia De and Mr. Finch also exchanged many other things. The aftermath of the Skin Workshop incident was still fermenting. Although the relic body was successfully contained, the skin items scattered locally and a small number of skinners not in the workshop still needed to be dealt with.

According to information provided by the Witch Council, the sect was certain that a large number of ordinary people locally had come into contact with the relic. Xia De had not forgotten the "Charming Ladies Club," and the sect had indeed found the person in charge of the club based on this clue.

But the club was not eradicated; only the list of personnel related to the skin items was obtained by the sect.

Xia De sighed to Mr. Finch about this:

"The Charming Ladies Club sacrificed all the personnel involved in the skin items to preserve itself. But in my opinion, the people behind this club must have also exerted some effort."

"The people behind this club involve big shots in Willandale and some sensitive political issues. The sect is currently facing other problems and doesn't want to easily step into the mud and get dirty. When the sect frees up its hands, this club will still have trouble. But the club is really decisive; they dare to betray their members like this, and it will be difficult for them to develop new members in the future."

Mr. Finch said, still wiping his shotgun.

"The supernatural power involved in that club is not just skin items. I really don't know how they covered it up."

Xia De sighed again. He didn't do any pre-war preparations, just drank tea while talking:

"But that club is just an organization of ordinary people. The real problem is the 'Magic Eye Club.' What is the situation with this organization? It's obviously not right. Why hasn't the sect taken action against it yet?"

The old man laughed:

"The Magic Eye Club is the oldest neutral organization in the area. Without evidence, the sect's focus on monitoring them now is already out of respect for the 'God-Caller'."

"You said that the 'Giant God Soldier' replica and the source of fire are under their control, and you also said that the baron's house theft is related to them. I certainly believe you, and the sect likely believes you too, but without evidence, even the Five Gods Sect cannot deal with an organization that has always cooperated with them."

"The Magic Eye Club has a very ancient history, and joining forces with the sect to contain magic eyes has also made a great contribution to the stability of this world."

"I understand the logic, I just don't understand what the Magic Eye Club wants to do. Do they also want to cultivate the 'Final Child'? But I haven't heard that they have this technology. Don't these people only contain magic eyes? And I heard that their attitude towards magic eyes is also containment over utilization. Why would such an organization get involved in the Chosen One's event?"

Xia De said, joking again:

"It can't be that they want to cultivate some new breed of eye monster, right?"

Mr. Finch also laughed:

"I don't think so. But if I have to find a reason for them, I think there are only two possibilities. One is that they are cooperating with others, and someone has offered a reward they cannot refuse, which is why the 'Thousand-Eye Ringed Shushi' is willing to take the risk."

"The second possibility is related to a legend. The holy emblem of the ancient Creator is eye-shaped. It is rumored that the origin of all magic eyes is the Creator's own eyes. Of course, the Great Ones are not bound by human form like us mortals. The 'eyes' here should refer to the wisdom of creation."

"Legend has it that before the Creator left, he left one of his eyes in the material world, and that eye contains the essence of all creation, genesis, and alchemy. That eye cannot be found; it can only be obtained through the evolution of magic eyes. The Magic Eye Club's purpose may not be to create life, but to gather enough life energy to promote the evolution of magic eyes, thereby reaching the final form of all magic eyes."

This sounds reasonable, but Xia De heard the purpose of these people collecting magic eyes from Miss Breadway, the halfling girl, in the Fifth Era:

"Wanting to explore the power and secrets of the Ancient God through the power of mortals, is such a blasphemous thing really what the descendants of the Ancient God Sect should do? I heard that in the Fifth Era, the predecessor of the club was still very pious."

Mr. Finch shook his head:

"Time will change many things, and besides, who knows if this is another task left by the Ancient God?"

Xia De nodded, just about to ask Mr. Finch about the background and power of the "Thousand-Eye Ringed Shushi," when suddenly a thud~ sound appeared above their heads. Mr. Finch sensed it:

"It seems to be a frog."

The voice of the gentleman driving the carriage also came from the front:

"Two gentlemen, the sky has started to drop frogs. Not many, but this is not a good phenomenon."

"Frog Rain" is a sign that the relic has entered the late stage of the second phase. Mr. Finch then grabbed the frog that had landed on the roof of the carriage. After carefully distinguishing its distortion, he believed that the change in the relic's stage this time was much faster than the one he encountered back then.

At 11:00 AM, a very slight disturbance of strange elements came from the rain. Even Mr. Finch could not sense this disturbance, but Xia De felt it.

So the carriage turned and drove towards the southwest of the Outer City. The north of the Outer City is Gray Rock Pass, and the east is the mountain where Arcadia City is located, so the city's expansion direction has always been southwest over the years.

Now, the southwest of the Outer City is a continuous factory, and the towering chimneys are spewing black thick fog in the rainy weather. And when the carriage approached the source of the element disturbance that Xia De felt, Mr. Finch finally saw it from the carriage window:

"It's the relic body! Someone found it!"

The battle had clearly begun. After Xia De and Mr. Finch jumped off the carriage, they climbed over the wall and entered the eastern construction site of the newly built textile factory.

The factory building had only laid the foundation and built part of the walls, and the construction site was already full of frog sounds. But unexpectedly, the one fighting the relic body was not the sect's team, nor was it any local organization that Xia De and Mr. Finch knew.

Accompanied by a low-pitched frog croak that made the chest feel stuffy, the tall gray-green figure suddenly leaped from the ground into the rainy sky, but the two black chain phantoms in the hands of the female Ringed Shushi standing on the ground followed closely and pierced through the figure.

It is hard to say whether the relic has a soul, but the penetration of the soul chain still made the gray-green shadow let out a strange cry.

It wanted to pounce on the female Ringed Shushi from the air, but before it landed, it became entangled with the weird soul wearing a black robe that appeared behind the female Ringed Shushi.

The ultimate death seemed to be able to make the world at this moment completely calm. Although the body of the "Rain Man" was a mummified corpse, the power of death did not restrain it. Fortunately, the power of the relic did not restrain the two people carrying death either. After all, Joey Barton, who was the main force, didn't even have a physical body and was not affected by the frogification effect at all.

The gray-green shadow clearly wanted to get rid of these two, but under the joint efforts of Ms. Marilyn Handel and Joey Barton, it couldn't get out of this battle at all.

Bang!

The sound of the double-barreled shotgun firing even made the wounded soldiers returning from the front line walking on the nearby street think of the largest caliber steam cannon.

The muzzle exploded with a ball of fire, and Mr. Finch, who was shooting in the rain, shot the gray-green thing down from the air with one shot. And after the other party landed and stopped, Xia De finally saw the other party's appearance clearly.

It was half-squatting on the side of a pile of sand materials covered with rainproof cloth. Although it looked like a humanoid creature, its skin was a mixture of gray-green and dark green, and the surface was covered with fine raised particles.

The proportions of its limbs were severely out of balance, its arms were abnormally thick and long, its fingertips were thick with webbing, and its nails were gray-black; its hind leg muscles were strong and tense, its soles were wide, and its toes were connected by translucent webbing. Its spine arched into a slippery arc, and its head was distorted beyond recognition by frog characteristics. Its eye sockets were protruding, its eyeballs were turbid gray-white, there was no clear boundary between the whites of the eyes and the pupils, and they only rotated slowly.

Its neck had folds stacked, and it made a low "croak" sound when breathing. Although it had a humanoid outline, it was cold and weird from head to toe, like an amphibian. It was a monster distorted and blended by humans and frogs.

Although the clothes on its body had been torn due to the changes in its body, from the remaining cloth pieces, Xia De could still distinguish that the other party was the relic body described by Miss Feilian and Mr. Finch.

"Croak~ Croak~"

The gray-white eyeballs looked sideways at Xia De and Mr. Finch who had just appeared on the battlefield, and then the frog crouched on the ground and exerted force, hitting the direction of the two like a roaring train.

Even if the other party was a Sage-level relic, Xia De had the confidence to compete with the other party in strength. But this thing was too ugly and disgusting, and Xia De could even see a layer of slippery mucus on its disgusting skin.

So Xia De didn't intend to fight the other party in close quarters. He agitated the spirit flowing in his body and soul, and slapped his right palm, which was jumping with silver-white electric light, forward:

"Technique: Thunder Wave!" ===== CHAPTER 4180 =====