Lesia gave Shade the right to enter and leave the study at will, so when Shade found the maid and asked to open the door, the frightened maid immediately went to the housekeeper to ask for the key.
Shade's existence is considered a secret among the servants of Sophia's mansion. Only Lesia's personal maids know who he is, and a very small number of servants know that Her Royal Highness the Princess "raised a man" in the mansion during her stay in Coldwater Port.
, the other servants don't even know "John Watson" exists.
Now everyone in the manor has been summoned by the elderly housekeeper, behind the gate on the first floor, preparing to deal with possible sporadic intruders. It is not convenient for Shade to let too many people see his appearance, so he is alone
A man was in the study, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the situation outside.
I thought the battle would end soon, but I didn't expect the gunfight to last for twenty minutes and become increasingly fierce.
Although Shade was not anxious, he still sensed something was wrong. He paced in the study, thinking about the current situation, and then considered how many bullets he could take before he died.
Theoretically, as long as he is not killed by a single shot, Shade can use [False Immortality] to give himself a chance to fight back. However, while [False Immortality] lasts for half an hour, if he suffers another serious injury, the effect of the spell will immediately
Disappearance is the biggest shortcoming of this kind of spell.
The yellowish light of the brass gas lamp illuminated the stranger who was carefully counting the fatal spots on his body. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door in the study.
"Um?"
He turned around in surprise, and before he could speak, a tall man with messy yellow hair burst in.
He was wearing black rain boots, and his clothes and trousers were also black. His head was actually spindle-shaped, and there were red ringworm marks on his face. The water dripping from his body was contaminating the expensive carpet in the study.
Seeing a man in the room, the intruder looked very surprised:
"Where's Lesia Cavendish?"
When he spoke, there was a strange gurgling sound in his throat, and his accent suggested that he was a native of Coldwater Port.
Shade looked down at the wet carpet under his feet. The man closed the door roughly with his backhand, first threw a piece of metal towards the door, and then looked at Shade fiercely.
He didn't even give Shade a chance to speak and answer. He stretched out his hand and waved to Shade, and Shade wanted to walk in front of him with a signal.
But this simple spell is useless against the Ring Warlock. Shade just shook for a moment and returned to normal, and the next second, the whistle and the bell appeared behind the two people at the same time.
Brass life rings emerged from the gushing steam. Shade was a second-ring warlock, while the opponent was a fourth-ring warlock.
"Princess Lesia, you went to attend the party of the Aurora family. You didn't even know this, so you barged in rashly?"
Shade gave the answer at this time. He was not afraid that these people would go to the Aurora family's manor to cause trouble. After all, he would not let the person in front of him leave.
"Didn't she refuse yesterday? This is a trap! Damn trap!"
While cursing loudly, the man's ugly face quickly turned towards the fish. On the life ring behind him, the Whispering [Skeleton] was glowing. The man sprinkled some white powder casually, and the powder gathered together during the fall to form a
He stabbed Shade's throat with the bone blade engraved with strange runes.
"Yes, I refused yesterday and agreed today. Can you do a serious investigation before you attack this place?"
Shade did not dodge, and the [Original Silver Moon] in his pocket flew out under the control of the thaumaturgy [Treasure Object] and blocked in front of his throat. The bone blade resisted the card, but it could not penetrate.
"oh?"
As if he was puzzled that Shade blocked the attack so easily, then the [Bubble] on the life ring lit up, and he put his hands together in front of him, making the backs of his hands parallel to the ground. He opened his hands slightly, and under the gas lamp, they seemed to be colorful.
Colorful bubbles quickly spread and flew towards the entire room.
Although it looked like just a bubble, Shade subconsciously sensed the danger. He held the bone blade in his left hand and threw it forward. After the bone weapon touched the bubble, although it pierced part of it, it
It itself has also been corroded.
"poisonous?"
Without thinking too much, Shade pulled the chair with his left hand and threw it forward. After the chair was corroded, two silver arc-shaped light blades flew out of his hand.
This is not a physical weapon, so it is not threatened by those corrosive bubbles. However, those bubbles can slow down [Silver Moon Slash] in the air, allowing the man to easily avoid Shade's counterattack.
"Don't resist. I use [bubbles] as the core of my ability system. These bubbles are not only poisonous, they can explode, imprison, release curses, create illusions, fill injured tissue in the body, and reflect energy. If you only have the second ring, don't use it."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Shade wave his hand in front of him. Silver mist spread outward from his hand, covering him almost instantly.
The bubbles flew towards the mist created by the illusion, gradually dissolving them. At the same time, the man once again sprinkled more bone powder, which gathered together like running water, and finally formed a handful of slender bone spines engraved with runes.
sword.
The man's right hand held a sword, and his left hand continued to spray bubbles toward the silver mist that covered half the room.
Bang~
Suddenly a gunshot rang out from the silver mist, and the man's right chest was hit by a revolver bullet, but the result was only a transparent bubble bursting in his chest, which did not affect his actions at all:
"You think I'm afraid of ordinary firearms?"
His eyes were fixed on the silver mist that was gradually disappearing. The gunfire just now confirmed to him that Shade had not escaped and was right in front of him.
Bang! Bang!
There were two more gunshots, this time Shade aimed at the man's head, but a steady stream of bubbles blocked the man's head, and the bullets were unable to penetrate them.
"It's useless, don't waste my time here."
As he spoke, the bubbles ejected from his left hand had already melted two-thirds of the silver mist. The sleeves of Shade's coat appeared at the edge of the mist. The man immediately let the bubbles float to that location, but at this time there was a sound coming from behind him.
The sound of heavy objects falling:
"What? When are you behind me?"
Subconsciously, he turned around and raised his sword to resist, but the chair fell to the ground behind him. Then he looked up and saw that Shade raised his sword with both hands and struck down.
The silver moonlight fell, and the moonlight sword neatly chopped off the yellow-haired man's right hand.
Shade, who was wearing a shirt, took the broken bone sword in his left hand and stabbed it forward, but because the opponent canceled the effect of the thaumaturgy, the sword disappeared from his hand.
So the sword in his right hand thrust forward, and although it successfully hit the opponent's abdomen, it got stuck there because of the return of the bubbles.
The two looked at each other, and for a moment the man's eyes seemed to turn into light-absorbing black holes. Spiral patterns appeared in his eyes, and his soul felt slightly stripped away at this moment, but this thaumaturgy of attacking the soul had no effect on Sha De.
The effect is very low.
The cards flew out of the pocket and blocked the man's eyes, and Shade, who was counting down in his mind, had already counted to the last number:
"It's the third second! The blade of chaotic time!"
"What?"
The disappeared bone stabbing sword actually appeared from the void again. Most of the bubbles in front of the man were used to resist the moonlight sword, and his eyes were temporarily blocked by cards.
This moment of negligence allowed the sword that summoned his own magic to pierce his heart.