The Ring Warlocks of the Church of the Sun, who had an encounter with the Joker on the shore, intentionally moved the battle venue to the ice and gradually approached the members of the [Truth Society]. Of course, the Ring Warlocks of the Truth Society did not want to come into contact with them.
, so the ice continued to expand toward the distant lake, until a group of people all gathered in the center of the lake.
The light of March illuminated the lake surface, and the spiritual light flickered in the moonlit night. To Shade by the lake, this scene was quiet and strange.
And Shade finally found traces of Mr. Joey Barton. This gentleman, who should be between the [Truth Society] and the church team, somehow ended up unconscious on the edge of the lake's ice, lying alone under the moon.
I don’t know life or death.
As the battle site moves away, people get farther and farther away from him, and this is an opportunity for Shade.
"Be careful, don't move around."
Shadra opened his coat and stuffed little Mia into the large pocket on the inner chest of his coat. After refastening the buttons, his left chest seemed to have a bulge.
Put the [Eternal Youth Leaf] in your mouth, bend your fingers, and let the red butterfly fly back stay on your fingers. As the red butterfly disintegrated into light spots, the light spots entered Shade's chest, and he felt the whispering element.
the power of.
The essence of Red Butterfly's power is distortion and sadness. Shade must use this power as soon as possible to prevent the elements from affecting him.
After taking out the mask and putting it on his face, and preparing the casting materials, Shade bent down and carefully walked out of the forest. He looked up and saw a group of people huddled together under the moon, and trotted onto the ice:
"Raglai's Leap."
Moving silently across the ice, the night, mist, and illusions combined to help him hide his tracks.
Soon, Shade came to Mr. Barton's side. The shadows of the vast mountains covered the two of them, and the sound of the lake water blowing in the night wind was very calming.
"Mr. Button, Mr. Button!"
Shade patted his face gently, and Joey Barton's swollen eyes gradually opened. His pupils shrank, and he gasped for air, which looked like the last struggle of a dying person.
"It's me, John Watson. Come with me, there's a fight over there."
"The Truth Society has found the key to resurrection and wants me to determine the date of the other party's death. But that is the person that the Church has been targeting for a long time. The Church deliberately let the professors of the Truth Society discover him in order to catch all the professors who came to Middleburg this time.
.”
Mr. Barton was breathing heavily, and Shade stretched out his hand to pull him up. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man gave Shade a sudden push and pushed Shade aside.
Buzz~
And where Shade was squatting, the metal Rhodes card inserted into the ice kept trembling.
"who?"
Shade turned around and looked back, where the moonlight shone on the flat ice. The shadowless clown with four hands faced the moonlight, surrounded by the white mist unique to the narrow space, and four weapons were aimed at him at the same time.
"The third clown? Do I have a share?"
He frowned and stood up, putting the witch's ring on his right hand. The sense of power emerged again, and even the [Witch's Light] spiritual rune began to stir.
"Hehehehehaha."
In that maniacal laughter, the clown disappeared under the moonlight, and in the next second, he held up the black short knife and stabbed Shade in the neck from behind.
The orange long sword illuminated the shadow, and the action of turning around and slashing left a gorgeous light and shadow in the mist. At the same time as the yellow moonlight sword was chopped into pieces, Sha De's figure also disappeared from the place, and then appeared
On top of the clown's head:
"Moonlight Great Sword!"
Holding the big sword with both hands, he slashed down, while the "space stability aura" prohibited the ability to move in space. The potential energy of the fall was superimposed on the kinetic energy of the slash, causing Shade's sword to hit the clown's head, but the opponent turned into a wooden sculpture:
"substitute?"
Crazy laughter came from the left side, and the red nose ball flew like a cannonball. Shade, who was well prepared, shot a Rhodes card. After the card touched the nose ball, it immediately scattered into a pile of small pieces of paper, and with the night wind
was blown away.
The clown's metal Rhodes cards reflected the moonlight and shot towards Shade like a swarm of bees. Shade hurriedly threw out his entire deck of Rhodes cards. Facing the night wind, 53 Rhodes cards left traces of debris in the air.
Then the two cards collided on the ice at extremely high speeds. The paper Rhodes cards were attached with the light and shadow of red butterflies, and the phantoms of red butterflies flashed overhead, facing the clown's cards head-on. There was a thin sound in the air.
, like there are musical instruments playing in the mist high in the sky.
Under the Rhodes card that was fighting in the air, Shade clapped his hands together and then pulled them apart:
"Moonlight Slash!"
Bathed in the moonlight, the slanted holy silver light blade slashed forward. The tall and thin clown laughed and raised the muzzle of the gun. The bullet that could cause fragmentation in the space perfectly offset Shade's full blow.
"It seems...not that strong."
Shade stabbed with the sword in both hands, and at the same time stepped forward lightly. With the thrusting movement in the next second, Shade appeared behind the clown again. When the opponent turned around with a weird twisting movement and blocked with a short knife, Shade
The dark chains in his sleeves surged out like a python.
At the same time, the second moonlight sword summoned by [Blade of Chaos Time] thrust out from the void. The clown's black short knife quickly moved up to block the sword, and then moved down to block Shade's thrust.
The second sword.
While the weapons of the two were pinging and pinging, the clown threw the red nose ball towards Shade with his left hand, trying to force him to retreat, but was blocked by the [Founder Silver Moon] in the Rhodes card flying in the sky.
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Obviously, the power of the narrow nails is not enough to break down the [All Things Impermanent Card].
The chains of sin wrapped around the Joker's left hand and spread quickly to his whole body. The chains imprisoned his mobility and extraordinary abilities, and the metal cards that were fighting in the air immediately lost control and fell to the ice.
The clown still wanted to resist the power of the chains of sin, but when the red butterfly landed on his shoulder, his movements strangely paused for a moment.
"The power of Grace and Helen is really useful."
Taking a deep breath, under the moonlight in the valley, among the cards falling from the sky, Shade lunged forward, holding the sword in both hands, and slashed neatly from the upper left to the lower right:
"ha!"
There was another arc-shaped trace of light under the moonlit night, and the sword blade fell directly into the ice. As Shade struggled to lift the sword again, the clown's wild laughter finally stopped.
The head fell to the ground, and the oil-painted head rolled a few times, and finally stood motionless with its face upward. It rolled from the shadow of the mountains to the moonlight, and the face still maintained a crazy expression.
Shade walked over with his sword, held the handle of the sword with both hands, and stabbed the man's head downwards. The moonlight sword penetrated the skull and was nailed to the ice. The stranger and the clown had no enmity, but let
Keeping the dead away from the world of the living is what the living should do.
But on the ice in the distance, the fighting still didn't stop. It seemed that what he killed was just a clone of the clown.
"Mr. Button, let's take shelter in the woods first."
He did not pick up the sword again, but let it disperse into silver shards of light and disappear from his hand.
Shade turned to look at Mr. Joey Barton, who looked at the battle just now in surprise, and then came back to his senses. He saw Shade standing on the ice bathed in the moonlight, and saw the phantom of a red butterfly floating on the ice.
There was so much going on around me that I didn’t know how to express my feelings for a moment:
"I didn't expect you to be so powerful."
Shaking his head, he struggled to stand up on the ice. He stood in the shadow and looked at Shade, who was standing in the moonlight outside the gap between light and shadow:
"You are one of the few good people I know, but I can't go with you."
Lowering his head, Joey Barton's tone was full of apology.
Shade frowned slightly. Mr. Barton seemed a little different from a few hours ago:
"No, I'm not asking you to come with me. Even if all the men sent by the Truth Society to Mibao are not wiped out this time, there are only a few left. I want you to go to the church, and we will still be friends."
This is Shade's most satisfying ending.
But this middle-aged man who looked like a disabled child still shook his head:
"The scholars of the Truth Society are not good people, but the church will not let me do what I want to do.
Mr. Watson, you are right, I probably really have special powers. The moment I looked at the clown with my eyes, I saw his origin, I saw the narrow space shrouded in white mist, and I even saw
He had fallen into the deepest, deepest part of the narrow space, a true death."
"Did you see it? That's where the dead were supposed to go, but what does that have to do with you leaving with me?"
"Mr. Watson, the water area illuminated by the dark moon is the place that appeared in my dream."
Mr. Button's voice was low, and Shade had a very bad guess:
"so."
"I might be able to find her."
Mr. Button lowered his head, and Shade could not see clearly his face in the shadow of the mountains.
"Then."
"Bring her back. The dead, resurrected."
It is indeed a bit cold on the lake in late autumn.
Mr. Button's voice was very calm. He lowered his head, limped out of the darkness with great effort, and looked at the mask on the young man's face under the moonlight:
"Yes, I want the dead to come back."
"This is impossible."
"Is it really impossible?"
Mr. Barton raised his palm and then lowered it:
"I am death's chosen one."
He said softly, the meaning in his eyes was something that Shade couldn't understand:
"Mr. Watson, what would happen to you if the treasure in your heart passed away?"
Shade touched his chest and felt something very soft, which was little Mia. He couldn't imagine the scene of little Mia leaving, so he didn't answer the question.
"There are many things that only I can do. Sorry, Mr. Watson, I know you want to lead me on the right path, but there are still many things I want to do. If fate does not treat me fairly, then I will
Treat yourself fairly. Happiness in life must be fought for by yourself. Don’t follow me.”
He suddenly waved his hand to Shade, and the huge black shock wave actually shattered a large area of ice, knocking Shade directly from the lake to the shore, but Shade was not injured.
He climbed up from the fog on the shore and saw Mr. Button running towards the people fighting on the ice.
"Why did he suddenly become so powerful? Didn't he only have one ring?"
[Compared to the immature Iluna Bayas's understanding of balance, the misguided Ivan Darkness's understanding of darkness, Joey Barton, obviously understands death better. 】
Whispers came in the wind, and Shade took a few quick steps and stepped onto the water. The ripples spread under his feet, but Joey Barton had already entered the battlefield in the center of the lake's ice.
"Barton, follow us, you will find more powerful power!"
Professor Johnson shouted loudly, but had to face the Rhodes cards that were shooting wildly.
"There's something wrong with this man, he might be the chosen one!"
Iluna immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time, the sunshine gun in her hand finally pierced the chest of the clown in front of her. The spear shining with golden thunder bloomed in the mist, when Iluna jumped high and threw it at the last clown.
When he came out, Joey Barton, who was limping while walking, actually took the initiative to block the clown.
A black robe flashed in front of him like an invisible curtain in the fog, completely blocking the sunlight gun.
Everyone stopped. The ring warlocks of the [Truth Society] gathered together and didn't understand what Barton was going to do. Because the church's team was larger in number and stronger, they scattered around to prevent anyone from leaving the battlefield.
"Barton, what are you going to do?"
Iluna asked in a deep voice. She had met Joy Barton when she followed Shade under the pseudonym "Mary Watson". She knew that the other person was not bad, so she did not take action immediately.
"Ma'am, we seem to be of the same species."
The clown behind Barton held his shoulders and laughed happily, showing no hostility towards Joey Barton. As thin steam mist spurted out, a warlock's life ring appeared behind them.
The white mist that escaped from the narrow space quickly rushed towards the simple life ring, and Shade finally came to the edge of the broken ice.
"You want to absorb Hazama's power?"
The professor with the red butterfly rust spots on his life ring asked:
"Barton, have you seen our research materials? By integrating the power of the relics, we are more professional. Come with us."
"Sorry, professor, I won't follow you either. I want to go deep into the narrow space, break the boundary between life and death, and find my lost treasure."
He is indeed still a first-level warlock, but the talent of the chosen one has been explored to the extreme, so much so that when the power of the narrow room is activated, Shade even feels that Barton is a part of the narrow room at the moment.
"Now that the boundary between life and death has been broken, do you want to destroy the narrow room?"
The middle-aged man behind Iluna asked loudly. He seemed to be the captain of this team. Shade just caught a glimpse of the other person being the Eighth Ring.
"Barton, do you know what you are going to do?"
"I have always known, yes, I have always known that fate has not treated me fairly, but I will not complain about it. I just think that now that I have seen hope, I will never give up. Everyone, please withdraw.
Finally, let me take this clown away as a sacrifice."
But no one stepped back, everyone was looking at him under the moonlight.
Joey Barton also looked at everyone. He turned his back to the moonlight, and the shadow was on his face. The child-like shadow under his feet was being covered by another huge shadow that suddenly appeared: