Chapter 189: Chapter 87: Brutally Killing the Level 7 Puppet Master
Level: 6 (8%)
His gaze swept over his current level.
Zorn was lost in thought.
The extra 8% Experience had slowly built up over the winter after he had maxed out Level 5.
Now at Level 6, the amount of Sequence Experience he needed was like a black hole.
One way to level up faster was to expand the Steam Factory and capture more Mafia Transcendents to serve as his underlings, but Zorn had a better method.
「About half a day later.」
Zorn’s Level 6 Sequence had completely stabilized.
He activated the powerful Forbidden Curse of his Upper Rank: Ringed Snake’s Eye.
His gaze followed the Eye of the Holy Witch on the Divine Kingdom Gate, sweeping across the entire Magical Castle and the surrounding gray fog.
The Magical Castle, in which Zorn had invested a great deal of resources, lived up to his expectations and had not been discovered by the Level 7 Puppet Master.
However, the Puppet Master had no intention of leaving.
Inside the towering, ancient Fir Tree Forest, the Puppet Master had already placed many Eye Demon Spiders and spread out his Puppet Magic Net.
The Puppet Magic Net was well-hidden, but it had nowhere to hide from the Upper Rank: Ringed Snake’s Eye.
Now in the Magical Castle, Zorn’s Forbidden Curse vision pierced through the mist, but he still couldn’t find the Level 7 Puppet Master.
’Don’t tell me...’
He looked at the Divine Kingdom Passage, which had already been opened.
He carefully examined a few of the thicker Puppet Magic Net threads leading into the secret underground Divine Kingdom Passage.
’He really went in.’
’In that case, this makes things much easier.’
He went to the entrance of the Divine Kingdom Passage.
Zorn began to set up a series of preparations.
After he finished his preparations, he stepped on one of the Puppet Magic Net threads.
Soon, the Puppet Master, dressed in a black robe and a wide-brimmed black hat, appeared before Zorn, following the puppet thread.
They faced off inside the dark, narrow, hidden passage of the tree hollow.
"Zorn Corick?"
The Puppet Master looked up. His black eyes were exceptionally deep, and his voice had the melodious quality of a reed organ.
"Just as I thought. You’ve already advanced to Level 6."
The moment he finished speaking, the dense puppet threads all around them suddenly surged toward Zorn like an endless, dark tide.
CRACK... CRACK...
The entangling puppet threads instantly shattered Zorn’s body.
Along with him, the entire world of that area shattered as well.
"The Mirror World?"
The Puppet Master snorted coldly. He wasn’t the least bit afraid.
Transcendents who had reached the Middle Rank Level had all more or less mastered some power from the Mysterious Layer Realm.
The Mirror World couldn’t trap him.
But what made the Puppet Master slightly uneasy was that the Level 6 Zorn Corick had vanished from his Perception.
As far as he knew, neither the Fighting Master powers nor the Evil Spirit powers that this Zorn Corick possessed were particularly suited for stealth.
And yet, his opponent had now vanished without a trace.
’Could it be that was just a simple Mirror Image?’
The Puppet Master dismissed the thought as soon as it appeared.
That damned, vicious Evil Spirit would never run away so easily.
Just as the Puppet Master was continuously releasing his puppet threads, searching for any trace of Zorn,
’This is bad!’
The Puppet Master was horrified.
It was already too late for him to react.
A heavy blow struck him from behind.
In that instant, all he felt was a spreading warmth in his chest.
It was as if he had fallen into the Jade Dream Realm; the entire world was suffused with the shimmering, deep-green luster of jade.
His body even began to topple over uncontrollably.
"Damn... you..."
He roared in anger, trying with all his might to control his body, but no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn’t stop himself from falling.
Behind him stood Zorn, holding a nobleman’s staff the color of deep green jade.
He had just used the Jade Staff in his hand to deliver that forbidden strike.
Boosted by an Attack Speed Skill, the speed at which he could swing the Forbidden Staff was astonishing.
The Jade Staff was a Middle Rank Forbidden Sealed Object from the Ancient Ruins.
Originally, Zorn had wanted to purchase this Jade Staff.
However, after becoming part of Ogrande City’s inner circle, there was no longer any need to talk about purchasing it.
His resource allocation from the Ancient Ruins was more than enough for him to acquire the Jade Staff.
[Jade Staff]
It possessed two powerful forbidden properties: Jade Walking and Scepter Heavy Strike.
Jade Walking was even more effective when combined with his own stealth abilities.
When paired with Zorn’s own Witch Spirit trait and the Forbidden Curse of Divine Concealment, even the Level 7 Puppet Master with his extremely strong Perception Ability had been fooled.
And when Scepter Heavy Strike was combined with Zorn’s own Golden Scepter, the effect was ridiculously powerful.
Scepter Heavy Strike could force an enemy to fall, fall asleep, or be stunned.
Needless to say, the Jade Staff was incredibly powerful.
But its negative side effects were just as terrifying.
Using the Jade Staff would turn the wielder’s body into a "germination bed" for jade-type plant seeds.
It could easily cause all sorts of bizarre jade plants to grow inside one’s body, even taking root and sprouting within one’s flesh and blood, ultimately turning the user into a perfect culture medium for jade vegetation.
The power of Forbidden Weaving allowed Zorn to handle this negative corruption and mutation with ease.
Even if such growths appeared, Zorn could simply consume them himself.
Minor corruption and mutation were no big deal to him.
Using the powerful Jade Staff, Zorn landed a Blunt Strike from behind. As the Puppet Master stumbled, the stealthy whistle of the Scythe Blade Forbidden Curse already rang out.
SHINK! SHINK! SHINK!
In an instant, the Puppet Master was sliced into seven or eight pieces.
As his scattered flesh and blood fell, his blood, life, and Spiritual energy were continuously siphoned away by Zorn.
It was like a gluttonous feast of Death.
Zorn’s chain of attacks left the Puppet Master with no strength to resist.
Although he had been cut apart, the Puppet Master’s various body parts were still connected to each other by a great number of thread-like veins.
Simply cutting him up wasn’t enough to kill the Level 7 Puppet Master.
Some of his dismembered body parts even tried to flee, pulled along by the puppet threads.
But the towering golden silhouette of a Rune Hand, slamming down from the Spirit Realm Layer Realm, completely extinguished the Puppet Master’s last hope.
BOOM—
The Spiritual Layer violently exploded.
The countless puppet threads were instantly smashed to pieces and annihilated.
Amidst shrill and miserable wails, the struggling remains of the Puppet Master’s flesh and blood also burst into a blood mist.
Zorn coldly absorbed the Puppet Master’s bloody remains.
If this man hadn’t attacked Zorn, Zorn wouldn’t have been so ruthless.
He clearly knew who Zorn Corick was, yet he attacked anyway, which obviously meant he had some ulterior motive.
And since he chose to attack, he had to be killed.
He devoured every last scrap of flesh and blood.
Zorn slowly released the Puppet Master’s Wandering Soul from the Spiritual Realm.
It was time for the interrogation.
