Chapter 168: The Legacy of Sylin
Its him!
Youre doomed this time!
Gerard looked over and saw an un-blessed man with a masked face breaking away from the group, desperately rushing towards the entrance.
An adventurer next to the masked man shouted, Stop him, hes the wanted criminal!
Gerard watched the scene coldly and said, Bass!
Gerard didnt come alone; he had several hunters assisting him. Hearing the captains order, Blood Saint Beastman Bass didnt hesitate. He pulled out his handgun, switched off the safety, and his body blurred into a blood shadow, chasing after the escapee!
Gerard himself remained seated on the high platform, knowing well that as long as he guarded the virtual gateway, Ashe couldnt escape the Blood Moon.
As for the man who had just fled in panic, Gerard didnt believe it was Ashe himself. The white-haired hunter had been fooled by a substitute before; how could he fall for it a second time?
It was likely Ashes substitute, which Bass could destroy with a single strike.
When Bass passed through the crowd of adventurers, everyones chip screens popped up automatically, except for Gerard and the assistant priestess. They were bombarded with two blood-red messages alternating:
Warning: You are currently in a no-attack state.
Warning: Your movement is restricted.
Even Bass was forced to stop amidst the crowd, unable to resist the chips constraints. Before he could react, the surrounding adventurers suddenly screamed in agony, falling one by one with blood gushing from their bodies!
The hunters want to trap and kill us here!
Theyre even controlling our chips to make us sitting ducks!
Gerard is going to judge us across the war zone!
Theyll kill us all! Controlling chips like this is illegal, they wont let us leave alive! Theyre going to die!
Blood, night, restrictions, screams, along with Gerards notorious reputation and the criminals self-awareness, panic spread like a plague bomb, instantly exploding among the adventurers.
Just then, the warnings on the adventurers screens blurred and distorted. They tentatively moved and to their surprise, found they could walk!
Run!
Without hesitation, the adventurers instinctively obeyed this unknown command. Running had no downside, it meant escaping the terrifying Gerard, and everyone else was doing it.
They were like a herd of panicked rabbits, scattering wildly at the slightest provocation!
Break through!
Flame Squad, follow me, cut down any enemy in our way
Ah, Ive been shot, Ive been shot!
Dont step on me, dont! Ah~
The hysterical chaos and screams pierced the night. The adventurers who had fallen were trampled by the panicked crowd, emitting painful wails, clearly about to be trampled to death!
In the face of this disaster, Gerards eyes shone brighter, burning like rubies.
Chaos, manipulating hearts, inciting darkness, controlling everyone like puppets.
This was the flavor, the feeling he sought!
Indeed, it was you, Four Pillars Cult Leader, Ashe Heath!
Although the initial screams had arisen from various parts of the crowd, the first to lead the adventurers to escape and then hide among them to fan the flames was already locked in Gerards sights!
By now, the adventurers had stormed the camp entrance. The guards from the Government Affairs Hall in charge of the blockade dared not intercept them. Although there were priests for emergency aid, they were just doing their jobs; why risk their lives against these madmen? They let the adventurers break out of the camp and scatter in all directions.
As the notorious fugitive was about to escape in the chaos, Gerard clasped his hands in prayer and activated a Miracle, transforming into the light of the Blood Moon to leap across the camp, vaulting over the confused adventurers like a white wolf hunting its prey in the night!
He swung his Chain Sword from a distance, which instantly disintegrated into a snake-like rope, coiling towards the fleeing figure in the forefront!
Im sorry, Ashe, Gerards eyes filled with a crazed killing intent. But youre going to die anyway, let me vent a bit!
Sword Blood Miracle Blood Virgin Lament!
This was Gerards most cruel and violent Miracle, where the Chain Sword would turn into a meat grinder, binding the target and mashing them into a pulp, bones and flesh included, even manifesting the effect of harming the soul, bathing the target in the most severe and vicious pain in the moments before death!
It was more a punishment than an attack!
Now, it was Gerards time for judgment!
However, what responded to Gerard was not a splash of blood, but nothing.
Nothing at all. The moment the Chain Sword touched the masked person, they just dissipated. Two familiar objects fell to the ground where they stood recording pens.
It was like the worst joke, exploding into the most boring fireworks.
A Substitute?
This was the Substitute?
Then the one before
Gerard landed and turned back, seeing the initially fleeing masked person lying on the ground screaming in agony, apparently shot in the leg by Bas, revealing a fish-mans scaly face from under the cloak, clearly not the Ashe-Heath he had been longing for.
The first masked person was a decoy used by Ashe, a precursor to the ensuing chaos; the second was a substitute used to stir panic, also to divert Gerards attention.
So where was the real Ashe?
Gerard turned to look and saw that the hunters left on the high platform had been taken down, and several blood-stained adventurers were rushing towards the virtual gateway.
Right, although the adventurers were initially fleeing outwards, several had been shot for unknown reasons and lay on the ground, unable to run, even trampled by the panicked crowd, so Gerard subconsciously ignored them
Ive been fooled again.
With the same trick.
Again using a substitute to shift attention.
Gerard suddenly felt very tired, the Chain Sword in his hand heavy, lacking the strength to lift his body. He knew he was too late; he had been lured too far, and only Two-Winged Monks could pass through the virtual gateway, making it impossible for him to chase after them.
Unless someone could stop them, otherwise
Bang!
Clang!
A moment before the shot rang out, Ashe on the high platform thrust the Honeyed Words, Dagger in Heart into the ground!
The warm yellow Sword Aegis, formed almost instantaneously, was shattered by the sniper bullet!
The sniper was a beastman hiding at the entrance of the camp, his right hand fitted with a heavy sniper rifle specially made for beastmen, the barrel gleaming with a golden light, seemingly guided by a Miracle.
Gerard recognized him, and so did Ashe.
He was Beastman Gesas Duff.
A Two-wing Sorcerer, the current leader of the Woodpecker Gang, and a loyal lapdog of Professor Sylin.
His last mission was to hide near observation point 53 and take the opportunity to kill Ashe-Heath.
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