305 Following 1 (2/2)
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Garen's back was against the stone wall as he stood on the left, just below the stone steps. He was quietly observing the movements inside the church.
From the moment Goth entered, there had been constant bursts of roars, as if a fierce fight was going on.
Even now, the movements inside did not die down. Instead, they appeared to be growing bigger and bigger.
Garen kept practicing portrayals with both hands while listened quietly to the situation.
Chi!
An invisible sharp wave flew out from the church gate and ruthlessly split open the stone steps on the platform.
Without a sound, the stone platform's corner was cut off and the ground was left with crescent-shaped knife marks.
Garen squinted and walked gently to touch the knife marks. The cut was more than 10 cm into the stone slab, forming lines of black slits.
”Powerful,” he praised, ”surely, the person going against Goth is a Form 2 totem user, and is not a perverse player either.”
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Inside the church.
Goth gasped as he supported his upper body on his knees. His forehead continued to shed streams of blood, leaving a stream of dark red along his right cheek.
The blackfield bird on the side had its feathers scattered, like a hairy little hen. One side of its wing looked broken and both its eyes looked dead, as it was barely standing on the ground. It looked gravely injured.
In front of the bird and the man were five silver horned lizards, lying on the ground, all of them decapitated, rapidly becoming mercury.
The blonde wavy-haired woman looked horrified, her gaze on the wall gazing steadily at Goth. Her arrogance vanished.
”You! You actually ....!”
”Where's the medicine?” Goth walked over, grabbed her collar and slammed her against the wall. ”Tell me! The medicine! Where is it!” His bloodshot eyes betrayed the tendencies of a wild beast, just a sliver away from losing control. .
”I'll tell you! I'll tell you !!” The woman sputtered hastily, ”The medicine is....”
Chi!!
An invisible wave instantly split blackfield bird's body in half.
Chi!!
With another squeal, the bird tumbled to the ground.
Goth also followed suit a muffled scream and doubled over. His chest collapsed, and his mouth spewed blood as he coughed..
”As for the medicine, I'll reveal that to your dead body,” The woman's face was covered with a flirtatious smile, but all of a sudden, her face froze. ”you!!”
Bam!
The blackfield bird swooped up once again and into Goth's body, turning into a dark shimmering layer, covering his whole body.
”This is!!” The woman's expression suddenly panicked, not mock panic, but a real, guttural panic pulled from the depths of her psyche
She turned to flee. The last silver-headed dragon lizard flew up and grabbed Goth, trying to stop him from chasing.
Suddenly, an invisible giant force field dispersed and shrouded her within.
Bang!!
A huge roar came from within the church, dust was kicked up and rows of chairs and tables were thrown in all directions. The dust settled to reveal a crater in the earth, more than 20 meters across.
The instant after the explosion, all was silent.
The remaining dust eventually dispersed into the air, and in the middle of the pit, Goth held the woman by the neck with one hand. His face was deathly pale, barely managing to hold the body.
”Tell me, where is the medicine?” He asked hoarsely. ”Otherwise, I'll kill you!”
The woman kicked her feet as her face turned purple.
”I... I do not know.... the important things are kept with Lord Ansella! Don't kill me!”
Goth's expression was grim, his hold on the woman who had lost the power to resist. Suddenly he saw her struggling, begging and even actually crying outright as her tears flowed into two clear traces of water.
The totem user in front of him was not exactly that flirtatious enemy, but more like an ordinary young girl, at the age of only twenty at most.
”Don't kill me, please! Don't!!” The girl cried splinters.
Looked at her pleading eyes, Goth's heart softened, and gently put her down.
”Where's this Ansella you speak of?” He whispered.
”He's… He's behind the black wall in Copenhagen, in the place marked with the dark sun. Wait until night falls to find him!” The girl quickly told him what she knew, ”we are under his leadership, he knows the most. It was on his request that I came in contact with you! It's not my fault!”
Goth sent silent for a while.
”Scram.” His face was overcome with calm. Retracting the blackfield birds, he finally saw what was left of the girl's six silver horn monitor lizards. Not one survived, all turned into mercury. He then turned to exit the church.
The blonde girl looked at Goth's silhouette vanish, and her eyes flashed with hate.
”Well go then! Best you die while you're there! Then I can easily finish what I have to do!” She said, her heart cursing him fiercely.
Goth's figure disappeared out of the church, and the girl managed to get up and look at the five dark gemstone rings on her hand, and suddenly grit her teeth.
”Don't you want to save your little lover? If you manage to save them, my name will cease to be Sallora! And that Andy as well. We should have just killed them all!”
Her face was deeply resentful. Her five well-developed totems were destroyed; a devastating blow to any totem user.