255 Chase (1/2)

Ye Qingxuan saw his own head fly from his shoulders. It flew into the sky and fell onto the ground, rolling into a corner. Stunned, he felt his neck and then his head. His neck was fine and his head was still in its original spot. There didn’t seem to be any problem.

Then whose head just flew off?

”My illusion can’t fool him for long. What are you waiting for?” Lola’s voice sounded again. ”Hurry up. He’s already become one with Avalon’s Shadow. You can’t kill him here!”

The Blue Moon’s glow in the sky grew stranger, with a tinge of sultriness in the dimness. Just looking at it made one dazed. Relying on the resonance between them and the road mark, Lola used the Blue Moon’s glow to forcefully send her power into this world.

The distortion level. This was definitely the distortion level.

In that instant, she used the moonlight to erode the sword blade and assimilate it. The steel blade turned into illusory light. The moonlight and the youth passed each other. They did not make contact, but a thin line of blood appeared on Ye Qingxuan’s neck. He did not expect Lola to use the extremely uncommon ‘thought realization’ method. She could make the illusion tangible or turn real objects into illusions. She had combined the School of Illusion and Mind together. It seemed that Lola did not choose an easy level for her Scepter.

Ye Qingxuan was thinking about random things but he had no time to hesitate. The moment Lola’s voice rang out, he spun around and ran.

Percival was fooled by the illusionary head and did not notice the youth that melted into the moonlight. Becoming one with the Blue Moon was a strange experience. It felt as if he had lost all physical weight and floated in the air. His speed was unimaginably fast too. He crossed dozens of meters with one step; it was as if his legs were the wind.

But after two steps, he suddenly stopped and turned around, running back!

”Wait! Where are you going?”

”He came from that direction and had blood on his sword. Whose blood do you think it is?” Ye Qingxuan passed Percival and sprinted toward the direction he had come from. He could practically here Lola gritting her teeth.

”Ye Qingxuan, do you want to die?”

”Haha, you’re funny,” he grinned and uttered. ”What have I done in Avalon that wasn’t flirting with death? I finally found a trace so let’s talk after I find it!”

A pair of eyes appeared in the moonlight and they rolled in displeasure. However, Lola’s power did not dissipate. Instead, it wrapped around the youth even tighter, transforming him into the omnipresent light.

A small breeze blew from the ruins.

Ye Qingxuan soon stopped because he had seen a horrible corpse. Clearly, a sacrifice left behind. The poor guy had probably taken Percival’s sword straight on. Half of his body had evaporated.

Yes, evaporated. He had seriously evaporated.

Half of the medium-rare corpse lay on the ground. It was cut into large portions by the surrounding demons, who were thinking, ”The benefits of Avalon’s Shadow are so bad. It’s been so long since there was a hot meal. Eat it when it’s still hot.”

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not need to speak for the moonlight to flow like water and melt the strange creatures. Seeing it gave Ye Qingxuan the chills.

”What are you still waiting for? You came to see and you saw it. What now?”

”What else?” Ye Qingxuan tugged his leather gloves. ”You’re not as good as me at collecting evidence. Just watch.”

He had not used his skills in this field since he participated in the school day trials. He was a little excited to be able to use them now. The moonlight in his eyes blazed and swept across the corpse. His vision went through the messy flesh and looked to the broken bones underneath.

”From the bones, I think he’s around forty-years-old. The aether in his blood is heavy. He should be a musician. His race…” He picked up the incomplete skull and nodded after studying it for a while. ”From the brow bone, cheekbones, and structure, he probably isn’t from Anglo. As for his upper body…aha!” Lifting the clothing on the corpse’s chest, he saw the distorted design on it—he was Hyakume’s follower. ”Lola, can you tell which natural catastrophe this guy signed a contract with?”

”There’s scale-like soft tissue under the skin, and residual signs of webs on his fingers. Behind his ears, there aren’t any gills, so it shouldn’t be a pure aquatic catastrophe. It should be a demonic mutation of the amphibious type.”

”Oh?” Ye Qingxuan pondered deeply. ”Forty-years-old, dark musician, has the ancestral protective charm that border countries like, has harp as his instrument, is mutated from an amphibian. There are only three on the wanted list that fit these characteristics. One died last year, one is a girl, and the last is probably this one before us. He’s the ‘Kirin’ that has been on the list for twenty-one years.”

After a long silence, Lola asked, ”So?”

”So nothing. I was just acting cool.”

Lola did not bother replying. Ye Qingxuan speedily moved around the corpse until he finally found a hand-drawn map from the corpse’s bag. A large portion had been torn and only one third remained.

Thankfully, the crude map marked their destination. However, there were no related words and it was pretty useless. Ye Qingxuan closed his eyes to think. He compared the routes endlessly. If this Avalon’s Shadow really came from Avalon, things would be easy.

Avalon’s overall layout had not changed in centuries. Therefore, if he used the exhaustive method, he might be able to find it. But soon, his eyes flew open as confusion flashed through his mind.

”What’s wrong?”

”This isn’t Avalon’s map. It’s weird.” He began to think while holding his chin. ”There are many similarities but they’re all insignificant. It’s so weird. Did the parliament risk so much to send people in just to send them into the incinerator? But the layout here is similar to Avalon. If this isn’t Avalon’s map, then what is it?”