Seeing that the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer truly made no move, Darkness held a gun in his left hand, pressing it against Xiao Dimoke's head from behind him. His right hand, covered with a red sleeve, was ready to attack, and he retreated step by step into the bushes.
He also knew that he absolutely could not involve more people.
In this situation, Xia De could not act no matter what he said, so he pondered the possible implications of this matter, then looked sideways at the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer from the Creation Church.
Noticing Xia De looking at him, Mr. Pierrot explained softly:
"The other party is a Cultists from Coldwater Port. You should have heard of the Coldwater Port shadow incident that caused a stir a while ago."
"Yes, Priest Augustus mentioned it to me. It seems to be related to worshipping the Mermaid."
Xia De replied softly, watching the somewhat collapsed Xiao Dimoke being dragged into the rose bushes by Darkness. Since this was not the main venue of the garden party, the light was very dim, and coupled with the flower stands and the misty fireworks lingering there, the two of them were almost completely out of Xia De's sight.
"It's not a Mermaid, it's a merman, it doesn't matter, Mr. Hamilton, stand here and don't move. I'll come back for you in a while."
Saying that, Mr. Pierrot walked quickly towards the rose bushes. Although he was stout, he walked almost silently. In the thin fog, he disappeared in an instant, Xia De didn't even hear the sound of him pushing through the bushes.
"Will you stay put?"
"What do you think?"
Xia De took out a small bottle from his pocket and dropped the extract of weathervane bluegrass onto his tongue:
"Using Miracles and spells will leave traces of elements, so I can't get too close to them. Moreover, I can only make one move, otherwise my identity will definitely be discovered."
"Outsider, what exactly do you want to do by following them? With a Thirteen Ring Sorcerer there, you won't be needed no matter what."
"I just want to get a drop of Darkness's blood."
He noted down his current position, then tiptoed towards the rose bushes.
Behind the rose bushes was a small path in the garden's flowerbeds. Although all three people were now out of sight, since one end of the path led towards the central axis of Yodel Palace and the other end continued towards the edge, ending at a glass conservatory, Xia De chose to walk towards the glass conservatory.
He took out the mask doll from his pocket, restored it to its normal size, and put it on his face, transforming the cloth doll coat into real clothing and putting it over his formal wear. Although it was so dark here that it wouldn't matter even without a disguise, Xia De still wanted to be safe.
He hadn't walked many steps when he saw light flickering from the glass room. Xia De bent down and held his breath, and after approaching the conservatory, he saw the unconscious Xiao Dimoke lying on the gravel path where the path curved towards the conservatory entrance. He checked him and confirmed that he was only unconscious.
"Did they start fighting?"
Xia De thought to himself, using the flowerpots with saplings planted outside the conservatory to conceal himself, he approached the glass wall and carefully looked inside.
The interior was pitch black, and only two dark figures could be seen almost entwined. One of them was Darkness, whose right half of his body had transformed into the Human Pus form, and his opponent, Mr. Sari Pirot, the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer, also had his right hand swollen.
The glass roof scattered Moonlight, and only faint light entered the conservatory. Mr. Pierrot's swollen right hand showed a strange brass-colored metallic luster in the cool, three-colored Moonlight. The metallic right hand collided with the pitch-black pus-like giant hand, a scene that appeared incredibly bizarre in the silent yet noisy night.
Xia De once thought that Darkness's "Human Pus form" was invincible, but that high-temperature mechanical right arm, engraved with divine spell runes and spewing steam, was actually able to contend with Human Pus in terms of strength.
Neither side used Miracles or spells that might produce huge light or sound, relying more on physical strength to contend. The insulated glass room suppressed some of the sound, only intermittently letting out dull thumping sounds.
Xia De watched this scene intently. Although Mr. Pierrot's strength was not as great as Darkness's, the metallic-glowing right hand combined with the left hand that could use divine spells gradually suppressed Darkness in the low-intensity battle.
The latter also realized that the current situation was unfavorable for him. After swinging his huge, root-like right arm to block the light bullets flying from Mr. Pierrot's left hand's divine spell light, he swept his huge right arm across the ground, causing flowerpots and shelves to surge forward.
And when Mr. Pierrot pushed his left hand forward, clearing away the debris as if parting the sea, Darkness suddenly raised his right arm, revealing his face from behind his swollen right side:
"Ugh!"
He actually vomited, and terrifying black pus shot out from his mouth, which was wide open to the point of almost tearing the corners of his lips.
Because there was no light in the conservatory, Xia De didn't clearly see the trajectory of the black pus, but he saw Mr. Pierrot quickly retreating while using his mechanical right arm to block.
If that were just ordinary contaminants, Mr. Pierrot's actions would be correct, but unfortunately, it was Human Pus.
The Thirteen Ring Sorcerer maintained the raised hand posture, stiffening in place for two seconds as if stunned. Then, the clothes on his body seemed to come alive and writhed, instantly enveloping his head. No, it wasn't the clothes on his body, but the black pus had stained his body and quickly absorbed the power of emotions, then came alive, wrapping and entangling him like a black spider monster.
The foul and terrifying aura, and the fear instinctively felt by the body, all proved that it was the pus of Human Pus. The dark emotions and mentality of humanity growing like festering sores, finally erupting with venom, this is Human Pus.
"He underestimated him too much."
The Twelve-Ring Witch, caught off guard and infected by Human Pus, was forced to sink to the bottom of the sea and give up the pursuit. Xia De didn't know who was stronger between the Thirteenth Ring Ring術士 and Miss Hivi Aurora, but Mr. Pierrot's "Human Pus resistance" was clearly no better than the Witch who possessed two sets of mystical systems.
Seeing Mr. Pierrot entangled, Darkness did not believe that he could kill a Thirteen Ring Sorcerer in this way; instead, he turned and ran.
Xia De clutched the brooch with the sun holy emblem in his pocket, but ultimately did not use it. Sunlight Gun's power would be weakened in a dark environment, and the commotion would be too great.
He looked towards the exit at the other end of the conservatory, then quickly put on the demon hunter seal and the Mind Crystal Ring on his left and right hands respectively.
Squinting his eyes at Darkness's figure, his body had already returned to a normal human form to pass through the conservatory exit. the moment Darkness stared at the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer entangled by "Human Pus" and backed away, pushing open the glass door of the conservatory with his body—
"Raglai's Leap!"
Silently, the moment Darkness pushed open the glass door of the conservatory, when his mind was most relaxed, Xia De appeared behind him.
First, his right fist shot out rapidly:
"Mind Blast!"
Pure spiritual energy guided the silver blasphemy element, flowing through his arm to the ring. The three crystals on the ring glowed simultaneously, and as Xia De's fist approached the back of Darkness's head, the Miracle detonated his mind.
Xia De could feel at this moment that the opponent's mental strength was like a dark, bizarre mountain, but the sudden explosion still caused the opponent to falter for a moment:
"demon hunter seal!"
After his right fist fiercely struck the back of the opponent's head, his left fist followed. the moment the demon hunter seal touched Darkness's head with the fist, a sharp scream that almost shattered the glass conservatory suddenly erupted from Darkness's right palm, which he hadn't yet put a glove on.
Rolling black smoke emerged from the point of contact between the seal and Darkness. In intense pain and instinctive panic, he finally broke free from the effects of Mind Blast.
But Xia De didn't give him a chance to turn around and see himself.
His left fist retracted, his right fist extended; his right fist retracted, his left fist struck continuously. The reason for wearing the two rings on separate hands was so that when one fist was retracting to gather strength, the other fist could still be effective.
The attacks of Mind Blast and demon hunter seal cycled three times, and only then did Darkness, struggling back and forth in intense pain and mental confusion, finally turn around.
He raised his right hand with anger and panic, and his howling palm directly aimed at Xia De's masked face.
At this point, five seconds remained of the ten-second cycle of Raglai's Leap, and from previous experience, retreating would not break free from the suction of that mouth.
So Xia De didn't dodge at all. Instead, as the opponent's palm-mouth suddenly widened, he directly thrust his left fist, wearing the demon hunter seal, into that terrifying demon mouth:
"Moonlight Greatsword!"
"Ah!"
The Darkness in the demon's mouth, which seemed capable of melting everything, only caused Xia De's left hand's skin to peel and flesh to rot, but it didn't immediately dissolve Xia De's ring-wearing hand.
As rolling black smoke emerged from the demon's mouth, the greatsword in both hands pierced from Darkness's right palm to his wrist, as if the sword and his right arm had merged into one.
He screamed, hugging Xia De with his left hand, actually wanting to fall with him into the black vortex that had appeared behind them at some point.
But Xia De knew that the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer Steel Right Hand's defeat in the battle was due to unfamiliarity with the opponent's fighting style, and his own advantage was due to a sneak attack and targeted preparation. If the fight continued, Xia De would not be able to defeat the opponent, so as the two stumbled backward, Raglai's Leap reached its tenth second after use, and Xia De disappeared into the air again.
Darkness didn't even bother to look for the despicable sneak attacker. He took a step into the dark vortex, then his body tumbled out of another vortex in the nearby flowerbed. He used his Darkness talent for spatial movement, and his maximum distance was shorter than Xia De's.
In a few leaps and bounds, the Hexacle disappeared into the night of the Yodel Palace garden. But Xia De, who had just escaped, emerged from the flowerbed again, pouncing and lying on the ground where the two had just fought, using the Miracle Moving Objects to draw the blood on the ground into the bottle in his left hand.
Putting away the bottle and rolling on the ground, he once again burrowed into the flowerbed. As the rose bushes rustled, Xia De's figure also disappeared under the Moonlight.
Dozens of seconds later, Mr. Pierrot, with spiderweb-like black marks attached to the surface of his body, walked out of the conservatory, raised his hand towards the sky, and a dazzling streak of light ascended, then exploded into golden fireworks under the night sky.
Five minutes later, King Larus III suddenly appeared and announced that tonight's birthday banquet would end early.
Ten minutes later, Silver Cross Avenue was completely closed, and a temporary curfew was imposed tonight.
