Chapter 17 Black-haired Angel
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At the same time, Lin Ruo suddenly had a feeling that some change was occurring within his body. Similar to the feeling of clarity that Klein experienced during digestion, as described in the original novel, Lin Ruo had a similar feeling and a realization:
With just this one hunt, he had digested more than a third of his Hunter potion.
This was terrifying, but also to be expected, considering that Lin Ruo had directly hunted a Sequence 6, a Sequence 7, a Sequence 8, and his main target, the scumbag Capim, all while at Sequence 9.
In the world of 'Mysteries,' completing acting exercises targeting those beyond one's own Sequence can greatly aid in digesting the potion. Refer to the situation when Klein, while acting as a Magician, startled the Hot Pot Evil Spirit, causing a significant portion of his potion to digest.
One could say that if Lin Ruo had the good fortune to provoke an angel while acting as a Provoker, then even a freshly consumed potion would melt in his mouth.
Of course, whether he could safely escape after digesting the potion was another matter.
Just then, Lin Ruo's spirituality suddenly alerted him, causing him to look towards a certain direction outside the window. Although his eyes hadn't seen anything yet, his spirituality told him that something was approaching from that direction.
Lin Ruo knew that it was a demigod from the Storm Church.
Without rushing to use a fallacy, Lin Ruo simply took out a deck of Tarot cards. After selecting 'Judgment' and 'Chariot,' he placed 'Judgment' over Capim's face, while keeping 'Chariot' aside.
"Hopefully, Mr. Fool won't be frightened… but if Justice and Hanged Man knew, they'd probably start overthinking again!" After a low chuckle, a certain 'Mysteries' fan, whose inner mischievousness and sense of ritual were satisfied, aspiring to join the Tarot Club in the future, Lin Ruo scattered the remaining Tarot cards around the room, then used the Badge again to enter a state of concealment, and quietly waited.
After Lin Ruo waited for about tens of seconds, a howling gale blew in from afar, and an old man wearing a black soft hat with unusually serious silver eyes descended from the sky.
He was wearing a black robe embroidered with the Storm symbol, none other than Cardinal Archbishop of the Storm Church, Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese, 'Spellsinger of God' Ace Snake.
Almost with a single glance, 'God's Singer' Ace Snake saw the ravaged state of the restaurant after the lightning strike, and the Tarot cards scattered all over the room.
Lin Ruo, who had entered a state of concealment, said softly:
"I am not a Sequence 4 of the Apprentice pathway, this is a fallacy."
"I am not a Sequence 2 of the Apprentice pathway, this is a fallacy!"
Lin Ruo simultaneously established two fallacies, one to simulate the aura of an Apprentice pathway Sequence 2, to ensure that upon immediately exiting the state of concealment, he would appear like a true angel. The other was to simulate the abilities of an Apprentice Sequence 4, to ensure that if the Storm old coot attacked without a word, he wouldn't be instantly killed, and could escape in time.
Subsequently, Lin Ruo exited the state of concealment and unreservedly revealed his status.
Ace Snake, who had been observing the environment in the restaurant, was immediately shocked. He looked at Lin Ruo in astonishment, his hand almost reacting faster than his brain to unleash lightning, but before the lightning actually struck, Ace Snake restrained himself.
Because his spiritual intuition reminded him that this was an angel.
An unfamiliar angel!
Being irritable didn't mean being brainless. Even Ace Snake knew that as a mere demigod, if he actually attacked, not to mention whether he could defeat the opponent, once a battle broke out, this area would probably be destroyed.
Just as Ace Snake was pondering what to do, a illusory door suddenly opened in the air beside him, and a gold-eyed man in his forties, looking elegant and mature, walked out of the illusory door.
The gold-eyed man naturally saw Ace Snake first, and sensed the strange atmosphere. This made him pause slightly, then he looked at the restaurant and saw the youth standing there quietly, with black hair, black eyes, ordinary features, and a indifferent expression.
Angel!
The hint from spirituality instantly made the gold-eyed man understand where the strange atmosphere came from.
"Heh!"
The gold-eyed man suddenly heard laughter, the laughter coming from the black-haired angel.
The gold-eyed man and Ace Snake couldn't help but look over together, and saw the black-haired angel looking at them with a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"The corrupted Creator is about to hold a grand and bloody sacrifice in Tingen, I am ordered by my Lord to inform you."
As soon as these words came out, both Ace Snake and the gold-eyed man were somewhat astonished. Ace Snake instinctively wanted to ask for more details, when he saw the black-haired angel smile at them again, then raised his right hand and pressed it against his left shoulder, bowing slightly to them.
Then, the black-haired angel took a step back, and at the same time, behind him, the illusory door covered with mysterious symbols opened, accepting the black-haired angel.
In the next instant, the illusory door closed, and the black-haired angel disappeared in front of the two demigods. And in the same spot in the air, the Tarot card representing 'Chariot' slowly fell, like a dancing butterfly, yet possessing some kind of unspeakable symbolic meaning.
This made Ace Snake and the gold-eyed man look at each other, each lost in thought.
"By the way, why are you here?" Suddenly, Ace Snake seemed to have thought of something, looked up at the gold-eyed man, and asked without the slightest politeness.
He was naturally qualified to ask that, after all, this was the area he was responsible for.
"I live nearby," the gold-eyed man replied, his answer flawless, and Ace Snake didn't think much about it.
But in fact, the reason why the gold-eyed man arrived so promptly was not such a simple reason. He did live nearby, but if this matter itself wasn't related to him in some way, he wouldn't have arrived so quickly.
But this was not something to be shared with outsiders.
So the gold-eyed man then said: "There seems to be a remnant of Storm power here… Did that angel use a Sealed Artifact from the Storm domain?"
This was actually a test, he was testing whether this matter was related to the Punishers, after all, there weren't many wild angels in this world, and demigod-level Sealed Artifacts corresponding to the Storm domain were equally scarce.
In addition, the attitude shown by the black-haired angel just now even made it difficult for the gold-eyed man not to associate whether the other party might be a hidden angel of the Storm Church.
Ace Snake just glanced at him, already relatively irritable, and now in an even worse mood, he immediately said unhappily: "What does that have to do with you!"
At this time, the Punishers, who were "forever on the pigeon", finally arrived late.
On the other side, Lin Ruo, who had left Capim's villa under the watchful eyes of the two demigods through the ability of traveling, had finally returned home.
He wasn't worried about the safety of the young girls who were being held captive in the underground area, because he knew that once such a big commotion attracted the official Beyonders of the Church, then regardless of which Church it was, they would rescue those victims, that was inevitable.
Therefore, Lin Ruo, who had just pulled off a big one and acted as an angel, just lazily stretched and began to process this harvest.
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