Chapter 106 Kill! And the real enemy!

"Damn it!"

Luke cursed.

If this goes on, I'll be the one who gets exhausted to death.

The remaining James and Saga both showed awkward smiles.

James summoned two "past bodies" again and asked them to push forward, shouting to Luke: "I will help you recover! But you are too strong. I am afraid that my mental strength will be exhausted after one recovery. It is up to you now!"

"Okay." Luke nodded.

He had not originally expected the four-man team to play any role, and the current situation had already exceeded his expectations.

James held up a pocket watch, and the hour and minute hands on it began to slowly reverse. In Luke's perception, the whole world seemed to be undergoing some changes. Infinite power was pouring into his body from every corner of the world. He accepted this power and soon recovered to his heyday.

【Time Clock】!
The strangest and most magical of Harland's powers is this. Not only can he materialize himself in the past, but he can also adjust the time of other people's bodies to restore their strength.

It's like having one more life, no, it's many lives.

Fortunately, this authority has been stolen and cannot be used, otherwise Luke would have no chance of winning.

Originally, Luke and Haaland were evenly matched. One had stronger attributes and helpers to hold him back, while the other had a higher rank and the advantage of terrain. It was just a matter of who could not hold on first and would die.

But as Luke recovered to his prime, the balance between the two changed dramatically. How could a broken Harland resist a full-blooded Luke?
Take advantage of his illness and kill him.

The opponent has the home advantage in the diary world and their energy recovers extremely quickly, so they can no longer fight a protracted war.

Luke learned his lesson and exerted his mental power to the maximum extent. On the shoulder blades on both sides of his back, a pair of huge feathered serpent-like flaming wings appeared, just like the last time he was worshipped in the Indian territory.

However, this pair of fire wings seemed a little illusory, not as red and scorching as before.

Against the backdrop of his flaming wings, Luke soared into the sky like a god controlling fire, looking down at Harland, who was dressed in black and gray with resentful flames.

This move, the flame of the feathered serpent, the power of the sky and the sun, can you take it? !

The wings folded in front of the body, with the tips of the wings connected together, like a sharp spear tip, carrying Luke down from the sky.

Haaland wanted to dodge, but before he could move, he felt as if the entire sky was pressing down on him. The huge pressure covered every inch of his skin and every flame on his body, making his dodging movements extremely slow, as if a snail was crawling.

Luke also sensed this strange change in mid-air. He felt as if he was falling with the entire sky. No matter how fast the target was or whether it dodged or not, as long as it was under the sky, it could not escape his lock and would inevitably withstand his next attack.

All along, he had been able to use Quetzalcoatl's "Sun Power" very easily because of the characteristics of "Sun Fire", but as for the "Sky Power", he only used it to glide a few times while traveling and did not take it too seriously.

Unexpectedly, by chance, other ways to use the "power of the sky" have been developed.

As his mind raced, his body fell with a bang, and the tips of his closed wings pierced into Harland's body. The blazing flames flowed along the lines on his wings and poured into his soul, assimilating all the endless resentment that was already burning into pure sun fire.

"I"

Before he could finish his sentence, Haaland's body exploded and shattered into countless stars like iron flowers.

The prompt on the panel flashed by.

"Kill a level 3 spiritual creature."

“Obtain 100 Essence of Ascension.”

Luke coveted all kinds of power and abilities, especially the ability related to time, but none of them were available. I don't know if it was because of bad luck or because these abilities were stolen by the four-man team, so they could not be dropped.

He guessed that it was probably because these powers were stolen by the foursome. After all, Harland himself couldn't use these abilities, so it was even more impossible for him to burst out from the other party.

This is good too. If this is really Harland in his prime, and besides fire, he also possesses the abilities of time, rebirth, anger and curse, then Luke really has no choice but to find a way to escape.

After Harland's death, the inner world in the diary began to loosen and many cracks appeared. Luke could clearly feel that if he jumped out of these cracks, he could return to his body.

He turned around to look at James and the other two young men who were still there, with shocked expressions on their faces, as if they were shocked by Luke's power just now.

The authority they got from Harland was not so reliable. At least the cursed camera did not predict Harland's death correctly. [Molten Gold] was not brought in by Luke at all. The death scene of Harland shown in the photo was far from accurate.

Luke looked at a dark crack not far away, and suddenly, he felt uncomfortable.

This feeling came from the connection with the body. The originally clear sensation now seemed to be covered with a layer of misty gauze, which reduced his perception of the body to a lower level.

Any changes outside?
Even though a mountain monster was left behind to guard the body, an accident could still happen.

Are there any other abnormal creatures in this town besides Harland?

Without caring about these high school students, Luke hurriedly jumped into a medium-sized dark crack next to him and returned to the material world.

Behind him, James and Saga stood stiffly, their expressions seemed frozen, and did not change for a long time.
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outside world.

Half an hour ago.

If the battle with Harland was the toughest struggle Luke had ever experienced, then what was happening now should be even more terrifying to him.

A strange puppet stood outside the window of his room, looking at him from under the windowsill with its head tilted.

The puppet's face is meticulously carved, its skin made of a special material that looks strikingly like real human skin, and its eyes, made of glass, reflect the light and shadows of the surrounding environment but lack the lifelikeness of a living person's eyes.

Although it has a gentle smile on its face, that smile seems to be always fixed. No matter from which angle you look at it, you can feel its unchanging expression. This smile, which is impossible to interpret the true emotion, brings a strong uncanny valley effect to people, making people feel chilling.

He stood here quietly, not knowing what he was waiting for.

Time just passed by little by little.

until.

A dim light flashed across Luke's body. To be more precise, it should have flashed across Luke's soulless body. The puppet suddenly laughed.

Its laugh was extremely strange, with its upper and lower jaws making clicking sounds at a very fast frequency, like a symphony.

As it laughed, the strange light appeared on Luke's body again, and then a human-shaped, soul-like thing floated out of its body.

That illusory soul-like object was very similar to the light that had flashed across Luke's body just now. It had a fluorescent feeling, like a will-o'-the-wisp in a cemetery.

The puppet man raised his hand slightly, and the soul made of ghost fire floated into his hand. He fiddled with it casually, and his movements were smooth and stiff, giving people an extremely inharmonious and weird feeling.

It kneaded the soul in its hands until it had formed the shape it liked, and then it spread its hands out in satisfaction.

At this moment, the soul that had a blank face just now has completely changed its appearance. At first glance, it actually looks somewhat similar to Luke.

The puppet man strangely raised one hand and pointed it at Luke. A strange light green glow lit up on Luke's body, and the soul that looked somewhat like him slowly floated towards him.

Seeing the invasion of abnormal creatures, the mountain monster who accepted Luke's "guarding" mission took a step forward, and swung out with his strong arm with an ordinary straight punch. The fierce wind from the punch caused James' book beside him to flip violently.

However, the punch was only halfway through when it stopped abruptly.

If you look closely, you can see that on its arm, which is thicker than an average person's waist, there is a nearly invisible thread wrapped around it. It is this thread, which is thinner than spider silk, that easily stopped the mountain monster's explosive fist force.

After his punch was blocked, the mountain monster took another step forward, and with his other hand he directly took off the huge rock fixed behind his shoulder and threw it towards the direction of the puppet man outside the window.

Although this mountain monster's IQ is almost zero, his fighting instinct is good. In just a moment, he was able to figure out where the truly difficult enemy is.

Unfortunately, although the stone was coming with great force, it had no special effect after all. It just had a great impact force. The puppet's body strangely moved horizontally a few meters and easily avoided the boulder.

Afterwards, more and more silk threads appeared and were tied to different parts of the mountain monster's body, making its movements increasingly stiff until it could not move at all.

After completely controlling the mountain monster, the soul-like object continued to float towards Luke's body, and the silk threads on the mountain monster began to pierce into its body.

However, the mountain monster is not a physical entity after all, it is just a summoned creature that exists in the world relying on the [Weird Picture Scroll]. Soon, the puppet noticed something was wrong.

Originally wanting to harvest another puppet, it showed an anthropomorphic expression of disgust on its face, and suddenly retracted its ten fingers. The silk threads suddenly spread out, also splitting the mountain monster that was tightly connected to them into countless small pieces.

At the same time as the strange soul entered Luke's body, the mountain monster's shattered body also disappeared in the real world, and a torn and broken scroll appeared on the ground.

As a soul resembling Luke entered his body, Luke's body began to undergo strange changes, starting with his skin and hair, which gradually turned into a dry wood color, as if he was also going to become a puppet.

The puppet outside the window had come to Luke at this time. It looked at Luke's body with satisfaction, and its hands kept dancing, accelerating the petrification of his body.

In just a minute, Luke's hair had completely turned into the shape of tree roots, and the same happened to the rest of his body hair under the cover of his clothes.

The skin is the next area to change.

The puppetization process starts from the outside and goes to the inside. Once it is formed, Luke will become another collection of this strange puppet man and another sacrifice.

However, just as Luke's skin began to turn into wood, a piece of paper next to him inexplicably burned, and Luke's soul jumped out of the inner world and returned to his body.

When their eyes met, the puppet was caught off guard.

According to its plan, Luke could not have returned so early. The Harland puppet was one of his most satisfying puppet creations. It had been less than two minutes since Luke's soul was flawed. How could it be defeated so easily?

Luke's situation was even worse.

He felt his body.

I can't move, not at all.

His body felt as if it was filled with lead, extremely heavy. This heaviness did not come from the flesh, but from the soul!
That's right.

Luke felt that something was seriously wrong with his soul, and a thick barrier had formed between it and his body.

It was as if another system was competing with him for control of his body. Not only that, this system was also transforming the body's hardware, trying to make Luke completely like it.

If I have to describe the feeling, it is rust!
That's right!

Rusty!
Not only that, the sore and painful feeling of his body becoming woody made him feel as if he was thrown into an ant nest, and every part of his body was being gnawed by tiny ants. The subtle pains gathered together to form an irresistible and intense pain.

Dry!
What's happening here?
As soon as I went out, the boss attacked my face and controlled my body.

I'm in North America. I just finished writing a diary and my body is almost turning into a puppet. What should I do? It's urgent.

At this time, the puppet still did not move.

It stood there, making 'click, click' sounds from the corners of its mouth, which made the glass in the whole house resonate.

After a moment, a hoarse voice came out as it opened and closed its mouth: "You destroyed my puppet so quickly. You are worthy of being the main sacrifice I have chosen."

"Main sacrifice?" Although he couldn't move his body, he had no problem controlling his mouth and speaking, as if it was an ability specially left for him by the other party.

"Yes, the main sacrifice." The puppet chatted with Luke calmly: "The people in this town are all the sacrifices I will offer, and you will be the most sumptuous main course in this feast."

"Just yesterday, I was still worried about the lack of a significant sacrifice. I didn't expect you to appear in Black Falls Town like this."

"I have been paying attention to you since you came here. Everything you experienced today was under my control." It tilted its head and thought for a while, then added: "That stupid fish is not the one. However, even without it, the cute earthworm will not kill you. It will only drive you back and then force you to discover James' secret."

"James?" Luke came to his senses at this moment: "Those four high school students didn't steal any power at all, they are all your puppets!"

Hey!
Just now, did they act in a movie with me?
Luke felt a chill in his heart. Based on the extent of his physical abnormalities, he roughly understood the other party's purpose.

"You want me to accept the power of the 'time clock'. That's not the reversal of time, right?"

　Sorry, today I only have 4000 words, and I think it will be the same in the future.
　　As readers probably know, I am a part-time coder. Recently, my job changed, and my position that was barely leisurely has left me. I am so busy that I can't keep up, so 6000 words is hard to come by, and I can only make a living by writing 4000 words a day.
　　But the quality will still be guaranteed, and there will be absolutely no random changes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)