Chapter 56 Hunter - Xiao En
Don't come over here!

There was a hint of fear in the monster's scream. It wanted to escape, even if it had to escape back to the spirit world.

But Sean wouldn't let it get away.

"You only dare to bully mortals?" A cold smile appeared on Xiao En's lips.

In fact, monster creatures are not that scary, because when you become a monster, they will start to be afraid of you.

Under the forcible pulling of two invisible hands and two evil black tentacles, the headless lantern man was completely dragged out. The invisible hands pulled out its intestines one by one, and filthy mucus invisible to the naked eye flowed everywhere in the room. The evil black tentacles were even more brutal, directly wrapping around half of its body, tightening it so that even its bones were twisted to a certain extent. This kind of flesh-and-blood transformation spell, especially the tentacle type, has a very high additional power attribute.

"Gima is a wizard who specializes in transformation. The transformation spells on the flesh side can also directly harm spirits."

The otherworldly nature of the source of this spell may be the tentacles of a carrion beetle, which are imbued with negative energy and evil thoughts.

The two five-meter-long suction tentacles moved on their own, like sharp black flesh whips. They did not affect Jima's other movements at all. As long as she could maintain her concentration in casting spells, she could even use other spells.

Ah!
With a scream like that of a night owl, the hunchbacked lantern monster was dragged out of the crack in the spirit world by two wizards and smashed heavily at the center of the ceremony.

A flash of cold light suddenly appeared.

Benjamin pulled out the flowing light the moment Sean made his move. The silver-white light flashed by, and the lantern bearer, who was already missing half of his body, was split in half again. The broken pale arm flew towards Sean, as if trying to strangle him.

——Dimension jump.

Xiao En's figure suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, two invisible hands had already stopped the enemy's pale hand that was still able to move on its own after being cut off.

at this time.

An activated intestine was wrapped around Benjamin's arm like a rope, and it moved along his arm towards his neck, just like a black poisonous snake. The moment it touched his body, the negative energy from the intestine began to absorb Benjamin's physical strength, making him tired and exhausted. At the same time, a little bit of aging appeared on Benjamin's skin, just like age spots, and a piece of withered and lifeless skin appeared and spread.

This is negative energy erosion, which will take away the target's vitality. After all, reality is not a game. It is not as simple as losing blood. It may cause permanent aging.

A feeling of regret filled the room.

Benjamin didn't care about it at all. He tore off the tough black intestine with his bare hands, and then stabbed the sword in his hand straight into the monster's lower abdomen and came out through the chest.

Jima seemed to be affected by some negative emotions, and the second spell was not cast.

boom!
Xiao En drew his gun, locked onto the target with his spiritual power, and shot the human head 'lantern' in its hand. This ghost thing had been making a shrill scream, affecting the spellcasting rhythm of the two wizards and interrupting their concentration in casting spells.

A silver-white bullet shot out, and the moment it hit the monster, it released a strong energy wave, and the head was like a bursting watermelon, with blood and flesh flying all over the room. When the extraordinary relic in the bullet was activated, there was only a flash of white light, and the power was greater than expected.

The room suddenly became quiet.

Under Benjamin's light, the lantern monster in front of him was quickly dismembered, and the ground was covered with horrific pieces of flesh and blood, but it was still not dead. The chopped-off pale hands were still crawling on the ground, and the torn intestines were wriggling like earthworms. Although its body was cut into a human stick, the lantern bearer was still trying to assemble his broken body and get up.

"The characteristics of the undead wandering soul?"

"Is it the evil spirit from Sleepy Hollow?" Sean frowned.

Sleepy Hollow is one of the landmarks of the spirit world.

Just like Candlekeep, Sleepy Hollow is also a famous place in the spirit world. It is said that from time to time, you can see thousands of human heads rolling in the valley. The birth of this place is related to the traditional human beheading behavior. Although the guillotine has been abolished in many places now, the headless wandering souls still linger in Sleepy Hollow in the spirit world.

He turned around and motioned for Jima to go out first, then glanced at Benjamin next to him and said in a deep voice: "I'll take care of it."

"Be careful of the explosion."

Benjamin nodded quickly and left the room, closing the door.

Hey.

Xiao En took out a bottle from his shirt pocket and opened it. A slight smell of sulfur spread, and he snapped his fingers. In an instant, a chaotic blue flame spread in all directions. The surging flame swept through the entire room like a wave, and the violent explosion directly shattered the doors and windows.

"Ahem!..."

Xiao En, who was so cool and elegant a second ago, now walked out of the room looking a little dusty. Although the flames summoned by the Explosion Technique would not hurt him, the aftermath of the explosion made him look miserable.

"Be careful next time you use this spell in a room."

Xiao En brushed off the dust on his body. The body of the lantern bearer on the ground had been completely burnt. The power of the explosive fire technique was indeed very great. Everything within a diameter of about six meters was burned to ashes.

——Endless Regret [Extraordinary Relic].

Under the slight agitation of knowledge, a strange dark green intestine was left behind. There was no doubt that this was the extraordinary relic condensed after its death.

"Does this mean I regret it so much?" Xiao En suddenly thought of a joke.

He thought about it and decided not to tell Benjamin this joke because Benjamin might not understand it.

"what?"

Jima's surprised voice came, and in her hand, she held a piece of broken scalp, which also had a strange spiritual light on it.

Two extraordinary relics?

This is a very rare occurrence, unless the headless lantern man has devoured some other strange creature before.

"The spiritual light of this relic is rather weak," Jima said after examining it.

Her identification skills seemed to be a little different from Sean's, because Jima used spiritual light to identify extraordinary relics.

——Lantern’s scalp [Extraordinary relic].

Creatures from the spirit world are more difficult to deal with. They are considered elite monsters in the weird kingdom because they can change from real to virtual, and it is difficult to kill them with ordinary firearms. The extraordinary people of the ranger path, such as Hank, are at a disadvantage against virtual monsters unless they use special bullets.

"Deal with it first and seal the relics."

Benjamin glanced at Xiao En, and after confirming that he had only made himself dirty, he immediately said to Jima, "Let the people in the logistics department handle it first and see if they can clean up the pollution."

The extraordinary relics that Xiao En had obtained before had all been cleaned up, and those that had not been cleaned still had the residual consciousness of the strange creatures on them.

For example, the 'Endless Regret', that dark green intestine, as long as you get close to it, you will be enveloped by the negative emotion of 'regret'. The wizards will also be slightly mentally polluted when extracting extraordinary relics to obtain spells. Generally, the degree of pollution of processed extraordinary relics will be much lighter, which is equivalent to an additional purification ceremony.

"He's also a poor man."

Xiao En took out a stick of incense and lit it, just as a token of his respect and a tribute to the other party.

After all, they are seniors.

When it's time to take action, he will never show mercy, but after dealing with it, he still has to be particular.

He was a decent person when he was alive, but unfortunately he couldn't get over his inner demons in the end.

Extraordinary people must learn to accept that as their strength increases, they will gradually turn into monsters, because they originally use the power of monsters.

"It's better to be someone without clairvoyance, such as those extraordinary people who are born illiterate."

Here I'd like to mention the Barbarian Path, because their low and mid-range sequences rarely get out of control, and they don't have many brains, which is good.

The next finishing work is the responsibility of the Logistics Department.

Benjamin stayed behind to clean up the mess, while Sean and Jima went back to the headquarters to report. The people from the logistics department would repeatedly survey the scene and erase all traces of the supernatural.

It was already 7:30 in the evening when everything was done.

When Xiao En returned to his residence, he bought a flavored burrito and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and ate them while walking. "Today's monsters haven't let me use my full strength yet."

"If it's a one-on-one fight, I should be able to handle it."

Xiao En evaluated his own strength in his mind, and he found that the abilities of the wizard path were indeed more flexible and varied than those of the extraordinary people of other paths. Xiao En still had some strength left when he took action today, and he didn't even use invisibility. However, there was no need to play hide-and-seek when fighting this kind of monster.

When taking human extraordinary people as imaginary enemies, Xiao En's combat effectiveness will be greatly improved.

"I wonder how Hank is doing?"

"How about inviting him to the Roman Palace some other day to relax and have some fun?" Xiao En took out the key and opened the door.

There was a sound of footsteps at the stairs.

An elegant middle-aged man came up. When he saw Xiao En, he nodded slightly. He was the neighbor who lived opposite him.

"It's better to keep a proper distance from ordinary people."

Xiao En nodded in response and quickly closed the door. It was indeed not suitable for extraordinary people to get too close to ordinary people. Hank's wife was an ordinary person. He finally decided to divorce, and he must have struggled and hesitated for a long time, so that he still couldn't let go of everything in his heart.

"Fortunately, I never thought about getting married."

Xiao En took off his coat and made himself a cup of strong tea. He wanted to drink some green tea, so he would see if he could buy it another day.

Time passed quickly and more than a month passed.

Sean still didn't have time to invite Hank to the Roman Palace because Hank applied for a long vacation to visit his hometown the day after the incident. His hometown is in Naples, a small coastal place.

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In a dark and cold cemetery.

Along with the surge of dark clouds, a faint moonlight emerged. In front of a grave that had just been buried, a group of strange hunched creatures like slender hunting dogs were digging up the cemetery in front of them. They had limbs similar to those of humans, but they crawled on the ground. Their hunched bodies were like hunting dogs, covered with black hair, their abdomens were bulging, and their sharp claws seemed to be tearing something. The air was filled with a smell of blood and decay. The faces of these monsters had six types of human contours, but their turbid eyeballs glowed coldly in the dark night.

A breeze blew.

The leaves not far away moved, and then a shallow footprint appeared on the ground. No living creatures could be seen in the empty wilderness. A monster that was eating looked back vigilantly, and after finding nothing, it lowered its head again to gnaw on something.

In the darkness, a figure that was more mysterious than the group of monsters was slowly approaching. With a click, several monsters raised their heads vigilantly.

But it's too late.

Xiao En's figure suddenly appeared, then appeared in front of the group of monsters across the cemetery. A cluster of blue flames suddenly appeared, followed by an extremely violent explosion. The rising flames spread in all directions with him as the center.

The rolling heat waves turned everything within a six-meter diameter into a sea of ​​fire.

boom!
The blast directly overturned these monsters, and even the collapsed tombstones were shattered. The raging fire made these monsters scream miserably. The flames spread over their bodies, burning them and making them roll on the ground, trying to put out the burning black hair.

Bang bang bang!
A burst of fierce gunfire rang out, and after just a few seconds, the situation returned to calm. Xiao En put away his weapon expressionlessly, blew away the gunpowder smoke from his fingertips, and waved to a place not far away, saying, "Notify the people in the logistics department."

"Come and clean it up."

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Wetland Town.

It is about 30 kilometers away from the city of Dorne. It is a small town within the jurisdiction with a population of less than 120,000.

The moon is brighter tonight.

In the southwest direction of the town, several figures were running wildly on the spacious street, with doors and windows closed all around. Clusters of torches could be seen in the distance. At the corner of the street, a dark and sturdy figure flashed by. The speed of its running was very amazing. It flew along the vertical wall and jumped over the obstacle with one leap. When it landed, it revealed a hairy and ferocious face like a werewolf, with dirty blood residue at the corners of its mouth.

Behind it was William who was chasing closely. Even with his powerful physique as a warrior, he could not catch up with this swiftly running humanoid monster.

"Sean. It went to the right." William was holding a strange metal box in his hand.

This is a small wonder that has the power of communication.

Under the light of the bright moon.

Xiao En's tall and slender figure appeared at the street entrance not far away. He was wearing a loose black windbreaker, and his hairstyle had changed a little from the past, a bit like the side-swept back hair of the Hong Kong style in his previous life. His handsome facial features emerged in the shadows, revealing a hint of mysterious decadence, as if he was an exorcist walking out of the darkness.

"clear."

Xiao En raised his finger and moved it in confusion. With a click, the lighter in his hand went out. His figure flew up the stairs and soon reached the top of the building.

In front of him, there was a gap of nearly ten meters between two buildings facing the street. Xiao En judged the monster's escape route, estimated the distance to the buildings, then took a deep breath and began to accelerate. The moment he reached the edge of the building, his figure leaped out and directly crossed more than half the distance.

It is almost impossible for a transcendent who is not strengthened by flesh and blood to fly such a long distance relying on physical strength.

After the inertia was exhausted, Xiao En's figure began to fall. This place was four stories above the ground. If he fell down, he would basically be crippled if not dead.

——Dimension jump.

Xiao En's figure suddenly disappeared between the leaping floors, and appeared directly on the roof of the opposite building the next second. Without any pause, he took out a modified short-barreled shotgun, identified the approximate location, relied on his spirituality to lock the target's escape direction, then quickly climbed over the fence on the roof and leaped onto the balcony opposite.

Although Sean is a supernatural being who casts spells, the physical fitness of any supernatural being is far superior to that of ordinary people.

"call!"

Xiao En looked at the street on the ground. He was currently about twenty meters high, the height of four and a half floors. After taking a deep breath, he jumped directly from the roof.

The wind howled.

As he was falling at a very fast speed, Sean clenched the short-barreled shotgun in his hand. When he was very close to the ground, his figure suddenly disappeared, and the next second he appeared out of thin air at the exit of the street alley.

Flash and land.

"Good evening." Sean looked at the deformed werewolf running out of the alley and pulled the trigger in its terrified and disbelieving eyes.

boom!
The close-range enhanced shotgun shot directly shattered the monster's hideous head. Its broken and sturdy body flew several meters due to inertia. At the moment when Sean dodged sideways, it hit the wall heavily, leaving a pool of dirty and smelly blood.

"It's done."

"Notify the logistics department."

Xiao En put away the shotgun in his hand and adjusted his windbreaker, which was covered with blood. After all, he was a transcendent wizard, and his body was not agile enough to avoid the blood spraying towards him.

He took out a lighter, turned it around in his palm, looked at William running across the street, raised his eyebrows and said, "Call it a day."

"Want a drink later?"

William looked at the pool of black blood in the corner, shrugged and said, "Okay. It's a good time to take a break."

"How many times have you been on a mission?"

Xiao En thought for a moment and said, "Counting the time in the university town, this should be the sixth time."

A breeze blew by.

The figures of the two people gradually disappeared across the street. About fifteen minutes later, some men in black, who were obviously dressed as logistics officers, arrived at the scene and began to clear all traces of supernatural existence nearby.

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(End of this chapter)