As a relatively common undead race, ghouls vary in individual strength from the Minia level to the Shade level. Strictly speaking, the giant amputated undead monster that appeared at the end of the Battle of Midhill Castle can also Classified under the ranks of "ghouls".
And the gardener in front of him is obviously different from normal ghouls. Of course he has a normal rotting body, but at the same time he seems to still have a human mind. After crawling out of the snow, he first bowed slightly to Hela Oxenfurt , and then pressed the hat and held the shovel and looked at Xia De.
Floating black particles drilled out of his skin, and floated towards the sky against the direction of the falling snow. Dark runes clinged to the surface of his skin, but those distorted patterns failed to form words.
The power of blasphemy made the originally shriveled skin glow, and even the ordinary shovel became terrifying after being stained by the black patterns spreading from his hands.
"Get someone to help, but you still have to ask someone to fight first."
Xia De grumbled, but did not object. He frowned and observed the ghoul, and as his eyes blinked, the thaumaturgy [Vision] was activated again, and in the strange field of vision, the only abnormality around the ghoul was the distorted pattern on the body surface It can be interpreted that its meanings are "demonization", "obedience" and "desire".
This doesn't indicate what the devil really is.
"Speaking of which, can this be considered a summoning object?"
Xia De thought in his heart that if it was a summoned object, his Huangyue thaumaturgy "Confusion" would just work.
[Probably not counting. 】
While "she" was giving Xia De an answer in her heart, the demonized ghoul had already charged up.
Black particles were pulled out from the whole body, and the speed was extremely fast. Just when Xia De was about to parry, the ghoul disappeared into particles in the snow, but Xia De could still see obvious distortion marks in the air in the snow:
"Invisibility?"
[Yes, but it does not pose a threat to you. 】
While talking, the two were already close, and the invisible ghoul picked up the shovel and smashed it to Xia De's head, but with the sound of clanking~, amidst sparks splashing, Xia De completely parried the black chain held by both hands. The shovel that can almost split the earth.
He felt that his spirit seemed to have lost a very slight amount, and he could hardly feel it if he didn't concentrate.
[It can absorb spirits by attacking, but it poses little threat to you. 】
"Does the devil always like to **** something?"
The power of the shovel disappeared in the next moment, and the twisted silhouette of the ghoul in front of him burst into black light particles, and then the sound of wind came from behind Xia De.
[Space movement. 】
Before turning around in time, he kicked back suddenly. While the ghoul behind him deformed, Xia De dodged sideways, and then kicked the visible enemy into the snow.
[When it moves in space, it cannot remain invisible. 】
"What use is this to me?"
He didn't call out a weapon that might reveal his identity, such as the Moonlight Great Sword, but only held a chain with four deadly sin runes in his hand. The right hand shook, causing the chain to rotate and make a sound of piercing through the air, and the ghoul also climbed up in the snow, and the shovel burst into a faint blue light. The shovel looked like an ordinary item at first glance, but it was really special even though it was not a relic.
Hella Oxenfurt was under the tree beside her, silently watching the battle between the two. Watching the ghoul disappear in the snow again, but this time as Xia De stepped on the snow with his right foot, mud and snow water splashed, and obvious shock ripples appeared on the snow:
"Spatial Stability Halo!"
The chain in his hand was flung out like a long snake. Amid another splash of sparks and clanging, the invisible ghoul swung his shovel and slashed at the top of the chain, but the chain that was pressed against the snow surface was hit for the first time. Finally, he deftly bypassed the shovel, and then quickly wrapped around the ghoul's legs.
[Chain of Great Sin] doesn't seem to have a very good effect on it, and the ghoul can still move. While Shade retrieved the chain and tried to pull it down, the ghoul gardener smashed his leg with the shovel without hesitation, but no blood flowed from the wound.
It kept retreating, and the broken right leg quickly grew and recovered, and when it retreated to a distance where Shade's [Spatial Stability Aura] could not be affected, it quickly shifted by its own space power, dodging the following chain.
This monster's combat intelligence is not low, and it will continue to wander on the edge of the [Spatial Stability Halo] when it finds out that it will definitely be controlled by chains. Under normal circumstances, Xia De could easily rush to solve it, but this time he didn't intend to expose too much, so he planned to use some uncommon methods.
The sound of piercing the air came, and the swishing shovel caused a crescent-shaped arc of faint blue light to fly. While Xia De was dodging sideways, the ghoul had already used space to shift and appeared in the distance behind him, and then another crescent-shaped arc of faint blue light was shattered by the waving chain.
Clang!
The great crime chain swept across the surroundings, and the left and right light arcs were simultaneously shattered. Although the spiritual weapon transformed by the thaumaturgy [Great Sin Chain] has no attack power, its sturdiness is not much different from that of the [Moonlight Great Sword], and even stronger than the [Moonlight Great Sword].
"It's time to end."
"Call for the Big Snowball!"
This incantation was obtained when Baiyin Snow Mountain met the witch, Miss Cloyin. The snowball summoned by the incantation is not only huge, but also hard to destroy and has multiple effects such as thinking paralysis and freezing. And with Xia De's casting, the snowball fell from the sky like a meteorite, but was dodged by the ghoul.
So Xia De continued to use spells. Anyway, the consumption of this spell was very low, and the ghouls kept dodging under the condition of intermittent long-range attacks.
As there were more and more giant snowballs in the yard, the space it could dodge became extremely narrow. When Xia De felt that it was about the same, the chain in his hand flew out again, but this time it was not for attacking, but pierced through every snowball quickly, until those snowballs were at the apex, forming a spider web in the snowy backyard dense grid.
The chain itself needs to be in contact with the target to be effective, but such a dense blockade makes it more difficult for the ghoul to dodge, unless he flees farther away from the battlefield. However, this was a duel in itself, and neither party was allowed to escape, so the monster could only desperately swing the shovel in his hand between the snowballs, intending to cut off the chain. And Xia De, who was standing in the center of the battlefield, had already made the chain shrink rapidly.
The snowballs that were not easy to be destroyed all gathered toward the center as the chains moved, until they submerged the ghouls in the snow, forming an even larger aggregate of snowdrifts.
The chains of the Great Sin pierced through the snow, entangled the shovel and threw it far away. The ghoul with a stiff body crawled out from the snow with difficulty. Due to the rigidity of thinking, at this time he was like a normal ghoul, rushing towards Xia De like a mad dog.
Xia De could have killed the opponent directly at this time, but he retracted the chain, and then stood there watching the terrifying monster charge over.
Frowning slightly, he clenched his hands and lifted them to the right side of his face, closed his eyes and counted three two one in his heart. When I opened my eyes again, a terrifying scarlet sword light bloomed between my hands. This is Hongyue's [Moonlight Great Sword]. Because it is related to the divinity of the blood-sucking god, the **** red color is particularly uncomfortable .
Holding the sword in both hands and slashing forward, arc-shaped light marks lingered in the air for a long time, and the ghoul froze in front of Xia De, motionless.
The red moonlight that was blooming in his hands gradually receded, and the upper half of the ghoul's body slid down along a tangent line, and fell into the snow, and then the lower half of its body also collapsed.
"Is it okay?"
He asked the woman who came back, and Hella Oxenfurt nodded slightly:
"Okay...the power of sin, I probably understand why he has taken a fancy to you."
"Don't talk about these useless things, ma'am, where are the clues?"
"In his eyes, I can't tell you the truth directly, otherwise my husband will find out. But his eyes did see part of the truth before he died."
The woman pointed at the gardener, and Xia De frowned slightly. He turned the ghoul, which was broken in two and completely "dead" due to the destruction of the power of the red moon, into a toy and put away the shovel. Although it is a special item, it can be recycled if you consume more souls.
Afterwards, he called on the flames to melt away those snowballs, and wiped away the traces of the small-scale battle just now.
Although Xia De himself does not know how to extract memories from the eyeballs of dead people, this is not a rare ability, and a dream master like Dr. Schneider can do it.
"Not enough, I need further clues. You understand that your husband is not easy to deal with."
He continued to make his own request, and Hella Oxenfurt nodded again, but turned around slightly, and saw the maid walking towards the gazebo against the wind and snow with her painting utensils.
Then the mouth behind the veil whispered as if it didn't move at all:
"To the curator of the City of Randall Valley Statues, Mr. Fernandez."
It happened that the porcelain vase, one of the three auction items that Xia De was looking for, was in the statue hall.
"I thought you'd send me to some folklorist."
Xia De put his hands in his pockets, and stood side by side with the veiled lady, looking at the deserted garden in the snow, as if he had been admiring the snowy scenery since just now. And the maid was already very close, and Hella Oxenfurt could only say the last sentence:
"He was indeed a folklorist."
Xia De is just thinking ~www.mtlnovel.com~ that Mr. Fernandez will also know his friend Professor Manning in Tobesk. When I think of Professor Manning, I naturally think of Mr. Laiman whom I met in the last time key. The hobbies of the two are really similar.
[Aren't you the same? 】
"She" said with a sudden smile, and Xia De immediately refuted in his heart:
"I like cats, not cat girls."
[I didn't say cats, I said Dragon Maid. 】
"She" smiled brighter, while Xia De looked at the snow scene sullenly.
He hasn't taken the time yet to find Mr. Laiman's descendants locally. But thinking about it, the folklorist in the museum might be able to provide some help. The ancient family line has always been the focus of folklorists' research, and he was really curious about the gift Mr. Lyman left for him in the cemetery mentioned by Sister Perry.
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