A shadowy figure flashed across the surface of the gold coin. As the Trick Sorcerer smiled, a wraith emerged from the coin in the astonished gazes of Tang and the others.
This marionette didn't seem to be affected by the death decree, using some unknown method.
The Trick Sorcerer still had a marionette!
And the space for maneuver between a Trick Sorcerer with a marionette and one without was vastly different.
The Trick Sorcerer, firmly restrained by the illusory gate, disappeared. The wraith from the gold coin became the banished target in his place.
This was an Extraordinary ability of the Seer pathway at the demigod level, an ability that allowed the manipulator of a marionette to switch places with the marionette.
Against a demigod-level Extraordinary ability, the leaping flames and paper doll decoy might not be able to escape its influence. Therefore, the Trick Sorcerer decisively chose to waste one of his marionettes.
"As long as I can get this Sealed Artifact, I can always find another marionette."
After the banished wraith was swallowed by the illusory gate, the illusory gate abruptly closed. This also showed that Olson's recorded banishment was completely meaningless.
But now was not the time to overthink.
At this moment, Owen held a huge broadsword shimmering with a dark, ghostly light, and he slashed at the Trick Sorcerer who appeared before him.
With a crisp clang, a cane appeared in the Trick Sorcerer's hand. This cane had a special material, seemingly a mystical item with an extremely hard texture. While blocking Owen's attack, the Trick Sorcerer also prepared to use the force of Owen's attack to break free from the surrounding spiritual vines and move towards the highest point.
"Don't even think about leaving."
The phantom book in Olson's hand trembled. He once again used the Recorder's Extraordinary ability, and a gust of wind suddenly enveloped the Trick Sorcerer's body.
"Recorder." The Trick Sorcerer "tsk"ed, and his body turned into a paper doll again.
The paper doll decoy reached the demigod level, displaying unparalleled convenience.
At the same time, Owen and Olson's bodies began to feel sluggish.
They were being manipulated by the spirit threads of the Trick Sorcerer before them.
The memory of the method of manipulating spirit threads that had been stolen before had returned, and he began to plan to quickly turn the people in front of him into his new marionettes.
"A demigod of the Seer pathway is indeed a cunning old fox, really hard to kill."
Tang gritted his teeth. Owen said in a low voice, "Tang, close your eyes."
After Owen finished speaking, he poured spirituality into the armor on his body. Dense, crisscrossing strange patterns appeared on the all-black armor made by a Sequence Four.
Those patterns depicted scales, feathers, and wings, forming an incomplete monster appearance.
Spiritual warning frantically alerted him, but the Trick Sorcerer, affected by the gale of the Sailor pathway and a psychological suggestion planted at an unknown time, turned his body sideways and saw the patterns on Owen's armor.
It was a feathered serpent.
That was the incomplete mythical creature form of the Death pathway!
With a buzzing sound, the Trick Sorcerer's body trembled, his brain went blank, and his body stiffened.
The manipulation of the spirit threads was also subconsciously interrupted.
This was one of the constant Extraordinary abilities of the armor, capable of inflicting a mental shock from an incomplete mythical creature on anyone who directly faced it.
Even though the 'Craftsman' had permanently set three Extraordinary abilities for it, their power had been weakened to varying degrees, but a Sequence Four would at least be stiff for three seconds due to directly facing the mythical creature form of another pathway.
"It worked."
Tang closed his eyes, avoiding being affected by the armor, and using the Clown's intuitive foresight, pushed Owen from behind, violently propelling him in mid-air towards the Trick Sorcerer who was cursed by the armor.
Owen raised the broadsword in his hand, about to bring it down on the other's head in the next second.
But...
The cane in the Trick Sorcerer's hand flashed with a strange light.
In the next moment, the Trick Sorcerer leaned backward, and even in mid-air, he used his agile body control to dodge Owen's decapitation attempt.
"You are very powerful. If I hadn't possessed 'a moment of luck,' perhaps you could have really succeeded."
The Trick Sorcerer, who had already broken free from the armor's curse, still had a gentle smile on his face. He seemed to have grown tired of缠绕ing with the others, and his figure disappeared again.
"That master of marionettes' Extraordinary item probably won't last much longer. We need to hurry, we can't waste any more time."
After all, as long as he obtained this Sealed Artifact, these few Extraordinary individuals would eventually become his marionettes anyway.
The Trick Sorcerer had already thrown a match at some point, and the match had now reached the dome.
"Too late." Tang lowered his eyes, letting gravity pull him down.
The match burst into flames, and the Trick Sorcerer used the fire to leap to the side of the dome. He wore a pair of all-white gloves on his hands, and quickly and accurately prepared to pick up the heart-like pulsating gemstone.
"You are mine." At this moment, he had already begun to imagine the scene after obtaining this Grade 0 Sealed Artifact. He would obtain more resources, stronger marionettes, and have more say.
Olson also traveled to Tang's side in the next moment. He prepared to take Owen and Tang away from here.
They couldn't stay here. Their safety was more important than seizing that Sealed Artifact.
But in the next moment, the black curtain fell from a corner.
It blocked the dazzling sunlight, blocked the intermingling of spirituality, blocked the prying eyes from the outside world, blocked the only channel for communication between the outside and the inside, and even made the theater return to its hidden state once again.
The corner of the theater that had been blasted open had already been repaired.
Mad shouts rang out on the huge and frenzied stage.
"Miracle! Miracle!"
"Miracle of life! Miracle of creation!"
"Miracle! Miracle!"
"Miracle of all things! Eternal miracle!"
Olson's face suddenly changed.
"Go!"
When he tried to travel through the spirit world, he found that travel had lost its effect again.
The death decree of the spirit threads also completely lost its shackles on the marionettes at this moment. Countless marionettes looked up at the dome, shouting miracles. Several marionettes rose into the air and flew quickly towards them.
The Trick Sorcerer completely ignored these marionettes. In order to recover this Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, he had a specially prepared sealing item in his hand.
As long as he got this Sealed Artifact, then...
The Trick Sorcerer's idea was good, but in the next instant, the magnificent heart-like gemstone in front of him disappeared...
It disappeared.
Almost in a playful manner, it suddenly vanished.
What reappeared in front of the Trick Sorcerer was a burly devil exuding the smell of sulfur.
"The core switched places with a marionette?" The Trick Sorcerer said with a hint of disbelief, and in the next moment, his face was pressed tightly against the devil's fist.
With a crack, the sound of bones breaking seemed to come from the dome.
At this moment, Owen and Olson's actions of trying to forcibly break through the spirit world blockade using their mystical items and the ability to travel froze again.
Tang's perspective saw below.
Large numbers of marionettes had fallen there.
He saw that among the many more still standing marionettes, the spirit threads produced by the theater core that had changed position were frantically涌来 towards them.
Thoughts froze, bodies began to stiffen,
They... were caught.
(End of this chapter)