Part 1 The Joker Chapter 190 – Matching Abilities
Duke Negan’s mansion, the ballroom.
Zilingus, who was pretending to be Baron Gramil, was holding a glass of blood-red Ormil wine, standing leisurely behind the railing of the second floor corridor, admiring the men and women on the dance floor, admiring the magnificently dressed young ladies and madams.
But his eyes did not contain the slightest desire, calm as a frozen lake, only occasionally sweeping the huge crystal chandelier hanging down from the roof from the corner of his eye, and sweeping the Duke of Neagan who was chasing a beautiful figure with his eyes a few steps away.
The duke was wearing a straight dark blue admiral’s outfit, with a red ribbon connecting a medal of honor on his shoulder, and he liked to dress this way for all formal occasions, as a reminder of his brilliant military career in the previous decades.
However, his waist had long since bloated and his body was full of fat, and his sharp, shrewd gray-blue eyes were only cloudy and lustful, though the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, around his mouth, and on his forehead were lighter due to good maintenance, and his black hair was still thick.
This was Pallas Negan, Duke of Negan in his current generation, a major supporter of the Conservative Party, the brother of Prime Minister Aguschid, and one of the richest and most powerful of the small group of people in the Kingdom of Ruin.
At the same time, he was also the target of Zylingus’ secret infiltration into Berkland!
To assassinate such a big shot, it really makes one’s body tremble with excitement …… Zilingus withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes.
He was willing to accept this commission, both because the price offered by the other party was attractive enough, and also because he himself loved adventure and enjoyed challenging difficult things.
If I succeed in the assassination, my fame will spread throughout the North and South continents, above the “Four Kings”, and I will also obtain a card, one of the decks of cards made by Rossel the Great that contains the mysteries of the gods! Zylingus held back his excitement and looked down at his left hand.
The “Creeping Hunger” had become transparent, and with just the naked eye and contact, outsiders could not realize that “Baron Gramiel” was still wearing gloves.
”This is really a magical item ah …… If it is not it, only sequence 6 of me can not become one of the pirate generals …… “A thought flashed, Zilingus suddenly emerged a little bit of pity.
In so many years of pirate career, he has seen and contacted a lot of extraordinary people, including the “Aurora Club” members who like to venture to the end of the Sunia Sea.
Therefore, he knew that “Creeping Hunger” still lacked a lot compared to the real “Shepherd”.
Firstly, the switching state is too slow, needing at least one second, while the real “shepherd” can change in an instant, and secondly, the driven soul can only use one to three abilities in their lifetime, as to how many and which ones, it all depends on the luck of the draw and is fixed after the first “grazing”, while the “creeping hunger” is fixed after the first “grazing”, while the “creeping hunger” is fixed after the first “grazing”. After the initial “herding”, the true “shepherd” can selectively decide on three, without having to roll the dice like at a gambling table, and finally, the “creeping hunger” can only “herd” five souls at a time. Finally, the “creeping hunger” can only “herd” five souls at once, while the true “shepherd” can have up to seven.
Of course, both have the same limitations, that is, only one soul can be driven at a time, can only use the soul’s corresponding extraordinary ability and its own extraordinary ability, and if you want to replace the original soul with a new soul, the process will be irreversible, there is no chance of reversal.
After seven or eight years of tweaking, Zilingus had finally fixed five souls whose abilities complemented each other, making their masters appear quite formidable.
And because of those years of constant adjustment and experimentation, stories spread among the pirates that the “Hurricane Lieutenant General” could do anything and everything.
In the warm dance music, Zillinger rehearsed the next action in his mind, and at the end, he sighed inwardly with a little regret:
”Too bad I didn’t find that ‘traveler’ one of these days, or I wouldn’t have had to worry about anything tonight.”
If he could capture the woman suspected to be the “traveler”, Zillinger would not hesitate to feed one of the five souls that he had originally “grazed” to the “writhing hunger”.
For him, the abilities of this sequence of pathways are very useful!
Zylingus glanced at the huge crystal chandelier hanging down from the roof and decided not to wait any longer.
The soul he was currently exorcising had only one ability, the ability to change its own looks and stature, and did not have the level to fight against other extraordinary people, but since this extraordinary ability was very useful in many things, Zylingus hadn’t been willing to replace it.
On the bright side, no matter which soul he was driving, Tsilingus could synchronize the extraordinary ability of the “Wind Favourite” with his own.
In the end, he pretended to chase the beautiful figure of a certain noblewoman, and swept his eyes over Duke Negan, and swept over the men flanking him.
Duke Negan was a devout follower of the Storm Lord, a key figure of the Storm Church in influencing the situation of the kingdom, and he definitely had the protection of the Storm Church’s extraordinary men by his side, and although the Negan family was not an ancient family of thousands of years, no matter whether it was wealthy or powerful, it ranked at the top of the kingdom, and it would definitely secretly seek the formula of the Sequence Magic Potion, and seek the vote of the extraordinary men as well… …Zylingus’ thoughts surged, eliminating the gentlemen belonging to nobles and officials, and locking onto a man who always followed Duke Negan’s side.
The man wore a black tuxedo, had brown hair and blue eyes, and was barely expressive, keeping a wary eye on his surroundings.
Zylingus nodded imperceptibly and pressed his right hand forward with very little amplitude.
Whoosh!
A sudden gust of wind swept over the dance floor, blowing out one of the candles on the crystal chandelier.
Just as the light and darkness intersected, just at the moment when the eyes of the crowd were attracted, a few thin blades of wind, with the help of the cover of the gusts of wind, cleaved on the metal chain hanging the crystal chandelier, cleaving on the same part.
Creak!
In a toothsome shattering sound, the huge crystal chandelier fell straight into the dance floor, smashing the ground with a clang, smashing the sound of screams, smashing a lot of guests who were hurt by the flying debris, letting out miserable screams of extreme fear.
Taking advantage of the darkness of the hall and the chaos everywhere, the glove on Zylingus’ left palm wriggled and changed, coalescing into a golden surface.
His expression then filled with majesty as his gaze looked through the darkness and fixed on the man beside Duke Negan.
Hurrah after hurrah, two rays of lightening-like rays lit up within Zylingus’ eyes.
The extraordinary man who was in charge of protecting Duke Negan immediately let out a miserable scream, covering his head and falling to the ground, constantly rolling and struggling.
With a brush, Zylingus’ figure cut through the darkness and rushed towards Duke Negan.
However, the target reflected within his dark and deep eyes was not the least bit flustered and full of confidence.
Duke Negan’s tall and obese body stood in place, looking down at the incoming assassin with a downward gaze.
He raised his right hand, pushed it forward, and spoke in a low voice in the ancient Hermetic language:
”Imprison!”
Amidst the soundlessness, Zirngus came to a screeching halt, as if his surroundings were covered in transparent walls or flowing with a liquid that was viscous to the core.
It made him resemble a bugbear in amber, as well as a prisoner within a jail cell.
The leader of the Conservative nobility, the hereditary Duke, Pallas Negan himself turned out to be an extraordinary person, a rather powerful extraordinary person!
Duke Negan once again spoke in a low voice and waved his right hand:
”Whiplash!”
Snap! Snap!
Zylingus seemed to have been struck by an invisible soft whip, which shattered his clothes, blossomed his flesh, and exposed his white bones.
Immediately afterward, Duke Negan leaned forward, clenched his right fist, and majestically judged:
”Death!”
Snap! He swung his arm, his entire body trailing a residual shadow, and slammed into Zylingus’ body, while his fist accurately hit his target’s head with an irresistible and unavoidable stance.
Ka-ching! Zilingus’s head shattered, but everything around him shattered along with it, and Duke Negan was still standing in the same place, just dreaming a dream.
At some point, the pirate general had already switched his ability to enter the “nightmare” state.
Unlike normal nightmares, he could still move after dragging people into the dream world!
Zillinger’s silhouette quietly appeared behind Duke Negan, his dark and cold eyes locking onto the other party.
His right fist was wrapped in a high-speed spinning gale, and he stabbed at his target’s undershirt like a sharp blade.
Whoosh!
Amidst the stirring sound of the wind, Zylingus’ right fist pierced through Duke Negan’s body and penetrated the other party’s heart, but Duke Negan’s figure rapidly morphed into a transparent form, like a spirit body that had been summoned.
This nearly invisible shadow swirled and dispersed, and Duke Negan appeared in front of the folio door on the other side of the cloister, a scrutinizing smile on his face.
Another Extraordinary One …… They prepared in advance? Ambushing me?
How could that be!
Zilingus’ thoughts flashed, and although he was unwilling to accept this reality, he calmly responded.
The glove on his left palm wriggled to present fine scales of dark gold, and his pupils then faded and stood up.
Immediately afterward, an invisible wave swept out in all directions, and a gentleman, a lady, simultaneously fell into uncontrollable fear, they left their hiding places and ran around aimlessly, the scene instantly becoming exceptionally chaotic.
This makes those extraordinary people do not dare to strike, afraid of hurting relatives and friends.
Seizing this opportunity, Zylingus coiled a hurricane around him and ran at high speed, crashing through a lounge door and breaking the window of the convex belly window.
In a clanging sound, he swooped to the outside of the house, and with the favor of the wind, he actually flew a short distance, flying out of Duke Negan’s mansion.
As soon as his feet landed on the ground, Zylingus immediately ran to the opposite side of the woods, which was a municipal park – he had already explored the nearby terrain.
As long as he got rid of the trails behind him, he could change his looks and blend into the population of over five million people in Berkland.
That was what he relied on when he dared to take on difficult missions!
After a while, a gust of wind blew towards Duke Negan’s mansion, and the Cardinal of the Storm Church, the Archbishop of the Diocese of Birkeland, and the “God’s Songbird”, Ace Snake, “brought” several “Substitute Punishers”, and used a flying method to fly to the residence of Duke Negan. “He came directly here by flying.
He was too late to inform the other extraordinary people.
Alger was one of those who arrived with Archbishop Ace, but he was in a very bad mood because he saw the broken windows and his colleagues who had just chased him out of the house.
This indicated that “Hurricane Lieutenant General” Tsilingus had escaped.