Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 212 Under the Roses
The glass conservatory outside the window reflected the rays of the pale sun, and the brightly colored roses were so conspicuous even in the thinning mist.
For his part, Duke Negan inside the bedroom seemed to have recaptured the feeling of his youth when he followed his father and elders, riding horses, driving hounds, and chasing wild beasts in the vast land.
Finally, he climbed to the top, and all around him seemed to become unusually quiet.
Just at this time, his mind suddenly buzzed and rumbled, only to feel that kind of pleasure and that kind of comfort violently bursting open, constantly bursting open, with no limit and no end bursting open again and again.
Duke Negan’s waist even trembled, his eyes went blank, and his brain lost its thoughts.
His heart is difficult to afford to beat violently, just like the pressure exceeds the limit of an unknown number of steam boiler, at any time, any place will blow up, at any time, any place will be boiling hot mist outward spray thin.
In the case of an ordinary person or an extraordinary person whose physical quality is not strong, at this time, he must have already suffered a myocardial infarction, brain hemorrhage, and collapsed on the spot, but Duke Negen eventually survived, only with his eyes lost in thought, salivating at the corners of his mouth, and collapsing helplessly into his flat-bedded mistress.
The “wind family members” and the duke’s secretary on guard in the two sides of the room at the same time noticed the spiritual anomaly and mysterious flavor, the former suddenly wrapped around the violent wind, rolled him into the wall, clanging open a big hole, and entered the bedroom.
The secretary, on the other hand, went straight to the source of the mystery – the attic of the house!
Along the way, he didn’t dodge, but the vases and other objects decorating the corridor seemed to have a life of their own, avoiding him in droves with ingenious gestures.
And as he jumped and ran along the stairs to the attic, the wooden floor was as upward as if it were helping him.
In a mere three or four seconds of work, the well-mannered, clear-eyed blonde young man had entered the attic and saw a figure sitting in an outdated chair.
The figure was covered in a viscous black liquid, like a collection of all the ugly desires and violent emotions in the depths of the human mind, the greed that willingly sells the rope that strangles it, the hunger that doesn’t want to let go of even its own kind, and the unchecked lust.
It was the devil that walked the earth!
The slim secretary’s expression didn’t change and he didn’t attack directly, but looked at his opponent, reached back and politely closed the door.
Bang!
The wooden door of the attic was closed.
The entire room hallowed with the feeling of being completely blocked off, as if it was impossible to leave the place without making an effort to break it.
At that moment, the concept of “closing the door and sealing the room” seemed to have been altered to “sealing this place and isolating the inside and outside”!
The “Apostle of Desire” moved, his body swelled and grew larger, sprouting a pair of huge bat wings that emitted light blue tongues of fire.
A fireball that smelled strongly of sulfur then took shape and blasted at Duke Negan’s blonde secretary one after another.
That secretary extended his white-gloved left palm, made a fierce grip, and half-turned his wrist.
Boom! Rumble! Rumble!
The fireballs no longer followed the principle of straight line or parabola, and shot out in all directions, chaotically like the irregular movement of tiny particles proposed by a botanist, some of them hit the wall, some hit the ceiling, some landed beside the frail secretary, and some fell back, almost injuring the “Apostle of Desire” himself.
The whole attic was in a mess, broken and blackened everywhere, even the house shook twice.
However, the mysterious power or the tampered rule that “sealed” the place had not yet been destroyed, and the surrounding walls, the old wooden door and the dusty roof were only shaking, but never fell.
The “Apostle of Desire” was not dismayed by the failure of his earlier attempt, nor was he panicked by the fact that the other party’s emotions were smooth and his desires were introspective and could not be manipulated or catalyzed, his coffee-colored eyes suddenly had a magma-like fiery red color jumping up, coalescing into the blonde secretary’s appearance, and his mouth spat out a demonic word full of filth and stench:
”DEATH!”
Almost at the same time, the pupils of the secretary with the gold-rimmed glasses shrank, spreading his left fist and aiming his palm at the “Apostle of Desire”.
Suddenly, his figure appeared to be divided, one was the polite, slim figure of himself, and the other was the black liquid-covered shadow of “Desire”, both of them alternated rapidly, sometimes overlapping.
”Die!”
The filthy words echoed in the attic, and Mr. Secretary stifled a grunt and took two steps back.
The differentiated figure then dissipated, and his body surface his face immediately surfaced with large traces of rust and red, as if he had turned into an iron man that had been placed in a damp place for many years.
Cough cough cough! He coughed violently and spat out a mass of blood that had congealed into clumps and was covered in rust.
Those traces on the surface of his body then followed and slowly shook off.
Cough, cough, cough!
The “Apostle of Desire” also coughed out clumps of rust-covered blood, and the thick black liquid covering his entire body thinned out.
It seemed that half of the effect of his filthy words had been transferred to himself by Duke Negan’s secretary!
……
Inside the bedroom.
”The Windfinder picked up Duke Negan and kicked his beautiful mistress to the other side in case she was an accomplice of the attackers.
He did not help Mr. Secretary because he knew that he had only one duty, which was to protect Duke Negan!
And in a similar situation, one must beware of more than one enemy!
At this point, Duke Negan had eased up a bit, but his hands and feet were still weak, his body was empty, and his spirit was depressed, so he couldn’t use his extraordinary abilities at all.
He signaled the Windfinder to remove the conch necklace from around his neck, and brought the object to his mouth.
Duke Negan took a breath and blew it violently into the tiny conch full of strange patterns.
There was a crash!
The low sound of the tide swept away, darting toward the Cathedral of the Holy Winds.
”With His Excellency the Archbishop’s speed, he will soon arrive!” The “Wind Favored One” first relieved, then carrying Duke Negan on his back, he approached the window and leaped downwards.
He was going to meet up with the Duke’s guards outside, and there were still two or three low sequence Extraordinary People inside.
Duke Negan gasped:
”Catch, make sure you catch them alive, or, a spirit ……
”I want to know exactly who it is!”
Last time, it was the pirate general Zilingus who came to assassinate, and this time, it was an unfamiliar powerhouse of Sequence 5. Duke Negan asked himself who he hadn’t recently developed this level of immortality with, and thus was extraordinarily annoyed and resentful.
He wanted to find out who was behind this and use all his resources to tear the other party apart!
And all of this was predicated on being able to find clues from the assassin.
Seven or eight seconds later, most of the Duke’s Guard surged forward, surrounding Pallas Negan and the Wind Favorsmen in the middle, in front of the garden.
”Wait here and guard against the enemy.” The “Wind Favored One” gave the order.
According to the normal procedure, he should protect the Duke and leave the scene of the assassination as soon as possible, rushing to the Holy Wind Cathedral, a safe place, but he was not sure if there were other enemies, fearing that he would be ambushed on the way, and above all, he was worried that he would be mistaken with the incoming reinforcement of the “God’s Songbearer”, Ace Sneak, and thus fall into an even more dangerous situation.
One second, two seconds, three seconds …… time continues to pass, the house sometimes trembling, inside the battle seems to have entered a white-hot stage.
”Why hasn’t the Archbishop come yet?” Duke Negan, who had calmed down with a gasp, asked in slight alarm.
With the other party’s flying speed, they should be arriving soon, but in the direction of the Holy Wind Cathedral, there was no sign of the mist being blown away.
”The Wind Favorsman” was on high alert and said hesitantly:
”Maybe, maybe the archbishop, the archbishop …….”
In the end, he did not say that the archbishop was not in the Cathedral of the Holy Winds.
Just then, the beautiful mistress of Duke Negan walked to the second floor bedroom window, eyes confused with a sad smile.
Immediately after that, she leapt down, deliberately landing on her head and hitting the concrete masonry floor.
Bang!
After the teeth-gnashing sound, that pretty head cracked open a not-so-small gap, gurgling out blood.
She tumbled helplessly a few times and ended up face up.
Her eyes completely lost focus, and her frozen expression was filled with madness and fear.
Seeing this scene, many members of the Duke’s Guard could hardly contain their feelings of fear.
Even Duke Negan himself, under the premise of Archbishop Snake’s delayed arrival, had the feeling of an emotional near-collapse.
”Go! Get out of here!” The weak man shouted instinctively.
The “Wind Favored One” was thankful that he had not gone soft just now and kicked away that mistress before he could, otherwise the Duke could have been killed on the spot, but at that moment, his heart suddenly thumped when he heard that fear-filled command.
Inside the attic, the “Apostles of Desire” in the heat of battle liquefied, turning into many black shadows, jumping all over the place.
After avoiding the blonde secretary’s attack, he reassembled in another direction.
Then, he looked at his enemy and raised his right arm, the corner of his mouth slightly hooked.
”No!” The blonde secretary’s eyes glowed red for a moment.
In a flash, the Apostle of Desire clenched his fists.
Outside this luxurious house, Duke Negan’s panic exploded violently, leaping straight into his brain, burrowing into his veins and covering his nerves.
He heard the sound of something shattering, and felt nothing but warmth in the back of his head.
And at the same time, several members of the Duke’s Guard became panicked and raised the special revolvers or rifles in their hands, and fired a burst right into the center.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The “Wind Favors” grabbed Duke Negan and rolled to the ground, while a piece of invisible wind as sharp as a knife was created out of thin air, cutting the throats of the guards.
Puff, puff, those few guards covered their throats and slowly collapsed to the ground in the seeping blood, while Duke Negan’s body twitched a few times before he stopped moving.
He was robbed of his life by his own fear.
If he wasn’t a Sequence 6 Extraordinary, his fear could even split him into pieces.
Of course, if he hadn’t already become extremely weak, he wouldn’t have had such drastic emotions, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have died outright as a result.
But there were no ifs in this world, the leader of the Conservative Party, the largest landed aristocrat outside of the King, the brother of the current Prime Minister, the Sequence 6 Extraordinaire, the real deal, the Duke of Pallas-Negan, died just like that.
The roses in the nearby glass greenhouse, on the other hand, were still in full bloom.
Inside the attic, the blonde secretary clearly sensed something, and his emotions could no longer be controlled.
His mind then became blank as he anxiously ran outside and opened the door to the sealed room on his own.
Two seconds later, he reacted and turned around again, but the figure covered in black liquid and the suitcase in the corner were gone.
……
The “Apostle of Desire” left the villa quickly, following a predetermined route to evacuate the scene.
At that moment, a sea of blood appeared in front of him.