Part 3 the traveler Chapter 203 – From Delay to Dropout

　　Inside the tattered room, Klein, whose bowler hat had fallen to the side and whose clothing appeared to be damaged, confronted the huge demon Gilthias, whose back was covered in bat feathers, about four meters apart, and the scene was so quiet that it looked like a puppet show was being performed.

　　In fact, Kraven still had some energy left to do something else.

　　When the “Secret Puppet Master” Rosago forcibly controlled him and Sharon, he was able to fight against the projection of the “Spirit of Grievance” and at the same time, he was able to manipulate the flames and summoned a stream of fire to kill the ghostly shadows that Sharon had attracted, and if it wasn’t for the misplaced focus, the Sequence 5 “Spirit of Grievance” would have been the only one that could have been used. If it wasn’t for the misplaced focus, with the Sequence 5 “Spiteful Soul” lady as his main target, Rosago would have been able to distract himself and finish off Kraven, and would not have given him a chance to use the “Tainted Words” spell, and now, even though Kraven is definitely inferior to the other party, there is only one enemy!

　　Of course, there wasn’t much he could do; he could move, but not too quickly, without giving up control of Gilthias, he could use his own extraordinary abilities that were less spiritually taxing, but he couldn’t distract himself from powering the magical items he carried, or pulling his gun and firing it with a wide range of motions.

　　And until the target was in control, many attacks could push or stimulate the opponent to increase his strength against the manipulation of the “psychic threads”, or even show signs of breaking free.

　　Therefore, Klein had to wait.

　　At this very moment, his heartbeat suddenly sped up two beats, and an uncontrollable feeling of fear and nervousness emerged in his mind.

　　He couldn’t help but suspect that his Gilthias companion, whose intentions had been “twisted”, was about to return!

　　Not good! Emotions are fluctuating! Klein was stunned at first, and then he used his meditation technique to forcefully calm down his inner turmoil.

　　Haha …… he appeared …… mood swings …… opportunity …… Gilhiais heart flashed with a happy slow thoughts.

　　Then, relying on his own extraordinary ability, he attempted to amplify Germaine Sparrow’s fear and nervousness, planting the seeds of emotion.

　　If he succeeded, he only needed a complete “detonation” to make the other half useless, no longer able to influence himself!

　　No……how……it didn’t work……his…… mood swings… …disappeared…… Gilthias’ scarlet eyes appeared to contract sluggishly, and they were gradually filled with emotions such as surprise, dismay, and anger.

　　Klein, who thought that he would be taken advantage of by the “Apostle of Desire” to counterattack, completely calmed down, only to realize that nothing had happened, Gilthias’ curved ram’s horn on top of his head had clearly burned out, but he did not try to utilize the fluctuation of that emotion!

　　With a thought, Klein probably realized what was going on:

　　It wasn’t that Gilhias didn’t want to manipulate his fear and nervousness, but he failed!

　　From the moment he sensed the emotional fluctuation, he had to spend several seconds digesting the situation, then another two or three seconds making a decision, and finally spend more time organizing his thoughts and mobilizing his corresponding extraordinary abilities, before and after which it must have taken at least ten seconds out of his life to complete the response.

　　It took Klein a total of three or four seconds combined, from noticing the problem, to calming down.

　　Therefore, Gilthias’ extraordinary ability naturally didn’t work when faced with an enemy in a normal state.

　　Simply put, the delay was too high! In this situation, don’t play with fine maneuvers …… Klein spat out two sentences, and immediately calmed his gloating emotions and continued to deepen his control.

　　After another ten seconds or so, Gilthias seemed to have figured out what the problem was, and stopped thinking about ways to deal with desires and emotions, and relied on the demon’s strong physical body and spiritual body to fight against the manipulation originating from the “Spiritual Threads” while slowly and painstakingly fluttering the bat wings behind his back, letting the light blue flames wrapped around them coalesce a little bit and turn into fireballs. It took shape and turned into a fireball.

　　Klein could almost foresee that the next step would be a covering saturation bombardment of fireballs, so without hesitation, he separated some of his spirituality and snapped his fingers with his right thumb and middle finger.

　　Snap!

　　Those pale blue flames rose up in a huff and disintegrated completely before actually taking shape, like a grand salute behind Gilhiace.

　　”Magician,” “Manipulate the flames.”

　　Gilhias was going to continue to struggle, but his movements were already getting slower and slower, more and more like rusty puppets, so much so that Klein easily moved his feet to avoid the demonic words he was trying his best to send out.

　　Three seconds, two seconds, one second …… Klein suddenly stopped, and his eyes locked on Gilthias’ head that had lost its curved ram’s horns.

　　At this point, there was still at least two and a half minutes before the Apostle of Desire could be fully controlled and transformed into a golem, but Klein had no intention of doing so, and he had never had any similar intention from the beginning!

　　It would take too much time, and Gilthias’ accomplices would surely be able to return before then!

　　Klein’s only intention from start to finish was to maneuver to a point where an attack within the limits wouldn’t help Gilhias out of his predicament!

　　Scarlet eyes, a hideous face, and sharp teeth dripping with saliva were reflected in Klein’s eyes as he opened his mouth and let out a single word:

　　”Bang!”

　　Air rounds, Sequence 5 air rounds!

　　It had been comparable to a bullet fired from a steam rifle!

　　Bang!

　　The air bullet accurately hit Gilthias’ forehead, causing him to raise his head back and tug on his “spiritual thread”.

　　A blood-colored hole appeared in the center of his eyebrow, which wasn’t too deep, but the overall damage wasn’t fatal.

　　For “demons” and “apostles of desire”, their bodies seemed to be covered with a thick layer of hard armor, and their blood and flesh were extremely elastic and resistant.

　　Bang! Bang! Bang!

　　Klein kept on making sounds, creating air bombs, and letting them hit Gilthias’ forehead one after another, gradually forming a single piece, while at the same time, he steadily controlled the “Spirit Body Thread”, preventing the other party from using it to tug and weaken its influence.

　　Gilthias let out a stuttering roar and desperately moved forward, trying to counterattack, but Klein’s movements were much quicker than his!

　　His attempts to liquefy his body failed without a doubt due to the control of the “Spirit Body Thread”.

　　Bang!

　　Another air bomb hit, completely shattering Gilthias’ forehead and drilling into his brain.

　　Bang! Bang! Bang! Follow-up bullets flew in one after another, one after another.

　　Bang!

　　Gilchrist’s skull was finally lifted, and the brain inside was covered with deep black grooves, and was now a blur.

　　The 9,500 pound bounty “slaughterer’s” breath began to dissipate rapidly, but did not close his eyes, because he had already lost them.

　　He fell to the ground slowly, step by step, Klein leaned over and extended his left palm.

　　Where the palm of the glove had been, two bright red eyes instantly cracked open.

　　A cold, eerie breeze appeared, and the spirit of Gilthias the Slaughterer, along with a black mist of extraordinary properties, screamed and burrowed into the “writhing hunger”, fixed on the blank finger.

　　Soon the glove turned black again, but this time it was deep and pure, as if it were made of countless dots of the same color wriggling and coalescing layer after layer.

　　Klein sensed it for two seconds, and with some disappointment and some delight, walked toward the window with the broken glass.

　　In the process of herding Gilthias, he had actually thought about what extraordinary abilities he wanted and what he didn’t want, and the answer was the dangerous premonition of the “demon”, which had to be turned on all the time and kept at Gilthias’ soul, and this meant that the “writhing hunger” had to be kept on all the time. The answer was the least dangerous premonition of the Devil, because it would have to be turned on all the time and kept at Gilthias’s soul, which would mean feeding the Glove every day, which was very inconvenient and duplicative of his own Diviner powers.

　　As for whether or not the “demon’s” sense of danger will still be useful after the puppet is made, Klein thinks so, but only for the puppet itself, not for the manipulator.

　　The extraordinary ability that Klein most wished to “draw” was the “Apostle of Desire’s” utilization of mood swings and any of the “filthy words”, preferably the “death” and “death”. Preferably one of “Death” and “Corruption”.

　　At this moment, he was lucky enough to get three extraordinary abilities, one of which was “Filthy Words”, but instead of “Death” and “Fall”, it was “Slow”. One of them was “Slow”, but instead of “Death” and “Fall”, it was “Slow”, which could instantly stiffen or even stagnate the movements of all targets within a range of seven or eight meters, though the effect could only last for about two seconds.

　　The second extraordinary ability is “Sword of Magma”, which creates a huge flame sword with high attack power and the shape of a knife, which can cut through thick stone pillars with a single blow, as if it had been melted, and is the choice of Gilthias when he goes on a frantic attack.

　　The third is the “Brimstone Fireball”, which not only creates a powerful explosion, but also poisons anyone or anything that gets caught in the flames, and if combined with the ability to demonize, it can launch dozens or twenties at a time, or up to three without it.

　　Not bad, the Magma Sword does significantly more damage to non-immortal, non-filthy creatures than the Priestess of Light’s Sacred Light… …Kraven came to the window, just in time to see the backs of Gilthias’ companions walking away.

　　Not free from the influence? No. In terms of time, they must have gotten rid of it and returned to a place not too far away, and now they were running away? They could sense Gilthias’ death? It’s a bit strange ah …… Klein turned back and saw that Gilhias’ body remained in its demonic state, not unchanged and shrunk into a human due to death.

　　He looked at it for two seconds and had a vague guess:

　　”Demonization-like abilities present themselves as close to being out of control, except that they can change back when there’s still sanity left to control, and vice versa at all times.”

　　Without delay, Klein turned over the demon’s body and found that because of Gilthias’s giganticization, all of his clothes and pants were torn, resulting in money clips, bills, and so on falling all over the place, and were tragically damaged in the previous fireball-covered attack and sulfur flame burning.

　　…… Klein was just about to retract his gaze when he suddenly realized that something was shining in the giant demon’s chest.

　　It was a slender crystal made purely of blood, and a faint sulfuric odor filled the surroundings.

　　”What is this?” Klein frowned slightly, unable to think of an answer.

　　Gilthias’ extraordinary characteristics had clearly entered the “writhing hunger”, so how could his corpse still precipitate something strange? This thought flashed through Klein’s mind.

　　Moreover, as the second mate of the “King of Immortality”, Gilthias did not have a single magical item or seal, which was a bit beyond his expectation.