Chapter 771: Chapter 293: Outbreak (Two-in-One Mega Chapter)_4

“Cookie, look, you’ve woken Lord Reine!” Agatha complained.

“Both of you, don’t move, there are evil spirits behind you!” Reine spoke calmly.

Reine’s words naturally startled the two women, and they also realized why Cookie had been barking at them.

Evil spirits? At once, the two women looked towards Reine in horror.

“Don’t be afraid, it’s a minor issue!”

Seeing Reine approaching, the two identical little boys behind the two women seemed to sense some kind of threat. They tilted their heads slightly and stared at Reine with eyes devoid of whites.

“Whoosh!”

Reine took a quick stride forward, bringing up a gust of wind. He circled around the women and with the Radiant Longsword in his hand, he brought it down from above in a Smooth Cleaving Slash at one of the little boys!

“Zi!”

The little boy apparently did not expect Reine’s movements to be so fast, and with a sharp scream, he was cleaved in two by Reine.

Seeing this, the other little boy’s face contorted with a ferocious expression. He flailed his arms and rushed towards Reine, only to be forcefully smacked away by the Radiant Shield in Reine’s hand.

The same sharp scream was heard.

However, the little boy that Reine had split in two quickly reassembled himself not far away.

“Eh?” Reine frowned slightly, somewhat surprised.

Even for a Spiritual Body, whether it’s a vengeful spirit or an evil spirit, there should be a weakening effect upon being struck by Glowstone.

Yet, the strength of the spiritual body before him seemed undiminished.

At this moment, Jenny suddenly furrowed her brow, and her entire body slowly crouched down. Her face wore an expression of excruciating pain, and her spirit was extremely wilted and exhausted.

Reine’s eyes narrowed!

Only then did he clearly see the extremely thin black line connecting the two eerie little boys with the two women.

Given that it was night, even with his Dark Vision, he had only just noticed it.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Reine had a guess.

Most likely, this black line was like a spider’s tubular mouthpart when feeding on its prey, drawing some sort of soul energy from the two women.

Therefore, after causing harm to the little boy, the latter quickly recovered by drawing energy, leading to the inefficacy of the damage inflicted.

Instantly, Reine infused a hint of the Will’s radiance into his longsword, causing it to emit a stronger white light.

Reine aimed at the black line and slashed down with his sword!

“Zi!”

Indeed, the black line was severed!

Immediately after, Reine cut the thin black line behind Agatha with another slash.

This suddenly posed a serious threat to the two little boys. The two looked at each other and quickly came together. In almost an instant, they fused into one.

At the same time, the strength of the spiritual body greatly intensified!

If the aura of the opponent was about that of a level three Wizard Apprentice before, now, it seemed they could compete with a fully-fledged Wizard.

“Quite interesting.”

Watching this unfold, Reine did not preemptively strike but watched the boys’ fusion.

This time, the little boy seemed to have grown about one and a half times his size. Quite confident, the boy charged at Reine once again!

Lord Reine’s expression remained unchanged as the Radiant Longsword in his hand suddenly transformed into a Warhammer. Facing the approaching little boy, he swung the hammer lightly!

It was the Top Secret Technique, “Annihilating Hammer”!

Upon contact!

The fused little boy was as if struck by lightning!

The entire transparent apparition melted away like snow upon meeting boiling water!

This time, as Reine had speculated, after the black line broke, the two little boys did not revive again.

“Eh? No Soul Energy?” Reine mused with slight confusion.

He had used the hammer instead of the sword to slay the evil spirit, aiming to accumulate a portion of Soul Energy.

However, the anticipated Soul Energy did not appear, which inevitably led him to contemplate.

Could it be…

that both these were just avatars, not the real entity?

“Where did you two just go?” Reine turned and asked.

Agatha, with a face full of terror and still shaken, supported Jenny and said, “Lord Reine, we just went to the painting exhibition by Master Franco Vancliff.”

“A painting exhibition?” Reine’s brow furrowed slightly.

If the adversary truly possessed some avatar ability as he suspected, then in a place as crowded as a painting exhibition, there might already be more than one or two individuals affected.

Reine felt that it was necessary to report this matter immediately to the district security officer.

“Yes, just in the affluent Upper District of Minster City, inside a mansion owned by a rich merchant,” Agatha nodded and replied.

The recent battle had by now startled all the guards within the mansion!

“Matteo, go at once. Notify the patrolling Night Watchman to contact the security officer,” Reine ordered.

“By your command, Lord Reine.”

What Reine did not know was that at almost the exact moment he had killed the two little boy spirits, hundreds of little boys, positioned at different locations, all turned to look in Reine’s direction simultaneously.

If one could overlook Minster City from the sky and mark the locations of these evil little boy spirits, it would become apparent.

These Spiritual Bodies of the little boys had fanned out across the entire Upper District like fireflies, even reaching into the Noble and Trade Districts sporadically.

In the shadows of a certain street in Minster, a figure in a black robe slightly raised an eyebrow and muttered softly:

“Eh, been discovered, have I? That was a rather quick reaction. However… the energy is also nearly fully accumulated.”

“Then let’s move the schedule up a bit, shall we?”

The figure in the black robe began to chant a spell, and the painting of the “Gaze of the Eye” in the gallery emitted a breath that set one’s heart racing.

Suddenly, little boys from all directions rushed over, and in an instant, hundreds of little boys swarmed together like moths to a flame.

The very next second, these little boys began to merge with one another!

The bodies of the little boys grew larger, and their presence grew stronger! And stronger!

They quickly surpassed the Semi-Legendary level and stepped into a realm extremely close to the Legendary level!

This intense fluctuation of energy immediately alarmed the patrols in Minster City, the Goddess Church, the Duke’s mansion, the Sword Bearers Branch, and other strong entities from various departments.

Meanwhile, Reine, who was in the front yard of his residence, suddenly looked up towards the direction of the gallery and said:

“Matteo, it looks like there’s no need to send out a notice, I’m going out. Everyone, stay inside.”