Near Manager Hall's house, Glade stood up from the ground, and an ingenious magic array began to take effect. However, this magic array was not from the Spirit Tower, but the magic isolation array from the Forging Tower.
If we were to ask which magic tower among the seven towers is the best at formations, besides the Tower of Runes, it would undoubtedly be the Tower of Forging. Many formations are engraved on both magic props and golems. The magic isolation formation was originally a formation used by the Forging Tower to prevent the magic inside and outside the formation from disturbing each other during enchantment. It can prevent the external magic from interfering with the enchantment, and also prevent the magic fluctuations generated by the enchantment from disturbing the surroundings.
But now that Glade used it here, it played the role of blocking the space. Although this magic array did not cut off the flow of magic power, it could disrupt the surge of magic power during space magic transmission. It might not have much effect on great magicians, but it could cause severe interference to the magic of low- and medium-level magicians during transmission, thus cutting off the possibility of puppeteers escaping by transmission.
The group arrived at the door of Hall's house and Janola knocked on it.
The door was opened by a very young maid, who was surprised to see such a group of people visiting at night.
"I'm Janola, here to see Steward Hall."
"Shouldn't the guard have brought you here? The steward... he... How about you wait a moment, I'll go and inform them." The maid seemed to be a new slave, with little experience and a little overwhelmed.
Kalanda took the opportunity to say, "You made us wait at the door like this and didn't invite us in. When the steward finds out, he will definitely blame you."
"Ah? Really?" the maid asked hesitantly.
"Of course, don't you know that a maid was whipped to death by Steward Hall because she did not entertain guests well?" Ji Yijun added fuel to the fire.
The maid covered her mouth in surprise and hurriedly led everyone in.
When everyone was seated, Kalanda asked casually, "I heard that the Puppet Master also lives here?"
"Yes, he lives on the third floor." The maid waited for them to sit down in the living room, bowed and said, "Then please wait a moment, my lords. I will go and inform Lord Hall."
After the maid turned around and left, Kalanda winked at Ji Yijun, and Mareno, Crete and Doris stood up and quietly followed the maid. The three of them were responsible for dealing with the ordinary person, Steward Hall. Kalanda, Glade and Ji Yijun went to the third floor to capture the puppeteer.
The three of them went upstairs and subdued three or four maids quietly. Finally, they arrived at the door of the bedroom on the third floor. Kalanda was about to break in, but was stopped by Glade.
He gestured for them to step back and hide in the corridors and corners. He walked forward, opened the door, and walked into the room without much hesitation.
This was a simple suite, with a crystal lamp lit in the living room outside. A man in a robe sat at a table by the window with his back to the door. Glade gathered a gray light in his hand and shot a ghost arrow at the man.
After the ghost arrow hit the person, there was no reaction. Instead, she jumped up and turned to rush towards Glade. At the same time, the bedroom door suddenly opened and two people rushed out from inside.
These three people were girls who looked similar to the maids outside. They rushed towards Glade swiftly and expressionlessly. Despite the fierceness of the three people, Glade did not retreat. Instead, he released a large-scale weakness curse and then shot ghost arrows at them one by one.
However, this magic of weakening the body seemed to have no effect on the three people, and the negative energy of the ghost arrow was like a drop in the ocean. These puppet girls pounced on Glade one after another, and then their bodies swelled strangely, and finally exploded into black slurry.
Glade's body was almost completely dyed black, and his entire body was wrapped in black paste. He screamed and collapsed to the ground.
After a while, the puppeteer rushed out from the inner room.
As a veteran killer, the Puppet Master was still wary of his surroundings even though he was hired by the people here.
As soon as he arrived here, he asked Hall for seven maids and transformed them into puppets. He didn't even take off his robe when he slept, and arranged three puppets to guard the room.
When he heard the battle between the autonomous puppets he had arranged and the invaders, he hurriedly got up from the bed, picked up the magic wand on the bedside, took the last four puppets, and ran out of the bedroom.
He saw a woman dressed as an ordinary villager lying on the ground, her whole body dyed black by the puppet poison.
But he knew very well that this was a mid-level magician. The weakening magic she had used earlier enveloped the entire suite, naturally including him. This magic was used with sophisticated techniques and was powerful. He tried to resist the magic effect, but failed after a second or two. From this, it seemed that this woman was stronger than him.
After being hit by the magic, he felt that his physical strength was less than half of usual, his power also decreased a lot, even the wand in his hand became very heavy, he didn't know when he would be able to return to normal.
He stood beside the woman who was about to faint, wondering where she came from. Logically, the baron who hired him had no reason to be at odds with him, but he was afraid that after killing someone, they wanted to kill him as a killer, or that she had some relationship with the target he had killed before and wanted to take revenge this time. There was another possibility, that she was an enemy who was tracking him, all the way from Arano. Did he reveal something and be discovered by those people in Arano
No matter what the situation was, he shouldn't stay here. The puppeteer looked at the door and the window. In order to prevent the women from escaping or committing suicide, the windows here were nailed shut with thick wooden strips, leaving only palm-sized gaps. Destroying the windows would definitely make a big noise and take a lot of time. But would there be an ambush when going through the door? He looked at the quiet corridor, gritted his teeth, and commanded the remaining four puppets. Two in front and two behind guarded him as he rushed out the door.
However, as soon as the puppeteer stepped out of the door, he felt a wave of magic power sweeping behind him, and then the movements of the four puppets around him slowed down like rusted golems, and they fell to the ground. Then one by one, they lost contact with his thoughts, as if some force had forcibly kicked him out of their minds.
The two combat puppets in front of him fell to the ground and passed out. The two puppets behind him died silently with black liquid flowing out of their mouths and noses.
The puppeteer looked behind him in horror, only to see that the fallen female wizard was no longer there, only a young male wizard pointing his wand at him.