Anthony Reid did not use his hands to grab the items collected from General Philip's body, but tore off half of his torn cloak, put them in it, and brought it over to avoid direct contact.
“Found it…” He was about to briefly describe what he had gained, but was interrupted by Lumian.
Lumian spoke quickly and clearly: "We are going to hide at the edge of the foggy city. Do you want to follow us?"
Anthony Reid's eyelids twitched and he said, "Okay."
He knew that under the current circumstances, if he left the team and acted alone, he would most likely die in a few seconds, depending on whether that terrifying and crazy roar was heard again.
Lumian didn't rush to ask what items General Philip had on him. He grabbed Janna and Anthony's shoulders with both hands and signaled Franca to pull up her collar.
The black mark on his right shoulder flashed, and a dim light lit up.
The figures of the four people disappeared and were directly "teleported" to the edge of the magnificent yet ruined city, and "teleported" to the front of the thin gray fog.
What you see is what you get.
Then, Lumian tried to walk into the gray fog, and the seal on his chest did not get activated.
This means that he doesn't need to carry them, and Franka and others can pass through.
Olsen, like a hungry bear, looked at Gardner Martin's unhelmeted head from the side and back, and there seemed to be different lights flickering and turning in his brown eyes.
It only took him a second or two to determine that that was the weakest and most fatal point in Gardner Martin's defense.
Even if it doesn't kill the opponent with one strike, after injuring the opponent again, the "Arrogant Armor" will most likely betray and strangle the wearer from within!
Olsen's right hand silently reached into his trouser pocket and pulled it out, with a yellow bullet sandwiched between his thumb and index finger.
A red-to-white fireball quickly condensed in his palm and exploded in a controlled and directional manner.
The violent shock wave pushed the bullet that Olsen had released, causing it to shoot out with a loud bang, heading straight for the back of Gardner Martin's head.
At this moment, Gardner Martin staggered and fell forward, just avoiding the bullet.
Almost at the same time, the surroundings were illuminated by the bright and sacred morning light.
In the morning light, black smoke suddenly emerged from Olson's body, as if he was a long-dead zombie enveloped by the sunlight created by the "Purifiers".
He closed his eyes instinctively, as if he couldn't bear such light.
Gardner Martin, who had fallen forward, was no longer as weak as before. With a stern expression and sharp eyes, he twisted his waist in the air, turned his body, and put on his helmet.
He immediately "burned" and turned into a spear of blazing white flame, which flew out and pierced the center of the "supervisor" Olson's forehead.
Olsen had a strong resistance to the burning and melting of flames. Although his skull was charred black, it was not pierced through by the blazing flaming spear. He suffered mainly impact damage.
As the flames faded, Gardner Martin emerged from the burning spear, clenched his fist covered in silver-white armor, and struck Olsen's head in mid-air.
Olson's neck broke on its own and his head flew up with his bloody spine.
This caused Gardner Martin's skull-crushing fist to miss, and his body landed back on the ground.
However, at some point in his other hand, a heavy and sharp giant sword of light condensed.
Gardner Martin plunged the two-handed giant sword into the black soil as he fell.
A terrifying storm suddenly broke out, and a large amount of light fragments aimed at mid-air and swept across the area.
The time it took for the "Arrogant Armor" to re-condense the "Sword of Dawn" and create the "Storm of Light" was much shorter than that of the normal Sequence 6 "Knight of Dawn", and it had been a minute or two since Gardner Martin last used it.
Olsen, with only a head left and a face full of brown-red beard, narrowed his eyes and was about to combine with the blazing white spear he had created and flee to the distance.
However, the storm had already hit, and the light completely engulfed him.
By the time the "Storm of Light" had subsided a little, Olsen's body had many cracks of varying sizes. The most serious one even pierced through his chest and tore his internal organs. His head, which was flying in the air and dragging a bloody spine, was covered in blood. Both his eyes and nose were destroyed by the fragments of light, and his skull was cracked in many places. The wriggling, blackened brain was visible to the naked eye.
Gardner Martin had already adjusted his state and created more than ten or twenty red and almost white fireballs around him in advance.
They flew out with a whistling sound and landed one after another on the head of Olsen who was almost unconscious.
Amid the loud bang, the head with the bloody spine shattered into pieces, and fragments and liquid were scattered all over the ground.
Gardner Martin raised his hand and lifted his visor. He looked at Olson's headless body lying on the ground and the skulls that could not be seen in their original form. He smiled softly and said:
"I've always thought you were a little weird, and this time I had the chance to test you, but I didn't expect you to actually do something to me.
"This is good. It eliminates a hidden danger and offsets the betrayal curse of the 'Arrogant Armor'."
He just deliberately showed that he was in good enough condition, but showed some problems in the details, just to lure Olsen into the trap.
—A purely weak performance will easily make the other party wary and suspicious.
After sighing, Gardner walked towards the small brown suitcase that had fallen to the ground and picked it up, which was almost broken into pieces.
He had always been curious about what was in Olsen's suitcase, but the other party had never told him the answer and always responded with threatening words. Now, he could open it and take a look himself.
Gardner Martin unbuttoned the suitcase and opened it in front of him.
Inside is a head.
The head had deep features, brown-red eyes, slightly messy black hair, a few silver strands at the temples, clear contours, and a face that was not thin was covered in blood.
This is Gardner Martin!
This is Gardner Martin's own head!
... ... ... ...
After Lumian and the others passed through the outermost layer of gray fog, it was as if they had gone from morning to evening. Everything in their sight was dark. Whether it was the asymmetrical black buildings that were higher on the left and lower on the right, or the various houses that seemed to be splashed with blood, they were all silently half-blended into this gloom.
The farther they went, the closer they got to the half-collapsed Zhangyang Palace that towered into the sky, the more serious the damage to the city became, as if it had been hit by a giant's punch, and the shock wave spread out in the surroundings.
Lumian couldn't see the specific details, firstly because there was not enough light, and secondly because they were too far away, with various houses blocking the view. If the palace and the buildings in the surrounding area were not so tall, even if they collapsed, there would be a mountain of debris left behind. It would be impossible for them to witness the corresponding scene on the edge of the city.
"Let's find a place to hide nearby." Franka looked around and had no intention of going deeper into Trier in the Fourth Epoch.
The four of them were walking on a narrow street, with the houses on both sides so close that the residents inside could almost shake hands by just opening the windows and sticking out their arms.
Most of the buildings here seem to have suffered a severe earthquake. Some have lost their bottom floors and are just "sitting" there, while others have hideous cracks and are shaking, but they never fall down.
Janna's eyes were fixed on a relatively intact house. It was iron-black in color, with an arched window on the left and a square one on the right. There was dark red graffiti on one side, and the other side was clean, with not even a single weed growing in the cracks between the stones.
In addition to the two most obvious places, this house has many asymmetrical details, and those giant centipede-like cracks are mainly distributed in the lower left.
"Go there?" Janna asked tentatively.
Lumian shook his head. "The more intact it is, the more likely it is to contain abnormalities. No one knows what the citizens of Trier are like in the Fourth Epoch."
"We should find a completely collapsed building and hide behind it. At least the things inside will be buried."
"Yeah." Franka agreed with Lumian's choice.
In Trier in the Fourth Age, she couldn't even perform a complete "magic mirror divination".
Soon, Lumian and the others came to the middle of the street. In the environment that could soon become dark, they went around to the completely collapsed crimson building and hid in a secluded place.
It was not until this time that Anthony Reid had the opportunity to pull out the "Bloodthirsty Arrow" stuck in his chest and return it to Janna.
Then, he spread out half of his bloodstained black cloak on the ground, showing off his recent gains.
There are three items in total:
One is a black ulna with multiple dark red holes on it, and both ends are hollow, like a crudely made bone flute that has been stored for a long time;
The second is a wooden box painted with dark paint. It is not too big and can be stuffed into the hidden bag. There is a big hole on each side, covered with a membrane-like "curtain" that can shake.
The third is multiple gold coins, silver coins and copper coins.
Anthony Reid pointed at the "bone flute" and said, "This is formed by the light spots that appeared on Philip's body gathering on his ulna. It seems that there are invisible things deposited on it."
The product of the combination of the extraordinary characteristics of "Conspirator" or "Reaper" and the power of his own ulna and the gift of "the deceased"? Lumian nodded imperceptibly.
Because Philip had no chance to fight back before, he was not sure whether this general was a Sequence 6 "conspirator" or a Sequence 5 "reaper". He could only judge from his behavior of creating a lot of scarlet and nearly white fire crows that he was on the "hunter" path, and not just Sequence 7.
If it was the latter, Lumian would be glad that he had the main ingredient for his advancement, but the trouble was that it was mixed with the power bestowed by the evil god and could not be used directly to mix potions.
"The sediment is the pollution of the evil god. It was a wise choice for you not to touch it directly." Lumian reminded Anthony.
Seal inside the underground, the power bestowed by the evil god cannot return to the mother body.
"This was found on Philip..." Anthony pointed at the dark wooden box and before he could finish his words, he heard another crazy and violent roar coming from a distant place.
This time, the four of them who came into the gray fog only felt a little dizzy and were not affected in any other way.