After the blinding white light gradually dissipated, there was still a hollow echo in the air, which lasted for several minutes before subsiding gradually. A lukewarm breath—or perhaps a hallucination—hovered over the family hall. All the shadows of chaos seemed to have dissipated under the white light. Hasselblad asked the demon hunters to maintain the holy flame barrier, and he himself led the white flame to the front to check, and finally sent a signal that the crisis was over.
"Huh..." Lily took a long breath, and the fluff on her tail slowly calmed down, "I'm really exhausted physically and mentally."
Hao Ren gave the husky a strange look: "Just now you were watching the fun from the beginning to the end."
Lily was basically useless when fighting the Shadow of Chaos. She didn't know anything about magic, and those two claws seemed useless except for courage, so the only thing she did just now was to cheer beside Hao Ren. She wanted to help when Hesperis and Vivian went to deal with the out-of-control witcher, but it was over before she could act.
However, the husky girl herself puffed her chest out, with a proud expression on her face: "I buffed you with a battle cry just now!"
Hao Ren thought for a while, thinking that if Lily's blustery cheering could count as a battle cry, then he went to the large dog breeding base and came back with at least three rows of buffs on his head...
"Is this the end?" Hao Ren raised his head and looked in the direction of the family hall. The black shadows pouring out from the gate had completely disappeared, and the dark environment that had once shrouded the hall disappeared. All the negative energy inside and outside the building, and now it even reveals a sense of holiness as a whole: a faint milky white halo slowly floats on its dome, "Your ceremony is quite powerful."
"This is the method of a demon hunter." The flames on Bai Huo's body gradually extinguished, her expression was a little tired, but other than that, it was fine, "It seems that our exorcism is more dependent on your shadow power than yours." Spectrum. Oh, of course, your gun is quite powerful."
At this time, Hesperis dragged a black witcher over. She threw the man in her hand in front of Hasu: "Here you are, your subordinate is intact. It's the fate of this kid—if he doesn't recover, I'll kill him."
This was the demon hunter whose mind had been controlled by the shadow of chaos just now. He was saturated and bombarded by Vivienne's real? One hundred thousand volts? Scatter it bat spirit for a round. Now his whole body is black as if he had just been fished out of a boiler, and he still twitches from time to time. Occasionally, lightning flashed by. Hasselblad immediately bent down to check the soldier's condition, and found that he had fully recovered mentally except for the visible skin trauma.
"Completely recovered?" Bai Huo exclaimed in surprise seeing this situation, "How did you do it?!"
"How did you do it?" Hesperis didn't intend to talk to Hasselblad's master and apprentice at first, but Bai Huo couldn't hold back when he asked her aloud. "After a fat beating, he will recover naturally."
Hao Ren noticed that Hasu was constantly checking the situation of the witcher with a serious face, and used all kinds of test magic. He vaguely realized that something seemed wrong: "What's wrong? Shouldn't it be recovered?"
"This has never happened before. The insanity caused by the shadow of chaos requires a very complicated ritual to recover," Hasselblad did not look up, "Some demon hunters have been attacked by these shadows one after another since a month ago." , We have also roughly figured out the methods to relieve mental madness based on ancient materials, but those methods are all troublesome without exception, and I have never heard that one can recover from a beating."
Lily interjected from the side: "But I watched those people who were mind-controlled on TV and they all woke up after being beaten up..."
Hao Ren squinted at her: "You also know that it's a TV show, isn't it for the convenience of the plot?"
At this time, the data terminal popped up and muttered: "Actually, there is a big guy who can slap any madman... uh. But he's not here."
Hasselblad didn't pay attention to what the data terminal said, he focused on Hesperis and Vivienne: "What did you do then?"
Hesperis thought about it, and realized that what he was doing the whole time was hitting people with a mace. And he didn't hit a few times, so he raised his finger and pointed at Vivienne: "She made the last blow."
"It's an electric shock." Vivienne replied frankly, "It's a bat swarm discharge. It's a very common move for me. And this move doesn't have any effect in exorcising demons and calming souls."
"Electric shock? Can an electric shock relieve mental madness?" Bai Huo muttered incredulously, "I've never heard that two strokes of electric shock can cure this."
At this time, the demon hunter lying on the ground struggled to get up, and opened his mouth to spit out a puff of black smoke: "No... more than two times..."
After saying this, he lay back and continued shaking.
While Hasselblad and Baihuo were seriously thinking about whether the electric shock could expel the mental damage of the Shadow of Chaos, Hao Ren suddenly thought of other aspects. After learning a lot about Vivian, he would of course think of the special life experience of this bat spirit: "I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the electric shock, maybe Vivian herself expelled the influence of the shadow of chaos."
Hasselblad didn't understand what he meant, and Vivienne showed a strange look after being stunned for a moment: "You mean... why are these weird things always related to me?"
Hao Ren remained silent. Lily rolled her eyes and said, "Who made you the weirdest guy in the family?"
"What are you talking about?" Bai Huo looked at Hao Ren and the others in bewilderment, "Countess Vivienne's power can restrain the Shadow of Chaos?"
"Oh. No, it's nothing, it's just a conjecture." Hao Ren felt that this question would be unclear for a while, so he waved his hands and said perfunctorily, "In fact, Vivienne is just a few ancient people who sealed the shadow of chaos thousands of years ago." One of the gods, so I wondered if she subconsciously retained the talent of restraining shadows."
Hasselblad looked at Vivienne in surprise: "Is this true? Are you really one of the people who built the seal back then?"
Vivian nodded awkwardly: "It seems to be, but I can't remember."
Hao Ren roughly told Hasu about the origin of the seal, and then the topic shifted to those shadows of chaos just now: "How did those shadows appear just now? Does anyone have a clue?"
Bai Huo recalled the situation at that time, and frowned slightly: "They appeared suddenly, I didn't notice them at all, or your... assistant was the first one to come out to call the police, wasn't it?"
"If these shadows of chaos suddenly appeared in the hall like this a month ago, then what happened to the Ancatero family and those demon hunters would be understandable," Hasselblad said in a deep voice, "They didn't have time to deal with it at all. And as soon as someone goes into a frenzy, things can get out of hand."
Everyone at the scene knew that the situation just now was actually very dangerous: if the data terminal had not warned in advance, given the density of people in the hall at that time and the limitations of the terrain, even experienced demon hunters would have been attacked by the Shadow of Chaos. The frantic attribute of the shadow is the greatest threat, and the more crowded it is, the more effective it will be. So it's not hard to imagine how devastating the chain reaction was when the Shadow of Chaos suddenly appeared when Amtura led a large number of demon hunters and Ancatero's family members to meet in this hall a month ago.
"What did everyone do at that time? What moved? Did you see any abnormal phenomena or feel a special atmosphere?" Izaks' deep and powerful voice sounded, with a sense of calmness and reassuring reliability, "We need to find out if there is something that 'calls' those shadows."
Everyone immediately began to recall the situation in the hall and their own actions at that time, and the data terminal also provided a very clear video record: the pictures it took with its own functions were more accurate and direct than anyone's description.
After everyone recalled the situation, Hao Ren and Y'zaks found that there was nothing particularly noticeable. It seemed that the Shadow of Chaos really appeared out of nowhere for no reason.
But when everyone was confused, Bai Huo suddenly said thoughtfully: "If I have to say... those shadows appeared when I was completely relaxed."
Hasselblad looked at his disciple: "Your hunter instinct points to this clue?"
"Well, there should be some connection," Bai Huo nodded slightly, and explained his feelings in detail, "Those shadows appeared when I completely lost my vigilance to the Hesperis beside me."
Reminded by Bai Huo, other demon hunters seemed to have noticed the incongruity just now. Even Hasu and Hesperis also remembered their relaxed state of mind at that moment. Hesperis even Frankly said: "I seemed to have forgotten for a few minutes that Hasselblad was my enemy." (To be continued~^~)