Lecia gave Shad the power to enter and exit the study at will, so when Shad found the maid and asked her to open the door, the frightened maid immediately went to the housekeeper to ask for the key.
The existence of Shad was a secret among the servants in Sophia's mansion. Only Leicia's personal maids knew who he was, and very few servants knew that the princess had "kept a man" in the mansion during her stay in Coldwater Harbor. The other servants didn't even know the existence of "John Watson".
Now everyone in the manor was gathered by the old housekeeper, behind the first-floor gate, ready to deal with possible sporadic intruders. Xia De didn't want too many people to see his appearance, so he was alone in the study, standing in front of the French window and looking at the situation outside.
I thought the battle would be over soon, but the gunfight lasted for twenty minutes and became more and more intense.
Although Shade was not anxious, he also sensed something was wrong. He paced in the study, thinking about the current situation, and then considering how many bullets he could take before dying.
Theoretically, as long as he was not killed by a single shot, Shade could use the false immortality to give himself a chance to fight back. However, during the half-hour period when the false immortality lasted, if he was hit hard again, the effect of the spell would disappear immediately. This was the biggest drawback of this spell.
The yellowish light of the brass gas lamp illuminated the stranger who was counting the fatal spots on his body. Suddenly, the door of the study was knocked.
"Um?"
He turned around in surprise, and before he could say anything, a burly man with messy yellow hair rushed in.
He was wearing black rain boots, black clothes and pants, his head was shaped like a spindle, and his face was covered with red ringworm scars. The water dripping from his body was staining the expensive carpet in the study.
Seeing that there was a man in the room, the intruder looked very surprised:
"Where's Leisia Cavendish?"
When he spoke, there was a strange gurgling sound in his throat, and his accent showed that he was a native of Coldwater Port.
Xia De looked down at the wet carpet under his feet. The man slammed the door roughly, threw a piece of metal at the door, and then looked at Xia De viciously.
He didn't even give Xia De a chance to speak or answer. He stretched out his hand and waved at Xia De, who responded and wanted to walk up to him.
But this simple spell was useless against the ring wizard. Shade just shook for a moment and then returned to normal, and the next second, the whistle and the bell appeared behind the two people at the same time.
Brass life rings emerged from the gushing steam. Shade was a second-ring warlock, while the other was a fourth-ring warlock.
"Princess Leicia has gone to attend the Aurora family's banquet. You didn't even know this, and you barged in without warning?"
Xia De gave the answer at this time. He was not afraid that these people would go to the Aurora family's manor to cause trouble. After all, he would not let the person in front of him leave.
"Didn't she refuse yesterday... This is a trap! A damn trap!"
While cursing loudly, the man's ugly face quickly turned into a fish. On the life ring behind him, the whispering skeleton was glowing. The man sprinkled some white powder, which gathered together during the fall, forming a bone blade engraved with strange runes, stabbing at Shade's throat.
"Yeah, you refused yesterday, but agreed today. Can you do a serious investigation before you attack here?"
Shade did not dodge, and the Founding Silver Moon in his pocket flew out under the control of the magic treasure, blocking his throat. The bone blade pressed against the card, but it could not penetrate.
"oh?"
As if he was puzzled by how easily Shade blocked the attack, the bubbles on his life ring lit up, and he put his hands together in front of him, with the backs of his hands parallel to the ground. He opened his hands slightly, and under the gas lamp, it seemed as if there were colorful bubbles, which quickly spread throughout the room.
Although it looked like just a bubble, Shade subconsciously sensed the danger. He held the bone blade in his left hand and threw it forward. After the bone weapon touched the bubble, it pierced a part of it, but it was also corroded.
"poisonous?"
Without thinking too much, Xia De pulled the chair forward with his left hand. After the chair was corroded, two silver arc-shaped blades of light flew out from his hand.
This was not a physical weapon, so it was not threatened by the corrosive bubbles. However, those bubbles could slow down the Silver Moon Slash in the air, allowing the man to easily dodge Shade's counterattack.
"Don't resist. I use bubbles as the core of my ability system. These bubbles are not only poisonous, but can also explode, imprison, release curses, create illusions, fill injured tissues in the body, and reflect energy. You only have the second ring, so don't..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Xia De waving his hand in front of him. Silver mist spread out from his hand and enveloped him in it almost instantly.
The bubbles flew towards the mist created by the illusion, gradually dissolving it. At the same time, the man sprinkled more bone powder again, which gathered together like flowing water, and finally formed a slender bone thorn sword engraved with runes.
The man held the sword in his right hand, and with his left hand he continued to spray bubbles at the silver mist that covered half of the room.
Bang!
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from the silver mist. The man was hit in the right chest by a bullet from a revolver, but the result was only the transparent bubble in his chest bursting, which did not affect his movements at all:
"You think I'm afraid of ordinary firearms?"
His eyes were fixed on the silver mist that was gradually dissolving. The gunshot just now confirmed to him that Shad had not escaped, but was right in front of him.
Bang! Bang!
Two more gunshots were heard, this time Shade aimed at the other man's head, but a steady stream of bubbles blocked the man's head, and the bullets were unable to penetrate them.
"It's useless, don't waste my time here."
As he spoke, the bubbles from his left hand had melted two-thirds of the silver mist. The sleeves of Shade's coat appeared at the edge of the mist, and the man immediately let the bubbles float to that position, but at this time, the sound of a heavy object falling came from behind him:
"What? When was it behind me..."
He subconsciously turned around and raised his sword to resist, but only a chair fell to the ground behind him. Then he looked up as if he had realized something, and Xia De raised his sword with both hands and chopped it down.
The silver moonlight fell, and the moonlight sword cleanly cut off the yellow-haired man's right hand.
Xia De, who was wearing a shirt, took the bone sword from the severed hand with his left hand and stabbed it forward, but because the opponent canceled the effect of the magic, the sword disappeared in his hand.
So he thrust the greatsword in his right hand forward, and although he successfully pierced the opponent's abdomen, it got stuck there due to the return of the bubbles.
The two looked into each other's eyes, and in an instant the man's eyes seemed to turn into black holes that absorbed light. Spiral lines appeared in his eyes, and his soul felt slightly peeled off at this moment, but this magic that attacked the soul had little effect on Shade.
The cards flew out of his pocket and blocked the man's eyes. Xia De, who was counting down in his mind, had already counted to the last number:
"It's the third second! Blade of Chaos Time!"
"What?"
The disappeared Bone Thorn Sword unexpectedly reappeared from the void. Most of the bubbles in front of the man were used to block the Moonlight Sword, and the cards happened to temporarily block the view in front of him.
This moment of inattention allowed the sword, summoned by his own magic, to pierce his heart.