"This is a clerical-level relic, the beheading curse of Charles II. In the last era, a mortal king who used tyranny was beheaded by his subjects in a coup. His angry and ugly soul, influenced by the strange evil god he worshipped during his lifetime, turned into a parasitic curse. The relic itself is a parasite. After being attached by its curse, you will have the ability to safely remove the head from the neck. In the early stage, only the head will be separated, and in the later stage, the head will have powerful abilities such as flying, invisibility, and fire-breathing. This type of infected creature feeds on the brains of intelligent life."
Mr. Madison said:
"But don't worry, this lady was directly parasitized by the curse, and we are just infected. Every time this relic appears, it must continue to grow from a larvae form to exert its full power. Currently, the 'parasite' is still in its juvenile state. It can curse ordinary people, but because it parasitized the four of us ring sorcerers, it consumed too much nutrition and caused itself to be malnourished, so it can't move itself."
Dr. Shade and Schneider both breathed a sigh of relief, but Princess Margaret, who was disguised as "Miss Mary," was a little confused:
"According to the containment information provided by the academy, even if it is a juvenile parasite, it will only become malnourished to this extent after infecting multiple high-level warlocks. How come it became so weak after infecting the four of us?"
Both Xia De and Dr. Schneider were shocked, and both thought it was because of themselves:
“Malnutrition?”
the doctor asked immediately.
"Yes, after all, it's only clerical level. The parasite curse instinctively wants to infect as many powerful individuals as possible. Fortunately, there are no ordinary people here, otherwise not only would the other party be infected and die instantly, but the parasite would even multiply and become two, which would then make things even more troublesome."
Hearing the word "death", Shade and the doctor looked at Mr. James who was sleeping on another table. The gentleman was sleeping soundly now, and the doctor's hypnosis was quite professional.
"What now?"
Shad asked.
"Subdue her."
Mr. Madison pointed at the woman who was frozen in place:
"She only has some instincts left now, but she still has strong attack power. We need to work together to subdue her and then contain her."
"She's very powerful?"
Dr. Schneider asked.
"No, the key is that we can't attract the attention of ordinary people."
Princess Margaret spoke softly. Although her appearance was disguised, her voice was not, so she deliberately lowered her voice to make it seem like her lungs were injured.
The doctor nodded:
"How about we discuss a countermeasure now? I will..."
"No, no, since we were unable to subdue her immediately, the current situation may be a bit troublesome."
Mr. Madison spoke faster:
"I'll take action first. When it's threatened, its head will abandon its body and separate. I'll stay here to guard the body and prepare containment measures, and you guys go after the separated head. After capturing the head, send it back as soon as possible. Be careful not to make too much noise."
"How strong is a single head?"
Shade asked, and Mr. Madison shook his head slightly and looked at Miss Margaret, who said:
"It's equivalent to a mid-ring warlock, but now we're left with only instinct, so intelligence is almost non-existent. The only thing to note is that we're also infected by a parasite, and it has the power to rip our heads off, so we can't let the head itself touch our heads."
"Got it, I guess that's fine."
The doctor nodded. If it was just the middle ring, he thought it would be fine.
"But Alan, Xia De and I were dragged into this by accident. You have to pay us after this is over."
"This is a commission I accepted from the academy. When the matter is over, I can pay each person twenty pounds."
Princess Margaret said, and Shad nodded to the doctor, who agreed that it was fine.
"Three seconds to act—"
Mr. Madison said nervously, holding a brass metal rod in each hand. The metal surface was densely engraved:
“3, 2, 1!”
The two metal rods pierced through the shoulders of the motionless woman like flying bullets. The metal rods remained inside her body, and copper runes flowed out of the wounds like water, spreading towards the neck area.
The woman's frozen expression immediately came to life, and she stared at the four people with a malicious expression, but the ring magicians remained unmoved. As the whispering element fluctuated, just as Mr. Madison said, the head flew up from the woman's neck in a terrifying way.
But before the four people's eyes flashed, the one head in the air turned into two, and then fell down at the same time, flying quickly to different places along the floor.
"What?"
Dr. Schneider was surprised, but he was very experienced:
"Shad, split up."
As he said that, he quickly chased after the head that was flying close to the ground at the stairs. The scene was extremely terrifying. Fortunately, there was no one on the second floor, and the head flying close to the ground was even more difficult to see.
Mr. Madison took off his coat and rushed towards the headless woman, whose body was also attached to the power of the relic. Shade did not hesitate and immediately chased after the other head. Princess Margaret knew that Dr. Schneider was the team leader and the highest-ranking one, so she followed Shade.
The terrifying "flying head" was moving at an extremely fast speed. It did not choose to go upstairs or downstairs, but flew straight to the empty wall, and then flew out from a high window.
“Chase after him!”
Princess Margaret came up from behind Shad and found an empty alley outside the window, so she jumped down holding her skirt.
Because she knew that she would have to fight during this trip, Her Royal Highness wore a pair of flat shoes. Relying on her strong physical fitness, she landed steadily in the alley covered with haze and straightened her back. At the same time, a large area of steam fog had already emerged behind Margaret Anjou.
The whistle sounded and the bells rang. The life ring of the fourth-ring warlock appeared behind the princess in the scorching white fog. As the core spirit rune puppet flashed with aura, the sorceress took off the keychain-like toy puppet from her waist. The puppet floated in the air. As the sorceress touched the index and middle fingers of her right hand and left hand and chanted the spell in a low voice, the finger-sized keychain attached with aura continued to grow until it became a half-human-sized little boy wearing a black hat.
The wooden structure of the joints is very obvious, the hat is glued directly to the head with glue, and the eyes made of two buttons make the doll look even more weird:
"Killer Jack."
Princess Margaret read out the puppet's name, and "Killer Jack" bowed to the princess, then held a dagger and prepared to attack vigilantly.
The smog situation in the city this afternoon was really serious. In the windless alleys of the lower city, the visibility was not even more than ten meters.
The princess sniffed the disgusting pungent smell in the alley, stepped on the mud of unknown origin, and tried to capture the head hidden in the fog with her puppet.
Margaret Anjou felt goose bumps on her arms whenever she thought of a flying head peering at her in the fog. It was precisely because of this uneasiness that she became more focused, allowing her to capture as many traces of the relics as possible.
"There!"
She suddenly pointed to the right, and the "Killer Jack" puppet rushed over waving a dagger, but found nothing after going deep into the fog.
At this moment, a dark shadow appeared in the thick fog behind the princess. Margaret of Anjou had long guessed that the other party would attack by surprise. She pressed the sapphire ring on her index finger with her right thumb and turned to point the ring behind her:
"still!"
The spell exerted its power, and the thick fog stirred by the air flow seemed to be frozen in the field of vision. However, the black shadow in the thick fog was still flying, but the speed of flight was extremely slow:
"Killer Jack!"
The spiritual light projected by the core spirit rune became stronger, and at the same time, the sharp blade of the miracle spirit rune also attached spiritual light to the puppet. The dagger in the puppet's hand seemed to wriggle and become longer. It rushed into the fog and swung the knife at the head, but the metal dagger collided with the skull and sparks were produced.
"What?"
Then, the head opened its mouth and bit the dagger, creating a hole in the dagger.
Princess Margaret frowned slightly, stepped back quickly, and tried to touch the other doll hanging around her waist.
But at this moment, a new shadow appeared in the thick fog behind her. The sorceress immediately gave up casting the spell, turned around quickly, and blew gently in front of her.
A cold current blew out from the red lips painted with lipstick, and the frost spread to the thick fog, but it only slowed down the speed of the second head, and did not stop it from continuing to approach:
"It can actually split into two parts. Which one is the real one?"
At this moment—
"Ma'am, back off!"
The bright moonlight crackled through the mist above, and for a moment she almost thought she was seeing the moonlight in the daytime.
The silver moonlight broke through the gray fog and slashed at the head of the woman who was close to her. The head that even the dagger could not pierce turned into black mud and fell to the ground under the moonlight.
In the foggy sky, Shade fell from the sky through the fog. After his feet touched the ground, he leaped forward with the downward inertia without any force release, and pounced on the first head fighting with the puppet like a cheetah pouncing on its prey.
"Mind Explosion!"
A punch was thrown, and before the fist reached the head, the head exploded into pieces. However, there was no red or white strange liquid flying around, and there was still only black mud in the exploded head.
"That head can still split into two!"
Princess Margaret reminded.
"Yes."
Xia De said that he jumped down to help because he saw that something was wrong up there.
He grabbed the princess's puppet and brought it to reunite with the princess despite her slight resistance, then looked at the thick fog in front of him with a serious expression. Princess Margaret's eyesight was not as good as Shade's, so she was wondering what Shade was looking at at first.
But then, she saw dense black shadows crawling closer from the depths of the gray fog. The low murmurs merged into one, like the groans of corpses in a cemetery in the dark night. She felt an instinctive discomfort, and the black line on her fair neck was itchy.
Shade stood in front of Princess Margaret, but the princess could still clearly see that the dense black shadows that were gradually approaching were actually hundreds of human heads. The hair was connected into a net in the mist, and the hideous heads overlapped one after another, like maggots in rotten food, or like insect eggs in a dirty puddle. Those flying heads, like a dense wall of human heads, pounced on them.
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