Chapter 211: The Third Act

Chapter 211: The Third Act

“Fate!”

Amid that difficult, obscure voice, the positions of “Hell Admiral” Ludwell and “Nightwatcher” Ince Zangwill dimmed at the same time, as though two clouds had happened to pass over them.

The Luck Stealer charm!

One of the Luck Stealer charms Klein had crafted using the Worms of Time provided by Pallez Zoroast!

In order to keep his scheme from being seen through by 0-08, Klein had hidden himself behind the scenes from the very beginning. Not only had he lent Creeping Hunger to Leonard Mitchell, he had also given a Luck Stealer charm to his marionette.

And so, the one who “tragically” suffered possession by the evil spirit changed from Ince Zangwill to Ludwell.

The figure of Sauron Einhorn Medici, clad in bloodstained black armor, instantly plunged into the top of Hell Admiral’s head. Fine blood vessels immediately crawled across both of Ludwell’s eyes.

Inside the hotel room, Klein calmly controlled his marionette. The impact brought by the evil spirit caused him no hesitation or delay. Ludwell reached out, tore through his clothes, took out the Requiem mask, and covered his face with it.

At the same time, Daly Simone, having heard the Red Angel evil spirit’s words, witnessed Its actual condition, and sensed that powerful pressure, seemed to understand something. Not only did she not close the Gate of the Underworld, she gritted her teeth and used all her strength to widen the gap a little further.

One blood-red arm without skin after another, one slick tentacle lined with teeth after another, and one bluish-black vine tipped with an infant’s face after another all stretched out from behind the Gate of the Underworld at the same time, grabbing toward Ludwell.

This spared Hell Admiral, who had originally planned to complete this step himself, from those complicated operations. Taking advantage of the fact that the Underworld within his body had not yet been destroyed by Sauron Einhorn Medici, and that the chunks of flesh on him had only begun to rot without falling off, he abruptly turned and charged toward the mysterious, illusory bronze door.

He was immediately seized by the arms, tentacles, vines, and spirits reaching out from behind the door. With an active leap into their grasp that complemented that scalp-numbing tug, he crossed the widened slit at once and entered the Underworld.

Seeing this, Daly immediately withdrew her palms and stopped maintaining the bronze door covered in mysterious symbols.

Clang!

The indescribable illusory door slammed shut. “Hell Admiral” Ludwell, together with Sauron Einhorn Medici and the Underworld creature inside him, was cut off from the real world.

This was a key step in Klein’s plan:

Separate the Red Angel evil spirit from Ince Zangwill!

Although Klein believed the Red Angel evil spirit was an unstable factor for Ince Zangwill, he still did not wish to face, while taking revenge on a demigod, an evil spirit formed after the deaths of one King of Angels and two Sequence 1 angels. No one could predict what a Conspirer might do under such circumstances.

Therefore, starting from the miraculous ability of the Luck Stealer charm and the characteristics of the pathway to which his marionette Ludwell belonged, Klein had designed this specific plan. Daly’s participation made the whole process smoother and more natural, leaving no easily interrupted interval, successfully sending the Red Angel evil spirit into the Underworld.

In this way, even if the other party could occupy Hell Admiral’s body and rely on Spirit World Traversal to return to the real world, that would be a very long time later. Leaving the Underworld required finding an exit, and since the Evernight Goddess had partially taken control of Artificial Death, She possessed a certain degree of authority within the Underworld. She certainly would not let the Red Angel evil spirit come out so smoothly.

Sacrificing one marionette, one high-level charm, and two mystical items in…