Chapter 203: When Two Positives Make a Negative

Chapter 203: When Two Positives Make a Negative

Crack!

Klein saw Isengard Stanton’s back visibly cave in, and felt as though his own spine had begun to ache faintly.

Thud. Isengard, who had already been falling forward, collapsed to the floor, seemingly losing consciousness from the pain in an instant.

Kaslana, the one who had thrown that punch, stood where she was, panting with a blank look in her eyes. Her forehead was covered in cold sweat, and she did not follow up with any further attack.

She was like someone who had just awakened from a long nightmare caused by her own emotions. All her strength had been completely exhausted in the outburst earlier.

Huff. Huff. Kaslana’s body swayed, about to go limp.

Klein’s eyes narrowed. In two steps, he rushed forward to Isengard Stanton’s side.

He half crouched and tried to help him up.

Lying there, Isengard cried out in pain,

“Run!

“Don’t worry about me!”

Clearly, he did not believe that a three-person group in which one member had been seriously injured in an instant and another had lost all strength could still hold back an Apostle of Desire. He wanted Klein to flee immediately and join the official Beyonders outside. Otherwise, all three of them would die here.

At the same time, Isengard laboriously raised his right hand, attempting to use some Beyonder ability outward to draw the attention of the official Beyonders farther away.

As for the miniature “telegraph machine” with a horn, it had flown to the wall when Isengard fell.

Hesitation appeared on Klein’s face. Just as he was about to make a decision, he saw viscous black “liquid” flow down from the ceiling and rapidly condense into a pitch-black figure.

That figure seemed completely wrapped in black curtains. Only a pair of cold blue eyes were exposed.

The instant Klein saw him, it was as if he saw the strongest emotions and desires of living beings:

Fear, anger, greed, jealousy, hunger, lust, and more, and more.

The Apostle of Desire did not waste the situation he had painstakingly created. At the first possible moment, he entered the sitting room.

At that moment, among the three detectives, Kaslana was exhausted from the emotional outburst, Isengard Stanton had suffered severe damage to his spine and had basically lost his combat ability, and only Klein remained unharmed.

However, apart from his revolver and Beyonder bullets, all of Klein’s mystical items were above the gray fog. And facing him was a Sequence 5 Apostle of Desire—a powerhouse capable of raising a demon dog!

At that moment, the corners of Klein’s mouth curled slightly.

His right hand, which had been placed at the wound on Isengard’s back, suddenly swept across it. The obvious depression was strangely transferred sideways, moving onto one of Isengard’s ribs!

The Magician’s most wondrous Beyonder ability:

Damage Transfer!

It could shift a wound once on the person’s own body, turning severe injuries into minor ones, though it could not transfer damage to another person or to an object.

The instant Klein had seen Isengard Stanton wounded, he had already thought of what to do next:

First, pretend he had no way to respond and lure the Apostle of Desire into revealing himself. Then, transfer the great detective’s wound so that he was left with only a fractured rib, a relatively minor injury. At that moment, Klein believed Isengard would simultaneously move against the Apostle of Desire. That was a human being’s most instinctive deathbed struggle.

In this way, even if the Apostle of Desire discovered that something was wrong, it would be too late to break contact. Once Klein completed the “treatment” and joined hands with the great detective, they could entangle the target and delay him until the official Beyonders arrived!

Almost at the same time, the surface of the ring Isengard had originally been pointing outward suddenly glimmered with a life-filled green. His body was swiftly enveloped in faint radiance, and his wound rapidly…