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After watching the girls flee, Klein quickly scanned his surroundings and located Leyton.
A cluster of flames shot up, instantly engulfing Klein's figure.
The next moment, in an inconspicuous corner next to Leyton, a discarded matchstick suddenly flared up.
Klein's Spirit Body, dressed as the Black Emperor, walked out of it. His gaze lingered for a moment on Harras, who was frozen into an ice sculpture, and the bone staff gnawing on him, then quickly retracted.
Leyton's eyes swept across the night sky above, piercing through reality to probe the gap between the Spirit World and reality.
The vast net, outlined by countless wondrous symbols and influencing perception and judgment, had become almost transparent, looking as if it could vanish at any moment.
After retracting his gaze, he softly said to Klein beside him:
"If you want to do anything else, you need to hurry. Once those imprisoned girls escape, the barrier I left around here to affect people's senses will become ineffective."
"I understand!" Klein nodded lightly.
He snapped his fingers, and a burst of flames erupted from his body, engulfing him and making him disappear from Leyton's sight.
Leyton glanced at the bone staff still gnawing on Harras's flesh, which was frozen into an ice sculpture, and instructed:
"Eat faster; someone will be arriving soon."
As if understanding Leyton's words, the bone staff's swallowing motion paused slightly, then immediately accelerated its consumption, shivering occasionally as if stimulated by the coldness on the frozen flesh.
Leyton turned, and his figure instantly became transparent, like a statue formed by countless starlight. The next moment, he transformed into brilliant starlight, surging into the villa.
As the starlight surged, it easily passed through the cracks and entered the secret room where valuables were stored. Bits of starlight regrouped inside, and Leyton's figure emerged from the shimmering starlight.
After looking around the room, Leyton swept up all the easily portable jewelry, gold bars, deeds, and antiques.
He found a larger safe in the room, put everything inside, and then took out a paper figure from his storage and threw it on top.
Then, with a pale blue glow encircling his eyes, Leyton raised his hand and drew a symbolic door in the air, briefly opening the barrier between the Spirit World and reality.
He gently pushed forward, and the safe was pushed into the Spirit World by Leyton.
After doing all this, Leyton's figure once again transformed into surging starlight, returning to the villa's exterior, to the place where Harras had disappeared.
Harras's ice-sculpted corpse, which had been lying on the ground, had vanished, leaving only an iron-black metallic glove and a bone staff lying on the ground, covered in a layer of white frost.
"Did this bone staff not leave any Beyonder characteristic?" Leyton asked Bugs Bunny, who was beside him.
Bugs Bunny shook his head, pointing at the bone staff covered in white frost on the ground, and said:
"No, it ate it before it could precipitate!"
Leyton nodded slightly. This bone staff had the ability to herd souls. Harras was likely completely consumed by the bone staff, flesh and soul included.
As they spoke, Klein's voice drifted out from inside the villa again: "Alright, let's leave."
As soon as he finished speaking, Klein released his self-summoning, and his Spirit Body instantly vanished from its original spot.
Bugs Bunny, beside him, was so surprised he forgot to close his mouth:
"Boss, a ghost, he's a real ghost!"
Leyton ignored Bugs Bunny's fuss and picked up the bone staff and the iron-black glove from the ground.
He threw the iron-black glove to Bugs Bunny, then approached and distorted Bugs Bunny's neck with his hand.
The surrounding shadows rippled, covering Leyton and Bugs Bunny, who was clutched in his hand.
In the blink of an eye, everything around them returned to normal, as if no one had ever appeared.
Leyton and Bugs Bunny moved through the shadows, and in five or six seconds, they returned to the room they had been in earlier.
Klein's Spirit Body had already transited through Gray Fog and returned to his body, and he was currently tidying up the remaining ritual setup in the room.
As soon as Bugs Bunny saw Klein, he immediately dodged and hid behind Leyton's pant leg, not even caring about the iron-black glove he was holding, dropping it directly onto the ground.
Klein looked at Bugs Bunny's actions with a puzzled expression and asked:
"What's wrong with it?"
Glancing at the embarrassed rabbit, Leyton said with a helpless tone: "It's afraid of things like ghosts. It got scared when it saw your Spirit Body form just now."
"Uh…" Klein was silent for a moment, unsure how to comfort this timid yet impulsive rabbit.
"I'll clean up," Leyton said, raising the bone staff in his hand.
The surrounding shadows, reacting a beat too late, began to writhe like a tide, quickly engulfing everything in the room and swallowing it into the dark, heavy shadows.
The room was quickly tidied. Leyton then bent down and picked up the iron-black glove that Bugs Bunny had thrown on the ground.
He looked up and reminded Klein: "Hold onto me."
After confirming that both Bugs Bunny and Klein were in physical contact with him, Leyton once again waved the bone staff in his hand. The surrounding shadows writhed, engulfing and covering the figures of the two people and the rabbit.
The room quickly quieted down, with only the bright yellow firelight shining through the glass window, barely illuminating the empty room, a room that seemed to have been untouched for a long time.
About ten seconds later, above Capim's villa, a phantom door suddenly tore open, covered in complex symbols.
The door silently opened, and a handsome man in his forties, dressed in a sharp suit, walked out.
His demeanor was mature and elegant. His golden eyes swept around, quickly locking onto the main battleground: the dining room!
Just as he was about to enter to check the situation, a strong gust of wind blew, and a figure rapidly approached.
It was an old man in a black robe embroidered with Storm symbols. He was the Church of the Lord of Storms's Cardinal, the Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese, Ace Snake, who held the title of "Spellsinger of God"!
"Why are you here?" The Archbishop of the Church of the Lord of Storms, Ace Snake, directly questioned him, his tone far from friendly.
Beyonder incidents in Cherwood Borough were under the jurisdiction of Holy Wind Cathedral. Both his status and the fact that the other party had arrived before him gave him reason to question the other party in such an interrogative manner.
The handsome man replied with a displeased expression:
"I live nearby."
The two said nothing more, simultaneously landing on the ground and glancing at the villa where the flames were still raging.
A violent hurricane, carrying water vapor, swirled around and poured into the villa from all directions, continuously extinguishing the fire.
Inside one of the villas, a fiery humanoid figure appeared. It seemed to be the culprit of this fire, still wantonly committing arson and resisting the wind carrying water vapor.
"Banish!" The handsome man looked forward and spoke with authority.
An invisible force directly tore through the void, pulling the projection of the Flame Demon into it, throwing it to an unknown location.
The two demigod powerhouses walked all the way to the dining room, seeing many charred corpses. Their brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
Ace Snake, the Archbishop of the Church of the Lord of Storms, already had visible anger on his face.
Until they reached the dining room, they saw the scene covered with Tarot cards and the charred, distorted corpses in the dining room.
Capim's corpse, covered in Tarot cards, seemed to have had its face deliberately left clearer for easier identification.
Capim's face was covered by two Major Arcana cards: the Emperor card, depicting a figure in armor wearing a crown, and the White Tower card, featuring a towering, cloud-piercing high tower!
Almost simultaneously, Holy Wind Cathedral's Archbishop Ace Snake and the handsome man quickly turned and rushed out of the villa.
They saw a majestic figure on the roof of the house next to the villa, covered in black armor, wearing a black crown, with a cape fluttering in the wind behind him.
That figure nodded slightly towards them, then vanished from its spot.
Almost simultaneously, a silver-white lightning bolt suddenly struck down, but it did not land, merely flickering in the air before disappearing.
The lightning's light illuminated the surrounding area like daytime, revealing every detail.
"Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake retracted his gaze, his face grim, his anger undisguised in his tone:
"An illusion?"
"A Wraith or phantom? Not quite like True undead creatures…"
The handsome man with golden eyes looked at the spot where the Black Emperor spirit form had vanished and said:
"It's a phantom that exists between reality and illusion, not a mere illusion. If the user intends it, they can even use this phantom to accomplish certain things."
"However," the handsome man glanced at the direction of the dining room inside the villa, and continued:
"This is the second similar case in the past two months."
"Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake asked in a deep voice:
"When was the first time?"
"That time the True Creator tried to descend through a con artist."
The handsome man very familiarly referred to the incident of Lanevus's death.
"Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake looked around and said:
"Perhaps it's a newly emerged mysterious organization…"
"Let's see what exactly happened here."
Only then did the Punishers arrive at the scene.
After using shadow traversal to get away from Capim's villa, Leyton directly led Klein and Bugs Bunny into the Spirit World, roaming back to 15 Minsk Street.
"The phantom I left was triggered just now."
As soon as his figure appeared, Klein immediately said.
Leyton nodded slightly, his tone flat, saying:
"Normal. With such a big commotion, the Loen authorities and the Church of the Lord of Storms people would definitely arrive immediately."
"You scattered Tarot cards at the scene?"
Klein sat directly on the living room sofa, exhaled a long breath, and then said:
"Yes, I gave the summoned fiery humanoid the instruction not to burn the Tarot cards and Capim's face. I hope it followed through."
"As long as there's still something to burn, it won't disobey orders!"
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