In the late morning, at 22 Elm West Lane in the lower district of Igwinte, gunshots suddenly erupted. Thomas and Oliver, members of the Red Communion Society who had returned from a great disaster, suddenly attacked without warning while their companions were completely unprepared, launching a surprise assault on their former comrades and superiors.
Bullets flew wildly in the small study. The four Holy Communion Society henchmen who had been standing were all shot and fell to the ground during the sudden ambush by their companions. Burton, who was walking towards the altar, was also instantly shot three times in the back, stumbling and nearly falling. Then he suddenly turned his head, his expression twisted with rage, his wide-open eyes filled with bloodshot veins.
"Traitors... how dare you..."
Staring at the subordinates who had suddenly attacked, grinding his teeth, although Burton was puzzled as to why they had suddenly betrayed him, this confusion had long been overwhelmed by the raging inferno of his fury.
After finishing off the others in the room, Oliver also expressionlessly pointed his gun at Burton and, together with Thomas, coldly pulled the trigger, shooting their former superior and firing all the remaining bullets. Seeing this, Burton began to quickly dodge sideways. Out of the four shots fired by the two, he was only hit once in the abdomen for a moment.
As an Extraordinary of the 'Cup', Burton was still alive even after being shot three times earlier. Not only that, he still retained powerful mobility, dodging the subsequent three bullets. Then he stared at the traitors in front of him and launched a counterattack.
Stomping the floor, Burton shot towards Thomas and Oliver with a single stride, arriving in front of the two of them in an instant. By this time, the guns in Thomas and Oliver's hands were empty. At this moment, they could only meet the attacking Burton with their fists, but Burton's fists were faster and fiercer.
Accompanied by a loud sound, Oliver's head was smashed and deformed by a heavy punch of monstrous strength, something ordinary people could not achieve. His skull shattered, and his entire body was sent flying by the immense force, flying out the door and crashing onto the corridor, with countless bones broken all over.
After sending Thomas flying, Burton backhanded and grabbed Oliver's arm as he swung a dagger. Burton coldly used his other hand to forcibly seize Oliver's dagger, severing Oliver's wrist with one swing. He then chopped twice more, cutting off Oliver's head, and then kicked Oliver's broken body away, sending blood splashing everywhere for a moment.
Just as Thomas and Oliver were being brutally attacked by Burton, in the open coffin on the ground nearby, the white-haired girl suddenly opened her eyes. Dorothy rose from the coffin and then took something out from her clothes.
That, astonishingly, was a piece of rough paper the size of a palm. On the paper was printed an abstract symbol in the shape of a wine Cup... This was the Raw Consumption Symbol, the 'Cup' symbol Dorothy had previously searched from a Holy Communion Society member.
Without thinking twice, Dorothy immediately slapped the symbol she held onto her forehead and then began to whisper.
"I am here as well... I beseech the Blood Cup..."
As the symbol instantly burned away, then, on Dorothy's forehead, a crimson Cup-shaped mark began to gleam.
The Raw Consumption Symbol enhances physical ability by consuming the 'Cup' Spirituality within the user. If an ordinary person used it, they would wither and die because all the 'Cup' within their body would be depleted. However, Dorothy was different; she had previously obtained extra 'Cup' by reading a secret transmission, so that situation would not occur.
With the manifestation of the 'Cup' symbol on her forehead, Dorothy felt a scorching power flow through her limbs and bones. Then she directly took two revolvers from the coffin, one in each hand, simultaneously pointing them at Burton, who had just kicked Oliver away, and then fired together.
Compared to many modern handguns, revolvers have considerable power, which also brings strong recoil. Dorothy, being a thirteen-year-old girl, found it difficult to handle a gun with both hands and could only manage to shoot enemies at close range. However, under the amplification of the Raw Consumption Symbol, Dorothy's physical ability could now easily hold a revolver steady with one hand, allowing her to dual-wield.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Dorothy kept pulling the triggers, her dual guns roaring as they fired. Bullets shot towards Burton, who had just finished dealing with Thomas and Oliver. Caught off guard, Burton was hit by four shots; one broke the bone in his left arm, another almost tore apart the muscle in his right thigh, and his movement was temporarily impaired.
Dorothy actually wanted to shoot the opponent's head, heart, and other vital points, but because she hadn't undergone professional shooting training, the bullet aimed at the head just grazed his skull.
Shot again while caught off guard, this time Burton was directly knocked to the ground. Then he turned his head and looked at Dorothy with hatred, struggling to stand up after a moment of surprise.
"It's you... Aaaah!!"
Supporting himself with one arm, Burton, who was already a man of blood, struggled to stand up. He had large, festering wounds all over his body, but even so, Burton, as a Thirster, was still not dead and could even move.
Roaring, Burton prepared to charge straight at Dorothy. Facing this situation, Dorothy began to activate the Corpse Puppet Ring on her hand, injecting two points of 'enlightenment' Spirituality into it, increasing the maximum number of Corpse Puppets she could control to four.
For a moment, the corpses of the Holy Communion Society members who had been shot dead by Oliver at the beginning and were lying in the study all stood up and lunged at Burton. Four bodies piled onto Burton at once, preventing his attack on Dorothy. And due to the overload operation, the 'Cup' originally stored in the Corpse Puppet Ring was also being rapidly consumed.
"Get out of the way!"
Driving his broken body, Burton began to resist the Corpse Puppets that had entangled him. He punched the bodies of the Corpse Puppets one by one, deforming them and quickly breaking free from the entanglement. At this moment, Dorothy dropped the dual guns in her hands, reached into the coffin, and took out a steel rebar crowbar.
Gripping the crowbar with both hands, Dorothy's gaze turned fierce. She quickly stepped forward, and as the 'Cup' mark on her forehead flickered, Dorothy, with her greatly enhanced physical ability, forcefully swung the crowbar she held and fiercely smashed it towards Burton's forehead, fracturing his skull with the first blow.
If the guns couldn't hit accurately, then it was better to just grab a weapon and engage in close combat directly!
Burton, who was being entangled, received a fierce heavy blow to his head. He stared blankly with his bloodshot eyes wide open. Then Dorothy, without hesitation, struck his head a second time at the previous wound, directly cracking it open and splashing blood. This blow also knocked Burton to the ground. Then Dorothy mercilessly added a third, a fourth blow...
Finally, Burton, who had fallen to the ground, gradually lost his life as the finishing blows were dealt.