Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 103 Incident Escalation
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About ten minutes ago, in the carriage outside the Krag Club.

Ikonser Bernard, the impressive butler with fluffy hair and a strong personality who was in charge of this operation at the Mechanical Heart, came to visit again. Considering the danger and confidentiality of the matter, Klein and him left the club and sat in the carriage outside to discuss in detail.

Ikanser pressed the hat that was propped up by his fluffy hair, sat down, and said in a low voice: "The Mandated Punisher has found Patrick Jason Belia."

"How did you find it?"

Klein was half surprised and half curious. According to the revelation he obtained from divination, Jason Belia was always wearing a human skin. His true appearance and aura were not determined, so it was almost impossible to find it so easily! Did the Punisher really find the demon under the human skin?

Upon hearing this, Ikanser roughly described what happened:

"The Mandated Punishers found a clue, but the demons sensed the danger in advance. They killed two Mandated Punishers before they could be surrounded and fled. This made the top leaders of the Church of Storms very angry. The bishop of the Holy Wind Cathedral, 'Singer of God' Ace Snake, personally chased them. You should have seen a strong wind just now. It was caused by him."

"He is the Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese of the Storm Church and one of the cardinals of the entire Storm Church."

It sounds normal, but it feels strange... According to Mr. Eisinger and I's guess, it's very likely that another person put on the skin of "Patrick Jason" to give the real Jason Belia the opportunity to secretly accomplish his real purpose... Klein asked carefully:

"Are you sure it was Jason Belia who was found?"

Ikanser's expression suddenly became solemn, and he replied in a rather strange tone: "I'll give it a try."

Ikanser took a deep breath and took out the ancient silver mirror with strange patterns from the special pocket inside his clothes. The two members of the "Mechanical Heart" who were sitting farther away in the carriage also moved over skillfully and consciously.

"Dear Arrodes, my question is about the current position of Patrick Jason Belia."

The light around them suddenly twisted, like lights after rain, and a scene quickly emerged in the silver mirror:
It was an inland ship with its sails hoisted. Jason Belia, with high cheekbones, gray blue eyes, and neatly combed back hair, was wearing a baseball cap and turning up the collar of his coat. He hurriedly followed the crowd to the boarding area at the port, preparing to walk up the ladder of a passenger ship.

"He is really trying to escape from Backlund! It seems that the 'Singer of God' is heading to the dock area..." A female member of the "Mechanical Heart" said suddenly.

Isn't this too easy to be exposed? Klein was full of doubts.

The magic mirror Arrodes showed only frozen images that did not move, and they were not as clear as when he was fortune-telling in the gray fog. Klein looked at it carefully with a skeptical attitude, and suddenly saw a familiar figure on the edge of the crowded river bank.

The shadow was a man with unclear face, but vaguely he had brown hair and was wearing a dark coat. He was standing at the railing on the river bank, facing the river, as if he was admiring the scenery on the river.

The moment he saw this figure, a name appeared in Klein's mind:
Devil's Path Sequence 2, Angel of the Abyss, Edward Vaughn!
His spiritual intuition told him that this was the correct answer. Klein suddenly lost his composure. He looked again and it seemed that even Jason Belia in this frozen picture looked unnatural. Wasn't he looking back? What was he looking at? He should have been escaping as fast as possible and then finding a place to remove his disguise. Why was he still staring blankly? Was he looking to see if there were any pursuers behind him?

There could be many reasons to turn back, and one could attribute all these thoughts to one's own wild imagination, but Klein simply plunged into such a dead end. A few large words slowly emerged in his mind, and he had never felt a chill so clearly.

"This is the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics..."

Even if demons have the ability to sense danger, they cannot completely avoid this unconscious spiritual attraction!
When Klein came back to his senses, Deacon Ikanser had already finished asking Arrodes some funny questions. He was still sitting in his seat, and his hair didn't stand up. It seemed that the questions he answered were correct.

"This is a little too simple. Could it be a trick of the devil?"

Klein was about to speak but stopped, and thought over and over again. He considered for a long time, and thought for several seconds before organizing his words:
"What I mean is that we must abandon some of our inherent judgments. Perhaps what we are looking for is the 'Apostle of Desire', not Jason Belia. The two are not necessarily exactly the same.

"That's a point I have to make as a detective."

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The crow on Edward's shoulder disappeared. Amon, who was wearing Patrick Jason's face, pulled his hat down, ruffled his hair, and used his trickster ability to reduce the two's presence. In this way, they became something that everyone would subconsciously ignore, and the singer of the gods might not be able to find him unless he used a lightning storm to attack indiscriminately.

He searched all his pockets and opened his suitcase, but did not find the "Blessing of the Mother Tree of Desire".

"So, this 'Apostle of Desire' is not the one I met. She was in a hurry to escape, so she might not be the one looking for me."

"I have made some new discoveries."

Amon dug into the memory of this woman from the Belia family and successfully found some useful information:
"her name is……"

Edward looked at him.

"…It doesn't matter what it is. She came to Backlund for a special purpose. She doesn't remember much about you. She is definitely not the 'bait' used to attract you."

Amon tapped his temple with his fingers with interest. His expression and movements matched this face very well. Patrick Jason's face was relatively thin and looked quite cold when he was not smiling. Amon subconsciously made this face smile but there was no warmth at all, only inhuman curiosity, as if it was a disguise purely for the sake of smiling.

Without Edward asking, Amon answered himself:
"Interesting, they came for the Abyss card."

"...It's really interesting." Edward couldn't help but sneered when he heard this. "I was going to give this card to them, but it was hijacked by that guy on the way. Since then, it has been out of my control. For more than a hundred years, no one has chanted my name to open it. Now, He is using it to tempt the Belia family to assassinate Negan. What a good plan. The damn middleman has made all the difference."

Amon closed his eyes and remained silent for another two seconds before stealing out another memory: "There is another message, but my spiritual intuition tells me that it is very important and may attract the attention of your target."

"It doesn't matter. The person you are parasitizing is also from the Belia family. I don't necessarily need his soul to establish a mystical connection."

Edward said, "What's the news?"

"They received accurate intelligence this morning. The assassination target, Pallas Nigan, decided to go to one of his mistresses in the afternoon. The specific location is near the Holy Wind Cathedral in Cherwood District, a high-end villa with a glass greenhouse garden."

"By the way, the executor of the assassination mission is named Jason Belia. I remember that he mentioned you. He should be the bait released by the Belia family, the devil with blessing."

This afternoon.

Amon raised his head and looked at the tallest clock tower in the city. Edward took out his pocket watch from his arms and glanced at the hands on the dial.

The next moment, Patrick Jason suddenly turned into the sharp-looking Belia family woman. Without any process, his skin was stolen by Amon (Amon quickly put on the newly bought monocle for his right eye), and then Edward burned it clean with a flame. Patrick Jason disappeared from the world in an instant.

Their figures twisted for a moment and then completely disappeared. They entered the spirit world and wandered towards the villa with a glass greenhouse as mentioned in the intelligence. The pedestrians on the road were completely unaware of this.

A few minutes after leaving, a strong wind came howling.

"Singer of God" Ace Snake looked down from the clouds, carefully scanning everyone's face, but found nothing.

…………

Hearing chaotic gunshots and screams from afar, and feeling that Duke Negan, whose "Seed of Desire" he had detonated, had completely lost his life, and the mission was successfully completed, the real Jason Belia could not help but feel proud and complacent, and curled up a cruel and happy smile.

But this happy mood did not last long. While fleeing the scene quickly, he suddenly felt a great crisis and fear. It seemed as if a vast ocean of blood appeared before his eyes. Jason even forgot to breathe. The sea of ​​blood was surging with extreme terror and murderous intent, almost drowning him!

not good!

He is a high-sequence expert!
Why could a high-sequence expert directly lock onto me?! What went wrong with the plan? Could it be that the woman had been discovered?
No! Even if she was discovered, she shouldn't have associated it with me! They couldn't have known that "Patrick Jason" was two people!
The deadly crisis loomed over Jason's head, disrupting his plan. He stopped in doubt and looked around. This was the edge of a garden, where the grass and trees had withered due to the cold winter, revealing the dark brown soil.

A flash of silver suddenly appeared in the eyes of the "Apostle of Desire", and a figure in full armor walked over from the other end of the garden.

The armor seemed unusually heavy, and every step caused him great psychological pressure. It was covered with a large amount of blood stains of a strange beauty. Seeing this blood-stained silver armor, the "Apostle of Desire" felt short of breath, as if he had encountered the most terrible natural enemy! Jason Belia was horrified. He mobilized all his spirituality to sense the extraordinary person in the armor, but it was in vain. The armor isolated all interference, as if it was empty! Seeing this, Jason calmed down strangely after a brief despair. This was indeed a crisis that was fatal, but it seemed that something was wrong... If it was just this armor, it might not be impossible to escape by breaking off the tail, so where did the premonition of certain death come from?
But he had no time to think, as the man in silver armor slowly raised his sword, and Jason Belia had to fight back.

But facing a "level 1" seal specially designed to deal with the devil's "Apostle of Desire", he had no power to fight back. Swish, swish, swish, silver light flashed, and after a few encounters, his remaining nine fingers were broken at the same time, and the suitcase he was carrying fell to the ground with a bang.

Jason Belia's pupils suddenly shrank. Seeing that he could not win, he immediately used his unique "shadow" ability to prepare for escape and turned around to run. Countless silver rays suddenly burst out from his body, and the sticky black liquid covering his body surface fell to the ground like raindrops, and his whole body smoothly fell apart.

His limbs and internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and his blood was splattered on the ground, just like the bloodstains on his armor, like a blooming flower.

Leonard Mitchell, wearing the terrifying armor, took two steps forward with difficulty, looked at the broken bodies on the ground, and raised his voice and said:
"He's not completely dead yet!"

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Crows were circling in the air. In a quiet corner of the street, the space suddenly twisted slightly and Edward walked out.

He looked around, and there was no one around.

Amon and Him had just left the "villa with a glass greenhouse", where there was chaos. The mechanical heart with the symbol of the Steam Church had taken over the villa and controlled the situation. There were corpses everywhere, and there was a corpse of a powerful person who was protected in it. Just by looking at him, the devil could see countless entangled and complex sins and occult symbols. There was no doubt that it was Duke Pallas Nigan.

He died, and his death would become one of the chips that shifted the balance, and the world's turmoil would intensify. The Duke was assassinated, and coupled with the previous Intis spy incident, Rune had two excuses to start a war.

Edward took a quick look and soon saw human tissue scattered on the ground not far away. It seemed that a battle with Belia had just taken place here.

Severe injuries will affect crisis intuition and perception in all aspects, and mystical connections will make this low-order demon approach actively. At this point, there is no need to look for the other party's traces, just wait and see.

In order to hunt down the "Apostle of Desire", the three major churches blocked many places for search with various reasons, and this small street happened to be one of them. The crows flying in the sky consciously retracted their wings and landed on a clothesline near Him. Suddenly, they looked to the left at the same time.

In other words, look to the ground on the left.

The Abyss Angel took action. He drew a finger in the air, and a burning blue-black flame appeared out of thin air. The stone brick floor was cut open easily as if a hidden zipper had been opened. The hot lava at the edge caused the air to distort slightly. Then, He lifted his palm upwards, and the underground artificial building rose with a loud creaking sound. The location of the sewer platform instantly exceeded the ground.

The people below were also lifted up.

The granite platform was broken into pieces, twisted pipes and walls were exposed to the air and sunlight, and a shadow was wriggling as if it had life, avoiding the red lava.

Space is deceived, distance is stolen, shadows move left and right, always hovering in the same place.

However, the black shadow that should have been the main target seemed to have suddenly lost all value in the eyes of the Angel of the Abyss. He did not even glance at it, but continued to stare at the other direction.

He said in a deep voice: "Manifest yourself."

This sentence was not filthy, but it still carried unquestionable spirituality. This area polluted by demons immediately obeyed His command, allowing a hidden figure to appear before their eyes:

The pitch-black full body armor and black crown outline an extremely majestic figure.

Behind the figure, the weightless cloak swayed gently as he moved forward.

Not far away, Crow sensed a familiar breath and tilted his head curiously. In the corner behind Crow, a figure hidden in the darkness gently adjusted the monocle on his right eye.

Edward did not move, and the ghost of the "Black Emperor" whom he had seen once before seemed miraculously non-hostile. As soon as it appeared, it immediately dodged and retreated, trying to leave the area contaminated by the devil.

He asked in a low voice: "Klein?"

The ghost of the "Black Emperor" disappeared instantly without stopping.

Surprise. The demon heard a flash of emotion.

Although they have no physical body, this does not prevent high-sequence demons from monitoring various chaotic emotions.

It seems I guessed right.

He then looked at Belia, who was no different from a dead man. He heard the almost crazy fear and despair in his heart, as well as endless curses and prayers, and even some spineless pleas for mercy. Edward's mind moved, and all these extreme emotions were instantly ignited. The black shadow suddenly froze, and then slowly dispersed. The breath of life disappeared in an instant, and the spirituality was absorbed by him, leaving only a pool of black liquid like sewage.

Then, a shaky ball of light red light gradually emerged from the "sewage" and floated into the air.

"Amon." He ordered concisely.

A dim light flashed on the monocle of the figure in the shadow, and "fraud" and "grafting" were launched one after another. With the help of the Angel of the Abyss, the hidden deceitful mentor successfully and temporarily grafted the identity of "Jason Belia" onto Edward Vaughn. The originally shaky light of the talisman suddenly became bright again.

The object of the deception changes instantly.

From now on, the crisis intuition of the patriarch of the Belia family will become useless and he will not be able to sense the danger brought by "Edward Vaughn"!

Amon exhaled and transmitted his voice into the devil's ears:

"This is an angel-level shielding ability. I cannot deceive you with my status."

"With your help, I was able to succeed. But even so, the effect will probably only last for two hours."

The Abyss Angel nodded slightly: "That's enough, you did a good job."

"Thank you for your compliment. Can I start designing the gemstone jewelry I want now?"

"can."

Edward took out a glass bottle from the collection cabinet, crushed it in his hand, and vaguely heard a short woman's scream.

Blood flowed out from between His fingers, the Beyonder characteristics merged into His palm, and the fragments of glass turned into spiritual light spots and disappeared. After sacrificing a member of the Belia family, He immediately touched the ethereal mystical connection.

Complete and clear pictures and information emerged in his mind one by one. That was exactly where the Belia family was!

Don't worry, I'll kill you now... Edward was about to open the door and leave, but suddenly he raised his eyebrows and turned slightly.

A bloody sword wind whizzed past Him, blowing a few strands of His hair.

He looked expressionlessly in the direction where the sword wind was coming from, and saw a figure in silver-white armor stained with blood, holding a sword high, walking slowly towards him with heavy steps.

TBC
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Leonard meets Edward!
Lao Ai: Hehehehe, Beria, I’m going to kill your whole family.

Leonard: You want to leave without hitting me first?
(End of this chapter)