I'm an antique shop owner, so it's reasonable for me to know some magic

Chapter 540

"you……"

The man lying on the ground looked at Theresa with disbelief in his eyes.

The opponent was clearly swayed by the puppet's disguise, and even his chanting was affected. Why would he suddenly turn on him and kill him?

"You underestimate the will of a clergyman."

Theresa approached, looked down at the man, and remained expressionless.

"From the moment you turned them into puppets, they had no chance of being brought back to life, and no one knows that better than me."

“Using such despicable methods will only intensify my resentment.”

"It seems you're right."

The man felt the burning sensation in his body gradually disappear, and his thinking gradually became sluggish.

He knew he was only one step away from death.

"But don't think you've won, little girl."

"How many more attacks like this can your paper doll withstand? I won't be the last one to take your life."

"You... are now completely isolated and helpless."

The man's voice grew softer and softer, and with his last breath, his consciousness completely faded away.

Theresa didn't go to see him; instead, she returned to Anne's side.

The latter, protected by the paper figures, was not affected by the battle and remains in a coma.

"Thank you for taking care of me, you've worked hard."

She thanked the paper guards on one side, then turned to look at the other four paper figures.

"The battle is over. You can rest for a while."

Upon hearing Theresa's instructions, the paper figures nodded in unison, then their bodies rapidly shrank back to the size of a palm, and they floated down one after another into Theresa's palm.

After carefully putting them away, Theresa, carrying the paper figure holding Anne, quickly left the restaurant.

Due to the previous fighting, the area had already been cleared of people, which was a good thing for Theresa, who wanted to evacuate as soon as possible.

She went to a corner, took out her phone to call Su Fan, but couldn't get through.

"No signal?!"

Theresa was taken aback.

This place is clearly within a metropolitan area, not some remote, impoverished area, so how come there's no telephone signal?

She did not give up trying to contact them, but went to the nearest phone booth. As soon as she entered, she found that the phone line had been damaged.

Through the glass window of the phone booth, she noticed the unusually empty streets outside.

From the moment we left until now, there hasn't been a single car in sight.

You are now completely isolated and helpless.

An ominous thought began to cross her mind.

Theresa left the phone booth, looked around, and locked onto a three-story building not far away. With her body enhanced by holy power, she easily jumped onto the roof of the building with a running start.

Looking out from the high vantage point, the city within Theresa's field of vision seemed like a ghost town, devoid of any trace of human life or activity.

About a kilometer away, faint red and blue lights could be seen flashing.

Those are police lights mounted on the roof of the police car.

Meanwhile, the police officers who were walking down the street were continuously carrying out crowd evacuation work.

Theresa finally understood what the man meant by "isolated and helpless" before he died.

The forces operating behind the scenes managed to cut off her means of communication with the outside world by communicating with official London organizations. Her distress signal simply couldn't reach the destination she wanted to send.

As a foreigner, she could easily be rendered helpless in London with a little manipulation. Theresa had unknowingly become an isolated island, cut off from the outside world.

The icy wind stung her skin, but it also brought her back to her senses from her anxiety.

Her origin, which is Su Fan's manor, is about 40 kilometers away from her current location as the crow flies. If she were to pick up a car, it would take about half an hour to get there.

But now Theresa can only run on her own two feet, and she also has to be wary of enemies lying in ambush somewhere.

No, Su Fan's divine sense has a wide coverage area. It doesn't need to be forty kilometers. As long as he can get close to that area and make a slight noise, he will be detected...

After analyzing the current situation, Theresa jumped off the low building and walked along the street with the paper figure.

Generally speaking, if you want to avoid being recognized by others and arrive at your destination as discreetly as possible, you should choose narrow alleys between cities.

But their operation would be discovered sooner or later, and Theresa was more worried about being surrounded in the confined space than that.

"A wise choice. If you had gone down the side path, you would probably be dead by now."

A voice suddenly came from above, and Theresa looked up sharply to see who was speaking.

It was a mysterious man in a tuxedo, standing on a street lamp by the roadside, like a conductor of a symphony orchestra performing on stage.

Theresa's expression turned wary.

Before the other party spoke, I had no idea of ​​its presence. If it had intended to launch a surprise attack, I would probably have been caught off guard and in a flurry of activity.

"You just said I'm dead and my body is torn to pieces, what do you mean?"

"Take it literally."

The man looked down at Theresa.

“Wade… that is, the man you just dealt with, had already spread the news that the other man was seriously injured and unable to take care of himself before he made his move.”

“A considerable number of superhumans have now gathered in this area.”

"They all want to use former powerhouses as stepping stones to make a name for themselves."

Upon hearing this, Theresa couldn't help but scoff.

"What a joke. They should just go and challenge Su Fan himself. What do they want from me?"

"They wouldn't dare."

The man in the tuxedo seemed to find it amusing as well.

"Everyone was worried that the Lord of Storms and Thunder might have some hidden tricks up his sleeve, so no one dared to be the first to step forward."

Because they lack the courage to confront a powerful figure, even one whose power is waning.

However, they certainly had the guts to kill powerful women; in fact, they had a great deal of courage.

"So, this is why you came here too?"

"No, no, no, I was just responsible for helping to cordon off the area."

Faced with Theresa's questioning, the man in the tuxedo gently shook his head.

"The last time the cult blocked the building, it gave them an idea: if they wanted to do something that the secular world could not tolerate, all they had to do was build a door that the secular world could not break through."

"I was asked to come here to build and reinforce the barrier. Don't blame me, they gave me far too much."

The man in the tuxedo looked at Theresa with a hint of pity in his eyes.

He knew the other party was a clergyman from the Holy See, and he understood her innocence.

But so what? In the face of certain people's interests, even the most numerous lives are as worthless as rotten leaves in the mud.

The man in the tuxedo raised his hand and made a series of strange gestures, as if to set up a barrier to seal off the area.

However, after a series of attempts, nothing happened.

(End of this chapter)