New Gods of North America.

Chapter 447 Change
Wayne didn't know much about magic circles.
But as the saying goes, "long illness makes a good doctor." Even if people are not clear about the specific principles, as long as they have seen enough and are not dead, they will naturally gradually form their own understanding of many things.

At this moment, Wayne's spiritual intuition suddenly gave him a warning.

And the "taste" he actually felt did not seem to be consistent with the so-called "life" realm.

How should it be described?
It was a bit like drinking spicy food in sugar water. Wayne was sure that there was power from the "sacred" realm mixed in it. To be more specific, it was very similar to the condition of the "Light of Dawn" statue before it caused the abnormality.

At this moment, it seemed as if a hurricane had suddenly blown up in the basement, and the things inside seemed to be just shaking in place, but Wayne had not even stepped into the range of the magic circle, and he felt that the extraordinary power in his body seemed to be quickly taken away by the airflow blowing across his skin.

"Don't move! Stop all resistance!"

After issuing the ultimatum, Wayne saw "Macken Reeve" grinning with his mouth full of black water, smiling silently at him miserably, so he raised his hand and shot him.

The magic circle has been activated at this time, and the mysterious symbols drawn inside seem to be connected to a circuit. In the vision of simple lines, they begin to connect to each other to form various lines that are uncertain, straight or curved.

And then it quickly brought “McCann Reeve” into the mix, and all that extraordinary material.

Macken Reeve was shot in the chest, and then in the center of his head, but he still stood there, not even raising his hand to wipe the black blood from the bullet hole:

"This body is too weak to hold my soul.

"But do you know what the advantage of the weak is? They are often more sensitive to the arrival of danger, just like a child who is often bullied. Just by looking at the eyes and tone of voice, he can know whether he should hide as soon as possible or keep silent.

"His extraordinary ability seems to have been born from this. Although I can only sense it vaguely, your presence is obvious enough. It is so obvious that I can even sense when you are thinking about taking action."

Seeing that the development of the situation was beyond his expectations, Wayne also realized that he was being "attacked and rescued" by the other party.

The routine is simple, but even if Wayne is given another chance, his choice probably won't change. All he can do is optimize some of the practices.

Even if you later confirm that what you heard was genuine false information, it can still be used to "eliminate wrong answers" when time is critical.

However, at this point, Wayne had no time to argue with "McKen Reeve". Seeing that he had failed to kill him even after shooting him in the head, Wayne quickly trotted along the edge of the magic circle, trying to pull Emma out of the sack.

Connor on the other side saw Wayne's actions and took action at the same time, running towards Damon McQuaid who was lying on the other side.

At this time, there seemed to be a huge gravitational force and repulsive force in the magic circle at the same time. The spiritual pressure was like a strong wind blowing out continuously, resisting Wayne's entry, but also fixing the connected part of the "loop" firmly in place.

Wayne pulled the sack with difficulty, but he saw that the force acting on it was a little beyond his ability and he was almost unable to drag it.

The strange thing is that according to Macken Reeve, Emma and Damon MacCready should be the "main materials" in the ritual, but there are not many "lines" connected to them at this time.

Wayne could only try his best to save the situation. He fired several shots at the "lines" he saw, and the tension on the sack seemed to be alleviated.
So the remaining demon hunting bullets all hit the magic circle, some hit the sack containing Emma, and some hit Damon MacCready. Emma was also trying to save herself. When she noticed that Wayne couldn't drag the sack by himself, the expression on her face quickly changed from a smile of rescue to surprise.
Then Wayne saw the little girl's head fall from the sack like a ball with a golden ponytail, and rolled to the wall.

You can't just turn your head...

Fortunately, after a part of the "line" connecting the two people was broken, the power received in the magic circle also decreased sharply.
They were pulling the sacks on one side and dragging the people on the other, and they managed to pull these two guys out of the range of the magic circle.

Wayne had already reacted by now, and was busy reloading his bullets while also talking to "Macken Reeve" to try to attract his attention:
"The 'sacrifices' and extraordinary materials that you and your accomplices prepared in advance are all real, which means that according to your original plan, you were indeed going to initiate the so-called 'Life Alchemy' ritual.

"But after you noticed us coming, you knew that the ritual would definitely be disrupted, so you changed the magic circle?"

After the two were dragged out of the range of the magic circle, the magic circle on the floor seemed to still be running. The "McKen Reeve" with a bullet hole on his forehead had become a semi-floating state under the influence of spiritual pressure.
The lines in the magic circle connecting "McKenn Reeve" and the extraordinary materials are becoming chaotic at a speed visible to the naked eye, looking a bit like a thunderstorm with a controlled range.

The "McKen Reeve" in the middle of the magic circle seemed to be absorbing the spiritual power contained in the extraordinary material.
The skin on his body began to crack and fall off, revealing the grayish-white flesh underneath and countless eyes that gradually opened.

"You are very smart. I did have to change my plan temporarily. The birth of a complete life takes time. Since you won't give me this opportunity, let's face the danger together. As long as I can survive, I don't mind if I become a monster."

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Wayne didn't wait for him to completely change his form, he just shot when he had almost enough bullets.
The suspended body of "McKenn Reeve" began to shrink upwards, part of it decayed and fell off, and the rest gathered into a ball of flesh.
At first, the bullet could damage some of his flesh, but later it was as if it had hit the plasticine, and then the bullet tip would be "squeezed out".

"Tentacles" gradually grew from the top of the meat ball, going against the trend along the originally illusory "lines" towards the location of the extraordinary materials in the magic circle. The spiritual pressure in the magic circle gradually weakened, but Wayne's spiritual intuition of danger gradually increased.
In the end, "McCann Reeve" looked a bit like a pineapple. His main body was a round fleshy ball covered with eyes. Its size seemed to be slightly larger than a person rolled into a ball. Eight tubular tentacles grew on the top of his head, extending from the top of the "pineapple" to the ground, supporting the main body in mid-air.

Wayne actually thought it was more like a 3-meter-tall spider, but he felt that Peter might not agree with this aesthetic, so he changed the adjective slightly.

Unfortunately, even though it had turned into a grey ball of flesh, "McKenzie Reeve" still seemed to be in bad condition. The surface of the ball of flesh was almost covered with black and white eyeballs, which were constantly bursting, healing, and opening again, and black juice was dripping continuously.

Then one of the tentacles stabbed towards Wayne, but the speed was not too fast. If it were in the detective agency's arena, it would probably be a one-sided attack.
Wayne dodged the attack easily and fired a shot at the tentacle. The diameter of the tentacle was close to that of sugarcane, and the demon hunting bullet could only make a hole the size of its caliber but could not break it, and the hole would heal quickly afterwards.

Connor over there seemed to be dealing with it easily. After jumping away a little, he continued to drag Damon MacCready towards the wall.

But the two accomplices of "McKen Reeve" were in trouble.
On the premise that they do not leave the ground at the same time, the eight tentacles can move separately. Another tentacle can directly "step" on the accomplice who is not dead yet while moving. Then the body of this accomplice will quickly deflate like the body of another accomplice, like a soup dumpling with a straw inserted.

There was also a hollow sigh in the air:

"Ah... fresh vitality, so delicious."

(End of this chapter)