CHAPTER 605: CHAPTER 527: KNOCKING DOWN THE WALL

The castle is located to the north of the town, with the shop and church to the east. Theoretically, this is the time to split up and explore the castle direction to confirm the situation there.

But it’s clear that the players have watched a lot of horror thrillers. Splitting up now is likely to truly get them split up.

Therefore, everyone did not disperse, but continued to quickly advance eastward together, while Reyes activated the Tattoo Fruit, peeling off an ink doppelganger from the skin on his chest.

"What the hell is that, so disgusting!"

Mian Yue’s shocked words were also what Wanli Sealed Blade and others thought in their hearts,

They saw Reyes’s ink doppelganger, a mass resembling a horsehair worm, two meters high, oval-shaped, with a pair of wings, four sturdy arms, and two legs disproportionately slender compared to its body.

"A universal tool, you know."

Reyes’s own expression was rather regretful; this tattoo design was initially his first love in his youth. Tattooed on the chest to signify lifelong love, then it predictably ended in a breakup.

To avoid awkwardness, he could only paint over the tattoo, using an angel figure from the Bible to replace it, which ultimately turned into this thing.

After being activated by the Tattoo Fruit, its Strength and Agility were just slightly stronger than an Ordinary person, but it excelled in having a greater range of action and stronger self-awareness than other tattoos.

It could fly in the sky, swim in the sea, sneak through doors, cook and clean, erase traces of bodies — its only drawback was its appearance being too outrageous, even Reyes himself would feel abstracted by it.

"Flap flap."

The angel tattoo fluttered its wings, connected to Reyes’s tattoo line like a tail, left the ground, and flew towards the north of the town.

Reyes pulled his hands, releasing ink, presenting the scene "angel" saw in animated lines.

As the angel quickly approached the castle, the castle’s perimeter had a circle of dried-up moats, with lifelike stone gargoyle statues placed at the top of the round towers.

As for the castle itself, its doors and windows were tightly shut, unable to find an entrance. Pressing "ears" against the frosted opaque windows, clear clanging echoes could be heard from inside.

Claudia reacted swiftly, "What’s that sound, Morse code?"

"No. The sound is too consistent, more like... chiseling walls?"

Wanli Sealed Blade instinctively turned to look at Mushroom King, and the others also realized it might be related to their preserved mission item, the Ice Axe... could it?

"I’ll try to pry open the window."

Reyes took a deep breath, remotely controlled the doppelganger, cautiously prying at the window. But because of the angel doppelganger’s legs being too weak and slender, it couldn’t stand on the window ledge to support itself, the attempts repeatedly failed.

Li Cheng saw this and said earnestly, "If you don’t train your legs in fitness, you’ll regret it sooner or later."

Wanli Sealed Blade glanced sideways, "Isn’t it ’soon you’ll face impotence?’"

Li Cheng shook his head decisively, "Of course not, I’ve got zinc tablets, Andes Mountain Maca, Compound Xuanju Capsules."

"?? You’re throwing in references now, huh?"

While joking around, the angel tattoo finally pried open the opaque frosted glass, but there was still a tightly sealed regular glass window behind it.

Through the window, you could clearly see the castle’s dusty floor, where an extremely abrupt surgical table with numerous brackets was placed.

On the brackets, a series of prisms, microscopes, control sticks, and medical mechanical hands were arranged.

Meanwhile, the astronaut named "Annihilation Device" by the system was holding an Ice Axe identical to Mushroom King and their mission item, smashing at a brick wall close to the metal dome lining the castle’s edge.

The players present all had their hairs standing on end, all Transcendents realized a fact — the two missions, escorting the astronaut and protecting the Ice Axe, ultimately actually led to the same destination.

"Clang clang clang!"

The astronaut swung the Ice Axe, dismantling the brick wall, revealing a narrow tunnel that had long existed behind it. He seemed to feel the gaze, raised his head, and saw the angel tattoo crouched at the window.

The astronaut paused and wasn’t scared by the angel tattoo but slowly and steadily gestured to the angel tattoo.

Mian Yue hesitated, "Is he..."

"He’s telling us to leave quickly." Wanli Sealed Blade’s expression grew severe, and in the next second, those stone gargoyle statues perched high on the castle towers began shaking, crumbling the stone covering their bodies, revealing complex mechanical bodies resembling the Alpha Python style.

"Oooh!!!"

Hundreds and thousands of stone gargoyles let out sharp shrieks simultaneously, flapping their wings fiercely to fly into the air. A beam of light breath instantly disintegrated the angel tattoo into ashes.

The bright light illuminated most of the town like broad daylight, pulling the players’ shadows long towards the street corner.

"Go!"

Wanli Sealed Blade shouted explosively, suddenly drawing the Dragon Slayer Sword from his waist, his left hand’s index and middle fingers combined, tapping on the sword’s spine seven times.

Zap zap zap zap zap zap zap—

The fierce Sword Qi surged from the Dragon Slayer Sword, Gang Qi scattered and permeated, transforming into ephemeral sword shadows suspended around Wanli Sealed Blade.

The sword followed his will, with over a hundred Gang Qi sword shadows soaring skyward, charging directly at the mass of diving stone gargoyles.

The mechanical stone gargoyle’s basic physical qualities were approximately Level 15 Close Combat Extraordinary, with a few stone gargoyles reaching Level 20.

Wanli Sealed Blade frantically stimulated Gang Qi; the sword shadows sliced through the stone gargoyle’s surface, sparking dense fire stars.

"Their hardness is comparable to the Alpha Python; directly attack the cables beneath the exoskeleton!"

Brother Xiao Dao shouted a reminder, as in the air, stone gargoyles were densely packed, with large ones spreading wings as shields in the front, allowing companions in the rear to gather breath for an attack.

Mian Yue, who was sprinting wildly, kicked off the ground with rabbit legs, twisted the bunny waist in mid-air, and drew a bow to shoot a series of vine arrows.

The arrows quivered rapidly as if possessing self-awareness, veering and dodging the front obstacles, precisely piercing through the sturdy neck metal support pillars of stone gargoyles in the rear, lodging into the cables behind the support pillars.

Bang!

The vine arrows exploded simultaneously, fireworks blooming, and dozens of stone gargoyles spiraled downward.

"Nicely done!"

Claudia, who was releasing Black Magic, couldn’t help but praise, "What skill is that?"

"Not a skill, just Shaking Arrow Technique."

Mian Yue’s ears twitched (rabbits primarily rely on their ears for cooling), gasping heavily, and strangely a simple round of attack had consumed several times more Qi Power than usual.

She had no energy to explain further, Li Cheng quickly said, "Simply put, it’s about adjusting the arrow shaft angle, not pointing at the target while moving the arrow feathers from the tail to the front section, allowing the arrow surface to receive stronger airflow pressure, pushing the shaft to rotate around its center of mass during flight, automatically adjusting pitch and ascent angles.

Thus achieving the effect of the arrow bending once, twice, or multiple times.

I know an archer named Cupid, who I’ve heard has been practicing this archery lately."

???

Goodness, the culprit responsible for the plummeting marriage rates in recent years has been found.

Li Cheng chatted idly while keeping his eyes on the glowing lines on his arm representing Physical Value, watching the decrement with concern,

He spat out Dragon Breath in the air, Claudia released Acid Rain Black Magic, Hundred Feet controlled stone gargoyles to collide with each other using Telekinesis, as all players retreated while maintaining a defensive line,

All Transcendents were gasping heavily, and their Physical Value was rapidly decreasing at a speed far beyond normal.

At the critical moment, a two-story wooden shop abruptly opened, the shopkeeper wearing a cowboy hat and chewing on a toothpick, held a revolver-style machine gun connected to a gas bottle, sweeping at the stone gargoyles high above.

Strangely, the revolving machine gun fired not live ammunition but gas-encased blank rounds that didn’t hurt or itch, yet managed to make them extremely fearful and heavily retreat.

The cowboy shopkeeper spat out the toothpick, impatiently saying, "What are you waiting for, get in here quickly."