Odis's counterattack caught the "arsonists" somewhat off guard.
If they had known this guy would be so audacious as to charge at a Sequence 6, they should have attacked earlier and injured both of them.
But for the arsonists, there is no time to fight on two fronts; they can only break out as quickly as possible.
This gave Hugh and Odis an opportunity. With the help of the silver axe, Odis's "witchcraft" successfully struck the "arsonist," forming a layer of rust-colored slime on his body.
The arsonist suddenly felt his joints stiffen, and every movement became slow and laborious.
Whew~
He immediately summoned flames that burned all over his skin.
Besides burning the clothes, it was also burning the slime.
But Odis continued his attack, scattering a handful of blue powder that instantly filled the air with a cold, whirlwind, and even the flames summoned by the "Pyromaniac" dimmed.
The icy wind eventually swept towards one of the arsonist's legs, freezing it and completely eliminating any possibility of escape.
The "psychic" had been hesitant about returning to rescue the "arsonist," but after seeing the "arsonist" suffer repeated blows, he quickly abandoned the "arsonist" and followed closely behind the "conspirator," trying to break through the encirclement.
On the other side, Odis and Hugh caught up with the "arsonist," and Hugh pulled out a blue axe and threw it at the "arsonist."
The arsonist quickly summoned the Blazing White Spear and pinned the axe to the distance.
The ice bomb exploded, but the resulting ice did not affect the arsonist.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Odis quickly approached and scattered a handful of black powder. The powder instantly condensed in the air, forming seven small javelins, which were thrust towards the "arsonist".
The arsonist immediately summoned fire crows to block the attack. When the fire crows touched the javelins, they ignited the metallic javelins and halted their advance.
But then Odis sprinkled another handful of powder, and the seven flaming javelins seemed to receive a huge boost once again, dragging their flames as they pierced into the "arsonist's" face.
The arsonist quickly summoned a wall of fire to block him, but it was too late. All seven javelins pierced his body, some hitting his head, some his heart, and the other five hitting his chest and abdomen.
The arsonist grabbed the javelins with his two burning hands, trying to pull them out of his body.
But his body couldn't support him any longer, and he fell to the ground.
Only after the arsonist began to convulse did the javelins turn back into black powder.
Odis dragged "The Arsonist's" hair: "Let's go, let's meet up with Fors first."
At this moment, the arsonist's body was still burning with flames, but these flames could not harm the arsonist's corpse for the time being.
Gunshots rang out from the edge of the park, and the breakout attempt by the "conspirators" and the "psychics" began.
Odis had no intention of getting involved; he wanted to collect the spoils he had so far first.
...
Meanwhile, in the western suburbs of Backlund.
Whew~
A fire suddenly broke out in a remote forest, and then the fire grew larger, and three figures emerged from it one after another.
The flames then disappeared, and the surroundings became dark again.
The three people determined their direction and quickly ran towards a hill.
Suddenly, a woman's voice came from ahead: "Fire is forbidden here."
The three leaders at the front raised their hands, and suddenly, flames burst into flames around them.
However, these flames were affected by something unknown, and their burning intensity was not very strong.
The leader clenched his fists and roared, the flames on his body suddenly intensifying.
Whew~
Fires broke out in the surrounding woods, the flames growing larger and larger as if scorching something, until finally the "forbidden" sign was "burned down".
At this moment, the woman's voice said again, "This is a forest area; the arsonist should be punished!"
Behind the leader, whose body was engulfed in flames, appeared illusory leather whips covered in caltrops, lashing his back and instantly tearing his skin apart.
The leader seemed oblivious to the pain, laughing as he was whipped, "Georgina, when did your 'laws' become as weak as a tickle?"
"Did our sudden appearance here startle you?"
After the whip was lashed, the leader's back was left with a deep wound that exposed bone, but when a flame burned through it, the leader's back was completely healed.
Not far ahead, a woman dressed in an evening gown appeared; she was none other than Georgina Augustus, the demigod of the Loen royal family.
She smiled and said, "Chikov, haven't you realized that you've fallen into our ambush?"
The leader, named Chikov, smiled and said, "No, no, no, you've completely misunderstood the situation."
"Whether our actions succeed or not, it proves that there is a problem with the hill ahead."
"Let me guess, there must be an important building you secretly constructed hidden there, otherwise you wouldn't have set up an ambush here."
Chikov is one of the deputy directors of the "Berkenin Intelligence Bureau" of the Fusak Empire. Last month, the spy agency that "Berkenin" set up in Backlund, as usual, bought a piece of intelligence from an informant of "The Punisher".
This intelligence, once relayed back to headquarters, immediately caught the attention of the director.
It was only during a secret meeting that Chikov learned that the intelligence contained important information: the missing homeless man they had previously sent on a mission to find in Backlund had been secretly brought to the vicinity of this hill.
The director analyzed that there should be an important building secretly constructed by George III here, and a grand conspiracy being brewed by the Kingdom of Rune.
Chikov was then sent to Backlund to determine if there was an important building nearby.
After arriving in Backlund for some time, Chikov planned an attack on Hugh to draw the attention of MI9, while he personally led a team to investigate the area near the hill.
If their investigation goes smoothly, they will be able to determine whether that important building exists here.
But if they've fallen into an ambush, it means there's definitely something wrong here, and that important building is most likely nearby.
Otherwise, the Kingdom of Rune might have set up an ambush in the city, or conducted a city-wide search for Chikov, but they would not have set up an ambush in this desolate wilderness.
In other words, if there was nothing wrong with the hill, the Loen royal family wouldn't have known Chikov's objective and wouldn't have been able to ambush him there beforehand.
Chikov was prepared to risk his life to complete the mission.
Georgina, dressed in an evening gown, suddenly laughed and said, "You can look all you want, look as much as you like, because this is just an ordinary hill."
Chikov sneered: "Then may I ask, what are the demigods of the Loen royal family doing here on this 'ordinary hill' so late at night?"
"Of course I came to wait for you!" Georgina smiled. "We understood your intentions when we learned that you had people from Backlund investigating the missing homeless man."
They simply wanted to find out the approximate location of King George III's tomb by observing where the homeless people went.
Of course, the information about the mausoleum was very high-level; even Chikov didn't know what those "important buildings" represented.
"So we used that 'substitute' informant to release some information," Georgina explained patiently. "Now we're just waiting for you to verify it."
"When we learned that you were going to attack that MI9 informant named Hugh Deercha, we guessed that your operation was about to begin."
"So we waited for you here early on, and then we destroyed you here."
"This will make your superiors think that there must be something wrong with this hill."
"At the crucial moment, they will attack this hill, and then they will find there is nothing there."
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
"And we've already taken this opportunity to complete our plan..."
Chikov became increasingly alarmed as he listened, never imagining that it was all a trap set by the Runes.
He realized he had to break through and bring the news back.
Chikov, no longer caring about his two subordinates, immediately transformed into a ball of flame and flew away at top speed.
Georgina calmly placed a crown woven from thorns on her head, and then clusters of pure light appeared from the crown, eventually converging into a "sea of light".
A blazing white spear appeared in Georgina's hand. With a gentle toss, the spear flew out at a speed much faster than Bichkov, pinning the deputy director of "Berkenin," the "Iron Knight," to the ground.
Chikov yelled and tried to scorch the blazing white spear with his flames, but it was no use. The crown on Georgina's head was a level 0 sealed artifact held by the Loen royal family.
Georgina's "Darkless Spear" had the level of an angel, and Chikov, as a Sequence 4, was naturally unable to escape it.
Bang!
As the "Darkless Spear" exploded, Chikov was also blown to pieces.
Georgina immediately stepped forward, raised her hands high, and made a gesture of embracing the sun. A huge pillar of light descended, purifying the spirit of the "Iron Knight" amidst Chikov's shouts.
Five or six seconds later, the demigod's spirit disintegrated and completely disappeared from this world.
Afterwards, Georgina purified the spirits of Chikov's two subordinates, but she was still not satisfied, so she also wiped out the surrounding natural spirits before removing the crown from her head.
After several demigods of Rune left, and the place returned to darkness and silence, a phantom figure appeared on the hill.
That was Bernadette, who had been keeping a close eye on the matter. She possessed many secret techniques to conceal herself, and the demigods of the Loen royal family had not discovered her.
She glanced at the spot that had just been scorched by the intense light, and with a wave of her hand, a pair of illusory wings appeared behind Bernadette, enveloping her.
In the blink of an eye, the wings dissipated, and Bernadette vanished.
...
The park near Tutwa Street.
Odis and Hugh brought the "arsonist's" body to the park entrance. Fors, now armed with a metal crossbow, killed the enemy who had been wounded by the wooden spikes and Hugh's pistol.
Odis laid out the bodies of the "arsonist" and his four subordinates together, awaiting the release of extraordinary properties.
Several extraordinary characteristics began to emerge one after another. Just then, the people from 'Military Intelligence Bureau Nine' also came to search.
Upon seeing the extraordinary features of the land and the three men, including Odis, they immediately ordered their arrest.
Odis replied, "Send your team leader or section chief here."
These members of MI9 were merely low-sequence extraordinary individuals responsible for the perimeter search. Their purpose in arresting Odis and the other two was to seize those extraordinary traits so they could claim credit after the operation.
Upon hearing Odis's words, some of them recognized that this was actually their "leader".
Throughout Backlund's intelligence community, the "Leader" was very famous. So, after hesitating for a moment, these extraordinary individuals greeted Odis and the other two with smiles, and two of them quickly went to find their captain.
During the waiting period, five extraordinary properties were released one after another.
Odis said to Hugh and Fors, "Let's divide the spoils first."
"Based on the contributions made in this battle, I will choose the spoils first, Hugh second, and Miss Fors third."
Hugh and Fors had no objection to this.
So Odis, without hesitation, picked up the "Pyromaniac" extraordinary attribute that looked like a heart, Hugh chose a Sequence 8 extraordinary attribute, and Fors chose a Sequence 9 extraordinary attribute.
In the second round of distribution, Odis took one extraordinary property at the Sequence 8 level, while Hugh took the last extraordinary property at the Sequence 9 level.
In fact, when Fors was choosing her loot, she could have chosen the extraordinary trait at the Sequence 8 level, but she felt that she hadn't made any contribution, so she only took the extraordinary trait at the Sequence 9 level.
Faced with the three people dividing up the spoils, the surrounding members of MI9 could only stare helplessly, and none of them said anything to stop them.
There was nothing that could be done about it. The strongest member among them was only a Sequence 8, while the "leader" and the others had killed five Extraordinary Ones in the battle just now!
In the extraordinary realm, strength is always the best guarantee of security.
Having just divided the spoils, Danesi, the head of the operations section, arrived with a beaming smile: "'Chief,' thank you again for your help in eliminating five enemies for Rune."
"Please hand over their belongings to us, and I will definitely arrange a generous reward for you."
Odis retorted with a string of curses: "You idiot, did a dog promise me he'd protect Miss Hugh's safety?"
Darnesie's smile remained unchanged: "If you don't hand over those relics, I will write in my report that you colluded with the enemy to break our encirclement, allowing an important enemy to escape."
Although their conversation didn't seem to be about a single issue, they were actually talking about one thing: Darness wanted those extraordinary qualities.
Odis scolded him for breaking his promise, saying that the so-called generous reward was completely unreliable.
Danesi then began to threaten Odis, saying that if they did not hand over those extraordinary properties, he would accuse them of "treason."