Late at night on Knight Road, the bloody battle continued. The Hunters were constantly attacked by several flying bone blades. The Hunters, who were already generally injured when fighting the thugs before, had almost no power to parry these flying bone blades. They could only passively defend, and several people had already been cut down to the ground.
However, fortunately, because Grego correctly issued the order to retreat indoors, these bone blades, in order to keep the Hunters on the street, had to switch from main attack to main blockade. This reduced the defensive pressure on the Hunters. Although they couldn't enter the house, they could barely resist the attack of these bone blades.
Among them, Grego became the main force of resistance. More than half of the incoming blades were blocked and sent flying by him. Although he temporarily withstood the pressure, at this moment, he was also extremely annoyed in his heart.
'Damn it... Where is the guy manipulating these things hiding! I'm going to hack him to death!'
At this moment, Grego had already realized that these bone blades were obviously being manipulated by someone, and the manipulator was currently hiding in the dark, gradually blockading and eroding them. Once Grego's physical strength decreased and he could no longer efficiently block the bone blades, then all of them would die on this road.
Grego was extremely annoyed but had no way at all to deal with the hidden enemy. And equally anxious was Eilina, who had her rifle mounted on the balcony. She wanted to help her teammates below reduce pressure, but currently there was no one she could snipe. Those small bone blades flying everywhere had completely exceeded the limit of what she could hit.
Eilina looked around, wanting to find the location of the manipulator, but in this dark and chaotic environment, she couldn't find it at all. The sense of powerlessness from being unable to support her companions increasingly turned into deep anxiety.
'What should I do...?'
Compared to the Hunters' anxiety and panic, Geffrey, in the dark room, was much calmer. He looked indifferently at the Hunters below, fighting like trapped beasts, estimating how much longer that Stealth Shadow could last, and how much longer their defense could hold before collapsing.
"Not a bad Black Dog team, but this is the end..."
Geffrey was satisfied with the current battle situation. The only thing that made him feel a little unhappy was that he had previously manipulated a bone blade to chase down a flesh puppet that was as agile as a monkey, but unexpectedly, in the end, it still escaped his sight and ran away.
But that doesn't matter anymore. The manipulator of that flesh puppet wasn't who he was looking for. Now that it had run away dejectedly, it had no impact on the battle situation.
Just as Geffrey was thinking this, he suddenly saw under the Light not far away, a familiar figure standing there. It was precisely the flesh puppet he had lost track of before!
That flesh puppet did not run away as he had expected, but instead stood swaggering under the Light... dancing?
That's right, that flesh puppet was actually dancing! Dancing on this extremely bloody battlefield, and it was a very standard tap dance!
The cheerful dance steps tapped on the cobblestone floor. The young dancer's face was beaming with a joyful smile, as if he were truly performing on a stage. Looking at the dancer on the battlefield, Geffrey couldn't help but clench his hand.
"That guy... dares to provoke me?"
Looking at the dancing flesh puppet in the distance, Geffrey couldn't help but grit his teeth and mutter. It was obvious, this was a provocation, it was the manipulator of that flesh puppet provoking him.
On the face of that dancing young puppet, it seemed to be written: Come and cut me~ If you have the ability, keep coming and cut me~
'Do you want me to disperse more bone blades to chase you to relieve the Black Dogs? Dream on, I can take care of the Black Dogs with four blades, and I can take care of you with one blade!'
While thinking this, Geffrey controlled the bone blade that was previously chasing that flesh puppet to turn back and slash towards that flesh puppet. Geffrey could not tolerate anyone provoking him like this without fighting back.
Seeing the bone blade flying towards him again, the flying thief Corpse Puppet immediately stopped dancing, and ran away, starting to dodge the bone blade while running, just like before.
Because Dorothy herself had an overhead view and could see the trajectory of the bone blade, therefore, the flying thief Corpse Puppet didn't need to observe the bone blade and be ready to dodge like a normal person. He just needed to keep running. With the help of her vision, he dodged the bone blade much easier than a normal person.
Dorothy controlled the flying thief Corpse Puppet to dodge everywhere on the street, while that bone blade kept chasing closely behind him.
Unlike when dodging before, this time the flying thief Corpse Puppet almost always stayed within Geffrey's line of sight. Instead, he started moving around various covers, parkouring around various covers like fence gates, trash cans, streetlights, advertising stands, etc. Geffrey's vision was occasionally blocked by these covers, and the bone blade's pursuit was intermittent. This made Geffrey even more annoyed.
At this moment, Dorothy, on the dark rooftop, looked at the scene of the bone blade chasing below and smiled slightly.
'Just like this... take your time. Let me see from what angle you can see and from what angle you can't see...'
Manipulating the flying thief Corpse Puppet to lure the pursuing bone blade, Dorothy thought this in her mind. She wasn't controlling the flying thief Corpse Puppet to run around aimlessly, but was using covers to determine the blind spots in that Ghost manipulator's vision, to determine from what direction his gaze was coming from based on the blind spots!
When the flying thief Corpse Puppet hid behind a cover that the Ghost manipulator couldn't see, then the pursuing bone blade would show a slight delay. If he could see, it would slash over very smoothly.
If the Corpse Puppet hid to the left of the advertising stand and the bone blade showed a delay, then it proved that the manipulator's line of sight was from the right of the advertising stand. If it hid on the south side of a parked carriage on the street and the bone blade still stabbed over without any obstruction, then it proved that the manipulator's line of sight was not from the north side of the carriage. If he wanted to have an overall view, the manipulator's line of sight couldn't be low. It must be from a high place, upstairs.
By manipulating the flying thief Corpse Puppet to constantly shuttle around various covers, Dorothy could gradually obtain information about the opponent's field of vision based on the bone blade's reaction. When this information accumulated enough, Dorothy could calculate the source point of the opponent's vision, which was his hiding place.
Soon, Dorothy estimated that the Ghost manipulator was roughly located in a building on the south side of Knight Road, on the upper floors to the left of the battlefield. Next, Dorothy controlled the two bird corpse puppets circling in the air to fly to the designated location and begin reconnaissance. After a while, Dorothy saw behind the fourth-floor window of a building, a figure who was constantly focused on looking down.
"Finally found you..."
Seeing this scene, Dorothy controlled the two bird corpse puppets to observe the situation of that building, and found that the doors and windows were tightly closed, making it difficult to sneak in. Then, she controlled the bird corpse puppet to fly and land on the protruding Stone beam above that window, putting down what it was holding in its claws. It was a box of matches.
Next, the two bird corpse puppets opened the matchbox with their beaks, picked up a long match from inside. After one of them stepped on the matchbox and held it in place, the other one, holding the match, bit down on the match and turned its head to strike it against the side of the matchbox, lighting the match in its beak. A point of Light suddenly shone in the dark space.
At this moment, it was Eilina, who was looking around in a hurry on the balcony of 26, who suddenly saw on the building opposite to her right, a faint Light where it was originally dark.
"That is..."
Her attention was drawn. She activated her Extraordinary ability of "Lamp" and looked towards that direction, and then saw under the faint moonlight, the blurry figure behind the fourth-floor window, a figure who was looking down.
Seeing that figure, Eilina's expression froze for a moment, and then without thinking, she immediately raised the rifle in her hand, aimed at that figure and fired directly.
"Bang!"
Along with the fierce gunshot that pierced the night sky, the bullet from the barrel flew straight out, over the street where the battle was taking place. It shattered the window. Geffrey, who was manipulating the battle situation below, was thus hit in the chest by the flying bullet.