CHAPTER 91: CHAPTER 22: THE CHIMES OF REALITY

The Lady of the House’s invisibility ability was completely exposed at this moment.

As she once again faded into the shadows, Jason’s figure lunged forward, his strides causing the entire corridor to tremble. With a thunderous roar, two flying axes struck like lightning, smashing the thick walls to pieces.

This terrifying brute force was hair-raising. Jason swung the chain around with a sweeping motion, shattering a heavy wall and leaving a massive crack nearly half a meter deep and over ten meters long.

This was the power of berserker’s rage.

Jason’s entire skin turned blood-red, his veins bulging viciously on the surface, his heart pounding intensely, and the furious flow of blood caused a faintly discernible blood-colored steam to rise from his figure.

Every step he took left clear footprints on the hard stone slabs. When he began to run, it was as if the rumbling thunder caused one’s heart to tremble.

Chains, tearing through the air, like a peal of thunder.

When the sharp axe Jason wielded was about to strike the Lady of the House, her figure began to eerily blur as if she were a spiritual body not existing in the realm of reality. The blade that could have completely bisected her passed right through her body, crashing heavily into the ground.

The Lady of the House’s figure leaped among the shadows.

Her massive form shifted between solid and ethereal. When she emerged from the shadows, she had transformed from a spiritual body into a flesh-and-blood entity.

The Lady of the House single-handedly contended against several Death Pilgrims without being at a disadvantage!

Suddenly.

A murky beam of negative energy in the darkness struck forth.

The Lady of the House’s shadow-leaping figure suddenly froze in place, regained movement in an instant, yet her body began to mutate. Within her bulging veins, boiling blood surged and gushed from wounds with abandon. Her surface skin cracked open, and massive amounts of blood were forced out, coursing along the capillaries, within seconds turning the Lady of the House into a blood-soaked half-human, half-spider.

Underfoot, the spreading blood expanded massively, its nauseating stench and heavy metallic smell encompassed the entire battlefield.

——Blood Draining Technique (7th Circle)

A necromancy school spell struck the Lady of the House, forcibly expelling more than half of the blood from within her body.

In an instant!

The Lady of the House appeared deathly pale, her figure wavering, as the massive blood loss rendered her weak.

In the darkness.

A vague, indistinct silhouette appeared, impossible to discern its gender, only the cold wind of death could be felt.

"Necromancer..."

The most cruel and domineering wizard school of the Bizarre Realm, they are all Living Dead, not meant to exist in the Realm of Reality.

The opponent came for her, with undead entering the Realm of Reality.

The Lady of the House’s expression changed, from just now daring to fight Jason and his group, in an instant she bolted away. Her black spider lower half scuttled through the corridor, leaping along the vertical walls, seemingly intending to break through the encirclement.

——Lament of Wraiths (6th Circle)

A pale arm extended forth from the darkness, devoid of any blood, like a dead person’s palm. It lightly clenched into a fist, followed by a piercing wail. One after another, evil spirits emerged in the corridor, shrieking as they transformed into dark mist, chasing the Lady of the House’s figure. As they touched her, negative energy imbued with death corroded her fleshly life. One could see her wide swathes of pale skin beginning to age and wither.

Death was stripping away all the life force she possessed as a living being!

The enemy was a powerful Corpse Witch.

The shadows writhed.

The Lady of the House’s figure dissolved within the shadow, her skin losing its luster, grayish, like a moving shadow, even her lower spider body turning into a mass of twisted shadow.

Her flesh disappeared.

She became a menacing shadow clinging to the wall, like writhing black sludge, slipping into the darkness.

"Law of the Shadows..." a hoarse male voice sounded.

Behind Jason, a man resembling a mummy appeared, gazing at the Lady of the House’s fleeing figure, and said in a deep voice, "Pursue her. She won’t get far."

Bang.

A dull roar emanated from afar.

Shawn instantly raised his hand to summon an Invisible Servant, positioning it protectively before him.

"Careful!"

The surrounding shadows seemed to come alive as Shawn fixed his gaze on the corridor ahead. He saw a menacing, twisted shadow approaching, a monster devoid of flesh, only a shadow, presenting the silhouette of a half-human, half-spider.

At Shawn’s warning.

Benjamin’s figure shot forth in an instant. At that moment, Shawn heard the ticking of the Grand Pendulum Clock.

Everything around seemed to undergo a change.

It was as though Benjamin existed in a different time point than Shawn, seeing Benjamin’s figure flash like a slide projection, an astounding speed beyond human visual capture.

A silver Flowing Light streaked through the darkness, accompanied by erupting sparks. The Lady of the House’s figure leapt from the shadow. With a glistening snake-shaped dagger clashing against Benjamin’s wielded silver Flowing Light, in the instant they crossed paths mid-air, there was only a spurt of flying blood.

A deep, bone-revealing gash appeared on Benjamin’s chest, while one leg of the Lady of the House’s enormous dark spider lower half was severed.

"Deceitful Technique...it’s you again!..." the Lady of the House emerged from the shadow.

Her murmuring voice was hoarse and low, infused with frenzied hysteria.

Clang!

Amidst the erupting sparks, Benjamin’s agile figure leapt forward, completely ignoring the Lady of the House’s attack. In the split second of their encounter, he pointed with his left hand, intending to pierce the heart of the enemy before him.

The Lady of the House instinctively swerved to avoid.

Her flesh trembled!

In the brief moment when they brushed past each other, the wound on Benjamin’s chest vanished, while a horrifying wound appeared on the Lady of the House’s waist and abdomen, nearly identical to what her own hand’s snake-shaped dagger had inflicted.

"The captain’s wound transferred to the enemy!" Shawn’s pupils narrowed slightly.

The last confrontation.

Benjamin had only transferred the enemy’s wound to a vital heart area, but this time he actually transferred his own wound onto the enemy’s body.

At present, there were no wounds on Benjamin’s body, only a trace of lingering blood.

The Lady of the House’s figure swiftly retreated.

Benjamin’s bizarre ability made her dread deeply, and the additional wound on her waist and abdomen area made her movement slightly inconvenient. Upon sensing that there were more enemies approaching from the other end of the passage, she hesitated not and fled into another corridor.

"Chase!" William and Lucy’s figures pursued.

Shawn kept pace, but suddenly he turned his head to glance at Gemma standing motionless at the original spot, then silently retracted his steps.

This level of battle was not something he could interfere with.

Gemma hadn’t joined the fight, and Shawn definitely should not rashly step in. As for William, the Warrior Path is inherently stubborn-headed.

A hunt was already closing in.

With the Lady of the House’s whereabouts exposed, the High Tier Night Watchers and Death Pilgrims present were pressing towards the battlefield. Her struggle now was just a dying beast’s last gasp; her downfall was only a matter of time.

At the deepest part of the dim passage.

Tick tock, tick tock.

The Lady of the House’s blood had almost run dry within her body. That Necromancer had directly dispelled more than half of her blood. Had she not transformed into a monster, she might have perished on the spot. The blood draining left her feeling incredibly weak; her life was entering a countdown.

"Time is almost up."

"They’ve all been lured over!"

"Children... Go on..."

The Lady of the House’s massive and sinister figure curled within the shadows, whispering toward the spiders crawling on the ground.

Like an echo of whispers.

In an instant, the entire sewer area saw a massive swarm of spiders begin to crawl outward, directly ignoring the Night Watchers entering the sewer, pouring toward the surface world. Crawling from various corners and crevices to the surface, soon, the screams of terrified pedestrians echoed all around.

"Spiders!"

"So many spiders!..."

Pained cries rang out, and these tainted spiders started indiscriminately attacking the passersby, accompanied by fierce gunfire as more than ten large spiders, each over a meter long, climbed out of the sewer and pounced upon the crowds, biting everything madly.

"Monster!..."

A stunned pedestrian shivered all over, hurriedly dropping his belongings to flee.

Within the underground passage.

The sound of approaching footsteps surrounded the area completely, the Lady of the House’s frantic gaze seemed to find trace calm. She looked at Benjamin advancing from afar and revealed a pale, slightly mocking smile.

Rumble!

A violent explosion sounded.

The Lady of the House had planted explosives here, and amidst the explosive roar, her wounded figure darted out like a writhing shadow, crawling through the collapsed sewer. Under the sunlight, a ghastly monstrous humanoid appeared before the world’s eyes.

She bore a pale and bewitching face, her elongated torso soaked in blood, covered in scars. Her abdomen received three bullet hits, her back five. The wounds caused by bullets no longer oozed blood, leaving only a sheet of gray-blue flesh. Her lower body was a gigantic black spider with a diameter of about three meters, with sharp mouthparts full of dense fangs. On either side of her split head were three pairs of peculiar, cloudy compound eyes, with wounds of all sizes covering the spider’s body, from which filthy dark green liquid flowed continuously.

This horrifying scene left everyone nearby utterly shocked!

The Lady of the House laughed wildly, looking at those stunned in terror as they fled recklessly, she darted toward the Grand Pendulum Clock ahead.

The whole street echoed with the piercing screams of terrified people.

Fear spread throughout Dorne City!

Dragging her mangled body, the Lady of the House left a trail of filthy blood on the ground, then climbed up the towering Grand Pendulum Clock. Her entirely warped body became more and more like a ghastly humanoid spider, leaving scratches on the solid wall under the spider’s sharp claws. Her unrestrained laughter resonated throughout the Grand Pendulum Clock’s vicinity, heard and seen by an increasing number of ordinary people.

A crisp sound of shattering glass.

The Lady of the House used her arm that had grown bone spurs to smash the Grand Pendulum Clock’s glass cover, opening her mouth to spit resilient spider silk, directly wrapping the clock’s hands, moving them to the twelve o’clock position. Then she exerted all her strength, the spider silk tugging the clock emitted a reverberating clang.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The bell of the Grand Pendulum Clock echoed across Dorne City’s skies, the Lady of the House’s hysteria restored to calm at this moment.

The bell echoed heavily.

Everyone seemed attracted by the bell, involuntarily looking toward the Grand Pendulum Clock, witnessing the Lady of the House fully deformed and out of control. Her flesh started to melt as if an indescribable horror descended.

"President."

"I did not disappoint you... I have struck Dorne’s alarm bell..."

Bang.

The Lady of the House’s skull suddenly shattered, a bullet penetrating her head, leaving a half-meter deep crater on the Grand Pendulum Clock.

Amidst innumerable terrified screams.

A dreadful half-human half-spider monster, from Dorne City’s most conspicuous building, the top of the Grand Pendulum Clock, plummeted downward.

At this moment.

Reality was torn apart, tens of thousands witnessed the true, cruel side of the Bizarre Realm firsthand.

This scene like a nightmare, will be forever etched in their memory.

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