ragginovel Chapter 561: Shocking Change
Chapter 561: Shocking Change
Chapter 561 A Shocking Change
At the same time, in the organ room.
Everyone who went to chase Nancy finally arrived here.
But in fact, even Nancy herself didn't know why she fled here. Perhaps it was because the part of her that still existed and belonged to "Maria" was still lingering here and calling her faintly.
In any case, this room is a dead end, and Nancy is trapped here by everyone.
She had her back to the door and didn't move.
She was obviously unwilling to face Andre, but it was undoubtedly futile.
"Maria..." Andre ignored the other four people behind him and just walked forward, calling his lover's name.
"I said... I'm not who you think I am..." Nancy's tone became weak, completely different from her usual carefree auntie tone.
Andre was silent for two seconds, then asked, "Who do you think I should consider as that person?" He paused and looked at Mrs. Venusa on his shoulder, "Her?"
"Why not?" Nancy responded. "If everything goes well, you will be a perfect match, right?"
"I see..." Andre quickly understood what Nancy meant, "You want to find a so-called 'matching' replacement for me... to replace you, right?"
Andre's guess was indeed correct. Maria, who had been trapped in chaos for a hundred years, had her flesh and blood cast into an organ by Hugo, and her soul reshaped into the monster Nancy. Her last remaining obsession was still the hope that Andre could be resurrected and be with his beloved.
So, just like a hundred years ago, Hugo once again deceived and used Maria: he made Maria believe that as long as she followed his instructions, Andre, who was "reborn" with Philibert's body, would become the lord of the city in the future, and Andre could live happily forever with Maria's "substitute".
As for the candidate for this "substitute", it is naturally the only female descendant of the Raymondo family who is currently of the right age.
Although Maria is not Venusa's direct ancestor, the two of them share the same blood, and their connection is definitely closer than that of strangers. Before this, Mrs. Venusa always dreamed of past events that did not belong to her. In fact, it was because Nancy was by her bedside, affecting her dreams and memories.
Of course, these cannot change anything in essence, they are just Hugo's delaying tactics.
"I don't understand what you are saying, but my wife is still on that monster's shoulder." At this point, Coleman couldn't stand it anymore. He interrupted the conversation between Andre and Nancy and said, "We are at least four to one here. How about saving her first?"
“Shut up!” But before Tyrell and the others could respond to Coman’s words, Andre turned around and shouted, “She’s not a monster! She’s my wife!”
As soon as these words were spoken, the other people in the room were all in awe.
Coman was also speechless. After all, he didn't know what was going on between Andre and Maria. In his eyes, the handsome man in front of him was the vampire "Philibert" who came to his castle to kill people and kidnapped his wife a few months ago. He didn't understand why this guy fell in love with the ugly monster in front of him who was as strong as a mountain... It was really inexplicable.
"Enough!" After hearing Andre's words, Nancy finally turned around.
She moved her huge, oppressive body and came to Coman, gently put Mrs. Venusa down from her shoulders, and said, "I'm sorry, poor man, take your wife back."
Now, Koeman is even more at a loss...
If I had to describe how he felt at the moment, it would be like playing a game where the protagonist had to go through levels to save a princess, and then after going through untold hardships, he finally arrived in front of the BOSS and was ready to fight him for three hundred rounds...but the other party actually surrendered and let the princess go.
"Andre..." Nancy didn't care about how Coman reacted. She turned around and came to Andre. "I have done too many wrong things. My hands are stained with the blood of innocent people. I am so ugly that I can't even look at myself... I have no face to call myself your wife anymore."
As she said these words, her body began to shrink rapidly. By the time she finished speaking, the huge monster Nancy had disappeared, and in her place was a thin old woman who looked extremely old.
Maria was still wearing her gorgeous long dress, but beneath the dress, her body had withered like a corpse; her skin had turned a deathly gray, and her once beautiful face now looked more terrifying than a skeleton, as if someone had already lived beyond the normal human lifespan, but the signs of aging continued to accumulate and intensify on her face, eventually turning it into this half-human, half-ghost appearance.
But Andre looked at the ugly "monster" in front of him, and took her hand: "No, Maria, you haven't changed at all, just like when I first saw you..." He choked up and said this, paused, and then said, "Besides, in terms of the sins committed, I am the same as you... Whether intentionally or unintentionally, we are people who should not stay in this world... But before we pay for our sins, there should be something we can do, at least... We have to help those demon hunters get rid of the demon Hugo forever."
When the two said these words, Coman had already picked up Lady Venusa and retreated to the door, standing with Tyrael, Roman, and Balder.
"I say... although you have rescued your wife, are you going to avenge your men next?" Tyrael asked Coman quietly.
"Well... let's wait and see..." Coman said casually, obviously he had no such intention.
After all, a 17th century Eastern European lord like him didn't particularly care about the lives of his subordinates. His main goal was to rescue his wife and lift the curse on his son.
Now that the lady has been rescued, and judging from the atmosphere, Andre and Maria seem to be ready to die with Hugo. The curse will naturally be lifted at that time, and Coman will definitely not be stupid enough to cause trouble at this time.
To take a step back... he personally doesn't have the ability to cause trouble, and those demon hunters may not obey his orders, so why should he create more trouble?
"Everyone, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Andre Kroitulu, and this is my wife Maria." Unexpectedly, before they could say anything, Andre, who had just reunited with Maria, turned around and said to them, "Although it may be hard for you to believe, the young man in the banquet hall just now is 'Philibert Belmondo', and... he and the two Eastern demon hunters have previously made a plan with me, and now I need your help."
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At that time, the banquet hall.
Gunshots rang out and blood flew.
Hugo, who was too proud of himself, had not yet finished his words when a pistol shot a hole in his heart. He staggered and almost fell to his knees.
"Well - this..." Although Hugo knew that there were things like guns and cannons in the world, he did not expect to be tricked like this at this time and place.
Of course, with his strength, he wouldn't be killed by just one bullet.
The next second, he turned his head and glared at Sun Yixie who fired the shot.
But Brother Sun had already thrown away the short gun that took half a day to reload after each shot, and slipped to the left rear of Hugo by moving diagonally, and raised his halberd to stab.
Hugo's reaction was also extremely fast. Even though he had just been shot in the back, he was still able to swing his sickle to block the shot.
pong——
At that moment, the halberd and the sickle were evenly matched, which showed that Hugo's weapon was definitely not an ordinary one.
However, equal weapons do not mean equal strength of the people. After the confrontation between the two, the trident was fine, but Sun Yixie himself was so shocked that his blood boiled and he was flung several feet away on the spot.
It was at this moment that Huang Donglai, who was approaching from another direction, took the opportunity to slide and was already at Hugo's feet.
Huang picked up the two inscribed flying knives that Hugo had pulled out and thrown away before, raised his hand and chuachuaed twice, throwing the knives towards Hugo's crotch, or to be more precise - groin.
Even if Philibert could use this kind of attack, he would not do it, but Huang Donglai could do it.
If a flying knife is stuck in your chest, can't you just pull it out with your hand? Well, then I'll try to find a place that's not so easy to pull out, and try to stick the flying knife deeper, so that even if you can pull it out, it won't be that convenient.
Hugo had never suffered such a low profile in his life, and being attacked by Shuangxie with such a series of moves today was an eye-opener.
At this moment, when the wind broke, Hugo felt a chill in his crotch.
Huang Donglai's skills in concealed weapons are really amazing. Both of his knives penetrated deeply into Hugo's groin at a very tricky angle. That position... Let's put it this way, if Hugo wanted to pull it out again, he couldn't do it while standing. He had to lie down, stick his butt out, and use his backhand... Anyway, he couldn't complete this action in a fight.
"Ah!" After a moment, not knowing whether it was out of pain or anger, Hugo roared and chopped down Huang Donglai on the ground with his sickle again.
Crack——
But just as he raised his sickle to a high point, Philibert, who had come back to attack him, whipped him and entangled him to death, preventing him from falling.
During the few seconds that Hugo and Philibert were wrestling, Huang Donglai had already slid away like a loach.
Hugo gnashed his teeth when he saw this. His sarcastic London accent disappeared, leaving only an angry, trembling voice: "You think... you can use these despicable means..."
puff--
This time, before he could finish his words, Sun Yixie, who had landed and ran back again, shot him with a "lime pill" in a very obscene way.
The exploded lime powder immediately covered Hugo's face, burning his eyes with severe pain.
"what--"
This time, he was completely in a state of madness. After a wild roar, he raised his sickle and jumped into the air.
When Philibert saw that something was wrong, he quickly shook the whip and took it back.
Sure enough, the next second, Hugo held the scythe sideways and began to rush around in the air like a headless fly, destroying everything around him indiscriminately with the fierce scythe wind.
For a moment, in the banquet hall, except for the five-pointed star chandelier protected by the "light array", all other furniture and furnishings were blown away like a whirlwind, and the marble pillars and the ground were also cut into countless cracks by the violent sickle winds.
Even Philibert couldn't completely dodge this kind of attack. He could only run behind some thicker pillars and hide like Shuangxie.
But Hugo's attack did not stop there. After he charged several times like this, as the surface of his eyeballs was burned out, his vision gradually recovered. Then he found that he still hadn't killed anyone, so he immediately urged his new move, summoning beams of light rising from the ground and directly attacking the three people hiding behind the pillars.
But Philibert and Sun Huang became more and more courageous as the battle went on. Not only did they dodge the light beams quickly and safely, they also formed a triangular encirclement again in the process of dodging and jumped up to launch a joint attack on Hugo in the air.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Hugo quickly lowered his body to avoid the attack, but unexpectedly... Philibert, who had already jumped into the air, suddenly shouted again and used his strongest move as a demon hunter. A cross of light suddenly appeared behind him, and the force generated by it pressed Hugo to the ground, causing him great pain.
Immediately afterwards, Huang Donglai sat on Hugo's face with a "Taishan Pressing Down the Top" move, and Sun Yixie's trident pierced into Hugo's heart almost at the same time.
Hugo, who had been unable to heal himself due to the two inscribed flying knives in his body, was finally beaten to the point of losing the ability to move.
“Ha…hahahaha…hahahaha…”
However, even though his body was broken and he looked like he was on the verge of death, he laughed out loud once again.
He collapsed to the ground, looking at Philibert, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai who had gathered around him and were looking down at him, and he spoke again in his sinister tone: "This time... you win."
"Oh? Do you think you will have a next time?" Huang Donglai said.
"You're overthinking it, you bastard." Sun Yixie also said.
"Hmph... You can ask the kid from the Belmondo family, he should know... I, like my old master, cannot be 'killed', hehe... As long as the power of chaos exists, this castle and I will return again and again..." Hugo was still laughing, and it was obvious that he was not bluffing.
"Ah, you are right." Philibert looked at him and continued calmly, "I knew from the beginning that even if I defeated you here, it would only be temporary. One day you will come back."
"What are you going to say next..." Hugo interrupted Philibert, "When that time comes, your descendants will naturally inherit your legacy and stop me? Hahahaha..."
He smiled so proudly because he had heard the same thing from other Belmondos in the past.
In fact, these words can bring a little comfort to the failed Hugo. At least he can laugh at the short lives of these mortals, while he will always have the last laugh.
But... today, things have changed.
"Uh... not really." Philibert actually shook his head. "After I told my two Eastern friends that you 'cannot be killed', they said maybe we could try other 'methods'."
Ladies and Gentlemen, I think everyone knows what the "method" that Sun and Huang mentioned is...
As for Hugo, when he heard this, his smile gradually froze.
It was at this moment that suddenly, the sound of music came from somewhere.
It was a piece of music played on the organ. The melody at the beginning was ups and downs, compact and solemn. After a few bars, the music suddenly became passionate, full of a sense of fatalism and tragedy, but there was also a breath of hope hidden in it, like a dark and magnificent epic.
Of course, if you can’t imagine it, we can just refer to "Bloody Tears".
"It seems that they are ready." Philibert muttered this when he heard the music.
"What? What's ready?" At this moment, Hugo had a strong, ominous premonition.
Two seconds later, two villainous smiling faces that looked a hundred times more annoying than his previous smile gradually approached him.
"You...what are you going to do?"
This was not the first time that Sun Huang had heard this. However, even though he heard it, it would not prevent them from dragging Hugo towards the light array under the chandelier.
"No... This is impossible..." Hugo realized something belatedly at this moment, "Even if they are all willing to sacrifice, it is impossible to start another ritual. The ritual still lacks at least one sacrifice..."
"Heh... Do you think you're the only one who can modify the ritual?" Huang Donglai said with a smile, "The formations I learned in the Twelve Truths are much more complicated than your Western formations. Even you know that the effect of the ritual can be modified by slightly adjusting some conditions. How could I not see that?"
"Of course... we won't play 'head swap' like you." Sun Yixie took over the conversation and smiled at Hugo in the same way, "We usually 'switch homes'."
This was the first time Hugo had heard this word.
"What do you mean..." Hugo asked as he was dragged under the chandelier by Sun Huang, "...What exactly are you going to do?"
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the world.
Central Plains, on Wawu Mountain.
Xuanqi Sect, a meeting will be held today.
This was the first time that Miao Yinzi had held such a large gathering where the entire sect had to attend since he took over the position of head.
From a certain perspective, this conference can also be considered the "new leader's succession ceremony."
As for why it was delayed until now, one reason is that everyone still respected the former head monk very much, so after receiving the news of his passing last year, everyone held the first seven days for him, then the fifth seven days, and then the seventh seven days. Anyway, all kinds of rituals took several months... We are all Taoists, so it's just a piece of cake.
The second reason is that... Everyone knows the Xuanqi Sect. They don't mind performing rituals for the leader out of personal will, but when it comes to administrative matters such as the "handover of the leader's position", they generally just procrastinate and let it go.
Of course, he couldn't really "forget it", so he kept calculating... Hey~ Miao Yinzi calculated that today is a very unlucky day, so the leader's succession ceremony, which is something that everyone hates, should be held today.
It was noon, the sky was clear and cloudless.
Because the meeting was agreed to be held in the morning, by now almost everyone is here.
Miao Yinzi took a look and said, "Let's get started." Then he walked up to the platform and sat cross-legged.
Just as he flicked his whisk and was about to say his first words...
Snap——shriek——
As soon as the golden light appeared, he was gone.
My fellow students in the audience were wondering... Is this some new way to announce the end of a meeting?
Hey~ Just a few seconds later, another humanoid monster with scars on its body and a face like a vulture appeared on the stage.
The more than one hundred Taoist masters of Xuanqi Sect immediately formed a crowd to watch Hugo...