Chapter 543: The Witch Trials

Trial Court.

The flaming Liu Ji regained his footing, wheeling his huge flaming bone hammer in the direction of Tang Erda, who retreated to avoid it, but was still grazed by the edge of his jacket, and thinking of what Wang Shun had reminded them, that being caught in Liu Ji's flames would keep burning off their life points, Tang Erda took off her jacket at once,

The sparks that had only touched the corners of the jacket instantly consumed the entire jacket, leaving nothing but ashes.

Mu Sicheng, who had caught a glimpse of Tang Erda's battle at the end of his eyes, gritted his teeth as he lifted his feet and disappeared in an instant, and in the next instant, almost instantaneously, he was behind Phoebe, his eyes bloodshot and his monkey claws raised high, slashing at the back of her neck.

Phoebe raised her hand without looking back, the skeleton armour wrapping her entire body without a single seam in almost a blink of an eye, the young girl's light voice coming out of the armour, "I told you, even the fastest speed is useless in front of my skeleton armour."

"It's like the lips of the dead are the best keepers of secrets." Phoebe's green eyes looked at Mu Sicheng through a gap in the bones, "The bones of a dead man are also the tightest protectors."

Mu Sicheng's sharp, outstretched claws grasp the skull with an ear-piercing scraping sound, and he clenches his teeth reluctantly as he presses down, eyes wide with rage, the bones of his monkey paws creaking.

Fuck! This thing is too hard! It can't be broken with a fast attack speed!

This guy is so invulnerable, this skill is so buggy! Is there such an outrageous and flawless skill!

Wait, it seems like this guy hasn't moved much since a while ago ......

Mu Sicheng's eyes suddenly twitched as he remembered the video clip Wang Shun had shown them of Phoebe using the Gospel to draw her opponent in, rather than allowing herself to take the initiative and attack him.

So is it possible that ......

"Hey." Mu Sicheng slowly withdrew his monkey claws as he turned to Phoebe, who was hiding in her skeletal armour, and gave a somewhat sinister smile, "You've been moving at a reduced range since you used your skill, haven't you-"

"You have a range for using this Hell's Prayer Song skill that keeps decreasing over time?"

Phoebe's pupils contracted very lightly.

Almost immediately, Liu Ji came back to the defence with a wild hammer blow that sent Mu Sicheng flying, stripping off his burning jacket and landing on the church pillar with an outside foot, flipping into the air beside Tang Erda.

Tang Erda said quickly, "I just heard that."

"If the opponent's range of movement will narrow over time, that is convenient for us to escape."

"But if they all run, it'll send the guys back on the defensive and cause trouble for Bai Liu and the others, right?" Mu Sicheng huffed and puffed, shaking off his burned white eyes and grimacing, "What a horrible attack, we have to leave one of them behind to stall these two or they'll go back on the defensive and Bai Liu's side will be in trouble."

"I'll stay." Tang Erda took up the burden quickly, "You can't hold them both back."

"But you are their target, aren't you?" Mu Sicheng, in a rare moment of calmness, scanned Tang Erda, "Wouldn't you be doing what they want by staying here?"

Tang Erda was stunned: " Mu Sicheng, you want ......"

Mu Sicheng could only end up in one way if he stayed here - and that was to be killed by these two men.

Phoebe swiped back and raised her hand, and a million souls rose from the ground in a fury and swarmed in Tang Erda's direction, her face cold as she interrupted the two men's conversation, "I don't remember leaving you time to discuss your options."

"Give me hell for all of them."

The moment she said that, Liu Ji jumped up and, using the cover of the skeletons surrounding Tang Erda, brought his burning bone hammer down on Tang Erda.

At the moment of impact, Mu Sicheng almost dodged in front of Tang Erda, his monkey paws crossed above his head and one foot retreated, resisting Liu Ji's hammer.

His arm was instantly enveloped in the surface fire of the bone hammer, and in the excruciating pain of the burning heat on his arm, Mu Sicheng reluctantly opened one eye and took two deep breaths to adjust his breathing before he hissed to Tang Erda behind him, "You go back to defend Bai Liu and the others, I'll hold off these two."

[System Alert: Player Mu Sicheng has a stacked status (Burning Both Arms) and is currently 78 ......76 ......]

"That's a great team bond." Phoebe waved her hand to the left with an indifferent expression, "You'd still look pretty cool blabbing about letting hunters escape if your life expectancy didn't drop so fast."

Black smoke cascaded over the ground, and in addition to the skeletons, still some twisted corpses crawled out of the ground.

Mu Sicheng's right monkey paw was already burnt to the bone as he gave Phoebe a raspy, gangly smile: "But my life expectancy is dropping even faster than you want it to, right?"

"What you want to trade away is the life value of the hunter, so every bit of life value I drop for him is a block to your plan, so you can count me as having earned it, right?"

"Stupid calculated strategy." Phoebe's scowl grew colder as she moved her hands back, "Is that what your shrewd tactician taught you to do against the enemy?"

The skeletons and zombies on the ground went berserk as Phoebe moved towards Tang Erda, who dodged them with one foot back, looked back at Mu Sicheng and quickly ran towards the entrance of the church.

" Liu Ji, stop him." Phoebe ordered coldly and quickly.

Liu Ji spun the hammer around a few times and slammed it hard into Tang Erda's only exit from the Order, flames erupting in every direction with the downward motion, Liu Ji pulled back and roared, about to swing the hammer right into Tang Erda's face. In a blink of an eye, he was in front of Tang Erda, deflecting Liu Ji's full force hammer.

The moment Tang Erda was about to step out of the front of the Order, the ground began to tremble violently and the sound of the giant's swift running came.

Phoebe's expression froze for a moment at the sound of the running, and she quickly realised what was happening at the papal palace - the Qi Yifang guy had failed in his mission and had given them Titan in the nick of time, hoping that they would complete their mission quickly and return to help.

Before she could think, Phoebe gave another order, "Titan, stop the hunters."

The giant's mountainous fist fell from the sky like a meteorite, hammering a hole in the ground half the size of the Inquisition, which was hollowed out beneath it, cutting off the road to the Papal Palace directly outside the Holy See.

Liu Ji holds his burning bone hammer aloft as the giant pulls his fist out of the ground and drops it again in the direction of Tang Erda.

The bone hammer and the fist fell almost simultaneously, and layers of ash burst out as if a small explosion had just occurred.

When the ashes had cleared, there was a ragged Mu Sicheng on one knee on the ground, one fist clenched in one hand, his right hand all but burning from the flames of the bone hammer, choking and coughing as he raised his head, ashen, his knees hammered on the ground with a bloody scar, but his dirty face was actually wearing a smile.

An open, even somewhat lazy smile.

"Didn't I tell you guys?" Mu Sicheng curled his lips, "Your opponent now is me."

"Hunters who want to hunt us down, step over my dead body first."

[System Alert: Player Mu Sicheng has taken a heavy hit and has lost 33 life points, currently at 41 life points].

All expression was gone from Phoebe's face as she ordered coldly, "Kill him first, then go after the hunter."