The Black Knight had appeared before, but Tang hadn't anticipated a Trick Sorcerer of the Seer pathway lurking in the theater.
"Secret Order? Or a wild demigod?"
As the paper doll decoy took effect, Tang's figure lagged behind the two demigods.
At the same time, he felt the manipulation from the spirit threads.
This wasn't the manipulation of the Sealed Artifact, but of the suddenly appearing Trick Sorcerer, who wanted to turn him into his marionette.
Of course, because the death decree of the spirit threads still existed, although its effect here had weakened a lot, even being so close to this Trick Sorcerer, the manipulation of the spirit threads was still affected by the interference of the death decree. Turning him into a marionette would take a considerable amount of time.
What's more, Tang himself was a master of marionettes. He could also fight for control of his own spirit threads, thereby slowing down the speed of becoming a marionette.
And now, that Trick Sorcerer wasn't focusing too much attention on Tang.
He looked at the Black Knight, and with a silent air cannon, the Black Knight instantly suffered a powerful air impact head-on.
This made the Black Knight's massive body drop a bit.
And in that instant, a palm-sized book appeared in Tang's hand.
"I came, I saw, I recorded."
The pages flipped, and spirituality poured into the yellowed paper inside.
Strange patterns and symbols full of mystery and antiquity surged on the surface of the paper. Tang aimed this magic book at the Black Knight who believed in the True Creator.
"Banishment!"
The illusory gate jointly constructed by countless symbolic symbols suddenly unfolded behind the Black Knight. The immense suction force and the air bullets cast by the Trick Sorcerer again formed a two-pronged attack, causing the Black Knight, who was also being manipulated by spirit threads, to be instantly swallowed by the illusory gate.
He was banished to some space, but the location of this space was still within this theater.
A demigod-level banishment, unless specifically targeted, could not use a small gap blasted out by an explosion to banish the target to a space far away from this theater.
Two demigods, one possibly carrying Extraordinary items but whose marionettes were forced to give up under the influence of the death decree, the Trick Sorcerer; the other, the Black Knight, whose soul herding was unclear and who was the True Creator's most loyal hound—a fool would know which one to deal with first.
But after the Black Knight was banished to an unknown space, the Trick Sorcerer's next target was him!
The middle-aged gentleman's gaze fell on Tang again.
This kind middle-aged gentleman with a gentle demeanor seemed quite curious about Tang. He reached out his hand, seemingly wanting to help Tang up, but Tang at this moment felt the power of the other party's manipulation targeting the spirit threads suddenly increase.
This wasn't some play of mutual help and friendly unity; it was clearly a coveting of the mystical items in his hands!
While resisting the manipulation of the spirit threads, he planned to end the death decree of the spirit threads early. In this way, the spirit threads controlled by the theater itself would also quickly recover.
This theater didn't seem to be able to directly transform people into marionettes; certain conditions were required. And even though they were so close to the core, there might be marionettes that could quickly approach them.
But as the gap in the theater was completely repaired and the marionettes revived again, the two closest to its core would probably suffer a frantic attack from the marionettes.
Just as Tang was about to do this and put it into practice, the Trick Sorcerer's manipulation of Tang's spirit threads instantly ceased.
He was somewhat surprised, looking with a slight astonishment at the theater gap that was about to close in the distance. There seemed to be someone looking over at him from afar.
At this moment, the Trick Sorcerer seemed to forget the thoughts in his mind, forgot how to manipulate the spirit threads of others.
In just an instant, Tang, who had reacted, immediately counterattacked, and a short staff inlaid with a green gemstone appeared in his hand.
A staff of life made with Druid Extraordinary characteristics.
As long as spirituality was given, it could catalyze plants, making them Extraordinary life with spirituality!
The short staff struck towards the Trick Sorcerer.
Countless vines grew out of the Trick Sorcerer's body. These vines with verdant green rapidly spread all over him, wrapping him like a zongzi. But in the next moment, the net woven by these vines caved in.
They had missed.
A paper doll floated quietly within. At the same time, Tang heard the sound of something piercing the air.
Sequence Five against Sequence Four, he would definitely be at a disadvantage in the confrontation of Extraordinary abilities.
Under normal circumstances, unless this Sequence Five carried powerful Extraordinary items, it would be extremely difficult to escape or defeat a demigod.
The bursting air bullets struck a paper doll in the next second as well.
Tang used the paper doll decoy to escape again.
All of this, from the miracle explosion, the appearance of the gap, to the activation of the death decree, the breaking of the marionettes' spirit threads, and then to the demigod-level contest, all happened in the blink of an eye. And the amplification of the death decree of the spirit threads was about to end, the gap was about to be filled, and the weakened power of miracles was about to descend again.
This was a race against time!
"System."
Before Tang could instruct the System, suddenly, two figures instantly appeared beside him.
The knight in black armor stood in front of Tang. At the same time that Olson suddenly appeared beside the black-armored knight, all that was seen was a phantom book in his hand that seemed to contain countless mysterious symbols.
"I came! I saw! I recorded!"
As spirituality frantically poured in, the pages flipped and stopped at one of them.
Olson activated the demigod-level Extraordinary ability he had recorded.
"Banishment!"
The first banishment came from Olson's mystical item, the magic book, targeting the Black Knight who served the True Creator.
The second banishment came from Olson himself, the Extraordinary ability with divine power he had recorded, targeting the Trick Sorcerer in front of him!
The illusory gate opened behind the Trick Sorcerer, and the invisible powerful suction force caused the Trick Sorcerer's body to involuntarily move closer to it.
As long as this banishment was successful, it would be difficult for the Trick Sorcerer to come out and disturb them in a short time.
Faced with this scene, the middle-aged gentleman still seemed calm.
His gaze fell in one direction.
It was in front of Owen, who was blocking Tang, on the paper doll bound by countless vines.
Behind the paper doll, in the place hidden by shadows, was a gold coin.
Shadows seemed to flicker across the surface of the gold coin. Only then did Tang notice the abnormality.
On that gold coin, there were countless spirit threads connecting to the Trick Sorcerer.
"Crap!"
Tang whispered, "Owen!"
The middle-aged gentleman smiled. At the same time, the suction force of the illusory gate behind him reached its maximum.
(End of this chapter)