"…"
Ivy didn't answer, her eyes gleaming with cold murderous intent.
"Not only that, but those who shouted they wanted to kill me all perished at my dagger, and you will be no exception."
The masked woman's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
She thrust her feet forward, ready to leap from the carriage and lunge at Ivy, slashing at her neck with the dagger in her hand.
She loved the sight of a fragile neck being sliced open, the red liquid gushing out like a fountain.
It was a beautiful sight, always bringing her utter delight.
"What's going on? Why can't I move?"
Suddenly, her face changed as she realized she couldn't move.
"You don't deserve to live in this world!"
Ivy raised her right hand with a cold gaze, activating the alchemical item, the Ring of Light.
The cross gem on the ring's surface glowed golden, and a gleaming golden cross sword appeared.
The masked woman was unable to move because she was under her hypnosis.
The hypnosis she used was a new technique she had mastered after reaching the fourth ring—gesture hypnosis.
Gesture hypnosis, which hypnotizes the target with the mere sight of her hand, is more subtle and difficult to detect than sound hypnosis.
Just now, she had used this method to hypnotize the masked woman without her noticing.
Ting!
Just as Ivy was about to stab the masked woman with the cross lightsaber, the sound of a violin suddenly rang out, and sleepiness overtook her.
Though Ivy quickly shook off the sleepiness, the cross lightsaber, aimed at the masked woman's heart, deflected and pierced her abdomen.
"Puff!"
Injured in the abdomen, the masked woman, thrashed by the pain, broke free from the hypnosis and regained her mobility.
Bearing the pain, she burst into life, leaping at Ivy at a speed faster than a cheetah.
Without glancing at Ivy's hand, she realized that Ivy's secret hypnotic hand had reached the fourth ring, allowing her to hypnotize with her hands.
However, being on guard was one thing; being able to block the hypnosis was another.
Snap!
Ivy snapped her right fingers, the sound spreading and reaching the masked woman's ears.
The masked woman's lunge at Ivy suddenly stopped, her body frozen in a strange position.
Puff!
The ring of light on Ivy's hand glowed golden again, and a cross-shaped lightsaber appeared, piercing the masked woman.
This time, the violinist didn't have time to intervene.
The cross-shaped lightsaber successfully pierced the masked woman's chest, leaving a hideous wound.
"Cough, cough!"
Blood spurted from her chest, and the masked woman coughed up blood. She stumbled a few times, then collapsed with a look of unwillingness in her eyes.
Confirming the masked woman's death, Ivy's murderous intent subsided.
Whoosh!
She glanced at the violinist's house and ran towards it.
...
When Felin entered the violinist's house, he found the violinist gone, leaving only Ivy, who had arrived before him.
"By the time I arrived, they had already fled!"
Ivy said upon seeing Felin arrive.
"They were fleeing in such a hurry, they probably didn't have time to conceal their scent. Try scent tracking."
"Okay."
Flynn activated his Berserker Fang, sprouting black hair all over his body. His body became stronger, and sharp claws sprouted from his hands and feet.
Sniffing the air, he quickly detected a human scent. If he was right, it must be the violinist's.
The violinist had fled in such a hurry that he hadn't had time to erase his scent.
Whoosh!
He was wearing a hooded coat to avoid being seen in his werewolf form.
He pulled the hood up to cover his face, shielding the black hair from ordinary people along the way.
After determining the direction the violinist had taken, he quickly jumped out of the window and gave chase.
The power of his three-ring werewolf form, coupled with his own physique comparable to that of a three-ring body-enhancing mystic, made him incredibly fast, covering dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh!
Ivy chased after Felin, but found she was far behind him and quickly lost him.
Thankfully, Felin's claws left clear marks on the ground in his werewolf form, and following these tracks kept him from losing him.
"There!"
After chasing for half a mile, Felin spotted the violinist.
It was a man wearing a black round hat and black clothes, running furiously forward.
"Oh no! Someone's chasing us!"
Hearing the noise behind him, the violinist quickly turned around.
When he saw Felin rapidly approaching, his expression changed, knowing that his speed alone wouldn't allow him to escape.
Swish!
The violin's body and bow appeared in his left and right hands. He drew the bow with his right hand, intending to play and trigger his slumber.
But he had no chance.
Bang, bang, bang!
Felling fired three shots.
One hit his right hand, causing him to release the bow.
One hit his left hand, causing him to release the bow.
The last shot struck his right leg, causing him to fall to the ground with a thud, piercing the pain.
Then, Felling swiftly rushed forward and struck him in the back of the head.
He fell to the ground, struggling to escape, and then fainted.
"Inexplicable attack..."
Felling did not kill the violinist.
He and Ivy had already killed the other two attacking mystics. This was the last one, and he planned to capture him alive for interrogation.
This attack was somewhat baffling; even now, he still didn't understand why he and his men had been attacked.
If it had been cultists, it would have been fine. Given the relationship between the Security Bureau and the cult, any member of the Security Bureau was at risk of being attacked by cultists.
But this time, it wasn't cultists who attacked them, but mystics. This baffled him.
"Waste!"
On the rooftop of a house, a petite woman watched as Flynn captured the violinist, her eyes filled with murderous intent.
But at that moment, she suddenly felt a sense of urgency and quickly left, disappearing onto the rooftop.
Swish!
The moment she left, a dark figure scurried over and appeared beside Flynn.
From the shadows, a beautiful woman with curly, medium-length brown hair and a teardrop mole beneath her left eye emerged.
This beautiful woman was Lindy.
The place where Felin and Ivy were attacked was on a crowded street, and among these people was a Security Bureau spy.
News of Felin and Ivy's attack was relayed to the Security Bureau as quickly as possible.
Both Felin and Ivy were highly regarded talents by the Security Bureau, and upon learning of their attack, she rushed over immediately.