The warden, who was spying on the hotel in her own way, said: "You have made a wrong move, Monsieur Corneille.
Ms. Shimana wasted a spell of yours - a spell that is not compatible with me and it restrains Discipline Magic.
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use it before the next natural day.”
"Without the use of divine intervention, M. Don Rodic would not have given up on his spouse," replied Corneille.
"Your only way to break the impasse is to summon allies, such as Sister Helena. Unfortunately, using what happened at No. 96 as an excuse, I have brought in people from the Waite Survival Department to reassess the psychological conditions of the guilty witches.
Sister Helena from the Church of the Holy Fool is busy with her job under the company and supervision of the instructors.
Your other allies are also stuck with similar reasons:
Dr. Cecil faces more than thirty charges, not fatal but enough to delay time;
Miss Anne Longueville is very much occupied with the canal project;
Perhaps you can't count on the witches of the Lusignan family to support you, as the witches of the 'Lovers' realm are not good at fighting."
After counting Corneille's cards, the warden continued: "Before, I tolerated your activities under my nose because you did not cross the line, but it does not mean that I could not detect everything.
The result is determined. Witch No. 96's confinement will be upgraded, and Ms. Shimanna will be safely sent back to Merida as a guest.
As for you, the Duke of Alva, Sister Helena, and the Dog-Man Guardian whom you serve, you must give me and the Management Committee an explanation.
Then, what awaits you will be endless lawsuits. No matter what you want to do, you will be trapped in the cage constructed by these lawsuits, just like No. 96 will always be in the tower of discipline.
She is my guilty witch, and only belongs to me!"
The warden took action personally, but it is unknown whether she came alone out of confidence or to avoid escalating the intensity of the battle.
Because the intensity of the current confrontation is not great, Cornelius still has time to pay attention to gossip.
The warden's narration was generally calm, but her last sentence revealed her strong possessiveness of Don Rodick.
Could it be that?
The wall of chains in front of the warden began to shake, and Corneille decided to implement alternative plan four.
When the black chains rose up like snakes, threatening to attack, Cornelius raised his hand, and the wings of the "Flying Lion" spread out, and air gushed out, bombarding the chains in front of the warden.
"It's useless. Its strength..."
Before the warden finished speaking, Corneille jumped down the hole. She waved her hand and eight chains followed Corneille into the hotel like predators.
The chain was entangled with Corneille, and even if Corneille cut it off, it would quickly regenerate with the help of magic, just like the troublesome Hydra in mythology.
The remaining seven chains formed a cage, ready to stop him. The cage tightened inwards, leaving Corneille less and less room to move.
The warden judged that if the information was correct, Corneille would have to hand over another Hathor spell in order to escape the blockade.
But she saw Corneille make an unexpected move: he thrust his sword into the wall, and while it was suspended in the air for a short time by the resistance, he pointed his left arm in her direction.
A ring appeared at the base of Corneille's left index finger, and the purple-red gemstone inlaid on it opened its vertical pupil.
The Ring of Apophis?!
The warden was awed. The Ring of Apophis was named after the evil god Apophis, a Lamia with a human body, a snake tail, red and purple skin, and a beautiful face. He used his poison to bewitch many extraordinary people blessed by the god Ra (later called pharaohs), causing them to give up their faith in the sun and fall into darkness.
Later, this Lamia seemed to lose interest in the game of hunting the Pharaoh and disappeared without a trace, but the toxins she left behind became the subject of research by the extraordinary people.
The Rings of Apophis are the result of Waite's research in the field of "Magician". Due to the requirements of the financial sponsor, the Longueville family, their specific operating principles are kept secret.
Outsiders only know that it is a prop produced in small batches, exclusively for the Longueville family and those favored by family members, and that the ring itself has a slight charm.
Anyone who studies the battle with Corneille would never imagine that the other party would suddenly take out a magic item with a charming effect... This is inconsistent with Corneille's personality.
So the warden fell into the trap. In a trance, she recalled how No. 96 timidly washed every corner of his body under her surveillance, and then trembled and gasped when she checked his privacy.
Hatred and pleasure combined here, and she treated Witch No. 96 more seriously than she did the other guilty witches, stripping away the other supernatural powers in her body and implanting the magic of discipline into it.
For a moment, the warden fantasized about being a man, but Waite's laws prohibited witches from transforming into women, so her desires remained just fantasies.
The warden's trance caused the net cage constructed by the magic of discipline to stop shrinking briefly, and Corneille barely passed through the mesh and returned to the second floor of the hotel.
Polly glanced at him, and seeing that he was alright, she quickly turned away and muttered, "Tsk, you have to pay more!"
Tang Rodick was also briefly freed from the control of the warden, muttering: "Knock me out, don't let me drag you down!"
Shimanna hid in the corner, using the props she carried with her to hold up a shield. Gao Naiyi glanced at her, not wanting to waste time on secondary targets.
"Mr. Don Rodic, I am sorry to trouble you for a moment," said Corneille.
Don Rodique didn't know what Corneille was going to do, but she trusted Corneille as a brother, so she nodded to him.
Corneille signaled to Polly to hold Don Rodique down. He took out a syringe tightly wrapped in a buffer device from his waist bag, stabbed it steadily and accurately into Don Rodique's neck, and injected the blue spiral medicine into her body.
"Leave her."
Corneille broke down the wall and pushed Don Rodic into another room, and Polly followed suit, in order to maximize the space available.
Gao Naiyi took a look and his expression became interesting: "You hit the load-bearing wall."
Chapter 58: Red Warn
"I just wanted to warn the bondage girl that if she dared to come down, this hotel... Well, why did she really come down?"
Polly's energy perception ability is not as good as Corneille's, but her hearing is better. The sound of the warden falling is as imposing and tricky as the authentic fat pig that the people in her hometown have fed for a year.
Polly knew she had screwed up.
In order to remedy the situation, she hastily started the "War Express", first taking Corneille to recover Don Rodick, and then recovering Corneille's three subordinates.
Just when she was about to take Shimana back, the chains dropped like a curtain.
At this time, Polly's load had reached its limit, so she had to give up Shimana and rolled into the nearby public bathroom in one breath.
There were screams in the bathhouse. Even a witch would shyly protect her vital parts when faced with a man suddenly breaking in.
Corneille and the others got up and fled. As soon as they got outside, they saw black chains converging from all directions towards the collapsed hotel.
The wreckage of the building collapsed, and the protective shield made of chains squirmed, spitting out the warden with a teeth-grinding friction sound. She was wrapped in an airtight battle suit made of layers of chains.
In another corner, Shimana and her guards were also protected by chains. The warden manipulated the chains to throw the frightened guards behind Corneille, blocking their retreat route.
"These guys wearing half-body armor are pretty resistant to falls," Polly said gloatingly.
Tang Rodick looked at the four no longer young faces with mixed feelings, and his thoughts went back to a few years ago.
Shimanna eliminated his old comrades, actively recommended newcomers to fill the vacancies in the security force, and found four young duel experts from the fencing club, who made a living by dueling for others.
They were still young at that time, and their faces and bodies were covered with scars due to frequent duels. Tang Rodick personally tested them, approved of them, and then taught them his skills.
Originally, he wanted to teach them one last lesson, which was to use violence with restraint and try to use strength to seek welfare for the weak... But in 1229, he "died" under Corneille's sword, and the matter ended there.
"Give me a sword," he said to Polly, "and I can fight, too."
Polly looked at Don Rodick suspiciously: "If you are controlled by the chains again, won't it hinder us?"
"Will not."
Gao Naiyi glanced at the warden, then looked at Shimanna who was protected by the warden: "I will distract the warden's attention so that she can't be distracted and manipulate others."
"Okay, before the guards of the Discipline Tower arrive, we fight and run..."
"No, stay where you are and take care of Mr. Don Rodick."
"Are you sure it's a good idea to stay here?"
Polly glanced at Don Rodick from the corner of her eye, and she was immediately frightened:
Tang Rodick's exposed skin was as red as an apple and emitted an unusual amount of heat. It seemed that he was not controlling his temperature well, silently emitting "warnings" and "warnings" to stay away.
This was undoubtedly the result of the injection of potion that Corneille had just injected. What changes could it bring? Turn Don Rodique into a fire-breathing witch and roast the warden?
Polly didn't understand, but her good professional ethics made her obey the orders of her temporary employer.
The warden was a chatterbox when he was alone with Corneille, but he became silent in public.
Dozens of chains were peeled off from her body or appeared out of thin air. The chains were stretched straight and arranged into a spear formation of different lengths. The front and back rows were clearly separated and stabbed towards Gao Naiyi in a very orderly manner.
The attack came fast and fiercely. Cornell took off his shield and blocked it in front of him. The warden's magic hit it with a dull sound.
As the warden squirmed, more chains peeled off her body and entangled in the building, trying to attack Corneille from other angles.
Cornell used his shield to protect his front and used his sword to deflect the chains that were trying to attack him from the side. Fortunately, the wide space allowed him to maneuver.
The chains were cut off one after another, and disappeared without a trace when they fell to the ground. However, the ends of the chains cut by the "Flying Lion" would grow "new shoots" while wriggling. Despite this, the warden's magic power consumption was minimal.
Referring to the previous scene where the chains of the guilty witches converged on the warden, Corneille believed that by partially recovering the commandment magic in the bodies of other guilty witches, the warden obtained additional magic power.
No wonder she is not afraid of fighting a war of attrition.
The surface of the "Flying Lion" was filled with cobalt blue light. With the protection of Minerva, Corneille gradually understood the warden's magic of discipline, but he still found it difficult:
These chains look exactly the same, but after repeatedly triggering "Weakness Check", it can be found that their energy structures are completely different, but they are classified under Discipline Magic.
Metamorphosis, transformation, flowering, foundation, parasitism, infiltration, corruption, subordination, enclosure, holy wings... There are as many as ten branches of the commandment magic that Cornelius read through "Weakness Inspection".
Among these ten branches, there seems to be an internal stage stratification. In each stage, the degree of perfection of the energy structure is also different, which makes the chain produce more changes.
These changes delayed Corneille's tactic of reading the entire structure of the Discipline Magic and attacking its weak points to destroy it.
At the same time, the magic of the commandments was physical in nature. Even if he found a flaw in the chain, unless the warden gathered the chains himself, Corneille could only laboriously cut them one by one, like a coolie cutting sugarcane in a plantation.
Well, let me help you gather the chains.
After estimating the time it would take for all the threatening chains to reach him, Corneille made an unexpected move:
He dropped the shield at his feet and fell straight down, lying on the shield. The fourteen chains that arrived one after another only pierced his afterimage.
He turned his sword backwards, and the wings of the "Flying Lion" opened, and the wind rushed, and the dust flew. The fourteen chains gathered into a hammer and smashed into the smoke and dust, but Cornelius, who was lying on the shield, slid out first.
While the warden was recalling the "special forces" on both wings, he adjusted the trajectory of the "lancers" in the front, aiming at Voldemort Cornelius and stabbing him with dense chains like a forest.
Corneille used his palm to push open the end of the hilt, poured out the empty shell, inserted it into the bulge in the lower left corner of the shield, and loaded new ammunition.
He drew out the hilt, tapped it against his thigh to return it to its original position, and pointed it at the ground to activate it.
The witches of the "White Order" were right. The wind emanating from the sword was indeed a trick, but the warden seemed to have no relevant information.
The second wind bomb launched Corneille and the shield into the sky. The group of chains piercing the ground was spectacular, but it did not hurt him at all.
He twisted his body in the air and swung his weapon. The chains attacking from behind were broken all along the path of cobalt blue light formed by the sword.
During the fall, he completed the third reload, and the warden, who had learned his lesson, moved while manipulating the chains to attack the sky, weaving like a net and shrinking extremely quickly.
At the moment when the cage was about to capture Corneille in the sky, Corneille threw out his shield, and "Sulena" drilled into a joint where multiple chains intersected, blocking the moving chains, and he broke out from the stopped shrinking grid, pointing his sword at the warden below.
Corneille stretched out his left hand, and the Ring of Apophis reappeared. Having suffered a loss once, the warden adjusted the density of the few remaining chains on his body to block his sight and prevent himself from being tempted by the ring again.
But this also made her lose the initiative in the attack. Corneille did not activate the ring, but quickly changed the bullet and threw a ball of wind at the warden.
The warden was forced to cancel the chains he was currently maintaining, allowing them to reshape around him and weave upwards into a huge "shield". When the wind bombs hit it, the "shield" did not collapse, but visible gaps appeared in the structure of the hit part.
Corneille landed on the "shield", his left eye emitting blue light, he raised the sword in his hand and stabbed it into the "shield". In an instant, the cobalt blue light permeated the "shield" from top to bottom, and all the flaws and weaknesses were gathered in the same shape.
What Corneille destroyed was not individual chains of different natures, but a "shield". Therefore, this time it was not the coolies who were cutting down the sugarcane, but the flood that destroyed the plantation.
The thick and huge shield collapsed like glass, and Corneille fell at the same time as the chains soaked in blue light. The trajectory of his sword was hidden in it, and it reached the warden's neck secretly but swiftly.
Chapter 59: Resurrection Match
The crisp sound of hitting spread near the warden's neck, and Corneille saw that his fierce attack was blocked by a middle-aged woman holding a scimitar.
Corneille had never expected that the warden, who never showed his true face, was the amiable but lecherous fat lady who worked in the office on the second floor when Diaz first arrived at the Tower of Discipline.
People can't be seen.
Corneille's exclamation did not hinder his fierce attack. In the short process of landing, he made the warden feel the threat of death three times, and almost every move was fatal.
The warden was in a state of panic, but she managed to hold off Corneille's attack. At the same time, she once again removed the chains and summoned her again.
Corneille dodged the chain that the warden swung like a whip, rolled on the ground, picked up the fallen shield, and blocked the chains that stabbed like a gun array... The sense of crisis prompted him to jump up on the spot, and the next second, the heavy hammer woven with chains hit the place where he was just now.
