"Old Gu!"
The moment the shadow appeared silently, Irin's pupils suddenly shrank.
He reminded him loudly.
However, the shadow appeared too abruptly, too strange, and without any warning.
It was like in a normal high school PE class, the PE teacher had already predicted that someone would jump with excellent results, but he would not have thought that someone would grow invisible wings and fly dozens of meters high.
He believed that the PE teacher's reaction would not be much faster than Irin's.
It was too sudden!
Irin issued a warning to everyone before they set off.
According to his autopsy results, Red Hair died suddenly.
The place where he was stabbed was hidden. Normally, with Red Hair's strength, it was impossible for someone to stab him there without any preparation.
But he was still stabbed.
This made Irin speculate that in the enemy camp, there was also an enemy who was very good at assassination, hiding in the dark.
That assassin easily killed Red Hair!
That was not an ordinary person!
One of the top 100 in the world!
To be honest, in a head-on fight, those who were close in ranking were almost on par. In the end, it was some external factors that affected the outcome. For example, the scene, mentality, skills, and so on.
The enemy assassin could easily kill Red Hair. In other words, under the same conditions, he could kill everyone present.
What was more terrifying was that.
Redhair's skin was even tougher than a rhinoceros' skin. Yi Lin found a blunt meat cleaver in Uruk City and sawed it back and forth for a long time. After painstakingly cutting open the skin around Redhair's wound, he discovered something terrifying.
His internal organs, on the surface, looked intact, but Irin only touched them lightly with his finger, and they were all shattered and turned into rustling powder.
This was the real cause of Red Hair's death!
The cause of his death was not the wound on the surface, but the inside.
Red Hair's internal organs were "killed" the moment he was stabbed.
Yes.
Killed.
Seeing the changes in Red Hair's body with his own eyes, Irin subconsciously flashed a word in his mind.
"Killed."
This was not a phenomenon that could be understood on a physical level.
So,
Before they set off.
Irin did not hide it and told the other five about Red Hair's death.
Irin did not elaborate on how he came to this conclusion.
Hong Fa had already been buried and the soil on his grave had been stepped on firmly. There was no need to make him feel uneasy.
After knowing the real cause of Red Hair's death, except for Gu Tianqing, the other people's faces did not look good.
Gu Tianqing forced herself to keep a straight face. Who knew what she was thinking?
The moment the shadow appeared.
Irin reminded him.
Gu Tianqing's pupils suddenly shrank.
In an instant, he erupted with the strength of a spearman. Like a long rainbow, he left the place at an unimaginable speed.
However,
That shadow, however, stuck to Gu Tianqing like a real shadow. It was hard to get rid of it, like a maggot in a tarsal bone.
"I'm going to die."
Gu Tianqing chuckled, her face filled with indescribable joy. But as he said this, he suddenly took out the stack of tarot cards.
The pitch-black female wraith flashed behind Gu Tianqing.
The shadow's blade stabbed into Gu Tianqing's back as soon as she finished speaking.
"Ah —!!"
The pitch-black wraith let out a mournful wail and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After Gu Tianqing was stabbed, he fell forward.
"Freedom Spell – Crimson Chain!"
Irin's eyes focused. He had already put on the ring. Circles of magic patterns appeared on his wrist. From the magic circle, streaks of lightning whipped towards the shadow behind Gu Tianqing like chains.
Except for Irin.
Michelle was the first to react. She was already holding her scythe. The sound of the explosion was deafening. She instantly passed through the shadow.
Miriam and Frank were not idle. Miriam's Invisible Sword and Frank's pipe hit Gu Tianqing's shadow at almost the same time.
Gu Tianqing's life and death were uncertain. At this time, they did not dare to use too terrifying skills. If Gu Tianqing did not die and they killed him, then it would be really tragic.
All the attacks passed through the shadow strangely.
After the shadow's attack succeeded, it let out a strange laugh and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
It was as if it had never appeared.
"Little White!"
Ling activated her vision and telekinesis at the same time. When Irin sensed that the "Crimson Chain" had missed, he did his best to capture the shadow's movements.
But no matter if it was in Ling's vision or perception, there was nothing around Gu Tianqing, including his back. It was as if the shadow had never appeared.
It failed!
Gu Tianqing fell to the ground.
After the shadow succeeded, it disappeared.
Including Yi Lin, everyone's faces did not look too good.
In the real world, they were powerful individuals who ranked in the top 100!
Even if they did not have a good time in Kamikaze, they were still heroic spirits!
That strange shadow had actually arrogantly stabbed Gu Tianqing right in front of their eyes, even though they were on guard. Although this knife was not stabbed into their bodies, they did not feel pain, itch, or empathize with it, but they still felt that it was a little embarrassing.
Miriam casually slashed a hole in the ground with her sword. She was in a bad mood.
Gu Tianqing stood up.
He lowered his head and did not say a word.
Irin took a deep breath and let Little White lie down wherever it was cool. He walked to Gu Tianqing's side and asked, "How long do you think you can live?"
Hearing this, Gu Tianqing raised his head, and the corner of his mouth twitched. "Do you mean that you think I'm dead for sure?"
"What else? Didn't you get stabbed? "
Irin said matter-of-factly.
"Yes."
Gu Tianqing sighed. He showed the tarot cards in front of Irin. "If it wasn't for Freya, I would already be dead."
Irin had a rough understanding. "Freya" was the name of Gu Tianqing's spirit.
A glaring crack appeared on the back of almost every card in the deck of tarot cards.
The deck of cards in Gu Tianqing's hands no longer had the strange feeling of forgetfulness. Instead, it really did seem like an ordinary deck of tarot cards.
"What happened?"
Irin frowned.
"I was' killed '."
Gu Tianqing said.
"Killed?"
"Yes, I used the 'Substitute' card deck and used Freya to take the fatal blow for me."
"Aren't spirits immortal?"
"Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't." Gu Tianqing shook his head, and a rare trace of bitterness appeared on his face. "Usually, this move can only be regarded as a life-saving skill with a long cooldown time. But this time is different. I can't feel Freya anymore. It seems that the stab killed her, completely and utterly. "
Borl reappeared in the smoke.
She rubbed her eyebrows and said indifferently, "I have good news."
Everyone looked at Borl. Borl nodded. He did not hide the good news, nor did he use the cliché of "I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad, which one do you want to hear first". He said directly, "I left a 'coordinate' on it. When it appears again, I will know."
Irin thought for a moment and said thoughtfully, "So the way to locate it is through smoke."
Borl's cold eyes suddenly stared at Irin.
She did not expect that the secret she used to track would be seen through by Irin.
You can only be friends if you see through it but don't say it out loud!
Irin had indeed guessed the other party's tracking method.
Borl's smoke did not have any smell.
When she was in Munich, she also used this method to track Circia all the way to Wuke Town.
Irin was not too sure about the specific method.
It should be … smoke inhalation? Or the surface of the body was covered with smoke?
That was a bit powerful.
It was impossible to guard against.
However, if Yi Lin's guess wasn't wrong, such a useful skill might have a huge limitation.
For example, it could only track one target at a time, or it could not switch targets for a certain period of time.
Now, only Borl could confirm the existence of the shadow.
The six Heroic Spirits went on their way again.
On the way.
Irin suddenly remembered something.
He asked Gu Tianqing gloomily, "So, your tarot cards are useless?"
"Yes, they are useless."
Gu Tianqing replied with a smile, "I suddenly feel better."
"…" Irin was silent for a moment, "Do you think the spirits will come back to life after we go out?"
"Who knows."
Gu Tianqing shrugged her shoulders with an indifferent look.
Irin did not dare to be careless.
On the way to the destination, he summoned Bai Xiaoyi.
She followed him all the way and stared at his anus.
Irin's perception could not detect the existence of the shadow, so he could only use this stupid method.
Bai Xiaoyi learned from Gu Tianqing about the other party's ability, which could actually "kill" spirits directly. She looked a little nervous. She had always thought that spirits were immortal and indestructible existences, but a monster had actually appeared here that could directly kill spirits. This was very frightening.
Ever since they left Uruk City, Yan Fenggong, who had been quiet, suddenly said, "Did you notice that the shadow that attacked us and killed Joe D. Solomon was similar to Miss Boll's ability?"
"You just noticed?" Irin, who was riding on Night Stalker's backpack, said helplessly, "I was just wondering if the one who killed Red Hair and stabbed Gu Tianqing could be an" Assassin "."
Irin's words made everyone's expression change drastically.
Assassin!
If it was an "Assassin" class skill, "Aura Concealment", everything could be explained!
No one could detect the existence of an Assassin.
That was because the Assassin who appeared out of thin air and stabbed Red Hair and Gu Tianqing's spirits to death was a unique Heroic Spirit that came from the Heroic Spirit Throne and was strengthened by the Holy Grail!
"Assassin"!
The eighth Heroic Spirit that appeared in the Gods' generation!
Yan Fenggong's words gave everyone a bad premonition.
But because there was no evidence, no one looked into it.
Discussions without evidence were just a waste of time.
However, the possibility of the eighth Heroic Spirit appearing among them was like a haze that lingered in the hearts of the six surviving Heroic Spirits.
What if the other party was really the second "Assassin"?
What if the shadow that killed the red-haired man was really the eighth heroic spirit?
"That's not the worst outcome."
Irin ended this topic with a simple sentence.
That's right.
Everyone instantly understood.
That shadow was an "Assassin". That wasn't the worst outcome.
The appearance of the eighth Heroic Spirit on the battlefield wasn't the worst outcome either.
The worst outcome was that the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and even more Heroic Spirits would appear on the battlefield!
This wasn't a proper Holy Grail War to begin with. And according to Yan Fenggong, who understood the history of the Holy Grail War, in the past several Holy Grail Wars, "additional Heroic Spirits" had appeared more than once in a proper Holy Grail War.
Here, a piece of cold knowledge was popularized: the appearance of the eighth Heroic Spirit in a Holy Grail War that was supposed to have seven Heroic Spirits participating seemed to be the norm in a Holy Grail War.
Humans would always think of ways to take advantage of loopholes, cheat, and so on.
After the shadow attacked Gu Tianqing, it didn't appear again.
Irin didn't give any reliable analysis about this.
Finally, at dawn.
They arrived at the "end."
Yes.
The end.
This was also the place that Frank wanted to bring everyone to see with their own eyes in the beginning.
When they arrived here, they truly understood what kind of place the "Heavenly Palace, Uruk" under their feet was.
In the distance, there was an endless sea of clouds.
Under their feet, there were clouds.
They were standing at the edge of the land, overlooking the ground.
They were high up in the sky.
Heavenly Palace, as the name suggested, was a continent floating in the sky!
And Uruk was actually a city built in the sky!
"This is impossible!"
Yan Fenggong didn't know if he had acrophobia, but he was so scared that he hurriedly took a few steps back and sat on the ground.
"As expected."
Irin said calmly.
He wasn't too shocked.
In fact, whether it was the angle of the reflection of the setting sun or the thin air, Irin noticed the sense of strangeness.
When the truth was in front of him, everything became explainable.
All the clues were strung together.
Irin jumped down from the clouds in front of everyone.
The others watched Irin jump down from the clouds and didn't stop him.
First, Irin jumped too fast. Second, they couldn't stop him.
Michelle's expression changed slightly. She also left Uruk at the speed of sound.
The whistling of the wind surged in Irin's ears.
The cold mist wet Irin's magician robe as he fell, and the surface of Irin's magician robe was covered with water droplets.
Falling.
Sinking.
Falling freely.
This place was definitely not just 3,000 meters in the sky.
This place was above the clouds.
This was Kanzaki!
This was the sky, the era that still belonged to humans!
Irin took a deep breath and passed through the clouds. His eyes suddenly opened up.
The barren land, the continuous mountain range.
Rivers, mountains, oceans, snow, deserts, all kinds of terrain could be seen at a glance from high up in the sky.
This was a scorched land.
In every corner of the world, there were sparks of fire burning.
Wherever humans set foot, there was only ruins left, barren and uninhabited.
Corpses fell in the wilderness, long turned into white bones.
This world was terrifyingly quiet.
Whether it was humans, beasts, fish, birds, or insects, Irin couldn't find the footprints of any creatures on this barren land.
Finally.
Irin landed on the ground.
He stepped on the scorched earth.
There were hideous ravines on the ground, stretching from under Irin's feet to the end of the horizon. He didn't know what kind of creature, or what kind of weapon, could leave such a terrifying mark.
He didn't know what kind of giant beast's corpse it was. The uneven spine was like a continuous mountain range in the wilderness.
The red muddy river had lost its vitality.
In the forest, where only half of a tree stump was left, corpses were strewn everywhere, and no one cared.
In front of Irin's eyes, there was no familiar scenery.
The smell of despair spread in the air.
Irin stood in the same place.
After an unknown amount of time.
The sun rose in the east.
The temperature of the air gradually changed from cold to hot.
Other than the whistling wind, there was no other sound in his ears.
In this world, there was a dead silence. Irin suddenly had the illusion that he was the last human living in the world.
Step, step, step.
In the dead world, heavy footsteps came from behind Irin.
Irin didn't look back.
He knew who the person was.
"Do you understand?"
King Gilgamesh, at some point, walked to Irin's side and stood side by side with Irin.
Irin looked at King Gilgamesh and didn't say anything.
He looked at the boundless barren land and chuckled softly.
"This is the wrath of God, this is a mere doomsday, this is also the price of Hope's challenge to the Master."
"We have lost!"
"Hope has also lost."
"We humans."
"Utterly defeated!"
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