Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 777: Succeeded? (Subscription Requested)
Faced with De Klerk's question, Amendina mustered enough courage to walk out from behind him and approach Pei Yan. She lightly traced her finger across the cold armor of his mecha, and seeing that even such teasing could not provoke him, she let out a smug smile and said, "He's already trapped, deeply ensnared in the illusion and unable to extricate himself."
"Your allure is indeed remarkable!" De Klerk sheathed a dagger and, after a sigh of relief, teased.
Amendina glanced back at her companion, sneering, "My allure? What allure do I have? A man like him wouldn't easily fall for the temptation of a woman he's meeting for the first time and is an enemy. To trap him deep within, it must be with images of women familiar to his memory or those he has a fondness for in his heart; only this way can he remain unaware of the illusion he's in. Ah! Who knows which woman he's thinking of now, is it the one trapped in the space with him?"
"Who cares! Can you control him and use him now?" Detrich gestured with the remaining military dagger in his hand, tapping Pei Yan's face armor with a mocking thud.
"You're overthinking it. With the essence within his body, it wasn't easy for me to trap him. Control him? Maybe if I fuse with multidimensional essence and advance to tier nine awakening, there's a chance." Amendina withdrew her finger, staring at the mecha in front of her, eyes full of greed. After a while, she shook her head reluctantly and sighed, "We have to kill him; there's no other way! Keeping him around is courting disaster."
After speaking, she looked toward Detrich, who was preparing to act, and repeatedly reminded him, "Make sure you strike decisively with precision and force, ensuring a single blow is lethal! Otherwise, if he awakens from the illusion, it will be nearly impossible to trap him again! If that happens, neither of us can contend with him!"
Detrich was initially ready to thrust his knife into Pei Yan's throat to end his life, but upon hearing her words, he paused and became cautious. After taking a deep breath to adjust his state, Detrich let out a low roar, his muscles tense, veins bulging from his forehead, surrounded by a golden glow as the military dagger in his hand elongated and shone with deadly gleam. After all was prepared, Detrich gripped the dagger with both hands and aimed it at Pei Yan's throat, ready to end his life with one fatal cut.
As he continuously traced Pei Yan's throat with his hand, searching for the optimal angle to strike, a voice suddenly chimed in from behind the two, humorously urging, "Can you hurry up? I'm quite anxious here!"
Detrich was startled, nearly dropping his dagger, but his battle-honed reflexes kicked in swiftly. Almost as soon as the first word was spoken, he rolled aside without even glancing, tossing the dagger towards the origin of the voice. At the same time, Amendina, equally shocked, pulled out Jiezhi Space, intent on escaping into it once more.
With a crisp sound, the dagger was effortlessly caught by two fingers at its tip.
"Ah!" A scream pierced the air as Amendina's hand holding Jiezhi Space, smeared with blood, was flung high into the air. She fell to the ground clutching her wound, unable to even glimpse how the opponent made their move.
The two fingers holding the dagger casually threw it, crashing to the ground with a clatter, and the fingers vanished. The surroundings returned to an empty-stark state, but both seated figures knew who had spoken, aware he was hiding nearby.
"Pei Yan! What, what kind of trick are you playing!" Detrich ignored his companion, slowly recovering from her severed hand and glanced back at the stationary mechanical body, gripped by fear sourced from the unknown, unable to fathom what was happening.
After his trembling inquiry, the area returned to a calm state, as if all that transpired was part of their illusion. Spiritually tense and near collapse, Detrich turned to Amendina and snarled, "Have you controlled him or not?"
"You should know I've enhanced not just my puppet but also merged my supernatural abilities with various multidimensional enchantment methods. Once he falls for it, there's no reason for him to awaken." Amendina held her newly healed wrist, eying the recently severed hand nearby, hesitated, and added with a now less certain tone, "At least, he definitely won't regain consciousness so quickly!"
"Then how do you explain your hand? And my dagger? Did it vanish?" Detrich angrily demanded.
Confronted with such a question, Amendina was momentarily dumbfounded, but within moments of quick thinking, she seemed to grasp the crux of the matter and suddenly exclaimed, "I get it! This guy can release mechanical decoys. Before the battle, he must have prudently hidden a mechanical decoy to interfere just now when we were about to harm his real body, then vanished again into hiding! Detrich! This is Pei Yan's delay tactic. His mechanical decoy isn't strong enough and can only create confusion. Don't mind him or me. No matter what happens, just go and take Pei Yan's life; everything will be resolved once he's dead!"
Detrich drew his last dagger from his waist. Regardless of Amendina's rightness, her explanation was currently the best available, the only one they could accept; otherwise, their attack would end in total failure. With this in mind, he no longer hesitated and charged toward the mechanical body standing before him. That's when he heard the terrifying voice behind him once more.
"Are you really so confident? Certain you want to risk it?"
Detrich did not need to look back to know that the speaker had fully emerged from the void and was now hovering behind him. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
"Don't listen to his trickery; he's bluffing! This certainly is Pei Yan's mechanical decoy. Quickly finish off his real body, and the decoy will naturally vanish!" Amendina, slumped on the ground, eyed the mechanical figure identical to the motionless one and firmly believed her conjecture, loudly encouraging Detrich.
Now Detrich was primed with no choice but to act, unable to waver. As he closed into attacking range, he leaped forward, aiming his deadly strike at the throat he deemed belonged to Pei Yan. At this critical juncture, the previously unresponsive mechanical body suddenly lifted its head, its eyes beneath the visor emitting two dangerous red beams, fixated on the descending figure of Detrich.
With their eyes locked, Detrich knew retreat was impossible and pressed onward boldly, swinging his arm downward without hesitation. Simultaneously, the mecha before him reacted, raising an arm to block! Detrich knew now was the time; a delay would mean his demise. He ignited all his potential, shouted spiritedly, and struck down with all his might!
