socalfunplaces Chapter 270 The serial killer sends out another warning.
Chapter 270 The serial killer sends out another warning.
Chapter 270 The serial killer sends out another warning.
After seeing Miss Sharon off, Raphael continued to plan a new series of murders.
He first used the "Faceless Jade Pendant" to change his appearance and then sent the "announcement letter" to the police station, the newspaper, and the church of the Goddess of Night.
Then Raphael transformed into another person and went to the Backlund auction house, where he sold his previously painted "Gluttony" at a low price.
He originally intended to keep the painting as a memento, but unexpectedly, using the elements of the "Seven Deadly Sins" to kill people allowed him to continue digesting the magic potion, so of course he had to make use of the painting.
After completing these preparations, Raphael went to handle another order from "The Mechanic Company" and sacrificed the target's soul to the demon he had been sacrificing to.
Through this sacrifice, Raphael successfully gained the opportunity to summon the opponent's phantom.
However, this opportunity can only be maintained by constantly offering sacrifices, and the standards of the offerings cannot be lowered.
Raphael summoned a phantom to observe it, and the phantom's strength was roughly between Sequence 5 and Sequence 4.
For ordinary demons, this phantom could be a lifesaver, but for Raphael it was somewhat of a waste.
However, Raphael also planned to continue the sacrifices, since it would be a waste not to use the souls that were killed. Moreover, if the sacrifices continued, the phantom's strength would continue to increase, and sooner or later it would reach a level of approximately Sequence 4.
Backlund, North District.
As usual, after arriving at MI9, Hugh first went to pick up a newspaper that had been delivered that morning.
She sat behind her desk and opened the Ruen Morning Post. The front page was still reporting on the protests. With food shortages, the protests had become increasingly uncontrollable, with frequent incidents of beatings and robberies.
Small bakeries, in particular, became their primary targets for robbery.
Hugh took a deep breath. The police were busy maintaining order on the streets where the wealthy lived and had no time to deal with these small bakeries.
She continued reading, and when she saw the front page of the second edition, she suddenly stood up.
The serial killer who previously murdered two grain merchants has sent out another "warning letter".
The proclamation stated that the demon would take away the soul of an arrogant man who believed he could control everything, but he completely misunderstood the demon's meaning. Arrogance is always accompanied by ignorance.
Xiu slowly sat down: Another grain merchant is about to suffer?
She suddenly smiled: I wonder what those wealthy businessmen will think after seeing this "preview letter"?
Pesfield Street.
Leonard was in his office, half-reclining in his chair with his feet dangling on his desk, looking at the "announcement letter" sent by the serial killer and letting out a long sigh.
He desperately wanted to talk to the assassin so he could hint in the "pre-announcement letter" that grain merchants could sell their grain and alleviate Backlund's grain price problem.
But Leonard is too busy right now to secretly investigate the killer's identity.
Since that's the case, he decided to pretend he didn't see it and didn't plan to investigate beforehand.
Queen's Road, the Earl of Hall's mansion.
Audrey also saw the assassin's trailer and listened to her father and older brother discussing what the assassin's demands were.
In their minds, the assassin must have had some motive or purpose for taking such a big risk to kill such a wealthy person.
But why hasn't the killer revealed his true intentions yet? Why is he just relentlessly killing?
Audrey, however, knew that this assassin was an extraordinary individual.
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Many extraordinary individuals kill without any particular motive; they simply want to kill.
She planned to discuss this matter at the tarot meeting; she had more important things to do today.
In January, she successfully obtained the "Manipulator" trait from "The World", and in recent weeks she has been buying the necessary materials.
Before breakfast, Audrey had already prepared the potion, intending to use it for the general ascension today.
The advancement ceremony for a "manipulator" is to take a magic potion in a specific setting with at least 10,000 people, amidst a tremendous emotional resonance among them.
Today, the Church of the Goddess of Night offers prayers and blessings to the young people who died in battle and to ordinary people who perished in the war, hoping they will enter the goddess's kingdom.
However, this Mass is actually meant to comfort the living, whose children or husbands died on the battlefield, and whose relatives perished in the war.
People have accumulated far too much pain, longing, and sorrow.
After breakfast, Earl Hall and his family took a carriage to Memorial Square, where the entire square was already filled with devotees of the "Goddess".
They gazed silently at the platform, awaiting the start of Mass.
Under the protection of police and bodyguards, the Hall family arrived at a location near the platform.
A short while later, Archbishop Anthony Stevenson of the Church of the Night in Backlund, dressed in a dark robe, walked up to the platform.
He looked around, raised his right hand, and tapped his chest four times clockwise: "Praise beauties, goddess."
The believers joined in the praise.
Then, Anthony said in a deep voice that everyone could hear: "Goddess, have pity on every mother who has lost her child, have pity on every lonely child, have pity on everyone who is suffering great pain."
He said that all of this will eventually end, and all the suffering will return to silence and peace.
"The crimson full moon rises, illuminating the earth."
"Everyone sank into a sweet dream, dreaming of themselves, dreaming of their parents, wives, husbands, and children—this is forever—"
Unbeknownst to them, everyone felt their spirits were cleansed, and their spirituality was naturally expressed.
They seemed to have truly entered a dream, strolling through a tranquil darkness.
Here lie their sleeping children, their parents, their wives, their husbands, their friends. These dead are no longer suffering, no longer in pain, their faces serene and their expressions gentle.
As the archbishop's voice rang out, those wandering through the dream were overwhelmed with intense sorrow once more, as if they understood that they truly had to say goodbye to their loved ones.
Those attending Mass at Memorial Square could no longer suppress their emotions; tears streamed down their faces as they silently and unreservedly released their pent-up pain.
The grief reached its peak, and more than ten thousand hearts resonated deeply in Memorial Square.
At this moment, Audrey opened her eyes, bent down, and took the "Manipulator" from the leather bag carried by the golden retriever Susie.
The magic potion.
The potion was floating with countless fragments of light, like a manifestation of the ocean of collective consciousness.
Without hesitation, Audrey unscrewed the cap and gulped down the liquid in one go.
After a struggle at the level of consciousness, she successfully advanced to the rank of "Manipulator".
At this moment, Raphael's carriage was parked outside Memorial Square.
He witnessed the entire process of this large mass: religion does have its uses sometimes; ten thousand words of comfort may not be as effective as a single "consolation from the goddess of night." Moreover, it can allow them to collectively enter a dream and vent their emotions.
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