Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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He went to the window, stood in the shadows and looked out for a while, making sure no one noticed the lonely house, before turning and walking to Ivy Beatrice's bedroom.

A few minutes later, he lay lazily on Ivy Beate's bedroom bed, using his hands as pillows under his head and playing with the strange pebble in his other two hands.

At the same time, his mind was racing, trying to recall information about the person who had been lying on this bed before.

The homeowner, Ivy Beatrice, is a well-known figure in the city of Burning Earth and the port of Fire.

Burn Scar has been lurking here for the past few days, and by simply eavesdropping on the neighbors' conversations, he has roughly learned some information about this woman.

The former heiress of a prestigious family, the Beatrice family, fell into ruin because of her indecent elopement.

He returned with several wild beasts and was forced to live in the house that originally belonged to his relatives. Using his former identity as a paladin, he found a clerical job at the docks.

After that, her pimping relatives inexplicably ran away from home, and another uncle went insane and jumped into the sea. This left her to inherit the house alone.

Before the two-headed evil dragon attacked, the leader of the demon cultists, Port Master Burktura, inexplicably attacked this woman and died in this house.

Finally, after witnessing the battle of the two-headed evil dragon, he was greatly stimulated and resigned from his job at the dock and went to sea.

If you only look at it this way, Ivy Beatrice is just an arrogant and ignorant rich girl, and an unlucky and cowardly woman.

However, one thing in these messages seemed very familiar to Scarface, and it made him feel very uneasy.

On the day of the Red Forest Temple explosion, the madman named "Gidelorine" not only refused to repay his debts, but also suddenly started shouting that he wanted to find himself. Afterwards, he ran to a boat and jumped into the sea to commit suicide.

Burn Scar knew very well about Gidelorine's suicide by jumping into the sea, because he was also in the hotel's barn at the time.

He spent many years in Fire Harbor and had a lot of dealings with those debt-collecting lizardmen.

While the lizard man, whose head was even balder than his, was reading "Managing Your Time: The Key to Success" and waiting for Gidelor to return, Burn Scar huddled in the haystack and slept.

Afterwards, they all rushed after him, and he even stole the book.

He still remembered what the drunken madman had said.

"No, I mean, from today onwards, I'm going to live for myself!" The guy gesticulated wildly like an idiot. "Tomorrow I'm going out to sea to become a fisherman!"

Now, Burn Scar suddenly discovers that Gidelorine is actually Ivy Beatrice's uncle.

Moreover, Ivy Beatrice's excuse for going to sea was something like "finding herself," which was almost exactly the same as the tone of her crazy uncle's suicide.

—Are you fucking kidding me?

—Is your Beate family all insane?

That night, Gidelorine jumped into the sea and committed suicide, but his body was never found again.

It's nothing, just a crazy person who committed suicide. Besides, it's very difficult to find a body after jumping into the sea. Who knows where the currents will carry the dead person? Moreover, many marine creatures are carnivorous.

However, I'm afraid of contacting anyone.

The situation becomes unusual when you connect the missing body of Gidelorine with the original owners of the house, the Broclawie-Swango couple.

All of Ivy Beatrice's relatives vanished without a trace.

Burn Scar knew what the Swango couple did, although he had never patronized Mrs. Swango's business.

One sold his own body, and the other sold his wife's body.

These kinds of people only care about money and have no moral compass. How could two such shameless individuals abandon such a large house with a yard and suddenly run away from home?

This excuse could only fool the bureaucrats at Fireport, because those paladin lords didn't care about these scoundrels at all. They just wanted results.

But this doesn't make sense at all, given the burn scars.

And there's Gululos.

Burn Scar killed the clone of Gululos and found a note on his body with Ivy Beatrice's name and information. Why would the fake Gululos carry this thing with him?

How did this woman get involved with the Broncos gang again?

The Ottokan women released and hired him to deal with the Bronco gang, and Scarface naturally did his research before taking action.

The Broncos were originally dogs kept by the Ottokan family, and were also known as the "Halfman Gang." However, not long ago, the "Dragon Horn Tavern Massacre" occurred, leaving halfmen dead and wounded. After that, the Broncos briefly disappeared for a period of time, after which the gang's heir, Gurulos, suddenly defected to the "Thunder Eater" family.

The one who survived the "Red Forest Temple Explosion" was the "Thunder Swallower," and on that very night, Gidelorine committed suicide by jumping into the sea, making the same declaration as Ivy Beatrice's resignation and departure for sea.

Not only that.

Burn Scar learned from overhearing his neighbors that Ivy Beatrice, the fiancée of Losques, the former heir to the Ottocan family, was accused of eloping with another man and running away from her arranged marriage.

Although the woman from Otucana never mentioned the name "Ivy Beatrice".

But this Ivy Beatrice is indeed an enemy of the Ottocan family.

The more he thought about the burn scars, the more something seemed off, so he sat up in bed.

He doesn't understand politics, but he's not stupid.

In his view, not only was there a problem with the woman, but there was also a problem with the house.

Who would dig their basement into such a maze of interconnected passageways? Several exits leading to the yard and outside, and even an entrance hidden inside the wardrobe in their bedroom.

Burn Scar stared at the wardrobe for a few seconds, then nimbly jumped out of bed, pushed the wardrobe over, and silently looked at the tunnel entrance leading to the basement.

Although he had been hiding in the basement to evade capture for the past few nights, only daring to enter Ivy Beatrice's bedroom today, this was the first time he had ever been suspicious of the basement.

Burn Scar noticed that the basement expansion was very recent.

In other words, it was either the Swango couple who did it, or the woman dug it after she became the homeowner.

Why would a young lady, demoted to a dock clerk and living a normal life, need to dig her basement into a place that serves as both an escape route and a refuge?

“Digging this basement,” Scarface muttered to himself, “what exactly are you up to, Ivy Beatrice?”

He used all four arms, taking turns bracing himself against the tunnel wall, as he slid down.

As I landed smoothly, an extremely absurd feeling arose: the tunnel was so steep and straight, it seemed to have been designed specifically for a four-armed creature like myself.

He chuckled self-deprecatingly and dismissed the thought.

Back in the dark basement, he carefully examined the various tunnel entrances and the ground, trying to find something related to the Bronco gang.

Everything inside the tunnel was laid bare under the dark vision of the burn scars.

Suddenly, he noticed that near the tunnel entrance to the yard, there was a patch of soil that was a different color from the rest.

Burn Scar walked up to the soil and stared down at the slightly raised area.

The soil had been deliberately compacted, but it was dark in color and had a faint, fishy odor.

Even without digging it up, you can guess what's underneath the soil just by looking at the burn scars.

After all, he had done this kind of work more than once.

“Swango, the pimp, and your whore wife,” Scarface sighed, “hello.”

He thought for a moment, then went up the stairs to the living room and took down two shovels.

With four arms and two shovels, the efficiency of digging soil has more than doubled.

A moment later, he felt the shovel touch something.

Burn Scar turned his head and took a deep breath. He roughly guessed what it was, then shoveled it forcefully and lifted it up.

As the shovel dug, all that was unearthed was a solitary human head.

His eyes were glazed over from the burn scars.

Although most of the head had rotted away, he could still recognize the face.

It was far from what the burn scar had envisioned. It was neither Loven Beat Swango nor her husband, Andrew Rockwell Swango.

The look of his head during his lifetime, the burn scars—it's hard to forget.

This is Gideon's head.

A magical aura shimmered in his emerald vertical pupils. Above the sea, the six-armed serpent demon scratched his chin thoughtfully.

The moment the shovel with the burn scars pierced the soil and touched Gidelorine's head, she, separated by oceans, immediately sensed it.

On this long trip, Ivy Beatrice carried all her important belongings with her, worried that homeless people or the like might break into her home.

She didn't install a magic alarm in her home.

If petty thieves frequently visit the place or homeless people come to stay in the empty house, that would be enough to trigger a magical alarm.

Therefore, the only thing that could truly trigger the magic alarm was when the visitors unearthed the several deeply buried corpses in the basement.

Ivy Beatrice had considered summoning something to devour the corpse, but it failed. The corpse had been rotting for too long, and even the summoned infernal serpents wouldn't eat it.

So she simply installed a magical alarm on it to remind herself that someone was working in the basement.

Moreover, the instant she received the magical alert, she felt a tremor in her heart. It was an inexplicable premonition, as if telling her that the person who came was no ordinary person.

The next second, Ivy Beatrice appeared silently in her bedroom as a six-armed snake demon.

Beneath Gidelorine's head, the burn scars revealed the Swango couple.

—That woman, Ivy Beatrice, has a powerful accomplice. This person killed for her and even helped her bury the body…it's most likely Gurulos.

Scarface suddenly realized that he had finally touched upon the truth.

This woman is not simple.

She seduced Gulllos with her beauty, getting him to do her bidding. For the sake of the house, Gulllos dealt with those obnoxious relatives for her. He even sought revenge against the Ottocan family on her behalf, in the name of the Beate family.

But how do you explain that the fake Gurulos that you killed also carried Ivy-Beate's information?

The heart of the person with the burn scar began to pound.

There is another possibility…

He watched with his own eyes as Gululos, inside the crystal ball, transformed into his likeness right before his eyes.

Then it's certainly possible that the Gululos seen in that crystal ball wasn't actually Gululos, but rather someone else impersonating Gululos.

A shapeshifter connected to Ivy Beatrice can explain a lot of things.

Just then, Burn Scar heard a noise coming from upstairs.

In the bedroom, Ivy-Beate, in her anti-magic field state, silently drew the Spellbreaker Mand and the Shadow Strike Sword, along with four other greatswords.

Ever since she was teleported to the bedroom, her mind had been screaming at her. It was the roar of the demon Diraz, all meaningless high notes, yet filled with rage, hatred, and fear.

【Shut up】

She sensed her angrily, but Dilatz remained unmoved.

This left her helpless.

Suddenly, the doorknob of the living room door rang.

Diraz fell silent instantly.

The six-armed serpent demon moved with such agility that it rivaled the magic "Spiderwalk." Its giant serpent body glided lightly onto the roof, its upper half of its body quietly pressed against the dark ceiling, as if it had become part of the ceiling itself.

In the basement, Burn Scar's breathing was barely perceptible; he was in a state of "turtle breathing," but all five senses were fully activated.

The sound of light footsteps echoed from the front door into the living room.

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The six-armed serpent demon lay silently on the bedroom ceiling, its gaze sweeping from the top of the bedroom door frame into the living room.

The living room door was wide open, and in the dim light from outside, a faint shadow could be seen on the living room floor. Ivy Beatrice's gaze sharpened slightly; the shadow had a thick tail.

This guy is actually a dragon.

Behind him followed two other figures. One walked lightly, while the other made rhythmic clacking sounds and was even using a cane.

The three people walked into the living room.

Before Ivy Beatrice could examine it closely, the living room door closed silently. The entire house was plunged into darkness.

Even the burn scars in the basement looked up, listening intently to the sounds coming from upstairs.

“She’s gone to sea, which saves us a lot of trouble,” a voice said. “If that damned Greenman bastard hadn’t been wanted throughout the city, we would have come to check on her a few days ago.”

Burn Scar stood quietly alone in the basement, a smile silently forced onto his face, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

“She really went out to sea,” another voice said. “Don’t let her end up like her uncle, jumping into the sea and committing suicide for no reason.”

“Who knows,” one of them said lazily, “they’re Beate, tsk tsk.”

"Shut up, everyone."

The third, aged voice reached her ears and immediately sounded incredibly familiar to Ivy Beatrice. She racked her brains, trying to remember what she was hearing.