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Though the blind girl looked utterly defenseless, in reality, she was indeed just that.

But the skill that came with her Character Card was actually very powerful.

「Blind Girl Character Card」: When transformed into a blind girl, her helpless and pitiful state increases your skill attributes by 10 percentage points and makes enemies automatically ignore your threat, with the only regret being that you're blind.

It wasn't about points, it was about percentage points.

More importantly, she came with a passive skill of reduced presence, so as long as her skills were powerful enough, she could perfectly execute an assassination!

Xu Shuo moved through the flames until he got close to Lily, and only then did the little monster look surprised, its eyes widening.

The Bamboo Joint Cane's dark green end was wrapped in sharp darkness, like an exquisite dagger, with its black blade shimmering with a shimmering cold light, like a lurking venomous snake.

Lily's floating fiery bangs were cut by the blade, and after a moment of stun, she let out a piercing scream!

"Ah—!"

The surrounding flames exploded with a roar under the assault of the sound wave, and at the same time, the monster holding Lily raised its other claw and swooped towards Xu Shuo!

As the flames exploded around him, Xu Shuo quickly summoned darkness to form a barrier, and the darkness on his cane swiftly transformed into a soft whip, winding around the monster's arm. Then, using this leverage, he spun his body to the side. While airborne, with a tap of his toes on the hallway's railing, he moved behind Lily.

Whoosh—

However, it was as if Lily had eyes on her back; when Xu Shuo spun and landed, her ponytail ablaze with fire directly lashed toward his spot, swift as lightning and with a crackling sound!

Xu Shuo immediately swung his cane in several circles, and in a moment, wrapped the trailing flame of hair around his cane, then pulled forcefully!

"Ah!"

As it turned out, Lily's hair, even as flame, was still her hair.

She had the reaction many little girls have when their hair is tugged—both hands clutching her ponytail, looking back in a fit of rage.

But the one taking action for her was the monster beside her, its fingers suddenly becoming unreasonably long, like rubber tentacles, rustling from all directions towards Xu Shuo!

In an instant, the entire corridor was filled with tentacles that had pierced through the walls in a chaotic pattern, entrapping Xu Shuo within like a cage.

But even as he evaded the monster's attacks, Xu Shuo's grip on his cane never loosened; in fact, it continued to twirl circles in his hand.

So by the time he was trapped in the cage unable to move, Lily's hair had already become tangled and wrapped around the tentacles.

Because of the pulling, she was forced to tilt her head back, with both hands trying desperately to reclaim her hair, which by now was too knotted to untangle.

"Damn it!"

Lily was literally ablaze with anger!

The hair entwined around the tentacles blazed furiously, Xu Shuo laying half-surrounded by fire, the scorching temperature baking him, his hair fluttering with the Heat Flow, yet remaining unharmed.

His gaze, unclear, rested on the dark tentacles bound to him, feeling their grip tightening, and he slightly furrowed his brows.

The ability of "Dark Stealth" allowed him to move freely within the building, even controlling some of the bizarre dark forces.

However, even with the blind girl's skill percentage attribute boost, he still couldn't control the monster beside Lily, which in theory, should be no different from the Dark Power.

Therefore, either the monster was something special or his current strength still wasn't enough to contend with Lily's power.

If that was the case, it also meant that he might not be able to beat Yueshu.

After all, "SOA-09," representing Qiming Orphanage, was the big boss of this script!

Neither Lina nor Lily was anything more than Rule Objects spawned by it.

To put it simply, Yueshu was the kingpin.

Moreover, according to the Investigator's diary, even he, who had defeated everyone in the orphanage, had to retreat to the safety of the Headmaster's office when facing the enraged Yueshu.

This is not a good sign.

Suddenly, another tentacle burst through the cracks of the cage, shooting straight through the fiery red wall of flames toward his throat!

At this time, Xu Shuo's arms were tightly bound by the monster's tentacles. His eyes widened slightly as the surrounding black fog swarmed in an instant!

With a squelch!

The tentacle pierced into the thick and greasy black fog, entwining and tearing at each other, a fierce battle unfolding before Xu Shuo's eyes!

Although he couldn't affect Lily's monster, the Abyss Darkness was pervasive in Qiming Orphanage, and he could manipulate this Dark Power without expending any additional spiritual power.

Hmm, it was just that his skills were still too few to bring out the full effectiveness of the blind girl's Character Card.

Just then, a loud explosion came from across the corridor!

Accompanied by an extremely strong shockwave, it swept through like a hurricane, so ferociously that it instantly scattered all the flames burning in the corridor!

The slender monster was even pushed backward by the impact, slamming into the network of tentacles woven along both sides of the corridor to avoid being blown away. Discover hidden stories at My Virtual Library Empire

The fully ablaze Lily was blown back to her original state, with only her pupils still red. She had forgotten to continue attacking Xu Shuo, instead staring dumbfounded at what was in front of her.

Although wind feeds fire, if the gales are too fierce, they can blow out the flames directly.

But it wasn't this that stupefied Lily.

"You... this is impossible..."

Lily snapped back to reality, her face dark as she stared at the female reporter across from her and said, "What is that thing you have, how can you possibly resist my power!"

The female reporter took a few light breaths, raising her eyebrows and saying, "Why not? Didn't you just get extinguished by me a moment ago?"

Once she knew that this flame could not be dealt with by ordinary means, she took advantage of the blind girl drawing attention to start charging up her big move.

Since Lily could control the flames, she did not trigger an explosion to avoid giving the opponent a boost.

This time, a pure energy blast was just perfect!

"Hey, can you answer the question I asked earlier now?" The female reporter never forgot her mission, "Was the fire at Qiming Orphanage really caused by you?!"

"Hehe~"

Lily looked at her and giggled coquettishly.

The ten-year-old girl, already developing a charming allure, stared at the female reporter with her red pupils, eerie and cold. However, before she could threaten further, a dark green Bamboo Joint Cane suddenly pierced through her chest!

At the same time, the slender monster suddenly tightened its tentacle grip, and Xu Shuo felt his organs nearly crushed, making a clasping motion with his hand.

The next moment, the cane burst forth in blinding light!

Lily's eyes widened in horror and anger, tilting her head back, she let out a silent scream!

"Boom!"

Radiance burst forth, erupting from within her, and blasted the pretty, enticing young girl into dissipating black fog.

Following Lily's disappearance, the slender monster also crumbled in an instant, including its tentacles affixed to the corridor, all scattering into a heap of Dark Matter.

Xu Shuo fell to the ground, coughing a few times.

In the end, he had still expended a wave of spiritual power to activate the augmented 'Radiance'.

Executing Lily with a one-hit kill was within expectations.

However, Xu Shuo found that his mental state didn't seem to change much, the consumption appearing to be minimal.

It was just that the violin strings in his mind were vibrating at a slightly faster frequency.

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