“The Puppeteer” Lloyd, who could be called the “Master of Puppets,” naturally had real skills.

His mastery of puppetry was such that there might be one or two people in the whole of Old Lingdun who could match him, but definitely none who could be said to be stronger.

Black smoke enveloped the entire sealed space, and just when everyone was at a loss, the black lines on the huge cross in the sky suddenly burst forth, spreading wildly.

Countless black lines touched anything they could coil around, immediately binding them up.

At this time, someone shouted in the smoke: “Don’t panic, this is Mr. Lloyd’s puppetry trick, everyone, do not resist!”

The black lines, like thin snakes, probed everywhere, binding people and objects they encountered. Even the corpses on the ground were animated like marionettes.

The number of black lines was immense, covering almost the entire space, leaving no place to hide.

It was as if a hidden hand was manipulating the huge cross in the sky, turning the vast sealed space into a giant puppet theater.

Puppets on strings wandered all around.

…….

“An almost inescapable puppetry secret technique, truly living up to its reputation…”

Su’en watched, his brows slightly furrowed.

His own puppets were also entangled in the black lines around him.

He tried to control a puppet, which struggled for a moment, then immediately triggered a chain reaction. Countless black lines surged over, directly grinding the puppet into pieces. Moreover, this commotion caused the nearby “puppets” under control to swarm over as well.

Seeing the black lines covering the entire space, Su’en knew it was time to get serious.

The previous battles could be won with tricks, but now it was time to compete in strength.

This was Lloyd’s “theater,” where the black lines restricted everyone’s ability to move and hide in the space.

There was no choice but to face it head-on.

Seeing the black lines about to cover him, if he were bound, he wouldn’t even be able to escape with spatial teleportation.

Even the abhorred zombies were the same.

Su’en had no intention of running away. He narrowed his eyes at the black lines and murmured, “Good… let’s see how the methods of a traditional puppet master fare!”

With that thought, his gaze suddenly became sharp as a blade.

The next instant, he no longer concealed his aura, unleashing the second-order prosthesis, and his silvery threads surged wildly, rushing towards the cross in the sky.

Black lines against silver threads!

【Thousand Threads】against【Thousand Threads】!

Su’en possessed “Infinite Hair,” and although his technique was somewhat lacking, he was not afraid of “The Puppeteer” Lloyd.

It was at this moment.

The black lines found a “resistant” target and instantly converged.

Countless silver hairs and black lines tangled together, becoming a chaotic mess in a very short time.

Just like the scene in the 【White Monastery】!

Both sides were once again locked in a struggle.

At this moment, Lloyd’s voice came through the communicator again: “We’ve pinpointed his location, 45 degrees to the southwest of the space!”

This notification was naturally intended to expose Su’en’s position to the other five second-order individuals, hoping to replay the tactic of besieging the witch as before.

Su’en snorted in his heart, fearless.

Now that he was trapped on the spot, he pulled out another spatial scroll, and upon unsealing it, another twenty or thirty puppets appeared out of thin air.

He wasn’t just controlling threads with his hands; he also had eight spider spears!

The spider spears manipulated dozens of puppets, shielding him tightly.

…….

Su’en was restricted by the threads, and as soon as his position was exposed, the “puppet army” controlled by the black lines also converged towards his location.

Originally, after Lloyd’s 【Puppet Theater】 was deployed, it was a very spectacular battle scene.

Whether it was melee, magic, assassin, mechanic… any other profession, in this “theater,” they were all his marionettes.

Even if one had means to resist the black lines, they would still have to face the siege of countless black lines and the “puppet” army.

Puppets could not be killed; even if limbs were severed, they could still kill…

In the end, those trapped in the theater could only be worn down to death.

However, if both were puppet masters, especially both fused with 【Thousand Threads】 alchemical prosthesis.

The fight became very uninteresting.

Su’en never thought he could win over this Master of Puppets in puppetry.

In this confrontation, he directly gave up the puppetry tactic. Then, he released countless silver hairs, simply and brutally entangling the opponent’s “puppets.”

Su’en’s witch hair was infinite, but Lloyd’s Tesmox iron threadworms were limited!

With this entanglement, both sides could stop playing with puppets and just focus on the struggle.

In terms of puppet control, Su’en was far inferior to the Master of Puppets.

But when it came to wrestling, he was not to be underestimated.

Moreover, after Su’en took control of all the black lines from the cross above, he could then divide his attention to control his own puppets.

He also felt that since he was “controlled,” it was time for the enemy to make a move.

…….

Sure enough, as soon as they tangled, Lloyd’s loud shout came from the darkness: “Damn it, he really fused with ‘Infinite Hair,’ act quickly! This kid is tricky; I can’t hold on for long!”

There was still a glimmer of hope before.

Thinking that even if Su’en got the witch’s head, it would be useless.

After all, the dark gold quality “Infinite Hair” had extremely strong curse properties, and to refine it into a prosthesis required a very high tolerance value.

Even Danze Junior, the young master of the inner city’s top layer, had to downgrade to fuse with it. He could only choose some inferior ingredients to refine, lowering the containment value of the finished prosthesis, and forcibly refining the dark gold main material into a golden prosthesis product, to ensure that the body would not deform after fusion.

But now, after a try,

The toughness, strength, and tension of this hair… were all astonishingly exaggerated.

Lloyd immediately realized that this was definitely not a downgraded prosthesis!

Golden level?

No, it was definitely dark gold level!

If anyone knew what Lloyd was thinking at this moment, they would think Su’en was a monster.

Danze Oliver was the young master of the inner city’s top layer, with the best breathing techniques and cultivation resources. He had to downgrade to fuse with the alchemical prosthesis, so how could a wanted criminal from the outer city succeed in fusion?

Only a puppet master could truly appreciate the power of this “Infinite Hair.”

If he wasn’t killed today, he would truly become a terror once he grew up!

……

In the thick smoke, originally blind to sight.

This loud shout sounded like Lloyd had carelessly exposed his position due to anxiety.

Both sides were wrestling, and Su’en couldn’t move his position, so Lloyd couldn’t move either.

Exposing his position was the best opportunity for a killing blow.

Just swinging the scythe seemed like it would easily kill the dwarf master.

But Su’en wasn’t fooled; instead, his expression turned stern, and he focused his attention on his surroundings.

How could he not know that the guy had a very special alchemical item that perfectly countered 【Supernos’s Night Scythe】?

The Oliver family’s search for items to counter the black scythe’s curse could fool others, but not the Umbrella Organization. What they thought was a surefire sneaky tactic was already known to Su’en through Sabina.

This loud shout was simply to “attract firepower”!

“Tsk tsk, old schemer…”

If Su’en really swung his scythe in that direction, not only would he fail to kill the dwarf, but he would also be attacked by the other second-order individuals during the moment he struck.

Thinking of this, a mocking smile crossed his eyes. He pretended not to notice and controlled the abhorred zombie to raise the black scythe, as if he was about to slash in the direction of the sound.

Now that the zombie was covered in revealing powder, its movements couldn’t be hidden.

It was at this moment of action that the enemy reacted extremely quickly.

Su’en suddenly felt a needle-like murderous intent coming from behind, thinking to himself, “Here it comes!”

The malice approached at a high speed, almost instantly appearing behind Su’en.

At this time, the person arrived, and only then did his ears belatedly hear a series of explosive sounds of footsteps treading on air, “pop,” “pop,” “pop”…

If this slash was really aimed forward, even if Su’en reacted quickly, he wouldn’t have time to defend.

He would definitely be attacked from behind.

However, to the surprise of the attacker, Su’en’s slash was just a feint. As soon as it was raised, it suddenly changed direction and slashed behind him.

With this speed, it had to be the “Viper” Bright Jars, a second-order professional assassin who was very good at stealth and assassination.

The timing of this slash was just right to hit Bright.

…….

Seeing the black scythe suddenly turn its blade, Bright was also stunned.

He hadn’t even managed to strike, and the scythe had already slashed at his forehead. The momentum of his rush left him no room to turn back, and he instinctively blocked with his dagger in front of him.

Normally, even if a melee professional was discovered during a sneak attack, they could still block and retreat unharmed.

Unfortunately, the black scythe was an exception.

With one slash, it smoothly cut through.

The famed dagger was cut into two pieces, and then a hand’s width of a blood gash was smoothly cut across his neck, with blood spurting wildly from the wound.

Bright didn’t even have a chance to react, and his body completely lost its vitality.

Su’en silently counted to himself, “Four slashes have been made, and one more will trigger the curse backlash.”

After killing the assassin, he didn’t let his guard down.

Because at the same time as he acted, “malice” also came from three other directions.

In front of him, he heard a sharp “hiss.”

This was clearly the sound of a steam boiler venting violently.

Even without seeing, he knew that a mechanical warrior was charging at him!

The steam boiler’s energy storage made a lot of noise, and the friction sound of the mechanical arm’s joints couldn’t be hidden from a master, so this guy had been hiding and didn’t dare to make a sound. Only after storing energy could he rush forward, so he was half a beat slower than the assassin.

Moreover, not only from the front, but Su’en also felt intense elemental fluctuations from both sides. In the thick black smoke, red and purple glows flashed.

In the blink of an eye, a scorching chain of fire and a lightning bolt were upon him.

At this moment, Su’en’s eyes were devoid of any other emotion, only an almost numb calm.

His brain was like a high-speed machine, controlling his body to make the most appropriate response.

With a control of the spider spear, the 【Black Hole Puppet】 spread its arms into a horn shape, a black vortex appeared, and as soon as the fire chain and lightning touched him, they were rapidly sucked in.

The puppet opened its mouth again, and the magic of thunder and fire was spat out onto the face of the mechanical warrior who was charging at him.

At this moment, the advantage of having many hands was immediately apparent.

While manipulating the puppets, Su’en’s right hand quickly drew his gun and continuously pulled the trigger towards the left.

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

Three special booms of alchemical bullets exploded in the eardrums.

To the left was the thunder mage Rafael-Jemha, and to the right was the fire mage Nidam David.

In such a situation, it was obviously too difficult to shoot a “Fourfold Shot,” but using a “Threefold Shot” to hit the fragile thunder sorcerer was still no problem.

Su’en couldn’t see the positions of the two, but he judged their directions from the sounds of their spells.

Three shots fired, and a muffled groan was heard, clearly someone was hit.

Su’en didn’t bother with them, with the 【Black Hole Doll】 around, the sorcerer’s abilities were reduced by seventy percent.

Moreover, he didn’t have time to bother.

Because at this time, the mechanical warrior in front had already rushed to his face!

“Iron Tiger” Rein Lute, a retired junior lieutenant of the Old Lingdun city defense, now the captain of the Oliver family’s guard.

This guy had a high degree of mechanical modification and high-tech content. Mechanical armor covered his entire body, with advanced magic resistance runes and enchanted plating. The two weakened spells did almost no harm to him, not hindering his charge at all.

Su’en didn’t expect the two spells to stop the mechanical warrior in front of him, but the black scythe had just been swung and couldn’t be retracted in time.

At this moment, his ability to “multitask” was pushed to the extreme.

As his right hand fired the gun, his left hand also suddenly pulled, and countless threads in front of him converged into a dense giant net.

Another heavy explosion-proof puppet was pulled in front of him.

Just a brief moment later, the mechanical warrior Rein, relying on the powerful thrust of the jet propulsion device, brutally broke into the net. His mechanical body paused slightly, then broke countless threads and rushed out of the net. Using the inertia to gather strength, he slammed a punch forward, blasting the explosion-proof puppet into pieces.

After two interceptions, his strength was exhausted by seventy percent.

But even so, he still reached Su’en.

Rein knew he only had one chance to punch, the steam boiler couldn’t store too much energy, and he punched Su’en in the chest with another fierce blow.

He was very confident that although this punch was not strong enough, it was enough to kill any ordinary second-order non-melee professional on the spot!

Even if he clearly felt the presence of an alloy shield on his chest!

“Pfft~”

Hit in the chest, Su’en’s figure swayed.

He couldn’t hold back the burning sensation in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.

However, at this moment, a smile appeared on his bloodied lips.

The damage was still within expectations.

It had to be said that in terms of defense, speed, and strength, the mechanical warrior indeed had advantages that other professionals couldn’t compare with.

But in terms of reaction to sudden stops and changes in direction, the lag was also obvious.

He didn’t die from this strike,

The one who died was the opponent.

The toughness of Su’en’s body was such that a punch like this was not enough to kill him.

He didn’t make any superfluous movements, a flick of the spider spear, and the abhorred zombie beside him had already swung the scythe around.

The appearance of the spatial rift, unreasonably, cut a smooth trace on Rein’s indestructible mechanical armor.

“Swish~”

Blood spurted wildly, and Rein Lute’s head was directly chopped off.

Another one dead.

And at this time, the abhorred zombie also made the fifth slash, triggering the curse backlash immediately.

……

Even through the body bag, he could feel the state of blood bursting.

Su’en took a couple of breaths and looked around, but found that the abhorred zombie hadn’t turned into a pile of corpses.

It was a small pleasant surprise.

This meant that the abhorred had once again survived the five-slash backlash, and the wounds were healing quickly.

Su’en squinted at the direction of Lloyd in the black smoke, with a hint of mockery in his smile: “Tsk tsk… it seems, luck is still on my side.”

Six second-order professionals in the space, now two more of the most threatening melee professionals were killed.

The fate of thunder mage Rafael Jemha, who was shot, was unknown.

There were still “The Puppeteer” Lloyd, fire mage Nidam, and the cadre of the Crow Gang “Blood Crow” Langfero left…

Of course, even if the abhorred died, it wouldn’t be a big problem.

Su’en’s storage space still had two ordinary zombies as backups.

Previously, due to the lack of storage space, it was inconvenient to carry zombies, so he didn’t bother with them.

But now…

He wasn’t short of zombies.

Moreover, even without using the scythe, the threat of the remaining few magic professionals was not that great anymore.

Today, it seems like a big harvest…