"Ah!!!"
Accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, Geffrey's chest was directly hit by a flying bullet, and the powerful kinetic energy knocked him backward onto the ground.
At the same time, the countless bone blades floating and attacking on the street below suddenly stopped moving altogether. They dropped directly from mid-air to the ground. The Hunters who were originally being besieged looked at the scene before them in astonishment. These cruel and bloody bone blades suddenly malfunctioned, and the Hunters hadn't reacted to what had happened yet.
"The controller! The controller of those bone knives is behind the right window of #14 opposite! I just hit him!" At this moment, Eilina, standing on the balcony, shouted loudly to her Hunter companions below. The Hunters, led by Grego, immediately reacted after hearing Eilina's reminder.
"Go! Let's go catch him!"
Saying this, Grego led the Hunter team members who could still move to the entrance of #14. Without hesitation, they pulled out their pistols and shot off the door lock with a few shots, then broke in and entered the building.
Meanwhile, on the fourth floor, Geffrey, who had been shot and fallen to the floor, his fingers twitched slightly. Then, gritting his teeth, he sat up on the floor with an ashen face.
"Hmm... Ah ah..."
Groaning, Geffrey directly tore open the clothes on his chest with his hand. What was revealed was skin cracked like stone. Blood seeped out in threads from these fissures, and at the center of the radial, spiderweb-like cracks was a bullet embedded in the crack.
Clenching his teeth, Geffrey reached out and pulled the bullet head from his chest. The blood-stained bullet head seemed severely squeezed and deformed as if it had hit something hard. After removing the bullet, the rock-like texture of Geffrey's chest quickly disappeared, and the scattered cracks turned into small wounds.
"Huff... Huff... Huff... Why, why was I discovered? How did they see me here..." Sitting on the ground, Geffrey spoke with a confused and angry expression on his face. Just then, he heard a series of gunshots and the sound of many footsteps rushing in from below. He immediately understood that the building he was in had been invaded.
'Can't stay any longer, I have to leave quickly...'
Geffrey, realizing his position was exposed and it was not suitable to stay, immediately found cover and stood up. Then, he waved the bone weapon in his hand, controlling the scattered bone blades on the street to quickly fly back towards him, returning from the window into the room.
Next, Geffrey had the bone blades levitate around him and began to descend the stairs. Just as he reached the third floor, he ran head-on into the Hunters coming up.
"Over there!"
Seeing Geffrey's figure, Grego, holding his weapon, rushed up with the Hunter team members behind him. Facing this situation, Geffrey waved his hand, controlling the bone blades surrounding him to shoot towards Grego and his team. Grego drew his sword and parried several of them with a clanging sound. Since they were shooting from the same direction, it was easier to block. The other Hunters also found cover in time and dodged the incoming bone blades. The bone blades that shot towards them struck furniture, walls, and other cover.
In the narrow and complex indoor space, Geffrey's ability was greatly restricted. The limited visibility everywhere prevented him from fully utilizing it, making it even difficult to contend with Grego and his team. His wave of attacks was directly neutralized. However, Geffrey didn't actually expect this wave of attacks to cause any substantial effective damage to Grego and his team; the key was delay.
Temporarily restraining the Hunters with the bone blades, Geffrey directly rushed towards an open window. During this time, he also recalled all the bone blades. Immediately, Geffrey, along with his bone blades, prepared to leap out of the back window on the third floor. Seeing this, Grego directly threw his sword blade towards Geffrey. The sword blade hit Geffrey's shoulder and was bounced off with a crisp clang.
Leaping down from the third floor, Geffrey grasped the unbladed ends of two bone blades with his hands, using their levitation force to buffer his descent. He eventually landed safely on the ground, which was the grass behind house #14, and then ran towards the distant woods. After Grego chased to the window, he only saw Geffrey's back disappear into the night.
"Damn it!!"
Seeing this scene, Grego angrily punched the windowsill. After taking several deep breaths and calming his anger, he turned around and said to the team members behind him.
"Immediately contact the Bureau, contact the emergency team, and tell them to come quickly. There are many injured here who urgently need treatment!"
...
In the woods at night, Geffrey fled breathlessly. After a while, he walked out of the small woods used for greening in this residential area and escaped to the side of a main road. Then, he walked along the main road for a while and came to a tree, where a carriage without a coachman was parked.
After collecting all the bone blades onto the carriage, Geffrey drove the carriage into the night. At the same time, a crow flapped its wings and slowly flew down from the sky, landing on top of his carriage, and was carried by the carriage as it drove away into the distance.
...
In the Iggwente Upper City, in a high-end hotel located by the river.
In a clean, comfortable, and well-decorated suite, a thin man stood by the river-facing window, gazing silently at the river in the dark night with a solemn expression, occasionally looking at the clock on the wall, as if waiting for something.
After a moment, the suite door was suddenly opened, and Geffrey walked into the room in a sorry state. After closing the door, he quickly found a place to sit down and began to pant heavily. After panting for a while, he tore open his clothes to reveal his shoulder, where a bloody mark was now visible.
"You're injured? What happened? How was the investigation into that miraculous kid?" Looking at his companion sitting on the chair before him, the man named Oswan furrowed his brow and then spoke seriously. Geffrey, however, sighed deeply and replied with a resentful tone.
"Huff... I messed up... That kid is protected by the local Black Dogs. I wanted to catch her to see if there were any signs of being treated by'Shi' (Stone) on her, but I didn't succeed. Instead, I accidentally got bitten back by those Black Dogs."
Listening to Geffrey's words, Oswan was slightly taken aback, then spoke with a hint of surprise.
"Local Black Dogs? In Prit... Except for a few cities, the Black Dogs' strength is not very strong, at most just a Black Rank Director. Did you perhaps run into the Director here?"