Hellbents
Chapter 118: Doubt
Despite her expectations, Ava was surprised. It knows when the item detects a lie, the honesty artifact will shock the wearer. But he did not expect the "slightly electrocuted" effect could make people sprawl and convulsions. Doesn't that look dangerous? The perpetrator seemed to be showered with thousands of volts that made his body burn.
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Rai's crazy. They play deadly truth or dare as it turns out.
But in this way it has been proven, the hypothesis is correct.
"Hold him." Two mages who were originally dazed, instantly moved to curb Wendy who they thought was a co-worker.
The brown-haired woman's mage body was still twitching, the electricity flow had not disappeared from her muscular system. His eyes also turned upwards, only the white part was visible so that made Wendy look more like a possessed person.
At first Ava was still not convinced, because the current situation is different from the previous one. During the bombing incident last week, everyone was on high alert, both from the government and ******, so any suspicious movements would trigger extreme reactions from both sides. Now, in the secret mission that Ava is running, even though the assigned mage is on standby, it is seen once the old mage does not feel enough of a crisis to the point of bringing unrelated people into the room.
In addition, contrary to the bombing incident whose purpose was to spread fear by damaging property and taking the lives of residents, Wendy's mission seemed to be just a supervisor, at least that's Ava's assumption. The brown-haired female Mage had no intention of injuring Ava, the HP bar did not appear on Wendy's status window as it had happened to her previous opponents. Ava was only suspicious thanks to a new feature of her observation skill. In an inventory that he saw randomly, Ava was lucky to get a picture of an artificial artifact that had a familiar logo. Devil's logo.
Just in case, Ava should first uproot the existing pest, but all she has is indirect evidence. Many can be refuted if he asks blatantly, starting from where he knows, then Ava inevitably obliged to explain her skills. Then items that are used as evidence are stored in the inventory, no one should arbitrarily order someone to open the public inventory if there is no official order. Therefore Ava avoids the risk by using Ellijah, the man also still carries artifacts testing honesty in the inventory. Makes him the perfect shield for this plan.
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Ellijah initially disagrees with what Eve wants to do, as there are flaws in the plan. His honesty testing artifact is broken.
But to calm the mood of his fiancee who had been bad this morning, Ellijah was willing to do a plan that he considered useless.
However, in contrast to low expectations, the ring works smoothly.
Existing spies caught for lying.
Ellijah watched blankly as the unconscious female mage was dragged out of the room, her mind seemingly at a standstill, her blue eyes still unfocused as the division head and her students reexamined the teleportation preparations, the report said, fear that something is wrong due to the interference of spies that turned out to be among them.
... So the item wasn't damaged?
Then how can the ring not react when Eve wears?
"Gli!" his daydream had to come to a halt due to the cry of the princess who had taken a position in the middle of the teleportation formation with her personal servant.
Secretly Ellijah made excuses. Eve was already famous as a great designer of artificial artifacts, perhaps at that time she wore an item that turned off the function of the surrounding artifacts?
To make sure he had to ask directly.
Unfortunately, he somehow felt reluctant.