Amidst that old debris of the workshop, now only a heavy silence was left. The fight was now over, that kidnapper woman had died due to being hit by a bullet in the very middle of her head. Her body lay lifeless before me, as if some old puppet had piled up on the ground as soon as its strings broke.
But after all, how did I do this?
Actually, when this woman attacked me for the last time, then in my last bullet, I had put the Purify energy with the help of my 'Reverent Card'. Doing so was possible, because if the card purifies some Non-corrupted object, then in exchange for that, the ability to 'Resist' corruption comes inside that object for some time. That yellow golden light was not just a show, it had become a divine armor within the metal, due to which for some time it becomes an object coming inside a 'Sun Domain'.
And I knew this thing that it will definitely work on the bullet of my gun as well, and it did! For that bullet filled with golden energy, that darkness was just a curtain. Due to which that Shadow Tentacle also could not stop my bullet and my bullet, going across it, entered that woman's head.
But here a big mystery was still left. But after all, when I had used my 6 bullets already, then after all how did one more bullet remain with me in the gun?
Actually, there was a reason behind this, because when my fight was happening with this woman and 2 bullets of my gun had finished, then in my third bullet I had finished a Shadow Clone of hers, after which she had brought me to this place by running. She wanted to make me empty-handed, but she did not know that I had read her moves beforehand.
Therefore I had summoned 'Heater' while coming here, because I had a guess of this thing beforehand that this woman is trying to make the bullets of my gun finish. Therefore I, after speaking to Heater, asked him to transform into a bullet with the help of his 'Azure Mimicry' ability, after which he, after transforming, came in the form of a bullet like an empty Shell. And he came in the chamber of my gun as the 4th bullet.
But the last bullet which I fired at this woman, that was not Heater's bullet form.
Rather it had fired and gone out from the gun as soon as I fired the sixth (6th) bullet. My logic was very clear; I had done so because if I had saved Heater's bullet form for the end and fired at that woman in the end, then I would not have been able to use my Reverent Card in that condition. There was quite a lot of risk in this. And if I did so, then due to Heater being a Spirit, he himself would have begun to Purify, meaning I would have lost my last chance. That fierce energy of purification could have erased Heater's existence itself. For this reason, I adopted this method and in the end, it worked too. This woman felt that all the bullets of my gun have finished and she attacked me without thinking and in the end was killed. Heater only created the illusion of an 'extra shot' so that my real sixth bullet, which was consecrated with the Reverent Card, could go directly and hit the target.
And now that woman was lying near my feet. Those terror-filled eyes of hers had now become like lifeless stone. After some time Heater also came out from the darkness. His bright blueness and his Blue Aura coming out from him had turned pale and dim. Using 'Azure Mimicry' had been quite tiring for him.
He came near me with his bent back and began to say to me, "Master... please forgive me, I was not able to hit this woman." There was a strange disappointment in his voice.
Upon which I give a reply, "Oh, it doesn't matter Heater, anyway without you perhaps I would not have been able to finish this woman. I should say thank you to you."
Hearing my talk Heater scattered his light glow, upon which Heater gives a reply, "Oh, it doesn't matter Master, but please do not use me in this way. I became your Summoning Spirit only some time ago, but in just this much time how many times have I escaped while being finished!" There was a complaint in his voice.
I took a deep and tired breath. Upon which I, while interrupting him, say, "Okay fine, leave all this. We will talk about this later. Before that we have to do an important task."
I knew that the sound of explosions and bullets would have woken up the police in the city. Right now we should quickly take a search of this woman before someone reaches here from the Church or the Royal Knight Headquarters; anyway, they must be coming here. And their coming meant plenty of questions and this entire incident going into their possession.
As soon as I say this much, I hear the sound of the opening of the heavy door of the workshop. That sound of the creaking of iron echoed in the silence. Perhaps someone had reached here, therefore I quickly sit on my knees near that woman and begin a search of anything such which might be of use to me.
For this I make her body straight, which was fallen upside down toward the ground. As soon as I turned her, a cold shiver passed through my hand. However, despite dying only a few moments ago, a strange Smell was coming from her body. That odor was like rotting flesh. And her beauty had disappeared from her face and in its place 'Dead Face' had taken over. Her skin had begun to appear pale and full of wrinkles, as if she had become a many-time-old corpse in just a few moments. I was surprised that after all how can someone's body start finishing so quickly? Because an ordinary human's body starts rotting after hours. But then I understood that perhaps this could be because of being a part of the 'Void Pathway'.
Because although the Void Pathway represents darkness and void, but it is connected to many things and represents them, such as Death and Moon. Because the meaning of zero is not only emptiness. Due to which perhaps when a user of Void Pathway finishes, then the speed of his body's Decomposing might be much more than the speed of decomposing of the body of a normal human or a Paragon of a different pathway. And this could be the reason that this woman's body has begun to finish so quickly. However, behind this it could also be because of the previous corruption present upon this woman. The corruption must have hollowed her cells from inside beforehand, and death just accelerated that process.
I quickly began to take a search of her. The sound of footsteps coming from the direction of the door was now coming even closer. I had to find something as soon as possible.
After just a little struggle, amidst the shadows of that rotting corpse I found some thing—a small diary. Its size was only as much as a pocket dictionary, but its weight was feeling quite heavy. Its cover was deep black like coal and was appearing to be made of leather; on it were some carved words which were written in dark red color. I looked closely, then 'The Ovies Land' was written on it in an ancient and forgotten language.
Looking at that mysterious writing I fell into thought that after all what kind of diary is this? Is there a mention of some land in it? Because until now in any corner of this world I had not heard about any place named Ovies.
But right now I did not have the time to find the answers to these questions. I quickly placed that diary safely in my pocket. And THEN I said to Heater,
"Okay Heater, you can go now."
But my words had not even finished that Heater, without making any protest, in a jerk went back into the depths of the Underworld. He vanished so quickly due to which, seeing this strange and rude behavior of his, I fell into thought that after all why did he React in such a hurry?
But right now I had a heavy lack of time for these entanglements. I took a long and burdensome breath and moving steps back turned toward Helena. Would that poison running in Helena's veins have stopped now?
This was such an uncertainty whose answer I was going to get only by looking at Helena's face.