After noticing that Vanya might be in an unusual state, Dorothy immediately controlled the small Corpse Puppets scattered throughout the train, making them fly up to suitable positions to observe Vanya, who was waiting to get off. From a third-person perspective, Vanya's situation didn't seem unusual, but after Dorothy opened her Spirit Sight, she discovered something strange.
'Is Vanya... possessed by a spirits? When did this happen? How was she possessed by a spirits without any ability to resist?'
Seeing the abnormal spiritual phenomena appearing on Vanya's body, Dorothy quickly determined her current state. Another spirits was currently attached to her, controlling her actions. The current Vanya was not being controlled by her own will. Seeing this result, Dorothy couldn't help but frown, immediately realizing the seriousness of the situation.
'The current Vanya is being controlled by someone else. They used some method to make her temporarily lose consciousness, then used spirits possession to manipulate her actions... Is this some ability of the Path of Embodiment?
'It can be confirmed that there should be a group of people controlling Vanya's body right now. Controlling someone at this critical juncture is likely intended to do something at the welcoming ceremony. Although I don't know their specific purpose, it's definitely not a good thing. I must stop them...'
Standing in her carriage, Dorothy thought while putting on her coat. Afterward, she began to consider using the Corpse Puppets to search the entire train and the surrounding area to confirm if there were any other unusual situations and if the manipulators were somewhere nearby. Did they have any other arrangements? But when she saw that the train was about to stop and Vanya was about to step out of the carriage door to attend the welcoming ceremony, she realized that she no longer had time to do anything else. She had to act immediately. So, Dorothy immediately controlled her Corpse Puppets, preparing to expel the spirits from Vanya's body.
On the other side, Vanya, who was possessed by a hostile spirits, was standing in front of the carriage door, quietly waiting for the train to come to a complete stop. As the platform scenery outside the window in front of her gradually stopped moving, the long train finally came to a complete halt. Then, the train attendant beside her immediately stepped forward and opened the carriage door. After the door was opened, what appeared before "Vanya's" eyes was the carpet that had already been laid out, and the crowd lining both sides of the carpet welcoming them. At the end of the carpet, Robert and a group of Kankdar upper-class individuals were waiting for them.
Seeing the carriage door open, Robert smiled and led the distinguished individuals beside him forward, including Mazhar, who was absent-minded and seemed to be thinking about something else.
Inside the train, seeing Robert and the others walking towards her, "Vanya" also put on a slight smile. Then, she took a step forward, stepped onto the carpet, and walked forward. Amidst the warm welcome, she stepped out of the train and slowly walked towards Robert and the others. During this process, she reached into a small bag on her lower back behind her and clutched something inside.
After feeling the touch from "Vanya's" hand at this moment, Dorothy immediately knew what was being held in the bag. Realizing that the matter had reached a critical moment, she decided to act immediately.
On the carpet in front of the train, "Vanya," who was holding the pistol in her bag, wanted to immediately take out the firearm and shoot at the crowd in front of her. However, at this moment, she found that her entire body suddenly stiffened, making it difficult to move.
Standing still, the Extraordinary soul occupying Vanya's body suddenly discovered that the Sister's body she was controlling seemed to be dominated by another force, and its actions began to deviate from her will. The Sister's entire body was frozen in place, and she couldn't move it no matter how hard she tried for a while.
'Move, move, move quickly! What's going on? Why isn't this Sister's body moving?'
At this moment, the Extraordinary soul within Vanya's body was extremely anxious. The situation had reached the most critical moment, and the controlled body couldn't move, which made her at a loss for what to do for a while. On the platform, many spectators and Robert and others also felt confused about Vanya's sudden stillness.
Just then, inside the train, behind an open carriage window, a figure hidden behind the curtain threw two small projectiles towards Vanya outside the window. Upon closer inspection, these projectiles were surprisingly two paper balls, two talismans crumpled into balls!
The talismans burned in mid-air out of nowhere, not far behind Vanya, burning without being easily noticed by the crowd. Only Robert and a few people beside him saw the thrown paper balls. When some of them wanted to do something, the paper balls had already burned out, and then an invisible fluctuation erupted from the paper balls.
This was the Spirits Expelling Talisman! It was one of the spoils of war that Dorothy had searched from the bodies of A Tiff, the leader of the North Wu Treasure Robbing Group, and his subordinates, after remotely guiding Grego and Adele to deal with them. Some of those spoils were first divided between Grego and Adele, and the rest were sent to Adria, into the hands of Dorothy, who was still in Iweig at the time. Among them were such Spirits Expelling Talismans.
The Spirits Expelling Talisman can emit a fluctuation that ordinary people cannot perceive, but it has a strong disturbing ability for abnormal spirits. This fluctuation has a strong expelling effect on abnormal spirits. A single Spirits Expelling Talisman can collectively expel ordinary lone souls and wild ghosts. Dorothy was worried that one talisman might not be strong enough for the soul possessing Vanya, so she used two at once.
'Hmm... This is... Spirits Expelling!'
As expected, after being affected by the Spirits Expelling Talismans, the spirits that had been possessing Vanya suddenly felt a burst of disorder, and the entire spirits state began to become extremely unstable. The strong discomfort made the possessing spirits want to quickly leave Vanya's body.
However, she was not an ordinary lone soul or wild ghost; she was an Extraordinary soul. Even with the superimposed effect of two Spirits Expelling Talismans, she endured it and was not immediately expelled from Vanya's body, but this also greatly weakened her control over Vanya's body. Dorothy took this opportunity to continue her attack, using Living Puppet control to further take control of Vanya's body.
Before, Dorothy's Living Puppet control could only stop the actions of the possessing spirits, preventing her from drawing a gun and killing people. Now, with the possessing spirits weakened by the Spirits Expelling Talismans, Dorothy immediately gained the upper hand in the struggle for control over Vanya's body. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dorothy controlled Vanya to perform some other actions. Although the range of motion she could make was not large, it was enough for Dorothy at this moment.
Under Dorothy's control, Vanya, who seemed to be in a state of stillness, slowly opened her mouth, her lips slightly parted, emitting a subtle sound that only she could hear.
"The birth mother is also holy, the birth mother is also the cup mother. I came from the womb of the birth mother, just as I came from the womb of the cup mother. The birth mother taught me gently, just as the Holy Mother taught me gently. Therefore, the cup mother is the Holy Mother, and the Holy Mother also gave birth to me, and the cup mother also taught me..."
Forbidden and blasphemous words were whispered from Vanya's mouth. Her voice was like a thin thread, even those closest to her could not hear clearly. The only ones who could hear, besides Dorothy, were the spirits attached to her. Just as Dorothy expected, the spirits immediately showed a violent reaction after hearing the content of these blasphemous words.
'Ahhh--'
The Spirit Sight contained in the blasphemous words corroded the spirits's consciousness, causing her entire body to tremble violently. Unspeakable pain pierced every inch of the spirits's senses like a needle. Bright red spread in her vision, and the spirits immediately fell into a struggle.
'No... this won't do!'
Realizing the danger of continuing to possess Vanya, the possessing spirits immediately chose to leave. An invisible entity, which ordinary people could not see, drilled directly out of Vanya's body, then twisted and struggled as it quickly flew into the distance. Vanya, who had lost the spirits possession, suddenly relaxed and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Dorothy controlled her body at the last moment, causing her to only stumble at this time.
"What's wrong with that little Sister?"
The surrounding spectators showed curiosity and concern about the unusual situation that occurred to Vanya. Mazhar, who was not far from Robert, couldn't help but feel confused looking at Vanya's appearance at this moment. Robert, who was beside him, showed a worried expression when he saw this situation, but there was a hint of solemnity in the depths of his eyes.
After expelling the spirits, Vanya's consciousness gradually began to recover. The medicine that had put her into a deep sleep state had weakened its effect after half a night. She hadn't been able to wake up before because of the suppression of the possessing spirits. Now that the possessing spirits had been expelled, she also began to slowly wake up. When her consciousness recovered and she saw the situation in front of her, she couldn't help but be startled.
"Huh... What's happening? Why are there so many people?"
"Be careful, someone wants to control you for a public assassination, and the masterminds might still be nearby!" Facing the slowly waking Vanya, Dorothy spoke sternly through the information channel, and Vanya was even more startled after hearing Dorothy's words, and began to look around.
At this moment, behind Vanya, several attendants' faces darkened when they saw Vanya's situation in front of them. Then they glanced at the carriage window not far away. Finally, in their eyes, the carriage window not far away was directly lifted, and a figure quickly climbed out of it. Upon closer inspection, it was a clergyman with a bandage wrapped around his wrist. He was Kid, one of the guards of the envoy group! At this moment, in Dorothy's eyes, he also had signs of being possessed!
'Damn it! There's more than one!'
"Be careful of the right rear! That Kid is going to attack the welcoming ceremony guests!"
Seeing Kid's appearance, Dorothy immediately warned Vanya, who was still a little bewildered. After hearing this, Vanya immediately turned her head and looked in the direction Dorothy reminded her of. At this moment, Kid had already squeezed into the carpet area from the crowd, staring coldly at Robert and the other welcoming ceremony guests in front of him, drawing a pistol from his body and aiming at them, and shouting loudly.
"The Lord is Supreme!"
While shouting, Kid was about to pull the trigger and fire. At this moment, Vanya had already turned around and rushed towards him at high speed, quickly knocking the pistol out of Kid's hand. Then, she used great force to grab his arm, and combined with a sweep of her leg to break Kid's balance, she threw him to the ground and subdued him, making Kid unable to move. The entire process was clean and neat, causing the spectators nearby to cheer loudly.
Seeing the moment Kid was captured, Robert's feigned surprise in the depths of his eyes couldn't help but dim. Then he glanced slightly, using a very subtle peripheral vision to look at the several attendants behind Vanya at this moment, and those attendants immediately began to act after seeing Robert's fleeting glance.
At the moment Kid was just thrown to the ground, before all the spectators had fully reacted, and when almost everyone around was focusing their attention on Kid and Vanya, an attendant in uniform, standing at the train door, took out a pistol from his clothes, aimed it at the guests at the end of the carpet in front, and fired while shouting.
"The Lord is Most Holy!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The attendant, who was almost ignored by the spectators and had no signs of being possessed in Dorothy's eyes, and had almost no sense of presence, was holding a pistol at this moment, unscrupulously unleashing bullets towards the front of the carpet. Amidst the deafening gunshots, high-speed projectiles flew across the carpet and hit the guest group.
Amidst the screams of the spectators, bullets pierced through flesh. The obese Mazhar, perhaps due to his larger build, was shot twice in terror and fell to the ground wailing. Robert, who was at the very front of the group, was also shot in the chest, clutching his blood-stained chest, and slowly fell with a pained expression. In addition, a stray bullet hit a noble Miss, and one hit a gentleman. They all fell to the ground in full view of the public.
"Take down the assassin! Protect the nobles!"
Amidst the panic of the spectators, the Captain of the city guard, who was originally maintaining order at the scene, immediately roared out his order. Then a group of guards immediately rushed forward. They were divided into two parts. One part went to protect the gathered guests, and the other part quickly rushed to the train door to take down the assassin.
Meanwhile, inside the other carriage, Dorothy couldn't help but frown when she saw the chaotic scene in front of her, and then she murmured.
"This is... regardless of the cost..."