Chapter 36: Hunting Bullets

  With the saintess in the center, Shade and the other Mystics sat in a circle. They were told to prepare for water divination.

  Judgement decided to explain the situation… You already know about water divination, it is in practice the same as dream divination. However, there is no need for a spiritual barrier.

  As the entity you are contacting with your divination is the one that initiate the divination, there is no need for you to do anything.

  The water in the temple gathered at the ceiling. The silver fishes flowed up along the water. A large body of water started to slowly descend and enveloped the mystics’ bodies.

  Shade didn’t panic. He simply entrusted his life to the goddess and focused on seeing the vision flashing in the water.

  …

  “Mr. Magician. Ready?”

  “Yes, Ms. Silver.”

  “Good.”

  Shade and Ms. Silver were on top of a building. They were the only ones in the area. The mystics of the silver moon was divided into small teams. No one was left behind at the temple this time.

  The northern district silver moon mystics were notified about the operation and understood the situation.

  They agreed to wait in their temple as to not risk any emergencies that needed reinforcements from other branches.

  The silver moon mystics were told to raid the buildings at the same time. Shade and Ms. Silver waited for the agreed upon time. Shade took this chance to pray.

  Ms. Silver left him alone and blocked her hearing as to give some privacy.

  “My Lady, you said my name when we were in the temple. I didn’t notice the others reacting in any way, did they hear what you said?”

  The silver goddess responded with a kind tone.

  “They heard what we said, but they did not hear your name.”

  “I see. Thank you.”

  After thanking the goddess, Shade stood up. He moved next to Ms. Silver and looked at the sword in his hand.

  Judgement decided to speak to him… The sword will be much more useful than your gun when facing more powerful mystics. Healing a bullet wound is easier than regrowing one whole arm.

  Magician scoffed before speaking… A gun is better when using illusions. Being able to attack from range will give you much more choices in combat. Good thing you brought your gun just in case.

  Shade looked at Ms. Silver, she was looking at a pocket watch. Her appearance in the temple and outside was different. In the temple, she looked like a proper saintess, a beautiful woman in a silver robe.

  However, when she was outside of the temple, her facial features change a bit, and she usually has a long black coat. Shade is unable to see her full appearance, probably because of her anti-divination characteristics that hides her appearance.

  The only thing Shade can fully see and remember is her tied back black hair and black coat… Is this how it is to look at me? I wonder if my anti-divination hides my facial features from her as well.

  “One minute. Prepare.”

  “Yes, saintess!”

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  Ms. Silver shifted her gaze from her pocket watch. She looked at Shade with an intense gaze. She snapped her finger and the temperature dropped a few degrees. She spoke with a calm voice with a hint of irritation.

  “Don’t call me that.”

  Shade was caught off guard. He simply nodded and then readied himself. He looked at the sword in his hand for a second time and let out a sigh.

  …

  Completely wet from the rain, Rouge shifted his gaze from his pocket watch to the building in front of him. Ms. Snow and Mr. Specter had just entered. The sound of gunshots resounded within the narrow street.

  Soon, the gunshots were replaced with loud rumbles. It sounded like a tempest was formed within the building. Rouge thought quietly for himself… They have become much stronger after only one year as mystics. Is the goddess planning something or have the tense mood in the city caused them to grow much faster than planned?

  Rouge, one of the silver moon’s pious believers. He had read numerous reports and taken care of a multitude of mystical crimes and anomalies during his years as a mystic.

  The past three years had more crimes and anomalies than previous years. He started becoming suspicious after most of his comrades were killed.

  He felt his worry surface… There has been an increase in mystical crimes. Especially those involving Gourmet. They had barely 20 mystics four years ago. How did they grow strong enough to attack us?

  Rouge shook his head… Whatever the case, today will be the day we find them. Today is the day I take revenge for the captain and the others.

  Rouge heard a loud sound. The building Ms. Snow and Mr. Specter had entered started to shake violently and something burst through a wall on the third floor.

  A human silhouette covered in dust and surrounded by broken pieces of brick fell down to the street. After landing, the person that burst through the wall stood up and his appearance was made clear.

  A red ceramic mask with six painted eyes adorned his face and black suit. Another person jumped down from the now open hole in the building.

  He had a white ceramic mask with a teardrop below his left eye. Rouge knew instantly which organization the masked men belonged to… Gourmet!

  Snow and Specter jumped down after the man with a white ceramic mask. Ms. Snow took the front line, she charged at their enemies with a sword in hand while Mr. Specter used his revolver to harass them.

  The mystics from Gourmet wasn’t afraid of being hurt. They used their arms and legs to block Ms. Snow’s sword and somehow managed to shrug off Mr. Specter’s bullets.

  It was only a matter of time until either side would be too tired to fight. However, the mystics of the silver moon wasn’t planning to drag out the fight.

  Rouge stood in an empty alley, watching the four mystics’ fight. He felt the raindrops around him and let his spirituality flow out of his body.

  The raindrops in the area his spirituality encased stopped in mid-air. The moisture in Rouge’s leather jacket was drawn out and formed a layer of water following his body’s outline.

  With a snap of his fingers, the rain droplets turned into ice. Rouge made a finger gun and pointed at the mystic with a white mask. The ice droplets shot forward and hit the mystic with a white mask.

  Rouge walked forward and melted into the ground while he turned into a shadow. The next time his body appeared was behind the white masked mystic.

  While being protected by his fellow mystic, the white masked member of gourmet focused all of his spirituality to make his body heal quicker.

  He felt that something was off when he was suddenly ambushed by what looked like hundreds of bullets.

  After having regenerated his eyes, the white masked mystic looked around, trying to find the people that shot at him when he suddenly was shot twice in the head.

  As his comrade fell down to the ground, the red masked mystic turned around to see what was happening behind him, when he suddenly felt a burning sensation around his waist.

  Rouge had made a rope of fire and used it to capture the red masked mystic. The flames made the red masked mystic scream in pain as Ms. Snow attacked him by slicing off his head.

  Mr. Specter stood a distance away and screamed at the top of his lungs.

  “He’s about to wake up!”

  Specter’s spirituality was drying up because he used his sleeping characteristic to make the white masked mystic fall asleep after being shot twice.

  Both the white masked mystic and red masked mystic was actually much stronger than the silver moon mystics. They should be the winning side of the battle. However, there was a silver moon in the sky.

  As long as the silver moon was in the sky, the mystics under its influence would gain greater strength and speed than what their current level would allow.

  Their spirituality was greatly increased and the effect of their characteristics was enhanced slightly.

  Rouge had less than 10 characteristics, but he was now at the strength of a mystic with 15 characteristics. Ms. Snow and Mr. Specter experienced a similar rise in their abilities.

  But even with that rise in strength and speed, the silver moon mystics should still be on the losing end of the battle. But the silver moon mystics still had an ace, their bullets.

  The bullets they are currently using are made specifically to combat mystics like those from Gourmet. Every bullet is a charm made from silver.

  The bullets were used to fight mystical beings with regenerative abilities. However, they proved even more useful against mystics with similar abilities.

  The Silver Bullet Charm as it is called, hinders regeneration and render some characteristics useless. These bullets had another name from older times, Hunting Bullets.