Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 89
"Is the lady done bathing yet?" asked Mo Fan out of nowhere.
It had been half an hour, and the sound of water flowing could still be heard coming from the bathroom.
"And that's just how long can a woman bathe… Hmmm?" frowned Lingling as she suddenly realized something.
"What?" asked a confused Mo Fan.
"Do you still remember when she said she discovered a blood-stained skin on her husband's shirt this morning, before she rushed here to seek us out?" said Lingling.
"Yeah, what was wrong about it?" replied Mo Fan.
"She had her makeup on. She cried so bad that she ruined her makeup! Now… if she discovered that there was something wrong with her husband, do you think that she would have time to put on her makeup? Not to mention that she could still take her time and bathe for half an hour right now!" answered Lingling as she switched on the screen monitoring the bathroom.
Fog covered the entire bathroom and when Mo Fan stared at the monitor, he could vaguely see a body figure with smooth skin.
Just as he thought he was going to get some gratuitous eye candy, he stuttered and shivered!
That was no woman taking a bath, but a woman's skin hanging there!!
Human skin without blood and flesh looked like a deflated inflated doll, but the wet and messed up hair was the scariest part.
"This… this is just like a snake that shed its skin?" exclaimed the now horrified Mo Fan.
"Hmph, it really is that thing!" said Lingling, staring sharply at the screen, as if she could see through everything.
"What the hell is that thing??" asked Mo Fan hurriedly.
"That is not a monster, but a human. I will explain to you later, if I'm not mistaken, this lady is definitely out trying to commit a foul play now," said Lingling.
"You will keep learning new things until you die. There are just so many strange and unique things in this world," said Mo Fan before he asked again, "Won't she worry that her husband will find out about this? She has only such a short time."
"So she must be lurking around this small area." said Lingling.
"Can you find her??" asked Mo Fan quickly.
"I can try, but it's not easy. As far as I know, this thing likes to suck the blood of young women. It would trigger her interest even more if the target was a mage. Now go, get her while I take care of the child here. Go and dig out her true identity!" said Lingling hurriedly.
"Ok," replied Mo Fan without hesitation as he knew how dire the situation was right now.
He then jumped down straight from the edge of the building, which immediately garnered the attention of Lingling.
She looked after him in surprise as her gaze followed Mo Fan, who was falling down from the twenty-story building…
Just when he was about to hit the ground, Mo Fan vanished within the shadows. This scene was extremely eerie in this weather.
"The shadow element..." Lingling whispered.
This move was taught to Mo Fan by Teacher Tang Yue. It allowed Mo Fan to quickly descend from a high ground according to the different-sized shadows created by the buildings. Of course, he practiced this move from lower buildings first, or he would have killed himself if he failed!
Chapter 178 - Skin Shed Demoness
Anywhere with shadow would be a medium for Mo Fan to travel.
He first landed on the ground and through the same magic again, he quickly dove into the dark forest.
He still remembered that a while ago, there was a couple that had entered the forest for some tryst. This forest was kinda huge and with the trees blocking the light, it was definitely one of the best places for this lady to commit her crime.
"Ohhhh~~~ Ah~~~~"
"N..nooo~~~ If someone comes~~ Noo~~~ Ohhhh~~~"
The m.o.a.ning of the young lady could be heard immediately as soon as Mo Fan entered the forest. He was still in the shadows and immediately felt extremely uncomfortable!
Damn, behaving like that in the public! This is a public place, do you think that this is your own room!!
If it was any other time, he would've enjoyed the scene secretly at the side, but there was no time for him to do that right now.
"Fan Mo, head straight to the administration and ask for details of every lady that fits these two conditions; twenty years old or below, and at the same time, a mage," Ling Ling's voice sounded in his Bluetooth earphone.
"Alright," agreed Mo Fan immediately as he also thought that it was a good idea.
Once he got there, without wasting any time and saliva to talk, Mo Fan immediately showed the admin his Clear Sky Hunting Organization badge and told the admin that he was on a mission.
This badge was even better than a police badge, as they represented a lot of privileges. After all, the hunting organizations' level of authorization was much higher than the police, who could only hunt down average criminals.
"There are about seventy households here that fit your requirements. However, there was only around six households of mages,." said the admin, as he looked at Mo Fan suspiciously.
"Fan Mo, which one is the closest to our surveillance?" asked Ling Ling.
"Golden Jade Pavilion, 18th floor, room 102. There are three young ladies from Pearl Institution that reside here. By the way, they often make noise at night and someone has filed complaints on them once or twice already."
"Then it has gotta be them. The 18th floor of Golden Jade Pavillion can be seen from the bedroom of that lady. I reckon that the three young ladies were targeted quite some time ago," said Ling Ling.
"On my way," replied Mo Fan.
The gods knew how long and how much foul play this lady had committed, and if she was not stopped soon, there would be blood for sure. Mo Fan quickly rushed towards his destination but since there were not enough shadows to allow him travel straight up to the 18th floor, he had to use the elevator and knock on the door of room 102.
The door was quickly opened ,and it was the girl with neat bangs from earlier that opened the door. A smile immediately blossomed on her face as soon as she saw Mo Fan standing right in front of the door.
"Handsome, could it be you followed us all the way here after you got down??" asked the girl with a sweet smile.
"Who is it…. Woahhh, Xiao Tong, Xiao Tong! Your handsome guy is here for you," the red lipped girl who seemed to not be wearing any bra walked out to have a look and turned back into the room once she saw Mo Fan.
Mo Fan who was standing at the side then took a look inside the house and he put up a confused expression when he realized nothing was off.
Could it be that they were wrong and the shed skin lady's target was not them?
"Sorry for the disturbance. Now, I still have some matters to attend to…." Mo Fan who had no time to deal with any other affairs now immediately excused himself.
"Ahhhhhhh~~~~~~!!!"
As soon as Mo Fan was about to leave, he immediately heard a loud scream from the red-lipped girl.
Bam!
The girl got rammed by something, and was sent flying out from one of the bedrooms and her body almost stuck into the hallway wall.
With the naturally weaker body of the ladies, Red Lips immediately fell unconscious and blood started flowing out from the back of her head.
"Nan Nan!" exclaimed Neat Bangs with a shocked expression as she rushed to check on Red Lips' situation.
"Stop. What element are you?" asked Mo Fan as he halted her.
"Light… Light element," Neat Bangs replied while shivering in horror.
"Follow right behind me," ordered Mo Fan as he charged into the room.
He did not check on the girl's situation for he knew that as a mage, the girl would be able to survive an attack that would kill a normal person.
To his horror, when he looked into the room, he saw the girl that had struck up a conversation with him was hanging from the ceiling; her wrists sliced open by a sharp object and blood was dripping down from the wounds.
Right underneath her was a scaly demon in humanoid female form, her mouth opened several times larger than any ordinary human's mouth. Her extremely long tongue of hers was slithering in the air, waiting to lick off the blood that dripping down from the innocent girl's wounds!
The face of the female demon was full of scales, yet Mo Fan could still recognize that this face was the face of the woman that had gone to see them this morning. She looked extremely different now; from a sad, innocent and beautiful face, she now owned an ugly, ferocious and greedy one. If Mo Fan had not seen this for himself, he would never believed that such things actually existed in this world!!
"Wh...what is this monster!!" shouted the neatly bang girl with a face as pale as paper!
Gods-damned demon, how dare you! This place is under my safeguard!, thought the angered Mo Fan.
This demon was entirely cruel; it did not kill the short-haired girl right away, nor suck her blood dry in one go, but hung its victim up high, and had her drip from the high ground until she died…
Mo Fan could imagine the pain that the short-haired girl was going through; she was still conscious and could only endure the suffering and horror while the demon enjoyed its meal!
"Flaming Dragon…. Shit! Don't run!"
Just as he was about to attack, the demon immediately jumped out of the window!
This was the eighteenth floor and if they jumped down without any precautions, they were doomed.
He rushed to the window, only to see that the demon's claws were extremely powerful, being able to dig straight into the walls.
The distance between two high buildings was not far at all. At this moment, the Demoness was jumping in zig zags between the two buildings, watching this horrified Mo Fan. Unexpectedly, throughout this entire process, there was not a single sound to be heard!
It was easy to assume that the Demoness used this to enter the room of Short Hair.
"Hurry up and take them to the school infirmary," Mo Fan said to Neat Bangs. At the same time, he mimicked the demoness and jumped out of the window like a great roc.
When Mo Fan dropped all the way to the thirteenth floor, his body suddenly integrated with the shadow of the building. Furthermore, as he stood on a balcony of the thirteenth floor, his eyes were attentively watching the demoness who had jumped onto the other building.
"Shit, this place is way too bright. I'm unable to escape," Mo Fan cursed.
Escaping Shadows required shadows to shift away.
There was only air between the two buildings, there was no dark or light there. Even if it was dark out, there still wouldn't be any shadows without light. Thus, it was simply impossible for him to use Escaping Shadows to reach the building the Demoness was in.
"Fan Mo, there's a situation, hurry up and come back!" Suddenly, Lingling's voice turned anxious.
"What is it?" Mo Fan asked.
"Her husband...her husband is also shedding!" Lingling's voice seemed to contain some fear.
"Shit, both of them have problems! How is the kid??"
"That's why I'm telling you to come back!"
Mo Fan was shocked. The husband's objective was precisely that kid!
Heavens, the husband had employed the Hunters to protect his child. Yet, he assaults the kid in the middle of the night, just what kind of thing is happening to this family?!
"Save the kid first and finish our mission. I'm afraid this thing will be quite difficult!"
Chapter 179 - Rescue From the Mouth of a Beast!
Mo Fan no longer tried to chase after the shedding demoness, instead, he went through fire and flames as he charged into the family.
As he got to the entrance, Mo Fan could hear the child inside the place crying loudly. Who knew what kind of scene the child was seeing for him to cry like that.
A man's voice could be heard from inside the place."Crying, all you know is crying. What… what annoys me the most is you crying… From… from now on… I will no longer need to listen to your ear-piercing cries…"
His voice sounded like there was thick things in his throat. The sound coming from it was relatively strange, nothing like a human's!
"Fan Mo, quick. He hasn't finished shedding yet. Once he has shed, the child will definitely die," Lingling said urgently.
"Don't worry, I won't let that thing succeed!"
Evading Shadow!
Mo Fan stood by the door, his body slowly sank down. It looked like he had dropped into deep water, turning into a black shadow.
The shadow began to move from outside the door to the inside.
After the shadow entered, Mo Fan slowly rose from the darkness under the door.
At this moment, he was already inside the house. From a glance, he could see the husband inside the large room, who seemed more like a waking corpse. He was in the middle of tearing apart his own clothes and flesh.
Between the rent flesh and tattered clothing, it revealed the scales inside. They were extremely thick, and quite disgusting.
The man had already shed half his skin. During this process, his movements wasn't actually very fast, he was like a newborn baby as he slowly staggered.
If it wasn't for that, then the child would've died already.
At this moment, Mo Fan could be considered to have seen this type of monster's entire transformation process. If an ordinary person had seen this, they definitely would have fainted from fear. Fortunately, Mo Fan could be considered to have seen many things. Even if this kind of scene was extremely disgusting, he could only clench his teeth and eliminate the shedding demon.
"Lightning Strike!"
Mo Fan quickly formed his Star Path and his palm instantly formed numerous Lightning traces.
These Lightning traces passed through the large room as they flew toward the shedding demon, whipping towards it..
The shedding demon's scales seemed to have a high defense. Mo Fan's Lightning Strike seemed to only have made a couple of black prints on its scales. He was completely unable to paralyze it, flabbergasting him.
"You...you meddlesome thing!"
The shedding demon let out a strange noise. It turned its head around; it had shed all of the remaining skin on its face and revealed three eyes that were viciously staring at Mo Fan.
It raised its arm, and its shoulder that looked like that of a human suddenly expanded. It grew three times as thick as before, and its muscles turned rock solid!
"Fan Mo, the demon has an extraordinary strength, you must be careful!" Lingling's voice echoed in his ear.
Mo Fan had a calm expression as he began to move back.
Suddenly, the shedding demon's expanding arm began to extend towards Mo Fan.
This arm was not only able to expand, but it was also able to stretch like rubber.
How could this possibly be just a punch? It was clearly a large iron ball swinging. The furniture and sofas inside the room were all destroyed by his iron-like fist.
Fortunately, Mo Fan had prepared for this earlier. His body turned into a shadow when the iron ball fist swept past, and then shifted toward the shade in the corner.
After dodging this attack, Mo Fan continued to move. He only showed himself after he had moved to a place without shadow.
The creature's strength was boundless. Mo Fan didn't dare to approach it.
Mo Fan took the opportunity of when it retracted its arm to run. He ran behind the shedding demon and grabbed the crying boy.
Mo Fan didn't dare to use Intermediate Magic before this, because he was afraid of hurting the child. It wasn't because of the money from the commission, it was because he couldn't let an innocent child lose his life like this.
"Freaking monster, today, I, your daddy Mo Fan, will represent the heavens…" Mo Fan quickly drew the Star Paths. The Star Paths crossed with each other to form the even stronger power of the Star Atlas.
"Fan Mo, careful. The demoness is behind you!" Lingling suddenly shouted.
Mo Fan turned his head around and discovered an extremely ugly monster outside of the window inside the room. The monster's tongue stretched out, her eyes fixed on Mo Fan and the brat that he was holding.
"Shit, the husband and wife are joining hands!" Mo Fan cursed.
Naturally, Mo Fan was no longer able to draw up the Star Atlas or else his throat would've been slit by the demoness that was at the window.
"Hurry up and run, you won't be able to deal with two of them!" Lingling yelled.
"Don't worry about me," Mo Fan replied.
Mo Fan hmphed coldly.
At this moment, he was standing in a place with no shadow. It could be said that the lantern on the ceiling had restricted Mo Fan's movements.
Fortunately, he had obtained a pair of Magic Boots from Dean Xiao a couple of days ago. He could put the Magic Equipment to good use now!
"Blood Beast Boots!" Mo Fan chanted to himself. When he had given up on the Star Atlas, he immediately activated the Magic Equipment he was spiritually linked to.
A scarlet radiance glittered on his leg. It didn't spread, but began to slowly condense during the process of materializing, slowly forming a pair of leather boots.
The boots stretched halfway up Mo Fan's calves, looking like armor that had appeared out of thin air!
After activating the Blood Beast Boots, Mo Fan immediately felt his legs fill with a strange power. It felt like he could collapse the entire floor with a single stomp!
After Lingling saw Mo Fan activating his Magic Equipment on the screen, she immediately let out a sigh of relief. "Don't fight recklessly, you'll hurt the child!"
Mo Fan also understood this reasoning. When the demoness charged toward him, Mo Fan stomped the ground with his legs and jumped to the ceiling.
With one hand, he grabbed onto the chandelier, his other hand carrying the child. Mo Fan used the force of the jump to land in the kitchen.
The two demons didn't let the matter rest, they immediately pursued angrily.
Mo Fan didn't have the mood to stay and fight with them. He used the Blood Beast Boots to quickly run to the end of the kitchen, toward the laundry room.
With a kick, he smashed open the window. Mo Fan didn't care too much, grabbing the child's leg as he jumped down. He wanted to jump to the sixth floor where the light wasn't on, so he could use the shadow to his advantage.
