Lord of Enigma

"No~"

The beautiful and charming evil spirit showed its true form, screaming in pain.

It was a twisted soul with scary looks, its flesh and blood in a blur. Flesh buds grew on it; its body lengthened and attempted to break free of Tang Qi's hands. But after a ball of golden light burst, it slowly dissipated like a wisp of smoke.

Bang!

When Tang Qi withdrew his hands, gasping, the magic book that floated in front of him immediately dropped to the floor.

Everyone else also breathed a long sigh of relief. Then, all of them collapsed to the ground without regard for their image, completely ignoring the pieces of flesh and blood covering the ground.

"It's over?"

"We're alive?"

Most of the police officers on the scene, though they were all experienced fighters, looked badly shocked right now.

Especially the black sergeant Vader. He ran the fastest to save his man, so he was also the closest to the space where his subordinate exploded. Right now, pieces of his subordinate were still on him now.

Although the evil spirit had disappeared, the frightened color of his face would not recover for a long while.

The rest of them were not much better.

The only one could keep calm — aside from Tang Qi, the hero who successfully "dispelled" the spirit — was Stana.

After all, this was not the first. She had gotten used to it.

Stana put away the Wine Red Rhino and walked to the center of the living room. There, Tang Qi had already picked up the thick magic book. He was looking at it with a strange look on his face, and frowning.

The officers who gradually came to themselves also cast their gaze over.

If it wasn't an illusion just now, all of them realized that they just had a peek of a mysterious world.

They witnessed a supernatural event!

A fight against an evil spirit!

And in front of them was a magic book that could summon evil spirits?

Fortunately, the officers were not adolescents; otherwise, they would all be approaching, extremely excited.

But their looks were still curious.

Stana, of course, knew that according to the employment contract the police signed with Tang Qi, all "trophies of war" were to first be picked by Tang Qi before it was the police's turn.

So right now, she asked first, "What happened here after all? This magic book, are you going to bring it back and destroy it?"

"Eh?"

As soon as Stana finished, she saw Tang Qi hand the magic book over to her.

She took it subconsciously. Before she asked "why", she found out the problem herself.

Previously, judging by the cover, she thought it was an ancient, mysterious magic book. After all, it could summon an evil spirit.

But right now, she saw clearly that the cover of the magic book seemed to have been deliberately made to look good. The paper inside was clearly the newest type, with a soft and light texture that was anything but ancient. Most outrageously, at the bottom of the cover of the magic book, in a tiny corner, a date of production was printed.

May 1, Year 102 of the Condor Calendar!

Then, she looked at the title of the magic book, which was clearly perfunctory.

Evil Spirits and Evil Gods Summoning Spells… A collection?

Stana felt really strange right now.

With a speechless face, she handed the magic book to the other officers who had gathered around her.

But there was still a trace of doubt on her face.

"Since this is not a real magic book, why can it summon an evil spirit?"

Tang Qi heard it but didn't answer it immediately. He walked to the small kitchen beside the living room, turned on the tap, and washed himself up a little. Having been hugged by the blood-stained evil spirit, Tang Qi's body was also inevitably covered with some pieces of blood and flesh.

He really disliked that smell.

After washing, Tang Qi walked out of the room, saying slowly, "This might… be a coincidence."

"A coincidence?"

"Yes. If you looked closely, you'd realize that this is a book with printing faults. Most of the spells inside are useless, but because of the printing problems, some effective spells were actually made, only that there have been unpredictable changes to the target of the spells' summons.

"For example, the nanny of this house originally wanted only to summon the red witch who could give her beauty but ended up summoning an Evil Spirit of Blood Splatters."

Hearing Tang Qi's explanation, everyone including Stana looked confused.

Could things in the mystical realm be explained in such ways?

"So the wrong spell summoned the wrong evil spirit. Then what spell did you use to dispel her?" Stana took the magic book back, caught up with Tang Qi, and asked curiously.

Tang Qi casually pointed to a random place in the book and said, "I looked carefully and realized that every wrong spell corresponded to a dispelling spell, so long as I found it out quickly and formed a new dispelling spell quickly, that would do." That happened to be the second page, the third line of spells. Clearly written were a few lines of spells for summoning the red witch, followed by the corresponding dispelling spell.

"How did you manage to do that in such a short time?"

Stana asked again.

It was quite a reasonable question. Tang Qi, who was already in the back seat, didn't even lift his eyelids and gave a simple and brutal answer.

"I'm a genius!"

Stana who had just gotten the police car started almost stomped the accelerator hearing this.

Alright, can't argue at that! Stana said to herself as more questions appeared in her mind.

But she held them all back.

She just glanced at the "fake magic book" which was already packed in an evidence bag and placed on the passenger seat.

She said in an uncertain tone, "So, you are handing this to the police?"

After finishing this sentence, a flash of thought went across Stana's eyes, and she silently added, "Just like… the treasure map last time?"

Her last sentence made Tang Qi finally raise his eyes.

Looking at Stana with appreciation, the corner of his mouth made a faint arc, and then he said lightly, "Yes!"

Then both stopped talking.

They returned to the police station along with the other officers.

As soon as he got out of the police car, Tang Qi sensed that the police officers behind him, including Javier and Nathan in his group, were now all in a state of excitement after the fear had passed.

It could be expected that soon the story of their encounter with an evil spirit, the death of the police officer James under the evil spirit's attack, and eventually, Tang Qi's repelling of the evil spirit would be spread throughout the Moses police station and then to the other areas at an even faster speed.

Actually, before this, with what happened in Moses University, Tang Qi had already left a deep impression on some of the police officers.

What transpired just now might deepen those impressions.

Tang Qi seemed to have predicted what would happen next, so once he returned to the area of the group, he asked Stana for a room to rest, saying that he had to rest for an hour.

Of course, resting was a lie.

What he really needed to do was to timely convert those massive spiritual powers into his own progress.

After all, he had just burnt up an evil spirit.

At the same time, he thought about his decision to leave the "fake magic book" to the police.

Was that decision right or wrong?