Hide and Seek: The Mad Girl Sees All novel Chapter 110

Chapter 110

Chapter 110

Both Wraiths lifted their heads at the same time.

Lyra’s dagger had already transformed into a long blade, its tip aimed at the one on the left, while Jane’s soul power surged around her right hand as she charged toward the one on the right.

The Wraith on the left reacted much faster than the first one. The moment it pushed off the ground with its limbs, instead of charging forward, it shrank back like a startled bug, retreating three meters.

Lyra didn’t give it a chance to escape. She kicked off the ground, weightless in her soul form, and shot forward even faster than she could when she was alive, bringing Wraithslayer down in a vicious overhead slash.

She was aiming right for its head.

Splurt.

The Wraith’s skull split clean down the middle, black liquid spraying everywhere. Its body slumped sideways, limbs still braced on the ground, while tentacles wriggled out from the gash, scrabbling desperately for its brain.

Meanwhile, Jane was even more direct. She gathered her soul power in her palm, interlocked her fingers around the Wraith head, and crushed down hard.

Crunch.

She shattered its skull in one go, and the Wraith’s body went limp.

Jane released her grip, pressing her soul-charged palm against the broken skull. A burst of white light erupted, pulling out the unseen energy.

“Done,” Jane said, pulling her hand back and drifting over to Lyra. “Let me absorb this one too.”

Lyra had just witnessed Jane’s brutal move and couldn’t help but feel a surge of respect. She took a half-step back. “Jane, be my guest.”

Jane paused, thinking. This kid!’

But she didn’t say anything more. She pressed her palm against the squirming, fusing skull. As soon as the white light burst out, the Wraith lying on the ground suddenly convulsed.

Its mouth ripped open, jaw dangling like it had been knocked loose, and a piercing, explosive shriek blasted out from deep in its throat.

A sharp pain stabbed through Lyra’s eardrums. Even in her soul form, her hearing was rattled. This wasn’t just sound, it was a shockwave that hit her soul.

“What the hell is that?” Lyra blurted out.

Lyra clamped her hands over her ears and looked down at the Wraith. Its head was split in two, body completely still, but its mouth kept shrieking, the screech from its throat growing shriller and higher pitched.

Jane didn’t let go, gritting her teeth as she pulled out every last drop of energy from it.

The shriek abruptly stopped, and the Wraith was truly gone for good.

Jane looked up.

Lyra looked up too.

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All around them, the Wraiths lurking among the ruins suddenly ripped their mouths open, emerging from the cracks in the ground.

One, two, five, ten… more and more.

Every single head whipped around to face Lyra and Jane, cloudy eyes rolling in empty sockets. They sprang off the ground on all fours, the lumps on their backs bulging grotesquely as they charged straight at them.

Lyra and Jane fell silent.

Lyra dropped her hands from her ears and held Wraithslayer out in front of her.

“Jane, these Wraiths can actually call for backup?” Lyra said, her voice tinged with disbelief.

Jane drifted over to her side, her soul power gathering in both palms as she swept her gaze over the horde of Wraiths charging at them.

“Don’t worry, I counted,” Jane said, her voice steady.

“Twenty-five of them. Two against twenty-five, piece of cake for us,” Jane said, her voice steady.

As soon as she finished speaking, the first Wraith lunged at them. Lyra swung Wraithslayer, the blade slicing clean through its neck. The head went flying, and the body crashed to the ground.

The second one came at her from the left. Lyra sidestepped, then hooked her blade up through its jaw, skewered its skull, and flicked it away.

At the same time, Jane struck from the right, her soul power twisting into two crushing grips, both hands moving at once as she popped two Wraiths’ heads like melons.

Black liquid splattered all over the ground.

Once the fight broke out, Lyra realized these things had zero tactics or brains. They just rushed in to bite and claw, couldn’t even figure out how to surround them.

Just a pile of bodies, nothing but numbers.

Wraithslayer spun in her hands, every swing lopping off a head, going straight for their skulls, clean and efficient.

Jane had it even easier, she just reached out with her Soul Power and popped heads from afar, the wet pop of skulls bursting filling the air.

As Lyra took down the third Wraith, she caught something off in her peripheral vision. The bodies of the first few she’d cut down were already sprouting tentacles from their neck stumps, almost fusing back together.

“Jane!” Lyra called out.

“I see it!” Jane replied.

Jane had noticed too. She’d planned to wipe them all out first and then absorb their energy one by one, but that plan was out the window now, these things were patching themselves up way too fast.

“I’ll keep killing them, you go absorb their energy!” Lyra called out, pointing Wraithslayer forward.

Without a word, Jane spun around and drifted over to the first ghost that had fallen. She pressed her palm against the crack in its healing skull, and a burst of white light erupted as she drained the energy away.

The tentacles went limp, and the mangled flesh stopped twitching.

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It was dead for good.

On to the next.

Jane glided over to the second corpse and started absorbing its energy again.

Lyra held the line against the Wraiths still charging at her. “Wishful, do as I wish, Wraithslayer, grow huge!”

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“Let’s take off.” Lyra yelled, brandishing her forty-meter-long blade in a sweeping arc. Seven or eight heads went flying ht

once.

Anyone could see how perfectly they worked together. Lyra dealt the damage, Jane harvested the souls.

But that smooth rhythm didn’t last long.

As soon as Lyra cut down the next batch of Wraiths, their throats erupted in ear-splitting shrieks the moment they hit the ground.

Raaah!

A dozen or so Wraiths screamed at once, their cries overlapping and blasting out in all directions, a shockwave way crazier than before, like ten times worse.

Lyra’s soul shook from the blast, but she steadied herself, floating up a few meters to get a better look.

Out in the ruins, way down at the end of the street, shadows started to swarm.

On all fours, a horde of figures crawled out from behind the collapsed buildings, flooding toward the screams.

Lyra’s lips twitched as she floated back to Jane’s side.

“Well, looks like they just called in the whole damn horde,” Lyra muttered.

Jane had just finished draining the energy from the Wraith in front of her. Hearing Lyra, she glanced into the distance, her face darkening.

“How many?” Jane asked.

“No idea, they’re swarming everywhere,” Lyra replied.

Lyra took a deep breath, then flashed a grin. “You think you’re the only ones who can call in reinforcements?”

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