Creepy Pharmacist: All my patients are scary!

Chapter 617: The Blade Forged from Failure

"That slash didn't kill you? You got lucky! Don't worry, we'll be coming for you soon, and when we do, I'll make you pay with your blood!"

Lynn, disguised as Alice, spoke in a dark and hoarse voice, the scythe in his hand erupting with a scarlet glow.

【Brother mustn't hate Alice! Alice is only cooperating with Brother—she didn't really mean to say those things!】

Alice whispered in her mind.

And Lynn burst out laughing.

Honestly speaking.

The malice in that voice fit perfectly with the vile image of every villain he'd ever seen in movies.

Zuo Zuo, meanwhile, was so embarrassed she wished she could knock herself unconscious, forcing herself to play the part of an ordinary left hand.

Lynn sneered at them, his voice deep and chilling:

"You won't have the chance. I've already prepared a grand feast for you—but don't worry, I won't kill you that easily. I'll keep you alive, torment you slowly, and make you understand what it means to wish you were dead!"And the very next moment after he finished speaking.

The massive door at the far end of their path slammed open, and billowing crimson plague poured out.

Silver Fantasy and Alice immediately saw, within that rolling blood mist, a series of pitch-black, lifeless figures slowly emerging.

"Puppets?!"

Silver Fantasy's gaze turned cold as she instantly recognized the abnormality in those figures.

They had no thoughts, their eyes hollow like corpses.

And in the next instant, those puppets raised their heads in perfect unison, their auras surging outward, churning the surrounding blood mist like a raging sea.

"Death Omen!"

Silver Fantasy's expression shifted.

Five Death-Omen Tier puppets!

And not just those five—behind them, within the dense mass of figures, aura after aura of considerable strength converged into a torrential tide.

At that moment, she finally realized the true danger of this mission.

On the screen, Lynn gazed at them with a faint smile and said, "It's not that we can't deal with you, ladies. The truth is, we've been waiting for the perfect moment to catch you all in one net. And now that Mr. Lynn has voluntarily stopped hiding and infiltrating, we have nothing left to fear!"

"To be honest, Mr. Lynn, I overestimated you. If you'd kept up your disguise as one of us Plague Doctors, we'd have had to tread carefully. But you made the stupidest decision."

The smile on his face twisted even further.

"And that decision seals your fate right now!"

And in that instant.

All the hollow puppets raised their heads and turned into streaks of shadow, charging at them with vicious, lightning-fast attacks.

Alice reflexively looked at Lynn on the screen, gripping her scythe tightly.

And in her mind, Lynn's low voice echoed immediately.

"Prepare for battle, but conserve your strength. I'll have these puppets go easy on you, but you need to get captured in a believable way. Only through your defeat can I send you both to Doctor 315's presence—and that's where the real final battle begins!"

At that moment.

Alice instantly understood her brother's plan.

Clearly.

Things had reached this point, meaning her brother had already taken complete control of the entire Leviathan situation!

Her heart raced with both awe and excitement at the sheer intricacy of his long string of schemes.

Use a grand defeat.

To deliver them right before the final boss they needed to face?!

"Yes, Brother! I understand!"

Alice's gaze was firm, her scythe in hand, and she immediately followed Lynn's orders, charging straight at the puppets.

Clang—

The massive scythe clashed instantly with a chainsaw mounted on the arm of a fleshy monster.

And Silver Fantasy, the only one still completely in the dark, narrowed her eyes coldly and charged fearlessly at a puppet with her monomolecular blade raised.

The appearance of Losh (Lynn).

Had undoubtedly proven to her that the Lynn standing beside her was the real one.

Though there were still many doubts.

This was no longer the time to dwell on them!

Boom—

This time, she held nothing back. With a flash of data streams, she pulled Alice-disguised-Lynn behind her and unleashed a nuclear bomb-level barrage against all the puppets.

Just as Lynn had predicted.

An absolute-order machine—even one harboring resentment toward him—would not, in the face of right and wrong, actually take him out along with everything else.

Because she surely understood that losing a teammate at this moment would spell certain defeat for her too!

Lynn smirked slightly.

Throughout the Leviathan, the footage of this battle was being streamed to all Plague Doctors simultaneously. Even the high-ranking officials in the First Chamber were focusing their wills on observing this grand conflict.

And Lynn's goal was simple.

If he won this battle, he would earn even deeper trust from that Doctor 315.

And as for chaotic creatures.

What were they best at if not betrayal?

He would use this victory to forge himself into the blade that could strike the fatal blow—one cut to decide everything!

…

Inside the First Chamber.

Even Doctor 315, who was controlling the Leviathan, diverted part of his attention to observe this decisive battle.

A faint smile played on his face.

Without a doubt, even now, he still harbored no suspicion toward Lynn at all.

Because Lynn had fully solidified the identity of Losh through a series of performances, trapping him inside an information cocoon Lynn had meticulously constructed. Every piece of data he could receive was under Lynn's control.

It was very easy to understand.

First, sacrificing the Bio-armament Factory to bribe most of the Plague Doctors in the Leviathan essentially used a partial surrender of interests to silence the people around him. After all, no chaotic creature would turn down benefits and money.

Thus, even the high-ranking officials who might have harbored some doubts would close their mouths after Lynn's proactive gestures of goodwill and bribery.

Because suspicion was one thing—but benefits were real.

Then, Lynn's attitude and attacks against Silver Fantasy, along with having Alice disguised as himself appear to strike him, further cemented the fact that he was not that Lynn.

After all, it was impossible for someone to assassinate themselves, right?

That was just too absurd.

So, when Alice made her entrance, it basically erased any remaining suspicion about his identity from everyone's minds.