The two monsters that were made of the other two halves of the missing witches of the Coven of Crows charged at the group made of Jianmen, Josephine Wong, Nameless and Tze Cha, while each letting out cries and moans of misery and anguish.

The monster on the left had the naked left half of a witch that made part of the frame of the “painting”, and the other half was made with blood-soaked bed sheets, chairs, and even pillows, shredded pieces of mattresses and even surgical scalpels and clamps; while the monster on the right had the naked right half of another witch, and it was attached to a cluster of broken and torn up human limbs, stitched together by blood red suture threads.

Tze Cha was arrogant and reckless when he came in, but when faced with a real fight, he took several steps back and was ready to let the other members of the team engage first. Nameless waved his zen staff and jabbed his staff forward at the monster with half of its body made of blood soaked hospital equipment. Golden light was released from the top part of the staff, and when it came into contact with one of the monster’s claws made of medical gauze, two legs of a chair and two scalpels. The clash resulted in a high pitched metal screech, and both Nameless and the monster were pushed back.

“The aura of this area is suppressing this monk’s power.” Nameless narrowed his eyes and warned: “Be careful!”

Jianmen nodded, as he could also sense that the disturbing energy field around them is trying to creep into their bodies and sabotage the energy flow inside of their bodies. The energy flow inside their bodies would of course fight this creeping invasion without them even thinking, yet it still impacts how much power and energy they could exert.

“Ting!” the other monster also launched a claw attack, and Josephine Wong blocked it with a purple energy sword. The monster’s move did not stop there, however, a string of human limbs with a sharpened bone protruding from a palm at its tip connected by sutures broke from the non-human side of its body and jabbed at Josephine Wong like a curved knife.

Jianmen swung his arm at the string of human limbs with his hand in a palm form but facing sideways like a karate chop, a layer of orange and golden energy was concentrated at the edge of his palm, and an energy blade was released towards the sharpened bone when the swing reached the end of its course.

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“Bang!” the orange and golden energy blade clashed right against the very tip of the sharpened bone, the orange and golden energy blade cut through the bone, shattering the whole bone as well as some of the stitched up limbs connected to it into splintering pieces and coming out from the other side, continuing its way at the bloody “painting” behind the monster.

The two half humans on both sides of the “painting” screamed at the energy blade, and thick, dark red liquid gushed from the ceiling like a waterfall and blocked the trajectory of the energy blade. The energy blade used up most of its energy when it was cutting through the “limb” of the monster, and did not make it through the veil of thick dark red liquid.

“Let’s retreat and find our way back!” Josephine Wong took a step back as well: “We’ve already made it angry, there’s nothing more we could do!”

“Oh, there’s plenty we could do.” Tze Cha chuckled with a gloating smile on his face. But he still maintained his distance from the two monsters as well as the rest of the team, and only did the bare minimum to defend against the other attacks coming from other angles: “It’s just that we have to be willing to do some damage, which you obviously objected to earlier before we came in.”

“Now is not the time, One Eye!” Josephine Wong shot a purple energy spear from her hand at the monster made of half a witch and medical equipment.

The monster with stitched up limbs as the other half of its body swung a long bone flail with connected spine sections as the chain and a human rib cage as the striking head at Josephine Wong and Jianmen. Both had to duck as they continued to back away, and the human rib cage just smashed into the wall and left a hole whose radius is as big as an adult human’s height. The head of the purple energy spear sunk into its target’s flesh, but some corrosive energy underneath its skin melted the tip in just mere seconds.

The “painting” in the room from which they just left continued to scream, cry and moan. So did the two monsters attacking the team of four. And with each moan and cry, the room gets dimmer and darker, as the aura seemed to be growing in strength along with it.

“Nameless!” Jianmen called out to the warrior monk standing by his side holding a zen staff, while holding a piece of folded up paper sigil between his right hand index and middle fingers: “Dragon Claw Strike the Third!”

Nameless stuck his metal zen staff into the ground, then his two forearms became covered in golden light, dragon scales and shells made of golden energy started growing on his arms and backs the his hands, and sharp claws made of golden energy construct grew from the tip of his fingers. Jianmen threw the folded paper sigil in the air, which instantly opened up and ignited in bright red flames. Nameless’s two arms swung across the air before him, both striking the paper sigil at almost the same time.

The paper sigil exploded into sparks in the air, and a barrage of golden energy claw attacks shot from its previous center at the two incoming monsters, as well as the walls and windows in their general direction. At this close range, it was as if Jianmen and Nameless just blasted the two monsters with a powerful shotgun with burning pellets.

The two monsters screamed and fell back as their flesh and bones were scorched, leaving the team of four some room to get out of the fight and escape. But this was to no avail, since a wall of moving flesh, pulsating organs and growing bones cut off their way back.