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"This is... Quick! Notify His Highness immediately! There has been an 'invasion' in Division Columbia, and the target type is suspected to be... a high-level law-based one!"

"Quick! Ask whether the batch of testing equipment can be put into use? The object does not seem to be an ordinary high-level law being!"

"Be careful, activate the defense barrier! The opponent seems to be trying to invade us!"

"Can this... be blocked?"

"Sure, don't worry." The two people at the monitoring station turned around and looked at the approaching Sarkaz. The other party gestured for them to focus back on the erosion in front of them. Then her crystal-clear eyes stared at the "eyes" in the void that were invisible to others. She was calm and indifferent, without any of her usual tenderness.

"Dust? Why?"

"Questions, you have questions too?" An illusory black crown appeared above the woman's head. She didn't move, but a glowing thing bloomed between her eyebrows. The looming black crown seemed to be connected with it, and the silent ripples trembled slightly. In her eyes, the eye gradually disappeared in the surging, and the visions and gaps in this space that were eroded by invisible forces were gradually repaired.

"Your Highness..." The Sarkaz behind her showed a worried look on her face. She paused for a moment before retracting her gaze into the void and showing them a gentle smile:

"Don't worry, there's no threat coming. Although this is my 'attempt', we can't do anything about it. It's not an 'invasion', but it's impossible. All physical traces of that battle are gone."

"Your Highness." The calm voice drew her attention back, and looking at the serious and familiar face, she cast a "please speak" look.

"Who did his weapons get sent to? That family... How is he doing now? I haven't heard any news about him for a long time. His injuries... Is there really no way we can help him?" It can be seen that the man is very tired.

"I told you not to push yourself too much. Even you need to rest." The Sarkaz woman with white and pink gradient hair sighed slightly and motioned for the other party to follow her. The two walked into the corridor shoulder to shoulder.

“…That’s it. Don’t worry too much. Kazdel survived a battle like that. We didn’t help much in the first place, so we must not hold him back in the finale.”

The two of them stopped at the entrance of the corridor at the same time, right at the boundary between shadow and light.

"...So, is there an expected time?" He had already digested and understood the information that his sister had concealed the truth, and now he asked this question, "Also, what exactly is the cause of his injury."

"I don't know either. I just cooperated with him."

"...I understand." The man pulled away and was about to go back to continue his duties, but was stopped again.

"You didn't listen to what I said just now." Although he didn't turn around, he could imagine her dangerous smile, and his foot froze.

"...I feel uneasy if I don't personally watch over a position like this."

"Then I'll be relieved if you faint in that position?"

"..." The man said nothing and turned around. From the woman's expression, it could be seen that she had a headache. Then she sighed and her face softened.

"Try to trust him, okay? Just like me."

Along with the words came the lights in the corridor, the bright light illuminating the dark shadows around the two people.

The man said nothing, and nodded after a long while.

What Ling Dengxian saw before his eyes was no longer the remote but fairly tidy little museum, but instead a dilapidated ruin that he had never seen before.

"Is there anyone still alive?!" It's not that Ling Dengxian didn't hope for the best for others, but if it were anyone else, they would probably think that no normal person could survive such a tragic scene.

The dozen or so museum staff and passers-by who were extremely frightened near the ruins were all normal people, so it was only possible that there was an abnormal person at the scene who saved them.

Ling Dengxian found some fine white matter on the ground. He looked at the crowd to get some information.

"Um, ah! You, yes, did you see where that Vaifan went?" Ling Dengxian saw the security guard among the survivors and quickly grabbed him to ask.

"Ah...you, you are the one who came with that monster Carters!" The security guard also recognized him, but as soon as he said this, several malicious gazes were cast at him.

"What?! Are you an accomplice of that monster?!"

"You! I almost lost my life! How dare you, a *Colombian expletive* thing, come and ask questions?!"

"No, I--" Ling Dengxian wanted to refute in confusion, but the angry crowd did not give him a chance to speak.

"Look! What race is he? Anura or Agor? He doesn't look like any of them! Could he be..."

There seemed to be more people around, and Ling Dengxian was pushed from behind. Before he turned around to see who did it, someone in the crowd threw a stone at him.

Hit right on the cheek, the burning pain made him cry out, and the bright red liquid made the victims even more agitated.

"Monster! He too—"

An explosive buzzing sound tore through the noise of the crowd. The blue and white light stung the bystanders and made them step back. Ling Dengxian moved his tongue, and finally his Adam's apple rolled as he swallowed the words back into his stomach. He swallowed the long-lost anger, and the familiar feeling enveloped him, and the familiar rationality returned to his heart.

The vicious words disappeared, he looked at the frightened people around him and was about to say something to them, but an orange figure flashed through his mind. He shuddered, not being guided by negative emotions, he stared at the security guard in the crowd:

"Where did they go?"

“Don’t waste my time!”

"I, I don't know..." The huge weapon in Ling Dengxian's hand shocked the crowd. They gave up the security guard, who lost his protection and was at a loss.

"I hope you can think about it carefully." Ling Dengxian's tone was cold.

“Aaaaah! Wait! It seemed like that Vaifan woman said something about a natural disaster outside the city when she left! Don’t do it!”

Ling Dengxian had never thought of taking action. Apart from the moment when he was hurt in the crowd, there was not much information, but he could guess the direction. Without hesitation, Ling Dengxian turned around and ran out of the city. Explosions broke out in two directions behind him, but he just looked back and then ran to the source of the problem.

"Host."

"explain."

"The radius of the ruins is 62.7 meters. Only a small area of ​​the surrounding streets was burned. No one died, except for the two places where the strange shadows landed."

"What do you want to say?"

"Ahran teleported out of the city. Given her condition, it would cost Saria more to save her."

"Are you comforting me?"

"That's right..."

"By the way, Master...just now, you liked the feeling of violence in your hands, right?"

"Get down right there!" Ling Dengxian managed to hold back his swear words with great difficulty, his tone icy cold.

"Hehe... Don't worry, maybe... you will need my help later--"

Ling Dengxian shook his wrist, put away the city-breaking spear, ignored Xiaoxie, and sped straight to the garrison at the city entrance.