Kamen Rider Evolution

"Wait, DARK WIZARD." Rinko Daimon wanted to reach out and continue fighting, but now she couldn't even stand up. She could only watch them leave through teleportation magic.

……

In a dark space, three strange-looking black shadows were standing there, with a black curtain in front of them.

There was silence all around. Suddenly, the black curtain moved without wind, and a shadow deeper than the space was projected on the curtain.

The orange-yellow flames gradually lit up, illuminating the space, and also illuminating the three non-human black shadows.

"You're taking so long." The curtain was gently lifted, and a purple figure slowly walked out from the black curtain.

His entire body was made of purple magic gems, and the silver lines perfectly divided his gem-like perfect face.

If Soma Haruto was here, he would be surprised to find that the purple figure looked exactly like his flame form.

This is the Dark Wizard that Rinko Daimon is looking for.

"Hmph, we came here specially, you should thank me." A faint mist rose from the non-human shadow, which smelled of a particularly fascinating fishy-sweet smell, and its sound was like a colorful snake spitting out apricots, full of a slippery and sticky feeling.

"Hey, what's the matter with calling us here? If it's not interesting enough, I won't agree." Another black shadow spoke to the DARK WIZARD on the stage in a light tone.

"The White Wizard has appeared, and there is another Wizard as well. They are all obstacles that we need to clear." Dark Wizard said slowly, "They are wizards from another world."

"So it's just because of such a trivial matter. Then we don't have to listen to your orders. You are just a mere magician." The last shadow said nonchalantly.

"No, they are not ordinary magicians. The white magician has the Philosopher's Stone in his hand." The old and low voice behind the black curtain sounded like a bell. This voice was like the emperor's order to the people present.

"Medusa, Guremlin, and Felix (Phoenix) getting the Philosopher's Stone is my lifelong wish," he said.

"So it's you who's here in person." Medusa bowed her head respectfully.

The three shadows disappeared at the same time, and were replaced by three familiar phantoms, Medusa, Felix, and Guremlin.

In Jiang Xia's world, Felix was nailed to the moon and died due to exhaustion of magic power, while Guremlin was petrified and turned into pieces.

And in this world, the three of them are still alive.

"Destroy the white magician and bring back the Philosopher's Stone," he said.

"Yes." The three phantoms answered at the same time, lowering their heads.

"Go now if you understand." DARK WIZARD looked down at the three phantoms kneeling on the ground and said in an impatient tone.

"Watch your tone! Don't be so arrogant!" A ball of fire suddenly burst out from Felix's body.

"DARK WIZARD, don't get me wrong. We are just following the orders of the adults." Medusa opened her snake mouth.

"Oh, don't pay attention to him, let's go and get the Philosopher's Stone back first." Guremlin quickly walked behind them and gently hugged them from behind with one arm each.

"As long as we get the Philosopher's Stone back, he won't be so arrogant anymore, right?"

"Hmph." Medusa glanced at the arm resting on her and barely suppressed her anger. The Lord's orders were absolute.

Afterwards, Medusa and Felix left here with Guremlin.

The Dark Wizard also gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Chapter 433 Notification

The sky gradually darkened. Jiang Xia sat on a chair in the park by the river, admiring the sparkling sea water. The sea here was very calm, without any so-called rough waves, not even high tide or low tide, probably because there was no moon.

The sun gradually sank below the sea level, and the hazy afterglow spread over the mountains above the sea.

The magic kingdom sparkles at night, the whole city lights up, the neon lights on the streets and the colorful magic light streams combine together, it is unreal and brilliant.

The top floor of the towering tower lit up on the sea that was gradually turning iron-gray. The sea was originally pitch black, but the shadow of the tower reflected on the sea was like a pillar of light in the darkness, splitting the vast ocean in two.

"Xiao Li fell asleep?" Jiang Xia turned his head and looked at Cao Zhenqingren who was walking towards him with his hands in his pockets.

"Well, the uncle is still the same uncle. After hearing that we were magicians who came to this world accidentally, he generously lent us the room upstairs for temporary stay." Cao Zhenqingren nodded, sat down next to Jiang Xia and crossed his hands on his chest.

Of course, no matter how kind-hearted we are, there is only one room that can be rented out, but there are three of us now, so two of them simply don't sleep in it.

"It seems that Wajima Shigeru in this world is also a good person." Jiang Xia handed the thing he had just bought wrapped in a cowhide bag next to the chair to Soma Haruto, "In this world, I also found this."

"What is this?" Soma Haruto's eyes lit up when he saw the familiar packaging bag.

"It's the donuts made by the owner of the pink food truck you like. Since we are isomorphs, the taste should be pretty much the same."

"grateful."

Cao Zhenqingren took the leather bag, took a bite of the donut wrapped in pink icing, and exclaimed: "Sure enough, the donuts made by the boss are still delicious."

"How much? I'll give it to you." Haruto Soma put the donut he had taken two bites of into his pocket and took out his wallet.

It’s a good relationship, but you still have to pay when you buy things.

"Forget about that. Money doesn't circulate in this world. Instead, people pay with magic power." Jiang Xia raised his right hand and showed Qingren the magic ring on his middle finger.

"So that's how it is. This world is really quite nice." Haruto Soma put away his wallet.

Because magic power can be restored automatically, just like physical strength, everyone is born with a certain amount of wealth to control.

If the magic power in Jiang Xia's body could be circulated in the market and be equivalent to the money in this world, he could probably buy the entire city with the magic power.

Of course, this doesn't make any sense.

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask you something, White Magician." Soma Haruto raised his head and put the donuts in his hand back into the bag. His tone also changed inexplicably and became serious.

It was as if the scene suddenly changed from being funny and joyful to a life-and-death farewell scene.

He had been holding it in for a long time but had no chance to ask. Events involving the golden wizard and the magic kingdom happened one after another, and the oppressive feeling in his heart made him choose to keep silent for the time being.

But the doubts in his heart must be resolved sooner or later. He no longer wants to wait until he returns. He wants to know the answers to the questions now.

So today, he could only eat two bites of his favorite donuts and had to put them aside.

"Okay." Jiang Xia roughly guessed what Soma Haruto wanted to ask and agreed.

"Ali, is she...really dead?" asked Cao Zhenqingren in a low voice.

The light of the night slowly faded in Cao Zhenqingren's eyes. He lowered his head, as if his body was about to be submerged under the dark sea level, and was shrouded in overwhelming darkness.

"Well, Dimu Li died before she got along with you. She is different from you. She is not a victim of the Witch's Banquet. You are the only survivor of the Witch's Banquet from beginning to end. The others have been transformed into phantoms due to forced despair." Jiang Xia answered as he looked at Soma Haruto who lowered his head and his whole body was shrouded in shadows.

Only those who survive despair can become magicians, and those who fail to survive will either have their magic powers abolished and become ordinary people, or die on the spot and their bodies will be taken over by a phantom. There is no third possibility.

Hearing Jiang Xia's answer, Cao Zhenqingren trembled slightly and continued: "Because of what?"

"It was a terminal illness that could not be cured by modern medicine. She had been very weak since she was a child. As she grew up, her health gradually deteriorated. In the end, she was bedridden. When Xiaoli was sixteen years old, she passed away on a stormy night." Jiang Xia said truthfully.

These data are recorded in great detail in the Earth database, and after he eliminated Dimu Zou, he had already read through Dimu Li's entire life.

"After Xiaoli passed away, his father was a genius who was very proficient in various fields. After he tried all methods and couldn't change the fact that his daughter died, he chose magic."

"Magic..." Soma Haruto raised his hand, looked at the fiery red magician's ring on his middle finger, and turned to look at Jiang Xia.

"Yes, magic." Jiang Xia took out the magic ring of hope, "The Philosopher's Stone has the power to resurrect the dead, but it requires a lot of magic power."

"The Witch's Feast exists for this very purpose. Through the ritual, using ghouls as human pillars, you kidnap humans with magician qualifications and force them into despair, and then collect magic power. This is the whole process of your birth as a magician."

"It's just that because the resurrection ceremony of the first Witch Feast was not perfect, Xiao Li needs a lot of magic power to maintain his body."

"He wanted to hold the Witch Feast again, so he had no choice but to give his daughter to a newly born magician to maintain his daughter's body for him."

"At the same time, through research, he found that he only needs to replace the human pillar from a ghoul to a slightly skilled magician to be able to completely resurrect his daughter, which is about your level." Jiang Xia pointed at Soma Haruto and said.

"You are actually Ali's father!"

Haruto Soma's eyes widened, and he suddenly stood up from his chair, as if there were springs under his feet. This was even more shocking than the fact that the white magician was the mastermind behind it.

It all makes sense. Jiang Xia is the one who held the Witch's Banquet. He is also Ali's father and the mastermind behind the whole thing. Now that Ali has been resurrected, it means that the second Witch's Banquet was a success.

When was the second witch banquet held and why did he have no recollection of it?

Or did the White Magician not choose to use his body as a human pillar to resurrect Alex.

After asking the question, Cao Zhenqingren's doubts were not resolved, but accumulated more and more.

"Did I say I was Xiaoli's father?" Jiang Xia raised his eyebrows.

"But you are the white magician." Haruto Soma's mind was completely confused.

"Who said there can only be one white magician? Don't you have two?"

"The white magician you know is dead. I killed him with my own hands." Jiang Xia said with a stunner in mind.

"The Second Witch Banquet will affect the entire Tokyo, so I had no choice but to do this. However, before he died, I promised him that I would revive Xiao Li, and now it seems that I have done it."

Jiang Xia waited for a while. The information was fragmented and needed to be sorted out slowly before he could understand it.

After a long time, Cao Zhenqingren looked up again, and it seemed that he had figured it out.

"Any other questions?" Jiang Xia asked.

Cao Zhenqingren shook his head. Although his mind was still a little confused, he roughly understood it.

There are two white magicians, one is Ali's father, and the other is the one who explained things to him in front of him.

"No problem then prepare for battle, the enemy is coming." A bright light shone through the trees on the other side of them, and now everything was quiet except for the rustling of leaves.

But that was not the sound of leaves being blown by the breeze, but the sound of some monster passing through the woods.

Chapter 434: Phantom Army

A huge shadow emerged from the woods, and the resulting darkness blocked out all surrounding light.

A purple poisonous snake shot out from the shadows and opened its deadly snake kiss in mid-air. Purple venom was dripping from its canine-like teeth, and when it opened its mouth, one could even smell the fishy smell of blood.

"Be careful!" Haruto Soma put the ring on his waist, ready to use magic defense.

However, it was obvious that his magic casting speed had slowed down a lot, and he was unable to react for a while. Seeing that he was about to be bitten by the poisonous snake, Jiang Xia suddenly reached out and grabbed the poisonous snake with his bare hands.

After he grabbed the poisonous snake, he exerted a little force, and the originally bent snake was straightened in an instant by the huge force. The attacker also felt this inhuman force, and chose to wrestle with Jiang Xia, trying to pull his body into the shadow.

However, even if Jiang Xia did not transform, his physical strength was not something that a mere Phantom could match.

The attacker failed to drag an ordinary human into the shadows as he wished, so he exerted force suddenly and several poisonous snakes shot out from the shadows again. The snakes' mouths filled with venom all opened and bit Jiang Xia.

However, when the poisonous snakes were halfway through their flight, Jiang Xia suddenly pulled, and the attacker, along with the snakes, were pulled out of the shadows by a tremendous force. The slender poisonous snakes were connected to the back of its head, and its body covered with purple scales was exposed.

It was a phantom that looked like a snake. Those purple-black poisonous snakes were its hair. All of these poisonous snakes were pulled straight in the opposite direction by a huge force. Its pale pointed face was blocked by the purple-red scales, leaving only its chin exposed. It looked like a human female's face and was screaming.

Because at the moment he pulled her over, Jiang Xia clenched his fist and punched her in the abdomen hard. The huge force created ripples in the air the moment it touched her body.

The snake phantom felt as if she was hit by a hammer used to destroy objects. The scales and bones on her body made shattering sounds. The huge impact caused her body to burst into blood instantly. If she had not turned into a monster in advance, she would probably have been killed by this punch!

A phantom that looked like a firebird behind him looked at his companion flying back at a faster speed, and rushed over to hug it. As a result, he was also blown away for several meters by the impact, until he crashed into a big tree and slowly stopped.

"Are you really a human?" Haruto Soma was so surprised that he even stopped transforming.

"Of course, it's just that I usually just like to use magic and generally don't use my body to fight directly." Jiang Xia said.

Afterwards, Jiang Xia turned his attention to the enemies in the shadows. It was still the same three. The one who just launched the sneak attack was Medusa, the one who helped her was Felix, and the other one was Guremlin.

Of course, there is much more to it than that.

The shadows in the woods were surging. In addition to the three of them, there were other phantoms. Suddenly, dozens of phantoms of different kinds walked out of the shadows, all of them holding their weapons, and directly surrounded Jiang Xia and Cao Zhenqingren.

Just like the outside world, the phantoms of the magic world also learned to come out in full force, but the enemies they faced now had changed. The moment the encirclement was completed, they all pointed their weapons at the two people in the middle. It was like a game of monsters hunting humans.

When Cao Zhenqingren saw such a large number of phantoms, a solemn look suddenly flashed across his face. Based on his combat experience, one-on-many combat was quite normal, but those were all composed of a phantom summoning multiple zombies, but now it was almost all phantoms.

Now it was as if they were in the lair of a phantom.

"It seems that some people are getting impatient and sending out their little pets to kill us in one go." Jiang Xia looked around and stood back to back with Cao Zhenqingren.

"Are all these phantoms subordinates of the golden magician?" asked Cao Zhenqingren.

"This world is full of magicians, and it's very convenient for them to get desperate. Do you remember the opportunity I mentioned?" Jiang Xia asked.

"Well, maybe we can use this opportunity to find the person behind the scenes."

At this moment, Medusa barely recovered from her near-death state. She looked at the two people in the middle and let out a scream.

The phantoms around roared at the same time. These phantoms were of strange shapes, as if they were made up of a large number of creatures. Although they were humanoid, they were more like irrational monsters. At the same time, the surrounding environment seemed to have changed. A layer of lavender halo slowly spread from the surroundings to the sky.

"What is this?" Cao Zhenqingren looked up in surprise.

"It's a magic barrier, and the magic power is almost the same as yours. It should be set up by another you in this world." Jiang Xia said, "He not only wants to trap us here to death, but also cut off our connection with the outside world so that the battle here will not alert the magician residents outside."

"But if they knew we were here, Xiaoli's whereabouts might have been discovered as well." Jiang Xia reminded Cao Zhenqingren.

Haruto said, "Then we have to leave here as soon as possible. Ali doesn't know magic, and if she is caught, it will be over."