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Beneath the helmet was a beast-like head covered in coarse fur! Fangs bared from its twisted jaws, and a pair of murky eyes were fixed on her! There was no reason in that gaze, only pure hatred for living beings and a bloodlust to kill!

It seemed to sense Irena's gaze, and raised its head, letting out a suppressed and ferocious growl from deep within its throat!

Elena could clearly hear herself swallowing.

The next second, he took off running!

A slender figure shot out from the corner like an arrow, her long, silver-gray hair tracing a frantic path behind her! "Are you kidding me?!"

Why? When she and Xiling explored the town at dusk, it was as silent as a giant tomb. Why did these terrifying monsters emerge from the ground at night?! Armored beasts?! What kind of place is this?! Is this still Moonlight Town?!

The heavy footsteps behind her suddenly accelerated like a death knell! The monster let out an even wilder roar!

Irena gritted her teeth. If she could use magic, she would definitely show the guy behind her what she was capable of. As for now, she would run away!

After running for an unknown amount of time, her chest heaving violently and her inner lining soaked with sweat, Elena finally stopped abruptly in a dark corner filled with discarded wooden barrels. She leaned against the wall, held her breath, and listened intently.

Behind me... the unsettling footsteps and the screech of armor... vanished?

Elena cautiously peeked out and looked into the alley behind her—it was empty!

"Ha...ha...huff...huff..." Elena gasped for breath, wiping the sweat from her brow with her sleeve and laughing, "Hmph...you...you'll never catch me...don't underestimate...the witch's...stamina!"

The moment you relax your mind, fatigue washes over you like a tidal wave.

Elena calmed her breathing slightly, stepped out of her hiding corner, and planned to find Xiling or a clue to leave this place as soon as possible.

However, this step caused her heart to stop!

The sight before her eyes sent chills down her spine and made her scalp tingle even more than the walking armored monster she had just seen!

At the wide intersection ahead of her, the pale moonlight bathed the ground. And beneath that halo, writhing... was more than one monster!

They were like creations from a nightmare, their bodies decaying and deformed, with rotting muscles and stark white bones visible in some places. They wore tattered pieces of cloth stained with mud and dark dirt, their bodies twisted and deformed, their limbs bent backwards, crawling, wriggling, and dragging slowly across the ground in an extremely incongruous and horrifying manner...

Irena's breath caught in her throat, and she instinctively backed away.

"Don't move...don't make any sound..." she chanted frantically in her mind, trying to blend her body back into the shadow behind her.

However, just as she moved her heel—

One of the monsters, which was sniffing the ground directly in front of her, suddenly and without warning turned its head, covered in festering sores, towards the direction where she was hiding!

Irene's blood froze again! Her heart nearly leaped out of her throat!

Just as Elena was about to run away, the monster sniffed with what appeared to be a nose and then moved its head away, as if it hadn't seen Elena at all. Elena breathed a sigh of relief because she realized that the creature didn't have eyes.

"Thank goodness!" Elena breathed a long sigh of relief, while inwardly screaming, "Where is that Xiling?! If we don't find the beautiful witch soon, she might be in danger!"

Elena tiptoed, trying to bypass the monsters and find a relatively safe place, when she heard a familiar voice behind her.

Irene shook her head and smiled with relief, then took off running the next second.

Her movement immediately startled the eyeless, limbless monsters lying on the ground, and they all stopped moving at once!

A sound that made one's scalp tingle was heard.

Then, something shocking happened!

These seemingly slow, crawling, decaying bodies suddenly unleashed a terrifying speed far beyond imagination! They displayed agility surpassing even the armored beast from before, using all four limbs to pounce madly in the direction Elena had fled!

"What should we do? What should we do?" Elena grew increasingly anxious as she listened to the approaching footsteps behind her!

However, misfortunes never come singly!

From the left and right sides and the alleyway in front, accompanied by deafening roars, more monsters were attracted by the commotion and surged out like a tide!

On the left, a green giant monster, over three meters tall and resembling a rotting mountain of flesh, stood; on the right, several monsters with grotesque wolf heads, hyena heads, and even twisted bird heads, yet with abnormally small and deformed bodies! Ahead, a group of monsters of various shapes but all exuding the same putrid stench completely blocked their path!

Elena's heart sank, and she unconsciously stopped in her tracks as an idea began to form in her mind.

"It's over!"

However, just when all hope seemed to be lost, a rope fell from the roof, followed by a hurried voice belonging to a human girl coming from higher up.

"Hey! You down there! Grab the rope! Get up here right now!!"

At that moment, Elena no longer cared whether the other party was human or ghost, friend or foe. The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything! She practically lunged forward, gripping the rope tightly with both hands, her slender arms bursting with their last strength, her feet kicking hard against the rough wall, climbing upwards with all her might!

Below, the Hulk monster's enormous hand, accompanied by a gust of wind that tore through the air, barely grazed Elena's ankle! This made the hairs on her entire body stand on end!

"Ah!" Elena screamed, and with all her might, she scrambled upwards again!

"Hold on tight!" the voice above rang out again, and at the same time, the rope was suddenly pulled upwards by a powerful force!

Irena felt like a fish being pulled up, her feet instantly leaving the ground! She closed her eyes tightly, letting her body be rapidly lifted up, the unwilling roars of the monsters below and the ear-piercing noise of their claws scraping against the walls quickly fading away.

A few seconds later, she felt her body roll and fall heavily onto the relatively flat and sturdy rooftop platform.

"Huff...ha...huff...ha..."

Elena collapsed to the ground, her chest heaving violently.

She was so close... so very close! She would have been finished!

"Hey, are you alright? And why are you here?" The slightly hoarse female voice that had saved her rang out again.

Elena looked up and saw a girl about her size, but the girl looked unusually strong.

After calming down a bit, Elena patted her clothes and stood up.

"Thank you for saving me. I came with a friend to investigate the problems in Moonlight Town. By the way, what exactly happened here?" Elena turned around and looked down at the terrifying creatures. She couldn't help but take a few steps forward, afraid that she would fall.

Upon hearing Elena's words, the robust young woman suddenly realized what she meant.

"Oh, so you're from out of town. No wonder."

The girl looked Elena up and down, and a hint of disdain slowly crept into her eyes.

"You really are an outsider. You look so weak, you don't have any muscle at all."

"Ah," Elena's forehead twitched. "I'm a magician, it's normal for me not to have muscles, right?"

"Magicians can't survive in Moonlight Town. You might as well become a faith master; at least you can pray to the gods for power." The girl waved her hand.

"Alright, come with me, I'll take you to a safe place."

After saying that, the girl turned and walked away, showing no intention of waiting for Elena.

"Although I can't be sure she's not a good person, at least she saved me. Unlike those monsters down there, staying here will only lead to being surrounded again. I don't even know where that idiot Xiling is. I'll follow her first and try to survive!" After thinking for a moment, Elena started walking and followed closely behind her.

Elena followed behind the girl and asked the same question again, "Um... what exactly happened here?"

The girl in front didn't turn around, but her voice carried clearly through the air, tinged with a heavy weariness:

“A disease, a curse-like disease for which there is still no cure.” She paused, as if organizing her thoughts, or perhaps suppressing some surging emotion. “Three years ago…Moonlight Town’s only lifeline, Moonshadow Lake, was polluted by something.”

"Disease," Elena repeated, frowning.

“Yes, it’s an illness.” The girl’s voice lowered, as if she were recounting a nightmare she didn’t want to touch. “At first, the symptoms were very mild. It might just be a few ugly spots appearing on the skin, or the joints occasionally making strange noises.”

“But soon… the nightmare began. When we discovered the problem was with the lake, we decisively cut off all water supplies, but things didn’t improve.” Her voice was filled with irony and despair. “On the contrary, the changes came faster and more violently! The spots began to fester and spread, bones began to deform with a popping sound, and sanity, like a candle flame swallowed by the night, slowly went out… Finally…”

She stopped abruptly, pointing to the rotting figures crawling slowly in the moonlight on the street below. "They've become what they are now. Former neighbors, friends, relatives... have all become monsters that act only on instinct and the smell of decay."

Irena listened in silence, looking down at the twisted figures below, imagining what they had once been as humans, a chill running down her spine.

At the same time, another question was on her mind.

"Three years? It's a pity Xiling said that only two weeks have passed?" Irena realized that the situation might be worse than she thought, so she asked another question.

"Since... since such a severe disaster has occurred here, why haven't you sent out any more distress calls to the magic society or the nearby kingdoms in the past three years? A disaster of this magnitude would definitely attract a large-scale investigation and aid effort!"

Upon hearing this, the girl in front suddenly stopped in her tracks.

She slowly turned around, and in the moonlight, a mocking smile appeared on her face.

"Do you think we don't want to go out? We can't get out at all, oh, and of course, you can't get out either."

She raised her arm, pointing to the edge of the town, her voice suddenly rising, filled with the anger and despair of a trapped beast:

"We can't get out! Everyone! Including you! Once you step into Moonlight Town, you'll never get out! This place is a giant, rotting bear trap! Do you think those outsiders who risked coming in are here to die? They're rescue teams sent by those fools who still don't believe this place has become hell!"

She pointed to the monsters roaming below:

"They all ended up becoming one of them! Or transforming into something even more terrifying, disappearing into the depths of darkness! Without exception! Not a single one!"

The girl stared intently at Elena's face, as if trying to catch the expected look of despair on her face.

However, all she saw was silence.

The girl's anger was doused with cold water, replaced by immense confusion and a hint of annoyance at being belittled: "...Hey! Didn't you...didn't you hear what I said? I said you can't get out! You're trapped here forever! With these monsters! Until you become like them!"

She emphasized, "I'm not joking! This isn't a threat!"

Elena looked directly at the girl and slowly spoke:

“I heard you,” her voice was unusually calm. “I know exactly what you’re saying. And I absolutely believe you’re telling the truth. This place… is an inescapable hellish prison.”

The girl was stunned, completely bewildered by the other person's attitude: "Then...then why aren't you afraid?! You might die! You might become a monster! You might never see your family and friends again! Never!"

Under the girl's astonished gaze, Elena's lips slowly curved upwards into a smile.

That wasn't a laugh of despair, nor a laugh of feigned composure. It was a laugh of certainty, her gaze seemingly piercing through the darkness of despair to see a distant yet incredibly clear lighthouse.

“Because,” Elena’s voice was soft, “my partner, Xiling… is a very powerful person. Powerful beyond imagination.”

“It may sound strange, even a little ridiculous…but,” her gaze passed over the girl and fell into the darkness deep within the town that seemed to be writhing, “he can definitely solve the problems here. I believe we can definitely find a way out.”

Her tone was so matter-of-fact, so unquestionable, as if she were stating a fact as natural as sunrise and sunset.

On an unknown battlefield.

Amidst the beast's terrifying laughter, the sword pierced its skull.

The swordsman stood before the sleeping girl and gazed at her for a long time...

The swordsman then raised the sword and pierced his own heart.

Chapter 107 Elena's Cry! Xiling's Arrival

Although Miss Witch has quite good physical strength, constantly jumping long distances on the rooftops is still too difficult for her.

The girl stood opposite Elena, looking at her with disdain.

"Hey, my magician, with your spineless attitude, don't let those 'mutated disease' patients snatch you up as a snack before your supposedly incredibly powerful friend even finds you!"

"Huff...huff...you...you're so easy to talk when you're not the one suffering..." Elena gasped for breath, sweat trickling down her temples. She secretly vowed that when she got back, she would definitely put physical training on the agenda! Of course, that was a story for another time.

Elena took a deep breath, suppressing her churning lungs and aching legs, and leaped into the air! Her slender figure traced a less-than-graceful arc in the air, landing precariously on the other side, swaying a couple of times before barely managing to steady herself.

The girl finally showed a hint of barely satisfied expression. "Alright, we're almost there. It's not far ahead. Just hang in there a little longer..."

Upon hearing this, Elena almost burst into tears of joy.

Running across rooftops like that consumed more energy than she had in the entire past year!

Just as Elena was eagerly anticipating being able to collapse and catch her breath—

Boom! ! !

A deafening, terrifying roar, seemingly capable of ripping the silence of the entire town, suddenly came from not far away! The source of the sound seemed to be in the direction of that group of buildings!

The roof beneath our feet trembled slightly from the sudden loud noise!

The girl in front of her froze! She turned around abruptly, staring intently in the direction from which the loud noise came. The usual disdain and impatience on her face vanished instantly, replaced by a stunned and utterly incredulous look!

"No...impossible!!" she gasped, her voice trembling from deep in her throat.

The next second, she rushed to the edge of the roof, grabbed the rickety iron railing with both hands, leaned forward desperately, and stretched her neck to look in the direction of the church.

When her gaze finally focused on the chaotic battlefield in front of the church—

The girl turned around abruptly, her face showing disbelief and astonishment.

"Ah!" The girl seemed to see the most terrifying sight. She staggered back two steps, her feet breaking through a pile of rubble. She lost her balance and was about to fall backward!

"Watch out!" Elena reacted quickly, ignoring her own exhaustion, she stepped forward and firmly supported the girl's back, preventing her from falling.

Just as she caught the girl, Elena's gaze involuntarily drifted towards the chaotic battlefield—

Just one glance!