At 24:00 on the same day.

Or rather, at 0:00 the next day.

The city of Crossbell was completely shrouded in darkness.

During this time, there are almost no residents awake. I can't say for sure no, but definitely not too much, except for those who need to stay up late to work, everyone goes to sleep at this time.

The guiding lights on the street still faithfully emit a soft light, making the cooler evening breeze seem to be a little milder. It is precisely because of these street lamps that the night that should be starry becomes a blur, and the excessively bright lights deprive the specialties that should belong to the night. Even the old city, a place "abandoned by the times", has sporadic old guiding lights.

"It's an ugly color."

Suddenly, an ethereal voice sounded softly, and then it was dissipated by a gust of evening wind.

With this emotion-like voice, a white mist gradually condensed at the top of Crossbell's tallest building, IBC Bank.

It is a young man dressed in a Japanese robe. As if it had been formed by mist, it appeared on the top floor of the IBC.

He was no more than twenty years old, with a delicate appearance, long hair reaching to his waist, and a very pale face, as if he had been eroded by illness for a long time.

He was slender and slender, and there was nothing wrong with being mistaken for a woman at first glance.

The robe is based on elegant blue, the workmanship is exquisite, and there is a round jade pendant around the waist, although it has not been finely carved, but as long as you know a little about jade, you will understand the value of this jade. In addition to this, the man held a large folding fan in each hand, two of the same style, with a ferocious demon motif painted on the front and a strange emblem painted on the reverse.

It's a snake with its own tail.

The night wind blew his long hair away at will, and he closed his eyes indifferently, as if he had made an appointment with someone, and waited quietly.

"Sorry, I'm late."

There was no apologetic voice, and a man jumped from a higher place. There's no taller building than the IBC in the area, so he must have jumped off an airship or something, right?

However, what is the sacredness of the airship that can bypass Crossbell's security system?

“……”

The man in the kimono was silent.

"Ahh Speaking of which, my family's Fafergnan is much more obedient, but the amount of food has been getting bigger and bigger recently, and I actually prefer raw food more than cooked food, and the difficulty of raising it has increased dramatically every day. Obviously it's just a pet, why is there so much attention to eating a meal, obviously food or something has to be digested in the end, eat more, eat less, eat better, eat badly, it doesn't matter at all, and ah, I've become lethargic lately, isn't it growing my body, speaking of long body, it doesn't seem to have reached any special time period......"

The man who had just jumped off began to say something of unknown meaning as if he were a cannon, and his interest grew higher and higher, and the speed of his speech became faster and faster.

But the man in the kimono didn't interrupt him. As if he hadn't heard, he opened his eyes, but he had no intention of stopping them.

By the way, the center of the previous pile of nonsense, Fafergnan, is the name of a pet dragon. Less than 40 miles long, it was lying on the shoulder of the verbose man, biting its master's ear with dissatisfaction, as if to vent its dissatisfaction, and as if it was using its master's ear as food.

"Ah sorry, I said so much unconsciously. How's the plan going? Seems like the bait works, right? ”

"Two horses were slightly wounded, and one was killed."

Hearing him get down to business, the kimono man replied to him calmly.

"Oh? How can anyone fight your demons to this extent? This was really unexpected, I thought it would be boring to supervise the mission, I wanted to prevaricate, and I wouldn't have been here if the Kempareira guy had to invite me over. It's true! I'm not always so idle, I didn't expect to hear such interesting news as soon as I came, so I said that life is full of variables, I don't know if dragons have similar troubles to people in their lives, just like humans have to worry about what to eat and make money every day, dragons are not entangled every day, when I say this, human beings are really sad creatures, I understand a little, why do you always put the destruction of human beings on your lips......"

In the face of his companion's meaningless tirade, the kimono man neither expressed impatience nor showed the appearance of listening attentively. As if he didn't exist. It wasn't until his nonsense was over that the man in the kimono continued in a calm tone, "The Karumon consortium is not something that can be dealt with casually. Finally kept their eyes peeled. ”

"Although you say it's 'finally', but I always feel that you don't really pay attention to it at all, even if you are not an executor, but your operational god kung fu is admired by everyone. If you hadn't refused, maybe it would be the new NO.XIII by now! Ah, or do you want to be NO.VI more? Ah......h

"I'm not going to be an executor."

The man in the kimono retorted lightly, his tone full of indifference, as if he didn't care about everything.

"Okay, but I mean, your ability to manipulate demons is a great skill! Coupled with your face and the nickname of 'phantom', there must be many people who like it...... Ay? Where are you going? ”

Listening to his question, the man in the kimono responded coldly: "It's also colored." ”

I saw the kimono man [phantom] spreading out his hands fan, and there was a faint purple-red light on it. It was a different energy from the Dou Qi and the Seven Jewels, an unknown energy that made people feel uncomfortable.

The kimono man [Phantom] stepped on a wonderful dance step, and the purple-red strange energy spread throughout his body with his dance steps, and then, behind him, something vaguely resembling a magic array appeared on his back, accompanied by the snapping of the fan, the purple-red light disappeared instantly, leaving only a petite and cute naked woman standing behind him.

And behind this lovely woman, where the shoulder blades should have been, there are two additional strong bones, which are wrapped in black skin, like the wings of a bat. If you look closely, this woman's pupils actually have no pupils, and there is a saying that human pupils symbolize the human soul, so if she has no pupils, does it mean that she actually has no soul? The part of her forehead that was covered by her long black hair also had a faint unnatural bulge. What's even more amazing is that with the appearance of this woman, the Qiyao vein on the roof of the IBC building has been disordered to a certain extent.

Combined with these, the identity of this woman is not difficult to guess.

"It's so powerful, it's really a demon that can be summoned at will! He is a man who can make a pact with demons. With this power, let alone the executor, do you want to try to be an apostle, it just so happens that the white-faced grandson...... I mean, the white-faced professor has vacated the position of the third apostle, and if you want to go, isn't it just to fill the gap, the apostle, but you have the right to make proposals, and then you can propose a plan for the extinction of the human race, and I will definitely help you, if you think about it, the destruction of the world, the destruction or something, doesn't it just fit my [Judgment Dragon] nickname, speaking of which, the nickname really has to be like this, so it tastes enough, why don't you change it to a handsome name, such as [Demon Summoner in the Dark Nightmare] or something like that, it must be ......"

"Shut up."

It seems that you need to concentrate, and the man in the kimono said lightly. The man who called himself the Dragon of Judgment shrugged and fell silent. He knows exactly when he can't joke, and it's okay to like small talk, but if the small talk leads to the failure of the plan, forget it.

The summoned female demon flapped her wings and flew into the air with a light spirit. At the same time, a spherical pale cyan enchantment with a radius of about three or five sub-distances around her unfolded at will. This is something that makes it easy for the human spirit in the enchantment to focus.

The phantom stepped back into the barrier and began to dance.

It's not an adjective, the man is indeed dancing, like a kabuki, the wide sleeves of the kimono are very harmonious with the large fan in his hand, and his dancing steps are also elegant and beautiful, but also vaguely sad.

And with his dance, something invisible to the naked eye—the Seven Flames—is converging at a rapid speed towards the old town of Crossbell. In the eyes of the kimono man, the leylines are weaving into a complex and mysterious and gorgeous magic circle in the old city.

The leyline, in the east, is called the dragon vein, which is known as the Qiyao vein. The normal operation of all things in nature is related to the Qiyao Vein. If the wind attribute is active, it will be windy all year round, and if the water attribute is active, there will be abundant precipitation, although it is not all such a simple and easy-to-understand rule, but the Qiyao vein is indeed inextricably related to natural phenomena.

And the same goes for Warcraft.

Different regions tend to inhabit different kinds of magical beasts. The most typical example, the wolf-shaped demonic beast in Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture, cannot be found in the Liber Kingdom at all.

Warcraft was born because of Qiyao, and reincarnated because of Qiyao. Unlike ordinary creatures that will become extinct due to a large number of human hunting, the essence of the demonic beast is a manifestation of the Seven Jewels. Demonic beasts feed on the Qiyao veins, and the reason why they attack humans is also because of the tiny Qiyao veins circulating in the human body.

No matter how many times the demonic beast is killed, it will only turn into purple smoke and return to the Qiyao Vein, and then reappear with the normal operation of the Qiyao Vein.

Therefore, the Karumon Consortium's campaign to eradicate Warcraft is, to a certain extent, a meaningless activity that treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Even if all the monsters inhabited by Crossbell were wiped out now, they would only reappear after a while.

But it's not entirely like this, in the operation of the Qiyao Vein, those factors that make up the Demon Beast may change. In the eyes of humans, it may become more murderous or weaker, or it may become something completely different.

For example, the wanted Warcraft is because of the abnormal movement of the Qiyao Vein, which causes the Qiyao Vein that makes up the Warcraft to change drastically.

And now, because of someone, the leylines are gradually converging in the old town of Crossbell. I don't know, what will become of it?