In the middle of the Southern Continent, the city of Phothes.

On this day, the city of Fochers was once again on the highest alert for the first time in a long time, and all the nearly 100,000 soldiers in the city were dispatched, and soldiers patrolled the streets, and almost all the soldiers around the gates and on the walls were almost full of heavily armed soldiers.

The soldiers guarding the gates kept a close watch over anyone who approached the city of Phochers, and conducted the strictest searches for anyone who came into the city.

All morning, the soldiers guarding the city gate did not notice anything unusual, and from noon onward, a strange wind that made people shiver constantly blew from the west. It was noon, but the sky was as dark as it had been before the rainstorm.

Under the west gate of Phochers, a few soldiers standing on either side of the gate chatted with boredom.

"Say, why didn't Lord Soreen take a few of his brothers with him this time? Since the other party is a demon, if she brings a few more people, the odds of winning will definitely be higher."

"Eh, what do you know, I heard that the strength of the demons is far above us humans, and Lord Thorin is worried that he will cause unnecessary losses due to this battle without any soldiers."

"But didn't I hear that Lord Thorin joined forces with that race called the Divine Heir? I heard from the maid in the castle that the archbishop of the Divine Heir clan was a great beauty and a powerful man, and that she wanted Lord Sorine not to bring some brothers.'

"Well, I really didn't expect that legend to be true."

"Master Payant is really pitiful, not only could he not save Lord Gofedor, but he also got injured, he must be very self-blaming."

"Don't talk about it, when the time comes, we'll be in trouble."

"Alas, such a good person, how can you say that if you don't have it, you're gone......

"Guard the door well, people like us who have neither special abilities nor much strength can only do our best to do what we can."

"Okay, let's not talk about it, guard the door! Otherwise, something will go wrong, and Lord Thorin will be angry."

……

The soldiers stopped chatting and straightened up again, looking out of the city gates, alert for any suspicious people that might appear.

And when they looked outside the city gate again, they saw a man in a cloak approaching.

The man's cloak completely obscured his face and arms, making it impossible to see what he looked like, or even whether he was male or female.

Seeing the appearance of a suspicious person, the soldiers defending the city immediately became vigilant, and they clenched their weapons one after another, and their eyes were fixed on the stranger who suddenly appeared.

The man stopped when he was about five meters away from the city gate and did not take a step further.

"Captain......" one of the soldiers gently patted the arm of the soldier next to him and whispered.

The soldier, who was called the captain, nodded, walked up to the man, and asked, "As far as I know, there are not many living people left in the west, who are you and what is the purpose of your here?"

The man shook his cloak, revealing a white, flawless arm. Judging by that arm, the person was supposed to be a woman.

She reached out and patted the dust on her cloak, and said, "Liel has something important to do and wants to go into the city, and I hope you can let Liel go."

"If you want to go over, then allow me to search you, now that the city of Phothesis is on high alert, and you are from the west, I hope you can cooperate." Hearing Lil say this, the captain of the city guard frowned, and there was a hint of doubt in his eyes, but he still said so.

However, Lil subconsciously took a step back, "I'm sorry, Lil doesn't like to have any contact with the opposite sex."

"Then please wait a minute, I'll go find a female soldier." As he spoke, the captain of the city turned around and prepared to select a female soldier from among the soldiers defending the city to search her body.

However, just as the captain of the city guard turned around, Liel spoke again, "No need, Lil just go in."

As soon as Lil's words fell, the captain of the city guard felt a sudden sharp pain in his heart, and then he lost consciousness and fell to the ground, dying.

The moment the captain turned around, Liel pulled out the dagger that hung from her waist, dug out the captain's heart, and sliced it into pieces.

The rest of the garrison soldiers were shocked to see the captain of the city suddenly killed, but they quickly came to their senses, picked up their weapons, and rushed towards Lil.

Lil unbuckled her cloak, revealing her own face. Looking at the approaching soldiers defending the city, Lil slightly hooked the corners of her mouth, and her expression became a little pleasant. She placed the dagger to her mouth and gently licked it with her tongue, licking it clean of the blood of the captain who had been defending the city.

"This blood is still no better than that girl named Gofedor, it seems that the blood of a young and beautiful girl is the most delicious. In that case, you are of no value.'" Lil said to herself with a slightly lost look.

Hearing the slight thud of the weapon slicing through the air, Lil looked up and saw a long knife slashing at the head. Seeing this scene, she was not nervous at all, but smiled slightly, and a red light flashed in her eyes.

Immediately, Lil's figure moved, dodging the slashed long knife, and suddenly appeared behind all the soldiers in an instant.

"As an appetizer, Lil really wants to thank you well~" Lil played with the dagger in her hand, turned her head sideways, glanced at the soldiers guarding the city, and said with a playful expression.

As soon as Lil's words fell, the bodies of the nearly a hundred soldiers suddenly split into pieces, and blood gushed out, staining the ground in front of the city gate red.

At that moment, Lil cut every soldier who defended the city no less than ten times, and these defenders were killed without even seeing Lil's attack clearly.

The blood that flowed from the sliced bodies of the defending soldiers, but did not spill to the ground, was immediately pulled by an invisible force, and gradually converged, eventually flowing into Lil's body.

After absorbing the blood, Lil made a comfortable sound, but there was no very satisfied expression on her face.

After disposing of the soldiers at the gates, Lil didn't stop too long and walked into the city of Phocherth.

Soon, there were cries from the west side of the city of Phochers, some of them heart-rending screams, some screams of terror at the sight of some cruel act, and some of the cries of uneasiness and fear.

But the most prominent of these voices is a shrill and penetrating laughter.

Different cries echoed over the city of Phothes, as if woven into a "song" that was "melodious". And the color that best fits this "song" is the red of blood.

(End of chapter)