(Thank you very much for the tips of 'Three Mountains and Two Waters', 'Love~ Angel's Music', and 'The Only Blank'!) ）

There is no moon in the night sky today.

A thick layer of dark clouds obscured the entire dim night sky, shielding all the objects in the sky that could bring light sources on the other side.

"Hoo ————!"

The biting cold wind seemed to freeze all the qiē, and the unbearable low temperature permeated every corner of the entire Misaki City.

"Da-da-da-da-da——!"

With the sound of strong footsteps, at the end of the cold wind, two girls who were as dark as night slowly walked from it, and came to a ruin against the biting cold wind.

"Here we are." Youzhu was the first to stop herself, and also closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to be with Aozaki Aoko, and stepped aside.

Compared with the expressionless Youzhu, Aozaki's appearance is much tighter, her face is full of grim looks, and her fierce eyes are full of sinister brilliance.

It looked like I was about to step into battle.

"Is this it?" Aoko Aozaki looked straight ahead and asked without looking back.

"This is the location of the intruders revealed by the barrier?"

"One of them." Youzhu opened his mouth lightly.

"The other two are on the other side of the forest, but they've been resolved."

Youzhu is naturally the two rift men who hid in the shadows last night to carry out a sneak attack, leaving Youzhu in danger.

In this world, magicians are not so much "the people who control power". Rather, it is a "group of research forces".

The fundamental purpose of magicians is to reach the 'root', and magic is only a means to achieve this end.

So. Magicians are not necessarily "strong", but they are always "researchers".

For the study of magic. Usually, magicians choose the land of the spirit veins as their base.

With the support of spiritual veins, the advantage of a magician is great.

For example, the functions of exercising magic, setting up enchantments, preventing outsiders from entering, and accumulating mana are all of great help to magicians.

In addition, most of the magician's life will be spent on research, and the study of some magic topics is inseparable from the support of magic, in the case of limited magic power, the progress of research will be greatly limited, so that the spiritual veins with huge magic power can be used will naturally become fragrant.

But. The spiritual veins in this world are either owned by the "Magic Association", a group of magicians formed for the purpose of studying magic, or they are managed by the most prestigious local magic families, and foreign magicians cannot borrow the power of spiritual veins at all.

There are only three ways for ordinary magicians to use the power of spiritual veins.

1. Apply to the "Magic Association" to obtain the right to use the spiritual vein by rental.

Two: Make an agreement with the magic family that manages the spiritual veins to jointly borrow the power of the spiritual veins.

Three: Grab the spiritual vein.

What Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu are now encountering is the third situation, that is, they have encountered an alien magician who came to rob the spiritual vein.

Yesterday the two rift men were also one of them.

The enemy we will encounter tonight is one of them.

As for Noah, who has hidden his identity, Aoko Aosaki doesn't know about his existence yet, and Yuzhu didn't say anything about last night. Intentionally or unintentionally, he concealed Noah's affairs.

"In such a conspicuous place?" Aoko Aoko, who didn't know this, nodded heavily, glanced around the ruins, fixed her eyes on the road not far away, and made a staggering sound.

"There are beads. Is the barrier built? ”

Youzhu did not speak.

But Aozaki Aoko knew that with Yuzu's personality, she might have established an enchantment to drive people when she came to the scene.

It's not something that can be said to be a big deal. But it's a pity that Aoko Aosaki is just a trainee magician.

Aoko Aosaki's time to learn magic. It's only about a year and a half, and it's not even two years.

And compared to Aoko Aosaki. Youzhu has been practicing magic since he was a child, and now he is an excellent magician who can take charge of himself.

Compared with Aoko Aosaki, who is still a novice magician, Yuzhu is a real and pure magician, and he has always taken the magician's rules as his code of conduct, even to the point of being a one-size-fits-all.

Therefore, Aoko Aosaki aside, Yuzhu will definitely continue to carry out "hiding is the essence of magic" consistently.

Compared with Youzhu, Aozaki Aoko is indeed a lot worse, at least not a little bit now.

Of course, Aoko Aosaki also has her own peculiarities.

However, this "special feature" is not something that the current Aoko Aosaki can rely on for the time being.

Therefore, tonight can be said to be the day of Aoko Aosaki's transformation.

Because, tonight's battle with beads will not interfere.

This is Aoko Aosaki's first battle.

It is also the debut battle of Aoko Aozaki who is determined to abandon the moral norms of mankind and kill people with her own hands.

It is conceivable how important this is for Aoko Aozaki, who was still living an ordinary life not long ago and taking the code of conduct of ordinary people as the norm.

However, Aoko Aosaki will not run away.

Escaping is not something that "Aoko Aosaki" would do.

Therefore, Aoko Aosaki must bury the "human" part of her heart.

"Click, click..."

At this moment, a mechanical sound sounded from the stone pile on the other side of the ruins.

“————！” Aoko Aosaki reacted instantly, turned abruptly, looked in the direction from which the voice came, and raised one of her hands.

"Buzz ————!"

I saw that on Aozaki Aoko's arm, a burst of light suddenly flickered, penetrating the clothes and illuminating Aozaki Aoko's dignified pretty face.

If you look closely, the light blooms from a tattoo under the sleeve of Aoko Aosaki.

That's the "Magic Mark".

The magician spends a lifetime of his life fixing and stabilizing the magic that has no physical body, but is just a bunch of magic spells, so that they can be used as if they were part of his own body, and the result is this "magic mark".

The "magic mark" on Aoko Aosaki's body is the crystallization of magic that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Aozaki family.

With it, even if Aoko Aozaki is just a trainee magician, she can use fixed magic in an instant, just like those magicians who are too good.

However, just as Aoko Aosaki decisively activated the "Magic Mark" and planned to kill the intruder, Azuki suddenly raised her head and stared at the stone pile in front of her with dark eyes.

"Got beads?" Aozaki Aoko was slightly stunned, and just when she wanted to ask out loud, something happened to her.

"Bang ————!"

In the stone pile, a heavy muffled sound seemed to hit the hearts of Aozaki Aoko and Youzhu directly, and it exploded abruptly.

"Hoo ————!"

Immediately after, a black shadow flew up from the pile of rubble like garbage and slammed into the ground.

"Bang ————!"

Suddenly, the black shadow turned into fragments and scattered all over the ground like broken bones.

It was a puppet.

"Whoosh————!

Before Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu could react, a figure rushed out at an extremely fast speed in the original stone pile, turned a corner, and disappeared at the end of the road outside the ruins.

Aoko Aosaki and Yuzhu reacted at this time.

The two girls knew that they had been tricked.

I thought the intruder was here, but it turned out to be just an automaton sent by the other party.

Obviously, there was another person here just now.

"Don't run!" Aoko Aosaki was slightly startled.

"There are beads! Pursue! ”

Saying this, Aozaki Qingzi found that Youzhu didn't move at all, so she immediately gritted her teeth and chased out.

At the scene, only Yuzhu stood in place, staring at the direction in which the figure and Aoko Aozaki disappeared, and there was no trace of emotion in his dark eyes.

……

In the dim alley, Noah dodged and came out from the other side, his brows furrowed a little.

"It was discovered under such circumstances..."

Originally, Noah was just hiding to the side, intending to observe Aoko Aozaki and Yuzu.

As a result, unexpectedly, a puppet suddenly pounced on Noah, who was hiding in the stone pile.

Noah, who has the ability to sense, naturally couldn't be successfully attacked, but he kicked the puppet out with a reflexive kick.

So, as the puppet fell in front of Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu, Noah was also exposed.

"However, the doll must have been manipulated by a magician." Noah touched his chin thoughtfully.

"And the two rift men who sneaked up on the beads last night, it seems that Misaki City is even more unpeaceful than I imagined." (To be continued......) R1292