"I want to..."

"We need to go."

The stranger tore open the envelope and took out the stationery inside.

The scene in front of me is like flowing water changing backwards, and time and space are changing rapidly.

He saw the sun go down from the ends of the earth,

He saw Tik fly into the sky with Armand, his distant back like a fleeting meteor,

He saw the dueling arena full of people,

He saw the dancing flames.

Suddenly there was a little more touch in the palm of the hand.

And then,

The five senses returned, and they became what they were in front of them.

"You're very welcome! My Mad Swordsman."

In the midst of the cacophony of noise, the messenger of great sin clenched Yunfan's hand.

He had a smile on his face, and he looked enthusiastic, as if the two were old friends who had been separated for a long time.

But apparently they had only met this morning.

In the hypocritical and polite ceremonial conversation, the waiter on the side guided the stranger to sit.

"Tonight..."

"There are other guests."

"We'll see you later."

After saying hello, the oracle said a few words to the waiter, and turned to leave.

Yun Fan sat in his place, looking at the high platform in front of him, which was separated by a fence.

Presumably, this is the venue for the duel.

Before the duel began, a group of Deadly Sin believers were arranging the venue, people were coming and going in all directions, Yun Fan looked around, and when he arrived here, the black lines had become extremely dense.

It seems that he is not in the wrong place,

The black line is definitely related to this group of Grave Sin cultists.

"It's a magnificent building." The little guard, who had always been silent, gave a rare exclamation, "This place is not even much better than the family castle!"

"How did they build such a magnificent arena in such a short period of time?"

There was whispering and chaos everywhere.

Some people even want to disobey the rules, and they want to kill a dart.

After a long waiting time, the duel began.

......

Bang!

Closing the heavy door, the Great Sin Divine Envoy came to the front of the stage from behind the curtain and slowly walked up to the high platform.

Suddenly, the whole venue was silent. Everyone's eyes fell on the tattered black robe.

"Ladies and gentlemen." With an inexplicable smile on the corner of the oracle's mouth, he made a gesture with his hands open, "As I said before, this city is about to be destroyed."

"I'm sure there are many people who have witnessed that strange white mist. You must have tried, that fog can't be destroyed! They keep coming! They can't be eradicated!"

Speaking of this, a part of the crowd in the audience suddenly looked ugly.

apparently

The oracle spoke to their sore spots.

"I think many of you must be curious about how we got here."

Airplanes!

The purple-black light flowed, and under the feet of the divine envoy, a light curtain in the shape of a swirl and a strange pattern appeared in it.

The audience's eyes were suspicious, and people's eyes were locked on the speaker. In the eyes of everyone, the divine envoy's body suddenly sank, and the whole person slowly disappeared into the cracks.

"This is the gift of great sin! It is also the grace of the Bishop! God and the Son have given us the power of the 'door'!"

Another gap suddenly opened at the edge of the platform, and the voice of the oracle came from within, and he himself walked back into place.

"Thanks to this, we are not afraid of the threat of 'encroaching on the fog of the world'." He smiled and waved his hand to stop the audience, "I think you've guessed..."

"Today's dueling is about selecting the best fighters. Then we will give them the opportunity to escape from this doomed city..."

Same as this

, a blood-red barrage spread out in front of Yun Fan's eyes.

[You have uncovered a corner of the veil of the world and unlocked new secrets. 】

[The Gift of the Gate: The Cultists of the Great Sin will reap the blessings from the 'Great Sin' and gain the power of the 'Gate'. This allows them to travel anywhere in the world at will. Of course, the congregation itself is the key to this 'door'. 】

"Of course, in this duel, we also brought other prizes to the winners!"

"That's—"

Buzz!

Doors opened, weapons, armor, treasures, slaves, all sorts of things were reflected in everyone's eyes.

"Come on! Let's fight! I hope you will get my approval!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Crazy laughter echoed.

"It's not the same as saying yes!"

But there were still some people whose faces changed drastically, and they cursed and turned around to leave.

Swish!

The guards guarding the gates of the dueling arena brandished their weapons and killed them on the spot.

The dueling arena suddenly became a mess.

At this moment, Yun Fan just sat there quietly, looking at a locked iron cage from afar, in which a woman dressed as an explorer was imprisoned.

Unlike other slaves who were either muddy, or shaking the iron fence and shouting loudly. There was no hopeless disillusionment on her face, and she reclined in a half-reclining position in the corner of the iron cage, her flat gaze scanning everything she touched.

And then

The eyes of the two collided in midair.

Far more messy and dense black lines than ever before, suddenly appeared with the void, and Yun Fan's vision was instantly filled with these thin lines. They're wriggling wildly, they're twisted, they're...

They came from the slave woman's body.

The abrasion that touched the woman's cheek, the instinctive impulse from Armand's soul reminded Yun Fan that this body needed the woman's blood.

The location of the wound is the thickest place of the black line.

At the feet of the surviving duelist, a portal to the unknown realm suddenly opened. By the time the stranger came to his senses, half of his body had been swallowed.

The woman gently brushed her cheek with her index finger, which seemed to be unintentionally stained with a little scarlet. Then, she passed her hand to the edge of the cage and looked into Yun Fan's eyes again.

Before the whole person fell into the portal, Yun Fan kept looking into her eyes.

In a trance,

He seemed to peek through the clear pupils of a woman, a beautiful and delicate mechanical clock was eerily moving in a counterclockwise direction.

"Time..."

"So do you..."

"It's a creature cursed by time..."

In the next second, everything fell silent.

The angel stopped the maniacal laughter for a moment, and the smile never seemed to leave a trace on his face.

He paced back and forth on the high platform, and suddenly stopped in front of the iron cage where the woman was.

"Can I ask you a question, lady?"

"By what means did you infiltrate our order and follow us to this world?"

The oracle's tone was tinged with doubt and caution.

He remembered very well that she was not a trophy prepared by the Order.

......

It was a transparent color underneath, but there was an unusually solid touch.

On the opposite side of Yun Fan, a knight's figure shrouded in white armor walked slowly towards him.

This is a typical paladin's outfit.

"Vampires? Huh." Looking at those scarlet eyes, the paladin snorted coldly in disgust.

Happy New Year, everyone!