"What's that?"

The strange flickering shadow startled the otherwise extremely relaxed young villager Lurt, who sat on his bed and looked at the corner of the house in a daze.

After hesitating for a full two seconds, he finally reacted, raised his hand and reached for his bedside.

His village was very remote, with dense woods on the north and south sides, so it was not uncommon for wild beasts to run into the village, and Ruert was very familiar with this situation, so he, like the other villagers in the village, would have some basic self-defense weapons in his room.

Soon, he silently pulled out a very old double-barreled crystalline gun from the darkness.

The craftsmanship is old, the style is simple and rough, and it is a classic product produced by those black-hearted alchemy workshops.

Lurt was well aware of the true power of this weapon, it was very unstable, and although it could fire inferior crystalline bullets, it was very difficult to hit the target, but it was enough for those beasts who were afraid of loud noises and lights.

At this time, the drunkenness in Luerte's body had woken up for the most part, his hands trembled slightly, but he was generally calm, and the shadow just now looked very thin, so Luert judged that it was most likely not a wild boar that ran out of the woods, but a lost wild dog or a hungry wolf.

He stabilized his breathing and heartbeat, controlled his trembling palms, and finally found two crystalline bullets with a somewhat pitted surface from the small bullet pouch hanging from the side of the double-barreled crystallized gun, and only after successfully filling the two bullets into the crystallized gun, he stood up from the side of the bed.

With a gun in one hand on guard, the other free, Lurt groped for an old crystalline lamp mounted on the wall above the bed.

A moment later, a dim light began to illuminate most of the room, and various shadows intertwined and overlapped in the limited space, mottled like the patterns left by the sunlight as it passed through the canopy of trees.

"Huh?"

Ruerte looked around with some confusion.

He didn't see anything of the mark, the room looked the same as usual, there were no signs of wild wolves, wild dogs, wild boars, and the floor of the room was not clean, but there were no animal tracks.

"I guess I drank too much......"

Lurt shook his head in confusion, but out of vigilance, he searched the other end of the room with his weapon in hand, and after making sure that there was nothing unusual in the room, he relaxed and turned his head to check the lock.

At this moment, a loud sound suddenly sounded from the other side of the village.

It was the sound of a crystallized gun.

To be precise, it was the sound of the crystalline guns of the hunters in the village, and the weapons held by these hunters were completely different from the deterrent appearance in his hands, let alone any beasts, and even some dangerous magical creatures could be killed on the spot.

"Why, they have beasts there?"

Lurt was a little dazed, and before he could react, several more gunshots rang out in the distance, and it seemed that there was not only one hunter who was alarmed!

However, following the successive gunshots, there was a terrible scream to the extreme, and this scream only lasted for a moment, as if it had been extinguished in the dark night, and it was directly drowned in the echoing gunfire.

“……”

At this moment, the faint intuition hidden in Luert's body made him turn around, and this action allowed him to successfully see an extremely strange and terrifying picture.

He saw that just behind him, in the corner he had already examined, there was a slender and strange shadow slowly seeping out of the corner between the walls and the walls.

In the blink of an eye, the shadow had managed to break free from the darkness attached to the wall and take on a physical form, its head as slender as its body, looking like an elongated wolfhound and a close relative of the dangerous crocodiles that roamed the river.

Writhing, slender tentacles stretched out from its slightly open mouth, and they writhed incessantly, reminding Luert of the bugs that sucked the blood of humans and animals.

Even more frightening were the blood-red jewel-like eyes embedded in the sides of the skull, so dense and cold that just looking at them was enough to make one's breath stagnant and one's body cold.

"Ah...... Ah......h

An indeterminate sound came from Lurt's gaping mouth, and then he saw the shadow, which seemed to wander on the border between reality and nightmare, begin to slowly approach in his direction.

Controlled by fear, his fingers pulled the trigger of the double-barreled crystallization in his hand hard.

His shooting skills and experience were so bad that with the kneeling of his fingers, the two bullets in the crystallized gun were fired by him one after another, and the loud sound almost shook Luert himself, and the inferior guns and inferior bullets created a thick cloud of smoke in the house.

Through the drifting smoke, Luert found that the terrifying shadow in front of him seemed to disappear.

"I broke it?"

The thought flashed through the young villager's head, but in the next moment, he heard a creepy grinding sound.

It was the sound of sharp claws slicing lightly across the wooden walls.

Right in your ear.

"No ......"

He instinctively wanted to shout, but before he could make a sound, a dark shadow with a cold aura suddenly popped out from the corner of the wall next to him.

The long, narrow skull cracked in the middle, and Lutre saw once more the monstrous mouth full of fangs and tentacles.

Darkness enveloped him, and the moment he lost consciousness, he heard his teeth closing and his own skull shattering.

……

"Smack!"

Warm applause once again rang out in the grand venue.

It's late at night, but the meeting has no intention of stopping, and over the past few hours, the participants from different countries, with different racial and ethnic identities, have been engaged in very heated discussions on several important and fundamental topics.

Although most of these speakers, representing different countries, positions and organizations, have completely different or even contradictory and conflicting views, they have a relatively unified view on a certain matter.

"The Black Sun in the sky is a hidden danger, as are the Black Sun Society and the Kingdom of St. Steele, which is controlled by the Black Sun Society, and all three need to be addressed."

As for how to solve it, who will solve it, and to what extent, this is what people should debate and quarrel about.

This situation is not surprising to Xiuge.

The consensus was possible because different races and nations had now seen the dangers posed by the Black Sun Society and the Black Sun, and the Kingdom of Hain, which was adjacent to St. Steele, and the Kingdom of Waterl and Teresa, which were close to the rugged hills, were deeply affected by this.

But this kind of thing is like people from different regions and different cultural backgrounds discussing the issue of eating, they all know that they need to eat, but they are always prone to quarrels over "what to eat".

Wei Lin frowned and picked up her water glass and took two sips.

She had just spoken on behalf of the Dawn Society and a group of scholars who had been aboard the Windless Cruise—during those ten days of travel, the Dawn Society had basically reached a consensus with these scholars who had seen the dangers of ancient creations, and all of them agreed that advancing the study of those ancient beings was the first priority at the moment.

Only by understanding the specific nature of these looming threats, and the power of the so-called ancient gods, can we better choose specific responses.

This was also the first resolution to be approved by an overwhelming majority of votes at this important meeting.

Led by the Legislative Committee, with the Dawn Society, the Council, and the rest of the Mage Tower's societies as the foundational support, a new academic committee will be formed to concentrate as much scholarly strength as possible and relevant intelligence and resources to conduct a comprehensive study of these looming different threats.

"I don't even think this kind of thing needs to be discussed in a conference at all...... It's a waste of time, but I really didn't expect that even on such an issue, there would be people who would vote against it. ”

Wei Lin put down the water glass, her voice was a little dry, the long list of speeches in front of her made her a little tired, reading scripts was really not something she was good at.

And those inexplicable opposition votes made her feel very angry.

For a few seconds, Verin even felt the urge to use Merlinle and the Flame Wall and the Cold Pool to cover some corners of the venue.

Hearing Wei Lin complain like this, Xiuge reached out and grabbed her half-empty water glass, and then the magic power worked slightly, and the water that shimmered with a faint magic glimmer was quickly replenished.

Xiuge's demonic water had been optimized countless times before, and now the water he created not only had no problem drinking, but could even bring a slight refreshing sensation to people's throats.

After that, he turned his head and gestured to the members of the Dawn Society, who were in charge of recording the details of the meeting and the meeting, and soon Richard handed over a piece of paper with handwriting all over it.

Xiuge picked up the paper and looked at it a few times, then said with a smile: "Those who have objections should be such a group of people...... Well, there are several research societies and laboratories funded and controlled by the Giant Ear Goblin Chamber of Commerce, and of course, there are several mage associations with the name of the Deep Sea-level Mage Tower. ”

"Goblin Chamber of Commerce...... I can understand that they don't support me. ”

Wei Lin took two sips of the magic water in the cup, the magic contained in the water was very cool, soaked her throat, made her feel a lot more comfortable, and then she asked suspiciously, "But those Mage Tower Society, why should they object?" Goblins pursue profits, so do they pursue them too? ”

Xiuge shook his head: "I think this should not be a matter of interests, but concepts and beliefs...... Oh, look, are these names familiar to you? ”

Curiously, Wei Lin reached over and glanced at the paper in Xiuge's hand, and soon, her brow, which had managed to be relaxed, was furrowed again.

She did see several familiar names.

"Mel's Gift Mage Society, Sinar Mage Society......"

After reading these names, Wei Lin couldn't help but let out a long sigh, as a mage who used to take "witchcraft and magic" as her main subject, her familiarity with these names can be said to be quite high.

Wei Lin whispered, "These societies ...... In particular, the 'Mel's Gift' in it has always opposed the internal research of the Law Committee on 'evil magic', believing that this is the dregs and threats that have been abandoned by the Goddess of Magic, and there is no need to take the risk of picking it up again. ”

Speaking of this, she gritted her teeth, "My teacher and I have met some of them, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are even more fanatical about the belief in the goddess of magic than those sword-wielding hermits. ”

"The goblins are easy to deal with, the headquarters of these chambers of commerce are all set up in Waterl and Deland, in order to further alleviate the conflict and promote cooperation, they should all take similar actions in this regard."

Xiuge replied in a deep voice: "It's these societies...... They are all about to develop into the church of the goddess of magic within their sphere of influence, and I am afraid that the Law Committee will have to find a way to deal with it itself, and these guys cannot be allowed to run from one extreme to the other. ”

The two discussed a few more sentences, but heard the sound of argument suddenly erupt again in front of them.

Speaking on the podium at this time was a high-ranking naval officer of the Kingdom of Hyne, and this official was presenting a proposal on behalf of the Kingdom of Hayne - to gather some of the naval forces of various countries and build several ports and islands of the Kingdom of Hayne into interconnected and solid defense lines and outposts.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the target of this proposal is the Kingdom of St. Steele, although on the surface, the sea power of the Kingdom of Hayne is completely capable of gaining the upper hand in the confrontation with the current Saint-Stills, but the Kingdom of Hayne said that it is now necessary to think about more than the size of the fleet.

They believe that the potentially terrible dangers in the oceans and the unknown methods of the Black Sun Society could tip the scales at any time.

This proposal sparked opposition from many Plains Coastal Duchy.

It's strange that they don't object.

In the previous war, the fleet of the Kingdom of Hayne was like a terrifying hammer, and these fleets cobbled together by the principalities of the Plains were like pieces of iron that could only be beaten, although the fleet of the Kingdom of Hayne also suffered a lot of losses, but the front that advanced at an extremely fast speed was enough to explain many, many problems.

Now, let these principalities who have just suffered a big loss and want to completely cut down the navy of the Kingdom of Hain vote in favor......

It's just daydreaming!

(End of chapter)