At the moment when the crystallized guns rang out, chaos finally descended on the surrounding area of the venue.

Even though this is Merlin Lehe, even if this is a place under the direct protection of the Judicial Committee, in the face of these strange attackers from the abyss, the soldiers and mages with weapons have no way to make the most appropriate response in the first place.

The deep fog created by the "attendants" of the Abyss court can interfere not only with perception, but also with the magic at work, and the court hounds who continue to launch deadly raids from strange angles under the cover of the fog will always target those who lack protection and panic.

These fearsome stalkers are now transformed into ferocious hyenas that chase and bite their single prey, and the corners of safety that people find often become the most dangerous cages in the blink of an eye, and even a few unlucky people who thought they had been sheltered were killed on the spot by their claws and sharp teeth that suddenly protruded from their ears as they panted against the wall......

In just two minutes of chaos, the orderly open space outside the venue was transformed into a bloody slaughterhouse, killing several participants from different countries and organizations, and many soldiers and mages trying to resist the enemy became additional casualties in the process.

One of the Legislature mages reacted fairly quickly, and it soon became apparent that it wasn't the assailants who were really causing the situation to spiral out of control, but the black mist that interfered with perception, so he shouted at his companion and immediately began casting a spell to try to dispel the damn darkness with a magical glow.

Bright balls of light filled with magic power appeared from his palms and flew into the air with the support of the magic, and then the mage was pleasantly surprised to find that the highly condensed magic seemed to have an effective effect on the mist—under the bright magical light, the continuous black shadows began to fade rapidly, and the two nearby crystalline lamps that had stopped working due to the fog interference also returned to their light!

"Illumination! Keep the lights up! ”

He was eager to inform the rest of the others of his discovery, but before he could finish his sentence, the shadow behind his body shuddered, and a large mouth full of countless sharp teeth and writhing tentacles tore through his disguise and bit down hard at the mage's upper body.

The mana perception made the mage aware of the danger, but his reaction was a beat slower, and when he turned around, he could only see the many pupils that glowed bloody in the darkness.

"It's over."

At the moment when his eyes were about to be filled with death, the mage let out a helpless sigh in his heart, but the expected death did not come.

At the moment when the mouth was about to close, several slender shadows suddenly swept over from the side, and they were like tough lassoes that were precisely wrapped around the strange beast's open mouth, and as the noose tightened and pulled, the beast's head was forcibly pulled aside, and the hideous mouth was forced to close.

Immediately afterward, the mage saw a large figure leap out of the side, its body was also shrouded in a faint black mist, but it looked furry, and instead of those dense red pupils, two green eyeballs grew on either side of its head.

As for the "noose" used to bind and control the beast, it was three extraordinarily slender long tails like whips.

It was an extraordinarily large rat, and it looked as if it had been summoned by someone present, but the council mage had never seen or heard of such a strange magical creature before.

In the next second, as if with a huge grudge, the big mouse opened its mouth, revealing its huge front teeth that emitted a dark light, and gnawed at the strange beast that was bound, and at the same time, the ends of the three tails that were tightly entwined and bound to the beast's head suddenly lifted, and sharp spikes as sharp as knives grew out of it, and then pierced straight into the body that could not see the specific outline.

As the conductor of the Running Rat, Shug felt the mood of the Running Mouse Snicky at this moment.

That feeling is like the social animal who has been oppressed in the office for a long time finally doesn't want to put up with his colleague anymore and decides to smash the other party's skull with a keyboard.

It's funny, but it's also an emotional catharsis.

The Running Rat is no longer the tiny summon that it used to crimp behind Hugg's shoulder when facing the hounds of the court, and after a long run-in with Shug and many bloody battles in Seren, its combat experience and its own abilities are no longer the same.

For it, the current battle is not only an emotional catharsis, but also a good opportunity to verify its status and regain the attention of its "master".

Compared to the Running Rat, which showed its own image in the open, the Mirror Messenger and the Hound Dog, who had a common origin with these attackers, could only act under the premise of cooperating with each other, and under the coordination of Xiuge, a large amount of fog was created by the Mirror Messenger, and these fogs spread rapidly and mixed with the forces from the enemies.

Immediately after that, it was time for the hunt of the court hounds.

As a special individual who has successfully devoured the Abyssal Spider, it has long been two completely different beings from its own past kind, and due to the multiple influences exerted by Shuge and Theseus, in the minds of the court hounds, there is naturally no longer a situation where they have left their hands on their former kindred.

On the contrary, at this moment, some of the instincts inherited from devouring the Abyssal Spider began to awaken rapidly in the depths of the hound's body, and the fog that covered a large area formed a huge web, and the hound that stretched its sharp chelicerae in the darkness became the highest hunter in this large web.

The court attendants, who arrived with the rest of the Abyss Hunters, were the first to notice the strangeness.

As the lowest and most basic existence of the Abyss Court, they have always been greedy and timid, just like the mirror messenger that Xiuge encountered for the first time, they will show extremely high enthusiasm when faced with the goal they can defeat and plot, but once they encounter pressure and danger, they will retreat or even surrender as quickly as possible.

Now, this situation is playing out again.

Sensing the danger, the court attendants reached a "consensus" almost in a matter of seconds, and within their interoperable minds, one opinion was quickly unified—to abandon all the hounds they had brought with them, and immediately retreat, bringing the message back to the Abyss Court.

However, what these court attendants did not expect was that it was not only a ferocious hound that "betrayed" the Abyss court, but also a more powerful and sinister higher being.

A complicated thought came to Xiuge's mind, it was a "request" from the messenger in the mirror, hoping to get Xiuge's approval to use the black mask that only served Xiuge itself.

After a moment of reflection, Xiuge approved the application.

In this delicate and special period, he also wanted to see how much power these abys creatures who obeyed him could burst out.

So, the messenger in the mirror standing in the fog bowed slightly to Xiuge, its image and appearance had completely changed into the appearance of Xiuge himself, and then, it raised its palm and shook it lightly in the mist, and the strange mask containing the knowledge and memories of countless deceased people immediately appeared in the hand of the messenger in the mirror.

It silently sent the mask to its face, and in the next moment, the two became one.

In this instant, the influence of the mirror envoy on the surrounding abyss fog reached the extreme, and the invisible fog that was originally in motion was completely included in its control, and those abyss court attendants who were hiding in the fog and were about to escape became helpless fish frozen on the spot.

The fog began to tighten, and the vast web of abyssal power immediately revealed all the existence hidden within, and these important messages were meticulously transmitted to the extremely ferocious wolfhound.

For those who were still trapped in the foggy area, the scene seemed eerie and eerie.

The monsters that were chasing them seemed to cease their movements, but the nearby fog began to emit a constant whimper of pain and sorrow, and these sounds often did not last long before they were silenced on the spot, accompanied by an even more terrifying sound, which sounded both like the sound of some ferocious beast gnawing at its prey, as if a large invisible insect was jumping and crawling rapidly.

Every minute seemed extremely difficult for the unknown soldiers and officials, but for the mages who were trying to fight the attackers in the first place, it was a great thing to cheer up.

Because under the light of those gathered balls of magical light, a figure is "handling" those dangerous enemies with great efficiency.

They saw a young man in a dark trench coat, holding a cane and a firearm, dragging one after another of badly injured beasts wrapped in mist out of the shadows, and the young man's identity was quickly confirmed by those present.

Someone recognized him, it was Hug Ernst from the Dawn Society.

The metal staff was encased in some kind of magic, which turned it directly into a sharp sword with lethal power, and the crystallized gun that he picked up from the ground would let out a roar from time to time, and the bullets made of magic would always hit the bodies or heads of the strange beasts with precision, and then the twisted bodies would be forcibly pulled out of the fog and slammed into the clearing.

Beside him, he was accompanied by a swift three-tailed giant rat, and those beasts that tried to flee after being badly damaged were often attacked by this giant rat for a second time, and these incomparably coherent and fluid methods of handling the beasts weakened the beasts.

The red pupils on either side of their skulls had become extremely dim, and their bodies, which had been hidden in the fog and could not be seen at all, had become twisted like rags, but even so, these beasts were still not dead, they seemed to have unimaginable vitality and resilience, and even at this point, they continued to struggle, trying to fight back again.

However, their actions were ultimately futile.

Taking advantage of the fact that these beasts were in a weakened state, several layers of sturdy cages made of magic power were quickly built up by Wei Lin, these magic cages were not the same as the cages in the normal state, and as a spellcaster with careful observation, Wei Lin had noticed the special movement patterns of these monsters.

So, with her control over magic, she forcibly adjusted the magical structure inside these magic cages to make them as rounded and smooth as possible, and forcibly erased the sharp edges and corners used to bridge the lines of magic.

Soon more mages joined the effort, including many of them with valley-level and lake-level strength, so a large number of special magic cages were improvised and all the monsters that had been badly damaged by the cultivation were imprisoned.

No one but Vilyn knew that it was not Shog himself who really turned the tide, but an even more ferocious beast hiding in the shadows.

The chaos was quickly brought under control as the wolfhound and the mirror messenger jointly launched a series of cullings, and after the last ordinary hound that tried to attack the area was pierced through its body by a sharp chelicera, Xiug silently gave the order to evacuate in his head.

So, immersed in the killing, the wolf dog shook its chelicera vigorously and threw his former kind out of the fog, and he quickly disappeared in place, while the mirror messenger who had been constantly oppressing and controlling the palace attendants chose to "close the net" at this moment.

The fog began to shrink.

The screams that existed on the spiritual level kept coming, it was the wail of the court attendants when they were annihilated in the mist, and then, Xiuge felt a stream of cold "water" flowing into his spiritual world, unlike in the past, these devoured and assimilated powers were not roughly piled up, but were carefully classified and stacked by the messenger in the mirror, becoming information waiting to be consulted and looked through, and a power resource that could be absorbed and distributed at any time.

As the fog was about to dissipate, the Mirror Messenger took off its black mask, saluted respectfully once more, and then disappeared in place with the mist.

As a result, all the crystalline lamps were lit up again, and among the scattered blood and different colored magic cages, the figure of Shug Ernst seemed to become even more conspicuous.

(End of chapter)