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The glass on a door was shattered by a figure.

Lillian, dressed in thin silk pajamas, held the candlestick and looked in amazement at the figure that had fallen in from the outside.

Was that a handsome man, with short blond hair, and a star-blue Alert Department uniform?

Would someone from the Alert Hall break into a house through a third-floor window at four fifty a.m., Lillian looked at the clock overhead?

It's not appropriate to say that it is a private house, after all, the Leia Club is one of the most famous "clubhouses" in Hongfang Street, between Hongfang Street and Linhe Street (a famous commercial street in the West Ring District), and Lilian is a famous beauty in the club, even if she is a nobleman at the earl level, or a high-ranking court official, if you want Lilian to accompany you, the starting price will be 20 gold coins an hour.

Therefore, when the young and promising captain Cohen Karabiyan of the West Side Alert Hall rushed into the private bedroom of the Leia Club from the third floor, Lilian, who was awakened in bed, came to check on it with a candlestick.

"This young lady, I'm so sorry to disturb your restful sleep. ”

Cohen scrambled up from the ground, hid his saber behind him, and bowed to the amorous Lilian, but when he reached out to take off his hat in salute, he realized that his officer's hat had fallen from the battle he had just had.

"Hell. Cohen muttered.

It's all because the old man lost my night clothes, and I couldn't go out to buy them in the middle of the night.

Lillian boldly looked at the polite and handsome vigilante - this is very important, otherwise Lillian would have smashed it directly through the candelabra, and with a slight turn of her big pretty eyes, she reached out and stroked her silky black hair, and her fingers swept over her proud chest, and giggled:

"Dear Mr. Officer, we are closed tonight. ”

Cohen knew what this place was, of course, and it was a normal time for the Leia Clubhouse to be lively.

But in the face of the beauty in front of him, he only smiled slightly, and was not confused by Lilian's moving style at all.

"So, you've been taken care of and closed tonight?"

"Of course, the Blood Vials have opened up the joints and promised to make up for the losses. Otherwise, do you know how much loss the closure of Hongfang Street for one night will bring to the adults who have worked hard and worked hard for the kingdom? If they are unable to contribute to the normal operation of the second largest country in the western continent because of fatigue from work, physical hardship, and mental boredom, what will the more than 10 million people of the Kingdom of Stars do?"

Lillian blinked and smiled slyly.

Cohen looked at this mature and seductive beauty, and his brows tightened slightly.

It seems that the information he received through the informant is incomplete, and he originally thought that the Black Street Brotherhood took the initiative to attack the Red Square Street branch of the Blood Bottle Gang, but now it seems that the Blood Bottle Gang set a trap on Red Square Street in advance and countered the army.

Then I came over tonight to test the focus of the two gangs, and I was going to shift away from the brotherhood.

After all, it's the Blood Vial Gang for nearly a hundred years.

"Hey, that golden retriever green-skinned dog!" a female voice outside the building interrupted the conversation.

"Come down and get your death! According to the rules, we can't go into any house. ”

Curious, Lillian walked to the broken window and saw a woman in leather armor covered in blood downstairs flicking the whip in her hand and angrily facing the upstairs.

Cohen bowed again to Lillian.

"Thank you for informing, beautiful lady, and forgive me for going to another lady's appointment at this moment. ”

The blonde-haired vigilante and patrol leader turned around and jumped lightly down the street.

"Dear Miss Bernice, don't be too anxious. ”

Cohen's smile suddenly turned cold, and murderous intent shot out of his eyes.

"The King, in the name of the Sacred Star Covenant, as a second-class vigilante officer, has the power to shoot you directly to the deaths of those who may endanger the interests of the kingdom and the lives of the people—don't worry, I will send you to be reunited with your brother at once. ”

Upstairs, Lillian covered her mouth, recognizing it as Bernice "Scorpion Whip" Layton, the sister of the Twelve Mighty Bloodbottle Gang and the notorious Layden siblings.

Her brother, Primo "Stinger" Layton, had only come to the Leia Club yesterday, and he had a special preference, almost scalding a new girl to death with oil from an inextinguishable lamp.

According to the officer's tone, it seems that the "Stinger" has died on his hands?

"Greenskin, even your boss wouldn't dare not give face to the Blood Vials! you—how dare you—" Bernice snapped, as one of the more mavericks of the Twelve, shaved off the left side of her hair and combed the rest of it to the right, making her whole body look much tougher.

"I'm going to suck every piece of meat out of you!"

As soon as the words fell, Bernice's whip shook off a circle and rolled towards Cohen, and the barbs on the whip's body came to life as if they were spiritual, and they flew out and attacked in unison!

"I see!"

Cohen's figure suddenly blurred, and only an insider's could see that he was rapidly changing positions at a speed that was indistinguishable to mortals.

"Ding, ding, ding, ding!"

The phantom of the long sword flipped over, and the whip thorn near the body slashed off!

"If your brother were still alive, with his ability to control these spurs, the two of you might be able to cause some trouble together. ”

But Bernice's whip was as nimble as a snake, and the whip tips and flying spikes formed a continuous attack.

"If I had arrived ten seconds earlier, Primo wouldn't have died. Bernice said with hatred.

"And you, the greenskin, will be torn apart by us!"

Cohen's face remained unchanged, and five whips were slashed like lightning, but the whips were already in front of his eyes!

At this moment, Cohen suddenly looked solemn and rushed forward, without looking at the whip that was drawn at him!

"Don't die stupid!"

"Sting!"

Bernice smirked at Cohen as she struck at him, the whip tearing open his right shoulder without mercy!

My whip stings are poisoned with pain-amplifying poison, and there are a lot of barbs, and there are thorns in the barbs, and when I get it, the pain is—huh?

Cohen made a move that Bernice didn't expect.

I saw the figure of the alert officer attacking sharply, facing the three whips, unabated, raising his left hand, and blocking the flying whips!

The whip stabbed deep into the guard's arm, one of which even pierced his palm, but his face remained unchanged as if he had just been bitten by an ant.

Bernice watched in amazement as Cohen, many of her enemies had been distorted by the poisoned whip, their faces twisted, and their wails rolling beneath her.

But he- why didn't he react at all?

Didn't he feel pain?

"Bustling, that's it!" Cohen said coldly.

Bernice looked at Cohen in surprise, and quickly reacted, flicking the whip in her hand, trying to build a shield in front of her.

But a wave of power erupted from Cohen's sword in an instant!

Bernice's face changed instantly.

It's- no!

In an instant, Cohen's saber seemed to be countless times sharper, and the stars flashed, slashing the whip into several pieces!

In front of Bernice's eyes, Cohen's cold face and sword grew bigger and bigger.

The next moment, the simple and sharp saber pierced her left chest fiercely, and the tip of the sword stabbed out from the back!

At this point, her words struggled to come out of her mouth.

"The power of the end! you're super—"

But she didn't finish.

"Law enforcement done. ”

Cohen gently shoved Bernice away from his sword with a shocked face, as if he had done something insignificant.

"Here's a suggestion: next time you have any hole cards, use them at the beginning. ”

He gently pulled the whip from his hand, and the power of the spur surged back into his palm, forcing a few drops of cyan liquid out.

"If I were wearing armor, even if it was just light armor, you would have died ten thousand times. ”

"In the eyes of those who have experienced war, even the super-level powerhouses are as naïve as street fights, and you are like a child's game. ”

Bernice closed her godless eyes and fell to the ground forever, not far ahead, her brother half-leaning against the wall, stabbed by a sword through his throat.

Cohen bowed to the surprised Lillian upstairs, and then headed deeper down Red Square.

The man, although looking at the gentlemanly politeness, Lillian covered her mouth and thought:

But really, I won't be affectionate to women.

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In another alleyway on Red Square Street.

Yala indifferently pulled the wolf-leg knife from the belly of the last red-turbaned thug in front of her, and shook the blood from it in disgust.

Tails tried his best to convince himself not to think about Yara's killing, which always reminded him of Quaid's wide-eyed eyes before he died.

Those people are enlightened, they join the gangs, and they are well aware of the consequences.

Thinking about it this way, his mood is much better.

Tails pressed the black cloth that covered his mouth and nose tightly, watching Yala just slaughter a small team, about seven or eight Blood Vial Gang thugs, and then crawled out of the hiding place skillfully and tacitly, and lay on Yara's back.

"How did you overcome it?"

"Huh?"

"The kind of killing -- disgusting and guilty?"

Yala sighed.

"I've been taught since I was a child," she said, carrying Tails on her back, moving briskly on her feet, and in a cold tone, "None of the people I can kill are my own kind." ”

"It's like stepping on an ant. ”

Tails stopped talking, just wrapped his arms around Yara's neck tighter.

After they crossed Spin, on the road of Hongfang Street, there were corpses and maimed bodies everywhere, swords and swords. In several places, there was a fighting spirit that even Yala's scalp was numb.

The two of them were careful all the way, but in the chaotic situation, even with Yara's ability to hide, it was extremely difficult.

With corpses everywhere and the sounds of fighting everywhere, despite their best efforts to cover up Xingzang, they inevitably ran into two teams of thugs, one for the Brotherhood and one for the Blood Vials.

Yala was merciless and shot with all her might, leaving no room for survival.

Then quickly leave.

For some reason, Tails was a little used to such bloody scenes.

This is not a good thing - he reminds himself that psychological insensitivity almost inevitably leads to behavioral deviations.

"It's the fifth intersection, and I still can't get through. Yara, who stopped, frowned and touched the air in front of her.

Tails landed and touched his hand forward.

It was a void, but what I started with was an invisible and hard barrier.

"Is this an ability?" Tails asked in surprise.

So far, Tails has seen few anomalous people, but there are many of them, such as Morris, who is in charge of human trafficking in the Brotherhood, who once suffocated an escaped beggar to death with just his eyes.

"No, the Adepts don't have such powers. Block five or six junctions of such a large street at the same time - I suspect the rest of the junctions are similar, and even the ability warriors will have a hard time doing it. ”

Yala pushed the goggles off her face and said with a solemn expression.

The bartender carefully "observed" the transparent barrier in front of her, and she remembered the terrible legends that the old fellow and the man—Yara paused at the thought of this—told herself.

She put her goggles back on.

"From now on, we have to be more careful and try to avoid all fighting, so as not to reveal our whereabouts. ”

"As far as I know, this is most likely the work of a magician. ”

"Let's hope our luck isn't bad enough to run into him head-on. ”

Tails' eyes widened.

Magician.

More than once in his five years on the streets, he heard the word from the drinkers of the Sunset Bar, the prostitutes of Red Square, the gamblers of the Black Gold Casino, and the thugs of the Fraternity.

At first, the time-traveler thought that this was similar to the existence of "magician" and "wizard" in those fantasy novels in his previous life, but later found out that this was not the case.

No one would give Tails, who is a lowly beggar, a common sense of the world, and even if he did, most of what he could come into contact with was hearsay and horror like a village man's fool.

But with the experience of professional fieldwork in his previous life, Tails still learned a lot of common sense through observation, and the following are his observation notes on the term "magician":

First, almost all the moments when talking about "magicians" are accompanied by negative emotions such as fear, hatred, and curses, along with keywords such as "powerful", "terrible", "damned", "hell", "illegal", and so on.

Secondly, in this world, magicians are quite rare (the rarity here is not the kind of "rare" that claimed to be "rare" in previous lives, but walked around the streets), and Tails judged that in the past five years, among the countless people who have talked about "magicians", only one drinker and one prostitute have a certain degree of truthfulness, and it is obvious that they have been indirectly or directly exposed to information about magicians.

Third, I have never heard of any organization or force of magicians gathering, but it is rumored that there are two magicians among the supreme leaders of the Blood Vial Gang.

Fourth, the police officers and patrol members who are responsible for the guard and patrol of the West City Gate are equipped with weapons called "anti-demon forces".

Fifth, the mage master is completely different from the "Abnormal Person", "Abnormal Warrior", "Finishing Swordsman" and "Ending Knight" that everyone talks about, the latter may be an ability that is born or acquired. As for mages, Tails had never heard of how their terrifying abilities were acquired.

Sixth, in addition to the magician, there is also a weapon with a suspicious name, called the "magic gun", and it is only allowed to be used in the kingdom's army, and anyone who illegally possesses it will be sentenced to a felony.

That's all Tails has to know about the Magician.

Tails had envisioned countless scenarios for encountering a mage, but based on the information available, it seemed that none of them were too optimistic.

Like now.

Tails shoved the black cloth into his pocket and put it back on Yara's back.

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A quarter of an hour ago.

In the center of Hongfang Street, in the underground warehouse of a chess and card room.

A handsome man dressed in blue, with long curly dark brown hair, sat quietly at a table on an ancient marching plate with a map on which were placed a number of game pieces, black and red, ranging from knights, swordsmen, catapults, and shield warriors to guards, prime ministers, and kings.

This is from the kingdom of Exeter, based on historical allusions and common sense of war, the most popular board game of the nobles - "The Rise and Fall of the Empire", simulating the human kings and the two armies before and after the ancient empire.

Of course, there are also a few big nobles with unique hobbies, and it is rumored that they like to use real people as chess pieces.

Under the illumination of the lights that are not extinguished, if you look closely, you will find that the map in the middle of the marching plate is the street map of Hongfang Street.

The handsome man easily moved the chess pieces with his right hand, and he removed the black or red chess pieces from the map, but among the removed chess pieces, there were far more black pieces scattered than the red pieces with concentrated troops.

Two black prime ministers are in the picture, surrounded by a number of black guards or swordsmen, and a few red knights are pinning them down. On the outskirts, many black knights and shield warriors were being defeated by the two red prime ministers, who were superior in numbers, leading the swordsmen and guards.

In the center of the map, a crimson king stands out from the crowd, flanked by a red guard.

The handsome man in blue was happily playing his game, and if he looked closely, he noticed that on his free left hand, a light blue energy sphere was gathering, as if it was alive, breathing slowly, and the energy ball seemed to contain a storm.

The man in blue opened his mouth from time to time to say something, and on the side of his mouth, he could clearly see the trajectory of the air vibration, turning into ripples and dissipating in the air.

But, strangely, nothing came out.

This scene, in the dark and lonely silence, is even more eerie.

At this moment, the man in blue suddenly frowned.

Then he reached out without changing his face and removed a red catapult from the edge of the map.

But after a few minutes, the man in blue's brow frowned again, and he slowly reached out and removed the only remaining red swordsman in that position.

The blue energy ball in the man in blue's left hand flickered, and the storm inside showed some signs of instability.

He took a few deep breaths and spoke the spoken word for the first time.

"Who is responsible for the vigilance and volleys in the direction of the lower city?"

He seemed to be asking about air.

In the terrifying darkness, there was a strange and affirmative answer: "Dorno the Transfigurative, and Span the Immortal." ”

The man in blue closed his eyes and shook his head, then moved the two red swordsmen from elsewhere to the two captured chess slots, moving one of them deeper, as if to catch the thing that had eaten him Dorno and Spin.

The air rippled from his lips again, and his lips opened and closed silently.

And then gradually, to the void, he spoke with a voice.

"Brother Tarun and Moria, we ate them an hour ago..."

"So it's reinforcements," he muttered.

He hesitated, and then moved one of the only two red prime ministers on the map.

"It's good now. ”

But the next moment, the face of the man in blue changed again.

He moved his right hand to the edge of the other end of the map, removing both red swordsmen almost at the same time.

The face of the man in blue was a little unsightly.

"Who is responsible for the direction of the Inner West Ring Area and the vigilance task?"

"It's the Leyden brothers and sisters, Stinger and Scorpion Whip. ”

This time, the voice in the darkness seemed to have become a little cautious.

The man in blue didn't speak, his gaze roaming back and forth between the ends of the map, his face showing confusion and dissatisfaction.

"Is it a chess piece coming in from outside? What a headache, didn't you say hello to the alert hall and ask for a curfew? ”

Finally, he sighed helplessly.

It's been too long since you've played these human games, so the levels have dropped?

Alas.

The man in blue raised his head slightly, with a complicated expression on his face.

"Guraton, you know what. ”

"The point of traps and labyrinths is to block the entrances and exits, and trap the rats that have thrown themselves into the net. ”

"But if the entrance and exit of the trap are opened. ”

"That's a rat that's still catching a fart. ”

Then, the man in blue turned cold, and decisively moved the guard next to the red king in the center of the map to the place where the two red swordsmen were out.

In the darkness, a wind sounded.

There was no more sound.

Only the energy storm in the hands of the man in blue gradually stabilized.