"Chen-ge, this is bad! Magic City is under a massive invasion by a cult!!" Su Zhe's face was grim. Though he had homes everywhere, he had grown up in Magic City and still had many attachments there. He had long since come to regard it as his home.
Li Chen looked at the news on his phone and said calmly, "Your dad should have sent you a message, right?"
Su Zhe froze for a few seconds, then said, "My dad told me not to get involved. He said to stay put in Canglan and focus on cultivating. The Special Affairs Bureau will handle it."
"Exactly. Even if you went to Magic City with your strength, wouldn't you just get beaten black and blue?" Li Chen teased.
But Su Zhe seemed to have been jolted to his senses. He paused, realizing that with only Looking River Realm strength, he really would just be throwing his life away in Magic City.
They might have been cultivating hard in Canglan, but if a crisis really struck, their strength as trainees would be far from enough.
A human wave tactic? That was the most ridiculous tactic of all. A casual strike from an expert could destroy their frail bodies. They weren't robots that could be copied endlessly, but ordinary living beings.
Even though Su Zhe wanted to help his hometown, there was nothing he could do.
"Go back and get some rest. Magic City isn't nearly as fragile as you think," Li Chen said, gazing out the window at the sky, where thunder had begun to rumble.
After Su Zhe left, a little dejected, Li Chen stood up as well. He could feel the heat within his body growing more pronounced.
"What exactly is it that's drawing me?"
Magic City.
Blood flowed, and countless human corpses lay on the ground, trampled underfoot by the black-clad figures. Their eyes held nothing but madness.
"Blood Charm, the Special Affairs Bureau is almost here!!"
"Put Pandora's Box on the ground. I'm going to activate it!!"
Killing intent filled Poison Ghost's eyes as he looked at the many vehicles already approaching in the distance. Even on the rooftops, many of the God-Binding Cult's servants were beginning to die and fall.
Blood Charm held a boning knife, his face covered in blood. He ran his long, slender tongue over his exceptionally red lips and said, "Open it here? Weren't we supposed to go to the designated location?"
Poison Ghost cursed under his breath. "The designated location has been bombarded from every direction. This is the only place left. Give it to me, quickly!!"
Blood Charm gave a cold laugh and pulled a pitch-black triangular box from his clothes. Waves of eerie energy emanated from it.
Many members of the Special Affairs Bureau saw what they were doing.
"We can't let them open Pandora!!"
"Magic City will fall!!"
Countless abilities came crashing down on the two of them. But Poison Ghost's gaze hardened, and his aura erupted. Black liquid flowed over his body and instantly expanded into a purple shield.
This was his ability, venom. Anyone who touched it would die!!
But now his venom had formed a natural shield around him, blocking every ability and enclosing quite a few of the God-Binding Cult's servants.
Clutching Pandora's Box, which Blood Charm had handed him, Poison Ghost was somewhat pale, but his expression was extraordinarily eerie. His hand was trembling, not from fear, but from excitement. He was excited.
"Pandora!! The hope of my lord's resurrection!!"
"I will set everything in motion, and I will become the Ninth Seat's direct servant!!"
He held Pandora in his hand, the pitch-black box seemingly radiating an endless eerie aura.
Blood Charm had retreated far away. His expression was also somewhat grave, his grip on his boning knife tight as he stared fixedly at Poison Ghost.
Outside, the Twelve Zodiac had also arrived. There was only one squad, since the Xia Kingdom had many cities, and Magic City was not the only one that needed protection.
At the front stood a man wearing a monkey-face mask with gold filigree. Through the eyes beneath the mask, one could see that he regarded the situation with great gravity.
He shouted, "Shen Monkey Squad, hear my orders!!"
"Today, whether we live or die, we will wipe out the cult!!"
"We will use our bodies of flesh and blood to secure peace for this place!!"
Behind him stood a row of people wearing monkey masks. They took a step back.
A figure instantly shot into the sky. It was the Shen Monkey captain. Wielding a pitch-black staff, he smashed it down on the purple shield.
Crack!
A shattering sound rang out as the shield broke.
But the sight inside shocked everyone.
Poison Ghost stood in the center, looking like a dried corpse. He held the now-open Pandora's Box in his hand, and the ground around him was littered with corpses drained of blood.
What on earth had happened here?!
Wisps of black mist drifted out of the box.
The box seemed to have gained the ability to fly. It instantly rose into the air and rapidly expanded.
Before long, it had become a gigantic black box.
The Shen Monkey captain hesitated, holding his staff without daring to approach. He had no idea what had happened inside and shouted, "All squad members, stay alert!!"
"Don't go near it!!"
Suddenly, a pitch-black beast claw emerged from the box, and countless whispers rang out.
Like a chaotic incantation, they instantly made blood pour from the six orifices of many Special Affairs Bureau members with weak mental strength.
The Shen Monkey captain's pupils contracted. He quickly retreated and shouted, "Notify Special Affairs Bureau headquarters!! Sound the level-one alert!!"
"A Calamity Realm monster has appeared in Magic City!!"
"All Special Affairs Bureau personnel, retreat!!"
His voice was so loud that it carried across several streets.
These creatures were different from humans. Humans possessed reason, but monsters only knew destruction and had no reason to speak of. If no one stopped a Calamity Realm monster, Magic City would soon be permanently wiped off the map.
"Damn it!! Why is it at the Calamity Realm?!" The Shen Monkey captain's face was grim as he stared at the claw attached to the arm that had emerged from the box.
He was at the Withered Sea Realm and could clearly feel the presence inside the box awakening. It would not be long before it crawled out of the eerie box.
But he did not dare act rashly. If he attacked and fully woke the monster, Magic City really would be doomed.
For a moment, the whole scene fell silent. Apart from the alarm that was still sounding, no one dared touch the eerie box.
Then a voice came through the Shen Monkey captain's earpiece. "The Seventh Sequence is already on the way. Please wait, and do not disturb the monster!"
"The Seventh Sequence!" Even the Shen Monkey captain was somewhat shocked to hear the title. He murmured, "I never expected this to bring that person out."