Time quickly reached midnight.
Boom!
An explosion rang out as three figures fled in disarray.
"Boss Gunther! What happened? Why did Lady Rixi suddenly issue a kill order against us?"
"Wasn't she very grateful after hearing your intelligence? She even gave you the status of shadow guards..."
Gunther's face was as dark as water. As he fled for his life, he gritted his teeth and explained, "That bitch... is definitely not the Demitri Family's eldest daughter! I guarantee it!"
All three men looked pale, with an indelible black mist hanging between their brows.
This was clearly some strange poison. It left them weak all over, their Class Energy like stagnant water, with less than thirty percent available to draw upon.
Even more chillingly, no matter how they checked their Status Bars or combat notification windows, they could find no indication that they had been poisoned!
If "Copper Pipe" Gunther had not excelled at "Mechanical Assembly," using a large group of preassembled crab-shaped Combat Robots to hold off the enemy before ordering them to self-destruct and buy time... the three of them would already have died under the siege of Demitri's shadow guards.
However, crab-shaped Combat Robots were ultimately cannon fodder. Even their self-destruction was far from impressive against natives of the Ascension Plane.
Demitri's shadow guards had caught up!
"Mia~ mia~"
Cats meowed.
Madam Alice, tall and wrapped in bandages, trailed leisurely behind the three like a wisp of smoke.
"Didn't you three want to become Demitri's shadow guards? Stop running and stay here~"
Cats leaped swiftly across rooftops and alongside the road, quickly blocking the three men's path.
These cats were nothing like the docile creatures in Madam Alice's arms.
Their bodies had swollen several times over, making them resemble miniature leopards. Their muscles bulged, their fangs were sharp,