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In the rather spacious, dim alleyway, there was not the slightest sound. The entire place carried a faintly oppressive atmosphere.
Anyone would have felt that something was seriously off about the atmosphere permeating the air.
Yet in this space filled with such an unsettling atmosphere, Noah stood calmly where he was without moving even a little, as though he were waiting for something.
Then, from the darkness around him, figures silently darted out one after another. Only when they reached Noah did their landing produce a soft patter, surrounding him from all sides.
They were people dressed in dark shirts that seemed to blend into the shadows, wearing metal masks that concealed the upper halves of their faces above their noses.
There were around twenty of them, perhaps?
At the very least, the number of black-clad people surrounding Noah was indeed around twenty.
Outside that encirclement, in the darkness directly before Noah, five people slowly emerged.
They were dressed the same as the black-clad people surrounding Noah.
However, their auras were clearly many times more powerful.
At the front stood a young Cat People man with a pair of cat ears, holding an antique-looking spear that was clearly far from cheap.
On either side of him stood two small figures, each only about half as tall as the young Cat People man.
They were four members of the Prum race.
Because they were so small, dressed all in black, and had their faces covered, even Noah could not tell whether the four Prums were male or female.
However, each of the four Prums tightly gripped a weapon that gleamed with dangerous arcs of light: a