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In the pitch-black dead of night, gentle moonlight slanted down over the bustling city.
A chilly gust swept past, its clear howling echoing through the surroundings for a long while without fading.
Atop one of the buildings in the city, a young man suddenly darted over like a bird. In the blink of an eye, he landed on the rooftop, dipping his body slightly and bending his knees to completely dissipate the force of his fall before straightening his back.
He was a boy of around fourteen or fifteen, dressed in a black shirt and jeans of the same color.
With light steps and nimble movements, the boy leaped onto the building's railing. As though he did not weigh anything at all, he stood upright on it and looked down below, murmuring to himself.
"The place where the Great Sage appeared should be around here, right?"
Looking closely, there was a stretch of land in the direction he was gazing at that had been reduced to ruins and rubble.
The area around the ruins had been completely sealed off with police tape. Officers and police cars surrounded it as well, guarding the place with tight security.
That place was naturally the West Heaven Palace, which had once enshrined the Great Sage Equal to Heaven as the Monkey Divine Lord.
Looking toward the West Heaven Palace, the boy sighed as though he found it troublesome.
"Getting in would be easy enough, but there's no point. The Great Sage definitely isn't there anymore. Master only told me to find him. Coming here is completely useless."
Though he said that, his gaze swept sharply over the ruins