"Whoosh...!"
When the sound of something tearing through the air rang out again, Kanata, Chloe, Yuri, and Mina had all transformed into streaks of light, darting in all directions toward the locations Luo Zhen had designated.
Only Luo Zhen remained where he was. He watched Chloe and the others leave, then turned around after a while and looked ahead.
"Since you're here, come out. I'm not in the mood to play hide-and-seek."
Luo Zhen suddenly said this.
In response to Luo Zhen's words...
"Why? Isn't hide-and-seek fun?"
Accompanied by that innocent voice, a petite white-haired girl, fairy-like in appearance, emerged.
Luo Zhen's gaze was drawn to her almost instantly.
There were two reasons.
The first was that, from the girl who slowly rose into the air from the forest and came to stand opposite him, Luo Zhen sensed the simultaneous presence of astonishing magical power and curse power.
Clearly, she was a Collapse Power wielder—the assassin Jace had sent.
The other reason was that the girl had not appeared alone.
"Should I say it's nice to meet you, big brother?"
The white fairy-like girl smiled brightly.
"I'm Liselotte, Liselotte Fraalchild."
As she spoke, the girl named Liselotte swung her little feet back and forth.
That was because Liselotte had not appeared alone. She was sitting atop an enormous Demon Scarab.
There were two more Demon Scarabs beside the enormous one.
Besides that, a large number of Asmodeuses shot out of the forest one after another and gathered beside Liselotte, forming an astonishing army.
Luo Zhen's gaze fell upon the three Demon Scarabs.
They were three Demon Scarabs even Luo Zhen had to take seriously.
On the left was a Demon Scarab with two wings and a body resembling a powerful mantis. It possessed a gigantic sickle nearly as large as