Alice No. 2 took out a small iron box and placed it in front of the little bird.
The little fellow chirped twice in agreement, then picked up the box in its beak and flew upward.
In the room upstairs, Xiao Jing, sitting at her desk, suddenly heard a series of bangs.
She jerked her head up and saw a little bird repeatedly striking the window from outside. It held a thin black box in its beak and seemed to be trying to get in.
Xiao Jing froze for a moment, seemingly realizing something, then hurriedly opened the window.
The little bird landed lightly in front of her, released the box from its beak, and flew away.
The iron box landed before her.
Her brows furrowed slightly as she opened it and took a look.
There was only an ordinary slip of paper inside, printed with a line of text: Silently recite the prayer and obtain power.
"Silently recite the prayer and obtain power?"
With a puzzled expression, she noticed that lines of text were slowly appearing in the blank space beneath the message.
The first sentence read:
"Dragon of End that stands beyond the world."
The instant she saw those words, she instinctively looked away.
Though deeply shocked, she quickly understood what was going on.
Not long ago, while she had been sitting in this room, she had also seen a bird. It had told her, "Fate has chosen you."
But when she asked it about it, the bird had only left behind the words "Wait for power to descend" before flying away.
Since then, she had received no further information. It had all seemed like a dream.
But...
During this time, Xiao Jing's connection with mysticism had not been severed.
She had come into contact with certain