The two people who appeared on the rooftop both had southern features and looked exactly alike. They had brown hair and wore black formal suits; it was just that one wore his monocle over his right eye, while the other wore his over his left.
The man with the monocle on the right looked at the small Compass in his hand, then delightedly spotted something at the center of the rooftop:
"Just as expected, the spinal bone of the 'Twin Rift Abnormality' we need for our advancement is here!"
"Wait, why would that be here? Don't those monsters only appear around space-unstable island chains struck by lightning after storms at sea?"
The man wearing the monocle over his left eye was clearly calmer, but he quickly found an explanation for himself:
"Before coming to Tobesk, I heard this place was exceptionally dangerous. I never expected to encounter such a rare monster just from coming to hear an opera."
As they spoke, the two clasped hands again. Two Destiny Rings belonging to Fifth-Ring Arcanists appeared behind them simultaneously. The Core Ling Runes of both rings were Enlightenment—Space, Enlightenment—Agelessness, and Enlightenment—Twins. At that moment, the runes glowing with spiritual light were Space and Whisper—Assassin.
On the rooftop beneath the night sky, the bodies of the identical brothers gradually became transparent, as though melting away. This was not mere invisibility; they were directly merging with space itself.
However, before their Thaumaturgy could fully take effect, the sharp-eyed Ring Arcanists saw the figure of an unfamiliar young man appear on the rooftop as well.
Shade, his face blurred by illusion magic, said nothing. Since he had just boasted to Miss Galina that he would handle the monster, he naturally could not let anyone else intervene.
The two-bodied monster that was healing its wounds also