Ten days later, on an autumn thunderstorm night, electric serpents danced wildly across the sky as raindrops the size of beans poured from the heavy clouds, battering the eco-friendly organic road surface and splashing up a hazy mist.
Orange streetlights blurred through the curtain of rain, shrouding the drenched streets in a dim halo.
Wearing an oversized black raincoat, Ivette entered Jiade City's bustling Luo District. The surrounding neon lights fell upon her as though swallowed by a black hole, leaving no reflection on the material whatsoever. It made her look like a faint shadow; without close inspection, she would immediately blend into the shadows by the roadside, inseparable from them.
This was the effect of her Light and Shadow Magic disguise. Combined with height-increasing shoes that brought her height back to 1.65 meters, even if a battle broke out, at most she would expose her identity as Nameless. At least no one would think she was No. 0.
The rain grew heavier. Pedestrians hurried along the roadside, while vehicles came and went, turning the rain mist into a colorful haze. Ivette looked toward Spirit Vine Company's headquarters building, the Green Light Tower, but only for an instant before her attention was drawn to the even more awe-inspiring towering tree behind it.
That was Spirit Vine Company's famous Origin Source Mother Tree, as well as the world's largest Cloud Container. Every second, hundreds of millions of pieces of information flowed in from the outside to be stored, then circulated back out. This kept the great tree constantly aglow with streams of green, yellow, and silvery-white magical light, dazzling to behold.
However, ordinary Magic Guide Terminals could not connect to the Origin Source Mother Tree. Only Spirit Vine Company's specially made eco-friendly terminal, the Heart of Nature, could do so.
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