The Sun Furnace Laboratory

The energy barrier cracked, then the fissure vanished in a flash.

As Reilo entered the protective magic array surrounding the mysterious town, the fissure quickly healed.

Reilo, still in his Human-faced Spider form, also relaxed slightly. Under the tense watch of the people by the fissure, the sharp bristles covering his body slowly fell away, and he gradually returned to human form. The golden-haired girl wrapped in spider silk also landed on the ground, where a scholar caught her just in time.

Steady, mature, noble.

Back in human form, Reilo calmly looked at the people who had come to greet him.

He made no sound, yet an oppressive presence arose all the same.

The scholar wearing a black mask was undoubtedly the Dark Web elite who had sent him the distress signal: the operative codenamed Night Dagger.

As for the others...

From the magnetic energy radiating from their bodies, they all seemed to be beings who had attained true forms.

What drew Reilo's attention even more was that, in the shadows on the ground not far away, he sensed several familiar presences, hidden remarkably well.

Shadow Servants!

Reilo's observation of those around him took only an instant. His Sun-and-Moon eyes involuntarily turned toward the center of the town, protected by the enormous energy barrier, and the tall building there.

"There's a High Tower here?"

The High Tower had about twenty stories, making it quite small by comparison.

But there was no doubt: the light shining from its top was like a Mini Sun. This was a complete High Tower with an Energy Source, not some high-level laboratory. And the Energy Source seemed to be of a rather unusual type.

"Sir... um, what's wrong with you all?"

Night Dagger, the scholar in the black mask, was about to greet the unfamiliar