Another half hourglass passed.
Lola could no longer withstand her fatigue either. Sleepiness overcame her, and after struggling to stay awake several times beside the desk, Reilo gently took her hand.
"Go get some rest first. I'll work a little longer, then come over."
When she awoke again, Lola rubbed her eyes and gave a soft yawn.
"Mm."
Wearing a blissful smile, Lola savored that brief moment of sweetness.
She rose to her feet.
Just as Lola was about to leave the room, she seemed to suddenly sense something. She stopped abruptly and stared blankly at the crack beneath the door.
With a flash, Reilo also appeared beside her.
Holding up the crystal lamp, he looked toward the shadow beneath the door as well—the slightly distorted mass of darkness.
"One actually slipped in. So even the radiation magnetic field of the Energy Tower isn't safe?"
Dark Ghost Shadows was the new name many people had given the Shadow Wall Demon.
To true powerhouses, these Ghost Shadows were troublesome but not a deadly threat. But to ordinary people and low-level scholars, these omnipresent, undying "extradimensional" creatures that lurked in the shadows were like the Grim Reaper's right hand—far more terrifying than Superhumans, Death Storm monsters, or radiation sickness!
The ways in which their victims died were often exceptionally brutal.
By the time they were discovered, they were usually embedded in soil, stone, wooden tables, furniture, or any other solid material, suffocated to death.
Fortunately, although scholars had yet to analyze the essence of these "extradimensional" creatures or uncover the laws governing their ecology, they had found a few ways to reduce their influence over the years.
For example.
The curfew policy: do not go outside after dark, and avoid shadows and darkness even during the day.
Another example.
Ordinary people had