The outcome was finally decided.
Xiao Se sighed helplessly.
Medusa glanced at the young man beside her, the corners of her lips curling upward slightly.
"You never made that expression even when you were fighting in the Demon Domain."
"It's completely different, Auntie..."
Xiao Se rubbed his brow with a slight headache.
"If Xiao Xiao were accompanying you, would you stop making that sour face?"
Medusa asked, making Xiao Se blink. "Huh?"
"Don't even think about denying it. I'm not so blind that I can't see something this obvious."
Medusa shot Xiao Se a sidelong glance.
"Yes..."
"...Come to think of it, where's Mother? She disappeared in the blink of an eye."
Xiao Se's dusky yellow eyes swept through the crowd before him, yet he could not find that familiar figure anywhere.
"Oh, she said she happened to run into an old acquaintance and went to catch up."
"An acquaintance? Someone who isn't from the Continent of Merchants?"
Xiao Se instinctively felt that something was off.
"Pretty sharp."
The corners of Medusa's lips lifted, but then she suddenly sensed several unpleasant gazes. Her brows immediately furrowed as she spotted several people in the crowd staring at her with disgusting looks.
"Annoying bugs really do show up everywhere the moment you step outside..."
She muttered unhappily. Before she could make a move, however, a series of miserable screams abruptly erupted from the crowd. Those few ill-intentioned men were instantly swallowed by dawn-and-dusk-colored flames, reduced to burning men. The entire crowd quickly scattered from them like a school of sardines.
"What is that?!"
"Such audacity! Who dares to attack on the Continent of Merchants?!"
"Those people are probably..."
The noisy clamor by their ears gradually replaced the screams as they died away like extinguished flames. The charred, coal-black state of those men