"Didn't you notice that the demons' rate of growth was a little excessive?"
"What did you discover?" As the person in the team who knew Li Yu best, Ōtsutsuki Yamei anxiously asked the key question.
"Three days ago, we encountered this demon squad. One of the demons should have been orange, and two should have been red. Yet after only three days, they've broken through to new colors one after another."
"What?"
"How do you know it's the same squad as last time?"
"How did they break through so quickly?"
Li Yu frowned, a faintly ominous suspicion rising in his heart.
"Zi Yu, do you know something? Tell us quickly."
Facing the group's expectant little eyes, Li Yu sighed.
"My guess was right. Quite a few clansmen squads have already been defeated and devoured by the demons. At this rate, the enemies we face will only grow stronger."
"No way."
"Doesn't that mean we're in great danger?"
"Little brother Zi Yu, you have to protect your big sister here."
"Exactly, you said you'd bring us back safely," Ōtsutsuki Liqin chimed in.
"How could you bear to let such a beautiful girl as me die miserably at a demon's hands?" As she spoke, she moved closer to Li Yu, pressing her soft body against him.
"Big Sister Shi Niang, I'll protect you."
"Oh? Ryota's the one with a conscience. He knows how to cherish his big sister."
Li Yu ignored such flirtatious remarks outright. His gaze followed the direction in which the demons had departed as he silently calculated something.
(That is...)
Several battered figures were wrapped within the demons' wings, flickering in and out of sight beneath the cover of darkness.
*(White clothes... they're Ōtsutsuki. Judging from their clothes, they aren't third-tier captains, just ordinary members. Where are they being