Serial Number: 001

"Cut the nonsense."

"We have to get back to the city district first."

"There are still too many children in the city who have only just awakened."

"I don't want the people of my own city throwing rotten eggs at me!"

Upon hearing Commander Zheng Yangrui say that,

Liu Feng, the principal of Bright City No. 1 High School, also turned serious and said no more.

The three of them had all clearly sensed that aura just now.

It truly belonged to a powerful Eerie Creature at the Disaster Soul tier.

Under normal circumstances, they naturally would not fear it.

Because every city normally had a guardian at least at the Disaster Soul tier.

However, with the enrollment days for the four universities approaching,

every pair of cities would send one city's guardian, along with the ten strongest people in that city, to escort the students from both cities to the universities in batches.

Bright City's guardian and strongest experts had happened to be transferred away this year.

This was a rule handed down through the ages.

In truth, there were now very few unresolved Eerie Domains left on the Eerie Continent.

Yet the reason this rule had never changed was—

Weird Energy Calendar

Year 12111

In Toyoda City, a genius who appeared only once in ten thousand years had emerged.

At the time, every news outlet was reporting on that genius.

The moment he awakened, he broke through to the sixth rank of Disaster Eerie.

The companion Eerie Creature he awakened was an Eerie Creature bearing serial number 001, something no human on the entire Eerie Continent had ever heard of.

Before that,

humanity had never awakened a companion Eerie Creature with a serial number below 003.

Some had even mocked the ancient sage who compiled the Eerie Creature Compendium, saying that he had never seen an Eerie Creature with a serial number before 003 either...

Before that genius appeared!

All humans on the Eerie Continent believed that companion Eerie Creatures with serial numbers before 003 simply could not exist.

Perhaps such Eerie Creatures truly existed in the Specter World.

But for humans to awaken companion Eerie Creatures of that level—

that was nothing more than a fool's dream...

Until that day.

That man successfully awakened...

Dark clouds blanketed the skies above Toyoda City.

A massive eerie shadow shrouded the entire city from above!

The eerie shadow persisted for three days and three nights.

The overwhelming pressure threw the entire city into panic!

As the entire city searched for whoever had awakened such a powerful companion Eerie Creature,

the student who had awakened the companion Eerie Creature with serial number 001

was packing takeout orders for others at a delivery shop.

When the Ghost Energy Guard found him, even he doubted that his companion Eerie Creature could possibly be so powerful.

A series of examinations followed...

The Ghost Energy Guard and the Ghost Energy Masters Association investigated for three days before finally confirming that the enormous eerie shadow above the city was his companion Eerie Creature.

Only then did that takeout guy reluctantly head outside the city and use the Ghost Energy Masters Association's method to retrieve his companion Eerie Creature.

From that day onward, the news across the entire continent

was all about that spicy eighteen-year-old man—Ye Fan!

The media dug up and reported everything he had ever done, from childhood to adulthood.

From helping an elderly neighbor find her cat,

to upholding justice at sixteen and helping the Ghost Energy Guard catch thieves.

Those media outlets even dragged out the person he had secretly loved to report on...

For an entire month, the whole continent

spared no effort in trumpeting how boundless Ye Fan's future would be...

They said Ye Fan would become humanity's pillar.

Savior of Humanity

Terminator of the Specter World

Even the top powerhouses of the Eerie Continent believed so.

Unfortunately...

Humanity's joy lasted only a little over a month.

Then the accident happened.

It was close to the start of the four major universities.

Toyoda City's guardian believed

that the Eerie Continent was very safe at the time.

So he only sent Toyoda City's Ghost Energy Guard commander and all of Toyoda City's students to ride the high-speed rail to the four universities.

It was precisely this single decision

that left Toyoda City's guardian adrift in his later years.

He bore a lifetime of infamy.

It was a bright, sunny day!

When the high-speed train loaded with Toyoda City's students arrived at Monk Lake Basin,

a gigantic black hole that devoured people whole suddenly appeared.

Countless Eerie Creatures emerged from the black hole...

The Ghost God Cult also came out in full force.

All to kill that Savior of Humanity.

According to the recollections of the only six survivors at the time,

if not for fate's protection,

none of those six would have survived.

The scene that day...

could only be called "the apocalypse."

Eerie Creatures blanketed the sky and covered the earth.

Even Disaster Soul-tier Eerie Creatures seemed tiny and insignificant.

What truly left a shadow in the survivors' hearts were those thirty Disaster World-tier Eerie Creatures.

That day, merely to kill Ye Fan,

it was said that one million Eerie Creatures had been deployed.

And on that high-speed train filled with students, the highest-ranked Ghost Energy Master was merely Toyoda City's Disaster Eerie-tier commander.

Humanity's Pillar

Ye Fan...

without anyone's support,

Ye Fan, at the sixth rank of Disaster Eerie, relied on his serial number 001 companion Eerie Creature to hold on bitterly for an entire hour.

Not only that, he even killed six Disaster World-tier Eerie Creatures in return...

Even though those Disaster World-tier Eerie Creatures had been weakened in order to descend upon the Eerie Continent,

it was still an achievement beyond imagination.

By the time the Disaster World-tier powerhouses guarding the Eerie checkpoints arrived,

all they saw were hundreds of thousands of Eerie Creature corpses beneath Ye Fan,

and the half of his broken body that remained standing even in death...

Yet the serial number 001 companion Eerie Creature within Ye Fan had vanished without a trace.

The Ghost God Cult suffered a devastating blow that day,

and did not appear before the world again for twenty years.

Now, no one clearly knew what had truly happened that day!

It was only that afterward,

Monk Lake Basin became a forbidden land on the Eerie Continent...

After the incident,

all humanity mourned.

For ten years, humanity never recovered from the blow...

It was as though no hope could be seen.

Later, it was the current president of Glory University,

Hua Guobang—

who once again gave humanity a tiny glimmer of hope.

In the twelfth year after Ye Fan's death!

Hua Guobang awakened a companion Eerie Creature with serial number 006.

Some said that even if Toyoda City's guardian

had truly boarded that high-speed train, it would have changed nothing.

But people always liked to find someone to carry the blame.

And Toyoda City's guardian became the best choice to take the blame.

As a result, a Disaster Evil-tier guardian spent every day of his later years drowning himself in drink.

When he went out into the streets, even the people of Toyoda City whom he had protected all his life would throw rotten eggs at him.

No one would remember any of the contributions he had made before.

That guardian was driven into madness,

spending every day rambling and babbling like a lunatic.

However, rumor had it that the guardian had not died.

A few years ago, someone had even seen that "madman" in Glory City.

At that thought,

the three of them pushed the Ghost Energy within their bodies to its limits and raced toward the city district, fighting for every second.

At that moment, they all blamed themselves for having only two legs. If they had undergone Eerie modification before today and installed two more legs, they surely could have run faster...

BOOM—!!

A tremendous explosion came from Bright City's city district.

Bright City's sky trembled slightly, then split open with a crack...

The three stared blankly at the sky. As though they had realized something, they suddenly spun around.

That aura in the city district had never truly belonged to the Disaster Soul tier.

The real Disaster Soul-tier Eerie Creature was still in Bright City Park.

That Disaster Soul-tier Eerie Creature had likely deliberately released its eerie aura and traveled some distance toward Bright City from the start,

before concealing its own aura.

"Not good!"

"That Eerie Creature's target was never the city district."

"It was the low-level Ghost Energy Masters rushing to Bright City Park!"

"We fell into its trap."

Meanwhile, in the city district, a Disaster Eerie-tier Corpse King detonated a gas station. A ring was worn on its finger.

It was precisely this ring that gave off the intermittent aura of a Disaster Soul-tier creature.

This Eerie Creature had actually been hiding in the sewers beneath the city district all along.

It had merely been waiting for the red-robed priest to awaken the Corpse King.

Brothers, please keep reading. Continued reading is very important to me. The first wave of climax is about to begin. My sincere thanks to you all.