It was midnight, and the bright moon hung high overhead.
Under the influence of a secret art, the underground Silent Night Town also basked in "moonlight."
Fourteen figures stood straight beneath Silent Night Town's central tower. In the "moonlight," their shadows kept intertwining like a tangled mass of overcooked noodles.
The fourteen people's gazes were cold and malicious.
Like vicious wolves in a forest, they watched Holleka approach.
Holleka calmly met the gazes of the fourteen people before him.
He showed no sign of backing down.
On the contrary, the Undying One's gaze was aggressive.
He knew perfectly well that he could not afford to show weakness.
Unlike ordinary members of the Silent Night Secret Society, these "field operatives," whose positions were similar to his own, no longer represented themselves, but the councilors behind them.
Councilor Gelsak had long since been replaced by his mentor.
But precisely because of that, Holleka would not allow himself to take a single step back.
Their sharp gazes clashed again and again.
Invisible sparks flew.
None of them made any effort to conceal their auras.
Uncanny, chilling, aberrant.
Those various auras made the residents of Silent Night Town watching them instinctively retreat.
Yet there was no panic on their faces.
It was not merely because these people were all members of the Silent Night Secret Society, and the stronger they were, the better it was for the residents. Of the fifteen people confronting each other, Holleka the Undying One was clearly the strongest.
His chilling, aberrant aura might not have matched those of the fourteen others.
But that uncanny feeling made their scalps prickle merely from looking at him.
[Moonturning Veiled Shadow]!
An art that the Silent Night Secret Society called a rare secret technique was naturally no ordinary thing.
Especially after his mentor's