Stillness!
To Green's surprise, after that transparent Monster was dealt with, nothing else happened along the entire road out of the city.
The disbelief on Robert's face as he clutched the Shadow Umbrella grew more and more apparent.
He hadn't expected the journey to be so peaceful either.
On the abandoned road at the edge of the city, the cold wind howled past.
Green and Robert walked along the road. They were only one final intersection away from leaving the city.
As they approached the last intersection, more and more black lines appeared on Green's forehead.
He sensed an invisible force building up, growing stronger and stronger as he neared the city limits.
With only a dozen or so steps left before the intersection, he stopped.
"Robert, stay right here and don't move!"
At Green's sudden halt and command, Robert, clutching the Shadow Umbrella, instinctively stopped as well.
"Yes, Lord Green!" Robert answered at once. He curled in on himself slightly, gripping the Shadow Umbrella even tighter in a defensive stance.
After warning Robert, Green slowly walked toward the intersection.
As Green approached, a blurry Gray-White Figure gradually emerged at the edge of the intersection.
The closer Green got, the clearer the Gray-White Figure became.
From a distance, its face wore a cracked grin, stretched so wide that its mouth nearly reached its ears. It far exceeded anything normal, stirring up a wave of nausea and revulsion.
Its gray-white eyes and blood-red pupils gave off an aura of utter Evil.
Whoosh!!!
At the sight of the Anomaly, Green slightly clenched his right hand. The Obsidian King Sword appeared in his palm.
The black, 1.8-meter cross-shaped sword unfurled to its full stature on the empty street.
Its pitch-black blade seemed to swallow all light. On a higher-dimensional plane beyond the perception