Vampire Twins (Second Update)

"Was there a war here?"

Xiaolang and Sakura looked at the city around them, now completely reduced to ruins, their eyes filled with confusion.

Judging from the remaining traces, this should have been a modern world like the Hanshin Republic they had first visited. Yet broken walls and rubble lay everywhere, and there was not a single person in sight.

"It doesn't look like war. Look at these buildings—they seem more like they were corroded by something."

Kurogane touched a stone beside him and quickly came to his own conclusion.

"Corroded?"

Everyone examined the surroundings carefully and found that it did indeed seem to be the case.

The buildings of all sizes around them did not look as though they had been shattered by explosives or magical bombardment. Instead, they looked as if something had corroded them and slowly melted them away. Even the surfaces of the stones were smooth, without any edges.

"It wasn't war. It was a natural disaster!"

At that moment, Jerry gave them the answer.

"A natural disaster?"

Everyone looked puzzled.

But before Jerry could explain, they already understood why he had called it a natural disaster.

A light rain began to fall from the sky. It was not ordinary rain, however, but highly corrosive acid rain.

Even a single drop landing on skin would leave behind a red mark. Anyone who remained exposed without protection for too long would likely be drenched to death before long.

Clearly, these ruined buildings had been eroded by acid rain over a long period of time, which was why they had ended up like this.

"Protego!"

With a wave of Jerry's hand, a transparent magical barrier appeared above everyone's heads, shielding them from the highly corrosive acid rain.

The first thing he did whenever he arrived in a new