"Wooo..."
The cold moon hung like a blade, and the wind cut to the bone. On the tenth-floor rooftop of a hospital, a ghostly wail rang out, harsher than the wind and more chilling than the bleak moonlight.
That cry of despair and grief frightened a passing drunk in the distance so badly that he fell to the ground, his entire body going limp as a puddle rapidly spread between his legs.
Beside the rooftop water tank, a barefoot, wide-eyed girl in a hospital gown looked disheveled-or rather, panic-stricken. Her once bright, clear eyes had gone blank.
She was terrified. Overwhelming fear stripped away her resolve as an Intermediate Mage, leaving her like a college student too weak to truss a chicken. She even felt as though she were suffocating. Am I going to die? Why won't my body obey me? Why can't I move?
Zhang Lulu had thought countless times that she should connect the star paths she had practiced over and over until they were second nature, arranging her stars into a magical star diagram to protect herself.
But she could not.
She had been unable to resist even the seven or eight Black Beast Demons chasing her earlier, and could only flee in a panic and hide. But now she had nowhere left to retreat. Driven into a dead end, she had reached the rooftop, where an even more terrifying Black Beast Demon stood before her. Or rather, it was not a Black Beast Demon. Its body was far more burly than an ordinary one's, and black curse power coated it from head to toe, as revolting as writhing worms.
This was the Black Vatican's Cursed Beast Demon, comparable to a Warrior Level magical beast.
Magical beasts were divided into Servant Level, Warrior Level, Commander Level, Lord