Wolf Team, Su Li, Jiang Qingyue, Gale, Lilith, the four A-Rank captains...
Everyone stood rooted to the spot like statues.
Every gaze was fixed on the young man's back as he stood at the center of the cleared area.
Behind him lay the clear night sky, pierced through by purple light.
Before him were a falling black robe and dissipating gray mist.
Moonlight spilled down, stretching his shadow far, far into the distance.
No one spoke.
Or rather, no one could speak.
What they had just witnessed was beyond their comprehension.
An enormous Demon at the False Awakening level.
Instantly killed in a single blow.
Even the gray mist shrouding everything had been erased along with it.
What did that even mean?
Su Li slowly raised her hand, wanting to take a drag of her cigarette.
Only then did she realize it had long since gone out, and the fingers holding it were trembling slightly beyond her control.
"...Xiao Tiance..."
She murmured that name.
"Even he probably couldn't do much better..."
The night breeze swept past.
Qi Wu turned his head slightly, glancing at the teammates who stood behind him as though petrified.
The corners of his mouth lifted a little.
"What are you standing around for?"
His voice returned to its usual easygoing tone.
"Job done. Let's go home and get some sleep."
With that, he tucked both hands into his pockets and sauntered back the way he had come.
All he left behind was a battlefield in ruins.
Qi Wu took a few leisurely steps with his hands in his pockets.
Then he stopped.
"Oh, right-"
He turned around, moonlight illuminating his face and revealing a smile so bright it practically begged for a punch.
"Wolf Team~"
That drawn-out ending, that rising inflection, that look of a high