The scene was a wreck.
Only chaos remained, along with cries and the growing wail of sirens.
Qi Wu stood on the scorched ground, gazing thoughtfully in the direction the group had left.
They actually vanished just like that. Who were those people?
Qi Wu pondered.
Just then, Lilith reached out a small hand and tugged at the hem of his clothes.
"Qi Wu..."
There was a barely perceptible tremor in Lilith's voice, nothing like her earlier haughty or excited tone.
"The smell on that Demon just now... it made me really uncomfortable..."
She spoke quietly, instinctively edging closer to Qi Wu.
Qi Wu looked down at her.
"Did it seem familiar? Was it a vampire's aura?"
That was Qi Wu's guess.
This sudden Demon attack...
Perhaps a vampire faction hostile to Lilith's family had orchestrated it.
They had the strongest motive.
Lilith shook her head vigorously, sending her golden curls bouncing.
"No, it wasn't from our Ventrue family, or any of the other families I know... it was a strange feeling, something really nasty and cold..."
She struggled to describe that vague sensation. She lacked the words, but her revulsion was real.
Although Qi Wu's Six Eyes had picked up the energy traces that person had left behind, their nature was exceedingly strange.
They hadn't been an ordinary human.
They had been a Demon, too.
Something like a fusion of human and Demon.
Very strange...
Could they belong to some human faction that had sided with the Demons?
"Was that Demon coming after me?"
Lilith raised her head.
She was clever and quickly thought of the possibility.
"Most likely."
Qi Wu didn't hide anything and gave her an affirmative answer.
The Flame Demon's appearance had been no coincidence. Its energy fluctuations bore signs of deliberate guidance and enhancement, and