The faint shadow gazed at the figure lying on the bed, reaching out to touch the person’s skin.
The erald hovering in the air flickered violently, with fine cracks like a spider web quickly crawling across its surface.
A faint red glow erged from the person’s body, emitting a dangerous light.
However, the shadow’s movents were not hindered by this; instead, it reached out faster and faster, touching the body on the bed.
The silent darkness enveloped this dim world, the ceiling lights still on, but like fading spots of light, unable to penetrate this all-consuming dimness.
The red glow covering the person on the bed quickly contracted, accompanied by his Qi rapidly contracting at a speed perceptible to the naked eye.
Vigina reached out to stop the pitch-black shadow, but her entire being seed to be trapped in so kind of swamp, blocked by the soft darkness, unable to move.
The surrounding ’space’ appeared to be undergoing so kind of change; under that thick darkness, the entire world was extraordinarily silent.
Vigina faintly realized that they were ’leaving’ the real world, sinking into so kind of silent, serene space.
The fingers of the shadow finally moved downward, touching the skin of the person on the bed.
Then, in the next instant, the dense darkness, like a liquid with opened valves, swiftly ’flowed’ towards the figure lying on the bed.
The twisting darkness writhed, and Vigina felt so force within it trying to tear her flesh and body apart, turning her into nourishnt for this dense darkness.
The walking ’nurses’ nearby also seed to encounter the sa situation, their once stable bodies starting to twist in so strange manner.
Ding—
A certain sound, as if traversing the world’s depths, exploded in everyone’s mind at this mont.
An invisible barrier abruptly exploded in front of the person on the bed, exploding at the point of shadow contact.
The surging power tore through the surrounding thick darkness like a sharp sword, while the gray glow, like a curtain, blood to protect the person on the bed and everyone around.
The shadowy figure suddenly looked up, gazing into the corner of the dical room.
A blurry figure had appeared there at so point.
It seed to be an elderly man in a black suit, holding a curved cane.
He gazed at the shadow by the sickbed, raising the cane in his hand.
Suddenly, a fierce gray glow flashed across the cane in his hand, and the entire viscous darkness was torn apart like thin paper.
Outside, the silent sound of rain returned, while bright lights poured down warm glows, illuminating everyone’s skin.
"Whew—"
The oppressive force on everyone’s breath finally dissipated, Vigina leaned forward, exhaling the breath pressed in her chest.
The shadowy figure at the bedside withdrew its hand from the person now enveloped by gray glow.
It gazed at the elderly man in the black suit in the corner, its entire body began to darken and beco transparent rapidly.
In an instant, it had lost the contours of a human shape, ’disappearing’ in the dical room.
Seeing this scene, Vigina hadn’t had ti to shout before seeing the elderly man in the corner slightly raise the curved cane single-handedly again.
In the next instant, so fierce force washed through the entire space like a tsunami.
Sss—
A dim sound resonated in the void, right beside Vigina, the previously calm space was suddenly torn open, and the shadowy figure appeared in Vigina’s field of view.
And at the mont of realization, the shadowy figure abruptly reached out to seize the nearby Vigina, seemingly intending to hold her hostage.
Bam—
But before its movents were completed, before its silhouette even left where it stood,
Gray rays of light surged from all directions like invisible arrows, suddenly bursting forth, piercing its body.
This shapeless shadow’s body stiffened, leaning back and falling to the ground.
Tangled shadows, like lting liquid, slid off its body, flowing along the floor to the surrounding area.
Vigina saw the shadows flowing towards her feet, lifted her leg to step aside, and attempted to get closer to the shadowy figure.
It was at this mont that she saw the inky shadow covering the shadowy figure’s cheeks beginning to lt and flow down.
Revealing a fair, exquisite face, along with long tresses of hair.
Even this face was covered with a faint, sowhat formal makeup.
Vigina recognized the face; it belonged to the long-haired female journalist who had just ’visited’ and asked her a question earlier.
And as Vigina pondered, the arrows ford from the faint gray glow piercing the shadowy figure shattered, turning into a dense glow, enshrouding the flowing shadow.
By this ti, the pitch-black shadow began to dissipate rapidly like evaporating water droplets.
Ultimately, the gray glow enveloping the shadow also started to contract, eventually disappearing entirely.
Vigina lifted her head to look at the room’s corner.
The vaguely seen elderly figure in the corner was now standing by the bed, reaching out to gently cradle the already crack-covered, about-to-shatter erald hovering in the air.
A faint gray glow seeped from his palm, enveloping the erald, tightly wrapping around it like fine lines, stabilizing it, preventing it from breaking apart.
Then the elderly man lowered his head to glance at the ’Paxiu’ lying on the bed, and his entire body began to dissipate slowly.
Although it seed to be ’slowly’ dissipating, in the blink of an eye, his body had already completely vanished.
Vigina hadn’t even had ti to ask anything before the elderly man’s figure was gone.
At this mont, the surrounding nurses, as if waking from a dream, looked around, "What happened?!"
The quality of the dical soldiers kept them from panicking instantly and losing coordination, but the series of events had truly scared them.
"We encountered a bit of an attack, but it’s already been resolved." Vigina raised her hand, soothing the nurses’ emotions.
She glanced at the floor in front of her.
On the spots where the lting shadow flowed, the once smooth floor tiles were completely gone, revealing the eroded, pitted cent and steel below.
"You all isolate this area temporarily, don’t touch it," she said, withdrawing her gaze and imitating ’Paxiu’s’ tone after facing a big event, walking toward the sickbed while speaking.
The nervous nurses around, upon hearing her steady voice, though still sowhat panicked, found a sense of stability and quickly began to take action.
They moved nearby cabinets to enclose the area and used bandages to create a barrier line.
At this mont, Vigina had already arrived at the bedside.
The cracked erald still shimred with brilliance, but it was much dimr than before.
The aura of the figure lying on the bed didn’t seem too affected, yet Vigina could vaguely feel that the once stabilized aura was now rapidly declining again.
She gently bit her lip and glanced back at the cordoned-off area not far away.
The long-haired female reporter was most likely not a true Angel; otherwise, she wouldn’t be alive right now.
The other party was likely so kind of ’emissary’ or an avatar, much like the CEO encountered at the airport earlier.
Their strength was probably not much different from that CEO’s.
The defense at this City Defense Army Hospital was rather tight, and though Vigina wasn’t sure who, there was definitely a B-level presence here. Yet the other party had managed to enter the dical room unimpeded.
Moreover, if it weren’t for that City Defense Army Angel stepping in, everyone in the dical room might have died without the outside security even noticing.
Bang bang bang—
Just then, a series of hurried footsteps echoed in the corridor outside, followed by the sudden opening of the dical room’s door.
An anxious-looking middle-aged officer rushed in, swiftly running to the bedside, and quickly asked, "What’s the situation?"
"There was an attack." Vigina glanced at the City Defense Officer in front of her and quickly recounted everything that had just happened.
"That’s Mr. Boris," the City Defense Officer introduced slowly with a glance at Vigina, "a special advisor to the City Defense Army. I just ca upon receiving his ssage."
He didn’t explicitly state it, but Vigina realized that he was referring to the City Defense Army’s Angel.
While speaking, the City Defense Officer glanced at the cordoned-off scene, then at the rapidly declining ’Paxiu’ on the bed, and quickly said, "This place is too far from the South Gate. Should we move Paxiu and the surrounding equipnt to the South Gate?"
Vigina looked at him in confusion.
"After the Dark Lizard incident last night, I’ve already ordered the activation of the Extraordinary Array on Ains’s high wall," the City Defense Officer quickly explained,
"It’s ant to detect powerful Extraordinary Powers; any Higher Being, whether an Angel or an Angel’s avatar, will be sensed by the Array upon approaching the wall and has certain ’automatic attack’ capabilities."
He looked at the ’Paxiu’ on the bed, "This Array is for monitoring Higher Beings like Angels approaching the wall and entering the city. Now, if we return, the Array can provide so protective function for Paxiu,
"Now that all necessary checks and equipnt arrangents are done, we can move everything there directly. I’ll designate a specific area for a dical room."
He turned his head to Vigina and continued, "The main thing is, Mr. Boris lives near the South Gate, and this place is a bit far from there. If he has to look after the South Gate and support here, he might not make it in ti.
"Moreover, Gray Stone Palace has already ordered two divisions of the nearby Central Army to return and garrison, making the South City Gate safer with their protection."
Vigina understood the implication behind his words.
Transferring Paxiu to the South Gate was perhaps not solely the idea of this City Defense Officer but also the ’suggestion’ of that Angel.
She took a deep breath and quickly nodded, "Okay."
She gazed at the City Defense Officer, "Shall we start the transfer now?"
Though theoretically, after one attack, the other party might not launch a second assault imdiately, she was worried about delays causing more problems.
"Okay!" The City Defense Officer seed a bit surprised by Vigina’s urgency but understood her feelings and imdiately nodded, "I’ll arrange for people to handle it right away."
Saying this, he turned around and left the dical room.
Vigina lowered her head, gazing at the figure on the bed before her.
The shattered erald emitted a faint glow, illuminating the frail figure on the bed.
Urgent footsteps could be heard outside, signaling that the City Defense Army had taken action.
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Vitland Kewort Group Archive
In a sowhat dim corner of the archive, a skinny man was reaching out to browse through a thin, slightly yellowed booklet in his hand.
At this mont, He Ao, standing in the shadows, lifted his head, gazing far eastward toward the direction of Ains, then withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened, focusing on the booklet the skinny man held.
During the recent period, he had searched almost the entire archive, and what he could find related to the Kewot Family was only this booklet the skinny man was now flipping through.
The binding of this booklet was very simple, without a cover, just stapled casually. After years of not being opened, the staples had rusted, staining the paper.
Nonetheless, the print quality and paper of this booklet were quite good, as the text remained clear even now.
The content within seed to be information gathered during the compilation of the Kewort Group’s developnt history.
Many ’stories’ about the founder of the Kewort Group were included in the first part of this booklet.
However, this booklet wasn’t placed beside the developnt history but rather in a folder ant for miscellaneous docunts, seven or eight bookshelves away, together with a series of early mining data about the Kewort Group.
Perhaps the person compiling the developnt history borrowed this mining data and inadvertently included the booklet when returning it.
At the ti, the archive manager did not inspect it and just filed it as is.
This inadvertently led to the preservation of this booklet.
Of course, even so, the contents of this booklet didn’t reveal any secrets; mostly, it was filled with rumors about the Kewot Family, brimming with various speculative legendary tales.
This booklet didn’t specify where these stories originated, perhaps from descendants of the Kewot Family or perhaps unearthed from old archives of the Kewort Group.
After all, the Kewot Family managed this vast conglorate for nearly three centuries, leaving behind so records would be normal.
Conversely, this current situation where the entire archive had been scoured with minimal records was aberrant.
As if it had been deliberately erased.
He Ao withdrew his thoughts, looking at the booklet in the skinny man’s hands.
Though most were trivial speculative stories, so information seed potentially significant.
For instance, the booklet ntioned a ’family creed’ of the Kewot Family, stating, ’All wishes will eventually be repaid.’
This enigmatic ’family creed’ wasn’t written into the developnt history, perhaps because the compiler didn’t find it believable.
But if linked to the ’Seven-color Flower,’ this creed seed to carry additional implications.
This might be the only strongly related information regarding the Seven-color Flower that He Ao could find in this archive.
All of He Ao’s information about the Seven-color Flower ca from Colin, and Colin’s information was provided by his ’superior,’ the behind-the-scenes Angel.
As He Ao pondered, the skinny man had already turned to the last page of the booklet.
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