But it can’t be helped. Their side have more money after all.
He gives up!
“Go ahead then…”
Thus, the guard could only say that with resignation.
“Thanks.”
Shien didn’t even know that his actions had made the person he faced give up on his dreams, face reality, decide to go back home and accept the life that awaited him, thus completely altering his fate. Shien just smiled brightly while taking the girls with him into Cosmos.
After the guard finished getting over his depression, he hurriedly ran off to report on what just happened.
No matter what the circumstances were, the fact is that someone had passed through the lockdown and entered the City, so he did have to report this to his higher ups. Otherwise, the blame really would end up falling on him.
…
Just like that, Shien’s group finally entered Cosmos.
However, the moment they did, they immediately noticed the abnormality there.
“… Did you notice? Airi?”
Shien turned serious as he spoke to Airi next to him.
“Yeah.” Airi’s eyes flashed too as she calmly spoke, “The magical energy flow in the air is obviously abnormal.”
That’s right, the magical energy flow is very abnormal.
Yet, this abnormality is also one that Shien happened to have experienced before.
“It can’t be another Demon Refining ritual, could it?”
Shien brought up that possibility.
The Demon Refining ritual that he experienced back in the Capital was just like this, where the magical energy flow turned extremely abnormal.
However, Airi shook her head and denied it.
“No, this isn’t a Demon Refining ritual.” Airi spoke with certainty, “Not only is the feel of the magic power different, the signs and conditions for the ritual are all wrong as well.”
True enough. The magical energy flow when the Demon Refining ritual is activated is very dark, evil, and weird.
Although the magical energy flow in Cosmos is also quite weird, it also doesn’t feel as dark or evil as the Demon Refining ritual.
Besides which, the Demon Refining ritual is targeted toward demons and demonic beasts. While Cosmos is a big melting pot of various races, that’s only within the bounds of the mortal races. There are humans, elves, beastmen, and dwarves, but demons aren’t included in that, never mind demonic beasts. Other than tamed mounts, there aren’t all that many demonic beasts within the city at all.
A place like this is completely unsuitable for a Demon Refining ritual.
“Besides, after the Demon Refining ritual is activated, the space within the bounds of the ritual would be completely cut off from the outside. The bounds covered by the ritual would be transformed into a standalone dimension of its own, one where it’s impossible to freely enter or leave. Since we were able to walk right in, this proves that there is no Demon Refining ritual currently underway here.”
Shien recognized Airi’s explanation.
This indeed doesn’t feel like a Demon Refining ritual.
Besides, he’s never heard of the Demon Refining ritual having strange effects like what the guard had mentioned either.
Some other abnormal event must be happening here. It doesn’t have any relations with the Demon Refining ritual.
However, the flow of magical energies here really did made Shien take notice.
“No wonder both the Kingdom and Empire thinks that all this is due to someone undertaking a major magical ritual.”
With how strange the magical energy flow is here, it’s only natural that people would think that some magic ritual is currently being undertaken here. Even Shien was the same.
Shien thus glanced around.
Around him, all the buildings within Cosmos seemed to have been scrambled. Some were merged together, some stuck out right in the middle of the street, some were slanted, some had fallen, and some were even collapsed against each other or slammed together. It looked extremely haphazard and even the roads were gone, only leaving some small paths between building that can be traversed.
“This is practically a perfect place for criminal activities.”
Shien kind of understood now just why so many people have been attacked.
Since people could only move through those chaotic and tiny alleys, isn’t it only natural for people to easily fall prey to sneak attacks from anyone who had such intentions?
And when that happened, if the attackers just dives into a few corners, then the chances of being caught was practically zero.
This place has already become a natural criminal paradise, so most likely, not only were the knights of the Kingdom and Empire causing problems, the normal people within the city might also be using this opportunity to commit robberies and other illegal acts.
Perhaps that’s the real reason why this city has been locked down.
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