"What is that?"

Richie looked toward the distant horizon, involuntarily furrowing his brow, sensing that something seemed to be falling there.

"This world appears calm and even ordinary, but it actually feels oppressive, like a cage."

He sat upon a broken doorway, surrounded by many wizards, with a hexagram within the doorway continuously rotating and splitting into white streams of light like tree branches.

Otto stood beside, looking up and saying, "But the humans of this world are mostly weak, we don’t need to be concerned about them."

Richie shook his head and said, "It’s better to be cautious... Yet another explosion happened on the east side of the city, hasn’t Hei Mu caught the culprit? This isn’t entirely the Law Enforcement Team’s issue. You need to help if necessary."

Otto smiled slightly, grooves forming on his dry face, and said, "I still trust Hei Mu’s strength, after all, he is the successor of the Wizard King. If we meddle without reason, he’d complain."

"They place too much weight on honor. We are wizards, we shouldn’t be confined by such things. Looking towards the stars is what we should be doing."

Runes flowed between Richie’s hands, his expression unchanged, calmly saying, "In this period, stabilizing the situation is enough. Doing nothing is better than doing something."

In the middle of speaking, he paused, his expression changed, and he said, "Go check out what’s happening with Hei Mu, there seems to be an accident."

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Boom~

Another explosion sounded, an intense white light and sky-high flames illuminated the night sky.

The black watchtower was mostly destroyed in the explosion, collapsing to one side.

The familiar sound of explosion came once again.

Hei Mu looked up at the explosion site, his expression twisted, roaring, "This time you definitely can’t escape."

This attacker seemed to be toying with him, hitting once and running without lingering, but striking again when they let their guard down.

His mind had been buzzing with explosions these days.

The culprit’s escape ability was remarkable, so many wizards couldn’t catch them.

But this time, he had fully grasped the escape method and approximate route.

Numerous black shadows slipped through the darkness, covering the entire street, layering the air with shadows, dimming the light even further.

Hei Mu raised his staff, his figure flickered, and within moments he reached another stretch of over ten streets, standing in the middle of the street.

This was considered the No-Man’s Land, containing nothing, even monsters within the black fog.

Under the shadow, a slender figure stood opposite him, standing on a dented car, staring at him earnestly.

"Ha? Old man, you actually followed me here, do you want to die?"

"Looking at how old you are, I bet you’re over life."

"Haha, but I do enjoy seeing you so furious."

Jin stood upright, twirling her ponytail, speaking to herself casually with a standard smile on her face.

The opponent seemed to completely disregard him!

Hei Mu’s expression slightly changed, growing angrier, feeling insulted, roaring, "You cannot escape, don’t be arrogant."

"Then how did I escape those past few times?"

Jin retorted, seemingly holding something in her hand.

The next moment, she threw the item from her hand and ran sideways, her figure disappearing, leaving her light footsteps lingering behind.

"Die!"

Hei Mu’s eyes narrowed, waving his hand, countless slender shadow hands extended from the ground, reaching for Jin with a sound like snakes wriggling in sand.

"Once this move is unleashed, your path leads only to death. This move is unavoidable!"

He watched Jin escaping under numerous shadow hands, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

These shadows originated from him, once enveloped by them, escape is impossible, the enemy will fall amidst relentless attacks.

The only way to escape is to kill him.

A blinding white light lit up again.

Another explosion.

But this time the explosion quickly diminished under the shadow, fading like a dud, even the fire dimmed.

Numerous shadow hands layered to block the blast, pressing it down densely, provoking a sense of hair-raising fear.

The speed was so fast that a slender shadow hand quietly pierced through Jin’s abdomen, making a piercing through.

With an outstretched hand, Jin triggered an explosion, clearing a vacant area, her figure disappearing amid running.

But how could she possibly disappear.

Hei Mu had mastered the movements in this area, the opponent was a caged prey.

He quickly pinpointed Jin’s position.

A dull explosion rang out, another area was cleared.

He abruptly held his breath, sensing the opponent running at him with an extraordinary speed.

A smear of red appeared in his sight. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The woman suddenly appeared, throwing a punch at him, carrying unstoppable wind pressure, her dark red long hair flying in the wind.

Layer upon layer shadows formed around Hei Mu, enclosing space, forming an all-encompassing defense shield.

He was sure this could stop her, pure power couldn’t possibly break through his defense.

The next moment.

The punch pierced through layer upon layer of shadows, also piercing through his chest, causing a shocking shockwave.

Hei Mu’s face took on an incredible expression, the word "monster" appeared in his mind.

"Just this?"

The woman looked at him with a cold smile, her red eyes filled with indifference.

With a loud bang, she punched Hei Mu into the ground again, the ground cracking along, engulfing Hei Mu’s body.

Pure physical strength, wild and penetrating.

Hei Mu was not yet dead, struggling to get up, only to be punched back into the ground.

Shadows dispersed around.

Once again, his body was punched through, blood splattered onto the surrounding ground, forming a pattern of a blood-red spider web.

Shen Xuan stood in front of him, holding a fiercely throbbing, steaming heart in her slender, pale hand.

"Can you still live like this?"

Shen Xuan spoke softly, with a gentle squeeze with her left hand, the entire heart exploded.

Hei Mu’s pupils dilated, he began to breathe heavily, yet he still hadn’t died, a smile appeared on his face instead:

"I’m not like those low-level humans, I don’t die easily."

He said, struggling to rise from the ground, dozens of shadow hands extended again from the ground, reaching for Shen Xuan.

Shen Xuan’s eyes flashed with dazzling red light, like brilliant gemstones, she grabbed those shadow hands with one hand and snapped them with force.

She lunged forward again, punching him into the ground.

Continuous loud bursts.

Like a heavy hammer machine constantly hitting the ground, surrounding buildings started to shake along.

At this moment, Hei Mu had completely lost the ability to counterattack, the sustained attack left him no chance to breathe, only to endure the opponent’s hits.

Vision became blurred, but the woman’s face, like a demon, etched into his mind.

...

It wasn’t long.

Other members of the Law Enforcement Team came rushing towards the noise, the place had already returned to calm, only a corpse was left on the street.

It was Hei Mu’s corpse, unrecognizable in appearance or form.

Even the body’s vitality was almost gone.

"Captain Hei Mu is dead!" An enforcement team member holding a magic staff said in panic.

"The culprit didn’t even spare the corpse, repeatedly desecrating it, this is too heinous."

"Quick, report the situation immediately!"

Several members of the Law Enforcement Team hurriedly ran back.

Just like that, Hei Mu died abruptly, the strength of the culprit far exceeded their expectations.

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"You’re saying the culprit always hid their strength just to lure Captain Hei Mu into a solo battle and kill him."

Otto looked at the Law Enforcement Team member before him, speaking calmly.

The team member nodded repeatedly, "The culprit must have used some despicable means, otherwise with Captain Hei Mu’s strength, even if he couldn’t win, he wouldn’t have died. After all, we were nearby, the fight lasted for over ten minutes."