The old man in a black tuxedo lightly pulled something from the void of space.
He pulled out a card and held it in his hand.
"Liu Ping," he spoke, "I only need to use this Star grade tracking card to retrace Qian Wuzhou's movements last nigh.t"
"Thank you," Liu Ping said.
"But why do you have such a request?" the old man asked.
Liu Ping said, "It's very simple. When I took my dog out for a walk last night, my dog ran too fast and seemed to have provoked something. It was so scared that it hurriedly hid beside me. Then … I saw something bad."
"Oh? What was it? "the old man asked.
While they were talking, Qian Wuzhou raised his hand — —
Liu Ping had been paying attention to him and immediately shouted: "Be careful!"
The next moment.
The quiet dormitory building seemed to have been hit by a cannonball, exploding with a loud noise and collapsing.
7-8 figures were sent flying, leaving a trail of blood in the air before crashing to the ground, no longer moving.
A deep and loud alarm echoed throughout the Royal Academy.
A ball of light silently floated in the air.
Within the ball of light, Liu Ping was being protected by the old man, holding a yellow dog in his hand.
"Thank you for saving my life sir," Liu Ping said.
"No, actually I should thank you for your timely warning, I didn't think that a mere young man would dare to act here, and with such ferocious means at that …"
The old man looked down, only to see the corpses of the officers lying on the ground, slowly turning into human-shaped fog and flying towards the collapsed dormitory building.
"Help!"
"Save me, please."
"Who can stop — —"
The human-shaped fog let out a series of voices.
But as they entered the ruins of the dormitory building, all the voices stopped.
An inexplicable sense of eeriness suddenly arose.
The old man's expression became more and more solemn, asking in a low voice: "What is that?"
Before he even finished.
A 10-meter tall fog slowly stood up from the ruins, turning into Qian Wuzhou's appearance.
He stared at the ball of light with a dark expression and spoke:
"You're more cunning than I thought …"
Before he finished, the old man's body suddenly stiffened, the ball of light dimmed.
Lines of burning text appeared above Qian Wuzhou's head:
[Unknown Awakened.]
[— — This is a certain entity slumbering in the depths of Evernight, no one knows its details]
Liu Ping shouted without hesitation, "Open!"
Countless runes of light spread out from under his feet, forming a halo with a radius of forty meters.
[A 40-meter Summoning Halo!]
The ruins of the entire dormitory flew towards the ball of light, instantly forming a stone barrier in front of the ball of light.
— — The huge, ten-meter-tall fortress of ruins separated Qian Wuzhou from the two of them.
The old man was in a daze for a moment before he suddenly woke up.
He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and muttered, "I almost fell into its trap. How strange. How did it attack me?"
"I'm not sure, but I noticed that something isn't right with you — — we need to leave this place immediately" Liu Ping said.
"No need, the Machine Sequence has already reacted," the old man said.
The void of space opened up to reveal several long metal pipes, each of which was connected to a character card.
In an instant, they had surrounded the area.
"Elder Li, what's the situation now?"
The middle-aged man in the lead asked.
The old man replied: "I suspect that it's a slumbering entity that has awakened. We don't know what it is, but it has taken over Qian Wuzhou's body."
Liu Ping cut in: "Everyone, I'm a student without much strength, can you send me away from here first?"
"No problem, you're indeed not suitable to stay here any longer," the old man replied.
A metal pipe reached out, lightly tapped Liu Ping's back, and brought him into the void of space.
Heaven and earth spun.
Liu Ping only felt that he had left the Royal Academy at an extremely fast speed and was climbing towards an extremely high place at the speed of lightning.
At the very next moment.
The metal pipe behind him suddenly began to vibrate intensely.
Crack!
A small sound.
Liu Ping felt himself losing his speed, silently hovering in mid-air.
His surroundings quickly returned to normal.
He slowly turned his head to look and saw that the metal pipe had broken into pieces and fallen to the ground.
Without the metal pipe's control, Liu Ping also began to fall downwards.
From the direction of the Royal Institute, a sharp screech resounded across the sky.
Qian Wuzhou's grey figure scattered, turning into a black torrent that rose to the sky and manifested as a giant face in the sky.
It spoke with an extremely strange voice: 「 Your territory was originally more than enough, yet you've claimed my graveyard, disturbing my slumber — — 」
「 This infuriates me. 」
The giant face suddenly dispersed, turning into black dots that fluttered down towards the Imperial City.
A black dot whizzed over and circled around Liu Ping who was falling.
It revealed itself.
— — Qian Wuzhou.
To be precise, it was a monster with the upper body of Qian Wuzhou, a long carapace on its back, and legs on its lower body.
「 Liu Ping, you didn't expect our next meeting to be like this, did you? 」 the monster spoke with a human voice.
"You're Qian Wuzhou?" Liu Ping asked.
「 After abandoning my human identity, I've become even more powerful, able to dictate your fate at any time — — - but I didn't expect you to still be so weak 」 the monster spoke.
"What do you want?" Liu Ping asked.
The monster continued to fly around him, speaking with a mocking tone:
「 During the battle of Frost Wind City, you all received Gold Medals, while I fought with my life on the line, but didn't get anything in the end. After that, you all went to the royal palace, while I was recruited by the military, thinking that I had a bright future ahead of me, but who knew I'd be sent to the frontlines as a suicide squad」
"Didn't you receive a Gold Medal from the military?" Liu Ping asked.
The monster's expression changed, muttering: 「 You have no idea what happened at the frontlines, Liu Ping, at that time, I had already broken into its graveyard … 」
Pain flashed through its eyes. Then, it said in a happy and excited tone.
「 I've obtained power — — this power is more than enough to kill you and relieve the hatred in my heart! 」
The monster howled, then leapt towards Liu Ping.
Liu Ping muttered, "Possession technique."
Behind him, a cold female voice resounded: "You won't be able to kill it that way!"
"You can't expose yourself, just dodge it!" Liu Ping said again.
The monster rushed in front of Liu Ping, the six pairs of legs on its lower body opened to both sides, revealing a long black needle embedded in its flesh.
「Go to hell, Liu Ping!」
The monster let out a high-pitched cry that was half human and half insect.
Liu Ping turned into a distorted shadow, instantly dodging the monster's attack, then raised his left hand and scratched forward.
SMACK!
A crisp sound was heard.
This slap landed on the monster's face, sending it flying in all directions.
"Hehehe, you want to bully him with such means?" Liu Ping let out a shrill voice.
There was a hint of coldness in his eyes.
At this moment, the void behind Liu Ping opened again, and a long metal pipe extended out, connecting to his back, making a soft 'kacha' sound.
The metal pipe retracted, instantly taking him away from the sky.
A cold metallic voice sounded in Liu Ping's ears:
'[This incident is determined to be a Level 2 invasion.]'
'[The large-scale seal is about to be activated, Liu Ping, you will be teleported out of the incident's area of influence.]'
A white light flashed on the bell tower in the middle of the city.
The metal pipe gently placed Liu Ping on the bell tower's spire, then quickly retracted.
Liu Ping stood on the spire, looking at the Royal Academy in the distance.
The night was hazy.
The boundless black insect swarm gradually slowed down, and together with the entire Royal School, they were surrounded by metal pipes that appeared out of thin air.
The metal pipes were connected to each other, forming a vertical silver metal frame, outlining the shape of a card between heaven and earth.
Lines of burning words quickly appeared in front of his eyes.
[You've personally witnessed the large-scale Eternal Night Sealing Technique: Enemy of the Sequence's Eternal Solidification]
[You've gained Role Points]
[Current Role Points: 2/10]
[Attention]
[The seal has been completed]
[All monsters have been sealed into this card by the Machine Sequence]
Liu Ping glanced through it, then couldn't help but ask: "What about those who are still in the academy?"
Another line of burning words appeared:
[They have been sealed together with the monsters, trapped in an eternal seal]