Wandering around the Holy City for a whole six or seven hours.
Han Dong finally made his way to Sally’s location in the Ghana Civilian Area, 34 Black Bird Street.
"Huh? Quite unexpected... I didn’t expect Sally’s adaptability to be so high."
Han Dong crouched atop a building, looking through to a restaurant across the street named Haewindel.
Sally, dressed in a conservative maid outfit, was working inside as a waitress.
To avoid troubles due to her appearance, Sally deliberately made some ugly purple blotches on her face, covering a large area that needed to be concealed with a veil.
Her figure remained evident, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been hired.
After living for over ten days, she had completely integrated into it,
even when she made mistakes and got reprimanded and scolded, she would silently keep it in her heart.
Han Dong merely watched in silence from the shadows, not disturbing Sally’s current life.
Ding ding ding~ The night is deep.
When the last table of customers left the restaurant.
As Sally cleaned up the remnants, she was suddenly embraced by a strong arm around her neck, greeted by the face of a cheerful and sunny short-haired girl.
"Sally, come on~ everyone is waiting for you."
Sally had already gotten close with her colleagues in the restaurant.
After all, this was a maid café, and the likelihood of encountering threats after hours for everyone as women was quite high, so they all returned together to the collective dormitory not far from the restaurant.
Among them, a short-haired sister with a relatively larger build and evident arm muscles took special care of the new Sally... on the way back, she often hugged and embraced Sally like a precious heart.
Although they traveled in groups of at least five and the distance wasn’t far.
But due to everyone being in maid outfits, needing to change clothes only when they got home, and their shifts ending around midnight, they would always run into some trouble. Thɪs chapter is updated by novel-fire.ɴet
And today was another encounter.
"Hey little maids, getting off work so early? We happen to need some services, can we trouble you for a bit?"
Four figures suddenly appeared from different positions in the dark street, gathering in front of Sally and the others.
The leader was scraping the spikes on his tongue with a dagger, and his body had undergone some illegal modifications, with a turbine structure around his elbow joint.
the short-haired sister immediately shielded Sally behind her,
"Sally~ these guys are a bit different. In a moment, we’ll hold them off for you.
Your body hasn’t been modified, they’re not your match! Find a chance to slip away and look for the nearest Sherrif."
As she spoke, she took out the brass knuckles she carried, glaring angrily at the stinking men in front of her.
"We heard before that there’s a pretty tough maid in this shop, turns out it’s you~ well... let’s start with you then.
I really like muscle-bound, rebellious women like you."
Just as the voice fell,
the leader rushed forward,
his elbow, with illegally modified machinery, emitting intense steam, suddenly doubling his blade speed.
At such a speed, ordinary people couldn’t possibly react in time.
At this dangerous moment.
A crow from I don’t know where suddenly swooped in, precisely stabbing into the man’s eye, directly snatching away the bloody right eyeball.
the dagger in his hand swung entirely into empty space,
before he recovered from the pain, the iron brass knuckles already landed on his face, slamming him heavily to the ground... his whole face seriously deformed, even biting off his tongue.
The intense pain and concussion made him faint.
With their leader defeated, the remaining three immediately scattered and fled.
"Haha, these evildoers finally got their comeuppance today... let’s go back to the dorm.
This dagger seems quite nice, Sally, take it for self-defense."
She tossed the dagger to Sally.
Unexpectedly, Sally’s gaze wasn’t on her, but rather towards a rooftop across the street.
Seeing the flying dagger might be dangerous, just about to loudly call Sally’s name,
Sally effortlessly caught the flying dagger single-handedly without looking,
"Thank you, Sister Marlin..."
"Hmm... by the way, what is Sally looking at?"
"Watching that crow that just helped us, it has already flown away~ let’s go back."
Sally turned her head with a smile, taking a big step forward and linking arms with Marlin, for some reason, she seemed particularly happy today.
Han Dong retrieved the crow formed from black sand and had already left the rooftop.
After observing tonight, he had made up his mind not to disturb Sally for a month more, letting her continue living her human life here.
Unless the [Final Game] starts.
Currently, Han Dong needed to investigate a ’strange event’.
Ever since he stepped into the Holy City, he felt an inexplicable "energy pull", this pull wouldn’t directly manifest, only taking effect when using magic.
It causes some of Han Dong’s magic to be exhibited in a ’crow form’.
This included teleporting away from the suicide tree and assisting Sally in the dark moments ago.
Though it didn’t affect the fundamental basis of magic,
this bizarre ’traction’ was the first time Han Dong had encountered it.
The first person Han Dong thought of was his former mentor, "Mr. Black White".
Han Dong chose to walk around the Holy City, taking a ferry to cross the Moslabi Ring River that separates the Civilian Area and the inner city.
When stepping on the familiar Three Gods Steps, Han Dong was quite emotional.
In those days, steps symbolized class distinction; stepping on them indicated one ascended to a new tier, encountering people and matters that common folk couldn’t rival.
"The Three Gods Steps, named after the main gods in Greek mythology, now carry a different sentiment... The world corresponding to Greek mythology, [S-06], is famed among the Black Tower and is completely open to the public.
As long as one has enough strength, they can easily find a place there and even step onto corresponding divine steps.
Captain Alex belongs to an outsider who climbed Olympus, probably having already seized the throne over there."
Upon arriving at the Knight Academy,
Han Dong immediately called for a campus carriage, heading straight to the Mysterious Department located in the Dark Moon Forest.
"Hmm? It’s indeed related to the mentor... the density of crows here is at least ten times higher than before."
The tree branches of the forest were covered with crows,
The top of the Dark Moon Tower teemed with dense circles of crow flocks,
The door of the Stargazing Room was tightly locked.
This was a bit strange,
Based on Mr. Black White’s divination and intuition, he would inevitably know of Han Dong’s arrival in advance, avoiding any locked situations.
"Hmm? There’s a King-level aura emanating, has the mentor also ascended to a king?"
Starlight flickered on Han Dong’s outer body as he easily passed through the door.
The scene inside left him dumbfounded.
Countless crows filled the place, as if he had stepped into some nest of crow demons.
Numerous lines, hung with raven feathers, connected within the Stargazing Room, conveying some evil power.
"What’s going on... why are there two auras belonging to the mentor?
One of them is already exuding a pseudo-king aura,
Whereas the one belonging to the crow is still growing, seemingly ready to break through..."
A figure flashed in the darkness,
half of whose body was white, without any impurities, a spotless and immaculate human form, with a white stardust floating in the palm.
The other half was black, feathered, with frenzied movements of the crow-demon-like claw arm, not yet complete.
The back expanded with black and white wings, the white being prominent,
moved towards Han Dong, this intruder... filled with killing intent.