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August 30th, Wednesday.
At the Elk Estate, located in the northwestern suburbs of Backlund, servants were engaged in their daily routines.
This manor, with a history spanning over a century, originally belonged to a viscount.
However, it was later purchased by Councilor Macht, the father of Hazel, the character from the original novel who had a rat demigod as her teacher, after his marriage.
He used it to invite friends for weekend getaways in the autumn and winter seasons.
At this moment, in Hazel's room at the Elk Estate, a gray-furred rat lay lazily on a specially made small sofa, its eyes slightly red and somewhat frightening.
Suddenly, the rat seemed to sense something, abruptly standing up, its gray head turning left and right.
Quiet! Too quiet!
The Elk Estate had suddenly become too quiet.
The servants, who were originally busily working in the manor, were now silent, as if they had all left at once.
This was definitely not normal.
Enemies!
Just as the rat demigod was extremely vigilant, its front paws raised, ready to strike at any moment, a dazzling and deadly fiery spear shattered the glass and shot from outside the window directly at the rat demigod.
Boom!
The explosion was deafening, the room collapsing in an instant and engulfed in flames, a high temperature that could kill ordinary people in a moment.
But this was only the beginning.
In mid-air, Medici, clad in blood-stained black armor with blood-red hair like fire, simultaneously conjured several fiery spears.
Further away, Lin Ruo, watching this scene, controlled Medici's historical projection to attack.
Hunting a weakened demigod in Backlund, the most troublesome part was actually the need to avoid dragging it out, because once delayed, exceeding one minute meant that the battle was very likely to be interfered with by official Beyonders.
Therefore, facing this demigod rat, Lin Ruo chose to simulate the abilities of an Scholar of Yore from the beginning, then pulled out Medici's historical projection and immediately went all out.
Historical projections were certainly far inferior to the original body, but no matter how inferior, Medici's historical projection was still Sequence 1, and all Lin Ruo had to do was attack.
As for guarding against the petty tricks of the Marauder demigod, that was Pallez Zoroast's business.
That old gentleman wasn't there to freeload.
As for whether it would harm the innocent—the ordinary people of the Elk Estate had all been evacuated before Lin Ruo took action.
And the Elk Estate itself… well, at worst, he would anonymously compensate afterward.
Lin Ruo thought this, his pupils reflecting the simultaneous descent of a sky full of fire rain.
"Hiss, so powerful, what Sequence is Your Excellency Lin Ruo after all?"
Somewhere, watching the dazzling and dangerous fire rain before him, Leonard couldn't help but click his tongue.
"Medici's historical projection… it's been a long time since I've seen it."
Compared to the ignorant Leonard, who only knew to exclaim "So powerful," Pallez Zoroast obviously had more to say, but after exclaiming, he urged: "Don't just stand there, go to the southeast."
"Oh, okay…"
… …
At the same time, Backlund, Holy Wind Cathedral.
Accompanied by a sweeping hurricane, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake, Lin Ruo's old friend, rose into the air again, his expression immediately revealing that he was on the verge of rage.
In fact, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake was indeed almost exploding with anger, and if he wasn't concerned about his image, he might have already burst into curses.
How many times!
How many times had high-sequence beings caused trouble in Backlund in the past two months!
Was it never going to end!
The furious "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake roared through the air, his speed reaching its limit.
Not only him, but almost simultaneously, the high-level figures of the Church of the Evernight Goddess, the Church of the Steam and Machinery, and even the Loen military reacted, and their respective high-sequence figures began to rush in the direction of the Elk Estate.
And in a certain underground ruin, Medici looked up, then chuckled softly, as if mocking someone.
After laughing, he suddenly became a little irritable and tugged at the Ince handkerchief in his hand.
"He actually dared to jump to the Marauder pathway… his humanity is maintained quite well."
Medici suddenly remembered the first time he met Lin Ruo, when Lin Ruo stood beside the Lord, his eyes calm and crazy, yet empty.
And the Lord said to the Angel of War back then:
"This child will be entrusted to you from now on, take good care of Him."
… …
"No! No! No!"
A resentful and venomous voice rang out sharply, filled with indescribable pain.
Then, little by little, streamers of light flew out from something that was no longer recognizable and poured into Leonard's body.
To be precise, it poured into Pallez Zoroast's body, who was parasitizing Leonard.
Beside him, Lin Ruo, who had already controlled Medici's historical projection to quell the flames in the Elk Estate, also breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
Without a doubt, the guy that Pallez Zoroast had devoured was the target of this hunt, that rat demigod.
This battle ended quickly and smoothly, and to be honest, it didn't exceed Lin Ruo's expectations.
After all, the rat demigod they had to deal with was just a weakened Sequence 4, and with the lineup they had prepared, there was no reason they couldn't take it down.
Thankfully, that bear child didn't suddenly appear… Lin Ruo thought this, no longer maintaining the simulation of the Scholar of Yore, muttered a sentence to switch to Traveler mode, and looked at Leonard, asking: "Is everything alright now? If there are no problems, I'll send you back to Tingen."
Leonard listened intently for a second, finally nodding and saying: "Everything's alright… Thank you for your trouble, Your Excellency Lin Ruo."
Lin Ruo smiled and looked at Mr. Azik beside him, saying: "Mr. Azik, thank you for making this trip.
The Church's Beyonders are coming soon, you should leave quickly!"
"Mm."
Azik nodded lightly, his gaze falling on Leonard before retracting it.
He had actually seen Leonard before, when he sent Lin Ruo back to the Blackthorn Security Company last time.
He didn't realize it at that time, but this person had a Thief of no low Sequence on him.
Thinking of Klein, who also came from Tingen, and him teaching in Tingen before, Azik couldn't help but sigh for a moment.
Tingen, how wonderful!
… …
And after Azik left, Lin Ruo also sent Leonard back to Tingen, and only then did the big shots, including "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake, finally arrive late.
Having been ransacked twice, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake almost immediately went to look for traces of a certain black-haired angel or Tarot cards, but this time he finally didn't see anything.
It's not Him after all… This was "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake's first thought.
However, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake then realized that this was normal, after all, this was Backlund, even an angel theoretically wouldn't dare to cause trouble repeatedly in a short period of time—it wasn't like the Church really had no means to deal with angels.
Then which secret organization was it this time?
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