The wind brushed quietly over the rooftops as the lights below flickered like distant stars.A lone figure stood at the edge of a tall building, cloak moving slightly with the wind.It was Leon.His sharp eyes were fixed on a particular house in the distance—the estate where too many strange events had begun to converge.Leon’s gaze narrowed.“So… it’s you people.”His voice was low, almost amused.Earlier that day he had sensed something unusual—foreign aura signatures moving carefully within the human world. At first, he thought it might have been ordinary cultivators hiding themselves.But when he observed them closely…He immediately recognized the difference.Their aura did not belong to the cultivator world.Nor the human world.Leon folded his arms slowly.“The same ones who sent that bird,” he murmured.His eyes darkened as memories of the bird he had destroyed surfaced.The creature had been no ordinary messenger. Its aura had carried the same strange energy he was sensing no

Chapter 188The mansion had finally grown quiet.After their long discussion, Kai had left the room, leaving Adrian Cole alone inside his study.Adrian remained seated behind his desk, fingers lightly tapping the polished wood.The night air drifted through the slightly opened balcony doors.Yet something felt… wrong.He frowned slightly.Then slowly lifted his head.“…Strange.”His senses sharpened.There it was again.A faint scent in the air.Not perfume.Not any herb he had placed in the room.Something else.Something… unfamiliar.Adrian slowly stood.“That scent…”His eyes darkened slightly as realization dawned on him.“I noticed it earlier.”Earlier that evening he had briefly sensed the same strange presence but dismissed it as lingering aura from the herbs he had been handling.But now…It was stronger.And moving.Adrian turned slowly toward the bookshelf across the room.His voice became calm but firm.“You’ve been hiding long enough.”Silence.The room remained still.Adr

Chapter 190The night in the mansion was quiet, almost eerily so. The only sound was the faint flicker of candlelight and the soft rustle of papers in Adrian’s office.Prince Corwin sat in the corner, humming softly a tune from the Nightfall, one of the songs that always reminded him of his childhood home and the gentle warmth of Princess Elowen’s presence. His voice was soft, almost mournful, but carried a depth that resonated through the room.Adrian and Kai were focused on tracing the faint aura threads they had discovered earlier. Every so often, Corwin’s melody seemed to vibrate through the room, subtle but persistent.Then something happened. The song hit a chord deeper than he expected. A sudden tightening sensation gripped his chest, like invisible threads pulling at his spirit. Corwin froze mid-note.“What—what is this?” he whispered. His eyes widened. The aura threads they had been tracing began to shift, almost as if they were responding to his voice.Adrian noticed immedia

Chapter 192The night air was cool as the car moved quietly through the nearly empty streets of the west district.Inside the vehicle, no one spoke for a while.Adrian sat in the front passenger seat, his eyes calmly watching the road ahead. Kai was driving, focused but occasionally glancing at the mirror behind.In the back seat, Prince Corwin and Lysa sat side by side.Lysa looked out the window anxiously as familiar streets passed by.“This area…” she murmured softly. “It looks the same.”Corwin leaned slightly forward.“You’re sure this is the place?”Lysa nodded slowly.“Yes… I’m sure we lived somewhere around here.”The car finally slowed to a stop.Kai frowned.“Is this it?”Lysa opened the door and stepped out.Adrian, Kai, and Corwin followed her.The street was quiet, with only a few dim streetlights casting shadows across the pavement.But the moment Lysa turned toward the location where the building should have been—She froze.Her eyes widened.“What…?”Corwin stepped for

The night had grown deeper.A cold wind moved quietly across the ruins of the demolished building as Adrian, Kai, Corwin, and Lysa continued examining every corner of the rubble.Dust clung to their shoes as they walked carefully across the broken concrete.Kai wiped his hands on his jacket and sighed.“We’ve been searching for almost an hour.”He looked around the empty lot again.“Even if someone erased the evidence, they did a good job.”Corwin knelt beside a broken pillar, his fingers lightly brushing against a faint spiritual trace.“There are still remnants here,” he said quietly. “But they’re extremely weak.”Lysa hugged her arms nervously.“I can still feel Princess Elowen’s presence… but it’s faint.”Adrian stood several steps away from them, his gaze fixed on the cracked ground where the foundation used to be.His mind was silent.Something about this place was wrong.Very wrong.He closed his eyes slowly.A thin stream of spiritual energy flowed quietly through his body as