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Chapter 435 White Mist Gradually Rises

Golden light poured down from that eye, illuminating the entire hollow.

The golden patterns on those bronze pillars, which flickered on and off, shone brightest the moment the golden light fell upon them, then vanished completely the next instant, along with the oppressive aura that clung to their very bones.

The flesh and blood, filled with hollows, collapsed with a roar in the golden light.

Wherever the golden light touched, flesh and blood lost their color, losing vitality from the surface to the depths, turning into a layer of dead ash.

The passage that had been swept by the golden light caused the blocked flesh to collapse from the inside out, revealing a narrow gap that was barely wide enough for a person to pass through.

Klaus didn't waste this moment.

The oppressive force that had been pressing down on him dissipated, and the power that had been firmly suppressed surged back. He no longer tried to fight the afterimage that had been lingering and waiting to be discarded. His body suddenly shone with green light, and he grabbed Lu Yuan and Adrian, who were closest to him. Dark green crystals exploded from the soles of his feet, and the three figures vanished instantly.

The Blue Knight's threads tightened at the same moment.

She left most of the silk threads behind, only taking back a few strands to wrap around herself. She then grabbed Margaret and the servant's wrists and led them into the passage blasted open by the golden light.

He seemed to be being targeted, his entire body covered in a faint golden light, and when that golden eye opened, it seemed to include him in the scope of elimination.

His gears made a rapid clicking sound, and steam suddenly burst out from his joints, forcibly breaking through the restraints before rushing into the passage.

Just as everyone left, the golden eye above their heads glanced in the direction they had disappeared, then slowly closed.

The golden light faded little by little from the void, and the flesh began to writhe again. New dark red seeped out from under the layer of dead ash that had turned gray.

But everyone had already run out.

In the passage, Klaus led Lu Yuan and Adrian at the forefront.

His strength hadn't fully recovered yet, and the instantaneous teleportation he had previously achieved was now somewhat blocked, only able to flash in segments.

The figure appeared out of thin air in front of them, then vanished in an instant, and soon after landing, it flashed to the front again.

The Blue Knight propelled himself along by the silken threads, pulling Margaret and her attendants close behind, though at a slightly slower pace.

The Great Ascendant was at the very back, its metallic footsteps echoing through the passageway as it raced forward.

The flesh and blood behind them surged up again, trying to catch up with the group, but they couldn't catch up no matter what they did.

The passage widened and the air grew colder, but the flesh and blood had not yet spread to the upper levels. The uncorroded soil and rock walls seemed to be holding back its expansion.

Lu Yuan glanced back and saw that the flesh and blood that had caught up with him stopped at the corner of the passage, right at the boundary between flesh and blood and soil, and did not go any further.

Its territory ended there, and it could no longer catch up, but the rocks began to mutate at a visible speed.

But there's still time...

But what Lu Yuan truly cared about was something else entirely.

Just now, when Adrian summoned that golden eye, a new line of gray and white text appeared in his field of vision.

You have received the gaze of angels.

Lu Yuan's heart sank.

It was probably because he had been basking in the power of Adrian's blessing that this being took notice of him.

As that power gradually returned to its original position, Klaus's speed noticeably increased.

The next moment, he led Lu Yuan and Adrian to the collapse site.

Several watchmen immediately surrounded them and hurriedly pulled Lu Yuan and Adrian to the ground.

The moment Lu Yuan was pulled up, a cold wind rushed into his collar, making him shiver.

Blue Knight and the others were lagging behind, climbing up from the collapse.

Lu Yuan propped himself up on his knees and looked around, but a sense of unease crept into his heart.

Surprisingly, there were no ghouls near the collapse. These creatures had been everywhere on the way here, but now the passage was unusually empty.

The square was much emptier than it had been before they went down.

Of the Night's Watch and the Holy Armored Army who were originally stationed near the collapse, less than a third remain; the rest have been reassigned somewhere unknown.

Only a few flags and two makeshift copper fences stood in the vast Old Parliament Square, some sections of which were knocked askew and stained with dark red blood.

In the distance came fragmented roars and the clanging of metal, coming from the south of the inner city, indicating that a melee had broken out in more than one place.

Glock jogged over to meet him, his face covered in ash and dried scabs, his clothes tattered.

As soon as he saw Klaus, he approached him, speaking in a low voice and very quickly.

"There have been thirteen ground collapses, four of which we couldn't hold and have abandoned, only managing to do the simplest sealing and cover them with copper coins. We're still guarding the remaining nine, but we're already short-handed; our casualties have been heavy."

Klaus listened without changing his expression.

Glock continued.

"Two districts in the outer city have already been infiltrated by ghouls, and the surviving residents are all evacuating to safer areas." He lowered his voice slightly. "As for Rek... he's seriously injured, and his insects seem to be behaving strangely."

Lu Yuan stood a few steps away and heard everything.

The news of Lake's serious injury weighed heavily on his mind.

Klaus nodded and asked, "How's it going in the inner city?"

Glock hesitated for a moment, as if what he was about to say was the most important. "The inscriptions on the city walls are malfunctioning. The ghoul invasion is manageable, but the inscriptions on the inner city walls have gone out, and the aura of the Bronze City... seems to be losing its effectiveness."

Klaus didn't say anything more.

The inscriptions on the inner city wall have gone out, which means that the outermost layer of protection of the Bronze City has been exhausted, and the bronze pillars underneath have been eroded to an irreversible degree.

His gaze swept across the empty square before settling back on Glock.

"Let's go back to the branch office first."

Just then, a commotion came from behind. The Blue Knights and their companions climbed out of the collapsed area and followed closely behind.

At that very moment, a layer of white mist appeared over the square.

The extremely thin white mist, so thin it was almost invisible, spread outwards along the ground.

The remaining torchlight in the square refracted through the mist, creating an indescribable softness.

The Night Watchmen and the Holy Armored Army soldiers nearby didn't react much. Their gazes swept over the white mist, treating it as just ordinary night fog, and they didn't take it to heart.

But Lu Yuan noticed it. He recognized the layer of fog.

On the night of their return journey from Bronze City, a similar layer of fog drifted across the trade route. Hidden within the fog was something that passed by, without malice, yet capable of rewriting memories. Everyone else in the group forgot everything afterward, but he alone remembered.

Before leaving, that thing threw him a sentence.

"Something's about to wake up, go check on it."

The ability to make an entire team forget their own existence speaks volumes about its level; it's at least related to those taboos.

Clearly, it has arrived and has already infiltrated the Bronze City.

What weighed even more heavily on his mind was something else.

After all four fragments were collected, the faint connection that had been linking the fragments suddenly broke.

The fifth fragment was still there, but he couldn't sense it at all.

How could this happen?

The thought only flashed through his mind for a moment.

The more pressing issue right now is to remind Klaus of this fog.

Lu Yuan walked up to Klaus and lowered his voice.

"This fog is strange. Be careful, there might be something lurking inside."