Mr. Pantalone has no crazy plans today.

He had to find a way to get back to Mondstadt as soon as possible to tell Grand Master Falgar the information he had obtained, not only for the task assigned to him by Grand Master Falgar, but also to find out more about his father's whereabouts and safety.

Ignoring the sudden, inexplicable downpour hitting him, Diluc tried to explore and run through the fog, attempting to escape it.

But after running for an unknown amount of time, Diluc came to his senses and found that the scenery before his eyes had not changed at all.

This made Diluc's heart sink. This situation, which he had never encountered before, made him feel a sense of the unknown, as if things were not in the realm of what he knew.

This made him very uncomfortable with the feeling that everything was out of his control.

But he also understood that some things couldn't be changed just because he didn't like them. He could only suppress his discomfort with such things, because he preferred to find his own way to survive rather than sit and wait for death.

After searching for an unknown amount of time, Diluc, while running in a certain direction, suddenly noticed through the thick fog that the rain was washing over him.

A knight who appeared to be wearing the armor of the Order of Knights was standing guard in front of him, which made Diluc feel a little happy. He decided to go up and ask the figure that seemed to be a knight of the Order of Knights.

"Great, someone's there!"

With this thought in mind, Diluc excitedly rushed forward, and just as he was greeting the knight clad in the knightly armor and asking him a question...

"Hello, I am Diluc Legnfind, the cavalry captain of the Knights of Favonius. Do you know what's going on here...!?"

Just as Diluc was patting the knight's back, wanting to ask him what was going on...

As the knight turned around, and a gaping maw covered in black scales, with a twisted and hideous face, and dripping with saliva and rainwater, appeared before him, Diluc was instantly terrified.

He stared in horror at the figure before him, who appeared to be a knight from the Knights of the Order responsible for guarding the outskirts of Mondstadt. He was horrified by the knight's twisted, monstrous appearance.

After sensing his presence in the misty rain, the creature in the darkness seemed to have spotted its prey, its empty, lifeless eyes blazing as if something had set them ablaze.

His heterochromatic eyes, gleaming like burning gold, exuded an unimaginable sense of oppression in the misty, rainy night. A chill ran down his spine, as if he were facing a prehistoric beast and the ultimate predator.

Even Diluc had never seen a monster with black scales and burning golden eyes like this before. He couldn't understand where the monster in front of him came from.

He took two steps back, his eyes filled with shock and horror, staring at the distorted figure that had appeared before him.

"What kind of monsters are these...!? Could they be members of the Knights in disguise...!?"

As if confirming Diluc's conjecture, at the same time that the twisted monster's golden eyes lit up, in the darkness that he could not see clearly.

As pairs of golden eyes lit up in the darkness, countless golden eyes were instantly fixed on Diluc's presence, and at the moment those monsters with golden eyes emerged from the darkness.

Seeing that they were all neatly dressed and identical in appearance to the monster wearing knightly armor from the beginning, a group of monsters wearing knightly armor, just like that monster, appeared before him.

Overwhelmed by unimaginable shock and fear, Diluc took two steps back, staring at everything laid out before him, almost speechless with horror.

"All the knights of the Knights Order responsible for defending the city have been wiped out...!?"

He came to this conclusion, seemingly after his own existence had been exposed.

On the other side of the bridge, surrounded by countless figures in twisted, armored forms, stood a terrifyingly large monster with an unimaginably enormous body and a distorted posture, exuding a power so great it almost froze Diluc's very bones.

At this moment, it also revealed its enormous, basin-sized eyes, as big as a full moon, allowing Diluc to see just the tip of the iceberg of the terrifying monster's horrifying appearance.

He stared in horror at the monster that was displaying its form before him.

Chapter 131 The Most Difficult Dragon to Deal With (4k)

"Boom—!"

When the thunder that suddenly resounded through the rainy night illuminated the darkness, he was finally able to glimpse the terrifying beast that could only be seen through its burning golden pupils, revealing only a small part of its form in the deep darkness of the rainy night.

The cold light of thunder struck the ferocious and brutal beast for only a moment, allowing people to glimpse a corner of the hideous, purplish-black creature's grotesque appearance, as if it were a deformed monster forcibly pieced together by someone.

As if deliberately created by someone, the deformed monster had many test tubes and metal instruments inserted into its body, and veins like scars on flesh and blood were spread all over its body.

With its cold gaze and reptilian posture, it possesses the twisted features of a dragon.

When Diluc witnessed the terrifying behemoth with its ferocious appearance, he felt as if he were being stared at by a mind so close at hand. The oppressive feeling it exerted on his life made it impossible for Diluc to even glance at it.

He felt as if his breathing was becoming difficult, and even the blood flow throughout his body was slowing down.

That was the most terrifying dragon, a beast that he could absolutely not defeat.

Just as his thoughts were sinking to the bottom, he suddenly heard an unusual sound of footsteps. The crisp sound of footsteps was still very noticeable even under the cover of the rainy night and the pale lightning and thunder in the sky.

The sound of those footsteps was impossible to ignore. Rather than saying that the thunder drowned out the sound, it was as if the thunder, resounding in the darkness, was cheering for and highlighting the arrival of the person making those footsteps.

And everything that was happening now confirmed his suspicions, as the footsteps of that voice approached.

Those figures clad in the knights' armor, looking like the dead, seemed to part their path, as if welcoming some being.

Even the terrifying and evil dragon with its twisted posture couldn't help but show fear in its eyes at this moment, and respectfully lowered its head in a certain direction.

Everything that happened before his eyes confirmed Diluc's thoughts when he looked in that direction.

They had indeed seen the figure of a man with ruby-red eyes, wearing a black and white yin-yang mask and a white suit.

Just looking at that man's figure, one could not ignore him; the intense aura emanating from within was so overwhelming that it was impossible to resist his powerful presence.

What truly astonished Diluc was that the man who emerged from the darkness was walking in the pouring rain, yet his body remained completely dry, not even a single strand of hair or a piece of clothing.

He was astonished to find the figure emerging from the darkness. It was as if an invisible force surrounded him, causing the rain to consciously avoid him as it fell on him.

Although there was no direct indication of it, the moment the man's figure appeared in front of Diluc, he understood that the man before him was an ordinary person who seemed unremarkable.

He was the instigator and mastermind behind all of this happening right before his eyes.