Poverty makes me capable of anything.

He sensed something unusual.

It was one of the strange beasts he had just chased away.

How could it have come out again?

Were all those arrangements fake?

Aoki put down his work and rushed over.

When he arrived, he saw Olivia enveloped in countless sword lights.

If you hesitate, you will lose.

Anran felt that Aoki hesitated at that time.

Now, Olivia, caught off guard, has also revealed a flaw.

[Hurricane] is just a one-handed sword.

Anran has two hands.

She shoved something the size of a date directly into Olivia's mouth.

"Yes……"

boom!

An Ran punched Olivia in the face.

They forced him to swallow it.

However, this left him vulnerable and he was hit hard twice in the chest.

Fortunately, Anran's chest armor was thick and very sturdy; she only coughed up blood twice and broke a bone.

Such an injury is nothing to her.

"What did you feed me?" Olivia's expression changed drastically.

"Miniature psionic array".

An Ran used the "Scattering Flowers" technique, and a circle of vibrators immediately fell to the ground.

At this moment, the roaring beast pounced.

Standing tens of meters tall, its body crackled with lightning, and its speed was even faster than An Ran's.

If we hadn't already planned what to do, once Olivia summoned this thing, without mechs and heavy weapons, we wouldn't have stood a chance.

Olivia looked horrified.

Did he consume a psionic array?

"And it's an unstable array."

As soon as An Ran finished speaking, Olivia exploded under the influence of the oscillator.

No matter how hard he tried to utilize his domain, the newly formed domain was not very effective.

It only lasted a few seconds before being blown to pieces.

Even with Olivia's offsetting effect, it still enveloped an area several kilometers around it.

This is the purest outpouring of energy.

It all rushed into Olivia's body.

The strange beast and An Ran were pushed several miles away. At this point, even without monitoring equipment, the commotion could not be kept secret.

"You can leave now."

An Ran glanced at the giant beast that was more than 4 meters away from her.

I don't have time to continue playing it.

Just as she was about to slip away, she happened to see Aoki not far away, whose face was full of terror.

Not right.

An Ran quickly raised her head.

Her pupils were locked as she watched helplessly as a claw, seemingly hundreds of meters wide, emerged from the torn space and pressed down on her body.

"..."

Boom!

The earth trembled and collapsed, and the whole world shook.

A moment later, the giant claw lifted up, revealing bloodstains on its claw, but no crushed body.

"Something really bad has happened!"

Aoki didn't care about anything else and ran all the way with a serious expression, soon arriving at the entrance of the new mansion.

Chapter 23 Shelter

The area in front of the new mansion is very peaceful.

There were no lights, and no sound.

Aoki didn't know if there was anyone inside, but it was the only place he could think of.

As you approach the gate, the gate in front of the mansion opens directly.

Aoki was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and walked straight towards the entrance of the mansion.

An Ran was already standing in the shadows.

He was accompanied by that little girl he couldn't quite figure out.

The two of them also looked like they were in a hurry to leave.

"Is there something you need?" An Ran asked.

She was actually planning to run away.

They did something big, but the worst part is that they've been targeted.

If not now, when?

No one showed up when Aoki was blocking Olivia earlier.

It cannot be repaired.

"Don't talk about anything else now, come with me." Aoki reached out to grab Anran.

She calmly and subtly avoided Aoki's hand.

"you……"

“I saw what happened just now. Don’t ask any questions. Just come with me now. If you leave like this, you’ll be arrested soon.” Aoki was very anxious.

"..."

"I won't hurt you."

An Ran stared at Aoki with suspicion.

Tonight's events are eerily strange.

Why did Aoki take the initiative to persuade Olivia to return? Why did no one come out when they were fighting?

Why did he say he wanted to save her?

Does this resemble an unstable partnership formed through coercion?

Despite not understanding it, An Ran still took Ella and followed behind Aoki.

They abandoned the new mansion and quickly disappeared into the wilderness.

It was about ten minutes later, in the drizzling rain.

A line of people appeared at the spot where Aoki and Olivia first fought.

An elderly man with gray hair, standing at the very front, took two steps forward, bent his left leg and squatted down, grabbing a handful of soft soil.

"There are traces of battle here."

"And then there's the place where Olivia died."

That's where they came from.

After word got out, the area was quickly sealed off.

The contracted beasts, having lost their contracts, were banished back into the starry sky.

Others are trying to reconstruct Anran's appearance.

"You guys go to the area with spatial fluctuations first, I'll take a look around here."

The old man said he found that the aftermath of the battle here was completely different from that of another place.

In other words, the same person made the move?

The others nodded, and their figures quickly disappeared.

A moment later they arrived near the new mansion.

The end of the spatial fluctuations is here, and there are two very conspicuous buildings nearby.

"Investigate them all. Whoever resists, kill them on the spot."

The remaining people didn't hesitate and simply broke down the door of the house.

Chaos began to spread from the city's outskirts to the wilderness.

Olivia's elimination is a very serious matter.

Even if he wasn't a descendant of a high-ranking noble in the empire, such a fierce battle taking place on the outskirts of the Aistar city cluster was enough to warrant serious attention from all security departments.

This can already be equated to the level of a terrorist attack.

Countless vehicles traveled back and forth in the rainy night, and air traffic control outside the three-dimensional space was raised to the highest level.

The exasperated law enforcement team even sought help from the Royal Knights.