Kamen Rider Evolution.

This is an ordinary cave, but it is used as a place for the sage to command the phantom. There is also a magic barrier on the outside. If there is no one to guide, you can only circle back and forth where the barrier is set up.

"You are awake, sage."

Outside the cave, a beautiful girl wearing a lavender dress and long black hair knelt down respectfully and bowed her head when she saw the black shadow appear inside the cave.

"Medusa, summon all phantoms, I have something to announce." Jiang Xia looked through the veil at the number one subordinate who was the most loyal to the sage.

"Sage, does that include our companions who are making Huanmen despair?" Medusa looked up and asked respectfully.

"I said everything, don't you understand?"

A huge amount of energy gushed out, and the powerful golden impact instantly washed the veil in front of her straight. A huge roar sounded, and the shock wave, with magic power, hit Medusa, who was kneeling on the ground, hard.

"boom!"

The beautiful girl's body surface began to change instantly the moment she was hit. Her entire body became covered with pink and white snake scales. Her originally beautiful face was covered with a snake-like appearance, and there was a huge snake head on the upper side of her head.

Medusa was instantly blown away by the impact, with sparks flying everywhere. Her body was blasted hard onto the rock wall of the mountain cave. A huge pit instantly appeared on the rock wall, and cracks like a spider web gradually penetrated the rock wall.

Rubble and dust and smoke filled the air, and the entire rock wall shook violently. Medusa screamed and fell to the ground, but she did not dare to raise her head. She just maintained a submissive posture, even though she could see the true face of the Sage if she just raised her head. That was why she did not dare.

"Go ahead, don't miss any one." Jiang Xia said lightly, as if the attack just made was an illusion.

"Yes, sage." Medusa was even more respectful and left without looking up.

Chapter 414 Order

Phantom also relies on strength. Strength is the simplest and most brutal way, and it is also the most effective way for Jiang Xia.

Walking through the dim corridor and down the dim steel stairs, the roar of machines running constantly could be heard around, and white smoke kept spewing out of the stainless steel pipes.

These two-meter-diameter pipes are interconnected and filled with water, which is used to cool the machines that are constantly running.

This is a steel factory, and also the place where Phantom communicates and issues orders.

Medusa, wearing a purple-brown veil, walked down the stairs in human form and gently grasped the rough railing. The rusty railing gave her an uneven touch through her skin.

The feeling was just like the one she had felt not long ago when she was blasted against the rock wall, like her soul was being imbued with that euphoric feeling of rising higher and higher, to heaven.

Medusa removed her arm from the rusty railing. The sound of footsteps could be heard in the dim corridor, and several dark shadows appeared in front of the steel factory in different ways.

"Hello, little Medusa, here I come. Is there something that the sage has called us for?" Guremlin put his hand on his hat, looking down at Medusa with a smile.

He clearly wanted to go into the magic circle to meet this wise man who had experienced the battle and report on the recent situation, but he did not expect to come back empty-handed, with only some traces of the battle left. This made him even more interested.

Who can break into the barrier and fight the sage? The answer seems easy to come up with.

But now he has gathered so many phantoms here. What exactly does this wise man want to do? Is it related to the Philosopher's Stone? Thinking of this, Gulemlin's smile widened a little.

The moment Medusa saw Guremlin, a trace of disgust appeared on her originally beautiful face. Her name was not Misa. Inamori Misa was already dead.

"Just obey the orders of the Sage absolutely. It's none of your business to worry about other things." Medusa looked up at Guremlin with an expressionless face and shouted sternly.

"Oh, how sad. You are still so boring." Guremlin shrugged and jumped down from the height without any care.

He doesn't want to obey the orders of the Sage all his life. He has only one goal, which is to obtain the Philosopher's Stone and turn back into the human being named Kong.

Countless wriggling shadows slowly straightened up, and groups of black shadows also emerged from the shadows. Countless pairs of red eyes were constantly scanning everything around them.

They are monsters born from the darkest corners of humanity, and they are most excited when humans are most painful and desperate.

They are clearly human steel factories, but when they appear, they look like devils imprinted on ancient murals on a pilgrimage or holding some kind of sacrificial ceremony involving millions of people at one time.

Phantoms of different appearances all emerged, and the only thing they had in common was their hideous faces that looked like demons.

Not just one, but a group of them, a group of demons that had survived from the mythological era and robbed people of their souls. The original sound of steel forging was completely covered by the sound of the phantom.

They all opened their big mouths full of sharp teeth, whispering to each other, and talking about something.

They inherited everything they once had as humans, and of course inherited part of their personalities. Each one has a past that makes humans despair, but these are the unwilling cries of the dead.

"It looks like everyone is here."

When the phantoms were together, a voice seemed to come from the void. The voice was low, but grand and solemn, like the sound of a bronze bell ringing in this steel square.

Guremlin suddenly looked up at the source of the sound. The figure of the sage phantom was slowly condensing into a solid entity. The purple flame seemed to be burning on his body, and the powerful magic power was like a thin snake that had materialized.

The powerful fluctuations of magic power suddenly made all the restless phantoms hush, like silent statues.

These guys are easy to control. Just crush them with absolute violence.

"My lord the wise one." Medusa surrendered.

Just now, he was still wondering whether this sage was the injured Guremlin, but now he couldn't muster the slightest desire to resist.

There was no doubt that that tremendous magical power was something that none of their phantoms possessed, and he felt that the sages before him had never used their full strength, they were just playing around.

"Well done, Medusa, you deserve a reward." Jiang Xia said, "I will promise you great power."

"Thank you, sage. I will always serve you." Medusa's face was full of respect.

"May I ask why the wise man has summoned us now?" Guremlin also put away his frivolous words and spoke in the lowest voice of his life: "Do you want to truly destroy the magician wearing the ring?"

"Good question, Gulemlin. You are very good, and you will be rewarded later." Jiang Xia said calmly, "But you guessed wrong."

"From today on, no Phantom is allowed to harm any human being without my order."

"Ugh!"

But when this order was issued, the Phantoms all began to question it, thinking that some big move was about to take place.

"Sage, if we cannot harm humans, then how can we spread despair? One of the phantoms stood up and looked at Jiang Xia, opening his ferocious mouth.

"No need to spread the word. This world is hell. We don't need to do anything, our companions will naturally appear. Despair is the norm in this world."

But such rhetoric obviously would not make them willing, and of course Jiang Xia was not prepared to convince them.

"No, humans must be brought to despair by our own hands. This is their fate." A phantom with a red body and bulging shoulders on both sides slowly stood up.

What a joke, eating and hurting humans is their instinct. This order is like asking a tiger to stop hunting and instead let it be kept in captivity by ridiculous humans.

"It seems that you want to disobey my orders, so please come and see me." Jiang Xia said.

This phantom is called Baalzebub. He uses a long sword as his weapon and has the ability to distort space.

Baalzebub condensed a huge sword with one hand. He jumped up suddenly, and the huge sword flashed a dazzling sword light in the dim underground and rushed straight towards Jiang Xia.

"Don't attack the Sage!" Medusa watched the moment when Baalzebub swung his sword towards Jiang Xia. What she was thinking about was not how to give birth to a companion after the Phantom, but she was worried that the Sage would be disappointed in her because Baalzebub was her subordinate.

Just as Medusa was about to take action to stop it, she saw a scene that made the Phantom's hair stand on end.

The sage simply raised his hand slightly, and Baalzebub's body instantly stopped in the air.

Almost materialized magic power gushed out from Baalzebul's body. In just a few seconds, the magic power in Baalzebul's body was completely sucked dry by the sage until he disappeared with a scream.

At the same time, all the phantoms noticed that after Baalzebub, the troublemaker, disappeared, a magic gem emitting dazzling light appeared in the sage's hand.

"Medusa, I will fulfill my promise." Jiang Xia said, "Come and accept this power."

Medusa's body moved involuntarily, and when she reacted, her master, the Sage, had already pressed the magic gem against her chest and gradually merged into it.

She let out an ear-piercing scream, and her human appearance instantly changed into that of the phantom of Medusa.

But this is not the end. The scales on Medusa's head seemed to come alive suddenly, like a snake waking up from its slumber.

At the same time, patterns like a giant snake totem appeared on her body, and she evolved.

Chapter 415 Hunting Game

Countless bright red eyes stared at the evolving Medusa.

According to their common sense, this situation is absolutely impossible to happen to Phantom.

After Medusa endured the pain, there was a look of great surprise in her eyes, and her snake-like hair all came to life.

The golden vertical pupils suddenly opened, and lavender magic power flowed through her body.

The originally jet-black long hair was completely replaced by small snakes, dancing gently in the air, slowly expanding and contracting with elegance and grace.

The pink-gray scales covered Medusa's beautiful female face. After a long time, all the magic power was taken back into her body. She had adapted to this sudden surge of power.

She knelt down in front of Jiang Xia like the most loyal servant. She had been reborn.

Her inner loyalty was fully aroused, and she only obeyed the sage's orders from beginning to end to find those humans with magical powers and make them corrupt, but this was not because she wanted to increase her companions, but because the sage needed a new phantom to hold a witch's banquet.

Therefore, Jiang Xia’s reward and recognition were very important to her, so important that she was willing to sacrifice her life for it.

"Do you still have any objection to harming humans?" Jiang Xia asked.

This time, no Phantom dared to express any different opinions. The original one had already proved its fate, and the fear in their hearts had occupied the hearts of the Phantoms.

For the beast, showing strength can gain everyone's recognition.

"Very good, you obeyed my orders, so you should also get a chance," Jiang Xia said, "a chance to evolve like Medusa."

All the phantoms looked up at the same moment. The fear they originally felt from death and disappearance seemed to disappear in an instant. In this factory that was so quiet that one could clearly hear the white smoke coming out, their fanatical eyes looked like wolves eager for fresh meat.

All the phantoms are waiting for Jiang Xia's orders. It doesn't matter whether they are leading humans to despair or they are magicians wearing rings.

What's important now is how to get the chance to evolve. This is certainly not without cost and requires something to be paid, but they will do it no matter what kind of fighting it involves.

"This is a hunting game. Only the strongest can realize the opportunity to control their own destiny, while the losers will only become sacrifices and be devoured as raw materials for evolution."

Jiang Xia slowly walked down from the height, looked at these "hounds" with red eyes, and said:

"I will choose a phantom from among you. Whoever kills it first will have the chance to evolve, and the loser will be devoured by the winner."

"Originally, I wanted to kill a few disobedient Phantoms to use as prizes for the hunting competition, but unfortunately only Baalzebub jumped out. It's a pity that you are all so obedient, so the Phantoms I choose can only be based on my mood."

After hearing Jiang Xia's words, the phantoms all lowered their heads quickly.

It’s just like when students were asked questions by their teacher in school. Although they were full of rejection in their hearts, no one could resist the teacher’s authority.

Jiang Xia looked around. He now understood the teacher's feelings when he stood on the podium. No matter who was ready to answer the question, he would indeed feel emotional when he saw the silence.

"Of course, as your sage, I am not biased. If the phantom chosen as a sacrifice escapes the hunt within the specified game time, then its reward will be an ultimate magic gem."

Jiang Xia glanced around, then looked at the green figure and said:

"I just promised Guremlin a reward, so Guremlin will be the hunting target this time."

"What!" Gulemlin looked up in horror.

The moment he raised his head, he saw that all the phantoms who had been lowering their heads stood up, and as if they had discussed it beforehand, they surrounded him tacitly.

"Oh, right. The only rule is that you cannot harm humans. After all, humans are an important source of our Phantoms. This rule applies to all Phantoms. You don't want to know the consequences of breaking the rules."

Only then did the phantoms understand that the rule of not harming humans was in preparation for the hunt, and that it was stated in advance just to see if those phantoms disobeyed orders and make them into prizes.

The only thing they learned from that unfortunate guy was that the orders of the wise man were not allowed to be questioned, no matter how outrageous.

When Jiang Xia announced the rules, he waved his hand and something golden like teeth fell from the sky and pierced into the bodies of all the phantoms present until they were completely integrated into them.

"Then let the hunt begin."

"boom!"

The gargoyle spread its wings behind its back and used its claws that could cut through steel to grab at the Gulemlin. In myths and legends, gargoyles acted as wizard slaves, and now it lived up to this role.

Guremlin's body quickly turned into a monster. Its body was green and it was a phantom based on a tree elf. It held two long swords in its hands and collided directly with the gargoyle phantom in the air.

Guremlin's body was instantly blown away by the powerful impact. It was small in size, and its only advantage was its fast speed. Facing the stone-hard gargoyle phantom, it was like a goblin being targeted by a dragon.

However, Guremlin was the Phantom's most skilled escapist. He instantly rolled over on the ground and his body turned into a phantom and fled into the distance.

The gates and glass of the steel factory all shattered at the same time, and the phantoms broke through the shackles with their wishes.

Dozens of flying phantoms suddenly spread their jagged wings, roared like they were hunting, and sped through the air.

Flying in the air, they look like the followers of evil gods in ancient murals.

Those flying in the sky, running on the ground, invisible creatures, and those lurking underground were all aiming in the same direction.

Medusa, who had transformed back into human form, stood up from the ground, stared at Jiang Xia who was admiring everything, and asked: "Sage, I have a question."

She has also learned her lesson and no longer dares to ask questions directly, because the sage does not necessarily have to answer you, so at this time, the attitude of expressing questions is very important.

Although she felt that the Sage's character seemed to have changed slightly, she felt that such a change was not bad, at least the benefits were real.

"Ask, Medusa."

"I want to ask, why did you choose Guremulin as the sacrifice? That shouldn't be a last-minute decision." Medusa asked doubtfully.

"Oh?" Jiang Xia looked at Medusa differently. He did not hide his hostility towards Guremlin, but not everyone could see that.