You will surrender to me.

"I don't want to walk meow~ Take me with you meow~"

Yu Jin grabbed the dragon horn on Zhiren's head and spoke coquettishly in her mature sister's voice.

"Okay, okay, don't use that tone. It makes me uncomfortable."

Naoto said helplessly as he gently stroked Yukin's soft back hair.

Chapter 20 Reversed Order

“The environment here is really nice.”

Naoto walked up the stairs one step at a time, looking at the flowers and plants, as well as the tall trees around him. He suddenly felt as if he had returned to his hometown.

In the previous world, Naoto's hometown was on a remote mountain. Every year during the Qingming Festival, they had to go out to climb the mountain to worship their ancestors, but there were no pre-made stone steps.

"I think so too, and the air is very fresh, which is really suitable for a good nap."

Yukin agreed lazily as he laid on Naoto's head.

"Well, Miss Hyakki-ya seems to have gone quite far, so we'd better hurry up."

Yukino looked up and saw that the figure of Hikaru of Hyakkiya had gradually become blurred, and it was obvious that he had gone quite far up.

"Gone far? Did Guang walk that fast?"

Naoto also raised his head and looked upwards. The figure of Hyakkiya Hikari had indeed become very small. The distance between them was not short at all. It seemed that after walking for such a long time, Hyakkiya Hikari did not slow down at all.

"Something seems a little strange, meow~ Xiaoguang wouldn't walk so fast alone, maybe she saw something and ran up there, meow~"

Yu Jin looked at the blurry figure and felt something was not right, but he was not too worried. Hyakkiwuya Guang has the blood of the Hyakkiwuya family and his own abilities are not bad. It is basically impossible for anyone to endanger Hyakkiwuya Guang's life.

"Is there some kind of confusing magic array on this mountain?"

Seeing that Yukin wasn't too worried, Naoto didn't rush to catch up. Yukin had spent much more time with Hyakkiya Hikaru than he did. If Yukin wasn't worried, it meant he must have some hidden card, so there was no need for him to worry too much.

"Magic circle? I don't think so. I've never heard of such a thing when I was with Feng before. The most Feng did was to set up some protective spells around the shrine."

Yukino thought about it and shook her head in denial.

"No? That's strange. By the way, Yujin, what did you say you were here for? Is it possible that it is related to your affairs?"

Naoto thought about it and decided that since it wasn't a problem with Kiryuin Kaede, it was most likely a problem with Yukin and the others.

"Someone was killed and his life force was sucked dry. The police found out a few days ago. After they realized something was wrong, they asked us to investigate. We accepted the commission and came to investigate. The body was found on this mountain, so we came here to investigate."

Yujin explained.

"Killed him and absorbed his life force? Gui Long Yuan?"

Naoto looked at Yukino with a question mark on his face.

The lady of the Guilongyuan family is on the top of the mountain. I think I am the only one who can cause trouble in her territory.

"Feng is only in charge of the area on the top of the mountain. The area below is managed part-time by government officials. Otherwise, the police wouldn't have asked Miss Hyakkiya and Miss Yukin to investigate."

Yukino felt Naoto's gaze and shook her head as she explained.

"And after investigation, it was found that the cause of death was mental death, which means that the murderer had a powerful mental spell or talent. But I don't understand, if someone is born with such a powerful ability, wouldn't it be better for him to go to the Elf Academy?

The Elf Academy is willing to accept capable people, and the resources of the Elf Academy are also very good. After all, it was founded by the elves and various fantasy species, so there is definitely no shortage of resources. What is the purpose of killing people to absorb vitality? I don’t know. "

Yu Jin was also very confused by the murderer's behavior, because there were very few cultivation methods that utilized life force. As sub-humans, they all refined their bloodlines and cultivated and developed various spells based on their own bloodlines.

Unless this person needs vitality to complete something or magic, the fact that his life is coming to an end is not taken into consideration at all. After all, in the worldview of sub-humans, people basically don't worry about life span. Fantasy species themselves have a life span of at least four digits, and generally several hundred years.

Moreover, unlike ordinary humans, demi-humans have long lives and basically lead a slow-paced life. Most of them have no major regrets in their lives, so there is no need for them to do such things. However, those who can do such things are unlikely to be ordinary demi-humans.

"Is that so? Huh? Guang is gone. How about we speed up? Otherwise, we won't be able to help if Guang gets into any trouble."

Naoto glanced up and found that the figure of Hyakkiya Hikaru had disappeared, and raised his eyebrows.

"Well, I've got a hold of it, let's go."

Yukin grabbed Naoto's dragon horn with her claws, and acted as if she was getting ready to go on a whitewater rafting ride, which made Naoto full of questions.

"It feels like you're not worried about the light at all."

Naoto was speechless for a moment. That’s your child, aren’t you worried at all?

"Don't worry. Xiaoguang's strength is not as weak as you think... Look, there is a pavilion up there. Xiaoguang might be waiting for us there. I guess she ran so fast just now because she saw the pavilion."

As Yu Jin spoke, he suddenly stretched out his cat paw and pointed upwards.

"I see. Let's hurry up."

Naoto responded, and as he spoke, his pace quickened significantly.

Soon, the two people and the cat arrived at the pavilion, but to their surprise, there was no one in the pavilion.

"So the light keeps climbing up? I thought I could sit for a while, but it looks like I have to keep climbing again."

Naoto sighed, but he didn't mind. He had Yukino and Tamaki to accompany him, so he wasn't bored at all. Besides, this amount of exercise couldn't keep up with his body's recovery speed, so he didn't feel tired at all.

"Ah, Naoto, Tamaki and Yukino-san, are you walking so fast? I remembered you were behind me, but I didn't expect you to be at the pavilion already. I didn't even see you. Did you fly up here?"

Just as Naoto and the others were preparing to set off again, a familiar voice suddenly came from below.

"Guang? Why are you at the back? I remembered you were walking in front?"

Naoto looked at Hyakkiya Hikari who was running up from below with a look of surprise on his face. He remembered very clearly that Hyakkiya Hikari was walking in front and was definitely not caught up by them halfway, but why did Hyakkiya Hikari come up from below?

"I also remember that I was walking in front, and then I felt a little bored after walking for a while and couldn't see you anymore. I waited for a while but still couldn't see you, so I thought about coming up and waiting, but I didn't expect you to arrive before me."

Hyakkiya Guang's face was also full of confusion and he was very puzzled by this situation.

"It seems that the guy who caused the trouble is still here."

Yu Jin suddenly interrupted their conversation and said.

Chapter 21 The real murderer appears.

"The guy who caused the trouble?"

Naoto narrowed his eyes, then released the restrictions on his senses, and indeed, he sensed rich traces of magic around him.

Although they have become stronger, in order not to affect their normal lives, Naoto usually limits some of his perceptions, otherwise it would be very strange.

Because everyone has magic power, and if the current straight people do not limit their abilities, they will have an extremely wonderful feeling, that is, while you have vision, you can also "see" the situation around you clearly, 360 degrees without blind spots.

In other words, there are two kinds of images appearing in your mind, and Naoto is not used to them at all, so he usually restricts himself. He will only let go completely when practicing to adapt. Now he is only letting go of part of it.

"There's magic power everywhere, and the distribution area of ​​this magic power seems to be too large. Even I can't handle it."

Naoto was very surprised when he saw the magic power all over the sky.

"You have a pretty good sense. You can sense everything."

Yukin glanced at Naoto, then looked up at the sky and praised.

"Can't you see it? All that purple magic."

Naoto looked at the men, somewhat confused.

"The magic power used to cast mental spells requires special abilities to be seen. The magic power we can normally see can actually be regarded as magic that has already appeared, not magic power. Only magic power that has condensed into crystals can be seen by everyone's naked eyes. Otherwise, only magic power that is taking shape and about to cast magic can be clearly seen.

Powerful people can visualize magic by casting only half of some magic. Besides, most people use perception to 'see' magic, rather than actually seeing it. "

Yujin explained

"I see. But with so much magic power, it's hard for me to handle it. The guy who caused the trouble doesn't seem to be weak."

Naoto looked at the purple magic that was almost everywhere, and estimated that if he didn't use the transformation ability of the "sheep", he wouldn't be able to cover the sky, grass, and trees like this.

"This should be a magic barrier created by magic crystals. The mana that guy used may not even be one tenth of his own."

Yu Jin sensed carefully that the magic runes buried deep in the magic power kept flowing, maintaining the stability of the barrier.

"But it's strange. These magic runes don't feel like ordinary magic runes to me. They are a type I have never seen before."

Yujin tilted his head in confusion.

"I don't remember that either. There doesn't seem to be any such magic runes in the ancient books in my house."

Bai Guiwu Guang sat on the stone bench and looked at the few people.

"Is it still a small BOSS?"

Naoto mentioned that he wasn't nervous at all anyway, and he could still speak without triggering a response from the world, which meant that Sadako could still be connected to him, and he could even just bring a cart of bread men to fight at that time.

However, with Naoto's current abilities, he probably doesn't need Sadako and the others to help.

"Oh, fighting a boss sounds like fun."

Guang didn't care about the House of Ghosts at all, instead he was quite leisurely.

"I don't know. We haven't seen one either, but we speculate that it's a monster. The magic power of monsters is different from ours. Monsters were wild animals at first, but later they were able to absorb magic power and transformed into sub-humans. Their magic power is different from ours, but there is almost no difference in how they are used."

Yu Jin shook his head.

"Monsters? Wild animals absorbing magic power?"

Naoto pinched his chin and thought about it. When he obtained the 'Dragon' talisman before, there were also wild animals around that absorbed the escaped 'Dragon's' fire magic. Could it be that the power of the talisman can also give birth to beast girls?

In this case, can I create my own cat girl, dog girl, rabbit-eared girl, fox girl, etc.?

Naoto suddenly felt very excited. Was the ability of the talisman so convenient? However, those animals were very frantic, and they were more like pure demon beasts, beasts with magical powers, rather than monsters that could transform into subhumans.

Wait, now I seem to have collected all the talismans, so where did that monster come from? It seems that absorbing magic power may be just one of the conditions.

"Well, for now, I still have to find a way to break this barrier. It looks like that guy has used a lot of magic crystals. It's hard to break it even if I use all my strength. I'd better find a node in the barrier and break it before I can get out."

Yujin nodded and said.

"Tsk, looking for a node? That's too much trouble. I can just burn this barrier."

Naoto felt that Yukin's method was too troublesome, so he simply said.

"Burn it? I don't think I can open this barrier even if I use all my strength. It's hard to burn it with fire magic. Unless your magic has the power of atomic bombs and nuclear bombs in the human world, it's unwise to use magic to fight the barrier."

Yu Jin looked at Naoto in surprise. She felt that Naoto was not so brainless.

"Ah? Then we have to stay here for a long time. I didn't bring any food."

Hundred Ghost House Guang pouted and was a little depressed.

"There's no need to be so powerful. Although my flames can't reach that power at the moment, they can still break this barrier. Just watch."

Naoto shook his head and didn't care. It was normal for Yukin and the others to have no idea of ​​their dragon flames.

Naoto stretched out his right hand, the power of the 'dragon' flowing through his body, and a pale blue flame slowly formed on his palm. It did not have a terrifying high temperature, but instead looked harmless.

"That's it? It doesn't look very good. Hmm, it does make me feel a little bit dangerous. It's very strange that I can't feel any temperature at all. Is it because it has suppressed the high temperature? But it can make me feel dangerous, so it should be good. But if I want to break this barrier, this is not enough."

Yu Jin looked at the pale blue flame on Naoto's right palm and felt a little bit of danger, but not much, so he shook his head.

"not enough?"

Naoto smiled, and then did something very cruel—he threw the pale blue flame directly into the woods next to him.

"Oh my god, it's going to be hard for us to deal with you like this! You're setting the mountain on fire!"

Yu Jin jumped up in shock and wanted to use magic to condense a large amount of water to put out the fire.

"Don't worry, my fire can't set the mountain on fire."

Naoto pressed down Yukin to stop her from casting magic. Dragon flame can burn magic power, and he didn't want Yukin to be stuck by that flame. Although it was his flame, it was still quite troublesome to deal with.

Whoops!

The pale blue flame that fell on the grass seemed to have encountered fuel and exploded in an instant.

"Ah!!! You, the flame, are committing a foul!"

A distinctive voice echoed around.