A new day has begun.

Upon opening his eyes, Shen Yi was greeted by a familiar ceiling, but his memory of his hometown from the past was somewhat blurred.

“How long has it been? It’s been half a year since I crossed over.”

~In another ten or twenty years, I am afraid I will forget more things about my hometown… Do I still have a chance to go back?

He picked up the silver ring on the bedside and examined it.

It was a plain silver ring with a mysterious character of unknown meaning in the center, split in two by deep scratches.

After the last night summoning, the first thing he did was to have a good night’s sleep and only started his research on the mysterious relics after waking up in the morning.

After all, the body was the foundation of everything, and it was important to take good care of it.

“I don’t know what extraordinary effect this offering will have.”

His hand fiddled with the ring, and he played with it by throwing it and catching it again in mid-air.

He gently put this mysterious silver ring on his left index finger and began to conduct various experiments.

He first made some gestures, such as sending waves, merging, chanting spells, and making seals.

It didn’t work.

Then he took off the ring and put it on his shadow, still no effect, it looked just like an ordinary ring.

After pondering for a while, he said to himself: “Maybe my posture is wrong, after all last time also I accidentally guessed how to use a mask.”

~Alas, sadly, my mystic knowledge is extremely amateurish.

Let’s ask the college student to borrow a few more mystic books from the library, except the money was running out to give the student a commission.

Instead, it would be more accurate to say that the coffee shop made very little money during this period.

“The weather is terrible.”

“Can I go and work at a construction site to earn some money in exchange for mystic books?”

But what kind of transcendentalist was this, it was simply a social animal simulator.

A sudden insight came to him as he played with the ring in despair.

“Maybe I can give George a little sidekick and let him take the initiative to say how to use this ring.”

However, this method is to wait until George comes to the cafe, and I don’t know when he will come back.

“As for now, let’s put this ring’s matter aside, let’s see the progress in other ability.”

Shen Yi closed his eyes and felt the cold current spreading through his body.

Fingers, arms, skin, internal organs… little by little, the body began to turn into a white mist.

He could still perceive himself, but he felt different from before. It was like he was exploiting a new, somewhat indeterminate special body, and after the last summoning, the cold current stream grew a lot.

“My body seems to be getting bigger.”

With his thoughts, the foggy “body” gradually began to grow larger and larger to the point of being beyond expectation.

It appears that the “white mist” actually engulfed half the café.

He had a wonderful feeling of his arms being pulled to both sides, and it would be difficult to stretch even a little bit more.

“This is the current limit. I’m not sure how far it will extend.”

Then with thought, he changed back to his original body.

Half of the cafe’s white mist immediately retracted to the size of the original body, the fingers, arms, skin, internal organs …… All parts of the body changed back to human form.

Changing back, he wrote down the new development effect in his notebook.

“Now there’s one last thing.”

Even though it was early in the morning, there were not many pedestrians on the street due to the heavy downpour.

As he grabbed the bag, he put his phone and binoculars in it, ready to go out.

After packing the bag, he took off his usual clothes and changed into old clothes, not afraid of getting wet, putting on a long, black raincoat over his whole body and wrapping himself tightly.

He even wore a black mask that completely concealed his face.

“Okay”

Suddenly remembering something, he put a wooden sign that suspended business on the cafe door.

The red double-decker bus was Beland’s iconic mode of transportation.

Instead of taking the subway, Shen Yi walked 200 meters from the café to the bus stop.

The rain was still pouring down, and he was the only one at the bus stop silently waiting for the bus without anyone else in bad weather.

“It’s raining too much.”

He looked down at the bench behind him, which was filled with water, and he decided that it would be better to stand up.

In front of him was torrential rain. It seemed as the torrential rain that hadn’t stopped for a long time had been getting worse and worse after he left the house.

A red double-decker bus soon arrived getting on the bus he swiped his card and sat in the back seat.

Half an hour later.

He reached the destination where he wanted to, the outermost part of the South Beland area.

This international metropolis was divided into four regions: ‘Beland City’, ‘West Beland’, ‘East Beland’, and ‘South Beland’.

‘Beland City’ was the center of financial capital and trade center, ‘West Beland’ was the seat of Nolan’s royal palace, the prime minister’s residence, the parliament, and government ministries, ‘East Beland’ was for the industrial area and workers’ residential area, and ‘South Beland’ was a mixed industrial, commercial and residential area.

At the edge of each area stood a tall wall, and ordinary people had to submit their applications to the city government if they wanted to leave the city limits.

Shen Yi did not think of leaving the city but thought of the observation deck on top of the edge of the seventh district.

The observation deck was a building that every city had, and it gave those who couldn’t leave the city a chance to see the scenery outside.

The observation deck of Beland was built on the city’s high walls and comprised a glass walkway.

Shen Yi descended the staircase to the glass walkway, which was slick with rainwater, and felt a little slippery under his feet.

If one was not careful enough, they might fall.

“It seems am not the only one thinking about going to the observatory in these awful conditions.”

There was really another person in the observation deck, also wearing a full-body black raincoat, slim and not very tall.

It seems to be …… High school students?

Being curious, he meticulously observed that person, it was a girl, she had black hair just like him, and it was his first time to see someone with black hair in this world.

The black-haired girl also looked at Shen Yi with a puzzled expression and apparently felt he was very strange.

~What a weirdo, even in this heavy downpour he runs to the observation deck on the city wall?

She was so beautiful, slender figure, her long black straight hair could be vaguely seen under the raincoat, her delicate face had a cold beauty that didn’t show much emotion.

Being dazed for a while Shen Yi came back to his senses, nodded gently at her, and stopped looking at each other.

“The Shang Xuan people of this world? It’s the first time I’ve seen them with my own eyes.”

He was still curious and looking forward to the so-called “Shangxuan people”, after all, the culture of that country should be very similar to his hometown.

If there was a chance, he would like to go to Shangxuan for a look.

After pondering for a short while, he returned to his business. Picking up the binocular he scanned the outside city for the target he had in mind.

“It’s here.”

A small villa appeared in his field of vision, right where he expected it to be, at the expected angle.

He wanted to pull out his phone but held back because the rain was too heavy.

On his phone, there was a picture of Byron that was secretly taken last night, and he found clues from it before going to bed. From the window behind the photo, he could vaguely see the corner of the observatory deck in the distance.

It was the first time he had found the exact location where he was summoned.

“What other identity does Byron have besides being a wizard? Every time he calls, he has to use a lot of money.”

The more information you have, the more proactive you become. Shen Yi understood his position very well and knew he was going to be a special liar for a long time.

As a sophisticated swindler, he naturally had to investigate the victim’s personal information and throw out one “secret” after another to shock the other, only in this way he could ensure that the truth would not be revealed.”

In addition, he also knew in his heart that he would have to take the crucial countermeasure.

Byron’s summoning to the extraterrestrial gods was clearly a taboo against law and order… and George’s Anti-Magic bureau was investigating the relevant incident.

“If Byron recognizes my true identity, as long as he fails to kill me on the spot, then if I can’t beat him, I will have to report him.”

Shen Yi continued to observe with binoculars, it seems that there was a figure coming out of the villa.

With great patience, he watched the villa through his binoculars until he noticed a small figure leave from inside.

Is it Byron?

The little figure headed toward the direction of the city, as it reached the city edge, Shen Yi dropped the binoculars in his hand.

He wanted to use supernatural powers, and to prevent a girl, who stood not far away from him from discovering something unusual, he went around to the other side of the observation deck.

Shen Yi closed his eyes, held out a hand, and a white flame erupted from it, unfazed by the rain it immediately flew below the observation deck.

On a rainy day, there was only one person who returned from outside the city, which was clearly his target.

Shen Yi, who was so focused on controlling the white flame, quickly sensed the person – it was the girl who closed her eyes and blocked her ears last night and finally fainted from fright. He didn’t know her name was Yana, but he was sure that she was definitely Byron’s assistant.

Through the flame, he quietly followed her. Yana covered her head all the way, she was a little dazed and didn’t realize that she was being tracked by the strange white flames.

Upon arriving at the bus stop, she waited for the bus to arrive, got on the bus, and gradually got out of the tracking limit.

The white flame had a distance limit, and it was impossible to follow it further.

Shen Yi opened his eyes, and the white flame flew back.

“This bus has a lot of direct stops, but it’s the only one that gets to Imperial College, and she’s about the same age… most likely a college student?”

“He and his assistants can come and go of the city at will, and he has a lot of money. Byron’s other identity is perhaps someone from the college.”

After pondering for a moment, he knew that he couldn’t get more information here, so he walked down from the observation deck and prepared to take the bus back to the cafe.

His mind still wandered to the girl from Shangxuan he had just met.

“That black-haired girl ran to the observation deck on a rainy day. Does she have some ulterior motive like me…”

~Although my suspicions are a little strong, seeing someone at random seems unusual.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about her.

“Anyway, it’s just a person who has no intersection with him.”

——

The other person on the observation deck — the black-haired girl breathed a sigh of relief, she had just been tense all over, afraid of being noticed by the mysterious man.

“The strong, deep aura of the Lord of Ashes, who is he?”

Because the other party was wearing a black mask, she didn’t see his face, but the intense pressure he suddenly released made her almost unsteady on her feet.

Taking a deep breath for a while, the little girl said to herself, “I almost pulled out my knife just now…”

It was as if she had just been cornered by a ferocious beast and almost had to fight to the death.

Just then, a middle-aged disheveled man in a black umbrella came up from the stairs of the observation deck, after looking around, he stretched out his hand and greeted the girl.

“Yo, you’re… … My new partner?”

The girl was stunned for a moment, then immediately looked at him and nodded.

When George saw the other party nod, he frowned slightly and asked in confusion, “A high school student? Your name is Su Ling, right?”

Su Ling’s black gem-like eyes stared at him and shook her head vigorously.

“No, I’m already a college student enrolled in the first year of Beland Imperial Academy.”

As if he hadn’t heard her, George held his umbrella with one hand, took out a cigarette case with the other, and held a cigarette with his mouth.

“It seems that Nolan is going to be finished, the Anti-magic Bureau actually assigned high school students to me as partners.”

George held an umbrella in one hand and a lighter in the other and tried to light a cigarette in his mouth, but he failed.

As usual, Beland has bad weather…well, let’s get out of here early and retire.

He sighed.

He would rather face the god’s dependents straight on than to be reduced to a situation where there was no smoking.

Su Ling’s face sank, and she took a step closer and said, “As I said, I’m a college student.”

“Then how old are you? I have already read your personal information, so don’t lie.”

Su Ling immediately replied, ” I advanced to a university by leaps and bounds.”

George looked at his new partner and narrowed his eyes.

“Isn’t that still high school student age? Forget it, whether you’re a high school student or a college student, it’s the same here, there are some important things I need to tell you first.”

“The city is already at stake.”

Su Ling was a little surprised. Is this how the legendary investigator of the Anti-Magic Bureau is like, she once again emphasized: “I am a college student, and I am also a B-level investigator now, and I have ten years of combat experience before becoming an investigator, so don’t look down on me just because I recently joined the Anti-Magic Bureau.”

George shook his head at once and said helplessly, “Ah, I know! Well, it doesn’t matter… college student, college student, college student!”

He began to channel the conversation into the right track.

“According to the latest reliable information we got from within the Anti-Magic Bureau, a new summoning ceremony will soon be held in the city by a certain sect in a certain club.”

“A group of lunatics wanted to summon a powerful god beyond the world, and that damned sect has chosen a worthy enough sacrifice for the sake of infallibility – Beland.”

The cigarette actually lit up, and George was stunned, smiling happily, “Do you think what will happen to the people in the city when extraterrestrial gods really come?”