"Of course it's true! This morning the Tivi Palace suddenly received multiple emergency internal reports, so I hurried over to notify those angels who were still asleep, to wake them up..."

When Norma saw that it was Cyra and me, she immediately asked anxiously.

"Where's Nicola?"

"She didn't come back last night, and didn't sleep in the city either, no problem!"

Cyra was stunned for a long time before reacting and quickly answered.

"That's good, you two didn't get hit, that's fortunate!"

Norma was relieved when she heard this and then continued to explain the situation.

"It is said that not only in the Tivi Palace, but also multiple reports in the city, and now it is suspected that there is not just one nightmare making trouble."

"But that's not possible! Nightmares belong to dark creatures, how could there be so many lurking in Edenmere?"

Could there be secret holes connecting Edenmere to the outside world? Or did the conservatives secretly bring in a lot of monsters?

When I thought of this, I suddenly remembered that the Fourth Legion had just returned from the outside world yesterday. Could it be related to them?

But at that moment, another accident happened.

I just felt that everything went dark, and the originally bright corridor suddenly became pitch black.

"Don't tell me, blackout?"

Cyra's dumbfounded voice came from beside me. After a pause, she continued:

"Oh right! There's no such thing as electricity in a place like this... But why did it suddenly turn dark?"

"What is this...did I go blind?"

Next was Norma's voice, which trembled. I suddenly felt someone's body lean towards me and grabbed my arm tightly.

"Cyra? Is that you?"

"No, it's me! You got the wrong person..."

I was also shocked for a long time before I came to my senses, and had to speak up to clarify. At the same time, I also shouted like the other person.

"Cyra, where are you?"

"I'm right here, but I can't see you guys either! What happened here, how could we not see anything?"

This time the voice came from behind me. You could tell she was also looking for me.

"These wings, they feel a bit too many...should be yours, right Feliciana?"

Finally, I felt my wings were also touched by a hand. But this rascal pulled out a feather in passing!

"Haha, the texture is still so good, nice!"

"!@¥%%......, Cyra!"

The pain made me want to curse, but in the brief light brought about when the feather turned into dots of light and disappeared, I could vaguely see the other person's cheeky face.

"Be serious, what's with pulling my feathers at a time like this!"

"Who made you pull out so many of my feathers last time? I'm just collecting some interest..."

The unrepentant voice came from the darkness again. It seems that although I apologized and compensated her for this matter, she still held some resentment.

"I just saw Cyra's face, so does that mean I'm not blind? But why is there suddenly no light here at all?"

Norma chimed in to ask anxiously.

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"Could it be the magic lamps broke down?"

I thought about it and guessed. Although there are no electric lights in this world, there are magic lamps.

"What magic lamps? The Tivi Palace has never used such things!"

But when Norma heard this, she was puzzled and retorted immediately. Her words made me fall into confusion at once.

What's going on here? There were no lights in the corridor to begin with, so how was it illuminated before?

Oh, I remember now! Originally, Edenmere was always filled with light, and there were windows everywhere in the corridor, so natural lighting was usually used, and no artificial lights were needed at all!

Gradually, I could now roughly see the situation around me. It's not that it was completely dark, it was mainly because it was so bright before, causing my eyes to not adapt for a while.

Although the corridor we were in was inside the building, and I couldn't see any windows for the moment, I could still discover faint light coming from around the corners at both ends.

"Let's go to windows first!"

Cyra behind me had also adapted to the darkness and took the lead to walk forward. However, a shadowy figure drifted over from the end of the bend ahead.

"Be careful, there's a monster!"

I immediately felt nervous. Although I couldn't see it clearly because it was too dark, the strong dark elemental aura emanating from it constantly warned me that the monster ahead was very powerful.

"Monster?"

Hearing my warning, Cyra reflexively turned her head to ask. As the light around was very dim, it was hard to see the movement of the shadow, so she didn't notice at all that the monster had already rushed to attack her.

"Danger!"

I shook off Norma's hand holding me and threw out a Purification light sphere, then quickly stepped forward to grab Cyra's wings and pulled her back.

"What the! Why does this thing feel so disgusting to me?"

Cyra was caught off guard by me pushing her to Norma's side, and still didn't understand the situation. I saw that the shadow was hit by the Purification light, stopped in place silently twisted a few times, then staggered and flew towards us again.

"Not dead yet?"

I didn't dare hesitate and threw another Purification at it. This time, the opponent finally couldn't withstand the attack and disappeared into thin air.

"Is it dead this time?"

Cyra couldn't help but ask again.

"Probably...I think so!"

I carefully checked the dark elemental aura ahead several times, and found that only a very small amount remained in the air. Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief and explained,

"It's normal for you to react like this the first time you see a monster. Feeling disgusted is precisely because of the dark elements. Generally, only monsters emit this kind of aura."

It looks like this thing wasn't as powerful as I imagined, and was easily eliminated.

"So this is what monsters look like? How unpleasant, like ghosts..."

Cyra frowned at where the shadow disappeared, making sure it wouldn't appear again before carefully walking over to take a look.

"What are you looking at? It's completely gone. And the whole body is wrapped in light elements, It's very obvious in the dark! You're wasting it, thinking it's a nuclear bomb protection?"

I said sarcastically. The place where my feather was plucked still hurt! And this guy is always yelling about going out to the outside world and hunting monsters. Yet this is how she acts when encountering a real monster, it's simply worrying!

"I'm just being precautious!"

Cyra pouted, embarrassed to come back to my side. Now she didn't dare move recklessly anymore, and could only stick close to me with Norma to seek protection.

"That was also my first time seeing a monster. Could it have been the nightmare you mentioned?"

After some time, Norma had also adapted. She could barely see now. What she said reminded me all of a sudden.

Nightmares indeed have no physical form, which is very consistent with the appearance of the monster we just saw.

"You're right, if that was a nightmare, doesn't that mean I missed a chance to hunt one?"

Cyra also reacted, and at this time recalled her "Demon-Hunting" plan again. I was so angry I wanted to just leave her here.

"Don't worry, there's more than one!"

It seems only silly Norma tried to comfort her.

"I already said that now it's suspected many nightmares have appeared at the same time. The Tivi Palace has issued a warning to the angel guards to quickly carry out search and elimination actions..."

But before she could finish speaking, another large swath of shadows rushed out from the corner ahead.

"You gotta be kidding... you jinxed it..."

I felt goosebumps all over. This stretch of shadows wasn't a single nightmare at all, but the product of many nightmares gathered together. Purification alone could no longer be of much use.

"Guys, I think we'd better escape from the other direction..."

Cyra had retreated to the back. The "other direction" she referred to was the direction we had come from.

"Feliciana, you guys hurry and follow me too!"

She shouted and dashed back the way we came, making Norma and I have no choice but to hurry and chase after her.

"Hey, don't run so fast, what if there's dangers that way too!"

I yelled loudly from behind, but this girl felt running with her legs wasn't fast enough in the corridor, and flapped her wings to fly up, making me panic. With such poor visibility in the dark environment, I feared she wouldn't be able to make the turn and crash into the wall.

But when we turned at the bend, it suddenly became much brighter ahead. Because although this section of the corridor was not long, it had a window.

I could see that the scenery outside was grey and gloomy, the sky was covered with thick dark clouds, oppressively dark, looking like it was about to rain heavily.

"How could Edenmere become like this?"

I simply couldn't believe my eyes. The nearby buildings and scenery seemed to have no changes, yet the sky had lost its light, making the whole city feel gloomy and oppressive all of a sudden.

"Hurry and get out of here!"

After glancing at the group of nightmares chasing from behind in such a narrow corridor, I pulled Norma beside me and jumped out the window together.

But who could have expected that Cyra, running ahead, was foolishly focused only on sprinting forward, and missed this great chance to escape the building?