Chapter 156: A night of chaos (2/2)

“What about Ayrin and Charlotte?” Ferguillo asked, looking at the musclemen.

“Aren’t they here yet?” Standing among the musclemen, Wilde glanced across this venue in astonishment. “They clearly left earlier than us.”

“Rumble!”

A tremendous rumble rose in the sky far away just then, like the strike of thunder.

The athlete village’s ground also seemed to sway and tremble.

“What happened?”

“What’s going on?”

Wilde and the others were suddenly scared. When they subconsciously turned around, they saw Audrey, Joyce, Ferguillo, and Ivan already all rushing outside the building.

There was a strange mottled light in the sky to the west.

“What a formidable undulation of arcane energy!”

“We can feel such a powerful vibration even from so far away. What happened?”

Audrey and the others were immediately certain there were arcane masters fighting at that place, ones that had already opened four arcane gates at least and who possessed genuine taboo skills to boot. It wasn’t only one of them either, far from it.

“It’s an arcane team at the level of the Office of Special Affairs at the very least,” Ivan said in a grave voice. “Something huge definitely happened.”

“Boom!”

Just then, an even louder rumble suddenly came from the sky in the south.

“Rustle… Rustle… Rustle…”

Wild gusts of wind blew past them not long after the burst of this tremendous rumble. On top of that, rustling sounds came from the woods, from the ground in the athlete village, together with tiny gravels sprinkling down to the ground.

“What on earth happened?”

Exclamation rose from everywhere in the athlete village. The whole village was clearly in chaos.

“Due to particular circumstances, the athlete village is temporarily closed off. Before the incident is resolved, no one is allowed to leave the athlete village.”

Shouts and warnings suddenly came to their ears.

Outside the athlete village, some figures so fast one couldn’t even clearly see them quickly stood guard at the exits.

“This is the time of the year with the highest concentration of powerful masters in Eichemalar. How could a fight of this level break out, how could an incident like that happen?”

“Could it be the Evil Dragon followers?” Ivan and the others suddenly shouted these words at the same time amidst the strange disturbance, starting tightly at the faraway sky.

“What about Ayrin and Charlotte? Last time you saw them, which way did they go?” Ferguillo immediately said.

…

“What the hell happened?”

“Utter chaos and a fearsome raid, even the athlete village is temporarily closed off?”

At the same time, Ayrin and Charlotte were on a small remote path inside the village. Both of them looked utterly stunned.

A deathly still building stood near them inside the darkness: the athlete village’s Exhibition Hall. Inside were palm imprints and pictures of every champion team in the past several dozen years, as well as the tournament uniform of the champion teams throughout various eras.

“What are you guys doing here?”

They heard a stern and strict voice. Like a ghost, a black shadow appeared not far away from Ayrin and Charlotte. “There’s a special emergency. Everyone outside has to state their identity, then return to their respective teams as quickly as possible.”

“Its a member of a patrol team in the athlete village.” Ayrin immediately recognized this middle-aged arcane master with a goatee wearing a pure-black arcane robe, as well as the sword and shield symbol representing the village defenders. So he immediately let out a sigh of relief, and quickly said something to Charlotte, then looked at this arcane master and said, “I’m Holy Dawn Academy’s Ayrin, she’s Divine Shield Academy’s Charlotte.

“The reason we’re here is that we’re on the trails of a suspicious person.”

After stating his identity, Ayrin suddenly lowered his voice and pointed at the Exhibition Hall near them. “The suspicious person went inside there, I think they went down into the sewers underneath.”

“A suspicious person?” A cold light suddenly flashed in the middle-aged man’s eyes.

“It’s a substitute member of team Hawkmoon.” Ayrin nodded. “I already thought him suspicious before. Today we happened to see him rushing on his way, looking like he was sneaking around and covering his tracks, so we followed him here. I wonder what he’s trying to do now that he went alone in the sewers under the Exhibition Hall.”

“Is that so?”

This middle-aged arcane master’s eyes suddenly glinted red.

“What!”

Ayrin and Charlotte suddenly feel a lethal danger, one that they had no time to react to. Two red lights shaped like willow leaves quietly fell on their chests.