Xun Qing drew his long sword and swung it lightly. A fierce sword wind shot out from his blade, blowing away all the surrounding mist.
But soon, the mist gathered back as if nothing had happened.
Xun Qing cursed under his breath, "Damn it, this mist is definitely fishy. Just as one problem is resolved, another pops up. Can't I have a moment of peace... I never want to come to Nim City again."
Previously, the never-dispersing fog in Nim City, though infused with a strong sense of fantasy, was still somewhat livable.
But if this mist continued to thicken endlessly, the city might become uninhabitable, a desolate ghost town, a paradise for monsters.
And who could guarantee that this newly emerged bizarre change was only the incessantly thickening mist?
Who knew what else might be hidden within this mist, like... monsters!
Fortunately, Nim City was now home to elite demon hunters from ten major districts. Even if something happened, the situation could probably be barely controlled.
The urgent matter at hand was to quickly find the cause of the thickening mist. Several True Order members jointly issued orders to all demon hunters in Nim City, and the entire city sprung into action.
To Wen Wen's surprise, less than half an hour after the orders were issued, local demon hunters found a clue. Wen Wen, along with Xun Qing and others, followed them to the location where the clue was found, which was the residence Stein had visited before.
The neighbor of this unfortunate person came to borrow something from their house. Stein had not locked the door when he left, so when the neighbor knocked, the door automatically opened. The neighbor then saw the corpse inside, screamed a few times, and immediately called the police.
Upon receiving the news from the officers, local demon hunters immediately rushed to the scene, discovering the iron gate carved with a giant eye, and the twisted skeletal remains within...
By the time Wen Wen and his group arrived, the iron gate buried underground had been dug out by a superpowered individual. The entire structure appeared as a massive metal cuboid, five meters high and three meters wide and deep.
The front featured a metal door carved with an eye, while the back was inscribed with extensive, unintelligible runes.
Upon seeing the runes, Wen Wen was slightly taken aback.
The script on it was not the ancient script of the Golden Eagle District, but Yuta script!
Wen Wen had briefly studied Yuta script to learn the Book of Lightning, so he could understand it to some extent.
The inscription stated that a terrifying item called the "Mist Casket" was sealed within this box, and it was this Mist Casket that had turned Nim City into the City of Mist.
People had paid a great price to seal the Mist Casket, with tens of thousands sacrificing their lives because of it. However, many heroic figures emerged during the sealing of the Mist Casket, with people united in purpose...
Just as Wen Wen was about to yawn, the inscription finally began to explain what the Mist Casket was.
The Mist Casket could not be destroyed. The area of a city where it resided would be sealed by eternal mist.
The concentration of the eternal mist would continuously deepen until visibility reached three meters, at which point it would stop. After stopping, terrifying creatures from other dimensions would appear in the mist...
The first person to touch the Mist Casket would become its "master." The Mist Casket could not be separated from its master by more than three meters. If the distance exceeded three meters, it would reappear beside the "master" through incomprehensible means. Sultan Novel Network.
The method of sealing the Mist Casket was to enclose both the Mist Casket and its master within an airtight space no larger than two and a half meters in any dimension. However, even after the Mist Casket was sealed, a large area where it was located would still be shrouded in a thin mist.
It seemed the withered bones inside the iron gate were the previous master of the Mist Casket, and the current "master" was the person who opened this iron gate.
Besides Wen Wen, among the demon hunters gathered around, there were others who understood Yuta script. One was a "Sorcerer," for whom Yuta script was a basic skill in learning forbidden knowledge.
After the Sorcerer finished translating, he relayed the content to the surrounding demon hunters.
Upon hearing this, George Joael's face turned ashen. The legend of the Mist Casket was indeed quite famous in the Hunter Association of the Golden Eagle District.
More than three hundred years ago, the Mist Casket appeared and transformed Nim City into its current state.
However, at that time, all information regarding the Mist Casket was stored within a small, clandestine organization in Nim City.
But later, when the Hunter Association expanded, that small, clandestine organization was purged by the Hunter Association, and all related data disappeared.
The information the Hunter Association currently possessed about the Mist Casket was merely that it had caused a disaster and was later sealed.
No one knew where the Mist Casket was, nor its specific abilities and classification, so the association gave up searching after a brief inquiry. For a contained item that had already been sealed, its unknown existence was the safest.
But unexpectedly, the Mist Casket, which had disappeared for three hundred years, reappeared today.
According to the information on this massive iron gate, once the mist concentration reached a certain level, unknown terrifying monsters would appear in the mist, putting the lives of over ten million people in Nim City in danger.
And judging by the current speed of the mist's spread, that time was likely not far off.
And such a massive city could not possibly complete its population migration in such a short period.
While the True Order powerhouses were deliberating, Wen Wen had already walked into the residence on his own.
He was a detective, after all, and needed to utilize his expertise.
The person who took the Mist Casket had not deliberately hidden their tracks, which was far too obvious to Wen Wen.
Footprints, fingerprints, and even the scent left in the air, Wen Wen examined them all and then his face showed a peculiar expression.
"This... is that guy trying to attract more trouble, or does he think that hiding in the thick fog means Time Hounds won't find him?"
Wen Wen recognized the person who took the Mist Casket as Stein but couldn't fathom Stein's reason for taking it.
According to the description on the iron gate, although the first person to touch the Mist Casket was nominally its "master," in reality, they could not control anything about the Mist Casket.
Upon taking the Mist Casket, one was essentially saddled with a large-scale negative effect that could influence the entire city, an effect that could only be escaped by death...
Xun Qing rolled his eyes and said, "Just when one problem is resolved, another pops up... I never want to come to Nim City again."
The mist grew thicker and thicker. As everyone searched for the source of the fog, Wen Wen felt that the mist around him seemed to be becoming slightly denser.
Monsters appeared in the mist and attacked Wen Wen. Wen Wen killed the monsters, and the monsters reverted back into monsters.
Then Wen