Chapter 106 Chaos

The tragic scene on the street made everyone more vigilant, and they continued to explore deeper into the "Golden Estate." As they approached the family hall, the situation they encountered grew increasingly worse.

They saw more bodies of the Tana people and more severely damaged buildings. The central area of ​​the Golden Estate was like a battlefield, with collapsed or melted building debris everywhere. The roads, riddled with holes by explosives, were almost stained brownish-yellow with the blood of the Tana. The dead were everywhere, and almost every place was filled with the stench of death and decay. Even Vivian, who had seen a lot of life and death, frowned frequently when faced with this scene: because this was not a battlefield, but a haven for a group of recluses. Even in the mythical era when异类 (Yi Lei, supernatural beings) cruelly treated humans, these Tana people had not committed any significant evil deeds, so their misfortune was even more regrettable.

The group gradually arrived at the heart of the Golden Estate, where some large-scale golden buildings began to appear. These buildings were less damaged, and most of them were surrounded by lightning and strange sounds. Above the buildings, one could see strange phenomena like the aurora. These facilities seemed to be factories of some kind. Because there were fewer stationed personnel, they had not suffered much damage from the melee, which once again proved one of Hao Ren's speculations:

The melee was entirely targeted at personnel, not to destroy the city itself.

Upon arriving here, the number of corpses on the ground still did not decrease at all, and even showed a trend of increasing. While wrinkling her nose, Lily walked forward in this intensely odorous killing field. She used the Fire of Very Happy in her hand to dispel the surrounding cold air, while muttering to herself, "Looks like they're all Tana... people from the Anka Tro family, there are no traces of demon hunters."

"Yeah, the melee in this area was all internal to the Anka Tro family," Izaqx nodded slightly. "What I'm wondering is why everyone is concentrated in the inner city. When we came in from the outer city before, it was deserted."

"I'm afraid it's all the fault of that shadow," Hao Ren thought of the various attributes of the Chaos Shadow. "That thing can affect people's minds, and the most efficient way to make people kill each other is to gather everyone together."

"But we haven't seen the shadow since we came in, have we?" Elizabeth scratched her little horns, then tossed a ball of dark shadow, bigger than her head, up and down with her hands. "I've been nervous the whole way!"

Wayne turned green when he saw such a little girl suddenly summoning a shadow ball of this size. "Don't play with such dangerous things!"

"Stop fooling around," Hao Ren glared at Elizabeth, "I'm counting on you and your dad to be the main force later."

Hao Ren and his party were not unprepared when exploring this Golden Estate. Since they had already fought against the Chaos Shadow and exchanged information at the Athens Shelter, they had all come prepared. It was currently certain that the Chaos Shadow would be bound by things with divinity, would be banished and destroyed by high-level shadow magic, would be blocked by high-performance mirrors, and would be weakened by strong light. With these four weaknesses in mind, Hao Ren and his party had a little confidence. However, it seemed that only shadow magic was the most reliable of all the methods—Hao Ren's Jade Nectar Box combined with the Purple-Gold Gourd Box was a uniquely bound divine artifact, and he had not revealed it to Wayne. Light could only weaken the shadow but not destroy it, and the mirror reflection law created by Izaqx was not very practical, so if the Chaos Shadow appeared, dealing with it would mainly depend on the power of the shadow casters.

Izaqx and his daughter, Vivian, and Wayne all understood shadow magic, and they would be the main force against the Chaos Shadow. Hao Ren and Hesperides each possessed shields and sunlight spells, belonging to the invincible MT (main tank) type. Although Lily did not have any skills to restrain the shadow, she was carefree, so she naturally had +1 resistance to all mind control effects. The arrangement of this team was just right. In fact, Hao Ren felt that it would be even better if he could bring Nangong Wuyue. That incompetent healer had even higher resistance to mind control. Based on her experience when she was controlled by the brain monster, that girl could simply use mind control as a buff—but unfortunately, she was not brought this time…

Izaqx frowned, vigilantly looking at the movements around him. His gaze lingered on every corner where shadows might be produced, but he did not find any trace of the Chaos Shadow. He summoned several shadow balls floating around him so that as soon as the Chaos Shadow appeared, he could immediately banish that thing to the world of pure shadows. Beside him, Little Elizabeth still went her own way after hearing Hao Ren's warning. The little girl summoned a shadow ball the size of a washbasin and tossed it around in her hands, throwing it around like she was playing with a rubber ball. This simple and crude casting method in the devil style made Wayne and Hesperides break out in cold sweat, and the two were ready to run as soon as the little girl took a wrong step...

At this time, Lily thought of Izaqx using a reflective magic mirror to eliminate the Chaos Shadow, and she asked curiously, "Speaking of which, Lao Wang, how did you discover that mirrors can reflect the Chaos Shadow?"

Izaqx's expression was a little strange, and he directly avoided the topic: "Careful observation is enough, it's nothing..."

But Lily was very interested in this question: "It's not like a big man like you would carry a mirror with you."

At this time, Elizabeth suddenly jumped out: "The shadow hit my dad's forehead first! And bounced back!"

Everyone was suddenly shocked, and Lily even blurted out in her dialect: "Aowu?!"

Izaqx looked into the distance with a straight face: "Ahem, strength is not superior or inferior, as long as it's useful... Can you guys stop looking at me?"

Lily almost regarded Izaqx as a god: "So you went bald to increase your combat power?"

At this time, Wayne, who was walking in front, suddenly spoke, interrupting Lily's carefree train of thought: "There are traces of demon hunters here!"

When Hao Ren heard this, he immediately ran over. He saw Wayne squatting next to a dead Tana, and bending over to pull out a silver-white dagger stained with blood from the latter's body: "...A Holy Silver Dagger, with three layers of莱塔 (Lai Ta) runes, it's equipment for veteran demon hunters."

"This one was killed by a demon hunter," Vivian examined the corpse and confirmed that the Holy Silver Dagger was the only fatal wound. "A single blow to the death, the dagger cut the artery, and the magic power shattered all the internal organs in the body at the same time. A clean and neat hunter technique. This kind of dagger is a mid-to-short-range throwing weapon. According to the direction the corpse fell, the dagger should have come from..."

As Vivian spoke, she raised her head and looked into the distance: "It was thrown from that direction."

There was no figure of a demon hunter in the place within Vivian's sight, but there was a patch of dazzling red blood. In the turbid, dark yellow blood of the Tana, this red blood was particularly conspicuous. Lily followed the bloodstains and finally found the first dead demon hunter not far away.

A young man in a black trench coat fell behind a golden pillar. His neck was almost completely burned by some kind of high-heat weapon, and one leg and one arm had also turned into charcoal. Not far in front of him was a Tana lying face up on the ground. The Tana was holding a strange weapon that looked like a crystal staff, but he was not killed by the demon hunter: he was killed by his own people with the same high-heat weapon.

This scene alone was enough to guess the extent of the chaos that had occurred here a month ago. Even Izaqx couldn't help but mutter to himself in a low voice: "It's simply a complete mess."

Wayne wrapped the Holy Silver Dagger in a piece of cloth and put it in his arms with a look of disgust, then stood up and pointed to a domed building not far away: "That's the family hall. The Anka Tro family holds important meetings or receives guests there."

Hao Ren and Lily came to the domed building. He nodded to the latter, so Lily reached out and pushed hard on the seemingly heavy door.

With a loud bang, the heavy door, which looked like it weighed tons, fell inward directly, and the rumble of the metal door falling on the ground was almost deafening. Lily waved her hands to disperse the rising dust: "Cough cough... the door is broken... it must have been blown up by someone..."

Wayne watched this scene dumbfounded from behind, and couldn't help but murmur to himself: "No, this door opens outward..."