Text 28. Hunting of Ravens

Just as Merlin fell into a deep sleep, in another city far away from Hell's Kitchen, a short girl in a black cloak was walking silently on the night streets.

The surroundings were very quiet, and the dim street lights also stretched the little girl's back on the ground for a long time.

She looked like she was only a teenager, and the wide cloak almost completely covered her body. Under the hood, most of her face was almost buried in the shadows. She wore black gloves with fingerless fingers on her wrist. , on the neck and chest, there are special embellishments of purple gemstones shining with faint light.

It seemed to be a very high quality magic item.

The child's skin was pale as if she was sick, and when she occasionally looked up, her beautiful blue eyes always flickered, and her long black hair was hidden under the hood. hair.

Very supple, just like the first impression of this child.

But there was an indescribable aura lingering around her, a dark, gloomy, and icy aura.

She seemed to be escaping from something, but to be honest, in this world, there were too few forces that could threaten this girl.

Her name is Ruiwen.

There is a nickname called Raven, which is the same as Merlin's nickname, but this girl can easily crush Merlin to death with only one percent of her strength.

Merlin is the "son" of Sangongmo, one of countless cannon fodder.

And Ruiwen is the "daughter" of Sangongmo, the only daughter.

"Little girl, why did you run out alone?"

Ruiwen, who was advancing on the street, quickly caught the attention of a 24-hour convenience store worker.

It appeared to be a young mother. She opened the door and called out to Raven outside the store:

"Son, come in quickly, you can wait here for your parents to pick you up!"

Ruiwen looked back, behind the mother, there was a little girl about her size, secretly looking at her, the girl was hiding behind her mother, holding a little bear doll in her arms.

Cut, a doll, something that only children would like.

Ruiwen complained.

She ignored the kind-hearted man who called her, but quickened her pace and disappeared at the end of the street.

No parents will come to pick her up.

Her mother had died in a world-destroying disaster, and her father was the scariest arch-demon in the hell dimension.

Ruiwen just wandered in the city like this, the night was getting darker, and there were fewer and fewer people on the street until the early hours of the morning.

Ruiwen sensed the fluctuation of magic power in the city, then raised her hand, and her short body quickly jumped into the air, as if stepping on an invisible ladder.

She's searching for tonight's hunt.

If scientists in the world have calculated in detail the pattern of the number of deaths in the world on each day of each year in the past 10 years, it is not difficult for them to find that on November 24 of each year, all the deaths in the world The number of people will reach a peak, and then slowly fall back until the curve representing death returns to the normal level.

Some people may say that this is a coincidence.

But actually, it's no coincidence.

There is only one reason for this strange change in the curve of the death toll, and that is because every year on November 24th is Ruiwen's birthday.

And tonight is the 21st of July.

Raven's birthday

There are 3 more days.

"My daughter, the person you are looking for is right ahead."

Ruiwen was flying quickly over the dark street, and when she crossed a residential area, a voice suddenly echoed in her mind:

"Yes, keep going forward, turn left at the next alley, and one of your 'brothers' is there."

This voice was chattering endlessly, and Rui Wen seemed to be tired of it, she shook her head, trying to get the voice out of her mind, but her footsteps, but involuntarily, turned into the alley ahead, and walked through a fork in the road Afterwards, Raven saw what was happening in the darkness before her eyes.

A man who looks to be in his 40s.

At his feet lay the corpse of a woman, who looked like a prostitute who had just been killed.

And the man in a suit and tie, with the attitude of a successful person, is using something to paint and paint on the wall.

Using the blood of the dead as ink, he seemed to be smearing a strange abstract painting on the wall. The image was a vague, distorted figure, a rune, part of a summoning ceremony.

"Look, this 'brother' of yours has fallen into a hallucination that he cannot extricate himself from. He thought that he could please me in such a stupid way, but what he did didn't make any sense to me."

That deep voice sounded in Ruiwen's mind again. To be honest, just judging from the tone contained in this voice, it seemed to be full of kindness.

"Shut up!"

Rui Wen said in a cold tone:

"You know that this can't shake me at all, you are just doing useless work."

"Ah, my poor daughter, but I didn't mean to hurt you at all, did I?"

There was a chuckle from the voice, and it said:

"I have been helping you. If you want the power of my useless 'sons', I will guide you where they are. Just like this, kill that useless and take away my power seeds."

"But my child, you should know that even if you kill all the sons of Sangong, it will not solve the problem."

"Come back, come back to my world, we father and daughter, maybe we can have a good talk."

"You know, I've always loved you."

"You make me sick!"

Ruiwen gritted her teeth, like a little girl who refused to admit defeat, she clenched her fists and said to the voice in her mind:

"Don't think about it! Sangong, I will never let you out!"

"Hehe, you should call me father, my dear Ruiwen"

The voice in Ruiwen's head ended with a playful sentence pattern, ending this father-daughter communication.

"And, are you really not going to release me? You should know that you, who inherited my purest blood, have a dark side in your soul that is destined to belong to you. Do you think you are fighting against me? No, no, my child , your potential is so amazing, however, you are only playing against yourself."

"My daughter, you are destined to dedicate to me the world you want to protect, that is destined to happen, let us wait and see."

"Hehehe, good night, my daughter, I wish you a happy hunting."

"boom"

A low sound came from the darkness, waking up the son of Sangong who was drawing some kind of sacrifice in the alley in front of him.

The sickly middle-aged man suddenly turned his head, and saw the short Rui Wen walking out of the darkness.

The girl's appearance was not intimidating, just looking at the little face with her chin exposed, she was even a little cute. But the appearance of a child like her in such a remote place at this early morning hour represents something dark in itself.

The son of Sangong instinctively felt threatened.

He looked like a very life-saving, very timid guy who only dared to go out in the dark and do evil.

After noticing the icy aura on Ruiwen's body, he turned around and rushed out quickly, regardless of the half-finished "work of art" at hand. Demonic power wrapped around his fat body, making him look like a rushing wind.

It was a real wind, a sharp wind, where the fat guy ran, the walls on both sides of the alley seemed to be cut by invisible sharp knives.

As the gravel flew, the obese son of Sangong had already run far away in the blink of an eye.

But it doesn't make sense.

Ruiwen stretched out her hand, her slender fingers twirling gently, the darkness shrouded in this alley, those shadows, like soldiers who received orders, expanded rapidly at this moment, like a wide curtain descending from the sky, It's like a hunting net.

Almost instantly, the escaped son of Sangong was shrouded in shadow, like a pebble covered with a layer of cloth.

Raven has no mercy for such a son of Sangong who is lost in the power of demons.

With her fingers held tightly together, the controlled shadows gathered quickly, forming a dark ball in mid-air, and as Rui Wen's fingers closed, the dark ball quickly squeezed and shrunk, shrinking the inside of the ball. Everything is ground into powder.

A moment later, the dark sphere enveloping the son of Sangong fell into Ruiwen's palm.

She flicked it lightly, and the ashes of the sons of Sangong who had been crushed into powder were scattered into the icy air, and in Raven's hand, an orange seed of power was shining brightly.

Like a lamp that illuminates the darkness.

Ruiwen looked at the orange shard in front of her eyes, she sighed in a daze, and then put the shard into the bag on her waist.

The bag was obviously a device similar to a magic pocket, and the moment Ruiwen opened the bag, an orange light radiated from it.

How many pieces of Sangongzi's power are in the bag?

already lost count

Ruiwen only remembered that after she escaped from the world of Sangong, she killed a son of Sangong almost every day, and it was more than a year ago that she escaped from the dimension of Sangong.

Almost 400 sons of Sangong died in her hands, and almost none of them could hurt Ruiwen.

Among these devil's sons, only one person escaped the bad luck of death, that is Merlin. Unlike the other sons of Sangong, Merlin firmly believed that he would not be eroded by the power of demons, and had already escaped from Sangong once.

Poor, weak Merlin didn't know that he was really only one step away from death the night Todd Hill met Raven.

As for the so-called "Blood God" inheritance, it's just Raven's idle game

Although she killed the devil's son without blinking an eye.

Although when she was 10 years old, she blocked the access to the Sangong dimension by herself.

Although she has learned sealing magic from the powerful High Priest of Azaras since she was a child.

Although the complete destruction of Azaras civilization is inseparable from her waywardness.

But she is just an 11-year-old girl after all.

When she is bored, she always wants to have some fun for herself.

"I won't let you succeed!"

Raven turned away, ignoring the body in the alley, and just as she had appeared, she strolled noiselessly into the dark shadows. She said to herself:

"Ruiwen, be strong. As long as you are still alive, Sangong will not be able to get rid of the seal. When you come to the world, you will be the warden of Sangong. You will fight with him forever until Sangong falls completely."

"You can do it, Raven! Believe in yourself, you can do it!"

Only 11 years old, but a little girl who has fully exploded her potential can easily wipe out a city, walking alone under the dim street lights.

She is not afraid of danger, she is not afraid of the dark.

But tonight's wind made Ruiwen a bit cold, she couldn't help wrapping the black cloak around her body tightly

She raised her head and looked at the starry sky above her. After a while, the child's figure flashed and disappeared on the streets of the city.

tonight

Another successful hunt.

tonight

Inexplicably lonely.

I don't know, what is that Merlin who was let off by her doing?

I don't know about Merlin

remember her

well

want to

I have a home.