West of Boulder City, abandoned urban area.

Since the disaster of the Fire Demon that everyone talked about ten years ago, this place has been designated by the Holy Royal Court as a restricted area that ordinary people cannot enter.

Ten years have passed, and the most powerful monsters have long been eliminated by demon hunting centers and trials. The once terrifying memories have gradually been forgotten, and they only exist in the reminiscences of those who experienced them.

Although undermining pollution still exists in some dark corners, with the continuous development of urban commerce and handicraft industry in recent years, the citizen class has grown stronger, and wanderers and freedmen have also poured into the expanding city. Now it has become

A paradise in the darkness of Boulder City.

Northwest of the abandoned urban area, at the junction with the outer urban area.

This is the largest slum area in Boulder City and the place with the highest population density.

The vast majority of people living here are low-level workers in various simple workshops in the western city, servants of small nobles and wealthy households, free mercenaries eager to make a fortune, and those who have lost their land due to the enclosure of nobles in recent years.

Peasants and free tenants, as well as robbers, thieves, beggars, etc.

This is also the favorite place for cultists.

On the dirty, chaotic, uneven mud streets, a luxurious carriage drove slowly past.

Seeing the red rose pattern on the side of the carriage, the numb-looking pedestrians on the street lowered their heads, hid in panic to both sides, and then saluted.

This is the carriage of the Rose Society, the largest underground gang in Boulder City.

In the abandoned city, the Rose Society is the sky, and its influence is almost as much as that of the Holy Royal Court.

The carriage stopped in front of a dilapidated hut.

The car door opened, and two beautiful maids with animal ears stepped down, spreading a red carpet on the muddy ground to the door of the house.

The slender Sebastian stepped out of the carriage gracefully, wearing a black tuxedo, white gloves, and holding a gorgeous aristocratic cane.

Arriving in front of the hut, he stretched out his hand and gently knocked on the door.

After a moment, the door opened with a creak, and a beautiful girl who looked about fourteen or fifteen years old poked her head out warily.

She has beautiful long brown hair and a pair of snow-white hair that is completely inconsistent with her age. She wears a shabby maid uniform full of patches, and her strange red-gold pupils are full of caution.

Seeing the girl, Sebas smiled slightly and conjured a rose:

"Good afternoon, beautiful Miss Lena, do you still remember me?"

"Bang!"

The door was shut instantly.

Sebastian:……

He twitched the corner of his mouth, put the rose down, and knocked on the door again:

"Miss Reina, I'm here to visit Ms. Anna, please open the door."

The door didn't move at all.

Sebastian was helpless.

He cleared his throat and said loudly:

"Ms. Anna, I am Sebastian, the president of the Rose Club. I am here to visit you and have something important to discuss!"

Quiet……

It wasn't until a moment later that the door opened a small crack again with a "squeak" sound.

The girl named Reina glanced at Sebas warily, her red-gold pupils still filled with the alertness of a small animal.

"Rena, let him come in."

An old voice came from the hut, with a distant sigh.

Reina glanced behind her, then nodded obediently and silently opened the door.

"Thank you, Miss Lena."

Sebastian showed a bright smile and entered the hut gracefully.

Inside the house, the light is dim.

An elderly, skinny old woman was sitting on a recliner, drowsy.

Feeling Sebastian's approach, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of pale and turbid eyes:

"Sebas-don, I should have told you not to bother me, an old woman, again."

The old woman's voice was old and calm, with a touch of helplessness.

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she was stunned.

She was seen staring blankly at the top of Sebastian's head, a faint light flashing through her cloudy eyes.

Gradually, her eyes opened wider and wider, and she couldn't help but stand up from the recliner, as if she had seen something incredible.

She stretched out her dry arms towards Sebas tremblingly, as if she wanted to catch something, and her old voice suddenly began to tremble:

"Crimson!"

"I saw crimson like blood!"

"The golden sun falls into the eternal darkness..."

"The crimson blood moon rises in dazzling light!"

"The rose holder holds the rose..."

"The blood moon holds the throne high!"

"This...this is..."

"fire!"

"This is fire!"

"The fire is burning! The fire is spreading! The flames...are swallowing up everything!"

"Then……"

"Everything is born again!"

The old woman was shouting hoarsely, as if she was going crazy.

Her crazy look frightened the girls Rena and Sebas.

As she shouted, the light and darkness in the entire cabin changed, flickering on and off, and the fierce strange wind made the wooden cabin creak...

Sebastian's expression became solemn almost instantly.

He knew that the other party's prophetic eyes had seen the prophecy again.

The old woman's madness lasted for a long time.

It wasn't until a long time later that everything returned to calm.

She sat down on the recliner again, looking quite tired, and her whole body seemed older.

After a moment, she raised her head again, her cloudy and pale eyes looking up to Sebastian:

"Your Excellency Sebastian..."

"Can you tell me what happened to you?"

"Why does your appearance trigger my prophetic eyes again?"

"Your destiny seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes... I can no longer see through your future!"

"What...what exactly happened to you?"

Looking at the old woman's pale eyes, Sebastian's heart beat rapidly.

Of course he knew what he was encountering.

It's just...he didn't expect that his next visit would actually cause such a big reaction!

Taking a deep breath, he smiled and said:

"Ms. Anna."

"I'm here to thank you. Your previous prediction has come true."

"I really found the opportunity to lift the curse through the cursed pages!"

"This is my reward, please accept it..."

As he spoke, he took out a small and gorgeous ring from his arms and placed it respectfully in front of the old lady.

The old woman didn't look at the ring at all.

She looked at Sebastian quietly, a glimmer of light flashing in her pale eyes.

After a moment, she suddenly said:

"So...the source of everything is the opportunity you found?"

Sebastian smiled and said nothing.
To be continued...