Just as Merlin fell asleep, in another city far away from Hell's Kitchen, a short girl in a black cloak was walking silently on the streets of the night.
The surroundings were very quiet, and the dim street lights also pulled the little girl's back on the ground for a long time.
She looked only a teenager, her wide cloak almost completely covered her body, and under the hood, most of her face was buried almost in the shadows, wearing black gloves with fingers exposed, and on her wrists, neck and chest, there were special purple gems that shone with faint light.
It seemed to be a magical item of extremely high quality.
The child's skin was pale, as if she was sick, and when she occasionally raised her head, her beautiful blue eyes always flashed away, and her long black hair was hidden under her hood.
Very soft, just like the first impression this child gives people.
But there was an indescribable temperament entangled in her, a dark, gloomy, and cold temperament.
She seemed to be escaping something, but to be honest, there was too little power in this world that could threaten this girl.
Her name is Raven.
There is a nickname called Raven, which is the same nickname as Merlin, but this girl only needs one percent of her power to easily crush Merlin to death.
Merlin is the "son" of the Three Palace Demons, one of countless cannon fodders.
And Ruiwen is the "daughter" of the Three Palace Demons and the only daughter.
"Little girl, why did you run out alone?"
Riven, who was moving on the street, quickly attracted the attention of a 24-hour convenience store staff member.
It looked like a young mother. She pushed open the door and shouted to Ruiwen outside the store:
"Child, come in quickly, you can wait here for your parents to pick you up!"
Ruiwen looked back and saw behind her mother, a little girl of about the size of her was secretly looking at her. The girl hid behind her mother, holding a bear doll in her arms.
Cut, doll, it's something that only children will like.
Ruiwen complained.
She ignored the kind-hearted person who called her, but accelerated her pace and disappeared at the end of the street.
No parents would come to pick her up.
Her mother has died in a disaster of destruction in the world, and her father is the most terrifying demon in the dimension of hell.
Ruiwen wandered in this city like this, the night was getting deeper and there were fewer people on the street until the early morning.
Ruiwen sensed the magic fluctuations in the city, then raised her hand, and her short body quickly jumped into the air, as if she was stepping on an invisible ladder.
She is searching for the hunting target tonight.
If scientists in the world count the laws of the death toll in the world in every day of the past 10 years, it is not difficult for them to find that on November 24 of each year, the number of deaths in the world will reach a peak and then slowly fall back until this curve that represents death returns to normal levels.
Maybe some people will say this is a coincidence.
But in fact, it is not a coincidence.
There is only one reason for this strange change in the number of deaths, because November 24th of each year is Ruiwen's birthday.
And tonight is the 21st of the month.
Riven's birthday
There are 3 days left.
"My daughter, the person you are looking for is right in front of you."
Riven was flying rapidly over the dim street. As she passed a residential area, a voice suddenly echoed in her mind:
"Yes, keep going forward, turn left the next alley, and one of your 'brothers' is there."
The voice kept chattering, and Riven seemed to be very tired of it. She shook her head and tried to throw the voice out of her mind, but her footsteps involuntarily turned into the alley ahead. After walking through a fork in the road, Riven saw what was happening in the darkness in front of her.
A man looks over 40 years old.
A female body lying beside his feet, which seemed to be a prostitute who had just been killed.
And the man in a suit, tie, and looks like a successful person, is painting on the wall with something.
He used the blood of the dead as ink and seemed to be smearing a strange abstract painting on the wall, which was a blurry, twisted figure, and like a rune, part of a summoning ceremony.
"Look, your 'brother' has fallen into an illusion that he thought that in such a stupid way he could please me, but what he did means nothing to me."
The low voice sounded again in Riven's mind. To be honest, just from the tone contained in this voice, it seemed to be full of a kind meaning.
"Shut up!"
Ruiwen said in a cold tone:
"You know this will not shake me at all. You are just doing useless work."
"Ah, my poor daughter, but I'm not going to hurt you at all, aren't I?"
The voice chuckled, and it said:
"I've been helping you. If you want the power of my 'sons', I will guide you where they are, just like killing that 'slaughter' now and take away my power seed."
"But my child, you should know that even if you kill all the children of the Three Palaces, the problem will not be solved."
"Come back, come back to my world, we father and daughter, maybe we can have a good talk."
"You have to know that I always love you."
"You made me feel disgusted!"
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:
"Stop thinking! Sanguard, I will never let you out!"
"Haha, you should call me father, my dear Riven"
The voice in Riven's mind ended with a playful sentence, ending this father-daughter exchange.
"And, will you really not release me? You should know that as you, who inherited my purest blood, has a side of your soul that is destined to be dark. Do you think you are fighting against me? No, no, no, my child, your potential is so amazing, but you are just fighting against yourself."
"My daughter, you are destined to offer me the world you want to protect. That is what is destined to happen, so let's wait and see."
"Haha, good night, my daughter, I wish you a happy hunt."
"Bang"
A low sound from the darkness awakened the son of the Three Palaces in the alley in front of him who was drawing some kind of sacrifice.
The sick middle-aged man suddenly turned around and saw the short Riven walking out of the darkness.
This girl's appearance is powerless. Just looking at her little face with her chin exposed, she is even a little cute. But a child like her, who appears in such a remote place at this early morning, represents something dark.
The son of the Three Palaces instinctively felt the threat.
He looked like a very life-threatening guy who only dared to do evil in the dark.
After detecting the cold air on Riven's body, he ignored the fact that more than half of the "artwork" had been completed by his hand, and turned around and rushed out quickly. The power of the demon entangled his fat body, making him look like a running wind.
It was the real wind, the sharp wind, where the fat guy ran past, the walls on both sides of the alley were cut open by invisible sharp blades.
As the gravel flew across the mountain, the fat son of the Three Palaces had already run away in the blink of an eye.
But this makes no sense.
Ruiwen stretched out her hand, her slender fingers gently rotated, covering the darkness and shadows in the alley, like soldiers who received orders, expanding rapidly at this moment, like a wide curtain falling from the sky, and like a hunting net.
Almost in an instant, the escaped son of the Three Palaces was shrouded in the shadow, like a small stone covered with a layer of cloth.
Raven has no mercy on the son of the Three Palaces who are lost in the power of the demon.
Her fingers were held in vain, and the controlled shadow quickly gathered, forming a dark ball in the air. Then, as Riven's fingers closed, the size of the dark ball quickly squeezed and shrank, crushing everything inside into powder.
A moment later, the dark orb wrapped around the son of the Three Palaces fell into the palm of Riven's hand.
With a light swing, the ashes of the sons of the Sanguard who were crushed into powder were scattered into the cold air, and in Riven's hand, an orange seed of power was shining brightly.
It's like a lamp that illuminates the darkness.
Riven looked at the orange fragments in front of her, and she sighed blankly, then put the fragments into the bag around her waist.
The bag was obviously a device similar to a magic pocket. The moment Riven opened the bag, an orange light emanated from it.
How many pieces of power of the son of the Three Palaces are contained in the bag?
Can't count it anymore
Ruiwen only remembers that after she escaped from the world of the Three Palaces, she would kill a son of the Three Palaces almost every day, and it was more than a year ago that she escaped from the dimension of the Three Palaces.
Almost 400 sons of the Three Palaces died at her hands, and almost none of them could hurt Riven.
Among these demon sons, there is only one person who escaped the fate of death, that is Merlin, who is different from other three sons. He firmly believes that he will not be eroded by the demonic power and has escaped from the three palaces once.
Poor, weak Merlin didn't know that the night he met Riven on Todd Hill, he was really only one step away from death.
As for the so-called "Blood God" inheritance, it is just a game where ravens are idle.
Although she killed the Demon Son without blinking.
Although when she was 10 years old, she blocked the channels for entering and leaving the three palaces with her own strength.
Although she has been learning seal magic from the powerful High Priest Azaras since she was a child.
Although the complete destruction of Azaras's civilization is inseparable from her willfulness.
But she was just an 11-year-old girl after all.
When she is bored, she always has to find some fun for herself.
"I won't let you succeed!"
Riven turned around and ignored the corpse in the alley. Just as she appeared, she walked quietly into the shadow of darkness. She said to herself:
"Riwen, be stronger, as long as you are still alive, the San Palace will never be able to get rid of the seal. When you come to the world, you will be the warden of the San Palace. You will fight him forever until the San Palace completely falls."
"You can do it, Raven! Believe in yourself, you can do it!"
Only 11 years old, but with a complete burst of potential, it can easily smooth out a city's little girl walking alone under the dim street lights.
She is not afraid of danger or darkness.
But the wind tonight made Raven a little cold, and she couldn't help but wrap the black cloak around her body tightly.
She raised her head and looked at the starry sky above her head. After a moment, the child's figure flashed and disappeared on the streets of the city.
Tonight
Another successful hunt.
tonight
I was inexplicably lonely.
I don’t know what Merlin, who was let go of her, was doing?
I don't know about Merlin
Remember her?
well
Want it very much
Chapter completed!