What?

You say a hundred people are too few?

No, no, no, that's already a lot.

In the face of a truly established legion, adventurers only have a slight numerical advantage, and are completely incomparable to the main battle groups of top-tier nations.

But... it is still a very formidable force.

At least Louis needs more time to develop before he has a chance to take out so many adventurers.

Alright.

This analogy is not quite right.

Louis is not a crazed killer.

He looked regretfully at the city built on the lakebed.

The members of the Moonlight Cat Cat Group were in a hurry.

They didn't stay long in this underwater city before transferring directly to the exam location.

...

"There's still 2 days until the Spring Hunt and preliminaries start at the same time."

Heavy armor clattered on this somewhat desolate land:

"Let's spread out first, and meet up again in the evening, okay?"

Louis looked at everyone: "It would be best to divide into two teams, that way we can better watch each other's backs."

Everyone nodded.

Thus, the members of the Moonlight Cat Cat Group split up.

The female side was led by Lumi, intending to wander around the surroundings.

The male side was led by Louis, as William and Chris's three brothers were more like subordinates and unwilling to lead.

So the group dispersed like that.

On the way, William said:

"Your Highness, during this operation, please don't stray too far. There are too many adventurers here."

Louis shook his head:

"I'm just afraid even if I want to hide, others won't necessarily want me to."

William frowned.

But Louis did not say anything.

He glanced at Chris's three brothers and roughly understood the situation.

Louis looked down at the ground beneath his feet.

Standing on this land, he felt as if his whole body was boiling with blood.

Under the armor, faint blue stripes gradually appeared on his skin surface.

The Sin Dragon Armament was silently activated.

"What a terrifying curse..."

Louis bowed his head.

In his perception, the whole world seemed to be engulfed by darkness.

A suffocating curse aura filled every corner within his sight.

Together with the curse aura, the shadow power from the shadow plane surged in.

"The legendary Dark Night Goddess?"

Louis remarked.

He had some understanding of this goddess.

It can be said that the Dark Night Goddess at her peak was not weaker than any deity under the Supreme God.

Her Divine Kingdom was rooted in the shadow plane, even once mastering most of the power of the shadow plane.

Unfortunately, her struggle with Lady Silver Moon never ceased.

Over the long years, her power has basically risen and fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...

In the end, she simply fell.

Speaking of something very absurd——

The Shadow Demon Net.

This involves a natural phenomenon that the Star Mages cannot avoid called the [Magic Net].

Generally speaking, people believe that the Magic Net is the embodiment of the Goddess of Magic.

And the Magic Net itself is a totality of natural energy and movement.

This is also why mages usually think of themselves as the group most capable of changing the world.

Because magic is actually a way for mages to understand and transform the world.

After gaining a corresponding understanding of the laws of natural energy and movement, they create "magic models," tools to transform the world.

The effect shown by the tools is the so-called magic.

But the Magic Net did not exist naturally at first, nor did magic.

The earliest magic originates from the Moon Goddess and the Dark Night Goddess.

Later, at a certain time, the natural laws of the entire world changed, and energy and movement, which had been organized, became the prototype of the Magic Net.

However, this seemed more like a change of the world itself, rather than the influence of the two goddesses' powers.

But Shire was indeed one of the earliest goddesses.

Over the long years, she continuously researched the Magic Net, spreading her own power to some remote corners of the world for experimentation.

After an unknown amount of time, she understood how the Magic Net worked, and used her ubiquitous shadow power to cover most regions of the world with a similar pattern to the Magic Net.

This later became the prototype of the Shadow Demon Net.

It involved much content about the ancient god wars.

Including the Dark Night Goddess wanting to draw power from the Magic Net to restore her peak state.

Including using the negative energy from the Shadow Demon Net to interfere with or even destroy Lady Silver Moon's followers.

Including gathering a large number of evildoers to become sources of her belief.

And although the Shadow Demon Net was not as comprehensive as the Magic Net, in the necromancy, enchantment, and illusion technique magic classes, its enhancement was even above the Magic Net.

The weakened areas of the Magic Net also did not affect the usage of magic by users of the Shadow Demon Net.

Even in the Death Magic Zone and Mad Magic Zone, it could proceed as usual.

However, no one expected that Shire actually fell for unknown reasons over the long years.

To this day, people still do not understand what happened.

This matter remains an unsolved mystery among the gods.

Even as Shire faced sunset several times, her strength was still there; whoever could target her was at least of great divine power.

In fact, to be blunt, excluding a small number like the World Serpent as troublemakers, Shire was the source of most negative energy in this world.

If she weren't so strong and terrifying, there wouldn't have been the birth of the Shadow Country.

"Underfoot?"

Louis looked down at the ground.

He previously couldn't understand.

Why the four great nations, when united in targeting the former Dark Night Church's layout, would find it so difficult to proceed.

But as he stood on this land, he realized.

Under this land's surface, a vast and deep power covered the underground depths.

He tried using the shadow leap technique of Shadow Hand Flow.

Standing on the ground, he just felt as if his body had instantly turned 180 degrees.

The sky became the ground, and the ground became the sky.

Coming to his senses, he saw a magnificent city, tightly sealed by a huge barrier.

In the center of the barrier, a temple ruin could be vaguely seen.

"An inverted shadow world?"

Louis couldn't help but think of the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm.

But although it also belonged to a part of the shadow plane, its specific rules were vastly different from the shadow plane.

"Who!"

Accompanied by an angry shout, a warrior suddenly rushed to Louis's side, warily watching Louis standing there:

"Ense person, leave quickly, the layout of the Shadow Temple is not yet complete."

Louis glanced at him and relaunched the shadow leap of Shadow Hand Flow, instantly returning to the ground.

The warrior did not stop him, only quietly observing his actions, turning to leave only after he vanished.

"It's somewhat hard to suppress..."

Louis said in a low voice.

He felt like he had become a giant funnel.

As long as he stood on this land, he would continuously absorb the surrounding negative energy into his body.

Luckily, this negative energy directly fed into the Sin Dragon Armament, becoming its nourishment.

Otherwise, with so much negative energy, the source of the curse, he would really be doomed.

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