Imperial Garden, beside the clear pool.

Above the clear blue water stood a pavilion with carved jade.

Lily was leaning over a fence carved with various exquisite patterns. She casually scattered a handful of fish food, causing various kinds of koi to fight over the food. It was very lively.

After feeding the fish for a while, she pouted, put down the tray, and looked at the distant hill.

“Sister Norlis, is that hill really a sacred beast?”

“Of course!” Norlis nodded solemnly. “It is one of the sacred beasts protecting our royal family. It is a level-6 Mystic Spirit Sacred Turtle!”

“It’s even an extremely large Sacred Turtle. That hill is just a corner of the turtle’s back!”

“Then… why is it not moving?” Lily was puzzled.

Norlis was a little embarrassed. “Well… It just sleeps most of the time and usually refuses to move…”

She probably felt that she had embarrassed herself in front of her little friend, so she went to the railing and shouted at the motionless hill, “Hey! Big turtle!! Stop sleeping! Wake up!!”

As she shouted, a faint light appeared between Norlis’ eyebrows.

Splash! Splash!

Suddenly, the hill moved, bringing with it countless splashes of water. The hill floated up and turned into a small mountain. A large turtle shell appeared at the base of the mountain!

Immediately after, a huge Sacred Turtle emerged from the water!!

Lily’s eyes lit up in surprise. “Wow! What a huge turtle!”

“Roar—”

At the same time, the Sacred Turtle opened its mouth and howled.

Upon hearing the Sacred Turtle’s low roar, Norlis, whose eyes had been curved, was stunned. This… the sound was not right.

Not only did it not match the sound she had heard before, there was also a hint of fear?!

… . .

Outside the Soul Nurture Hall.

When the golden-robed old man discovered this, it was already too late.

However… even if he had discovered it early, he still could not prevent the change from happening.

In this short period of time, he had done the most correct thing he could do now.

All the magical power in his body erupted. The moment he switched from attack to defense, he flipped his right hand and shattered the magic formation disc with magical power!!

Buzz!

In an instant, in the center of the Soul Nurture Hall, a magic protective formation of a few hundred meters in all directions was blasted open—an energy barrier!!

When the old man had completed all of this in an instant, the black tendons on the corpse had already condensed into a bizarre pattern. The black patterns lit up with black light, and then the entire corpse shattered!

“Boom—”

With a roar that seemed to be able to tear the heavens and the earth apart, an extremely dark black light suddenly spread out, engulfing the guards who could not react. Even the entire Soul Nurture Hall and several palace buildings beside it were torn apart!!

“Roar!!!”

The powerful demonic aura and the ear-splitting roar blasted out in unison, resounding throughout the entire Imperial City and even the entire capital!!

The people who had been raising their glasses and chatting happily were all shocked!

“What’s going on?!”

“What a strong demonic aura!”

“So powerful… a level-7 magical beast?!”

“What?! This is impossible…”

Exclamations sounded from all directions. Everyone who was attending the banquet was in extreme chaos!

Ron and Dick instantly jumped up and erupted with the magical power in their bodies at the same time. They broke through the chaotic crowd and rushed out of the window, flying into the sky.

In the northwest corner of the Imperial City, there was a golden energy shield, blocking all the dark black light. And in the thick black ball, there was a powerful demonic aura that even the magic formation could not completely block!

It was undoubtedly a high-level level-7 magical beast!!

Moreover, it was a violent and brutal ferocious beast!!

In the magic formation, there were also the auras of many Magi. There were a total of 20 Great Archmagi, and their magical power levels had basically surpassed that of a level-7 Great Archmage!!

… . .

At the same time, in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, Norlis and Lily had also been shocked by the sudden change. Both their eyes looked in the direction of the Soul Nurture Hall not far away.

Norlis exclaimed in shock, “What… what is this?!”

Lily shrank fearfully beside Norlis and instinctively looked toward the banquet hall.

At this moment, two figures suddenly appeared from a corridor connected to the pavilion. Without a word, they flew rapidly toward the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Before they could land, the surging killing intent had already surrounded the targets!

[Ding! Warning!!]

[A genius descendant has been detected to be in mortal danger. An urgent mission has been generated.]

[Urgent Mission: Save the 17th generation descendant of the Nicholas family, Lily.]

The System warning suddenly sounded in the ears of Romo, who was flying in the air. He paused for a moment and quickly called out the System. With Lily as the target, he used a Visitation Talisman.

The visitation scene unfolded. In the pavilion in the middle of the lake in the Imperial City of the Sebastian Kingdom.

When the two figures not far away flew over, before Lily and Norlis could react instinctively, a small shadow suddenly flew out from Lily’s waist. The sword did not need to be drawn. It swung out a cold light, and in an instant, it shot toward the two figures coming at them!

The two Great Archmagi were shocked for a moment. They immediately struck out with their palms in unison, borrowing the force to instantly bounce off to the side!

A cold light flashed past, and blood spurted out!

Of these two people who had a tacit understanding, one of them was slightly slower and lost an arm!!

The person with the broken arm sensed more information. He gasped and was extremely shocked. “Top-tier sacred weapon?!”

The person beside him had surging killing intent as he shouted coldly, “Kill!!”

As he spoke, he wanted to continue charging toward the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

“Clang—”

A crisp cry sounded, and a beam of golden light flew over!

The flying sword in the golden light was only a platinum-tier magical weapon, but the one controlling it was a top Great Archmage. Therefore, no matter how the one being pursued dodged, his heart was pierced by the flying sword in the blink of an eye!!

The other one-armed Mage had just seen a thin golden shadow roll toward him, and before he could do anything, he was tightly bound in the blink of an eye, unable to move!!

Ron’s figure appeared in the air, and he stared gloomily at the person who had been bound by the Demon Binding Ropes.

At the same time, Dick flashed into the pavilion in the middle of the lake and asked the two girls in front of him gently, “Are both of you alright?”

“Brother Dick!” Lily threw herself into his arms in surprise.

Norlis also heaved a sigh of relief. She saw the corpse, which had been pierced by the flying sword, fall into the lake with a splash. She then looked at the person who had been bound and was at a loss.

“Dick, what… what’s going on?”

Dick said solemnly, “I don’t know for now… Hmm? Be careful!!”

Before he could finish, he was suddenly shocked. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Norlis, and retreated quickly with them!!

At the same time, Ron, who was floating in the air, also sensed that something was wrong. A cold light appeared in his eyes, and he clenched his right hand. The person tightly bound by the Demon Binding Ropes was directly strangled to death by the golden rope on his body!

While the two had died, the abnormality remained.

At the moment of death, several strange black tendons appeared on the corpse. In the blink of an eye, they had spread throughout the corpse. A powerful magical beast aura suddenly erupted from the corpse!!

In the next moment, the corpse inexplicably combusted. Flames spread, and the figure of a magical beast that looked like a vulture appeared out of thin air. It instantly became larger!!

Bang!! At the same time, the lake water exploded! A magical beast similar to a luminous jellyfish appeared out of thin air!!

The corpse that had fallen into the water earlier had also become a powerful magical beast!!

Seeing the sudden change, Ron was shocked and suspicious. He quickly retreated to Dick’s side and looked at him.

Both of them were surprised. This… was unheard of. It had exceeded their imagination.

The current situation could be deduced. Powerful magical beasts that had been sealed in a living person were released after the living person died?!

In this vast world… there was actually such a mysterious magical power?!