My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

However, at this moment—

I heard heavy footsteps approaching from behind.

The red-haired woman instinctively turned her head to look, her pupils slightly contracting.

Behind her, the petite girl had already passed through the thick fog and was less than ten meters away from her.

"Damn it, the stat-boosting monster from Conquer Online is here..."

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A few minutes later.

On the outer perimeter of the cordon.

Several night patrol members dressed in black military uniforms stood expressionless, quietly waiting for the farce to end.

A short while later, Mona came out carrying something casually in one hand.

She looked listless and uninteresting.

Upon closer inspection—

A bloodied and mangled red-haired woman was being dragged on the ground like a dead dog.

She lay face down, her limbs limp, her long, dark red hair trailing a long streak of water.

The night patrol members standing guard outside did not react at all.

Some people even helped to set up the cordon.

It seems...

This kind of scene is probably already commonplace for them.

Seeing this, Weiss and his companion, who were hiding in the distance, also decided to go downstairs.

"It's over. It's getting late. Curfew is coming soon. We don't want to be mistaken for accomplices by the night patrol."

Vera wanted to watch the end a few more times, but seeing that curfew was approaching, she reluctantly followed Weiss's footsteps.

It seems that this is the end of today.

But it's okay, her creative drive is off the charts right now!!

Inside the cordon, Mona dragged the red-haired woman to an open area and casually tossed her aside.

The red-haired woman fell heavily onto the wet stone floor with a muffled groan.

"cough......"

"Cough cough..."

Mona looked down at the disheveled woman at her feet, her half-closed eyes showing no emotion.

"According to the laws of the Night Patrol, members of the Star Bell can be killed on the spot if encountered."

"You've killed so many night patrolmen, now that things have come to this, you shouldn't be crying and begging for mercy, right?"

Upon hearing this, the red-haired woman raised her head.

Water droplets were dripping down her chin from her beautiful face; it was hard to tell whether they were rain or cold sweat.

Although she was soaked to the bone and lying on the ground in the rain, the woman's eyes suddenly underwent a strange change.

Her gaze suddenly passed over Mona in front of her.

I gazed into the distance at the clock tower that stood in the center of Moonlit City.

"......Oh"

Hehehehe

A sudden, almost manic laugh escaped the woman's throat.

"beg for mercy?"

There was a hint of composure in her voice.

"Hey shorty, don't be so arrogant."

"It's almost eight o'clock."

"If you kneel down and beg for mercy now, I might... leave you with a whole corpse."

"Eight o'clock?"

Mona was slightly taken aback, as if she had made a connection to something, and a strange, ominous premonition suddenly rose in her heart.

So she subconsciously followed the other person's gaze and turned to look.

In the direction of the clock tower.

At this moment, the clock hands at its top are slowly and irreversibly approaching the eight o'clock position, inch by inch.

Click.

Click.

Click—click—

……

Clang—!

The bells of the clock tower rang out throughout the entire city of Bright Moon in an instant.

And then, in that very instant.

The torrential rain suddenly stopped, halting midway through its descent, like suspended crystals.

The wind stopped and the rain ceased; all was quiet.

The whole world seemed to have been put on pause by a giant, invisible hand.

"......This is?"

At the same time, we witnessed this extremely bizarre spatial and temporal chaos.

Weiss stopped and looked up, only to find that the rain had frozen in place. He tried to gently brush it away with his hand.

The water droplets remained completely still.

"What number is this forbidden item?!"

Weiss felt a little incredulous.

The next second, under the incredulous gaze of all the residents of Moonlit City.

A vast, incomparably large golden clock, woven from endless stars and countless gears, appeared out of thin air and loomed over the clock tower of Moonlit City.

This giant golden bell is dozens of times larger than the clock tower of Moonlit City, and it almost covers the sky of half the city.

Its scale is composed of dense, indescribable ancient runes, with twisted and flowing golden light swirling around each pointer.

In the blink of an eye...

Under the watchful eyes of the world, in this distorted space-time where everything is still.

Located atop that giant golden bell, at the tip of the hour hand corresponding to the eight o'clock position.

A humanoid figure bathed in a sea of ​​golden light, completely enveloped in radiance, slowly stepped out from the golden clock.

He stood suspended a thousand meters above the raging wind and rain, like a god suspended in mid-air.

Silence reigned.

As the golden humanoid's gaze swept across the entire city of Bright Moon, not a single Night Patrol Superhuman present was able to take any action.

Mona, who was already extremely sleepy, could barely keep her eyelids open.

"Star Clock, Eighth Quarter..."

She bit her lip until it bled, clinging to her last breath, refusing to fall into a deep sleep due to the side effects of the Giant Path.

However, the golden humanoid paid no attention to the night patrol below, but instead turned its head to look at the Selenenis family mansion, which was more than ten kilometers away.

Then, he spoke with a meaningful tone:

"Snowflakes, moon, heiress, wedding dress, mystery, caged bird, the seventh rain..."

"It seems that tonight, the second key to the path to miracles will also fall into our hands."

Chapter 46: Weiss appears, the Bright Moon Thunder Emperor! !

Above Bright Moon City.

A humanoid figure bathed in a sea of ​​golden light took a step forward.

The golden clock hanging over the town began to slowly dissipate, and at the same time, the rain that had been forcibly frozen began to fall again.

Everything returned to normal, but the oppressive feeling that permeated the air was breathtaking.

The humanoid figure was blurred in the golden light, its entire body radiating a star-like brilliance, like a star that had fallen to earth.

As everyone watched, his gaze swept over the night patrol.

"I am the eighth hour of the Star Clock."

"—Tier 7 Extravagant Warlock—"

The voice at the eighth moment was not loud, but it struck everyone's hearts like a heavy drum.

"Seventh-tier extravagance!?"

In the days Adele was away, the arrival of a seventh-tier transcendent was enough to bring utter destruction to Moonlit City.

The next second, at the eighth moment, he slowly raised one hand and casually pressed it towards the ground.

Just this one action.

There were no fancy signs whatsoever.

Boom!!!

A muffled, terrifying pressure, as if emanating from the heavens, descended from the sky in an instant.

It was as if a giant hand had pressed down on the sky above the entire city of Moonlit City. Within a radius of several kilometers, all the houses in the city were instantly crushed into ruins by a heavy aura filled with golden sand!

"cough--!"

"Ugh..."

"Cough cough cough!!"

Many members of the night patrol fell to their knees one after another, their bones creaking and groaning in agony.

Someone tried to call for help, but couldn't make a complete sound. It felt like their internal organs were being crushed, and the breath in their chest was being squeezed out inch by inch.

Even Mona, who was a giant, couldn't straighten her back. She gritted her teeth and held on, but her body still trembled slightly.

Even the red-haired woman lying on the wet stone floor, barely alive, was not spared.

The woman, who had been laughing maniacally, suddenly had her pupils dilate.

"Cough, cough..."

"Have mercy, I can't breathe..."

She was forced to sink deeper into the stone floor, blood slowly flowing from the corner of her mouth, her bloodied body constantly tearing open.

For a brief moment.

The entire clock tower area of ​​Moonlit City has fallen.

Aside from the superhumans on night patrol who were barely clinging to life, many civilians who were watching the spectacle nearby were crushed into mincemeat.

"..."

"..."

"..."

In an eerie silence, on the rooftop of a high-rise building a few blocks away from the restricted area.

Weiss and Vera were still standing there in a daze, not having reacted yet.