"Don''t worry. I promise I will not waste a single drop of your precious blood." said Nabe as she took out a few medical tools.


    "Whatever, just do what you want. It''s not like you have created something bad with it already." said Baldur while emptying his drink before entering the ground.


    Ignoring Baldur''sment, Nabe works methodically and takes Alder''s blood carefully. After taking a whole bag of blood, Nabe stops taking Alder''s blood and cleans her equipment.


    "Is that all? Don''t you need more?" asked Alder with a smile.


    "Nah… It''s more than enough. If I take more, there is a risk for it to fall into others." said Nabe.


    "Hoo… I thought you wanted to sell to others. It is not every day you could get on the true dragon''s blood." said Alder while ring at Nabe with his menacing lizard eyes.


    "For a monster overlord, you know a lot about our living and habits. Anyway, I just want to research and reveal its secret. Besides, It''s been a while since I got this much trust from someone. Might just do the right thing." said Nabe.


    "Haha.. I don''t know if you are this sentiment type. Well, not all of the monster overlord is a warmongers. Some of us are quite a pacifist, especially the old ones. Anyway, I will go first. Tell me if you need more blood." said Alder.


    Before going, Alder waved his hand toward the blood bag. Suddenly, the red blood dimly shines and has a mysterious aura. Nabe was surprised at this phenomenon. Before he could ask Alder, the monster overlord was already gone.


    "I guess… I passed his test. Huft… I think I should also go back." said Nabe as she disappeared from the spot after looking at the starry sky.


    In the meantime, Angus and the others continue their city exploration while enjoying the festival. They find the festival good and enjoyable.


    Seeing everyone''sughter, ''I guess there''s nothing wrong with the festival itself besides the real-life sacrifice y.'' thought Angus.


    *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* The dark starry night suddenly shines brightly as some people begin to y with fireworks.


    "Wooahh!! It''s pretty!!" eximed Anna while licking her ice cream that was taller than her head.


    "Yeah. It''s prett…"mented Aunt Extalia.


    *BOOOOM* Suddenly, everyone feels a strong shake on the ground and arge explosion on the other side of the city. Angus'' group and strong Altras nearby could feel the shockwave with their perception despite the distance.


    "This…" said Angus as he immediately focused on the explosion direction.


    One of the weaknesses of Angus'' [Mana Echolocation] is he can''t keep track of everyone or everything in his range, especially in crowded areas like this town. Although it is not impossible to keep track of everyone, it is still exhausting his mind.


    Therefore, he will use his [Mana Echolocation] for casual detection in case of a monster attack or something simr. Still, this could be easily handled as he just needs to focus his mind when there is a problem.


    "Angus, what do you see? Is it from firework failure?" asked Aunt Extalia.


    Sensing the problem, "No. It seems it is from an explosion bomb. I could recognize powerful fire mana in the location. It also blew up three to four buildings with a lot of casualties, including Altras." exined Angus.


    "Definitely, not from fireworks failure or this festival also includes blowing themself. But, judging by everyone''s panic reaction, it seems it is not part of the festival." added Angus.


    "Agree. Let''s go back to the hotel for now. Did you know where Master Mira and Master Darren are?" asked Aunt Extalia.


    "Yup. They are on the other side of the city." said Angus before leading everyone.


    A momentter, they arrive at the luxury hotel safely after avoiding the running and panicked people. Angus and the others could still see people running around on the street in panic. All the shops and merchant stalls are also packing their merchandise and stopping their business.


    "It''s quite chaotic. From what I observe, it is sort of terrorist act." said Angus while looking at the street from the hotel window.


    "Haa… I thought we would not get into any trouble after entering the city. It seems I truly underestimated how to trouble ma you are."ined Aunt Extalia nearby.


    Currently, Angus and the others are inside a private living area. They book the biggest and most expensive room with a five-bedroom, living area, kitchen, and many others.


    Basically, it is a sort ofrge apartment for a big family. Fortunately, money is thest thing their group needs to care about.


    "So, what do we do now?" asked Angus while approaching Anna, who was still licking herrge ice cream.


    "Ignore it. This is Nirvas'' internal matter. We will continue our journey to Redmore capital city tomorrow. I hear the Marron Eternity festival will be held for an entire week, with thest day as the most important. It''s better if we leave Nirvas before it." said Aunt Extalia.


    "Master Mira, Master Darren, I hope you don''t have a problem with this." asked Aunt Extalia.


    "Sure. My Lady desire is to only apany Lady Anna. We don''t care if the Nirvas are somehow destroyed." replied Darren casually.


    "Good. Kids, rest for no… What the hell is that?!!" eximed Aunt Extalia while pointing at Anna, ying with shadow.


    Anna ignores the surprise and keepsughing as the shadow tickles her. The shadow moves around like a tentacle andes from the dark shadow in the room, like under the chair, table, or dark corner.


    "Hahaha.. stop haha.. It''s tickling… Hahaha…"ughed Anna.


    In the meantime, Angus and Jayna only observe the shadow that seems to y with Anna. They are also ready to help Anna when they notice any malicious intent.


    "Stop!! Anna wants to eat the ice cream!!" yelled Anna while pouting.


    ? The shadow suddenly stops tickling her and only gives a head pat to Anna.


    "Gezz… ckie is too clingy. Anna will not y with ckie, if ckie does that again." eximed the pouting Anna before licking herrge ice cream.


    The little monsterpletely ignores the shadow and focuses on enjoying her ice cream.


    "Anna, is this your new power or ability?" asked Angus.


    "Umm… Nope. ckie is ckie." replied Anna.


    "Hmm… When did you find ckie?" asked Angus.


    "It is…" replied Anna as she told everyone about ckie.


    Apparently, Anna finds ckie for the first time when she wanders with Mira during their travels. Anna exined ckie is weak and unable toe out during the day unless it is in a dark and gloomy ce. ckie itself exists everywhere as long as there is a shadow.


    Surprisingly, ckie it''s not a living or sentient being, ording to Darren. It is just like a unique element that answers only to Anna. The Vampire Ancestor also exined that ckie does not only contain dark elements but is moreplicated.


    As the contractor of Mundus, Angus is familiar with Dark elements. He finds the shadow near Anna is somehow different from his familiar Draven''s use.


    Because of Draven, Angus also has an affinity toward dark elements. Although it is not as strong as Draven, it is enough for him to use for simple maniption. Yet, he couldn''t feel anything in the shadow that yed with Anna.


    He knows there is a dark elemental on it and senses it but can''t reach it. Angus feels like trying to grab an item from far away. After finding the shadow is not dangerous, everyone decides to rest in their own room.


    The following day, they heard the news that the bombst night was actually part of the famous rebellion in Altras called Seven Faces. Seven Faces is a radical separatism that wants to change Nirvas'' old and conservative way.


    It is rumored that Seven Faces was created by seven visionary and revolutionary Altras. No one knows about these seven Altras as they are too smart to cover their tracks. Not to mention Altra''s innate ability in shapeshifting also makes the search moreplicated.


    Initially, the Seven Faces only did small peaceful campaigns. Until one of the radical religious groups from outside used their influence andwork to do more radical things.


    Since then, the matter has be moreplicated. More people, be it from outside or the hot-headed young Altras, decide to join Seven Faces. Before they knew it, the Seven Faces became arge force rooted deeply in the Nirvas.


    The problem is the authorities find that not all the Seven Faces members agree on doing the radical movement. Most of the Seven Faces members are just ignorant hot-head youngsters.


    Although they could catch and execute the religious influencer, they still couldn''t stop or catch the Seven Faces'' leader. Nor could theypletely stop their radical act as most of the time, this act was done by hot-headed Seven Faces'' members on their own will.


    "So, the leaders of Seven Faces rarely participate in the radical movement, nor do they stop it. Perhaps they even encourage their members." said Angus while discussing with everyone.


    "Correct. Angus, I think you will do great in the extermination squad. Anyway, this problem is tooplex and we better not get involved in it." said Aunt Extalia.


    "Sounds like too much trouble." replied Angus casually while he continued reading the newspaper.