95: You're Threatening Me With Him?
"Although these things have quite strong vitality, their strength is really too weak." Following behind the flame giant, Leticia reached a conclusion about the monsters continuously emerging from the thick fog.
They couldn't be killed completely, but they also couldn't hinder her steps.
The gap in strength between the monsters and Leticia was already beyond what numbers could compensate for.
The black shadow of the clock tower had appeared in their field of vision. Before long, Leticia would be able to bring the girls beside her to the core area of this fog city.
"Strange, why does it feel like the monsters are gradually decreasing?" The Guild Leader watched the monsters throw themselves at the fire giant like mantises trying to stop a chariot, slowly noticing that the number of monsters seemed to be decreasing.
"Although the monsters can regenerate infinitely, the people controlling them are not like that. They also get tired, their stamina gets depleted, and moreover, the number of monsters sister has destroyed is already a very terrifying figure." Qila was currently holding a lantern emitting dim yellow light. The faint yellow glow seemed able to penetrate the fog, expanding everyone's field of vision to nearly twenty meters.
"God knows how many monsters I've killed. Anyway, they're like ants—I can crush countless numbers of them with a casual squeeze." Leticia indicated these things couldn't make her feel any pressure at all.
For ordinary people, even for average strong individuals, these immortal monsters would definitely be a nightmare.
Endless, completely unkillable, fearless of death—this was undoubtedly a terrifying army.
It's just that Leticia was no longer an opponent who could be defeated with human wave tactics. No matter how many monsters were added together, they would only consume a tiny bit of her magic power.
This magic power was even less than what she naturally recovered.
"The numbers are indeed starting to decrease. The controllers should be running out of strength and can no longer summon so many monsters." Qila raised the lantern high, wanting to expand their field of vision a bit more.
But the thick fog was unwilling to retreat. The lantern's light could only illuminate a small area around them.
"Even the 'Guiding Candle' can only achieve this effect. 'Fog City' truly lives up to being an artifact."
Qila was somewhat mentally prepared for this result. Although this magic was not low-level, compared to an artifact, it was still lacking.
"That's because you haven't practiced enough, Qila." Leticia rubbed her sister's little head. "Get ready. Although the number of monsters has decreased, I feel we're about to meet the mastermind behind all this."
"But sister doesn't even know this magic." Qila pouted somewhat unhappily.
Yes, that's right. Even the Demon King had magic she wasn't good at.
Leticia wasn't very good at using the Guiding Candle magic. Although she could use it, the effect wasn't great.
"Wait, I think I can see the trajectory of fate." At this moment, the Guild Leader suddenly cried out in surprise.
Although very blurry, extremely illusory lines had indeed appeared in her vision.
Those were the threads of fate.
"The Guild Leader's ability is Precognition? That's quite a rare ability." Leticia said somewhat surprised. "But be careful about shortening your lifespan. Being able to see the trajectory of fate isn't a good thing."
Throughout history, demon astrologers had always been a short-lived profession. The price to pay for wanting to glimpse the future was not small.
"I have a bad feeling." The Guild Leader didn't take Leticia's words to heart. At least currently, she hadn't suffered any backlash.
"Mm, obviously, our opponent has prepared a big gift for us ahead." Leticia waved her hand to disperse the flame giant, because the monsters had completely disappeared.
This one-sided slaughter that had lasted over half an hour finally came to an end. The only achievement of the countless monsters was making Leticia yawn slightly.
They really couldn't win at all.
After walking for about another minute, the clock tower finally appeared before the four of them.
But in front of the clock tower's main entrance stood a hunched old man.
The old man leaned on a black walking stick, and beside him two monsters were holding an unconscious yellow object.
"Miss Su, I didn't expect you to have connections with the Hero Association too." The old man looked at Qila and showed a smile that made people's skin crawl.
"I also didn't expect that the one appearing here would be you, acting as an intermediary." Qila looked at the old man, her eyes flashing with inquisitive light. "I thought it was that Parliament Member hiding something."
"Him? Just a greedy fool." A cold light flashed in the old man's eyes. He was also somewhat dissatisfied with Parliament Member Wang. "What I want is just my share of the compensation."
"So you ruined my transaction and trapped me in here?"
"Ah, Miss Su misunderstands. In fact, I originally planned to only trap the person beside you and the one in black clothes. I just didn't expect you would act together with this person." The old man explained with a smile.
As for why Qila would act together with this white-clothed person, he had no idea.
Leticia had put her mask and hood back on before arriving here, so now the old man didn't know what relationship existed between Leticia and Qila.
Before? Before, the old man had been thinking about how to fulfill that person's request. Although he was the activator of 'Fog City,' the thick fog would also block his observation.
Most of what he knew came from some very vague messages from his subordinates, such as how many people there were, their genders, how the battle was going.
Other specific situations could only be seen when they were within visual range.
"As for the few little heroes from the Hero Association, it's just your bad luck. The entrance to 'Fog City' continues for a period after opening, and you very unluckily entered here just before the entrance closed."
"You mean it's all our fault?" Leticia chuckled. This old thing really dared to say such words.
"No no no, I certainly don't mean that. You're all reasonable people. I just want to make a deal with you." The old man pointed with his black walking stick at the Blonde Youth being controlled by monsters beside him. "Give me my share, and I'll let you leave."
"Are you joking?" Leticia's expression became quite interesting. Too bad no one could see her expression. "I don't even know this person. Wouldn't it be more convenient to kill you and then close 'Fog City' through the clock tower?"
Where did this old man get the confidence to negotiate with her?
His monsters couldn't do anything to her at all, and the missing Bai Ling was definitely also consuming the old man's monster reserves.
"How do I feel like you're the one who should be begging for mercy?"