In the Abyss of Morai

After Tiff killed countless werewolves, the sky had returned to normal. Time in the Abyss of Morai was different from that outside. Whenever the sky changed and then brightened again, it was considered a day. Sometimes, the sky would change every few hours.

So sometimes you might stay in the Abyss of Morai for a month, but from the outside it only feels like twenty or so days.

Some strands of hair had come loose from the headband, so she pulled off the headband and tied it back up.

A soft voice came from not far from Tiffany. The voices sounded familiar, like Iya and Allen. She placed her fingertips on her brow, and large and small wounds instantly appeared on her body. There weren't many wounds, but the injuries looked quite serious, and they also exuded the aura of dark magic.

She coughed up a mouthful of blood. Without even looking, she knew she looked terrible. Her clothes were stained with both her own blood and werewolf blood. In those few seconds, she had already come up with an explanation. As she thought this, she coughed involuntarily and knelt down on one knee.

Iyana heard someone coughing and pushed through the bushes to come over.

Tiff heard a gasp and then footsteps getting closer. "Miss Tiff, how did you get hurt like this?"

Tiffany coughed twice more before speaking, "It's Hoander..."

Iya quickly said, "Wait, don't say anything yet, let me heal your wounds."

Iya placed her palm about two centimeters away from the wound, and the wound slowly healed, but when Tiff coughed up some blood again, the wound reopened.

Iya frowned. "What's going on?" Her eyes widened when she saw the black mist at the wound. "How could it be black magic?"

"Was it done by Hoander?" a deep voice asked.

Tiffany was surprised to see Rory there and gently shook her head, "How could that be?"

"After we separated, the werewolf didn't catch up. I stayed where I was for a while, and when I sensed the aura of the Tower Master's Stone, I walked over here."

"I heard Hoander's voice halfway there, and thinking we could go together, I headed towards him. But when I saw a group of men in black, Hoander was lying on the ground and looked dead..." Tiffany couldn't stop crying as she said this.

Rory took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Tiffany. She thanked him and continued, "I thought I definitely couldn't handle them by myself. I figured that the rock was the closest to us, and you would probably be here too, so I came to find you first. But I accidentally made a sound and got caught."

"But it's alright. Their target might not be me, so they only sent six or seven people to kill me and silence me. I kept running to shake them off, and then I encountered werewolves. I killed them and came here."

After telling the story in a half-truthful way, Tiffany continued, "It's not that I dumped them; they probably thought I was injured and wouldn't live much longer, so they stopped chasing me."

“But they want to kill you to silence you, how could they let you go just because you’re injured?” Rory looked at her suspiciously. “If I were seen killing someone, I would definitely kill the person who saw me with my own hands.”

"I would too," Tiff thought to herself. She knew her words would raise suspicion, but since he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it could only be suspicion. Besides, she had placed a soundproof shield when she killed Hoander, and her own soundproof shield had a shielding effect; even the body was gone.

“You’re doubting me,” Tiff said, staring at Rory.

“Yes.” Luo Rui admitted directly.

A hint of sadness flashed in Tiffany's eyes. "Then why would I kill him? I had no grudge against him."

Luo Rui had been staring at her, so he naturally didn't miss the sadness in her eyes. He lowered his guard a bit and asked, "Who are those men in black?"

"They look a lot like the people who attacked the Fifth Prince at the Crown Prince's banquet."

“It was them,” Luo Rui frowned. “If it really was them, they must have some purpose. Their origins are still unclear.”

"Then aren't we in great danger right now?" Iya asked with a worried expression.

At this moment, Allen returned with the two teams and saw the injured Tiffany. He quickly asked what happened, and Iya told them what had happened.

One of their groups said, "Then we'll go get the stones for you now, and then we'll head back ahead of time."

In the other group, a boy with heterochromia noticed something and looked at the person who spoke, but still didn't say anything.

He's suspicious. Tiffany looked at the person who was speaking. There were only four people in their team here. According to them, the stone was on the person who left, but they didn't smell the stone at all. Their eyes were malicious.

They certainly didn't have good intentions, not to mention their family's connection to Ferrand.

Everyone in their team was ranked in the top fifty of the magic power rankings. The person who left was ranked sixth, but of course, they might not have gone very far. At that time, he and Hoand were not facing Iya and the others, so they would definitely have won. Now that he was seriously injured and Hoand was dead, they had no need to worry about him and Hoand returning when they were fighting for the stones.

Tiff looked at the boy with heterochromatic eyes. He was Phyllis Holzler, the number one on the magic power ranking. He was born into the Holzler family, one of the three great families. His family had always remained neutral in the struggle for the throne, and all the members of his family had heterochromatic eyes, one red and one blue.

Seemingly noticing Tiffany's gaze, he turned his head and gave her a distant smile.

The person with ill intentions looked at Tiffany with a slightly ingratiating smile, "Miss Duke, are you still able to leave? If not, we'll leave someone to take care of you."

"I can walk."

A hint of regret flashed in that person's eyes; if she couldn't do it, there would be one less competitor.

Tiff grabbed Iya's arm and slowly stood up. The man had been talking nonstop the whole way, constantly asking about Tiff's situation, and Tiff answered him all in a good-natured manner.

Finally, they arrived at a place imbued with the magical aura of the tower master. Before them lay a lake of unfathomable depth. The man gestured for Iya and the others to descend together.

Iya helped Tiffany to the tree and watched as Tiffany slowly sat down before running to Allen's side.

After using water-repelling magic, they jumped into the water one by one. Now only Tiffany and Phyllis's team remained on the shore. Their team had also sensed the magical aura coming from here. Although they had already obtained one, they wanted as many as possible. However, they did not expect that someone had already set their sights on them.

Their team was mostly made up of children from neutral families. Phyllis and Rory got along well, so Phyllis stayed.

Suddenly, a loud "bang" came from the water. The Phyllis team immediately went on alert. Tiff stared at the water's surface. It seemed that Iya and the others had been thrown up by something. They only had wounds on their bodies from being thrown up and scraping against the ground. The Phyllis team members ran to their side. Tiff helped Iya up and asked her what happened.

Before she could answer the calm water, something emerged from the water, splashing water all over everyone's clothes. They then saw what it was: a giant brown python with diamond-shaped patterns, baring its teeth at them.

It seemed to smell something or think Tiffany was a delicious treat, and suddenly it came toward Tiffany, opening its mouth wide to reveal its sharp teeth. The group stared wide-eyed and held their breath.

Phyllis waved his hand, and a huge fireball appeared above his head, flying towards the giant python's mouth. Because the fireball had been so close, they could feel its intense heat.

When the giant python saw the fireball flying towards it, it was not afraid at all. Instead, it opened its mouth even wider and swallowed the fireball whole. After swallowing it, it looked at Phyllis provocatively and swept its tail across the people on the shore. The group quickly used flight magic and flew into the air.

Its tail swept across the shore, knocking down a large number of trees and stirring up dust.

Everyone except Tiff threw attack spells at the giant python one after another, but the python remained unfazed. It hissed and breathed fire, almost setting several people's clothes on fire.

"Boom!" A clap of thunder sounded, and the sky instantly became covered with dark clouds. Rain began to fall in a pattering sound, and then another clap of thunder made their ears ring.

"Damn, why is it raining?" The ill-intentioned person wiped the rain off his face, looking displeased.

Tiff's wounds had not yet healed, and raindrops dripped from her body, with blood dripping down, making her look quite disheveled.

She pointed at the giant python, and a bolt of lightning struck it. It seemed stunned for a moment, but quickly attacked Tiffany. Another bolt of lightning struck it, but this time it wasn't Tiffany who did it, but Phyllis.

It attacked Tiff without regard for anything else, and a sword pierced its left eye. Lorry's hair was already completely soaked in the rain.

Tiff reached out, and everyone thought she was going to conjure lightning again, but she didn't. The whip of lightning wrapped around the python's neck. It tried to break free, but the repeated shocks left it weak. It struggled, whipping its tail, but the whip tightened.

Phyllis was the first to notice; blood was flowing down the python's neck, and the whip was digging deeper and deeper. He looked sharply at Tiffany.

The python felt the thing wrapped around its neck digging into its flesh, its tail thrashing about, until it finally snapped off – not with a whip, but with its head.

Everyone saw its head roll into the lake, its mouth agape, while the "culprit" cast a water-repelling spell on itself and submerged in the water.

Tiff saw the stone underwater, picked it up, and then came out of the water.

The rain stopped, and everyone was on the shore. She walked over to Iya, and when she looked up, Luo Rui looked at her with a complicated expression.

"What are you doing?" The wet feeling on her body made her tone a little impatient.

She couldn't understand why they treated her like this after she had just killed a python. Well, thinking about it carefully, it seemed to have ruined her public image. She couldn't blame them for being so shocked. There were still two months left, and the time was almost up.

“I didn’t expect this…” Luo Rui looked at her, his words unfinished.

"Wow, no wonder she's the daughter of Duke Strych; even severely injured, she can still fight against such a monster." The voice came from behind.

Tiffany turned around, and the man's lips curled up, but there was no smile in his eyes. Behind him was a team of people whose eyes were full of apprehension.

Tiff smiled, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, and collapsed. Iya caught Tiff and called her name.

Seeing Tiffany fall, the man's smile deepened. He took a step forward, but was stopped by Rory.

He asked expressionlessly, "What do you want to do?" From the beginning, he didn't seem like a good person.

After exchanging a glance with the person behind him, the man attacked Luo Rui. Luo Rui blocked the attack, but then someone else attacked him from behind. Luo Rui retreated to the side and discovered that the person who attacked him was the sixth member of their team who had left.

The man and the sixth man exchanged a glance and then attacked Luo Rui together.

Tiff's team of three attacked Iya Allen, and Allen cried out sadly, "I never thought I would misjudge you."

The Phyllis team stood aside, watching them. The person only cared that the Phyllis family was neutral, and therefore had to remain neutral in everything. So when the Phyllis team and the Tiff team were together, they didn't stop them. In any case, they wouldn't interfere unless Phyllis was killed.

Suddenly, a wisp of white mist drifted in. At first, no one noticed, but gradually the mist grew thicker and thicker, and only then did the group realize something was wrong.

"Is this... a fog?" someone asked.

"What? We're so unlucky today. We just encountered the giant python, and now the fog is here too," Iya complained softly, supporting Tiff.

Iya felt a sudden, eerie silence around her. She gripped Tiff tightly, but Tiff seemed to be pulled away, her arm slipping from Iya's grasp.

Iya's heart tightened and she quickly called out, "Miss Tiff."

She stood in the fog and couldn't see anything.

The fog is getting thicker and thicker.