This time, Ellie did not use the projection weapon and then directly release its skills like before, because that was, to a certain extent, just copying the ability of its holder through the weapon, and to a certain extent it was still a kind of magic. If you want to rely entirely on pure divine power to attack, the best way is to summon the spirit itself.

“Shidune!!”

As Ai Li shouted, the girl in white robe raised the dagger in her hand, and then the huge white bear beside her roared and rushed forward, raising its body high and raising its two front paws to smash the monster in front of it. The sharp blade in the monster's hand had no effect at all in front of the white bear. Although it also made a ghostly scream and waved its long sword, the sharp blade did not even leave the slightest scratch on the white bear. Instead, the white bear's front paws smashed down like a giant hammer, smashing the monster in front of it into pieces.

“Gah——!!!”

Perhaps realizing that it was at a critical moment of life and death, the monster screamed and launched a sudden attack. The white bear dodged the counterattack of the shadow monster with an incredibly agile posture. At the same time, the girl in white robe jumped onto the back of the white bear. A bow and arrow appeared in her hand. Then the girl in white robe aimed at the shadow monster, drew the bow and shot an arrow.

The arrow of icy cold pierced through the shadow monster that was swinging its sword recklessly in anger and pain. The cold air exploded and froze it completely. Then the body of the shadow monster suddenly stopped, and then slowly disappeared into the air.

"call……"

At the same time, the spirit summoned by Ellie also disappeared. Only at this time did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Soon after the monster was destroyed, the atmosphere around seemed to return to normal. The huge moon disappeared, and the scene of blood and shadows throughout the city also disappeared, returning to its original tranquility.

After that, Kirijo Mitsuru and the short-haired boy also hurried to find the brown-haired girl and Shiomi Kotone, who were both lying on the ground, and Shiomi Kotone was unconscious. According to the brown-haired girl, they were also attacked by shadow monsters when they left through the back door, and Shiomi Kotone used the brown-haired girl's pistol to summon her own Persona to defeat those monsters, and she herself fell unconscious.

Everyone sent Shiomi Kotone and the short-haired boy to the hospital for treatment. After that, Ai Li returned to the Iwadodai branch and started talking to everyone.

It was not until this time that she finally knew the situation of these people.

The older red-haired woman is called Kirijo Mitsuru. She is the eldest daughter of the Kirijo Group and a member of the Iwatodai branch. She is also a member of a team here called SEES. According to Kirijo Mitsuru, the SEES team was set up specifically to deal with those monsters.

The short-haired boy before was named Akihiko Sanada, and he was considered a companion of Mitsuru Kirijo. The brown-haired girl was Yukari Takeha, a newcomer who had just joined.

As for the middle-aged man wearing glasses, his name is Shuji Kizuki. He is the chairman of Gekkoukan Academy, as well as the director of the Iwatodai branch and the leader of the SEES team.

Artificial Island No. 12 is sparsely populated, with only a few people, so there are only two or three birds in this branch. However, Ellie doesn't care about these. On the contrary, she is more interested in what happened before.

"What happened before?"

But Fang Zheng was behind Ai Li, so she could of course feel that the previous scene was very similar to the seal of the Red World, because in the seal, ordinary people could not move, but in this barrier, ordinary people were just turned into coffins.

In response to Ai Li's question, everyone looked at each other, and then it was Jiuyue Shusi who spoke.

"You don't know, Miss Ellie, we call it Shadow Time, also known as the 25th Hour, because this phenomenon only occurs after 12 o'clock every night and lasts for an hour. During the whole process, as you can see, there will be some strange monsters - we call them shadows, active in this place, and other people will turn into coffins. Only a few people are immune to this phenomenon."

“But this isn’t a good thing.”

Kirijo Mitsuru continued to speak, her face solemn and her expression serious.

"Ordinary people have no ability to protect themselves during the shadow time, and are easily attacked by the shadow. Although they will not die, their spirits will be devoured by the shadow, and then they will become similar to the living dead - we call it 'assertiveness' here. In fact, a considerable number of victims are currently receiving treatment in the hospital."

"How long has this been happening?"

"About ten years."

"ten years?"

Hearing this, Ai Li suddenly had an idea, and recalled that the intelligence she had seen before showed that an accident occurred in the research institute of the Kirijo Group ten years ago, causing many casualties... She looked at Kirijo Mitsuru meaningfully, then retracted her gaze to look at Kirijo Shuji.

"Since you have so much time, why don't you seek help from the artificial island management company?"

"this……"

In response to Ai Li's question, the two looked at each other awkwardly, and then Kirijo Mitsuru whispered.

"We have requested assistance from the artificial island management company several times in a row, and they did send people, but...how should I put it...the shadow time is very selective...if they are not chosen, when the shadow time comes, they will become coffins, and after the shadow time ends, they will not have any memory of that time..."

I see. No wonder there was no result after asking for help several times.

After hearing this, Ai Li understood. Even if the artificial island management company sent someone, if the other party could not move freely in the shadow time, then there would be no difference whether they came or not.

However, this shadow time is much more stringent than the seal. The seal of the Red World can only seal ordinary people, but people with special powers can still enter the seal. But this shadow time seems to only allow certain people to move. You know, Ai Li also asked Ji Yue Shuji and Kirijo Mitsuru that in addition to humans, there are also many elves and orcs living on the 12th artificial island, and they will all turn into coffins when the shadow time comes.

This is much more troublesome. In addition, according to what Ai Li had just seen, the monsters in the shadow time all have a magic immunity barrier similar to Fantasy Breaker, and only physical attacks and summoned Personas can harm them. To be honest, for a moment, Ai Li even thought about whether to transfer the Shigla Glory to check the situation, but according to Ji Yue Shuji, only specially modified instruments can be activated in the shadow time, and it is not known whether the distance of this shadow time includes outer space at the same location. What if the Shigla Glory fails and falls...

That would be a heavy loss.

"What do you think about the cause of Shadow Time?"

Ellie thought for a moment, and finally decided not to take the risk of Shigla's Glory for the time being. At the same time, she looked at everyone and asked, and this time it was Jiyue Shusi who answered Ellie's question.

"Of course, we found that every time Shadow Time appeared, a strange tower would appear in the center of the twelfth artificial island at the same time. We called it Tartarus."

"Oh? Have you ever investigated that tower?"

"We would like to investigate, but..."

In response to Ai Li's question, both Katsuki Shuji and Kirijo Mitsuru looked embarrassed.

"At present, there are only two people in the SEES team, Kirijo and Sanada. Yue Yu has just joined and has no combat power yet... and the closer we get to the tower, the stronger the combat power of the shadows will be..."

Having said this, Kirijo Mitsuru also became serious.

“And, we think, there’s a good chance this tower has something to do with that late night TV!”

"oh?"

After hearing what Kirijo Mitsuru said, Ai Li immediately perked up.

"What's going on?"

"It's like this. Akihiko and I once explored that tower before, but at that time, the depths of the tower were covered in fog. We couldn't see our fingers when we stretched out our hands, and we couldn't see clearly what was inside. To be cautious, Akihiko and I didn't go deep into it. But when we went to explore again after that, the fog disappeared, and a door appeared instead."

"Door?"

"Yes, Mingyan and I have been in there before. It's... very strange inside. I can't explain it in detail, but it doesn't feel like a normal place. We also want to find out what's inside, but there are only two of us. The shadows behind the door are powerful and numerous. Mingyan and I can't break through alone. Mingyan was even injured during the exploration, so we had to evacuate in the end."

Speaking of this, Kirijo Mitsuru looked a little dejected.

"Soon after that, we learned about the congressman's death. When we went to look at the door again, we found that it had disappeared again and was shrouded in fog again. So we think that there is a high possibility that the late-night TV show has something to do with Tartarus. We are not capable of exploring it in depth, so we asked the artificial island management company for help again, hoping to send a magician to investigate the matter."

"So you think the scene shown on late night TV will take place in that tower?"

Ellie narrowed her eyes and tapped the table lightly with her fingers.

"I see. It seems that this matter is indeed very difficult... Well, I will handle this problem."