Chapter 2375: Fog, Bridge, and Stranger

"If even justice is..."

"Don't be so pessimistic."

Xia De interrupted her again, his eyes once again fixed on the blonde maid's pupils:

"Justice is not absolute, so we don't know if our actions are correct. But that doesn't matter; as long as one can do it with a clear conscience and strive to become that beam of light that guides more people, then one can call oneself just."

"Do you think you are just?"

She thought for a while, and there were some unclear meanings in her eyes.

"I am of course not just; justice is really too heavy. But at least for now, 【Eternal Light】 is just on the surface. I admire their ideals; as for their methods, I will not evaluate them."

He smiled at Matilda again, but did not see the blush on her cheeks hidden by her hanging hair.

"Justice is pale and cold, but our souls are hot. Deliberately pursuing justice is meaningless; understanding principles, matching words with deeds, not bullying the weak, and appropriately reaching out to help others—that is enough."

He continued to look at the opera house building, and the blonde maid standing behind him nodded gently. For a moment, she felt that she seemed to understand what her master saw in the man in front of her.

Although the opera house had a back door, Mr. Lean and Mr. Ronan changed out of their white robes and walked out of the main entrance in casual clothes.

They first walked east along the street at the entrance of the opera house together. Two intersections later, the ordinary person Mr. Lean left by carriage, while Mr. Ronan continued to walk east.

Under the cover of the thick glowing fog and illusions, Xia De and Matilda followed him from a distance. This Sixth Tier gentleman did not take a detour, but walked straight ahead with a clear goal. Soon he came to the banks of the Taton River, then continued south along the riverside street, and walked onto the bridge deck at the entrance of the Moon Bay Bridge, which had not yet been completed.

Although it was Wednesday afternoon, because of this thick fog, the Moon Bay Bridge was temporarily suspended, and there was no one on the bridge at this time.

Although puzzled about what he wanted to do, Xia De and Matilda still followed.

The bridge deck had not yet been joined, so Mr. Ronan could of course not walk to the other side of the bridge. So this gentleman belonging to 【Eternal Light】 stepped onto the bridge and followed the scaffolding used by workers to climb toward the upper level of the bridge like an ape.

"Can you fly?"

Xia De asked the miss beside him in a low voice, and the latter shook her head slightly:

"Same as the miss."

The interval between the upper and lower levels of the Moon Bay Bridge was about 141 feet (about 43 meters), a distance that had exceeded the 20m limit of Lagley's Jump.

But this could not stump Xia De. They stood in place watching the Sixth Tier Shushi board the upper level of the bridge before Xia De signaled the miss beside him to hug him:

"You must not let go; this is not a joke."

Just hesitating for a moment, the maid miss faced him and reached out to hug Xia De's waist. Even though she knew this was nothing, she still felt her heart beating rapidly at this moment.

The memory of that night that frequently appeared in her dreams recently surged into her mind again. The maid miss's face turned red as if it were on fire. She was worried that Xia De would discover her strangeness, but Xia De was just struggling with whether to tell her that he meant for her to hug him from behind:

"Forget it, just like this."

The "Wind Vane Blue Grass" extract was dripped onto the tip of his tongue, and then he threw out the frog leg. One hand hugged Matilda's waist, and one hand threw out a playing card upward. After bending over slightly, he kicked hard and jumped upward as if flying.

Squinting his eyes and staring at the higher place, after estimating that the distance was suitable, he took a step forward in the air:

"Lagley's Jump!"

The two appeared out of thin air 20 meters above their heads, stepped on the playing card he had just thrown up, jumped forward again, and thus stood steadily on the upper level of the bridge.

He very gentlemanly took the initiative to let go of the hand that was hugging the miss, and Matilda took a beat before remembering to let go of Xia De.

She took a step to the side, and then saw Xia De raise his left hand. A playing card flew in the fog with a swoosh and was clamped in Xia De's hand. He said to the blonde miss who was still blushing:

"Let's go, let's see what Mr. Ronan actually wants to do."

The thick glowing white fog not only blocked the vision of Mr. Ronan walking in front, but also blocked the vision of Xia De and the two. Fortunately, Xia De relied on the document-level relic 【Crow's Eye】 harvested in the Crow's Nest after hunting demons, which could barely see through the fog and see Mr. Ronan's figure still in front.

And compared to the lower level of the bridge that was nearing completion, the upper level of the bridge, which was densely covered with scaffolding on the sides, obviously still had a lot of work to do. However, due to construction requirements, the extension distance of the upper and lower levels of the bridge on the west bank of the Taton River was the same.

Walking on the steel plate under his feet made a rhythmic sound. Mr. Ronan did not walk long before stopping at the end of the bridge deck.

The blurred figure no longer moved in the fog, but Xia De suddenly raised his hand to block Matilda beside him:

"There is a second person."

Another figure appeared beside Mr. Ronan without warning. The obstruction of the fog made Xia De completely unable to see the other person's appearance clearly, and the newly appeared Ringed Shushi obviously saw their figures:

"Two, following to here is enough. I don't know what plans you have, but don't follow any further."

The voice was very blurred, and it was even difficult to distinguish gender.

Xia De took a small step forward, protecting the maid miss behind him, his eyes fixed on that brand-new figure:

"Our plan has already succeeded; look, haven't you already appeared?"

"Do you know who I am?"

The blurred figure asked, and Xia De shook his head slightly:

"Of course I don't, but since Mr. Ronan, who is a priest, is seeking help from you, you obviously occupy a more core position in 【Eternal Light】. Speaking of which, can you tell us how we were discovered?"

"If you can tell us the identities of the two of you, I of course don't mind solving your doubts."

That blurred figure asked. Xia De's eyes were gradually adapting to the thick fog. He glanced at the small bat symbol floating above that figure's head—this ability came directly from the God of Blood and had extremely high priority. After hesitating, he reached his hand into his pocket, and then took out a long sword that was absolutely impossible to put into the pocket.

The surface of the long sword was densely covered with dragon scale patterns; this was the "Dragon Scale Long Sword" Xia De carried on the night he followed Miss Belindel out of the city and encountered the werewolf. The long sword was strengthened by dragon scale coins in the 【Earth Core Furnace】; although it was not as good as a relic, it was also a top-notch alchemical weapon.

The blurred figure on the edge of the bridge also noticed Xia De taking out the weapon, so that figure nodded gently, and then reached out to grab a streak of blood light from the fog:

"Alright, you won't give up without a fight. No matter which side you two belong to, I won't kill you. 【Eternal Light】 has no intention of getting involved in the major events this city is about to face, so if you lose, don't investigate us anymore."

He waved his hand to signal Mr. Ronan not to participate, and then said to Xia De and the two:

"You come together."

Although the tone was big, as the sound of bells and whistles rang out from the thick fog, the Ringed Circle floating behind that figure actually looked like it was only at the Sixth or Seventh Tier level.

The glowing fog was really too thick, and Xia De could not even see what the spiritual runes belonging to him were.

The blurred figure then disappeared as abruptly as he had just appeared, but this was not spatial movement. Losing the other party's figure also meant losing the trace of the small bat symbol above his head. Xia De, who had fully opened his perception, raised his right foot and stepped on the bridge deck, first using the "Spatial Stability Halo," and then his eyes captured a bloodstain slashing from his right side.

The bloodstain in the vast thick fog was as conspicuous as ink. Xia De did not use the long sword in his right hand to meet it head-on; his left hand slashed, and the blood-colored moonlight collided with that bloodstain, and then he pulled Matilda behind him and retreated, appearing 20 meters away.

And at the position where they were originally standing, three piercing spears made of pure white light pierced out from under the bridge deck. And as those three piercing spears scattered into light spots and merged into the fog, the light in the stirred thick fog seemed to be extracted and gathered, until it gathered into that glowing blurred figure.

"Illusion? Clone?"

The blonde maid asked softly, and her own Sixth Tier Ringed Circle had already appeared behind her. And at this distance, Xia De also saw that the Ringed Circle behind the figure 20 meters away was also Sixth Tier, but that Ringed Circle was not made of brass, but constructed of pure white light.

"I don't know either."

Xia De answered. The small bat symbol was still floating above that figure's head, so this was at least not an illusion.

"Take care of yourself."

"Yes, master."

He was a bit surprised by this answer, but at this time he could not care about thinking about it.

His left hand flicked, and the Great Sin Chain shot toward the thick fog in front like a long snake. That figure obviously did not want to touch the chain, and the figure scattered into light again to avoid the chain, and then appeared directly beside Xia De.

The blood light in the hands of the blurred glowing figure had obvious whispers elements, but it was wrapped in light and could not be seen clearly. The blood light collided with Xia De's long sword. Under the condition that Xia De's strength was dominant, a crack appeared on the surface of the Dragon Scale Sword with a click.

He had no time to complain that he didn't have a chance to bring a holy sword for today's occasion. His empty left hand flicked the chain to sweep across, but the glowing figure scattered again to avoid the chain. He appeared on Xia De's side again and slashed with another sword. This time, with a click sound, the Dragon Scale Sword broke into two pieces directly.

The tip of the sword spun and flew under the bridge deck, and Xia De, who disappeared in place, also avoided the edge of that blood light. He appeared behind the glowing figure, and the blood-colored moonlight short blade stabbed at the opponent's back.

The short blade successfully hit the target, but the moonlight entered the body, and Xia De actually felt that the power of his spiritual weapon had been absorbed by a part, and then the short blade shattered like glass. ===== CHAPTER 2376 =====