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Shadows and darkness.
Inside and outside the house.
Both figures held their breath.
Suddenly.
"Boom... rumble... rumble..."
Thunder came from afar.
No... a battle was unfolding near the High Tower.
Blinding thunderbolts swept across the entire Ramore Tower City-State with the sound of thunder.
Almost synchronized with the thunder, Tuck fired a shot.
"Bang!"
Bullet Tentacles fell into the depths of darkness, generating slight ripples.
A barrage of meteorites plummeted at the spot where Tuck had stood.
Tuck silently retreated into the shadows beneath the trees.
Boom...
Boom...
The ground was blasted open with several holes, neither too large nor too small.
The holes were not important; what mattered was the black fire within them.
One could see black flames condensing into palm-sized scorpions,
The scorpions, fluttering rapidly into the shadows, disappeared in the blink of an eye.
A flurry of gunshots followed one after another.
Bang bang bang...
