Besides adult, child, and couple tickets, the amusement park also offered regular and VIP tickets. Regular tickets required queuing, while VIP tickets allowed skipping the line, but at a higher price. But with the current trend, most visitors were willing to pay extra just to enjoy the rides sooner. Wouldn’t that mean everyone was a VIP, which was the same as everyone having a regular ticket, and they still had to queue? The amusement park company made all the profit. Even worse, in the future, they might even offer VVIP tickets, allowing skipping the line even for VIPs and adding other extra services. That would be disgusting. Damn capitalists! Wait, my girlfriends are also capitalists...never mind.

Anyway, Adele and the others naturally bought VIP tickets.

“Ugh, there are so many people...” Sharon, although having adapted to academy life, still showed slight social anxiety outside of school and whispered, moving closer to Adele.

“It’s okay, there are many rides, and it’s just a normal weekend, not a holiday,” Celeste comforted her. “So we should be able to ride everything we want.”

Adele also asked, “Sharon, what do you want to ride? Something exciting or something gentle? I’ll go with you~.”

Sharon, suddenly addressed, was flattered. After all, Adele was surrounded by girls who liked her, and among them, Sharon considered herself the most inconspicuous. So receiving Adele’s attention made her overjoyed.

“I...I like the Ferris wheel.”

“A-Also, I wasn’t the one who sent the anonymous message!” Sharon shouted, her face flushed, so as not to make Adele think in a strange direction. As for why she still chose the Ferris wheel...because before, when she was still obsessed and entered Adele’s dreams, she had already done everything with Adele that couples would do, except for...that. Like having dinner together, shopping, watching movies, going to amusement parks... Sharon could make her dreams almost indistinguishable from reality. So when she went to the amusement park with Adele in her dreams, she had almost tried every ride. Sharon was afraid of fast roller coasters that gave you a falling sensation, and the gentle and quiet Ferris wheel, suitable for gazing into each other’s eyes and kissing, was her favorite. Of course...she hadn’t kissed Adele in her dreams. She was good at hypnosis, but what she wanted was Adele’s true feelings. Even though she, who craved sincerity, gave Adele a fake dream at that time.

But now, all that was gone with the wind, the past was the past. Sharon had returned to reality and truly had the chance to go to the amusement park with Adele. Just fulfilling this wish alone made Sharon feel like she was in a dream.

“Pfft~” Adele chuckled.

“I don’t care about that anymore, silly.” Or rather, that was proof of Adele’s dominant status! She even wanted to take a screenshot to commemorate it.

“The Ferris wheel is more romantic at night, so let’s go on other rides first.”

“Then we can ride the Ferris wheel together and enjoy the night view in the evening!” Adele declared.

Everyone immediately agreed. But since staying together would waste everyone’s time and experience, Adele, while waiting for her warm milk tea in a milk tea shop, discussed splitting into smaller groups. For now, only the Ferris wheel was a group activity. Besides that, everyone could go play whatever they liked. But this didn’t mean they wouldn’t communicate after splitting up. Of course not, after all, everyone wanted to be with Adele, and everyone was jealous of others being with Adele. So they secretly agreed that every hour, a different group would stay with Adele! And there was a special rule: Xiao Ai would always be with Adele. This was a special treatment that even First Snow didn’t get.

First Snow meowed in protest, but everyone ignored her.

Since they left for the amusement park at noon, after arriving and buying milk tea, it was just one o’clock in the afternoon. Then the members of the Adele Party formed groups according to their closeness.

First group: Adele, Xiao Ai, First Snow

Second group: Celeste, Tang Linlang

Third group: Dorothy, Edith

Fourth group: Hermione, Sharon

Fifth group: Kaiser, Wofoo

Starting from one o’clock, each group was allowed to stay with Adele for an hour in order. That is, from one to two o’clock, they would play according to the above group order. And from two to three o’clock, Celeste and Tang Linlang, as members of the second group, could find Adele and Xiao Ai through Adele’s location shared in the group chat and then join them. Then the third group would take over from the second group in the next time slot.

It sounded complicated, but it couldn’t be helped. Adele was a cuddle monster! Or rather, it was surprising that they could even get along harmoniously together. Adele’s training skills are quite good...

After agreeing on all this, everyone split up in front of the milk tea shop, truly scattered like stars in the sky.

The weather was clear that day, the air cool, the sun warm, with bustling crowds and a gentle breeze. Everyone was filled with laughter, thinking that this happy time could last forever.

Until evening came, the distant sunset clouds gradually darkened, the moonlight replacing the sunlight, the sky starless. Large, dark clouds began to gather in the sky, but the weather forecast didn’t mention rain, so few people noticed or cared.

Everyone stopped before the amusement park’s landmark, the largest Ferris wheel in the Eastern Capital. There was a limit to the number of people in each Ferris wheel cabin, so Adele had to divide everyone into two groups, one with Adele and one without. This way, they could all enjoy the city’s night view from the Ferris wheel.

But this time, to Adele’s surprise, instead of becoming more competitive, everyone suddenly became very polite. Besides Xiao Ai and First Snow, who were always with Adele, there should be three more spots left in Adele’s group. First, Hermione coldly said that she would take the next group. Then it was Edith.

“With my status...I should also take the next group.” She still seemed a bit guilty about her previous inappropriate thoughts towards Adele.

Celeste blinked. “I’ll follow Master’s arrangements.” Celeste and Adele’s master-servant relationship was now public. But for some reason, besides a slight surprise, everyone else was just envious! Adele: You guys have a problem! Celeste thought she would be looked down upon, but even Hermione gave her a look filled with complicated emotions, as if saying, “I haven’t even played that kind of game with Adele, and you already have, damn it...“.

“I’ll also listen to Adele,” Tang Linlang echoed Celeste. She was also the uncompetitive type, so occasionally, Adele needed to take the initiative to be close to her, so she wouldn’t feel neglected.

“I’ll take the second group...” Sharon said weakly at this time. She had a hidden reason: she had been to the amusement park with Adele in her dreams before. So she felt that she also bore a “sin” and couldn’t be in the same Ferris wheel cabin with Adele, her “savior.”

Kaiser was speechless. She had planned to be the first to shout, “I’m taking the spot next to Adele!” even if it meant being criticized by everyone. But the result was unexpected. When did these people become so polite and yielding!? If she spoke up now, wouldn’t she be outshined? Kaiser bit her thumb, thinking, Damn it, could it be that these people planned this in advance to gain favor with Adele? If that’s the case, then I’ll play along too.

“I-I also volunteer to be in the second group.” And Wofoo, seeing that even Kaiser had said so, immediately followed her lead, “I’ll be with Kaiser, watching Adele from afar...is enough.”

“Ahhh, why are you all like this!?”

“Am I being abandoned!?”

“No way!”

“Definitely not!” Everyone said in unison, and many curiously looked at this group of beautiful girls, wondering if they were current idols filming a show? Because they were all so stunningly beautiful, each with their own unique charm, radiating youthful brilliance, making people only dare to steal glances, afraid to look directly, lest they feel inferior. But there were no cameras around.

Ignoring the passersby’s perspective, the solution Adele came up with was for her and Xiao Ai to be the ones making the “sacrifice.” The mother and daughter would ride the Ferris wheel twice, each time with a different group of girls, perfectly solving the problem. The first round would be Dorothy, Hermione, Edith, Kaiser, and Sharon, the so-called “Sequence One group.” The second round would be Celeste, Tang Linlang, First Snow, and Wofoo. Everyone agreed to this.

Thus, Adele’s Ferris wheel journey officially began. First, they queued to board the spacious cabin, then waited for the announcement that the doors were closed. Amidst a strange mix of nervousness, anticipation, and excitement, the Ferris wheel’s mechanical arm slowly started moving with a rumble, carrying the heavy cabin filled with girls towards the distant, dreamlike sky to enjoy the city’s dazzling night view.

Inside the slowly rising cabin, Adele and the others were cheerful and excited, completely unaware of the impending danger. Clearly, in the hunter’s eyes, the perfect stage had been set, and the time had come.

The dark clouds in the sky thickened, gradually obscuring the moon. Hermione was the first to notice this anomaly. Unlike Adele and the others, who had been looking at the night view and chatting and laughing, she had been observing the strange movement of the clouds in the sky. If this wasn’t a normal natural weather phenomenon, then...Hermione gritted her teeth, not daring to think further. Because if it was really as she suspected, this was the work of a True Ancestor-level elemental vampire, using their peak elemental power to communicate with all the elements in the world, even at the cost of their own elementalization, to achieve perfect fusion, turning the entire world into their domain, summoning wind and rain with a wave of their hand, even controlling thunder, ice, snow, flames...any terrifying phenomenon was possible!

She didn’t dare to think further, but the disastrous reality still unfolded before her eyes. In the distant sky, a fierce wind began to gather, quickly forming a massive tornado that reached the sky. And in the center of the elemental tornado, a man in a black robe could be vaguely seen, his eyes emitting a blood-red, demonic light from beneath his hood.

“Boom!” Another tornado rose from the ground. Then a third, a fourth! The tornadoes, positioned in the north, south, east, and west, blocked everything from the outside, turning the inside into True Ancestor Ron’s domain, where he could control any element at will.

At that moment, the entire amusement park was plunged into darkness, rain, and raging currents. Dark clouds churned like dragons in the sky, torrential rain poured down, countless lightning bolts flashed, and thunder rumbled deafeningly. Wild grass grew rapidly on the ground, going through decades of growth and decay in just a few seconds. All exits were blocked by ice, snow, vines, flames, sand... The amusement park instantly turned into a chaotic hell on earth. Everyone was fleeing, but there was nowhere to escape. The four elemental tornadoes perfectly locked down the entire amusement park.

Even without flames, ice, snow, vines, and sand, a blurry, viscous wall seemed to appear in the air before the visitors. They couldn’t pass through it. Those who tried quickly found their bodies being eroded by the elements. Some had their blood vessels frozen, their blood splattering out and turning into sharp icicles. Some had their skin burned, followed by terrible scars. Some even had a blood-red rose growing from their chests. Screams and cries of terror filled the air.

At this critical moment, a rapier, carrying the powers of “Piercing” and “Never Miss,” arrived. The ice wall before the petite, black-haired girl instantly cracked and shattered, exploding outwards from the point of impact.

“I’ve opened a path through the domain,” the girl whispered.

“This is the weakest point of the domain’s defense, no...there’s no defense at all.”

“It’s just that the elements in this spatial domain are subconsciously following that supreme will, blocking everyone, preventing anyone from escaping.” However, even so, it took the girl some effort to break through this ice wall. As expected of a True Ancestor’s power, even a slight aftereffect is terrifying.

The girl’s cool words were transmitted through a black dot attached to her collar, heard by the person on the other end of the walkie-talkie. It was a woman standing at the open door of a helicopter under the thunderclouds, her expression calm, her gaze fixed on the formed elemental spatial domain. Within it, True Ancestor Ron was almost god-like.

“I know all this,” the woman said in a calm tone that even Wen Weiran hadn’t expected.

A hesitant voice came from the other end of the headset, “Director, you seem very calm?”

“It’s not calmness, it’s just that getting agitated won’t help.” The person called “Director” was none other than Ms. Yashi, who often wore a top hat and a smart uniform. She chuckled softly into the walkie-talkie. Although it was inappropriate, Wen Weiran understood that the Director wanted her to relax, even though they were about to face a hellish disaster. But hell had already descended upon earth, and the people on earth had to keep going.

Yashi looked at the scene, her thoughts racing, as if returning to that night many years ago when she was still young. It was also an elemental cage like this. True Ancestor Ron, always low-key and almost invisible among the True Ancestors, defied the heavens. He ignored the changes in the current environment, that it was no longer the Mythical Era when people could truly reach that realm and become gods, and still resolutely embarked on his ascension journey.

No one knew what he relied on or what gave him such confidence. But as enforcers protecting humanity, they would never allow him to succeed. Countless people fought desperately, openly and secretly, and the Enforcement Bureau executives whom Yashi called seniors all perished. At the cost of great sacrifice, True Ancestor Ron’s ascension failed, and he himself suffered a severe backlash, his body irreversibly elementalizing. After that, True Ancestor Ron disappeared for a long time, only becoming active again within the Vampire Clan in recent years.

It was truly a cycle of fate. Back then, Yashi, as a junior, was only allowed to act on the edge of the True Ancestor’s domain, protecting the crowd, only able to watch as familiar figures went to their deaths one after another. Now it was her turn to put into practice what she learned from that last lesson taught by her seniors with their lives.

Static came from the walkie-talkie. Wen Weiran frowned slightly, directing the crowd to evacuate orderly through the gap in the ice wall while trying to find a place with a better signal to receive the Director’s instructions. She was currently only allowed to act on the outer edge of the True Ancestor’s domain, responsible for evacuating the crowd. And outside, more ability users from various cities and departments were being mobilized to mitigate the impact of this incident. They would have a harder time than her. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Finally, the walkie-talkie regained its signal, and Director Yashi’s usual elegant yet slightly playful, but reassuring voice came through, “Weiran, stay outside.”

“Never go inside.”

“But...”

“No buts, are ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) you disobeying the Director’s orders~?”

“Silly, you just need to watch carefully.”

“Everyone has their own responsibilities and things they must do.”

“Each generation has its own mission.”

“Finally, a question for you, Weiran.”

“Do you think the current world is good?”

“...I don’t know, but even someone with a strange temper like me can be respected at the academy, and I have seniors who trust and care about me.” The image of Senior Li Lige, with her long black hair and gentle smile, flashed in Wen Weiran’s mind.

“And some...very interesting people.” This time, it was Adele’s image.

“Because of them, I think the current world is pretty good.”

“So, I don’t want it to become bad, as bad as it is today, right now.”

“I want to protect those leisurely and peaceful daily lives.”

“Even if they have nothing to do with me.”

“Hehe~ Such heroic words from a little girl.”

“It’s so good. My seniors were all rigid and inflexible.”

“With you here, I’m much more at ease about the future of the Enforcement Bureau.”

Wen Weiran’s brows were still slightly furrowed. “Do you have to say such dramatic, farewell-like lines...?”

“Haha, is it that obvious?”

“I just thought, at a time like this, it would be a loss not to say something.”

“Then wait until you return safely to be noisy, Director.”

“...I didn’t expect you to be so good at comforting people.”

“Who said the Student Council President was cold and heartless?”

“Well, whatever, Weiran, wait for me to come back.” Before Weiran could say “I will,” the walkie-talkie’s signal was lost in the thick dark clouds.

On the helicopter, the woman spread her arms, feeling the strong wind. The next moment, she jumped towards the ground far below.

She didn’t need a parachute. A mysterious force held her up, letting her fall feet first. Yashi even covered her top hat with her hand. This wasn’t because she was worried about her hair, but because she carried her elegance through every detail of her life. Although the wind obeyed True Ancestor Ron’s command, the airflow was like putty in Yashi’s hands. So she could move through the air and rain at an astonishing speed, leaping and stepping like in a classic rain-themed movie scene.

The center of the True Ancestor’s domain was undoubtedly the Ferris wheel, now stationary and devoid of lights, like a ruin or a giant, unyielding corpse. However, to Yashi’s surprise, someone had arrived before her, before those who monitored the entire city, facing Ron’s terrifying aura and power. And the newcomer wasn’t a stranger to Yashi. It was Victoria, the legendary mage who lived in ancient times but was revived in the modern era. Her long blue hair and mage robes fluttered in the wind and rain, the last glimmer of light in the world. And behind her, a cabin at the highest point of the Ferris wheel swayed precariously.