The blood moon is the only hunting signal in the Night Realm.
When the moon turns scarlet, it means that the ancient blood contract is about to be fulfilled, and it also means that death is about to come.
And this time, the target of the Blood Moon Hunting Ground is a "free group of fallen people" on the border of the Night Realm - heretics who once escaped from the Fallen Camp.
Fallen people killing fallen people, this is the cheapest and cleanest "way of handling" in the eyes of the Council.
Su Yue stood on the edge of the canyon, looking up at the moon that was about to turn red.
She is no longer the helpless girl half a month ago. The activation of the blood seal of the fallen people in her body has made her five senses, reaction, speed, and combat power have a qualitative leap.
"Are you sure you are ready?"
Noa leaned beside her, flicking the longbow in her hand, with a careless light in her eyes.
"I have no choice." Su Yue replied.
"You always have a choice, Yue. It's just... every choice is stained with blood."
She smiled faintly, then turned and jumped off the cliff, like a silver arrow breaking through the air, falling into the hunting ground.
The forest at the border of the Night Realm is deep and humid, wrapping all sounds like a living thing.
The Fallen Camp sent out three teams this time. Su Yue and Noah were assigned to the "Shadow Blade Group" to be responsible for peripheral cleaning and reconnaissance.
"Report, the main force is approaching the target area, and no trace of the wanderer has been found."
"Pay attention to keep the mind frequency synchronized to prevent information shielding."
"Tonight is a full moon, and the target may have been moved in advance."
Su Yue felt a little uneasy as whispers of communication between teams kept coming to her ears.
Her blood mark was slightly hot - that was a sign that danger was about to come.
And the next moment, she finally understood why.
"Hiss--!!"
A strange roar sounded in the forest, and a monster with a twisted body, wearing wolf skin but with blood fangs pounced on her!
"Is that... a failed Fallen?" Noah's eyes widened.
It is not an ordinary Fallen, but a product of the failed experiment of the Council, an "abandoned disciple" who was exiled to the border.
"They use these things... to cleanse us?" Su Yue's anger rose.
She finally understood that this "Blood Moon Hunting Ground" was not hunting at all, but slaughter.
And the prey was the newly born Fallen who had activated the blood mark.
The battle broke out instantly, and the fire, roar, and screams in the forest intertwined into one.
The Shadow Blade Group suffered heavy losses, and the only six people left were forced to break out separately. Su Yue protected a seriously injured team member and evacuated, but was besieged by three Fallen beasts.
"Hey, only those who are alive are qualified for revenge!" Noah shot an arrow through the enemy shadow and grabbed her shoulder, "Go this way!"
"You go first, I'll cover you!"
"No——"
Noah's eyes froze, and she finally saw the blood mark on Su Yue's right hand emerging.
It was a black rose that looked like moonlight, with pale gold lines burning between the petals.
"The Seal of the Fallen: Unsealed."
Su Yue whispered the spell, and the next second, the world suddenly changed!
With her as the center, a blood moon totem rose, covering a radius of ten meters. All the fallen beasts that approached screamed, twitched, and turned into blood mist as if they were burned by flames.
It was a destructive force beyond ordinary fallen beasts, derived from the deepest secrets of her bloodline.
"She actually activated that move..." Ethan said in a deep voice on the high ground in the distance.
Lilith stood beside him, with a rare serious expression:
"Do you know what this means?"
"She will no longer be a fallen beast."
"But... 'Son of the Blood Moon'."
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Son of the Blood Moon, that is the "seed of the end" in the mythology of the Night Clan in the old times.
It is said that every five hundred years, a mixed-blood favored by the blood moon will be born in the night world, whose blood can control day and night, and whose soul can control the two worlds. He will rule the blood clan and the wolf clan, and even break the "natural moat agreement" between the two clans.
But that is just a myth, until today -
Su Yue stood alive in the blood array, controlling the blood and fire, and the frozen black shadows.
Ethan finally understood that the baby left in the world that night was never accidental.
She was chosen by fate -
No, she was the existence that fate feared.
The battle ended, and the forest was scorched.
Noa looked at the corpses all over the ground and whispered: "We were betrayed by the parliament."
"It's a cleansing plan. They are afraid that the fallen are too strong." Su Yue looked up, and her eyes were different from before.
"So what should we do?"
Su Yue did not answer.
But she raised her hand to help the wounded of the Shadow Blade Team one by one and took them away.
She knew that if she chose to escape now, she could survive.
But if she took these wounded back... it would be a provocation to the order of the parliament.
She made a choice.
As night fell again, Su Yue led seven members of the Fallen Camp back to the main camp.
The whole camp fell into silence.
"You violated the order and brought back the cleansing target." The supervisor said coldly.
"This is my decision." Su Yue responded.
"You are not qualified to make the decision."
Just as the situation was about to break out, a familiar figure appeared.
Ethan came in a black robe with an indifferent look in his eyes: "I approve of her decision."
"You are no longer the leader of the Night Guard." The supervisor said angrily.
"I am now the 'Special Judge of the Night Realm', directly under the highest seat of the parliament."
One sentence shocked the whole audience.
He protected Su Yue and used this identity to forcibly terminate the "Fallen Cleansing Plan".
But Su Yue knew that this was only temporary.
Deep in the night, Su Yue sat alone on the top of the tower.
She held the pale golden blood mark in her hand, and the blood resonated slightly when her fingertips touched it.
She finally understood why her mother never told her everything.
Her fate was never a choice.
But... a destined igniter.