Being targeted by the masquerade party, Tang Hao knew that this was a big problem. Alastor also reminded him that once he became the target of the masquerade party, they would never give up easily. So after returning home, from the second day onwards, Tang Hao reduced some unnecessary activities and tried to improve his own existence and research on the Freedom Technique in order to face the onslaught of the masquerade party in the near future.
But what Tang Hao didn't expect was that the masquerade party would come so soon.
On the fourth evening after the end of the Battle of the Thousand Changes, Tang Hao and Youzhu walked out of the campus side by side under the envious and jealous eyes of countless students.
While studying the Freedom Technique, he also had to pay attention to the cause and effect of Shana. And in this limited time and scope, Tang Hao, who wasn't an idol, didn't have a way to greatly increase his popularity, so he chose to hype up on the original basis — scandals.
Just like in the modern entertainment industry, compared to which movie stars would appear in or what activities they would do next, fans, paparazzi, and the masses were more concerned about the private lives of these stars. And these stars and the companies behind them also took advantage of the situation, or took advantage of the situation to bring the story out of the show, performing all kinds of scandals …
For example, today this person was in love with someone, tomorrow that person broke up with someone, and the day after that which couple was exposed as the third party. In short, in order to attract the attention of fans and the masses, they did their best. If there was a scandal, they would go on. If there wasn't a scandal, they would create a scandal.
Although this kind of behavior messed up the atmosphere of the entire entertainment industry, it had to be said that the effect was quite amazing. Because as soon as a scandal appeared, the paparazzi would be the first to expose and publish it. Fans would quickly forward and follow it, and then haters who didn't like the star would spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain, saying things like "so-and-so, you're wearing Pinru's clothes again". Then, fans and haters would fight on Weibo, forums, and other places, pushing this scandal to the top. Occasionally, there might even be a lawyer's letter warning, causing passersby who had no interest in this to be bombarded by the hot topic, becoming a bit of gossip after a meal. Later, when the scolding war escalated, it would also lead the masses who already hated the current entertainment industry to criticize it, saying how terrible the current entertainment industry was, how stupid the current stars were, and so on …
With this series of developments, it was no longer important whether the scandal was real or fake. This was because the main characters in the scandal had long been on the hot search list, attracting a lot of attention. Whether it was fans, haters, or unrelated masses, they all contributed to the main characters' traffic. As for being scolded or praised, it didn't matter. After all, traffic was king.
Of course, in order to carry out such hype, there needed to be a very strong operation team. Tang Hao was alone, so it was obviously impossible. Fortunately, he and Youzhu were born with a high foundation. One was a peerless handsome guy, while the other was a high mountain flower. They were originally the people who received the most attention in this school. As long as they sat together after class, chatted for a while, had a small meal, or casually made a few intimate movements, the gossipers would quickly spread the news about them.
Then, from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, the rumor that the two were passionately in love also became a reality.
Because of this, there were even many people who were sick these days. There were men and women, and there were a few in Tang Hao's class. There were even some girls who cried and asked him, "Teacher, did you really abandon classmate Sakai?"
Regarding these comments, Tang Hao ignored them and continued to act in the scandal with Youzhu.
"It seems that it has become a little troublesome."
After walking out of the school gate, Youzhu sighed. She was used to being alone. Pretending to be a health teacher to receive attention from the students was already her limit. Now, with this scandal, she received even more attention. She was even being followed on the road, which really made her uncomfortable.
"It's okay, just bear with it. At least the returns are not bad. I feel that my strength has increased a lot these two days." Tang Hao laughed. As the saying goes, a shameless person is invincible. He didn't care at all about the scandal between him and Youzhu in the school. No matter what, it was a hundred times better than the scandal with Sakai Yuji.
Of course, he swore to God that he had no intention of making the scandal real.
Youzhu silently sighed. Feeling that there were not many people behind her, she was about to speak when suddenly …
"Hey, look, don't the clouds in the sky look a little strange?"
"It's true, it's amazing. Everyone look!"
Two girls' voices came from not far away. Tang Hao and Youzhu looked up and saw that in the sky, the clouds that were originally flowing with the wind suddenly seemed to have a life of their own. They moved in all kinds of incredible trajectories and put together strange symbols, attracting everyone's attention. Some students even took out their phones to take pictures.
But Tang Hao frowned …
"It's Freedom Style!"
Tang Hao heard the voice and turned around. He didn't know when, but Shana was already standing behind him.
"When did you come?" Tang Hao subconsciously asked.
Shana suddenly raised her eyebrows, "Are you trying to say that because I'm too small, you can't even see me?"
"Uh, I didn't think so …"
"I see." Youzhu showed a look of realization. No wonder she felt that there were fewer people staring at her just now. It was because of Shana. Shana's popularity in the school wasn't as high as hers and Tang Hao's. After all, this era hadn't formed a national trend of being a lolicon. On the contrary, because of Shana's hot temper, more people respected her.
So, with Shana's arrival, some students naturally scattered like birds and beasts.
Of course, this was just an insignificant point. At this time, everyone's eyes were still fixed on the clouds in the sky.
"Is there a way to destroy it?" Tang Hao asked Shana.
"No." Shana shook her head, "This Freedom Style has been activated. Even His Highness can't interrupt it, and …"
"It covers the entire Misaki City. What we see is only a corner of it. Unless we can erase all the clouds above Misaki City in an instant, this level of Freedom Style is not something that the Red Demon King can perform. Even Qian Bian may not be able to do it." Alastor added in a deep voice.
"Then we can only deal with it when it comes." Tang Hao murmured.
The surrounding students didn't know what was going on. They just thought that this was a rare spectacle in a hundred years. They were all extremely excited. Only Tang Hao and the others knew the seriousness of the matter. They all entered a state of preparation and waited silently.
After a while, the clouds in the sky had turned into countless characters and connected into a circle. Above the circle of clouds was a halo that ordinary people couldn't see. When the halo rotated, the void split open, and black lightning bloomed down. In an instant, the whole world was silent.
"Seal Jue?!" In the distance, Meiqin, who had just finished her business at the idol store, felt the strange change. Her expression changed, and she immediately contacted Tang Hao and met up with them.
At the same time, in the dark sky, as the void was torn to both sides, a huge sky fortress slowly appeared, standing in the sky above Misaki City.
"That's … Dawnstar Temple!"
"Dawnstar Temple?" Shana lowered her head in confusion. Alastor explained, "It's the base camp of the masquerade ball. Like the Heavenly Palace, it's a noble artifact made by the same Red Demon King. It's a twin relationship with the Heavenly Palace, but the Heavenly Palace is only used for seclusion, while the Dawnstar Temple is the headquarters of the masquerade ball, but it's a giant battle fortress in the true sense … I see, it's the top seat!"
Since it was the Dawnstar Temple that appeared, Alastor immediately thought that in the masquerade ball, the only person who could cast the Freedom Style that covered the entire Misaki City was Hecate.
Just after the Starry Palace was completely revealed, a huge ball of golden flames suddenly appeared above the palace. It drew a gorgeous trajectory in mid-air and descended from the sky. Then, it smashed in front of everyone with a loud bang.
In the midst of the scattered flames stood a tall woman. She wore an eyepatch over her right eye and had a third eye on her forehead.
"Adjudicator of Defiance!" Alastor said in a deep voice.
The person who came was one of the three pillars of the masquerade ball, the Adjudicator of Defiance, Belle Peole.
"It's been a long time, Terra's Tribulation Fire." Belle Peole smiled slightly with a charming look. Then, she looked at Shana, who quickly entered the battle stance, and shook her head, "Aiya aiya, the young Fire Mist Warrior is really hot-blooded, just like a child."
"Urusai!" Shana glared at her unhappily, "If you want to fight, then fight. Stop talking nonsense!"
"I'm not here to fight this time."
"Not to fight? Then what's your purpose in making the Dawnstar Temple appear in the modern world? Don't you know how much impact such a huge Freedom Style will have on the world? "Alastor asked.
"It's only at this level …" Belle Peole shrugged indifferently. As her gaze wandered, her three eyes quickly fell on Tang Hao, and she said with a faint smile, "You're the person that my Witch Royal Highness is thinking about. You do have a bit of beauty."
A bit of beauty …
Tang Hao never thought that this kind of comment would fall on him, and it was even said by a woman.
Nice, ignore it for now.
"Did Hecate send you here?"
"That's right. She wants to invite you to Dawnstar Temple for a gathering, so she sent me to invite you."
Tang Hao raised his head to look at the huge floating fortress and smiled sheepishly. "This doesn't look like an invitation."
"I can't help it. A few days ago, Thousand Transformations' invitation failed. I don't want to fail again, so I naturally have to make the scene more grand. I hope you won't refuse."
"Sorry, I, Tang Ritian, love to say to self-righteous people …"
Boom!
Before Tang Hao finished speaking, Dawnstar Temple suddenly surged with the aura of hundreds of demon kings. Belle Peole covered her mouth and smiled, "I hope you can accept my invitation. Otherwise, my willful sister will be very unhappy."
Tang Hao suddenly coughed twice and said seriously, "Since it's Hecate's invitation, I naturally can't ignore it. Actually, I've admired her for a long time, but it's not convenient for me to meet her in my current appearance. Can you let me go back and dress up first?"
"Of course, no problem. Then I'll give you an hour." Belle Peole nodded generously and winked at Tang Hao, "You can't miss the appointment, little handsome."
Immediately after that, she turned into a golden flame and returned to the Dawnstar Palace. Even the auras of the hundreds of Red Demon Kings also disappeared. Only the Dawnstar Palace was still standing in the sky above Misaki City like the Sword of Damocles.
Tang Hao retracted his gaze and looked at the people present, "Anyway, let's go back and discuss first."
…
"I think it's too dangerous."
In the house, Tang Hao, Mikoto, Youzhu, Shana, and Sakai Yuji were sitting around. Sakai Yuji was the first to voice out his opinion, "Dawnstar Temple is the base camp of the masquerade party. If teacher goes there, isn't it equivalent to walking into a trap?"
"I also object." Mikoto nodded in agreement, "If they close the door and beat the dog, with the combat power of the masquerade party, they won't even be able to escape."
"But the problem is, even if we don't agree, the situation will not change." Youzhu said sternly, "The aura of hundreds of demon kings that were revealed just now is a warning to us by the masquerade party. If Tang Hao doesn't go, the masquerade party will attack in full force. Facing this entire force, we have no chance of winning."
Alastor also said, "Belle Peole is known as a person of divine calculation. In the past, she was the military adviser of the masquerade party. The operation of the masquerade party is basically managed by her. Since she has set up such a formation, she will not give us any other choice … Of course, whether to accept her invitation or not, it is up to Tang Hao himself."
"It doesn't matter even if he doesn't go, at worst, we can just go to war!" Shana said loudly. She was indeed hot-blooded and uncompromising. Although she often fought with Tang Hao, at this critical moment, she still firmly stood on Tang Hao's side.
Mikoto thought about it, then asked Tang Hao, "Amethyst … Does she have any suggestions?"
Previously, Tang Hao went to the bedroom alone under the excuse of dressing up, but in fact, he was contacting the chatroom. After all, it was a little inconvenient in front of Shana and the others.
Tang Hao shook his head, "She said that this incident has to be solved by ourselves, otherwise, there is no point in reclaiming."
"Then she is really strict."
Shana blinked, "Who is Amethyst?"
"Just a useless tool, don't worry about it." Tang Hao waved his hand and said, "But I just thought about it and decided to go to Stellar Palace to have a look. After all, if their purpose is to kill me, they don't need to do this."
"I'll go with you!" Shana immediately got up.
"You're quite loyal to your friends." Tang Hao smiled and wanted to pat Shana's head to praise her, but because of the distance, he could not reach her head, so he gave up and stood up, "Okay, then let's all go together and see what the masquerade party is about … Oh, Yuji doesn't need to go."
Yuji Sakai scratched his head, "I know, I won't cause any trouble for everyone."
After a while, everyone cleaned up and walked out of the house.
Looking at the Stellar Palace in the sky, Tang Hao said in a deep voice, "Then, let's go!"
As soon as he said that, a pair of white wings of light appeared on Tang Hao's back. This was the product of him fusing with his second soul, it was not the Freedom Art, but more like the Freedom Art.
"You have wings too?" Shana was shocked, she thought that wings were unique to her.
Tang Hao smiled and finally found a chance to pat her head, "Humans have wings, this is common sense, little sister."
Then, before Shana could throw a tantrum, Tang Hao took the lead and flew towards the Stellar Palace.
Youzhu and Mikoto followed closely behind. Although Youzhu did not have the ability to fly, her magic was the most diverse, so it was not difficult for her to fly for a short period of time, let alone Mikoto.
"This bastard …" Shana, who was unfortunately touched on the head, stomped her feet in anger, but it was too late to yell at Urusai, so she could only swallow her anger and turned around, "Yuji, wait for me, we will be back soon."
"Okay, Shana, be careful!"
Under Yuji Sakai's gaze, Shana spread her flame wings and followed Tang Hao and the others.
Soon, the group of four arrived at Dawnstar Palace Hall. Perhaps the other party was already prepared. Their landing point just happened to be aimed at the main hall of Dawnstar Palace Hall. In front, on a long stone staircase, there were hundreds of Red World Demon Kings standing on both sides. Although all of them had concealed their Demon King aura, this kind of formation still made people tremble in fear.
The Red Demon King at the bottom stepped forward, bowed and waved at Tang Hao and the others, "Please."
There was no battle intent, no killing intent, it looked like they were inviting important guests, but this kind of attitude made people suspect that the masquerade party was planning something, so they had to be on guard.
But since they were already here, they might as well take things as they came.
Tang Hao nodded and led the group up the stone stairs.
A few minutes later, the group reached the end of the stone stairs. At the entrance of the main hall, there were three people standing side by side. On the left was Belo, who had her hands crossed in front of her chest and smiled slightly, on the right was Qian Bian who looked like a useless uncle, and in the middle was a blue-haired girl wearing a big hat.
It was the current supreme leader of the masquerade party, Hecate who debuted as the center!
"Welcome to Stellar Palace."
Hecate looked at Tang Hao expressionlessly and said lightly.
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