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Join the ServerFelicia slept soundly at the inn. When she left, she asked the innkeeper for a map.
She quickly planned her route: from Intertown to Skyfall City, a journey of about a day.
Meanwhile, on the other side…
“Sister, sister! Something terrible has happened!” Yunyu rushed over.
She had just received some awful news from the guard assigned to tail Felicia.
Yunwu was resting in the carriage with her eyes closed. Roused by Yunyu’s commotion, she opened her eyes and asked, “What is it now? Let me be clear—if it’s not important, I’m going to make you pay.”
Just that one sentence confirmed that these two were definitely biological sisters.
“Miss Felicia has disappeared!”
“Disappeared… Huh?! No way?” Yunwu was indifferent at first, but when she heard who had vanished, she shot up, unable to stay calm.
This was truly a big problem.
“How could someone so big just up and disappear?”
“I don’t know. And when I just checked my pocket, I found some money missing…”
Yunyu hung her head, darting her eyes around, afraid to meet Yunwu’s gaze and get scolded.
“…You don’t need to be that scared. It’s not your fault. Even the two of us together couldn’t keep an eye on Miss Felicia,” Yunwu said, taking it surprisingly well. “Anyway, let’s contact Lady Seraphina first.”
“Right, right, you’re right, sis!” Yunyu quickly contacted Seraphina.
Soon, the call connected.
“Something terrible has happened!” Yunyu used her classic opening line again.
“…If you use that opening line again, I’ll twist your head off next time,” Yunwu said, glaring right behind Yunyu.
“Sorry!” Yunyu shouted loudly.
“What’s going on?” Seraphina’s calm voice came from the other end, still sipping her tea.
“It’s like this—to make a long story short, Miss Felicia has disappeared.”
“Disappeared?! Cough, cough, cough!” Seraphina choked on her coffee unexpectedly.
“Stay right there. I’ll be there shortly.”
With that, she hung up.
Before long, Seraphina suddenly appeared before Yunwu and Yunyu, Thunder Leap hanging at her waist.
***
“Why do I have a bad feeling about this?”
Felicia looked around, even twisting to check behind her. But aside from the grass, flowers, and trees, there was nothing.
After leaving the inn, she used a disguise spell to evade the guards. Now, with some distance covered, she figured no one could catch up to her.
At the same time, Bai Ye, wrapped in a black robe, poked her head out.
“I can’t believe she almost sensed me despite being two grades lower. Dragons are truly terrifying,” Bai Ye mused.
She tightened the black robe and activated its concealment spell.
If someone peered through the hood, they would only see a dark mist.
Clearly, this robe was a magical device.
A magical device is an item imbued with magic—just inject mana and activate the spell within.
Whether it was Seraphina’s Thunder Leap, Felicia’s bracelet, or Bai Ye’s robe, all were types of magical devices.
As the saying goes: the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
Bai Ye was merely the mantis right now. The real oriole was…
Inside a dimensional space, three individuals observed the outside world.
They were Haikong, Wumi, and Anka.
“Well, well, are we playing spy within spy within spy?” Haikong remarked, turning to look behind him. “Boss, who makes the first move?”
“Whichever. Even Wumi could take down that robe-wearer in ten rounds—just a Pseudo-Sorrow rank, mediocre,” Anka replied.
“Say that like I’m the weakest in this team,” Wumi retorted. “Though I guess I actually am…”
Among the trio, Anka was Transcendent rank, Haikong was Sorrow rank but combat-capable, while Wumi was a desk job.
Strength disparity was clear.
“Stop bickering and focus on the external situation,” Anka ordered.
At his command, the two immediately fell silent.
Meanwhile, Bai Ye was ready to strike.
She couldn’t use life magic—Felicia had seen it before, and life magic wasn’t suited for combat anyway.
But no matter, Bai Ye knew plenty of other spells.
“Spark kindles a prairie fire.”
Bai Ye raised her staff. The tip began to glow with a faint red light, flickering like starlight.
In the next moment, a crimson beam as thick as a bowl shot toward Felicia.
This was Bai Ye’s all-out killing move.
Felicia, only at Dusk rank, couldn’t block it even if she reacted in time—and she hadn’t even sensed the danger behind her.
“What’s happening?”
The massive surge of magic from behind made Felicia realize she was under attack, but it was too late.
At this distance, dodging was impossible, and her defenses couldn’t withstand the blow.
Was she going to die here?
“No… everything just started…” Felicia murmured.
But what could she do?
A deep sense of helplessness washed over her.
Just in the nick of time, the crimson beam suddenly veered off course, carving a trench into the ground that stretched endlessly.
“Huh?” Felicia opened her tightly shut eyes and spread her hands, finding herself completely unharmed.
“…Why?”
From the shadows, Bai Ye watched in confusion.
She looked at her own right hand, which had moved on its own.
At the critical moment, Bai Ye had redirected the spell, sparing Felicia.
But why had she done that?
She didn’t know—it was purely instinct.
“Huff…” Bai Ye changed her mind.
Since she couldn’t kill Felicia here, she would capture her instead. Whether for someone else to kill or for her own research, Bai Ye wouldn’t lose out.
Suddenly, a golden bolt of lightning struck.
Boom!
Caught off guard, Bai Ye was sent flying, gravely injured.
“Damn, someone beat me to it,” Haikong lamented from the dimensional space. “If she had come a little later, I would have succeeded.”
“The plan failed… Time to withdraw,” Wumi said.
“No.” Anka shook his head. “Given her keen senses, if we move rashly, there’s a high chance she’ll detect us.”
“But we’re in another dimension?” Wumi questioned.
“Did you forget how she stopped Haikong’s ambush?”
At Anka’s response, Wumi fell silent.
Not at all regretting Haikong’s failed interception.
The one who arrived at the battlefield next was Seraphina, furious that Felicia had nearly been harmed!
“You dare touch my people? Are you ready to die?” Seraphina, holding Thunder Leap, glared coldly at the black-robed figure on the ground.
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