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Vision warped...
Thoughts fell into chaos...
Time leapt forward...
The world shifted out of place...
Perhaps a minute...
Perhaps ten minutes...
Perhaps an hour...
Perhaps ten hours...
Or perhaps a day...
Ten days...
A hundred days...
A thousand days...
To everyone, the journey to the Mirror World felt endlessly long and tedious. It was as though centuries had passed, yet also as though it had happened in an instant, leaving them unable to tell how much time had truly gone by...
Before their eyes was an expanse of blinding white...
Even their sense of direction had long since swayed along with their vision...
As if they had been placed inside a kaleidoscope, there was nothing in this world but dazzling halos of light...
But that sensation did not last long...
When their minds began functioning normally again and their thoughts returned, the feeling of solid ground beneath their feet returned to their bodies as well, and their vision gradually recovered.
However, before they could even open their eyes and look at the enemy they were about to face, an extremely intense chill suddenly shot through their bodies, which had only just regained a sense of substance.
Because, even without seeing it, Wu Yan, Hinagiku, Mikoto, and Bazett could all sense it...
In the air, a terrifying malice, oppressive to the extreme and as viscous as a bottomless swamp, was gradually breeding with their arrival...
Their minds, which had only just resumed functioning, jolted violently. Everyone tensed up and abruptly opened their eyes, looking ahead.
Immediately afterward, gasps rang out from everyone present, including Wu Yan, echoing throughout the entire Mirror World.
It was still that underground basement deep beneath the