Clues

Late at night, the Star Power warning devices around the base perimeter flickered on and off.

Pale blue patterns of light flowed and coiled across the ground, clearly outlining the silhouettes of three mysterious figures.

The mysterious figures were slender and upright, wrapped in an almost eerie silence as they moved. Their toes touched the ground without stirring so much as a speck of dust. They were clearly elite infiltrators accustomed to concealment and assassination.

Their fingertips had already silently touched the Star Power patterns of the Perimeter Trap. Pale black Black Mist spread quietly around them like living creatures, gradually corroding and dismantling the trap's activation mechanism.

Their movements were covert and swift, as they attempted to infiltrate the base's core without anyone the wiser.

"Two on the left flank, one down the middle. Their target should be the data chamber in the base core."

Yun Meng's voice came steadily through the communicator, calm and unruffled. Flame Star Power had silently gathered around her, forming a cluster in her palm that danced with searing light.

Her fingertips lightly tapped the ground, causing her Star Power to resonate with the traps embedded there.

"Xiao Jin, watch the heat. Seal off their retreat."

Xiao Jin, who had long been poised to strike, suddenly threw back his head and let out a low roar. Blazing fire ignited in his amber eyes, while the flame at the tip of his tail abruptly swelled severalfold, becoming three condensed, tangible fire blades that shot precisely toward the Star Track nodes beneath the mysterious figures' feet with a shrieking gust.

Boom!

With a deafening blast, the flame trap activated. Towering waves of scorching fire, accompanied by fierce Star Power shockwaves, sealed off the mysterious figures' escape route completely. The air filled with the stench of scorching