Starfrost Faction · Underground Base
With a clang, the metal door of the emergency passage shut. Huan Qianyin slung Isabelle over her shoulder and vanished completely from everyone's sight.
The whole thing had happened too suddenly, and the shock had been too great. The Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang brothers failed to react, still frozen in stunned disbelief.
By the time they finally came to their senses, Huan Qianyin had long since fled without a trace.
"So... she betrayed us?"
Jeremiah rubbed the wound Chen Xing had cut into his waist and said irritably, "What betrayal? The Moonshadow Family has always worked for money. Her deal with us was completed long ago. She must have taken someone else's commission now. That's all."
As he spoke, Jeremiah looked in the direction Huan Qianyin had left, his tone carrying a hint of emotion.
"I used to think Huan Qianyin's disguises were riddled with holes, and that her talent was utterly ordinary. At most, I figured she could only be an intelligence agent in the future."
"But now, it seems I underestimated her."
As Jeremiah spoke, Huan Qianyin's disguise from earlier surfaced in his mind—the one that had flawlessly replicated even the successive Star Energy Fluctuations. He could not help clicking his tongue. "Even No. 30, Huan Qianyin, has changed this much. Who knows what new tricks the ones ranked higher have come up with. We really need to watch out for them in the future."
Jeremiah kept talking, completely failing to notice how increasingly ugly the Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang brothers' expressions had become.
Although the two brothers had temporarily gained strength capable of contending with Calamities through the Fusion Domain, barely earning themselves the title of "elders" within the Starfrost Faction—
These "Pseudo-Calamities" were nothing more than a joke in