More ice spears rapidly formed around Panacea, Lady Despair, and were flung toward the Hooded Woman in the sky by Invisible Spider Silk. Panacea herself used another strand to fly off in a different direction without touching the ground, heading straight for the alley where she had encountered Irene Watson.
She now deeply regretted toying with her target like a cat with a mouse, merely to vent the frustration caused by her disrupted plan, and thus missing her best chance to escape.
Without a doubt, the woman in the sky was a High Sequence Beyonder from one of the Three Great Churches. She had silently approached, appeared, and silently "confiscated" the Frost Spear from Panacea's hand. The strength she displayed left Panacea without even the thought of fighting back. Her only thought was, Run!
As for why she had been located so quickly, and why this enemy had not gone after the more conspicuous Mr. A but had found her instead, she could think over those matters after escaping.
No sound of the ice spears striking their target came. Having already darted to the mouth of the alley, Panacea instinctively turned back. Amid the thick smog, the Hooded Woman still floated quietly in the air, while the ice spears vanished as though they had never existed.
"She's only defending, not attacking?"
The instant that thought surfaced, the body being pulled along by the spider silk froze in place, utterly motionless.
Mirror Substitution!
One of her eyes shattered. Her figure turned into translucent fragments of varying sizes like fragile glass, but beneath the substitute stood Panacea herself, still in the same spot, horror written across her face.
Her substitute and true body had been fixed in the same position!
The next second, beginning with her right foot closest to the enemy,