"Those aren't real angels." Alaya looked at the enemies in the distance and repeated herself firmly. "They're all Thought Entities!"
Alaya's words stunned everyone. I lowered my head, silently pondering whether I should make a crack about the words "Thought Entity." It seemed the current situation wasn't really suitable for snark...
"Just projections?" Lin Xue frowned. "So that's it. No wonder there was always interference whenever I tried to predict their weaknesses. They're a bunch of shadows with neither past nor future... Good heavens, even projections are this powerful? Are all the Mystic System forces of the Old Empire monsters? What level would people like this have been in the Old Empire's Mystic System?"
"Mid-to-high-ranking commanders. Three of them are nearly leader-class." As Alaya spoke, she waved a hand and summoned an enormous Holy Light Hammer, smashing one of the enemies Qian Qian had released into a cloud of scattered light. Our tactics went like this: Qian Qian suppressed every enemy on the field, then released a few at a time, while everyone else focused their fire on eliminating these exceptionally resilient Shilin Angels. Throughout this, Sandora and my sister maintained area-of-effect skills to suppress all enemy psychic power and luck. The division of labor was clear, our coordination seamless, and there was absolutely no room for error—after all, there were several girls in the team with no combat ability who needed protection. This wasn't the first time we'd fought together like this. As for noncombatants like Lin Xue, they were responsible for hanging around in the middle of the group, as well as holding Xiao Xue down whenever she pulled out two huge flower pom-poms, hopped around, and shouted encouragement.
Once we learned that the enemies before us weren't physical Apostles, everyone stopped holding back. We already held an