Ji Yan's half-burned face turned as his stark white eyeball slanted toward the corner of his eye.
He stared in disbelief at Tianma, who had appeared out of thin air, and cried out in shock, "Why are you here?!"
"The Judgment Order of the [Time Dungeon] was clearly still restricting you. How could you enter a 10th-tier Dungeon?"
"My ban from the 10th-tier Dungeon was punishment for my crimes, not a permanent punishment."
"Once I met the punishment mission's requirements, the restriction was naturally lifted. Why couldn't I come back?" Tianma gripped the other party with one hand while opening the top layer of the briefcase with the other, spreading it as wide as it would go.
Something dark purple writhed inside the case—
Seeing this, the [Time Eerie] seemed to realize something. Borrowing the remaining half of its skull, it erupted with terrifying eerie power, trying to break free.
But it was too late.
Tongue-like, slime-coated tentacles emerged from the [Eerie Prison Box]. On closer inspection, tiny code-like streams of numbers flowed within those tentacles.
The instant they wrapped around Ji Yan's body, all the eerie power on him was instantly Disarmed.
Under the tyranny of Order, Ji Yan's body was "slenderized" and dragged helplessly into the briefcase!
The moment the briefcase snapped shut, Tianma lifted it and, with lightning speed, rushed into the Number 4 [Door] before it closed.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone."
At the final moment before the [Door] closed, Tianma raised a hand in thanks toward the outside. It was unclear whether he meant it for the [Mummified Eerie] or the [Time Eerie].
The [Time Eerie]'s main brain outside the passage finally understood what was happening.
While the mantis stalked the cicada, the oriole waited behind!
Back in the [Discarded Dungeon], that poker