Elliot chanted the spell very quickly. Dense, tiny particles appeared beneath the skin on the back of the hand pressing down on the scroll, trembling irregularly.
Clearly, as a Bloodline Ranger who was not especially skilled at casting spells, activating this scroll still came at a considerable cost to him.
As the chant ended, an invisible spherical barrier with a radius of roughly two hundred meters abruptly formed around Elliot.
The dense footsteps that had just been ringing in his ears vanished accordingly.
At last, a trace of a smile appeared at the corners of Elliot's tired eyes.
Sleeper's Barrier.
This was his trump card.
Otherwise, with his strength, he would never have dared provoke Evelyn, who had so many guards around her.
Even after surviving the Wildfire City Incident, his Schemer level had risen somewhat. With the support of his Bloodline Ranger class, he had only barely reached Tier Three. Against the extraordinarily powerful Evelyn, apart from easily creating an opening advantage, he had no other chance.
Especially under such tight security, even if he knocked someone unconscious, he would still have no way to escape.
But with this reusable Sleeper's Barrier Scroll, things were different.
Strictly speaking, the Sleeper's Barrier Scroll was a divine spell scroll belonging to the great Sleeper Shorreco. The scroll itself also fell within the category of lesser divine artifacts and was Elliot's family heirloom.
The Sleeper's Scroll could create a temporary Sleeper's Barrier. Those within it would be assigned into individually generated instances of real worlds, where they would never be able to meet one another.
It was like a massive maze. Unless one could leap beyond the maze's boundaries and look down upon it from a higher perspective, those trapped within would find it difficult to discover a solution in a short