Cannot Let Him Leave Like This

"They are..."

Lu Xin looked at the figures that had suddenly appeared and the mental powers erupting from them. He even felt a little stirred.

He had never expected people like this to show up.

Before he could react, he saw the woman who had appeared in the center of Kindling City, atop the ruins. She gently turned over the mirror in her hand, revealing its exquisitely patterned back, and aimed it at the space where Staff Hider had appeared.

Strange mental power spread in ring after ring, forming bizarre yet stunning arcs of light.

Above the densely packed buildings of Kindling City, intertwined rays of refracted light suddenly appeared in every color of the rainbow.

"Bzzzz..."

Staff Hider was behind layer upon layer of space, far removed from the real world. Yet the mirror's light could pass through space. The instant the mirror pointed at him, Staff Hider suddenly let out a muffled grunt and retreated slightly, moving farther from the real world.

But his chains remained in reality, instantly pulled taut.

The next moment, he saw the woman who had leaped into the air, a red balloon in her hand.

It was Number Seven, whom Lu Xin had seen earlier in Black Marsh City.

Using the motorcycle's momentum, she soared high into the air, charging straight onto the iron chains that stretched across reality and the illusory world like a black river. She then tied the red balloon to one of the chains, and her body quickly began to fall.

"Whoosh..."

The instant the red balloon was tied to the chain, it suddenly burst, and a strange mental maelstrom spread outward.

It seemed as if a clown's bizarre laughter could faintly be heard echoing throughout Kindling City.

At the same time, the iron chains that spanned half the