Inside the hotel room, the curtains were drawn. A trigger-type barrier clung to the interior, like a giant bubble blown to its limit and pressed tightly against the walls, ceiling, carpet, and other surfaces.
Serene and Alanna, witnessing Su Xiao and Guy work together for the first time, had kept their distance. They looked ready to break through the sensory barrier and flee through the window at any moment.
It was no wonder they were acting that way. In the parlor, a round table stood at the center, covered with all kinds of objects. Setting aside the materials with abyssal, nightmare, and distortion properties, the Book of the Dead and Jar of the Abyss alone were enough to make anyone dizzy.
Guy was fiddling with a strangely shaped disk about the size of a washbasin. It was made of ring after ring stacked toward the center, but thanks to Guy's "superb" craftsmanship, the disk had been carved to look like a massive pile of excrement.
For some reason, despite all the objects around it, the oddly shaped disk standing there drew people's attention immediately. It felt as though failing to look at it would leave something missing in one's heart.
Yet after looking at it, they would regret it. Their hearts would feel uncomfortable for several seconds. Stranger still, once the discomfort passed, they would want to look at the disk again. It was bizarrely addictive.
Click, click~
Tiny gears turned. Su Xiao was adjusting a machine that looked chaotic, its overall structure so complicated it gave people a headache. Every component was engraved with a dark-purple spell formation—the color representing nightmares.
Ordinary methods would not work against the Speedy Violator. Given his ability type, countless people had surely tried to capture him, yet he was still alive and well.