Sanders' pupils contracted. Without hesitation, he returned from the Dream Wilderness to reality.
Rolando's figure was also gradually turning blurry. His gaze was still dazed, and he had no idea what was happening.
As the stimulation from Rolando's reality grew ever stronger, it finally broke through the shackles of the Dream Gate.
Rolando vanished as well.
In the boundless wilderness, Angel emerged from the mist. Looking at the place where the two had disappeared, his expression was exceedingly grim.
He remembered Sanders saying that Rolando had been imprisoned within the Geometric Lock, and that Sanders had personally set up another cage to confine Rolando's magic... Under such circumstances, Rolando should have been safe beyond all doubt. How could something have gone wrong?
And it was a fatal turn of events at that?
While Angel was still perplexed, Sanders had already opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was a dark figure standing inside the magic cage, its back to Sanders, its movements obscured. Yet he could hear a drip-drip sound, while a large patch of red stained the ground.
That figure's build... Yurika!
Yurika had clearly been banished into an illusion by him. By Sanders' own estimation, even if Yurika's resistance to illusions had gradually increased, she could not possibly have awakened so quickly.
And even if she had awakened, Xius should not have been completely unable to restrain her.
Sanders glanced aside and found Xius standing nearby, his gaze complicated, as though he did not know what to think.
Sanders had no time to ponder what twist had occurred here. His figure flashed, and he appeared inside the cage without hesitation. Before Yurika could react, a violent force of Nightmare Illusion surged straight into her brow.
"No!" Xius cried out!
The illusion nodes Sanders usually used to restrain