Sharon was well aware that Swift Spirit's avatars had been placed inside the decoy objects.
She was no fool, nor was there anything wrong with her memory. The reason she had not noticed the dispersed Swift Spirit avatars was simply because her attention had not been on such details.
As long as she spared even a sliver of focus to observe her surroundings, she would naturally discover that the wisps of breeze escaping from the decoy objects had all vanished.
Thus, Dox's performance was meant to seize Sharon's attention and blur the true focal point.
Only by making Sharon fix her gaze on him could those "insignificant details" be temporarily set aside. Only then could Dox continue deceiving Sharon into using the substitute technique.
Even so, keeping Sharon's attention on him was no easy matter.
Dox estimated privately that after one or two more times at most, Sharon would discover that Swift Spirit's avatars had disappeared.
By then, it would be virtually impossible for him to trick Sharon into using the substitute technique again.
However, given the substitute technique's limitations, Sharon herself could use it only one or two more times at most. So even if she discovered the truth afterward, it would not matter.
Dox put on an act and divined for quite some time. Finally, just as Sharon was about to lose patience and gather the power of a spell, he seemed to gain something.
Dox's eyes flew open, and he abruptly turned toward the direction indicated by the green arrow.
"Over there! You can't run!" Dox shouted, then began wildly slashing his sword in the direction he was looking.
The direction of Dox's slashes was certainly correct. Yet his gaze had not actually been focused on Sharon... that was part of the performance too.
After all, the