Krui Di Empire, Botswana Province, on the mountain railway less than an hour's drive from the capital, Bulida.
The Bulida Magic Energy Rail Train had been stopped for some time. Smoke billowed from the first few carriages, with the fourth carriage suffering especially severe damage.
After the brief outbreak of fighting ended, silence returned once more.
A huge hole had been blasted through the roof, allowing sunlight to pour in without restraint. Yet it could not pierce the black mist, only barely illuminating the elderly figure standing amid the devastated ruins.
The old man looked like a fading emperor standing atop Black Reef. Only the dazzling radiance around him and the eerie glint in his eyes, flickering through the black mist, remained especially clear.
"Can we have a proper talk, Young Miss Unity?"
His voice was complicated as he gazed at the female assassin on the floor, a hint of pleading in his words.
Within this soundproof barrier, no one else would hear their conversation anymore.
"..."
Unity lay on the cold, hard wooden floor, her teeth clenched tightly.
Even though the body belonged to her, she could not feel the slightest bit of control over it.
The Imperial officer stood over her and looked down from above. With her night vision, she could clearly see the sickly gentleness on that sharp face, as though he were toying with his prey.
She had never seen such a terrifying mind-control spell. As long as he captured someone, he could infer bits of personal information through their dreams.
Although dreams were ethereal and uncontrollable, they lurked deep within one's memories and mind, and clues would always reveal themselves indirectly.
By repeatedly digging through her dreams, he could eventually excavate some of the crucial information she did not wish to expose!
She stubbornly