In the rainy night, Green Light Tower resembled a spired crystal pillar covered in moss. Raindrops struck its mirror-smooth outer walls, splashing into countless tiny droplets that merged into rushing curtains of water flowing down, watering the greenery clinging to the tower.
In a deep alley several blocks away, Ivette watched calmly for a moment before transforming into a shadow and silently making her way toward Green Light Tower.
Shortly afterward, she reached the shadow of a drainage channel beside the broad road at the foot of the building. Changing direction, she began running vertically up Green Light Tower's steep, smooth crystal walls. Before long, she had climbed a hundred meters into the air.
But Green Light Tower's defense system was far from simple. Countless blue-green pea shooters instantly sprang from the seemingly harmless "moss" landscaping along the tower walls. Their dark muzzles aimed at her as dense seeds poured down like a barrage.
This was somewhat troublesome. She could not simply destroy these defensive plants. Leaving them alone would at worst mean enduring their harassment, but tearing them out would send the entire Green Light Tower defense system into overdrive.
Thus, Ivette had to spend quite some time painstakingly crossing the dense defensive zone before reaching the spired platform hundreds of meters above the ground.
With time pressing, Ivette did not hesitate. Several Gray-White Touches emerged from the shadows, transforming into peerlessly sharp blades that sliced into the stairwell's heavy metal door.
There was no explosion, no shower of sparks—only precise cutting. The door panel fell away smoothly, revealing a narrow metal emergency passage leading downward.
She slipped inside, swiftly fitted the cut door panel back into place to block out the bitter wind and cold rain, then leaped down.
Before long, scattered footsteps sounded below. Ivette pressed herself