A mirror taller than a person stood on the deck of the helicarrier.
Beatrice smiled at Tao Yu and Scathach.
"Now that you've both signed the contract, you can join our tea party. We hold it in a fragment of a high-level world, though we don't know exactly where it came from. Echidna usually hosts it, but her circumstances are special, so she can't offer any practical military support."
As she spoke, the Golden Witch led by example, reaching out to place her hand on the seemingly ordinary mirror.
"Echidna, open the Door. I've brought new members and would like to hold an impromptu tea party."
"Oh my~, more new members? But there's no time to bring everyone here on such short notice. I'll let them know."
Her reply came with a lightly teasing laugh.
Her voice had a naturally magnetic, alluring quality. Just hearing it made their ears tingle. Then ripples stirred across the mirror's surface, and Beatrice stepped through them.
Tao Yu was skilled with space himself, and the Mirrored Space was bolstered by both the Marvel World and the witches' own nature, so he had nothing to fear.
He followed her inside.
Scathach and the newly recruited CC came in after him.
The moment he entered the mirrored world, Tao Yu's spatial talent let him sense the fragment's powerful nature.
"It feels slightly greater than an ordinary independent world, but it seems to be a shattered fragment."
The world's will was chaotic and scattered, imposing no constraints. Yet he could sense another sacred will constantly trying to bring order to it.
Its owner was the beautiful woman in black with long white hair.
Echidna, the Greed Sorceress!
Her peerless beauty and pure white hair, paired with her black gown, gave her an air of nobility beneath her