The Aftermath

It was gone!

Right before Lucius and the Kingdom's commissioner, Sigel had vanished into thin air with a sudden poof.

In an instant, the world around them seemed to fall silent.

Lucius rubbed his eyes. All he could see was the empty metal cage, its gaping maw seeming to mock their stupidity without a sound.

"Damn it!"

The commissioner roared, "Guards!!!"

He reached into the cage, hoping Sigel had merely turned invisible like a chameleon. Unfortunately, reality slapped him hard across the face.

"Reporting, sir. We can confirm that the suspect has escaped. There's no one else here..."

The sergeant who had rushed in eyed the commissioner and Lucius with suspicion. If the prisoner hadn't been escorted into the armored vehicle by the two of them personally, and the vehicle hadn't remained in sight the whole time, he would have suspected that they'd deliberately let the fugitive go.

Vanished into thin air? What kind of joke was that? They could go tell it to the ghosts!

"All right!"

Lucius put his hands in his pockets. "We have to admit that the prisoner had a way to disappear without warning... He escaped!"

"****, he must have done it on purpose!"

The commissioner said viciously, "He had this ability, yet he deliberately let us capture him. That's a provocation against the Kingdom! He turned himself in on purpose, then successfully escaped... My God..."

The commissioner felt as if his future had gone dark. He looked at Lucius. "There's definitely something wrong with the Church of Salvation!"

But halfway through, even he couldn't bring himself to continue.

It was an established fact, witnessed by numerous media outlets, that the other side had urged Sigel to turn himself in. And now, he had surrendered, only for the Kingdom to lose its prisoner. There was