Boom!
A shadow burst through the air. Rufus sensed something was wrong, but it had happened too suddenly for him to dodge.
In an instant, he and the imperial officers trapped alongside him were all bound by shadowy hands.
His strength was extraordinary. Even while bound, he could immediately break free of the shadowy hands, but the others were nowhere near as capable.
One imperial officer, who had been imagining how he would ambush Bai Fu from behind and deal her a devastating blow, now had a face as purple as pig liver.
He felt like he was about to burst.
The shadowy hands wrapped around him were draining his strength while tightening with terrifying force.
He struggled with all his might, but instead of breaking free, he broke his own bones.
"Help me, Rufus! Hurry, help me!"
Panicked cries echoed one after another within the Fate Sphere.
Rufus, still dodging, glanced down.
Holy crap.
What he saw was straight out of a hellscape.
Countless shadowy hands waved across the ground, like black flames blazing in hell. The people caught in their grasp looked as though they were being punished by hellfire.
The agonized faces and twisted bodies left Rufus stunned.
Help?
Help you my ass!
Rufus quickly looked away and kept dodging.
The Fate Sphere was powerful, but given enough time, he could still break through it and escape.
Seeing that Rufus wasn't even paying them any attention, the imperial officers all lost it.
First, they shouted to Bai Fu, insisting this had to be a misunderstanding.
When they got no response, they tried calling out to the others in the imperial fleet that had accompanied them, even people from the Supernova Battle Group and Titan Industries.
But they still got no response.
It wasn't that those people didn't