Locking Onto the Target

Just as Liu Zhi and the others had suspected, the silver lake couldn't stop the Sun Chariots. After Amanet plunged into it, the spray she kicked up spun in the air and turned into new silver figures. These figures also rode chariots and now carried bows and arrows, seemingly learning from Amanet.

The situation before her didn't affect Amanet's movements beneath the silver lake.

Once she was underwater, Amanet felt the silver liquid surge toward her from all sides, but that was something she could overcome. She even felt that this place was less unpleasant than the Underworld where she'd once been sealed away. At least the chill wind there had hurt her, while this place barely affected her at all.

Amid the silver liquid, Amanet spotted their target.

It was a body that didn't look particularly large. It was submerged in the silver water, like someone who had drowned.

Beside it, the flesh and skin had begun to slowly disintegrate. With every passing second, some of the flesh melted into the silver liquid, causing slight changes in it. Amanet watched every one of these changes.

It seemed that the silver lake was coming to life because of the corpse's flesh.

Amanet had been through a lot, and she understood what was happening at a glance. She also realized that Liu Zhi and the others had been wrong: after losing its soul, it wasn't the player's body that changed. Rather, the plane's source energy had developed a consciousness of its own and was trying to escape the control of the Plane Consciousness.

This was a possibility none of them had considered. Seeing what was happening, Amanet's first thought was to send word to Liu Zhi.

But Liu Zhi was already prepared. The moment they saw Amanet plunge into the silver