Just as Aili, playing Luo Jiali, followed the script and hid amid the ruins, preparing to fake her death on the spot and use a demon in place of the divine child to pull the wool over heaven's eyes—
In a secret chamber within a manor Garvin had purchased in Water-Drawing City's Castle Ward, Fischer—the only one among the employees Li Wei had brought along who had not been able to take part in the performance—stood before a teleportation gate, using a mirror-like alchemical device to keep watch over Li Wei and the others' progress in the Port District.
As he watched Li Wei and Xia Lan Veloss, playing a father and daughter, deliver their "heartfelt exchange," Fischer reached over and rubbed the head of little Luo Jiali, whose eyes had grown misty from watching this melodramatic tearjerker, then softly asked:
"Are you ready, little Jiali?"
"Mm! Luo Jiali is ready at all times." The little elf nodded hard.
Though she still did not fully understand what was going on, she could more or less guess that there was some fatal "big trouble" within her—perhaps even something connected to her parents' deaths!
And now, all these older brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts were silently working hard because of it.
As the person at the center of it all, she naturally could not hold them back, could she?
The moment the linked mirror showed the other elf "Luo Jiali," played by Aili, burst from the ruins and block that ice lance for Li Wei, while the "Blood of Baal" at her neck shattered with a crack, Fischer gave Luo Jiali a light shove.
"Quick! Now!"
Seizing that instant, Luo Jiali plunged headfirst into the teleportation gate and arrived in the Dark Magic Web region of Zelandia.
In a sense, Luo Jiali,