No screams. No violent explosion.
Dahlia's body was swiftly erased from this world by Mo Wang, without even a scrap left behind.
Clean. Efficient. Cold.
A chill ran down Gallagher's spine. Only now did he truly feel what terrifying power and decisiveness lay within this young man beside him, who had always seemed a little scatterbrained.
Black Swan took a deep breath, quickly forced down the turmoil in her heart, and analyzed calmly, "She deliberately stalled us, then revealed that Firefly was taken to where the Stellaron is... I'm afraid that child has already been brought to the Stellaron's location, and may even have been made part of the plan. If we speed up, we should still be in time to stop the worst from happening."
Mo Wang released his hand, as if he had merely brushed away a speck of dust.
He turned to Black Swan and uttered only two words. There was no emotion in his voice, yet it made the air around them seem to freeze.
"Lead the way."
Black Swan looked at Mo Wang before her, whose eyes held no trace of playfulness now, only a cold edge and suppressed fury, and she could not help sighing inwardly for a certain "bad friend" who was so fond of dancing on the edge of danger.
She could only hope that guy would not be hunted down too brutally by Mo Wang afterward.
She gathered her thoughts and said no more. Memory Substance blazed at her fingertips, pointing clearly toward a more hidden coordinate deep within the dream. "This way. Shortest route! Hold on to me!"
Meanwhile, Firefly, who had been taken away by Gopher Wood, had already transformed into Sam and was now facing off against a Propagation "Sam" before her, one that looked extremely similar to