Collapse and Disintegration

In that instant, the group of clowns led by Hanerdov all froze.

The most shocked among them was Charlesbo.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not understand it. Although his dandelions had failed to detect the Hunters beyond three kilometers, their surveillance range absolutely encompassed every visible area of land and sky within a three-kilometer radius, without the slightest omission or oversight.

If that was the case, how could the enemy have launched a vertical attack directly from above them?

Charlesbo simply could not comprehend any of it.

The truth was that the arrival had not flown straight here, because that would have exposed his tracks far too easily.

On the contrary, he had cleverly exploited the special property that "Alpedis's white hole power could identify Noble Binding Tattoos and therefore would neither obstruct nor harm Hunters." He had immediately risen straight upward out of the pure-white barrier, followed the guidance of the scouting gray rat in his hand to circle around from outside until he was directly above the clowns, and then launched a vertical assault straight down.

With such clever use of the environment's advantages, Charlesbo's scouting methods naturally became utterly useless.

After all, the white-hole barriers in every direction had completely blocked his vision. His perception could only cover the inside of the barrier and was utterly incapable of seeing the space beyond it.

And then, Charlesbo never had another chance to learn that truth.

For the violent, savage crimson lightning immediately swallowed the entire mountaintop, which spanned roughly a thousand square meters, in a single bite.

Charlesbo's position was right at the center of where the blood lightning struck.

After engulfing the clowns along with the mountaintop, the surging blood tide was not satisfied. It continued to seep deep into the mountain itself, plunging