The cracks in the Inverted Pyramid slowly widened.
At last, the Inverted Pyramid let out a deafening boom and exploded into dust.
Flying Bird appeared inside the wooden cabin.
However, Flying Bird still had the body of a child. Only by containing this Anomaly could he return to normal.
Seeing him, Yin Nu finally let out half the breath she'd been holding.
After all, with Flying Bird looking like this, it was hard to say he was all right.
Flying Bird: "Sorry, sorry~ Something unexpected happened, but I'll take care of it in a moment."
Flying Bird marveled inwardly. As expected of the Chairman—even a mere phantom left behind from the past had such tremendous power.
Whoever had set this trap had been targeting him from the start. First, they'd used his friend Lan Ruo and an ordinary person bearing an Anomaly's mark as bait to lure him in.
They'd made him accidentally contract the Anomaly's mark. Then, when he purged the Anomaly infecting the girl, he'd triggered the next trap.
He'd met the conditions to activate the Anomaly Artifact, and it had sealed him inside.
The mark on him had come from at least an A-rank Anomaly. Combined with an Anomaly Artifact that was at least A-rank, even as an S-rank Contract Anomalist, there was no way he could have escaped this double trap.
Unfortunately, the person behind it had overlooked one thing.
The Chairman of the Aberration Association, even as a bodiless phantom, could still help Flying Bird escape the Anomaly Artifact.
Flying Bird grinned, his eyes narrowing. The Chairman was so cool!
Flying Bird rubbed his eyes. After getting out of the Anomaly Artifact, his vision was no longer blurry. His eyesight had returned.
And the Nameless Bird, which he hadn't been able to sense before, was