Having severed the Headless Shadow that had suddenly taken over the recording, Chen Xi withdrew from the Lord's Cross's mental space, her head still swimming with lingering dizziness.
"How did it go?"
The moment she emerged, Lin Yue leaned in to ask, impatience written all over her face.
Shadow Communication was blocked inside the Lord's Cross, and Lin Yue had been holding back a whole host of questions.
"Hard to say." Chen Xi rubbed her temples, a headache instantly setting in, and poured out all the information Ademos had left in the recording.
After listening, Lin Yue lowered her head and tapped her chin with a finger, clearly unable to make up her mind.
"Chen Xi, what do you think?" she asked, looking up.
"Let's do as Ademos said. We'll head back to the Black Moon Empire and meet up with him first. We can figure out the rest on the way."
Chen Xi's brows knitted tightly together. This had come out of nowhere and utterly shredded her plans.
She had originally thought they still had roughly a month of breathing room to deal with the Lamenter's first descent. Who would have thought the other side would just flip the table and stop playing altogether?
She slipped the phone from the rental apartment into her pocket and was just about to activate Unrestrained when she suddenly sensed that the Headless Shadows she had supposedly destroyed were reforming bodies by drawing on the Lamenter's residual energy in Tianhai City. They were even rushing toward the two of them at high speed.
"What is going on?" Chen Xi had lost track of how many times the Lamenter had shocked her today.
"They revived?" Lin Yue froze. The Headless Shadows had never pulled this trick in their previous encounters. "Should we test them