Atrium II

"Owen, they're going to suffer!"

Mirai seemed to have already seen the outcome in his mind.

Just as Mirai was thinking, three muffled pff, pff, pff sounds rang out.

From afar, the three of them only felt as though the night before them had begun to sway. Then Owen and the other two seemed to crash into something and were sent flying.

After the three bursts, Owen and the other two fell in three different directions around the imagined shadow, not far away.

"Heh heh heh, I gave you a path and you refused to take it. Forcing this old man to make a move—this is already a capital offense. Heh heh..."

The voice from the illusory shadow gave Charlotte a fright.

There should be someone there, shouldn't there? she cried inwardly.

Charlotte was shocked, because she could not see anything at all.

At that moment, Mirai's heart surged with turmoil, because not even Silver Eye had reacted to what had just happened.

If Silver Eye could not identify it, then it could only be unknown magic.

It had been magical power that sent the three flying just now, yet what shocked Hugh most was that he had not sensed the slightest fluctuation of magical elements!

This was what Mirai found hardest to understand. All magic used by mages relied on materializing magical elements into solid forms, thereby drawing upon the elements' innate power.

Yet in that scene just now, Mirai had sensed nothing, as if the illusory shadow had used something real, invisible to the naked eye, to knock the three of them away.

"Cough, cough..."

"Ugh..."

"Mm—"

At that moment, Owen and the other two lay on the ground, letting out pained groans as they struggled to rise. Their injuries from earlier did not seem too serious, but