From Now On, I Will Stand Above the Heavens

A day passed.

The next morning, Du Mu woke up in bed. The scene before his eyes remained unchanged, still tinted like an old black-and-white movie.

Wanda had yet to wake up. Curled up on her side, she was breathing heavily. It seemed she had indeed been exhausted last night.

"She's not a traditional mage, after all. Her physical condition is far too poor."

Du Mu shook his head. Without waking Wanda, he quietly got out of bed and left the house, taking the chance to check the situation outside.

However, the effects of Chaos Magic were far greater than he had imagined.

Although he had promptly used fear energy to stop Chaos Magic from spreading, the affected area was still vast, seemingly at least the size of a small town.

With their house at the center, all the surrounding facilities had been assimilated into the appearance of the last century, transformed into a residential district. The entire area looked like an old-fashioned town.

Du Mu walked down the sidewalk and ran into several neighbors after only a few steps.

These people wore stiff, old-fashioned clothes. The moment they saw him, they enthusiastically raised their hands in greeting, smiling broadly.

But a closer look revealed something wrong. Their expressions were far too forced, unnaturally stiff, like deliberately exaggerated performances in a TV show.

Du Mu glanced at their status panels and discovered that these neighbors were all Hydra members.

And every one of their status bars displayed the same condition.

[Status: Under Chaos Magic Control]

Clearly, Wanda had used Chaos Magic to control the minds of these Hydra members, turning them into background extras in her script.

After all, every film or television production needed background extras. Just like when a protagonist fought a villain in a novel,