As the first barrier was triggered, the defensive construction of the second, the "Mirror Trap," set off a chain reaction as well.
Twenty low-ranking angels attempted to infiltrate from the side. The moment they touched the barrier, the scenery around them abruptly twisted.
They felt a wave of dizziness before finding themselves standing in a pure white space, surrounded above, below, before, behind, and on both sides by their own reflections, utterly unable to tell direction from direction.
These angels, identical in appearance to them, simultaneously raised their scepters. Light gathered at their tips, followed by streams of holy light. Faced with the dense barrage, the angels immediately moved to defend themselves.
But upon contact, they discovered it was only an illusion. Just as they relaxed, one angel suddenly collapsed without warning, losing all signs of life as his body gradually dissolved into feathers.
Real attacks had been mixed in among the illusions.
But they were far too dense to distinguish.
The remaining nineteen angels immediately raised their defenses, not daring to let down their guard in the slightest. No one knew whether the next attack would be real, or whether it would be coming for them!
In another direction.
Twenty angels were prepared for the second barrier. After breaking through it, they once again unleashed a combined attack.
The holy energy they released, however, was like water falling into a sponge. It was rapidly absorbed and transformed by the invisible Incantation gridwork on the ground and walls, used to strengthen the community's internal defenses and power the streetlights.
The streetlights lining both sides of the community suddenly flared brightly, but to the angels, it was an insult.
The angels tried to retreat, but a strange suction force traveled upstream along their sustained light-energy attack, latching onto them and constantly