Crushing

After finishing, Gilan closed the red book and slipped it back into the bookcase.

Then, he silently recited in his heart:

'Save.'

Whoosh—

A powerful mysterious magnetic field radiated from Gilan. Maive, standing beside him, had no idea what was happening and only felt a shiver run through her heart.

Gilan's outline swayed slightly. Then, with a flash, it seemed as though a mirrored phantom had been copied from him, remaining where he stood.

The phantom looked exactly like Gilan. It was translucent, frozen in posture and movement, with rainbow light shimmering along its edges. Yet even with Maive's level of spiritual vision, she could not detect its existence at all.

Gilan was quite satisfied by this.

He had an intuition that with a single thought, he could disregard the distance of space and instantly return to where the phantom was.

And no matter what injuries he suffered, as long as he loaded the save, he would return to the healthy state he was in at this very moment.

'Unfortunately, I can only keep one save file at this stage.'

Gilan thought to himself.

After leaving himself a way out, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers under Maive's watchful gaze.

Snap!

Silver arcs of electricity leaped from his fingertips and landed on the open space in the middle of the office.

Dense triangles and circles immediately emerged across the floor. Their intricate structure shone with dazzling silver light, assembling itself into an alchemical array that made Maive raise a hand to shield her eyes.

Gilan walked to the center of the alchemical array, then turned and instructed her:

"Maive, later, a man and a woman may return to the office through the alchemical array. But don't worry—they're my people embedded in the Federation. Their names are Alevia Berry