"What should I do? Run?" Rokasna considered the possibility of fleeing. Repairing his soul had been such a hassle; he did not want to go through it a second time.
But... running away with his tail between his legs like this would be a grave blow to his dignity as a Lord of Change. He could practically hear his chatty colleagues mocking him already.
"Oh, oh, oh, if it isn't the outstanding graduate?"
"Been a few days, and you've fallen this far?"
Damn it, it was all that damned Aberrant's fault. Rokasna thought bitterly. He decided he would run later. First, he would spar with this guy, then say:
Just as planned.
That would at least let him preserve his dignity before his other colleagues.
Having made up his mind, Rokasna put on an inscrutable expression and spoke to Lin Fan in his ever-changing, elegant voice. "At last, I have found you, Aberrant... Prepare to suffer amid endless change!"
He gripped his staff with both hands and slammed it into the ground. The magnetic field shifted, converging around Rokasna. The entire banner tower rapidly began to collapse inward, like a paper tower completely soaked in water.
The sounds of machinery and metal warping echoed out. Under the control of Warp energy and the Lord of Change, they assembled themselves. A sphere gleaming with an electroplated blue radiance appeared, bolts of lightning occasionally flashing around it and striking the nearby surroundings.
"My god! My scanners can't make out what that thing is at all! All I can see is gibberish!" Little Yi cried out. Lin Fan had no idea what Rokasna was trying to do.
But he knew that cunning Lord of Change would never give him another chance to get close. Just look at how cautious Rokasna was—one foot was