Milluki grimaced in pain, clutching his scorching terminal like it was a crate of freshly roasted sweet potatoes.
"Damn it, thirty million Jenny, just to hear a bang!"
His mouth kept cursing, but his fingers never stopped moving.
On the terminal screen, the flames from the Self-Destruct Hummingbirds were swiftly filtered out, and a new battlefield map spread across the display.
This time, there were no Hummingbirds in the sky—only palm-sized Mechanical Spiders and thumb-thick mosquitoes.
They silently slid out of Milluki's equipment case, hugging the ground and swiftly burrowing into the thick fog along the edges of the waterways and the web-like shadowed grooves of the stone corridors. The giant mosquitoes, meanwhile, circled around him.
This batch of Spiders would not climb to high places, nor were they responsible for scouting. They had only one task.
Once they reached their designated positions, every Spider released a burst of short-frequency interference pulses inaudible to human ears.
This was Milluki's newly developed treasure. Those high-frequency sounds could make a person's Nen aura circulation sluggish.
Within the fog, Hetori was about to repeat his old trick and enter the battlefield through the reflection of a polished stone shard.
Just as half his body merged into the mirror surface, the flow of Nen aura around him suddenly stalled.
It felt like a speeding car whose tires had abruptly sunk into mud, slowing every movement by half a beat.
His entire body became stuck in the mirror, half inside and half outside.
Now!
Bai Zhu had been waiting for this opportunity.
Without making a single hand sign, he raised his palm, and a mass of blue-white flame rapidly gathered in it.
"Hado #33: Sōkatsui."
The blue-white flames shot from his hand without the slightest hesitation, blasting straight toward the mirror surface where Hetori was