Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, a female member of the Black Robes with cat ears atop her head was weaving through the jungle.
She was Diona, third on the rankings.
Diona was exceptionally sensitive to machines and anomalies in data.
Born with the ability to manipulate data, she was practically a god in the Digital World of ones and zeros.
She could slip through the Black Robes' communication systems, even their main control console, without being detected.
It was an absurdly powerful ability. In the Digital World, it was like having a Reality Stone: she could do whatever she wanted.
Diona had inherited that ability from her father's side.
As for the cat ears, one look at her mother would explain that...
Diona had just emerged from a mechanical labyrinth of her own making.
She belonged to Egart's faction, but not to Aaron's squad.
Through certain means, she had just watched Shanhai and Aaron begin their fight.
Now she was on her way to where they were battling.
She moved incredibly fast, but a thousand miles on this planet was measured on a cosmic scale.
With spatial skills and items off-limits, her legs had their work cut out for them.
Still, to achieve the goal she had pursued for so long, she needed help from either one of them.
Her chances were slim—so slim that Diona had no confidence at all.
But her mother had told her when she was little that success depended on effort. Work hard enough at anything, and she was bound to get a result.
If she did nothing, she would gain nothing.
Diona would not let this chance slip by. For her goal, she had to try, even if it killed her.
Aaron was her first choice.
In fact, she had gone to great lengths