The gray-white scaled Dragon revealed his Mythical Creature Form and forced back the three Demonesses, then immediately split off Virtual Personalities and began invading their Mind Islands.
But just as he was about to ascend, open the doors to their Mental Bodies, manipulate the subconscious minds of the three women, and make them perform actions against their own wishes so he could escape, he was astonished to discover that one Demoness's mind was utterly dead and devoid of any stirring thoughts, another had long been filled with Unknown contamination and could not be influenced at all, while the last simply had no Mind Island...
These three Demonesses were not real people?! They were being controlled by someone?
The moment that thought crossed the Dragon's mind, he inwardly cried out in alarm, because that meant the true enemy had not appeared at all!
But as soon as he realized that, he felt himself fall into a Secrecy space, completely cut off from the outside world... Before that, he had also sensed countless bolts of lightning striking his body.
"That was... the Trident attacking me? How is that possible? As a 'living' Sealed Artifact, it ignored me entirely when I tried to communicate with it before... So why did it switch sides to the enemy so quickly?"
The Dragon's vertical pupils were filled with disbelief, and he became even more wary of the enemy who had yet to show himself.
However, the situation was extremely unfavorable for him. The other side clearly held an overwhelming advantage, yet refused to engage him head-on after his Dragonification, merely trapping him within a Secrecy space...
It looked like they intended to wait until the Dragonification wore off before making their move.
"With such a huge advantage, they're still this cautious?" The Dragon wanted to learn