Bo Yi turned his head.
All around him, behind him, every woman in the glass cases had opened her eyes.
They slowly straightened, the glass shards on their bodies slipping off. With their sacred attire and expressions, they looked like shattered stars descending into the mortal world.
They slowly lifted their feet and stepped out of the glass cases. Barefoot, they walked across the shard-covered floor as though they could feel no pain at all.
Bo Yi stared for a few seconds at the glass shards they had walked over, which bore no traces-blood, for instance-and confirmed that the broken glass could not harm these "vessels."
"W-what do we do now?" Ran Yan hid behind Bo Yi, her expression panicked. Even when these people had been lying motionless for her to attack, she had failed to hurt them. Now they had all awakened... Watching the women slowly begin to surround them, Ran Yan shuddered uncontrollably.
"Retreat to the open space in the middle for now..." There was more room there. If a fight really broke out, at least they would have space to move. Though, in Bo Yi's experience, that "if" was actually a hundred-percent certainty. Their only consolation was that the women were moving very slowly, probably because they had just awakened.
"At their speed, it'll take them a while to surround us completely." He did his best to reassure Ran Yan, who had begun trembling, repeatedly warning her to be careful. "Whatever you do, don't make a sound." Judging by their current speed, they still had some time before they were fully surrounded, but if a noise alerted them... all bets were off.
"O-okay..." Ran Yan nodded hastily, trying to keep her footsteps light. But she was still a newcomer entering her first Instance. Despite her caution, she