Chapter 3564: Into the Trap
Outside the window, a vast mass of inky blue-green clouds had gathered in the sky at some point.
Even through layer upon layer of spell-light and turbulent magic power, they looked gloomy and oppressive. Fine raindrops drifted down from that inky expanse, striking the spell-light and sending ripples spreading across it.
Little Jade glanced out the window.
She paid it no mind.
Only then did she look straight at her true self and answer bluntly, "I've never met any other shadow avatars, so how would I know anything about that? As for me—it's probably because I walked part of the way with 'death.' After I came back, I had something of an awakening and felt I ought to live more freely—"
After all, she had no idea which would come first—"death" or "having her spiritual consciousness reclaimed by her true self"—or which outcome would be worse. Rather than tremble in fear, watching every step and imitating her true self's every move, she might as well live openly and without restraint.
Of course, she did not say any of that last part aloud in front of everyone.
But her mind was linked to her true self's. Even without saying it, her true self understood.
That made Jiang Yu all the more intrigued.
For a witch from an eminent family like hers, avatars were hardly an uncommon technique. But apart from Zheng Qing's Shadow Cat, she had never seen another avatar with so much "personality." Many of the school's deans and professors, and even the Grand Wizards who often attended meetings of the Alliance, mostly used avatars to move about outside. Yet their avatars were virtually indistinguishable from their true selves. No one knew when a true self had become an avatar, or when an avatar had