The Spirit Mirror Knight's eyes were as cold as Death itself.
From behind his heavy helmet, that gaze, which seemed capable of freezing anything, swept over Xu Ye just once. Xu Ye felt frost coat every joint in his body.
Xu Ye wanted to curse.
Who the fuck are you calling Sequence 7? I'm just a rookie Sequence 9, and I haven't even had any formal training!
Now wasn't the time to argue.
He had to protect himself.
His body was stiff.
Xu Ye barely managed to move the tentacles on his left arm, wrapping them around his little finger and snapping it with a violent twist.
There was a crack.
His entire body shuddered with the searing pain.
In the fairly spacious, dim stairwell, Xu Ye sprang upward, putting ten steps between himself and the Spirit Mirror Knight.
As he retreated, Xu Ye controlled two tentacles to coil around the knight's feet and yank them forward.
At the same time, the tentacles on his right arm gripped the large black umbrella. Black smoke swirled around it as he thrust it forward, and by the time it struck the knight's lower body, it had transformed into a long black saber.
"Slash!"
A streak of black-and-red saber energy shot skyward from the sharp blade, its terrifying power throwing off sparks as it scraped against the air.
The force was so immense that the surrounding stairs and handrails seemed to freeze for a moment, then exploded in the blink of an eye.
Yet the terrifying Spirit Mirror Knight didn't budge.
Xu Ye's tentacles hadn't moved him. His black saber hadn't left so much as a scratch on the knight's body-not even a mark.
Xu Ye: "!@￥%..."
He wanted to swear.
The knight had been targeting him. That Awakened from earlier had merely