Chapter 394: Altar × Intrusion × Lockdown
The bird flew fast, reaching the vicinity of the altar in mere moments.
Along the way, it flew over Beyond's Team, and Joey saw Beyond and the others briefly raise their guard.
It seemed they would strike the moment the bird moved toward them, but ultimately, they did nothing and let it charge toward the altar.
Yet as the bird approached the altar, other birds silently appeared beside it.
They looked extremely similar to the bird Joey had created-or rather, aside from their color, they were completely identical!
These birds appeared abruptly, as though born out of thin air, and their purpose was clear: to attack the bird trying to approach the altar.
Both sides flew at almost the same speed, but the problem lay in the opponents' numbers and the randomness of where they appeared.
Before Joey's bird could get anywhere near the altar, a bird that suddenly appeared touched its wing in midair.
First Bomb activated silently. Although it eliminated the unexpected bird, it also stripped Joey's bird of its threat!
Especially with its wing struck, the speeding bird had no way to right itself and plunged headfirst toward the ground. Unsurprisingly, it reverted to a coin upon impact.
But as the bird died and vanished, the birds of a different color from Joey's creation also rapidly dissipated in midair.
Only the altar remained, standing there alone as though nothing had happened.
Beyond's Team stopped advancing the instant the birds vanished, because they were standing at almost exactly the spot where the duplicates had appeared.
Joey's group put a little distance between themselves and Beyond's Team, stopping at the edge of where the protective force field had shattered earlier.
The two groups were not far apart. The key was that, on