Seeing Yang Yi successfully open the protective barrier, Leimo, who stood by the door, abruptly paled, his eyes filled with disbelief. Yang Yi actually had the Permission Password too!
"Did Lilias send you?"
He asked, but Yang Yi ignored him completely, leaping up and reaching for the suit of armor, ready to store it in the Molten Giant Worm Ring.
"Wait!"
Leimo tried to stop him, but it was already too late. Yang Yi moved astonishingly fast.
Yet his eyes showed neither worry nor anger at the prospect of the item being stolen. Instead, he looked as though he were watching an idiot, with a hint of bewilderment, as if the man before him were performing some kind of "special trick."
When Yang Yi touched the White Armor, the armor was not stolen. Instead, the instant he made contact, he froze into an ice sculpture, stuck to the suit of White Armor.
The sight was so ridiculous that it was hard not to laugh.
Simply put, an exceptionally powerful thief had infiltrated headquarters, stolen a vast number of items, demonstrated extraordinary strength, and breached a Laboratory thought impossible to infiltrate. Just as he had forced them all to brace themselves and prepare to gather every bit of their strength against him, the thief had... killed himself.
A few Ice Nest Elders in the group could not help snorting with laughter.
"Whew..."
Leimo took a deep breath.
"It looks like I was mistaken.
Lilias probably wouldn't take such an idiot as a subordinate.
He was probably just a reckless treasure hunter who got hold of the password somewhere, then broke in here to try to seize the treasure."
Leimo shook his head as he spoke, feeling that everyone around him was watching him with strange expressions. His body had begun giving