Wangcai and Bebe shot backward in the nick of time.
Green arrows filled the sky, converging from every direction. The tip of every vine gleamed translucently, and the green liquid flowing inside left slender trails of light as they hurtled through the air.
Judging by their sheer numbers, dodging was impossible. But neither Wangcai nor Bebe intended to take them head-on-they would put some distance between them first and get outside her attack range.
Yet before they had retreated a thousand feet, both sensed something wrong.
Their flight speed was plummeting.
It was neither exhaustion nor injury. The entire space itself was changing.
The air grew viscous. Every inch forward took several times their usual strength, as though the entire space had suddenly become an enormous quagmire.
Looking down, they saw that the vines they should have left behind were not growing farther away. Instead, they were drawing closer.
"Spatial immobilization!" Bebe's expression changed.
It was an advanced application of the profound mystery of slowness within the Wind Element Laws—spatial immobilization.
It altered the flow properties of space within a certain area, suppressing an enemy's speed to its absolute limit.
When the disparity was large enough, it could even pin an opponent in place, unable to move.
The two knew it all too well-well enough to have had muscle memory beaten into them. During their years in the Dark Forest, Loa's Wind Divine Clone had used this move on them plenty of times.
Every time, Bebe would yell as he hung frozen in midair, while Wangcai was beaten until Thunder Light scattered everywhere. They were only released after surrendering.
The profound mystery of slowness Lashabel layered into her vine attacks was certainly far less accomplished than that of Loa's Wind Divine Clone.
But it was enough against them. Wangcai and