Inside the "Thread of Sky" valley, the air seemed to freeze in an instant before being sucked into a vacuum. Every speck of dust hung suspended in deathly silence, so oppressive it was impossible to breathe.
Lorelei stood atop the command vehicle, the cold wind stirring her long burgundy hair, her expression grimmer than the rocks around her. She looked up. Both ends of the valley had been completely sealed by massive walls of boulders formed by collapsing mountainsides. The boulders fit together without a gap, and she could even sense a powerful psychic field reinforcing them, making the entire structure impregnable.
She had never imagined that her meticulously planned surprise attack, which she had been certain would succeed, would turn into a situation where she could neither advance nor retreat, left at the enemy's mercy.
The enemy commander...
That indistinct figure surfaced in Lorelei's mind. This person was like a devil with the entire map revealed, accurately predicting her every move. He had even calculated that she would choose this valley as the site of her surprise attack. Not only had he predicted it, he had turned this terrain, so perfectly suited to an ambush, against her, crafting a perfect trap just for her.
This was no longer a simple contest of tactics.
It was an almost omniscient assault from an entirely different plane.
What left her feeling even more frustrated and furious was his overt strategy of surrounding her without attacking. He had put a knife to her throat, yet instead of striking, he was forcing her to make a choice.
Force a breakout?
Lorelei's gaze swept over the two impregnable "walls" constructed from boulders and Confusion. She could clearly sense hundreds of threatening energy fluctuations coming from the cliffs on either side of the valley. There was