At the very center of the battlefield, the air was eerily still.
Wanda and Druig stood facing each other thirty meters apart. Neither moved.
Druig's eyes turned a murky grayish white. An immense psychic storm hammered Wanda's consciousness again and again like an invisible sledgehammer.
"Give up, little girl. You can't bear this weight." Druig's voice echoed in Wanda's mind as he tried to rewrite her perceptions and break down her will.
Wanda stood where she was, her long auburn hair rising without a breeze.
She did not answer, merely crossing her hands slowly before her chest.
Chaos energy danced at her fingertips, then became a vast crimson curtain of light, holding that invisible psychic pressure firmly at bay three feet in front of her.
At first, the stabbing pain in her mind had indeed been uncomfortable.
As time passed, Wanda gradually became able to resist this psychic attack.
Is that all?
"Your tricks..."
Wanda's eyes suddenly widened, a terrifying scarlet light blazing in their depths. "Don't work on me anymore!"
The instant she finished speaking, Wanda thrust both hands forward!
The crimson energy storm instantly condensed into two enormous claws of light. With an aura of utter destruction, they tore Druig's psychic field to shreds and lunged straight for his face!
Druig's expression changed.
How could this woman's psychic power be growing so fast? Cold sweat beaded on his forehead. It was already too late to dodge.
Just as the giant claws were about to fall, a red-and-black afterimage flashed in from the side. With wind howling around her, Makkari grabbed Druig and retreated over a hundred meters in milliseconds.
Tony had been waiting in midair for this moment.
With Makkari drawn away, the energy transmission device in the rear was left completely exposed.
The red-and-gold armor's thrusters spat