At this moment, the entrance to the Black Hermit Mines lay under a deathly hush. The world there seemed to hold its breath after the Duchess vanished beyond the sealed barrier with City Lord Khazar.
Mirage Shadow stood silently before the abyssal mines, her figure half-shrouded in gloom. Behind her, dozens of black-armored Abyssal Lords maintained their positions, their auras interwoven into the defensive formation she had established at her mistress's command.
Every rune carved into the surrounding cliffs pulsed with the Dread Duchess's personal mark.
The barrier she'd woven was translucent and almost invisible to mortal sight, yet to those who sensed abyssal Qi, it was like staring at a boundless wall of living night.
At that moment, Mirage's eyes narrowed faintly as she could still feel her mistress's presence towards the Lord Castle.
