Time slowed—not because River moved faster, but because his sharpened senses and trained mind entered a state of absolute focus.
Two Physical-Class Hunters lunged at his sides like twin shadows, their weapons gleaming in the dying moonlight. From the front, a fireball blazed toward him, hissing through the night air with enough heat to warp iron. And from behind that, a storm of bullets howled toward him, spit out from the roaring mouths of twin Gatling Guns.
To an average Hunter, death would've already been assured.
But River was no average Hunter.
Inside that slowed moment, River's thoughts moved like lightning. No panic, no hesitation—only calculation.
Bubble Creation—his first ability under the Bubblecrafter Skill—activated with just a flicker of will.
