Deep within the Ten Thousand Ridges Mountain Range, a hidden cave nestled between layers of rock.
There was no light source here, only the faint, flickering blue light emitted from the magic array on the ground illuminated the rugged rock walls, akin to a tomb.
"Whew——!"
At the center of the magic array, Edgar Kaufmann woke with a start.
It was as if a drowning man had finally broken through the water's surface, gasping violently, cold sweat soaking through his gray magic robe in an instant.
Just one second late——
That icy glow would have pierced through his clone's lower back!
As Luo Yan had guessed, the confrontation in the forest with Qianqian was not Edgar's true self, but instead was a "mirror" clone he had created using a secret recipe from the Academic State, based on a shard of his soul.
As a thread-like blue light point drilled into his nostrils from the void, the soul-rending pain slightly eased.
