The mirror holder, whose temptation had been mercilessly interrupted, fell into silence.
'So it really is like this. This guy simply can't be tempted. He didn't even give people a chance to speak...'
This situation made the mirror holder feel irritated...
'Fine, you suddenly developed your own will and thoughts, but why is your will so firm too?'
'At a time like this, shouldn't a normal person feel confused?'
'How did this kind of personality that does what it says, never goes back on its word, and fights the moment it decides to fight even form?'
But even so, the mirror holder had no good solution.
Even though he held a mirror shard in his hand, he still did not have the strength to face this fragment head-on.
He had realized that last time when he tried to tempt him and ended up taking more than a dozen leap slashes in a row.
If it turned into a direct fight, he absolutely could not beat the other party.
'A perfectly good fragment of the God of Beauty, why did you stain it with so much of the Hunt's scent?'
'It's dirty!'
'Completely dirty!'
But fortunately, he still had his own methods.
If this dragged on, and he kept letting the surrounding living beings fall one by one, sooner or later this brat's stamina would run out. When that happened, dealing with him would be much easier.
He didn't believe this brat could kill all these monsters.
When this brat's stamina ran dry, that would be when he completed the retrieval.
'Then let's wait, hmph!'
'Let's see who can outlast who!'
The mirror holder had already set his current plan in his heart.
However, at that moment, he suddenly saw Nero start moving, and at the same time he spoke.
"I thought about it. We've been wandering inside this star field the whole time... which means the range your power can cover is limited. Right now we're basically trapped inside an eggshell. In that case, I just need to break the shell."
As he spoke, Nero came in front of Robin and slowly floated up, looking into her eyes.
Even in this situation, Robin still had no reaction. It looked like the mirror holder's influence ran deep.
However, since her body had not changed up to now, that meant the Harmony's protection was also playing a protective role.
"Breaking an eggshell is very simple for me. But before that, I need to find you, so that you won't be able to create the same kind of phenomenon again later to trap us.
"You should be inside, right? Based on your ability, you can project yourself onto any place that can reflect light. That's how you're talking to us.
"And our ships have been spinning in place because within the phenomenon you created, we're like a light image surrounded by mirrors. Every time we touch a mirror surface, we get reflected back..."
"Haha, even if you roughly guessed the principle, so what?"
The mirror holder in Nero's field of vision laughed in disdain. "Do you have a way to find me?
"If you can't find me, what can you do even if you realize all this?"
Nero blinked. He leaned close to Robin's face, his gray eyes staring straight into her pupils. In her pupils he saw his own reflection, and within his reflection he saw a blurry figure wrapped up inside. That was exactly what he was looking for.
"Once you know the principle, there are many ways to find you. Since you also have to be reflected, then you should also be inside this huge 'mirror cage.'
"So I've been thinking about one thing. What exactly did you do to turn people into monsters?
"What did you say to them? Or what did you make them see and experience?
"You've been talking to me the whole time, but that clearly had no effect. And even putting me aside, you've been talking to the smooth-talking Tingyun, yet there was no change either.
"Words alone might work, but you obviously find it hard to meet the conditions. After all, the Hunt's will is firm, and the glow of Harmony connects everyone's thoughts...
"If it were only words, then this current scene would make me doubt the basic quality of the Xianzhou soldiers and Xipe's ability."
The mirror holder in Nero's field of vision suddenly trembled, but soon forced himself to sound fierce.
"So what? Isn't it possible that your will is just too firm? When you think, don't assume others are the same as you..."
"No, I'm just raising questions and making assumptions based on common stereotypes about faith. I think you used other methods in the process of turning people into monsters."
"For example, pulling them into that palace with the faceless portrait hanging inside... So, the mirror holder..."
Nero narrowed his eyes. At this moment, the the mirror holder in his vision and the the mirror holder inside Robin's pupils gradually overlapped.
The figure in Robin's pupils, wearing a black robe and facing away from him, suddenly turned around.
This middle-aged man held a broken mirror shard in his hand, looking at Nero with fear in his eyes.
At this moment, it was as if the two of them were face to face.
The mirror holder saw a pair of cold eyes. There was no emotion in those gray pupils. He saw that delicate, expressionless face move slightly.
The fragment slowly opened its mouth and said in a certain tone, "You're hiding inside that mirror, right?"
A suffocating feeling suddenly surged up from his feet, blocked his chest, and gripped the mirror holder's throat.
Under the hood of the black robe, the man's eyes suddenly widened in an instant. He forgot to breathe. He could not hear any sound in his ears. It felt as if his heart had been smashed into paste by a heavy hammer.
The next moment, a chill shot up from his tailbone straight to his head. The mirror holder shuddered and instantly became fully awake.
Instinct stimulated his senses. His hair stood on end, and his scalp tingled.
Without any thought, purely by instinct, the mirror holder hugged the mirror in his arms, the Transcendent Mirror, and jumped to the side!
Almost at the same time, a raging wave of sword force roared past, instantly cutting everything along its path into pieces.
The floor, the walls, and the ceiling had all split open, and beneath the cracks was pitch black darkness.
Footsteps, along with the sound of some sharp weapon dragging across the floor, approached from far to near, then stopped. The mirror holder raised his head and saw the young man looking at him indifferently.
"So it really is here..." Nero looked around. Some kind of momentum surged around him, his long hair moving even without wind.
"By the way, your move is pretty simple. Even though I haven't figured out the principle yet, it's quite easy to learn."
The mirror holder gritted his teeth and was just about to curse, but the next moment he immediately rolled on the ground in embarrassment to avoid the incoming sword energy.
After dodging the sword energy, he barely managed to stand up when the brat's jump slash was already smashing down toward his head.
BOOM!
The mirror holder's figure was instantly blasted away.
The dark blade struck the ground. The massive force swept outward in a ring of storm. The floor of the entire room suddenly shattered. Objects rolled and were blown against the walls.
The strange pillars standing at the four corners of the room, half-broken in appearance, were also smashed apart for the most part under this impact.
"Bastard!"
A roar suddenly rang out. The mirror holder burst out from the collapsed wall.
The man's black robe was already torn to shreds, and the body hidden beneath it showed a strange posture.
The muscles on the mirror holder's body looked far more developed than expected. His size had expanded more than three times.
His skin layered over itself like steel armor, looking like a rhinoceros. His legs were thick and round like a giant elephant.
And most of this monster's face was covered in sludge, sticky pus slowly dripping down.
Looking at the fragments of the four pillars on the ground reflecting brilliant colorful light like crystals, the mirror holder's ugly face twisted into a vicious expression. He roared at Nero, "Do you know what you've done?"
The only response he got was another leap slash.