"Boom!"
Just then, the wall behind Illumi suddenly flipped and flew up with a "boom."
A figure emerged from the ground, carrying a pillar on its back. The moment the figure landed, it single-handedly ripped the pillar from its back and swung it towards Illumi and the Nen needle he had thrown.
"Whoosh~!"
The pillar, thicker than a person's waist, swung with a fierce whoosh of wind. It struck Illumi's crossed arms with a "boom," sending him flying dozens of meters away.
Immediately after, the figure turned towards Illumi, who was sitting on the stone pillar. Taking a step forward with his right foot, he pushed off, leaping high into the air. With an arc, the figure landed on the ground in front of Illumi. The pillar on his back "boomed" as it violently plunged into the ground, and the tip of the pillar "dinged" and glowed red.
"No entry!"
The figure shouted. Illumi immediately felt something was wrong with his body, but before he could think too much, more people "emerged from the ground" out of the ruins.
"Boom!" x4
Four figures leaped out simultaneously, attacking Illumi, who was sitting on the stone pillar.
Illumi, sensing the anomaly, had a thought. A black spike suddenly shot up from the ground, piercing through one of the figures at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, entering from below and exiting from the top of the skull. The black spike, having pierced one person, turned in mid-air, snaking to consecutively pierce the hearts of the remaining three.
"Puff, puff, puff…"
With soft sounds, the four figures all froze in mid-air, then fell silent. Just like that, the four individuals who had appeared abruptly and been on the field for less than a second were skewered and hung in mid-air, swaying in the wind.
"What?!"
"How can you still move?!"
The first person to attack Illumi now looked at him with an astonished expression, as well as at the four figures hanging in mid-air behind Illumi.
"Hmm, it's true that I can't move."
Compared to him, Illumi, sitting on the stone pillar, looked relaxed. He tried, and indeed, his body couldn't move.
"However, my ability doesn't require such flashy movements."
"As long as I want to, I can activate it at any time."
Illumi had actually discovered these people long ago; he merely wanted to see what abilities they possessed. Thinking this, he turned his gaze to the culprit that rendered him immobile.
"Traffic light?"
Illumi raised an eyebrow slightly. He saw that what was stuck in front of him, making him unable to move, was actually a common traffic light pole. Like an ordinary traffic light pole, this one also had three large lights: red, yellow, and green.
The red light was currently on. And the person using this pole was none other than Kamran, the man in the reddish-brown suit from before. As for the four skewered bodies hanging in mid-air behind Illumi, they were naturally the four bodyguards from earlier.
"This ability is interesting."
At this moment, Illumi's voice sounded. He stood behind Kamran, holding a Nen needle, and looked at the pole in front of him, a hint of curiosity in his expression.
"Looking at the effect of his ability and the object he materialized, it should be an ability similar to a traffic light."
"It can stop a person's movement for a certain period of time, or stop people within a certain area."
Illumi instantly analyzed Kamran's ability and walked step by step towards Kamran. He wanted to test whether Kamran's ability was the first type, the second type, or both.
"Hmm, it seems to be both."
The moment Illumi stepped within three meters of Kamran, his footsteps halted, and he could no longer move.
"Miscalculation…"
Kamran stood grim-faced in place. He watched helplessly as Illumi stepped, one by one, into his "No Entry" zone. But he dared not move a muscle. Because at this moment, a black spike was pressed against his chest, right at his heart. If he made the slightest move, he would instantly die on the spot.
"Dimensional Barrier!"
Suddenly, one of the bodyguards hanging in mid-air behind Illumi came back to life and activated an ability towards Illumi, who was on the stone pillar. A sphere emitting a purple glow shot towards Illumi, reaching him in an instant.
"Heh heh… heh heh, you're dead." The bodyguard hanging in mid-air grinned, looking at Illumi, who was about to be enveloped by his ability, panting heavily.
But just as he thought he had succeeded.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble…"
The massive stone pillar beneath Illumi suddenly began to vibrate. Immediately, accompanied by a loud bang, amidst Kamran's and the bodyguard's shocked gazes, a large number of black pillars emerged from beneath the stone pillar, forcefully lifting the stone pillar into mid-air, avoiding the sphere's trajectory.
The purple sphere, meanwhile, passed through the gaps between the black pillars and shot directly towards Kamran, who was in a direct line with Illumi. Before he could react, Kamran was enveloped by the purple sphere.
"Let me out!"
Inside the purple sphere, Kamran, having recovered, pounded forcefully on the inside of the sphere, shouting at the bodyguard.
"Raza!"
But when he called out the man's name, he saw that the bodyguard, Raza, was already motionless, his head and arms hanging limply in mid-air.
"Raza!"
Kamran shouted again, but the bodyguard named Raza remained completely silent.
"Ding!"
A black spike suddenly appeared and struck the surface of the purple sphere.
"Hmm?"
"It can't pierce through?"
Illumi, sitting on the stone pillar in mid-air, looked somewhat surprised. His spikes could even pierce steel plates, yet they couldn't break through this sphere. Illumi narrowed his eyes, and more black spikes emerged from the ground, striking towards the purple sphere.
"Ding, ding, ding…"
But without exception, they could only remain on the surface of the sphere, unable to break through.
"Give up, you can't break this barrier," Kamran, standing inside the sphere, said to Illumi in mid-air, his eyes cold. "The space inside this sphere is different from the space outside. This is a different dimension."
"Different dimension?"
Illumi's expression in mid-air changed slightly. He could only recall one ability related to space: Knuckle's Four-Dimensional Apartment.
"Heh heh, understood now?" Kamran grinned. "No one can break a space barrier, unless it reaches its time limit and automatically deactivates."
"But you don't have time."
"In one minute, the Rapid Response Unit will arrive."
After Kamran finished speaking, he simply sat down inside the sphere, seemingly confident that Illumi and his companion couldn't do anything to him.
"One 'No Entry' and one 'Barrier,' indeed very suitable abilities for bodyguards," Illumi blinked, his tone leisurely.
"Too naive."
Illumi's lips curved upwards. A large amount of black threads shot out from beneath his feet, wildly dancing in mid-air. Under Kamran's shocked gaze, they gradually condensed into a colossal being.
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