**Chapter 293: The Paragon's Clone**
The safety zone collapsed.
There was no sound, no flash of light, no dramatic shockwave. The invisible barrier that had kept the monsters at bay simply vanished, like a held breath finally being released.
The Mysterious Woman stood up in the empty void.
She did not brace herself. She did not circulate energy or prepare a defensive technique. She simply closed her eyes and expanded her spiritual sense without any restraint.
The entire layer unfolded before her in a single instant.
It was not a gradual spreading of perception. It was absolute. Every major signature, every high-tier monster, every residual structure, every faint distortion left by Runar's earlier disintegration wave — all of it laid bare. The void became a perfect, three-dimensional map. Distance lost its meaning. Concealment became a joke.
