CHAPTER 539: CHAPTER 333: THE BELL, BLACK COCOON, AND SURPRISE ATTACK

A minute and a half ago, at the edge of the island.

Everyone was engaged in heated combat, except for Urushibara Ryuri, who stood alone on the desolate beach, the tide washing over her leather shoes, wetting the sand beneath them.

One drone after another hovered above her head, relaying live feeds from all around the island.

Urushibara Ryuri let the projected images surround her, placing one hand on her hip, a playful curve on her lips, her gaze intently observing the corners of the battlefield on the island.

But the next second, she suddenly heard a commotion nearby, breaking her concentration.

It seemed to be a low ringing of a bell.

That’s right... a bell sound.

"Wow, what the hell is that noise?" Urushibara Ryuri thought, raising her elegant eyebrows.

She abruptly looked up, seeing no cover near the beach, only a towering rock mountain.

The faint bell sound she heard earlier came from behind that rock mountain.

"Is someone hiding there? It seems they’re coming for me."

She remained alert, her crystal-clear eyes fixed on the rock mountain.

Aware of the potential danger, she did not leave the beach immediately.

Because Urushibara Ryuri was confident that with her reflexes, she could instantly activate her ability and transport herself into an independent space within a tenth of a second upon detecting the enemy.

If necessary, Urushibara Ryuri could also use her superpower to bring back one of the Rainbow Wing Members currently executing extermination tasks on the island to deal with this uninvited guest.

This way, she could give them a big surprise.

After all, regardless of her inclination toward functionality, she was still a Catastrophe-level Superpower User. Her abilities were unique, but her physical prowess was not lacking.

If it was just ordinary Light-Eating Bees, she could take them out by the hundreds with just her combat skills; encountering a Quasi-Calamity superhuman with slightly weaker abilities, she could resolve them with her superpower mechanism.

As long as she got close and marked them, Urushibara Ryuri could instantly pull them into an independent space.

Once pulled into that independent space, the opponent would temporarily lose consciousness, becoming a defenseless vegetative state, just like when Gu Qiye was first sent into the independent space.

During this lapse, it would already be enough time for Urushibara Ryuri to dismember them a hundred times over.

For this purpose, she had left various toys in the independent space to handle enemies of different levels, from handcrafted knives, pencil sharpeners to rifles, submachine guns, and even rocket launchers, everything was available.

Urushibara Ryuri once, during an undercover mission, used seduction to approach a Catastrophe-level Superpower User from an enemy nation; at the moment she embraced their neck on a social stage, she left a mark on them and sent them into the independent space.

There, before their consciousness could awaken, she set up TNT charges on the ground and then fired a rocket launcher at their head.

Urushibara Ryuri herself then left the independent space gracefully before the rocket could land, and when she returned later to check, all she found was a skeletal figure kneeling on the ground, surrounded by black ashes.

It was because of this accumulated battle experience and the numerous cases she had witnessed, even the memory of dealing with a Catastrophe-level Superpower User, that Urushibara Ryuri had full confidence in her own strength.

In her self-definition, Urushibara Ryuri was not just the tool for saving people as the outside world claimed, but quite the opposite, she could be a perfect assassin who hides skill within simplicity.

At this moment, Urushibara Ryuri crossed her arms, silently gazing at the rock mountain, waiting for the opponent to reveal themselves. She only needed an instant to roughly gauge their strength and then take appropriate action.

However, what Urushibara Ryuri could never have anticipated was that the opponent did not even leave her a fraction of a second.

After the strange bell sound, she looked up. Then the entire world was suddenly covered in a mercury color, and Urushibara Ryuri’s body froze in place, her expression locked on her face.

In fact, not just her, even the drones above her head stopped functioning.

The beach, crabs, sea, and the fish in it, all things in the world froze the moment they were coated in that mercury color.

The world was silent, soundless.

Time had silently stopped.

Then, a shadowy figure appeared atop the rock mountain and descended straight down. He wore a black coat and a mask with dark red patterns, traversing the silent, frozen world as he plummeted rapidly.

Like a tyrant ruling over time, trailing a large expanse of black ribbons.

In the instant he landed on the beach, those black ribbons tightly wrapped around all the floating drones above Urushibara Ryuri, pulling them to the ground and smashing them to pieces.

Then he bound Urushibara Ryuri’s body from top to bottom with the ribbons, and the mercury color enveloping the world suddenly faded away, and Urushibara Ryuri’s pupils regained color.