CHAPTER 573: CHAPTER 83 THE BETRAYAL YET TO HAPPEN

Thira had chosen gravity manipulation after deep consideration.

As one of the three great Extraordinary Swordsmanship techniques, the Ripple Sword’s principle involves twisting space, which demands proficient spatial perception from the user.

However, according to the theory of relativity, mass and gravitational distributions affect spatial distribution. This means that as long as the gravitational vectors within the area continuously undergo high-frequency changes in magnitude and direction, the corresponding space will also undergo high-frequency alterations, thereby inhibiting the teleportation ability of the Ripple Sword.

Mia as an adult did not possess this "physical common knowledge," but with chaotic gravity imposed upon her, she and Aske almost immediately discovered that the Ripple Sword’s teleportation abilities were somewhat disrupted.

Aske instantly stepped back quickly, while adult Mia just coldly snapped her fingers.

Black Hole.

The so-called Black Hole Law is translated as "wormhole" in international servers; strictly speaking, it’s not a "black hole" but a "wormhole." However, most players domestically have gotten used to calling it a black hole.

The principle of this black hole is also about manipulating space to transfer objects, which effectively looks like a downgraded version of the Ripple Sword. If the Ripple Sword is an instantaneous "contact-based movement," then the Black Hole Law involves mechanistically rigid "coordinate-based movement," with a broad range, slow activation speed, high Spirituality consumption...

However, the advantage lies in its stability, as the power derived from the law is very stable and less likely to be disrupted by other chaotic environmental factors.

Had young Mia mastered the Ripple Sword early, then Thira would likely become familiar with tactics of space-manipulating Transcendents during their long-term combat training.

Unfortunately, she had not, so Thira could only watch in astonishment and confusion as adult Mia snapped her fingers, conjuring a black hole that enveloped and immediately disappeared her from the spot.

Then, she suddenly heard Eleanor yelling next to her, "Danger!"

Hearing the warning, Thira didn’t think; she just dove forward, but her back immediately felt pain. Mia, who had teleported behind her, had already plunged a short knife slightly into her left upper back when Eleanor’s right hand, covered in a glow of Will, firmly grabbed it.

"Are you insane!" Eleanor stared at her in shock, the short knife twisting and deforming in her palm, "Are you really trying to kill her?!"

"What else?" Adult Mia released the ruined weapon and produced another short knife, smirking coldly, "What made you naively think that I wouldn’t try to kill you?"

Her eyes flashed with intense malice and unmasked lethal intent as she snarled, "Eleanor, Theodora... and Nora! You all are despicable betrayers! Traitors of The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps! Despicable!"

The three girls’ faces changed simultaneously, such grave and vile accusations shocked them profoundly, yet they were completely unable to defend themselves—they hadn’t done anything to betray the corps.

But seeing the hateful expression of the adult Mia, it didn’t seem like she was pretending (considering Mia’s straightforward nature). A more reasonable explanation then might be that in the parallel universe Mia came from, perhaps even at a future point in time, these three had betrayed the corps...

Thira’s face turned deathly pale due to blood loss, and her lips trembled in terror. The backstabbing by the adult Mia had nearly pierced her heart, showing uncompromising determination and undeniable hatred. Nora held her from behind and began healing the wound on her back, her face a mixture of pallor and shock, overwhelmed and on the verge of tears.

Only Eleanor, as if she had suffered a great indignity, had veins nearly bursting on her forehead:

"You’re talking nonsense!"

The white light of will flowed rapidly along her arm, transforming into a dazzling broadsword in her palm, "How could I possibly betray the team!?"

Of course, she would never betray the team, and certainly not Aske, because she had always been deeply in love with Aske and was clearer about her own feelings than anyone else.

However, at least for now, she couldn’t voice this fact; because of this, she was at a loss for words against the accusations of betrayal from the adult Mia.

She even dared not meet Aske’s gaze in the distance; just imagining the expression on the squad leader’s face at this moment was like being pierced by thousands of arrows, tormenting her intensely.

"Explain yourself..." The blonde knight girl raised her light sword, fiercely pointing it at the adult Mia’s figure, nearly grinding her teeth to pieces, "Explain yourself clearly!"

Light Angel, Rapid Thrust!

The unstoppable thrust of the light sword, as expected, missed its mark. The adult Mia had already teleported behind her, and her short knife, like a spectral ghost, rapidly stabbed at her.

"Don’t talk to me, traitor!" Her short knife crashed hard against Eleanor’s back, shattered by the timely surge of willpower light.

Metal fragments exploded like fireworks in all directions, quickly shimmering around Eleanor at high speed, disappearing and reappearing unpredictably like swarming insects, dense and chaotic like a myriad of stars.

Using the Ripple Sword and Black Hole Law, the adult Mia "shattered" the entire space around Eleanor.

Despite being protected from any harm by the Unyielding Holy Sword, she found herself trapped in a discontinuous, fragmented cluster of spatial shards with no way to escape.

Once the Unyielding Holy Sword’s duration expired, the space she had been in would be instantly torn apart by the surrounding chaotic space, her body included.

"Enough!" Before the adult Mia could teleport to another location to assassinate Thira or Nora, Aske had already grabbed the shocked Eleanor and reappeared from a wormhole.

The space where Eleanor had been standing was now completely shattered, turned into countless black and white particles—any light that passed through this fractured space had its path utterly scrambled. To everyone’s eyes, it looked like an old TV screen, filled with static snow from a lost signal.

"You actually saved her?" The adult Mia looked at Aske in disbelief, her expression contorting with anger, "She... do you know what they did? They almost destroyed the entire team, ruined the Azure Longsword..."

"I can’t question or punish our counterparts from our world based on events that occurred in your world. In our timeline, they haven’t done anything," Aske said gently, "As for the title of jerk, that probably belongs to your world’s Aske, not to me."

"You’re right, aren’t you? Miss Mia from a parallel universe, a future point in time?"