Lynch's fingertips lit up with starlight, sketching a triple-nested inverted cross in the void. In the suspended time and space, the runes of Hell Torture began to reverse grow suddenly — the chains' patterns that burned souls were being replaced by Acadia's spatial secret patterns.
[Phase Dissociation]
He flicked his finger against the thickest chain, and shockwaves transmitted along the iron lock to the stone pillar. The runes imprisoning the girl suddenly turned transparent, revealing an intricate soul cage structure inside, precise as a clock. Each gear meshing point flickered with Alfred's unique spirit imprint, an eternal spell painted using the bone marrow of high-level magical creatures.
Lynch swung his arm, erasing these runes one by one. These were the critical sealing nodes imprisoning the girl; once these were removed, the Hell Torture set up by Alfred would collapse without attack.
