Secondary Formation

Since she had already walked halfway, Su Ran could only brace herself and continue walking.

The black stockings on her legs already felt stuffy and hot.

Su Ran looked around, trying to find a place where she could take off her shoes and relax her tired legs.

From the system’s reminder, one point of Weakness Value would weaken her constitution by two percent.

This meant that when her Weakness Value reached fifty, her constitution would drop to zero, and she would become a true glass cannon.

To prevent this from happening, Su Ran decided to put making money on her agenda and clear this negative status as soon as possible.

Searching all around, Su Ran couldn’t find a single bench to sit on near the sidewalk.

Seeing that the once endless stream of cars had all disappeared, Su Ran really couldn’t bear the fatigue coming from her body any longer.

She prepared to take off her cotton shawl and find a flat place to sit and rest.

However, just as Su Ran’s hand touched the shawl, preparing to untie it…

She completely ignored the signals of fatigue from her body and suddenly started running along the sidewalk.

The tall buildings around her continuously moved behind Su Ran’s line of sight, but the scenery near her didn’t change at all, as if the buildings moving backward were still in their original place.

After a moment, Su Ran stopped wasting her energy and chose to halt her steps, carefully observing her surroundings.

She had been walking along the road this whole time, only passing through one small alley.

According to the normal route, she had just seen a large number of cars heading this way.

Even after crossing an intersection, it shouldn’t be possible for all the vehicles to suddenly disappear.

Moreover, this was a two-way road.

‘To not see a single car passing by in either direction is too strange.’

Su Ran had thought of this problem when she was preparing to sit down.

The earlier sprint was just to test if her idea was correct.

Originally, Su Ran was worried she might be overthinking it, but after that burst of running, Su Ran knew she hadn’t been.

She had unknowingly fallen into a magic formation.

Su Ran still didn’t know the purpose of the person who set up the magic formation.

From her own experience just now, this magic formation’s most basic function was to trap people.

‘But where did I fall into the magic formation?’

Su Ran thought it over and could only think of the corner alley she had walked into.

‘I probably fell into the magic formation there.’

‘Why set up a magic formation here? Or did I just wander in by mistake?’

All sorts of questions plagued Su Ran, leaving her completely bewildered.

She could only think of a way to leave the magic formation first.

Su Ran closed her eyes, focusing all her spirit on sensing the flow of magic essence within the magic formation.

Unlike before, when she could break the formation with brute force, this magic formation seemed to have an extra layer of energy protecting its core.

This prevented Su Ran from directly freezing the flow of magic essence with Hoarfrost to find an opportunity to break the formation.

From this small addition, it seemed the person who set up this formation was the same one who had used a magic formation in the processing plant.

In other words, it was highly likely that the mastermind was making a move against her this time.

Fortunately, Su Ran had already mastered the basics of magic formations.

A formation like the one before her was still traceable.

It would just take some effort to leave.

Even though Su Ran was inside the magic formation, it wasn’t difficult for her to find a path to survival by following the traces of the magic essence flow.

The place where the magic essence flowed around was the weakest point.

Su Ran reopened her eyes.

She had now locked onto this position.

Getting there was not simple, especially with the way Su Ran had been walking in place just now, which showed this was no ordinary magic formation.

It seemed to have used mirroring or folding techniques in its construction, which was why people couldn’t walk out of it.

“If it were the me from before, I might have been trapped, but now I’ve already advanced to Sequence Two.”

An afterimage, still carrying a frosty chill, shot out from behind Su Ran, firmly nailing itself to the ground at the weak point.

After confirming that the ice vine was securely fastened, Su Ran walked directly over it.

The magic formation in front of her only hindered Su Ran’s progress by affecting her senses.

The opponent had not yet reached the point of being able to truly interfere with space, which gave Su Ran a chance to escape.

‘Let me get out and see just who set up this magic formation.’

Arriving at the exit, Su Ran lifted her foot and stepped out.

‘Since the opponent was willing to set up a magic formation to trap me, it means they definitely have a purpose in coming after me.’

‘Then, as long as I encounter an enemy, there’s no need for me to be polite.’

Just as Su Ran was leaving the magic formation that had surrounded her, something unexpected happened.

A blood-colored moon hanging in the sky signified that Su Ran had not returned to her original location after leaving, but had instead fallen into another place.

A triple formation!

When she felt her vision turn red, alarm bells rang in Su Ran’s head.

A double formation was one where another layer of a magic formation was added on top of the original one.

The two had a certain degree of similarity, could share some of the formation runes, and could also minimize the consumption of setting up the magic formation.

For Su Ran, a double formation wasn’t a big problem.

At worst, she could just use her old trick to escape.

What truly made Su Ran feel that things were tricky was the figure standing less than ten meters in front of her.

Withered fingers and messy hair.

From the large wings spread out on his back, it could be seen that this was a vampire!

“First time we meet? Or should I say, long time no see?”

The hoarse voice was like a broken exhaust fan, revealing that this vampire’s throat was not in good condition.

But even so, the aura emanating from the vampire was that of a Sequence Four.

Dealing with a Sequence Two like Su Ran wouldn’t require much effort.

“I certainly haven’t seen you for a long time.”

Looking at the vampire before her, Su Ran didn’t hold back on the verbal jab.

She sneered a few times.

“There’s no need to try and provoke me, because you have no chance of winning.”

The vampire rubbed its palms together.

Although the expression on its face didn’t change, from its tone, Su Ran could already hear the other party’s disdain.

Against a Sequence Four, unless Su Ran could have the power from the Witch Game…

Otherwise, what the other party said was not wrong at all.

Su Ran truly had no chance of winning.

“Don’t struggle. It is your honor to die here and allow the magic formation to activate smoothly. A newly advanced Sequence Two is nothing more than something I can solve with a little more effort.”

Su Ran was silent.

It seemed she had already accepted reality and lost the will to resist.

“Then can I ask one last question?”

“Speak. I am happy to grant you your last request before you die.”