The trap activated silently.
There was no indication whatsoever that it had triggered, not even the movement of some minute mechanism operating the trap.
The poor sewer rat had merely touched the gate one step before Leandro did.
Yet the consequences produced by that insignificant movement were tremendous.
Hundreds of needles appeared as though they had materialized from empty air, piercing the small rat’s body all at once.
Thud! Thud! Thuuud!
It was as if time had stopped.
Leandro stared wide-eyed as the tiny sewer rat was gruesomely skewered.
If he had tried to push the gate even a moment sooner, it would undoubtedly have been him in that state rather than the rat.
It was a simple yet ingenious trap based on the laws of a Quartz Image World.
Even if Leandro had anticipated that there might be a trap here, he likely would not have been able to avoid it easily.
That was the nature of the laws of a Quartz Image World.
Once the conditions were fulfilled, they were absolute laws that even the Lord Himself could not dare evade.
What made matters even worse was that the long needles piercing the rat were themselves products of a Quartz Image World.
Along with faint Demonic Energy, they exuded the energy of a complex ‘curse’ that…