The moment the Overlord of Puppets awakened, it sent all the city's residents away from Arthania so that it would not lose any more of them.
Or more precisely, any more of its puppets.
It thought it had finished with Arthania when it surrounded her with its curtain and isolated her from the world, trapping her within that hidden space.
It thought she would continue fighting and resisting until her last breath... and it was prepared for that.
Prepared to subdue her and take her.
Even if she burned its threads hundreds of times, no, thousands of times... it did not really matter.
In the end, it was still a monster at the peak of Rank 6... an ancient disaster capable of threatening an entire nation.
So while it isolated Arthania in that darkness, it extended its threads outward... toward that group that was moving farther and farther away.
But it did not doubt for even a single moment that they could escape from it.
After all, they were nothing more than insects in its eyes.
