Chapter 267

Hmm—!

The moment the words fell, everyone present froze on the spot. Time seemed to freeze at that instant, and the entire meeting grew so quiet that even the sound of a single needle dropping could be heard with perfect clarity.

The next second, an uproar of voices rose once more!

"The hostage has vanished?!"

"Wasn't he already locked up? How could this be possible!"

"Weren't there heavy guards inside the prison? How could he still have slipped away?"

……

The uproar erupted in full at this moment. Not a single person present dared to believe that, within the heavily guarded, layer-upon-layer secured prison of the Fapingyi Society, someone could still have escaped.

"What's going on? How could the person just disappear?" Makarov said, his face full of shock.

One had to know that he had still been placing his hope of avoiding war on Aisi; now that Aisi had vanished, didn't it mean this war could no longer be avoided?

In fact, not only Makarov, but Grandoma himself could not believe it either!

One had to know that, considering the circumstances on the other party's body, he had dispatched a large number of mages to keep watch at three hundred and sixty degrees with no blind spots.

At the same time, considering that the other party's body could turn into an element, he had even set up a magic formation to prevent the other party from escaping — but he never expected that the thing he had worried about most had still happened.

For some unknown reason, a faint illusion always lingered in Grandoma's heart……

Everything was too coincidental, so coincidental that it made him doubt himself.

No sooner had they just captured Aisi than members of the Bai Huzu pirate crew came Zhaoshang Sect at their heels; and right after the declaration of war, the hostage suddenly vanished again.

It was as though… an invisible hand was manipulating them from the shadows, making them helplessly keep walking down the route the other party had already set for them.