After her aura grew extremely dense as the mace came down on top of her with extreme might, she thrusted her blue umbrella that was covered in extremely microscopic runes, which was spread open, outward to meet the violent might of the mace head on.
As her umbrella travelled outwards, the empty space around it immediately started to bend. As the space around it bended, the blinding purple light also curved along with it, giving her freedom from its danger, and time to finally look around a bit more carefully with her celestial awareness, before the mighty mace could make contact with her umbrella.
Looking around, she quickly noticed that the person who was swinging the purple mace at her was someone who closely resembled her friend Sikong Gait. 'Sikong? No! That's definitely not Sikong!' She thought to herself in dismay, because upon closer inspection, she noticed that this Sikong Gait, although looked identical to the real Sikong Gait, had an evil and cruel grin on the face of the toad creature created by his powerful aura, as he swung his mighty mace downwards at her with extreme might. He even appeared a bit manic and crazed like a devil from the underworld!
Seeing his crazed look caused her to carefully examine the endless dark space that she and her comrades were in more carefully. 'My friends couldn't have transformed into devilish creatures this easily right? They are powerful celestials and immortals far above the Simple Unity Stage!' She thought to herself in doubt and dismay.
After looking around for the second time with more carefulness with her celestial awareness, she not only noticed this evil Sikong Gait who was attacking her with reckless abandon, she also noticed the voice of people praying solemnly around her.
Upon closer inspection, after hearing the voices in her mind, she noticed not only were there countless evil phantoms clad in ancient armor, and weapons, who mysteriously appeared all over the vacuum of space, kneeling within the vacuum of space, bowing and praying solemnly, as if they were trying to summon an evil devil into the world, her comrades were also strangely fighting replicas of other comrades, just like she was.
They've also somehow been separated from each other by countless light years within the blink of an eye. Even the exit to the outside world that was opened earlier by Bringdar had somehow closed itself the moment she was attacked by the evil Sikong earlier.
"Our great devil Jika… Please heed the words of your humble servant, and bring down your wrath!" As Mrs Ruth Gruond recollected her thoughts and clashed with the massive mace, the voice of Situ Nan resounded within the world, yet his presence could not be found anywhere within the vacuum of space.