181 Escaping The Layer

Suddenly, a strong sense of pressure came down.

The piece of paper crumpled up slightly.

"What? This... This feeling is..."

The dragon that had been reduced to a skeleton just moments before suddenly stood up, with a bright blue light in its eye socket. It spread its skeletal wings apart proudly, like it was trying to show off.

I blinked a few times.

"That can't be good."

As though wanting to prove a point, the dragon roared, far louder than before and strangely distorted.

The three objects in front of me did not waste any time in running away, as did I. However, it was noticeably harder for me to run as lifting my foot off the ground became a struggle. As for the three objects, they seemed to be having even more trouble. Despite my already slow movement, they were going even slower.

The necklace trembled.

"Why... is it so... hard to move?"