If one ignored the woman’s visible insect eggs, her appearance would be quite decent.
Yet she wasn’t Laplace.
In Laplace’s Temporal Body, such a person did not exist.
However... she vaguely recalled a humanoid magic monster within the Dreamworld Sweepers she had killed before?
Could this be a monster from the Sweeper team? But why did it appear in the mirror?
As Laplace focused all her attention on the mirror, the woman inside suddenly extended her hand outward, seemingly wanting to grab Laplace.
Laplace cautiously retreated some ten meters.
When she settled her stance and looked at the mirror, the hand reaching from the mirror and the woman were gone.
Simultaneously, the lady’s mirror began to slowly vanish, seemingly about to disappear into unknown realms.
Laplace hesitated a bit, choosing not to further investigate the lady’s mirror and instead to use this opportunity, before these bizarre objects disappeared, to check other crystal creations.
The second item she inspected was also a mirror. But this mirror was a full-length mirror, able to reflect the entire body. Its frame was uniquely designed, engraved with entangled serpents, hardly the kind of mirror someone would typically use.
When Laplace approached this mirror, it sensed her presence, halting its vanishing process.
Inside the mirror, just like the previous lady’s mirror, started by reflecting Laplace’s form but gradually transformed into a tall figure wearing formal attire, donning a veiled hat, holding a lace-edged folding fan covering the mouth—a noblewoman.
Seeing this noblewoman, Laplace immediately recalled the first Dreamworld Sweeper she had killed—the Nine-foot Snakewoman.
In appearance, she was identical to the previous Nine-foot Snakewoman.
While Laplace pondered this, the mirror’s noblewoman set aside her fan, revealing a split mouth, sharp teeth, and a long snake tongue.
Her true body was indeed the Nine-foot Snakewoman!
As the Nine-foot Snakewoman wickedly grinned in the mirror, the serpent sculptures on the mirror frame suddenly animated, lunging towards Laplace.
Laplace acted as before, retreating. This time, she withdrew a hundred meters before the serpents gradually vanished.
Observing the distant full-length mirror, it resumed vanishing.
Witnessing this, Laplace understood the rules of these crystal creations: they activate upon approach and vanish upon distancing... but where they go afterward remains unknown.
Are these crystal creations new Sweepers, or remnants of prior Sweepers she defeated?
With too few clues, Laplace couldn’t decide, but she distinctly felt a familiar aura within these crystal creations...
While Laplace pondered this, she suddenly felt a tightening sensation at her waist.
Instinctively checking, she found her waist had unknowingly been bound by a long whip equipped with barbs!
Barbs? Long whip?!
Laplace immediately thought of the three crystal creations nearby earlier—two mirrors and a long whip with barbs—but remembered the whip wasn’t close by, so why was she bound?
Turning to see, the whip’s handle was indeed still in its original position, but the whip had slithered snake-like toward her, binding her waist.
The whip’s length just reached her.
Laplace didn’t anticipate such a large "activation" range.
Nevertheless, she wasn’t too worried, as the whip’s binding couldn’t break through her scales’ defenses.
Though the whip seemed harmless at present, the appearance of these crystal creations was too strange. Laplace opted to carefully pry it away.
But as she did, the whip subtly pulled, exerting slight force on Laplace, then voluntarily released.
The whip’s voluntary release was good news, but as Laplace raised her head, she realized everything around her had changed.
She was no longer airborne nor had fallen to the ground; she found herself in a... Rose Garden.
It seemed that just now, the light pull from the whip wasn’t an attack but rather drawing Laplace into an unknown, bizarre space.