"Heh heh opening a dimensional gate high above and watching magic users fall is always delightful every single time"
The words that revealed such evil intent were proof that the mysterious being from the same universe as ABX-257 was truly a villain and its next action only confirmed that even further
Grrrrr
A sound like a large pack of hunting hounds came from its golden waistband before shooting outward like the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak but this was a golden cloth that split into dozens of strands the ends transforming into the heads of beasts like wolves or foxes with mouths wide open ready to bite into the hundred falling Kamar Taj disciples who were slowly descending thanks to another artifact an anti-gravity bracelet that used arcane-science principles still in its experimental phase
Though it could not allow free flight it could at least help them hover in the air but right now they were nothing more than sitting ducks
"What's that why are there suddenly hundreds of people floating in the sky"
"They're all wearing the same outfit are they soldiers from some country spying on our America"
"Look something came out of that dimensional gate too"
"I don't see anything"
"You have to look through a thermal energy detector it looks like a cluster shaped like humans"
The SHIELD agents stationed around Times Square spoke in serious tones normal people floating a thousand meters above the ground shouldn't be able to hear but I could with Observation Haki and I could also sense that orders had been given for the snipers on buildings and the ones in helicopters to fire FREEZER rounds at the newly appeared aerial targets all to capture them for interrogation
'Not much different from what I expected' I thought while watching each disciple and Wong trying to draw out magic power to protect themselves but none could summon the golden light of the Mystic Arts making me certain that New York had been cut off from magic entirely by the mysterious power of that being wearing a half suit on top and a tunic below laughing like a villain on TV joyfully proclaiming its desire to devour magic its voice echoing across the sky nearly drowning out the helicopter rotors approaching nearby
"Ha ha ha delicious food delicious food you who draw on magical power and think yourselves gods flying through the air when you fall you spread despair so richly fragrant so tasty so delicious ha ha ha ha"
'If it were the normal Strange he would have used the TIME STONE already but I'm Law I'll use the power of the Ope Ope Fruit first keep the TIME STONE as a hidden card in case this enemy has something stranger or more dangerous'
The instant the golden wolf-headed cloth lunged to bite my head it was smashed apart by a Haki-coated punch shattering like glass hurled violently to the ground
Crashhhh
"Impossible you shouldn't have enough power to destroy my glass fox"
'A dog formed from cloth but called a glass fox strange' I thought to myself without bothering to respond or banter further since many lessons have said never converse too much with beings from other dimensions for you might fall into their traps their logic or their magic
Like the legend from China Journey to the West the magical gourd whoever holds it and calls another's name if the other answers they meet the condition and the gourd will suck them in immediately sealing them inside before releasing acid to dissolve the body to bones within 48 hours or longer until not even bones remain
"But don't think you've won yet"
The wolf-like cloth beasts from its waistband lunged at me again accelerating toward my disciples who were falling fast and my Observation Haki sensed SHIELD snipers preparing to fire on them too surrounded on two fronts one the invader seeking to devour body and magic the other our own world's people seeking to capture and interrogate possibly to experiment on why they could use magic
'No matter how good you are if no one knows no one helps no power no authority to protect yourself and your comrades you'll face life-threatening danger like this lucky that I have power to protect everyone'
G•ROOM
The surgical space created by the Ope Ope Fruit still worked because it wasn't magic
Normally the Room was used to cut and rearrange enemies' bodies but control inside it was limited so I developed new capabilities one of which I had discovered trained until familiar and now showed its results Gravity ROOM
As the name suggests I could control gravity inside it at will I planned to use it to train myself and my disciples but before I could unveil it under normal conditions it became the first card to stop this crisis and save everyone from three threats
First preventing them from falling to their deaths under gravity they now floated midair like when practicing flight magic their faces first surprised then relieved and that relief doubled when they saw their surroundings
My G•Room prevented SHIELD bullets from entering its area they hung suspended in midair circling the outermost boundary of the gravity chamber
And the golden wolf beasts trying to devour the mages were crushed by gravity compressed from glass foxes into golden quartz crystals which I gathered together into a dense sphere the size of a basketball but with the mass of four full courts packed into one
"You you what did you do how can you still use magic"
I stared at it though unsure where its eyes were and smiled before doing two things at once first sending everyone including Wong back to the Sanctum by swapping them with the dust particles within the expanded inner chamber
At first I was going to send them to stand in front of the Sanctum but right now SHIELD teams or other secret units were surely stationed there patrolling since no one could use magic it would be risky they might be captured detained questioned
And the other thing was
REBOUND