After successfully disabling Seraphine's mind-controlled puppets, William wasted no time, rushing towards the center of the Sunflower Garden Community. While invisible, he knew he had the advantage. Her minions couldn't target what they couldn't see.
However, his progress was abruptly halted when a sudden white flare was fired into the night sky. The flare made him stop in his tracks and glance upwards, a chill running down his spine as he witnessed its ascent. That sudden burst of light, so out of place in the darkened landscape, filled him with an ominous foreboding.
The flare's trajectory was like a carefully planned spectacle, climbing higher and higher into the heavens. It reached a few hundred meters above the ground, a solitary star ascending in a sky devoid of celestial bodies. The flare, now a shining ball of brilliant white, seemed to hang in the air for a brief moment, a beacon of ethereal beauty, casting a ghostly glow over everything below.