Pietro glanced behind him with a cold look in his eyes, then resolutely slammed into the ground.

"puff!"

The ground, tens of meters thick, was smashed through, and Pietro quickly landed on the ground below, then continued running away from Ger. He didn't know why everyone around him had disappeared, but his subconscious told him that he absolutely couldn't let Ger catch him.

Staying away from Geer is the best way.

Gel controlled the ground beneath him to float rapidly toward him, but each time, Pietro smashed through the ground and went somewhere else. Even the "Close Encounters" technique that Gel activated was broken by Pietro!

For a moment, the situation became deadlocked.

As Gel watched Pietro darting around in the mirror space, his gaze darkened—Pietro's purpose was, after all, to buy time.

But Ger knew he couldn't keep dragging this on.

"Then let's use some offensive moves." Geer sighed, his hands forming a series of hand seals. As chaotic energy danced at his fingertips, the surrounding spatial energy was once again massively activated. "Spatial Wall, appear!"

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Four towering spatial walls appeared out of nowhere around Pietro, completely blocking his path. So sudden was the situation that Pietro couldn't react in time and crashed into one of the walls, instantly breaking a large chunk of his head.

Pietro coldly surveyed the surroundings, only to see towering walls, resembling glass walls, rising in all directions, though these "glass walls" appeared extremely thick.

Just by looking at it, you know it will be extremely difficult to break through.

With a cold gaze, Pietro looked at the ground and stretched out his hands. Immediately, red light surged from his hands, and the wounds on his head began to heal rapidly at a visible speed.

"Bang!"

Pietro swung his fist and slammed it into the ground. However, despite his immense arm strength, the ground only trembled slightly. Clearly, there was another spatial wall below.

"Bang! Bang!"

Pietro activated his speed ability and punched the spatial wall around him one punch after another, causing the spatial gate to shake in place at an increasingly rapid pace.

Gel remained unmoved by Pietro's actions, simply taking a deep breath and continuing to form hand seals.

This time, however, it triggered water-based energy!

Given Gel's current abilities, there are very few spells that require hand seals to complete, and even fewer that require such a long time to form!

"The tide rises over the vast sea, now it appears!"

As Ger's voice faded, Pietro was horrified to discover that a large amount of water was surging up from the center of the spatial wall, beneath his feet, and rising rapidly at an extremely ferocious speed. Soon, the water had reached his chest, and there was almost an invisible force within it, causing him to immediately lose his balance!

"Sizzle."

The water droplets touched Pietro's body and were quickly evaporated by the extremely high temperature emanating from his body, turning into wisps of steam that rose into the air. For a moment, the area above the water was completely covered in a white mist.

But in an instant, the water spread rapidly and completely submerged Pietro's body.

Pietro tried to dodge, but felt as if the water had a suction force, making it difficult for him to move even with his strength!

"ah!"

Pietro felt as if countless needles were piercing his body in the water. Looking up, he saw that the water was filled with endless ice needles, which were rapidly growing larger and quickly connecting to form blocks of ice.

Pietro's pupils contracted slightly—were they going to freeze him? As long as he was inside this spatial wall, there was no way to escape!

“Brother!” Pietro called out to Ger.

When the sound reached Ger's ears, he instinctively paused. As he stopped moving, the water in the spatial wall immediately stopped freezing.

Immediately afterwards, Pietro quickly approached the spatial wall and began punching it repeatedly.

"Bang!"

The spatial wall shook more and more violently, eventually breaking apart, and Pietro immediately escaped the area enclosed by the spatial wall.

Gel knew that the magic he had just used wouldn't be able to trap Pietro. Pietro's use of the word "brother" was merely a ploy to buy Gel time by exploiting his sympathy.

Although he no longer had Pietro's memories, he was still using Pietro's face, and when Ger heard his cries, he still felt a little reluctant.

“Pietro, since that’s the case, I’ll just have to make you suffer a bit.” With a wave of his hands, clusters of chaotic energy gathered at the edge of the mirror space, opening dozens of small spatial doors leading to the S.H.I.E.L.D. warehouse.