Chapter 400 - Chapter 396 – The Unexpected Shattering of Space at the Night

The night arrived sooner than they had expected, as if Nocture itself wanted to give them a small reward after the victory on the mountain slope that afternoon. Sylvia and the others descended from the back mountain with much lighter steps than they had that morning. The black mist that had been so thick now felt thinner around them, as if the wildly pulsing dimensional energy from yesterday had eased a little after Stacia partially closed the rift. The mountain wind still blew cold, carrying the scent of damp earth mixed with the metallic smell of monster blood that still clung to Sylvia's black cloak. But the smell no longer bothered her; instead, it felt like a trophy, a reminder that today something real had happened, something she had destroyed with her own hands.