Lucien stumbled as he raced toward the dome's entrance, searching for Zephyr's figure while shouting inwardly in panic.
'Why?'
'Why did this dungeon appear so soon?!'
'Wasn't it supposed to appear five years later, when Erick used a powerful skill to battle a group of evil Espers who attacked the Association building and triggered it?'
He pushed through the crowd, calling out Zephyr's name and asking anyone nearby if they had seen a tall, handsome blind man. When no one could give him an answer, he realized Zephyr was still inside the dome.
Lucien felt like laughing at the irony—he knew he would die today if he didn't leave this place quickly and get far, far away—when he saw an A-rank Esper shouting for someone to alert the Association, saying Monica couldn't determine the dungeon's rank. The mana analyzer—a compass-like device used to measure a dungeon's mana levels—had exploded. Yet he—like an idiot—still ran toward the dome to find Zephyr.
