In the middle of their flight, Marie suddenly pulled the Void Craft out of its forward rush.
The vessel stopped so abruptly that the air around it trembled.
"There are people ahead," Marie said. Her voice had lost all of its earlier playfulness. "They are surrounding something."
Everyone rose at once and looked ahead.
Far beyond, a torn barrier flickered in the distance. It had once been hidden well, but now a section of it had been ripped open. Around that opening hovered dozens of figures.
They were not defending it.
They were preventing anyone from escaping it.
Eirene touched the pendant at her neck.
Equivalent Exchanged.
She exchanged her mana for information and reached outward through traces left in the broken formation.
Her expression changed almost at once.
She turned to Lucien.
"It is Brother Murak's settlement."
Lucien's eyes sharpened.
Marie's face changed too.
They both remembered him.
