Emerging from the chasm that had sliced through the temple floor, Ethan soared toward the surface and landed softly upon the wild grass. A few hundred meters away, atop an adjacent hill, Isabella stood waiting alongside the survivors of the allied kingdoms. Everyone huddled around her with pale faces; the terror instilled by the Domain's beasts and the slaughter broadcast to the empire kept them from wandering this dimension alone.
The moment Isabella spotted Ethan, her eyes lit up and she rushed to meet him.
"Did you find anything down there?" asked the Frost Dragon Princess, approaching while the other cultivators watched Ethan with awe and trepidation. "That tremor and the tear in the earth... we thought the temple was collapsing."
"Nothing interesting," answered Ethan, keeping his expression neutral as he concealed everything that had transpired. "Everything was empty, just withered ruins."
