Within just a few seconds, the entire massive building was completely covered in glowing petals, the light from them painting the surrounding pink.
When the petals vanished, every presence inside the building vanished along with them.
Outside the city where the army was stationed, hundreds of people suddenly appeared in the sky out of thin air, accompanied by spiralling petals. Though they materialised at varying heights above the ground, some as high as fifty metres and others at a hundred, not one of them fell to the force of gravity. Instead, their bodies descended slowly, guided gently downward by the plum blossoms. Once they reached the ground, the blossoms disappeared.
