As the status screen showed to the select ten, they all agreed without hesitation and the moment they did each of them simply disappeared from their places.
Ash sat on the old throne of Velora, his reddish-purple eyes calm as he observed the ten young people who had just materialized before him.
The five young women and five young men stood in stunned silence, their bodies still carrying the faint glow of the teleportation.
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They had been pulled from their everyday lives — one girl mid-cultivation in a quiet courtyard, another helping her mother in a market stall, a young man sparring with friends, another studying ancient texts in a library.
And their sudden disappearance had left a bit of chaos in their wake.
In a bustling training ground, a group of friends stared at the empty space where their comrade had been practicing sword forms.
"Where did he go?! I can't believe he ran from training!"
