The air tightened almost immediately after Seraphina's words settled. It wasn't just tension anymore. It was a heavy and suffocating pressure, as if something unseen had just loomed over all of them at once.
No one moved for a moment.
Clara was the first to break. Her eyes widened as she stepped forward slightly, her gaze fixed on Seraphina.
"What do you mean? What's a Blood Sun Embryo?" she asked, her voice carrying a clear edge of panic.
For once, she didn't pay attention to Seraphina's wings, her presence, or the strange aura that was clearly the same as Lilian's existence. None of that mattered right now.
Only the words did.
Seraphina shifted her gaze toward Clara. Then slowly, her eyes moved across the others in the group.
There was a faint look in her eyes. The cold, distant, and disdain look.
She didn't hide it.
To her, they were insignificant. Beings of a lower realm, struggling within a broken world. Normally, she wouldn't even acknowledge them.
