[Outside Lufen Portal]
The dimensional barrier rippled.
Then people started emerging, stumbling through in groups, their faces shocked and disoriented.
"THEY'RE COMING OUT!"
Someone in the assembled military shouted it first.
"THE SURVIVORS ARE BEING RESCUED!"
Dozens of figures appeared, civilians and soldiers, all of them bloody and exhausted but alive.
The watching crowd erupted.
"He really did it!"
"So fast! It's been less than a minute!"
"Is that Damian Valcor's power?!"
"Where is he?!"
Medics rushed forward with stretchers and healing potions, cameras tracking every emergence.
More survivors kept appearing, the count climbing.
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty people pulled from certain death.
Major General Kane moved through the chaos, his eyes scanning each face.
"Commander Reeves! Where is the Inquisitor who entered?!"
Reeves appeared last, stumbling through the portal, his face pale from blood loss.
Kane's hands caught him before he fell.
