The faint wave of energy that had left Evan spread outward in silence, in every direction at once.
Thinner than smoke, quieter than a whisper, it expanded from a single point in the heart of Lirath and dissolved into the world like ink dropped into an ocean. By the time it crossed the barony's borders, it was barely an echo. By the time it reached the edges of the kingdom, it was less than that.
For the vast majority of beings in the world, it passed through them and was gone without leaving so much as a memory.
But the world was not made up only of ordinary beings.
[Northern district of the capital of the Kingdom of Solren]
Here stood one of the kingdom's largest and one of the most important institutions,
the Awakened Academy.
