Chapter Seven Hundred And Ninety Seven – 797
The elevator dinged as it reached the seventy-first floor, and the doors opened onto a pale white hallway lit with sconces filled by purple Mana crystals.
Zara peered out. "Can you sense her?"
"She’s not here." Felix leaned back into the elevator and tapped the sigils for the next floor. The doors closed, and they fell silent.
“So we’re just gonna find her and convince her to come back?” Atar asked, leaning against the far end of the elevator.
knock her out and abscond with the unbound.
“I hate to agree with the Urge, but I do.” Alister checked his rapier in its sheath. “That is our best plan of action.”
“Not much better than what we walked in here with,” Atar pointed out.
“We’ll make it work,” Felix said. “And the Star…I’ll handle it.”
Atar was right, though. Whether there was a Primordial in the Vent mattered little to their goals at the moment. Elowen needed to be rescued, and the Chthonic Star had to be destroyed. However, other than the ward key for the upper levels, they had nothing to build upon the plan they’d brainstormed with Tern.