Chapter 65 - 64 The Worst Way to Ask for Help
[SYSTEM ALERT: Mission time remaining – 47 Hours, 03 Minutes]
The digits hovered at the corner of Olivia’s vision, glowing a dull red like a countdown to doom. Her eyes fixated on it, mind numb as the lecture buzzed in the background.
"...and that is why energy runes cannot be layered over unstable fields—Miss Olivia, care to repeat what I just said?" the instructor’s Vaelis voice rang sharply.
Olivia blinked. Her hand, still holding her pen, hadn’t moved in minutes.
"No, Instructor," she said flatly.
A few snickers echoed across the classroom.
The instructor clicked his tongue and moved on, but Olivia barely noticed. Her thoughts spun in relentless loops. Forty-seven hours. That’s all she had left to figure out Alexa’s connection to the school.
She had no idea how she was going to go around it. ’How can I get information about her?’
She exhaled deeply and rubbed her temples.
Alexa.
That name alone made something tighten in her chest. The prodigy flame wielder. Cold, unreachable, terrifying in her strength. But there was something underneath her perfection—something brittle and broken. Olivia had seen the flickers. The too-long stares at the higher-ups. The haunted look that vanished the moment she was acknowledged.