Chapter 52 - Repercussion – Part 2
"Love...! Sophia!" Arthur shouted as he sprang up and sprinted out of the room, dashing through a narrow corridor where two guards lay on the floor, after noticing that the pressure had dissipated.
As Arthur ran, the two elders remained seated on the ground, their eyes and expressions revealing their fear.
Arthur was clearly worried about the two most important people in his life, but he couldn’t attend to them both at once—and all his senses indicated that they were far apart. Alice was in the leaders’ training room (he knew it well, after all, he was the one who had placed her there). Still, he trusted his daughter and believed she would be fine; after all, if nothing had happened to them while they were pinned down by that pressure, it was highly unlikely that anything would occur now that they were free.
And, unlike Sophia, in her current state, Alice couldn’t take care of herself; Arthur feared that something might have happened, so he decided to look for his wife first.
He quickly swung open the enormous stone door. Being so far away, the weakened presence of the phoenix had little impact on the people in the city.
Upon entering, he immediately searched for Alice and, upon finding her, let out a deep sigh of relief. So profound was that sigh that it seemed the room itself had shielded her from the effects of that strange pressure—otherwise, had she been exposed to it during her meditation, Arthur could neither imagine, nor would he ever want to imagine, the consequences.
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"What was all that about?..." Sophia asked as she got up and adjusted her clothes.
After dusting off her garments, Sophia glanced toward the direction from which she had heard a strange noise—a sound of something falling. When she looked back and saw an unmoving body on the floor, she was clearly surprised and deeply worried about the person there.