Chapter 282: Missing Luna and Miryam
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Her wings trembled in mid glide as they rose through the final stretch of the pressure zone. The air was thick like syrup made from fear. The world felt warped, light bending unnaturally around the pulsing red mist. A single heartbeat thumped through the sky like a war drum.
Kai turned to Lirien, who sat behind him, arms braced tightly against his waist. "You alright?"
Her jaw clenched. "This... this is not normal. This is something like a nightmare. Something older."
Azhara groaned. "I think I peed a little. I’m either terrified or turned on."
"Both," Sha deadpanned.
Vel reached for her, throwing needles like weapons. "I can’t even throw one without it falling like a pebble."
Kai gritted his teeth and focused. "Hold on. We’re almost out."
With one final surge, Alka beat her wings furiously and pushed through the last veil of suffocating air. The moment they passed the boundary, the world snapped back into clarity. The pressure lifted. The sky brightened. Birds chirped again somewhere far away.
They had escaped the nightmare like aura pressure. Everyone exhaled at once, like emerging from underwater.
Kai stared back toward the horizon.
The red mist remained in place, swirling like a living wound in the sky. The predator beast, still in mid fight, dove in and out of the fog like it was battling a ghost. Whatever it faced... was no ordinary creature.