"A large group of people suddenly started heading towards the priestess's residence."
"What?"
"What do you mean?"
"Terzan, tell us more."
Before we knew it, Kaneff had come closer and asked her to explain more.
"At first, I thought it was the village guards patrolling, but at some point, more people gathered in one place. They were all armed."
"The priestess's residence That's where Speranza is right now, isn't it?"
At Kaneff's muttering, my heart sank. Anxiety welled up and I felt like everything went dark.
Terzan spoke to me with a troubled face.
"I'm sorry, Sihyeon. I wanted to protect Speranza, but I couldn't use my powers because of the mysterious force surrounding the area."
"Ah"
I didn't have the energy to respond to her apology. I stood up abruptly, trying to compose myself.
"We need to find out what's happening ourselves. It might not be as bad as we're worried about."
"That's the most certain thing."
"I'll go too."
Kaneff and Lia also got up to follow me. The drowsiness from just before sleep had long disappeared from everyone's faces.
We first ran out of the room and started searching for the Erul people. We wanted to understand the situation and what had happened. However, strangely enough, we didn't feel any presence inside the building.
What, what's going on?
We were sure there had been guards at the entrance when we had returned earlier
My optimistic thought that maybe we were misunderstanding something shattered the moment we stepped outside the building.
"What on earth"
As soon as we left the building, we were faced with darkness so thick that we couldn't see an inch in front of us. It wasn't just the moon and stars being obscured by clouds.
The torch Lia had hastily fetched was useless. The light of the torch seemed to be blocked by a wall and quickly lost its strength.
"This feeling"
Kaneff, who had been staring into the darkness, furrowed his brow and muttered.
"There's no doubt. A barrier has been spread around the area."
"A barrier? But wasn't the barrier only spread around the village?"
"I don't know why it's like this either! But this suffocating feeling is unmistakable. The barrier we saw in the forest has spread throughout the entire village. It must be why the communication artifact suddenly lost its connection earlier."
Kaneff stopped mid-sentence and looked at Terzan.
"There was no barrier when you came back, right?" for new novels
"Yeah. It was just normal."
"Someone who doesn't want us to move must be playing tricks Terzan, can you find the way to the priestess's residence?"
"It's difficult for me too, within the barrier, boss."
"Damn it"
The unidentified people heading towards the priestess's residence.
The barrier that spread as soon as Terzan returned to where we were.
We couldn't think of it as our misunderstanding anymore. The ominous circumstances were gradually fueling our anxiety.