Aegon thought about leaving the Abyss, this mysterious and chaotic place, back to the real world.
His main goal of going back wasn’t just to leave this place, but to check if any word had been heard about his sister.
He had thought of using the return stone, but rembered he still has people here and couldn’t leave them.
Although he had no reason why he couldn’t leave, he still considered the fact that he was in Nyra’s party and he owed them for bringing him into the Abyss.
If not for them bringing him into the Abyss, he wouldn’t have known this much about his abilities and the system.
Hell, he wouldn’t even have gotten the return stone as well. So it was only sensible for him to think of them.
"I wonder how they are doing now. Have they found the Pedestal Crystal?"
Aegon looked above to the image but was shocked at what he saw.
The holographic image that used to display the ti they had, was now glitching in different colors.
It was as if it had been affected by a virus and was in a bad state.
"What’s going on?" Aegon wondered. "If it can’t display anything, how would I know how much ti I have?"
The thing was that there was no virus that had affected the holographic image. The cause of its current state was because of the collision of the celestial bodies.
’Did my skill do that?’
Aegon had the thought in his heart, but didn’t want to believe it, after all, this place was made by a supre being.
The thing was, it wasn’t only the holographic image that was affected.
The ability [Colossal Gate] had destroyed a portion of the seven rings and were now impossible to move.
"I didn’t do too much damage, did I?"
"I should quickly catch up with the others.
"_-_"
"What did you just say?" Sinon asked, looking at Chro.
Chro was in a daze, as he stared at the Crystal with no feeling whatsoever.
The majority of the Farrs were all murmuring amongst themselves; talking about the cause of the earthquake they felt easier.
At this mont, the entire five groups had already gathered together in front of the Pedestal Crystal, and were certain the earthquake didn’t co from any of them.
Knowing this, they couldn’t think of anyone else than the person Nyra had called.
Aegon.
Wasn’t that the guy we left behind?
Yeah, the F-rank talent?
Is he still alive?
Was that blast from him?
What is going on?
They couldn’t understand what was going on, or how to even describe it to make sense in their brains.
Nyra was in a daze, her goal of gathering all the Farrs had already succeeded for their plan of pouring mana into the Crystal.
Chro, who was at the foremost of the Crystal, had his hand on his chin, he was deep in his thoughts as to how to operate the Pedestal Crystal.
’It would have been a lot easier. But with that earthquake, so patterns on the crystal have shifted and are now complicated."
The thing was that, after the shockwave, when Nyra was about to begin to pour their mana into the Crystal, Chro had said sothing disturbing.
’This is not going to work any longer. We are stuck here.’ he said
The reason being, before the shockwave, the crystal needed roughly an estimate of two hundred people’s mana to operate but now had skyrocketed into ten tis that.
No one knew for sure if they were ever going to leave this place. Knowing this, they had looked up to see how long they had left but it was impossible because the image was now glitching.
"Are we going to die here?" A random Farr exclaid in fear.
Upon hearing this, Nyra turned towards Chro and asked the sa question.
"Are we?"
Chro’s brow furrowed as the words left his lips.
"We have two options now. One, since the pattern of the crystal had changed, we have to take it back to how it was, but who can operate this thing?"
"I an we don’t even know what kind of technology was used to build it. To , this is the worst option."
"The second option is to pour a lot of mana into it, and when I say a lot of mana, I an from over ten thousand Farrs, but we aren’t even 5% of that."
"The only way in which we can co close to succeeding is by draining all the mana in our body."
"And by the ti we have used it all, our lives would be lost. And if, if it worked, who would be able to move to the next round?"
"No one, we could all die here."
Mana was a critical point in the life of those who could perceive it. It had beco part of them, and evolved into being part of their soul.
If the mana in a person was completely drained and dry, it was the sa as the person’s soul being dead.
They were two sides of the sa coin as one couldn’t possibly function without the other.
"So, are you saying we should just wait here and die?" Sinon asked, her tone carrying with it, frustration and anger.
"Hey, it isn’t as if I have the power to just make everything happen you know!" Chro uttered, his tone cold as he spoke back to Sinon.
The area was already getting tense as no one knew what was going to happen from here on.
It wasn’t as if they didn’t have options, they did. But each one was as difficult as the other.
What is the point of using all their mana if they couldn’t live to enjoy the fruit?
And who among them could operate an object that was probably made by a supre being?
The question hung in the heart of every Farr and even though they were currently feeling a sense of rage, they couldn’t blind themselves from the truth.
They were cooked.
At this mont, Sinon spoke so words back to Chro, and he gave her his own words. They began exchanging words that were unkind, all out of frustration and fear.
Nyra who was still in a daze, listened to their babbling, the words they exchanged against themselves wasn’t even classified as unkind, more like childish.
Their sounds and the murmuring of the other Farrs were all she could hear and was unable to think straight.
Nyra had thought she would have found a solution to their current problem by now, but who was she but a re human?
Just then, her ear picked up on a different sound, one that wasn’t the words of Chro and Sinon, nor the other Farrs.
It was sothing different, sothing familiar.
"Hold on!"
Nyra yelled, prompting them all to shut their mouths.
Sinon turned to her and asked.
"What is it..."
And Nyra responded, simply saying.
"Listen..."
They all began to listen quietly and curiously, as the sound was familiar and for every breath ti it began closer.
Just then, they recognized the sound. It was the footsteps of soone walking in the snow.
Knowing this, every Farr was alerted, standing ready to fight, as they thought in their hearts a monster had found them.
However, they all thought wrong as at that mont, a lone figure completely covered in blood and bruises erged from the mist.
All eyes widened as they saw the person before them, but couldn’t utter a single word.
They had imagined him dead, but he wasn’t, but he had already caught up to them.
It was Aegon.
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