Chapter 234 (1/2)

Chapter 234

Chapter 234: Remembrance

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“Seth, report back to General Varay She’ll be in charge of the battle,” Bairon ordered, gesturing the soldier away

He turned toto ht to the Castle”

I nodded back and Sylvie transforon for deep breaths, I tried to re that Elder Hester, Elder Buhnd, and Virion were enough to deal hoever had intruded

Those black and red flan that it hat I had feared—either a retainer or even a scythe I steered y upon entering I tried not to think about my mom and sister, as well as Tess, ere supposed to be safe there

‘It’ll be okay,’ Sylvie conveyed toonto me

I didn’t respond, and instead,the air resistance pulling Sylvie back Whatever I needed to do to get us there even a second faster

I continued hfor battle as soon as possible Taking a peek back, I could see Bairon and the otherbehind, but we didn’t slon

Please, everyone, be okay, I prayed, until the Castle was al fortress fro winds to fan the dark flames

Sylvie easily blasted a hole in the closed loading dock and we landed inside Thankfully, the layer of mana I had enveloped s Still, there was a thick blanket of black all throughout the loading dock

“Let’s go,” I said to Sylvie, who had turned back to her huon will inside hting the ambient mana around me With my enhanced vision and unparalleled mana acuity, it would be impossible for any enemies to sneak up on us even under the heavy ss of the daed castle

We spread out about five yards apart, our teah our bond, as we searched collapsed rooms and dark hallways of the lower floors

We inched through the fractured floors, sidestepping any debris that had been either dislodged fro

Crashes echoed fro in the gaps of silence n of live battle that we could assist in The only thing we could do was search the pre it a step at a time

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‘Over here,’ my bond conveyed from an adjacent rooround, hunched over what seemed to be a person partly buried underneath a mountain of rubble My chest immediately clenched and a wave of panic rose from my stomach until Sylvie reassured arh thin layers of chain- with the wand just a few feet away, it was easy to deduce that this unfortunate victiuards left here

I rubbed the bridge of ile I was,a h Reale had died by fire

With a flick of a wrist, I blew the rubble away to get a closer look at the corpse

“What the…” Ihis clothes

‘What is it?’

I continued searching but couldn’t find anything “There aren’t any burn marks”

“He died fro another crash in the distance, I got up “Co”

The two of us continued down the hall, scouring every rooht still be alive All we had found were corpses, all burned to death with no apparent wounds to show for it

‘I don’t understand Perhaps it’s a fire that burns froested

It doesn’t matter at this point All we need to know is that our opponent uses a fire that doesn’t actually burn the victi a fallen wall in search of anyone that I ht know

With the stairs nearly unusable from the destruction, the two of us clih the various holes in the ceilings Even withthat normal eyes would miss, ere tense Every corpse we cast until ere able to verify it wasn’t anyone we knew

After searching for several floors, Sylvie and I cae battle Intricate spears of stone jutted froolehts

‘This…’

Yeah, I know, I interrupted, signalling for her to keep close

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Because of the mana coalesced into the rock spears and conjured soldiers, it took a while to finally find the source responsible for all of this

I knelt down in front of the elderly dwarf, trying to find a pulse when he suddenly coughed

“Elder Buhnd!” I exclairound beneath hi him up so he didn’t choke on his own blood

I turned to my bond “Sylv!”