Lady Rose and Evanora hurriedly made their way to the end of the hall where the screams had originated from. After passing the halfway mark, the screams could no longer be heard and only an eerie silence was left, this however didn't deter Lady Rose from proceeding forward.
The closer she and Evanora went the more she too felt the like the air was growing thinner, however she quickly associated this to a drastic change in the mana density of the area. This change left seemingly no effect on the pair as they continued on without hindrance.
"I hear voices." Evanora commented and Lady Rose nodded at her. "Me too, a sort of telepathy maybe? Regardless ignore them." Lady Rose instructed and Evanora agreed and carried on unbothered.
[ ...You....how...how... ]
The echoey voices continued to question but Evanora and Lady Rose ignored them before soon reaching the end of the hall where the crystal like door laid.
Right at the front of the door, the cloaked woman could be seen laying down on he ground without moving and only light breathing. "Wait here." Lady Rose said to Evanora before casually proceeding forward towards the door and then looking down at the woman. 'What's going on?'
Lady Rose quickly began to deduce a possible scenario of what occurred but she had little to nothing to go on aside from the voices that invaded her mind. 'Perhaps her mental fortitude was weak or the mana density itself got to her, she does indeed show signs of complications in breathing...' Lady Rose went into a state of thought while running through every clue she had at her disposal.
However soon her her thoughts were interrupted by the crystal like door cracking. This immediately raised her alert and caused her to back away slightly. The cracks continued to spread throughout the door until the entire door was covered in them.
*crack*
Soon the door shattered entirely and revealed nothing but a dark void behind it. "It's empty... but then what-"
*rumble!*
Before Lady Rose could process the oddity of the door, the entire hall began to rumble furiously. "The hall is angry." Evanora commented casually not at all bothered by the rising danger occurring. "Must be nice seeing the world so simply however we need to go before we get trapped here." Lady Rose flicked her hand and a blueish bubble enveloped the cloaked woman who still laid on the ground unconscious.
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Meanwhile hundreds of kilometers above the hall that was located deep under the Opal Ocean, Aron and the others who were on land began to feel the violent tremor while the waters surrounding the Islands began to grow more chaotic.
"The forefathers wrath is descending upon us for humiliating their legacy." Kaira muttered with worry on her face and many of the Komi shared this mentality, including Jagu. Aron however simply frowned and looked in the direction of the stone slab.
Although not sure he definitely linked the sudden tremors to the stone slab and got ready to head in that direction. "What's going on Aron?" Jagu saw the look in Aron's eyes as he faced that direction and a feeling of uneasiness swelled up in his heart.
Just recently they discovered a ruin and it had brought disaster to the Newman highlands, turning it into an inhabitable area whilst killing thousands in the process as well. Jagu's biggest worry was that these tremors were a warning of what was to come.
"I don't know... but I intend to find out. It's best you cure your family incase the worst comes into fruition." Aron warned as he too thought this may be repetition of what occurred back on the Drotzi continent.
Seeing Aron without clarity only made Jagu feel greater worry but Aron soon turned and left after giving the warning. He had now been given a clear path from the information he received from the clone but he still wanted to know what Lady Rose uncovered on her side.
It didn't take him long to maneuver through the jungle and make it back to the clearing with corroded vegetation where the stone slab resided. However once there he found no one...
'Both their scents are lingering here...' Aron thought as he began looking around for any clues incase his senses weren't being accurate.
Before he could get to searching thought the stone slab glowed bright and three humanoid silhouettes appeared atop it. Once the light faded it revealed Lady Rose, Evanora and the cloaked woman who laid unconscious in a floating bubble.
Aron quickly scanned Lady Rose and Evanora before looking at the unconscious woman in the bubble with brow raised. "Care to explain what's going on?" Seeing that they were alright, Aron proceeded to ask what happened.
"At the moment I'm not entirely sure, however I suggest we retreat back to the airship and get answers from this woman." Lady Rose suggested just the tremors began to grow more and more fierce.
*crack*
"It's...too late...the guardian has awoken..."
Just then the cloaked woman jerked upward at an odd posture and the sounds of her bones creaking and cracking could be heard clearly. Her voice was no longer groggy but rather echoey like the one that invaded Lady Rose's mind.
"Guardian? What guard-" Aron was about to question the now conscious woman but the island suddenly experienced a very large earthquake.
What followed occurred at center most point of the Komi Islands. The waters began to look darker and darker as if some liquid had spilled underwater. This event couldn't be seen by Aron as the island he was on was many kilometers away from the center and he lacked an arial view.
This wasn't the case however for the people on the Sovereign which was currently above the skies of the Komi Islands.
"Claudia are you sure we should move the airship without permission?" A concerned Xavier asked on the deck and Claudia nodded. "Yes, you saw how the waters were becoming. What if what happened back in the Newman Highlands happens here? We need to be ready to provide support." Claudia explained her reasoning and Xavier no longer argued.
Jin was also present on the deck but his focus was on the center most part of the Komi Islands that now had a large dark spot in its usually pristine crystal blue waters. "What are you looking at Jin? Is there a trench in the waters? I didn't see anything like that on the map..." Claudia muttered as she came close to Jin.
"That's no trench..."
