"Your father never planned to confront us even if he knew something happened to Yohr. He must be waiting for this entire place to blow up and either watch us go up in flames or probably wait for us outside to catch us unawares…Shit!" Damien explained as he put two and two together and immediately got up.
Reva also realized the same thing as Damien poured out his thoughts and weakly got up as well as she said with a hint of worry and panic in her eyes, "My people…they won't make it through those teleportation circles…I have to tell my grandmother to tell all of them to run—"
"Run away where? Into the hands of your father? Don't you realize you all are wanted people, and if we go out, only death awaits us just like staying here as well…." Damien felt as if he might die from all this tension and anxiety since he literally couldn't think of a way out from this and hurriedly said, "You should use this teleportation formation. I will go and get the others to come here and save as many as possible."
"No! I am coming with you," Reva said adamantly, not wanting to let Damien take all the risks on his own while staying in safety. She would rather risk her life with him than stay somewhere alone, wondering whether he was alright or not.
Furthermore, she also wanted to let her people escape first instead of saving herself first.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Damien was about to protest with an anxious expression when Reva snapped her fingers, and her disguise as Triton took effect, "Don't worry. I will be fine. It's not like I am going to fight anyone here when we don't even have the luxury to run outside. I have already informed my grandmother to bring my people here. Now the best option for us is to take down the trigger that Yohr controlled before, and I would need your help. Come with me!"
Reva had used part of her focus to assimilate some of the extra divine essence in her soul plane to heal her soul and also regain some energy, due to which she was feeling better than before, though still not to the point where she could completely exert her energy.
"We can do that?" Damien asked with a relieved smile since he didn't know that something like that was possible with such a limited amount of time left.
"I don't know…but we have no choice but to try!" Reva said as she pulled along Damien by his hand and mentally passed him the location to where they had to go.
So he quickly lifted her into his arms and used his Mirage of Myriad Phantasms to travel at speed higher than what he had before he achieved his breakthrough.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})Reva had already passed the information about the fail-safe to Damien, and he learned that it was a mesh-like system where the main node, which was the icy cave where Yohr used to rest, was connected to all the child nodes, which were none other than the multiple Forsaken bases across the continent.
Usually, Yohr would trigger the fail-safe for a specific node the moment Irene informed him that the specific base was compromised.
But now that he was dead, the main node he was controlling was designed to automatically trigger itself without Yohr's presence, and if the main one got triggered, then all the nodes it controlled would get triggered as well.
Of course, only a True God like Yohr had the capability to manage such an extensive network of ethereal energy without overtaxing his ethereal core, and Daien and Reva already knew that even if they managed to stop the base they were standing on from getting destroyed, they wouldn't be able to save the other bases and countless Zirians would die along with the experts of the Forsaken organization. And they wouldn't even know that they were going to die since all communication was cut off in a situation like this.
If Irene tried to communicate with them, it could only expose them to the emperor. By now, she also learned what happened to the Azure King of the Frosty Seas, and she couldn't be more devastated to hear the news of the greatest betrayal she ever faced, especially from the god she revered and worshiped since the times she was just a small child.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})If she was an ordinary woman, she would have collapsed from the shock, sadness, and regret. But because of her powerful soul, she was able to restrain her emotions from overwhelming her mind and body.
Still, she felt as if the entire world around her was crumbling down and had never felt as much despair as she was feeling now. After all, weren't they all mere fools all along thinking that they had the chances of putting up some fight against the Xeton Empire when the divine being they had put their entire trust and faith in was betraying them the entire along with the imperial family they wanted to bring down? Why did the divine being they worshipped and believe in betray them for all these years? When did they ever offend him? Or were they just deemed unworthy to even exist?
Today was truly the darkest and judgment day for her and her people. She couldn't even shed tears for the people that were going to die in other Forsaken bases since she couldn't afford to appear weak before her people. The responsibilities she was entrusted with by her forefathers since tens of centuries ago were the only thing keeping her still standing even now.
Even after being so old and facing a lot of pain and tribulations in her journey, she still didn't want to die without at least seeing her granddaughter lead her people into a better era.
But now, all those dreams and hope were shattering like broken glass, making her wonder if there was any meaning to the things they did for freedom or any meaning for even living all along.
"Mother Irene, please enter the teleportation circle first along with the other experts. Let us go out and face whatever is coming. But we can't let any harm befall you.. Without you, we wouldn't even be alive today," The Zirians collectively voiced their opinions in their own way after being shocked by the news that this entire place was going to blow up within a few minutes.
