At the same time, on the other side of Golden Scale Academy, Junior slowly opened his dorm room door.
The corridor was empty. The distant sounds of panic still echoed through the walls, but no one was nearby.
As soon as he entered the room, he fell to his knees.
His hands clutched his heart as he took deep, ragged breaths. His body trembled. His chest heaved.
He couldn't help it.
The fear he had felt when he lost his sense of mana was overwhelming, more terrifying than the Sovereign of Eternal Flames taking away his eyes.
If he had to describe what he experienced in those ten seconds devoid of mana, there was only one word.
Null.
It was not darkness, not silence, nor emptiness. Just Null. The absence of absence itself.
But his thoughts were elsewhere. His mind raced, spinning through possibilities and impossibilities.
"How did the future change?"
