The two voices went silent, and I could hear breathing from Rex's body, shallow and labored. If everything I had heard was correct, the vessel was failing.
My mind was in a whirl, a thousand thoughts clashing without any meaningful direction.
Whatever was happening here was far bigger than me or anything I knew. The entire world, my home, the Academy, in fact, the entire continent was in danger.
How did I end up here again? Ah, yes, by surviving much longer than I should.
In the past few loops, I have killed a great many things and seen things that no man should see, and I had thought by now there was not much left that could reach into my chest and squeeze. I was wrong.
Because I understood the shape of what was to come, and the people I knew and loved were being treated as statistics by these bastards.
The continents seemed to be falling into war, demons were arising from the earth, but in the midst of all of these was my hatred for the ones who were tearing my world apart.
