Inside a bedroom on the second floor of Lichtenstein Castle.
Princess Alexia sat on the edge of the bed. Her vacant eyes reflected endless despair, like a little bird imprisoned and awaiting death.
Hearing the faint sounds coming from the Basic Level, she knew the Blood Race Earl had arrived.
Before long, the Earl would kill everyone in the chapel, then come to the second floor and find her.
However.
Her gaze turned toward the window. Through the ornate, gorgeous frame, she saw that the sky was gradually brightening!
Then Alexia moved. She slowly walked to the window and gently pressed her palm against the cold glass.
Her haggard and astonished face was faintly reflected in the glass. Yet even on the second floor, she could feel the warm radiance spilling up from the first floor. The light passed through every pane of glass in the chapel, as if it possessed the power to illuminate the entire courtyard and even the mountains and forests!
The sky was deep and mysterious. That night, it seemed to burn with gentle flames.
"This light... it actually... it actually looks just like the real sun..."
Her voice was faint yet stubborn in the air, as though she were praying to a savior who existed only in fantasy.
"Is this your power...?"
Alexia could no longer conceal her emotion.
This was the first time she had begun to doubt—
That every word Lanchi had spoken to her was not a lie.
Although common sense told everyone that the sun could not rise at midnight,
some instinct that seemed to permeate every inch of her body was telling her that this light might truly possess the power to overwhelm the Blood Moon.
Meanwhile, in the Real World, at Jella Memorial Square in Ikelite Academy.
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