"Friends, pull yourselves together!"
"The people in the city are not in any danger of losing their lives. They have merely been sealed away. Those of us fortunate enough to escape must not hang our heads in despair!"
"Pull yourselves together!"
"We must find a way to save this city, and our family and friends trapped inside!"
"..."
When Linsey and Alvitte arrived near the city gate, the scene before them was quite different from what they had expected.
Most people were indeed frantic and at a loss.
But the negative emotions had not spread to everyone.
Many young people were pacing back and forth nearby, shouting encouragement to the crowd.
"These people..."
Linsey examined them carefully and found traces of extremely weak source material on their bodies.
This level was not even enough to support the formation of a skill. One could easily overlook it without paying attention.
"Awakened."
"And Awakened who had only awakened this year. Their abilities are too weak; most of them only possess seeds of Willpower Source Material."
Having confirmed the situation, Linsey gradually shifted his attention away from these young people and toward the true Awakened—or rather, the Law Knights who had escaped from the City of Law.
Quite a few of these order-keepers had also made it out.
If they organized themselves, they would certainly be far stronger than these fledgling Awakened among the ordinary people.
But the Law Knights' problem also became apparent at this moment.
These powerful figures, who normally obeyed the law and followed their leaders' orders, were now turning back to stare at the city locked away beneath the Thorns.
After the civil war, the internal factions of the City of Law had splintered.
Aside from Heart's Edge, the Eighth Stage Awakened who oversaw the entire situation, the Royal