Blood Thorns Echo

Sister Devlin's Chosen One Ritual had even caused a Minor Earthquake that spread from the Interstice into the Reality World, but compared to everything else happening tonight, it was hardly worth mentioning.

In the real Middlesburg, at the Cassandra Auction House, Miss Rita Swift, the Witches' apprentice, was organizing people to repair the walls shattered in the recent battle and seal the holes through which White Fog was pouring in.

Though she had heard strange sounds outside, noticed the undead wandering the streets suddenly stop moving, and even seen the peculiar golden glow in the sky, she paid it no mind.

Twenty minutes after the Chosen One Ritual was completed, a figure appeared outside the Cassandra Auction House. Amid hurried Knocking Sounds, Miss Rita Swift, who was temporarily handling all the auction house's affairs, discovered that Shade was outside.

"I just ran down from the mountain, Miss Swift. Open the door, quickly!"

"Sorry, but I need to confirm your identity first. May I ask—"

Before she could finish her question, Shade opened the door with the Door Key and rushed inside.

He was drenched in sweat and gasping for breath. The situation at Home was now extremely dire. The White Fog filling the third floor was nearly spreading downstairs, the Witches were urgently sealing away those auras of death, and the out-of-control Traveler's Travel Door remained restless even while temporarily suppressed by the "Space Stabilization Aura," making it impossible to move beside the Old Gods Statue in the basement for suppression.

Even so, after leaving Joey Barton and Marylin Handel at Saint Derain Square for the curious Witches to interrogate, he immediately bid farewell to Luvia, who had already observed signs of the Star Whale, then charged from the basement of Home toward Middlesburg again, racing here as fast as