"Died nine times, so that means an extra thousand words?"
"Something's wrong! Something's wrong!"
Lava shouted as she ran upstairs from below.
"What is it, Lava?"
Kroos, Melantha, and the others were all awakened by Lava's commotion.
"You... see for yourselves outside!"
Lava pointed out the window.
"Outside... doesn't seem particularly unusual—wait..." Wuyou stared blankly at the bustling streets and residents, as well as the completely intact buildings.
"Hey, hey, I'm not dreaming, am I? If I remember correctly, wasn't that building destroyed by the Ink Wraiths yesterday?" Wuyou's eyes widened.
"Seems so... Those mountain-sized Ink Wraiths were charging around everywhere. Sister Texas was busy stopping the others, and that monster slipped through... It brought the whole building down in one hit..." Kroos nodded.
"What is going on?"
Lava scratched her head in frustration. Then everyone discovered something even stranger.
All the residents here seemed to have forgotten what had happened yesterday. Other than Lava and the others, none of the townspeople had any recollection of yesterday's tragedy.
"It's practically like a dream. If all our memories weren't intact, I'd have thought none of it happened at all!" Wuyou shrugged.
"Maybe we should ask Master," Melantha suggested from the side.
However, at the door to Bai Ye's room, Texas informed them that Bai Ye had entered meditation and could not be contacted at all.
"At a time like this..."
Looking at Bai Ye sitting cross-legged in the corner of the room, everyone was speechless.
At precisely a time like this, Bai Ye—the person they had always relied on—had temporarily gone "offline."
"It's all right. We should believe in our own strength." Melantha suddenly smiled. "Master was willing to enter meditation so calmly because he trusts us. He recognizes our strength—that's why he did this."
"If he were worried, he definitely