She turned in one fluid motion, her gaze naturally falling upon Moros and Eden.
Her azure eyes shimmered with encouragement.
Seeing this, the necromancer calmly swept his gaze over everyone around him.
"Everyone, if there are no objections, then I'll begin now."
As his gaze passed over Kevin, Su, Kalpas, and the other Flame-Chasers whom he was not particularly familiar with but knew to be trustworthy, he felt their silent support.
Moros took a deep breath and began to cast his spell.
Amid a string of obscure, incomprehensible chants, the earth answered his will. It split open on either side of his feet, revealing every secret buried deep underground before the crowd.
As a necromancer of the Demigod Rank, Moros possessed 108 points of Mana. Combined with the spell-power boost granted by the Caster Demigod trait, this modified use of the Level 3 Summoning Magic Earthquake was no more than child's play to him.
If Moros wished it, even a mountain soaring into the clouds could be cleaved in two with a single Earthquake.
Faced with this awe-inspiring sight, the Flame-Chasers present showed little surprise.
All of them had heard, to some extent, of the necromancer's strength. They knew that while the sight before them was shocking, it was far from the limit of his power, so they were not overly astonished.
Getting back to the point, as the fissure in the earth gradually widened, a corpse carefully laid within a crystal coffin and buried beneath the soil was smoothly revealed before everyone.
"Sakura!"
The instant they saw Sakura's body sleeping within the coffin, more than one Flame-Chaser cried out involuntarily.
Even Kevin, who had always been steady, and Kalpas, who had always been proud and aloof, seemed to have a glimmer of tears in their eyes.
After confirming that