"Lin En, I'm so cold..."
In the middle of the night, Lin En abruptly opened his eyes and clearly saw the crimson moonlight covering Hana Ye's weak face.
And when Lin En threw open the window and looked outside,
he saw the silent Red Moon hanging high in the night sky.
A cold wind blew in.
The moonlight reflected in his pupils. Without any warning, it had appeared in the sky, larger than any time he had seen it before. It was so large that it felt as though it might fall at any moment, casting eerie red light over the entire land.
How could this be...
Could today be the day the Lord of Crimson and the others had been waiting for?
He immediately returned to Hana Ye's side, listening to her faint murmurs in her sleep. The moment he touched her body, he felt an indescribable, searing heat. The power the Firstborn had previously discovered within her also seemed to be boiling incessantly because of the Red Moon's sudden appearance.
He immediately peeled off the bandage between her brows.
At that moment, the crimson mark had already spread into the shape of a nearly full moon.
"It's all right. I'm here."
Lin En focused and immediately drew on his power, letting it seep into the space between her brows little by little.
Just as he had done back in the Castle, he held her in his arms and used his power to suppress the increasingly uncontrollable shadow within her.
And she seemed to sense his presence.
Her breathing finally began to steady, and the searing heat gradually subsided a little.
Time slowly passed.
Before long, it was well past midnight.
Slowly, like some vast hallucination, the terrifyingly enormous Red Moon outside the window seemed to fade as her