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An indescribable gale swept outward from the figure of starlight, and Trier bore its direct impact.
In an instant, every door in every location across the city opened on its own.
"!"
On the Southern Continent, Botis, the Saint of Secrets, had just opened a door in the Highlands when he abruptly sensed an aura that made his heart quail.
His spiritual perception suddenly stirred, raising goosebumps across his back and arms.
Audrey, however, felt nothing unusual. She nimbly jumped out of the Spirit World door, and had only just found her footing, before she could thank Botis, when she saw him hastily shut the door and vanish from before her.
She was a little puzzled and fell silent.
In the end, however, Audrey wasted no time on the Saint. Following the directions in her memory, she splashed through ankle-deep water and sprinted toward the shelter in the city. Fortunately, she was wearing trousers and leather boots, so the rainwater did not hinder her too much.
The potion she had already prepared in Trier was in her shirt pocket, ready to drink at any time.
Though the repaired capital was nowhere near as prosperous as the Northern Continent, Beyonder powers had at least made getting around reasonably convenient. After running along the main road for a while, she passed the collapsed hospital. Seeing the place where she had worked for months reduced to rain-flooded rubble, and remembering the colleagues and patients from whom death had separated her in the blink of an eye, Audrey gritted her teeth and forced herself onward.
Soon, she saw the shelter. The square building seemed to show no signs of having been attacked.
But just as she was about to approach, the great door, which supposedly blocked spiritual detection below Sequence One, suddenly opened