Chapter 2321
- All warmth withdrew at once, leaving only focused listening and a heightened wariness toward Amelia's words. He knew too well that the cataclysm that had destroyed Ethereal Lumin Hold back then had to have concealed a conspiracy no one knew about.
- Ralph, on the hospital bed, gradually calmed as well, yet his eyes were still red-rimmed, tear tracks still clung to the corners, and his fingertips still held the lingering warmth of recognizing his martial fellows.
- He leaned against the headboard. His body, which had been relaxed, slowly straightened a little after hearing Amelia's words. One hand clenched the blanket hard, his knuckles paling with the force. The bold lines of his brows and eyes still carried the weakness of having just awakened, yet his gaze turned razor-sharp in an instant. In that moment, the defiance and blood-and-iron ferocity of Kameron from his previous life quietly surfaced. He stared at Amelia, his mind full of questions about the sect's old wounds and the mastermind behind the calamity; the relief in his eyes slowly faded, replaced by heaviness.