Amaya PoV
Her brother scoffed. "It's a pointless struggle to them because they've been coddled. They've never seen what the Abyss can do."
She sighed. "That makes me fear what will happen when we do. Those lacking the will might flee, making our numbers even smaller."
Vadim hummed and stared at his shard. "Say, do you know approximately when my ancestors left?"
Hyun-woo took the shard and raised it to the sphere of light that floated above us. "This style... it's from around the end of that clan war."
Hyun-ah hummed. "It's possible they left not because they felt that the mission was pointless, but because they disagreed with the isolationist decree that came after the war. Perhaps they felt that our mission required more active involvement. Your family still passed on stories about us, no?"
Vadim nodded. "Some. Grandpa told me our family were Children of the Sun. He never got into specifics, just that we had to protect others."
