Aurora arrived exactly one day later.
I had spent the previous day finishing everything I needed to finish in Abor. There were no grand farewells this time. I had already said what needed to be said, and everyone knew that I would return. Still, when Aurora appeared inside the Absolute Palace, I felt a strange sense of finality.
Just the feeling that I was stepping into something I could not turn away from anymore.
Aurora looked at me for a moment before giving a small nod. "Ready?"
"I am."
She smiled faintly. "Then let us go."
The moment her words fell, the surrounding space warped.
I had traveled through space countless times. With my current strength, traversing galaxies was no longer difficult, and with Echo Reversion, I could move even more efficiently by reconnecting with the echoes of places I had previously visited.
But what Aurora did was completely different.
The instant her Authority spread around us, the entire concept of distance seemed to lose its meaning.
