A thick cloud of dust covered everything. In the middle of it, Darian stood up, staggering, his ethereal body completely fractured. He had almost exploded, but managed to protect himself by controlling the attack's energy and reducing the damage.
Behind him was Lucy, completely unharmed. Darian had moved at the last second to protect her, taking almost the entire impact. In just two seconds, the white power healed him completely.
"Damn, how the hell did they find us so fast? They even had the power to pull us out of a teleport halfway through?" Darian was shocked. They'd almost been destroyed by the force that had hit them.
"That idiot King didn't know everything after all… he was the weakest of them," Lucy muttered seriously, feeling the danger they were in. But when she looked at the calm Darian in front of her, she took a deep breath, feeling a deep sense of confidence.
