Yenna walked out of the guild hall and straight into the busy streets of the capital, her mind running a million miles an hour.
She didn't care about the crowds parting for her or the merchants trying to grab her attention as she passed their stalls. She just kept replaying the last five minutes in her head, trying to make sense of the absolute absurdity of what had just happened.
'Are you absolutely sure you can kill me?'
The words echoed in her head, followed immediately by the suffocating memory of his mana clashing against hers.
"It doesn't make any sense," she muttered to herself, "he didn't use an artifact or some cheat spell. That pressure was just raw mana... how can an unregistered rookie have a presence like that?"
