Layla felt as if she had entered a bad dream; within it, her mind was in disarray as everyone in the entire world had shattered into bits of pieces. She was trapped at the center of a demonic tree with the only thing protecting her from its reaches being none other than a holy barrier formed by her Common Warding Shard.
After being tormented by the demonic tree, who used all sorts of methods to corrupt her mind, showing her images of Evan dying repeatedly, Layla knew that she was only one step from completely breaking to pieces. But before it could happen, she found light right before that could even happen.
It was a brilliant ray, which though crimson like the color of blood, seething with an innate evil at its core, carried a trace of warmness to her weary soul. Within the instant it appeared, she listened to the pitiful cries from the demonic tree, which soon vanished into a brand-new barrier that formed from an object much similar to her warding shard.
