Basil urgently turned his head to the direction where he had last felt Iliana's presence, but he couldn't find her, the Paladins, and Eugene there. It was also at that moment he realized how chaotic the entire battlefield had become.
As far as his eyes could see, there were only corpses of Demons and Mages that had belonged to Iliana's Legion littering the ground. The battle had been concluded, and none of the Mages survived it.
"This is ... I've been inside a time dilated space for all this time!" Basil's eyes quickly widened in horror as he turned his gaze to Astaroth. "Bastard! What is your connection with the Church?!"
At the fierce way Basil directed his question at him, Astaroth cackled humorlessly then sat himself up. "Ku-ku-ku ... Judging from your face, you should know about it long ago. Why do you look so distressed?"
