Soon, they reached the docks at Sephyrine while everyone was still asleep.
Which was a relief for Cermin as the people would have panicked seeing three people come out of nowhere riding giant demon dogs.
They settled down, scouting the surroundings. Sephyrine had suffered the worst among all the kingdoms, as the damage had begun there. At the very center, the Academy.
Once a pillar for innovation and sophistication, it became a ruined and desolate wasteland.
They can't even tell if people still lived inside the dilapidated and broken houses. Even the Zafeiri family house's condition would be very appealing compared to what happened to some of them.
But soon enough, people did appear by morning. But they all looked gloomy, and the stirrings of chaos were in the air.
They passed by children being chased by a baker for stealing a loaf of bread, who eventually broke down and cried, saying that it's the only food he had left to feed his family for that day.
