"S-So...r..y."
Adrian could see Aurelius nearby, standing like a statue, his face frozen in disbelief, as if the scene before him was too impossible to comprehend. It seems the main character has been tranced.
Lloyd and Elara worked frantically to close his wound with magic, but the poison had spread too quickly, leaching the life from him even as they tried to heal him.
Aria was still searching her ring, her fingers scrambling for anything, her breaths coming in ragged sobs. "Don't… please, don't leave me. I'll save you, Adrian, I swear I will!"
But the darkness was so close now, the roar of the explosion growing louder, consuming all sound, all thought.
He could see it—the relentless tide of destruction rushing toward them, unstoppable, inevitable. And as his vision darkened, he felt a strange calm settle over him, the last vestiges of the relic's light pulsing faintly within him.
'It's over now...'
'...'
