Louder sobs reverberated through the building as they began to reflect on their failures.
One by one, they crouched around the room, overwhelmed by their emotions.
Even Rose, who had been striving to maintain her composure, succumbed to her grief and sank to the ground, unable to meet Duke's motionless body.
The memory of flesh exploding and blood spraying across the street haunted them, and they simply couldn't bring themselves to look, knowing all too well what that meant.
They could only imagine the horrific reality—someone had lost their life, and it was a burden they could not escape.
They remembered Kisha's warning about the dangers of overusing spiritual energy; depleting it could lead to catastrophic consequences, including the explosion of one's energy core, which means, their brain exploding.
They understood that having too much spiritual energy spiraling out of control could result in the same fate.
