By the time everyone had come to and made their way on foot to the edge of the City of Defense, an hour had passed.
On the road, Chaoyang had also asked Mekefa and others how they felt about their visit to the City of Defense fifteen years earlier, but their responses were somewhat evasive, and they could hardly put together a few sentences. Particularly, Priest Yukel of the Furnace Cult, hadn't even realized he had returned to a City of Defense before it was swallowed by the mist.
This made Chaoyang realize that each person's experience on this journey was different. Just because he had spent a full four days and three nights did not mean everyone else did too. Some unfortunate souls might have just awakened and died; those memories were only a few minutes long, but the time they returned to reality was the same for everyone.
This point was later confirmed with Engfelt.
