Everything that happened in the skyscraper was known only to the two people involved. At the end of his life, the old man picked up the stone slab and followed Laine down from the towering building.
There was no hurry, and Laine even slowed his pace because of the old man's decaying body. But the passage of time never stopped for this reason.
In Aurora City, people who had heard the oracle were running around in panic. Some knelt to pray, some sought what they thought were safe places to hide. The whole city seemed noisy and chaotic.
In comparison, on Mount Olympus, the gods looked forward to the scene below with anticipation. Even from a great distance, they could notice the blurring of the edges between sea and land at the eastern edge of the continent.
