No one responded to Gavin. Everyone stood in stunned silence, trying to process the shock they had just witnessed.
No one had expected they would truly come face-to-face with someone from 30,000 years ago.
Luca, however, was focused on something different from the others. His gaze was fixed on the chest of the person in the crystal coffin.
Although the crystal provided a barrier, he could still see it clearly: there was a pearl, roughly the size of an apple, emitting a faint glow right where the person's heart should be.
For a moment, Luca's heart seemed to stop, and he exhaled a slow breath. "After all this time, I've finally found it."
"Celestial Pearl..." Sophia whispered, a flicker of purple energy flashing in her eyes, only to vanish almost instantly.
