"My Lord!"
Sky Bracer breathed harshly, "My Lord...Lord Osial has gone mad ....He has consumed too much miasma!!"
Ajax felt his pulse quicken, thrumming harshly into his ears as he stared wide-eyed at a distressed Sky Bracer.
He wanted to talk, to say something.
But.
No matter how hard he tried, no words could escape past his quivering lips.
He felt his head get light as everything around him swirled into a messy watercolor painting; a cruel dream.
He turned to Cloud Retainer, whose eyebrows furrowed, face hardening in order to prevent it from crumbling apart.
She couldn't believe it either, it seemed.
How could she, when that stubborn boy she has seen grow up before her eyes has now taken it upon himself to face death itself.
The only one who responded was Morax, who after the news, straightened out his expression and said.
"Go on."
Sky Bracer nodded, and in between panicked breaths, he uttered out, "My Lord, we were fighting a horde of rift wolves. Before we were struck by a second wave, a stronger wave....We had not foreseen their arrival; we got ambushed.We did our best to clean the miasma and get rid of the rift wolves, but....Lord Osial had already ingested too much of it....He went mad and nearly killed Lady Beisht... Now, Lady Guizhong and Lady Beisht are working to restrain him, but he will break loose from the ties any second now. We must go there now !"
At the mention of Guizhong's name, Ajax's heart rate quickened even faster, his palms beginning to sweat as panic consumed him.
Shit .
Shijie.
His shijie.
Guizhong could have died today at the hands of her corrupted companion.
She could have died early on.
He would have lost another one, his beloved Shijie.
He needed to go there.
Now.
He did not register the cries from the others as bolted from the direction where the miasma called to him, where it was the strongest.
He saw as the trees around him flitted by him, blurry and hazy, as if he was caught in a neverending dream.
Adrenaline coursed through his veins, pulsating and guiding him through the thick dense forest, towards where the ugly energy surrounded.
Nothing else mattered for now, but Guizhong.
He had to make sure she was okay, that she was safe, that she was alive.
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He arrived in a matter of seconds; he had never run that fast in his life.
Ajax doubted it was even humanly possible to run that fast, and he knew that without the extra stamina that his abyssal energy and adeptal energy granted him, he would not have been able to get there so fast.
It was near the sea that surrounded modern day Dihua Marsh, which was now covered with thick marshy bushes, and sprouting with wildflowers, obviously not yet inhabited by people.
But, aside from the thick leaves sprouting upwards from the water in the marsh, and the surprisingly empty area.
What stood right before him, shook him to his core.
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