Leon hovered above the cracked earth, a faint trail of dust still drifting from the crater he'd crawled out of.
The silence felt wrong. Too still. Too empty. He swept a slow look around and exhaled.
"So where am I?"
He knew the answer. This was the trial world. But he hadn't stepped out of God's Temple.
He hadn't even landed anywhere familiar. It felt like someone had tossed him out blindly into a forgotten corner of the realm.
He clicked his tongue.
"I wonder if she did that on purpose."
He rose higher, drifting through the stale air until the ruined horizon stretched far beneath him.
Then he narrowed his eyes and activated Racheal's talent. His senses expanded in a wave, rolling across the entire trial world like a pulse of light.
What came back made him freeze.
"What… happened?"
He searched again, deeper this time, but the result didn't change. Nothing. Not a single living person anywhere. The whole world felt hollow.
