"Impossible!" Sentheria exclaimed. "How did that happen, tell me?" Sentheria poked Qun Lun's clothes with her staff, and it glowed.
"That's what the facility guard told us. The phoenix ashes quietly disappeared, and we discovered a hole made inside. The phoenix ashes were stolen."
"What!?" Sentheria and Queen Pyramia exclaimed in shock. Xerxes also wondered if the ashes he saw in his son's room might also be phoenix ashes.
The cold dread seized Sentheria as she rushed through the ancient facility. Her heart pounded with each step, a growing premonition of disaster. What she found confirmed her worst fears: the phoenix urn was gone from its pavilion. Shards of glass from its case lay scattered across the floor, glinting like broken promises—a testament to a forceful, calculated act of theft.
