"Where the hell…" Vanessa snarled as she crashed her fist through the chest of the last remaining monster.
The punch detonated the creature into a splattering cloud of blood, spraying the air with crimson mist.
She calmly pulled her hand back, and before a single drop could hit the ground, the blood twisted into streaks of liquid red and snaked into the bloodrop tattoo on her palm.
She exhaled irritably.
"Is Lucius?!"
Her voice cracked with a mixture of worry and anger.
It was one thing for Lucius to wander off… he did that all the time but disappearing during a monster ambush was something else entirely.
"Even the stream is saying he vanished." Luna pushed her glasses up her nose, squinting at the P40 drone beside her. "Not only that… but the Saintess is missing as well."
Vanessa froze.
Her eyes widened.
Her blood vapor rose.
