I could feel warm liquid further blurring my already fractured vision—I couldn't even tell if it was blood, tears. I couldn't tell anymore.
Lily… Oka-sama… Your Majesty… Benjamin Mark… anyone…
Please… Help… me.
The moment the plea left my mind, a circle of soft purple light ignited beneath me, and the ground simply opened up and swallowed me.
I fell into the portal that had appeared directly under my pinned body, but flew upward out of it, as if falling upside down.
But the pressure of Elara's heel vanished instantly, as I tumbled out of her area and landed hard on tall, dew-soaked grass.
My head snapped up immediately.
And there they were: my agents were watching me. The sixteen beastkin faces frozen in identical expressions of horror and disbelief.
Tensei stood closest, one of his clawed hand still outstretched, his golden eyes wide with something between shock and respite.
He had been the one who pulled me out through the portal he had opened.
