Selphira turned her gaze toward the big window, looking slightly north of northwest, focusing on the exact geographical coordinate where Liora was currently deployed. Surely alive and safe… Standing right beside Ren in the most distant ruin.
At the very least, she had disciplined and educated this one with what appeared to be a sufficiently strict balance of love and reluctant but real scolding.
At the very least, she hadn't lost this one yet…
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Miles away, buried deep beneath the earth within the final chamber of the first sanctuary, Ren's strike force cautiously approached the two petrified figures.
The first statue, the moment Ren viewed it from the front, was undeniably Li. The rigid posture, the determined, frozen gesture of his hand still gripping the corrupted crystal. It was exactly the sacrifice they had anticipated.
The second statue stood silently beside him. It was older, the surface of the crystal heavily layered with the accumulated dust of years.
