Silence tore through the upper floor of the gala. It was as though any form of sound or noise was forbidden here at the moment. Even the silence of a graveyard paled before the silence that reigned here at this very moment.
Nobody could believe what they had seen. They doubted their eyes, their ears, their senses. What they had witnessed was supposed to be impossible. No, it WAS impossible, and that was LAW.
Throughout history, and for the past twenty thousand years, there had never been anyone who awakened on their third attempt at the age of seventeen and later grew strong enough to achieve anything noteworthy.
It was why they had labelled Asher trash, it was why they had looked down on him, it was why they had made fun of him. Because the impossible was the impossible. And now that impossible had been made possible before their very eyes. They had seen a fact being turned into an opinion in real time.
