{Jin's POV}
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My head felt like it had been split open with a rusted battleaxe.
I groaned, pushing myself up off the damp moss and violently clutching the sides of my head. The world was spinning in sickening, overlapping circles. I forced my eyes open, blinking rapidly to clear the blurred edges of my vision.
Through the thick, iron-wood trees, I could see the sun of the Obsidian Woods dipping low on the horizon, painting the sky in deep, bruised purples and bloody reds. I had been out for hours.
Where am I? I thought, my mind sluggish and completely disoriented.
Then, the memories hit me. The massive Earth-Rending Ursa. The black lightning. Carving out the core. And then... the sudden, crushing weight of absolute mana depletion and Emma...?
I sharply inhaled, my head snapping up. I was sitting exactly where I had fallen. A massive, perfect dome of golden light surrounded the clearing, completely cutting off the ambient noise of the dark forest.
