It was a power immense enough to splinter a great tree,
so why were they completely unfazed now?
'I've escaped!'
The young man's face, which had been taut with tension and fear,
broke into a faint smile at the very moment he was about to cross the boundary.
The smile was like a glimmer of dawn in the darkness;
faint, yet it brought a rare sliver of hope and relief.
But this relief was short-lived, as fleeting as a shooting star in the night sky.
Before the smile could fully form on his face,
it froze at the corners of his lips. He was completely paralyzed, as if struck by an Immobilization Spell.
The reason was simple: the foot that was about to take a step toward freedom
was now hanging bizarrely in mid-air. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch the solid ground.
An invisible force was stopping his escape.
Immediately after, an indescribable feeling of suffocation washed over him like a raging tide.
