"You leveled up!"
"And I was hoping he was your supervisor to keep you in check!"
"Francis, you know I am not afraid of you, the Imperial forces, or the Emperor. I serve the empire dutifully and I pledge my allegiance to the empire, to my Yeager people."
"Ji-Eun," he started. "I wanted to-"
"But it will make her weak," Kriz protests.
He dialed again and after five rings, someone called Shuyang's name.
Saying this much the shadow moved away from the spot with a splashing sound of his shoes. It is only after few minutes latter that some elf's stumbled upon this location in search of the trouble maker. What they found was jungle floor wet with the blood of the brethren and bodies of at least a dozen elf's with some bodies of centaurs on top of that.
However, when he heard that unintelligible hiss—same as what he had heard deep in the forest earlier, he thought that it was the monster Ahas was afraid of so his body reacted. He went through the 'mist' holding him and slowly fell to the ground using his 'mist'.
The crack expanded more and more, and eventually sizzling sparks ran throughout the room.
Nonetheless, seeing a never aging Megie, seeing her suffering at having to live for who knows how long, and seeing how her magic and her mad-science Alchemy getting more and more powerful and profounding, Jin can only say that it was very disheartened. Why disheartened? It was very so because Megie only gets stronger so that she could kill herself. There was no other reason other than that.
"Are you alright, Ez?" Reitz asked as he dodged a molten stream of lava bursting forth from one of the mouths of a gigantic shelled snake-like beast. He had noticed that his son was not feeling quite well, during the start of their journey his movements had been deteriorating. They had become sloppy and off timing a fair bit.
They nodded to each other, and re-started the 'exploration'.