"He's gone."
The Guild members' faces paled as they stared at the charred ground where their king once lay. For a moment they were frozen in disbelief. One moment their leader was lying in front of them about to resurrect; the next he was gone as if sucked up by the ground itself.
"Where could he have gone? Did the rebirth fail somehow?"
Panic as well as several questions popped into their minds, but before they could react, several pools of quicksand appeared around them, and from them came monsters. Monsters that resembled hornets rather than the ants they were used to facing.
At what more, one of those quicksand appeared just below Amanda's feet, pulling her into the abyss.
…
Below laid a mountain of black ashes. The mana emanating from the ashes was so dense that it caused small crystals to appear in the ashes.
Then a milky white hand shot from the ashes like an undead creature reaching out from a grave.
