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Valeria glanced around nervously as they walked through the passage.

She trusted her daughter, but the negative energy in the mist surrounding them made her hair stand on end.

Aldric squeezed her hand, sensing her unease, and quickened their pace. The end of this tunnel seemed close.

Valeria imagined they might emerge at the battlefield, near the ruins of the Selenian gate.

Though everything had been left in shambles after the explosion that destroyed the seal completely, there shouldn