"Come on, Adrian!" Lyra urged Adrian, her face pale.

They ran into Thalia and her group as soon as they came down from Cloud Puff Mountain. Had it not been for Frederick and the others’ arrival, they might not have gotten away from Thalia.

When Adrian noticed that no one was coming, he slowed down. However, Lyra remained vigilant and continued to urge him to move faster. After a while, they were within the vicinity of Mudstone Village. When they arrived at the village entrance, several villagers noticed them and were shocked to see them covered in blood.

"What happened? Did you two run into beasts or something?" a middle-aged woman asked, approaching Lyra with concern and grabbing her hand.

Lyra breathed a sigh of relief upon having returned to her village, but she was unsure of how to answer the woman’s questions. After all, Adrian had just killed several people from Blade's Reach. Though the three villages had conflicts during their annual expeditions into the secret realm, they