The world will be no more

Markus suddenly stopped. Yelna stuck to his back froze, unable to move even a muscle.

"What was that...?" Al asked, already on his knees. 

A mere moment ago, all three of them detected a surge of powerful energy. But, while Al only experienced the physical side-effect of such a disturbance, the same couldn't be said about his two companions from the future. 

"It's him," Markus muttered, forcing his stiff muscles to work again. A step forward, then another, and in just a mere moment, he was already running again. 

"That we can say for sure," Yelna admitted before squinting her eyes. "What worries me is that he used... that."

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Layn's body was burning. Not with something as simple as a fire, but with the overloaded mana. Ever since Layn found his first mana crystal, he infused his body with a small amount of the crystalized mana.