Chapter 162 - Perserios territory - part 5 - Countering the plan that was thirty years in the making (part 29)

"..."

"Zoemi, did it not work? Or is the pain from using magic getting worse? Why are you making a face like that...?"

The black-haired boy's eyes widened and his face became pale like a ghost's, causing the dark-haired girl to ask him in a worried voice.

"...it worked, the curse that blocked off the Perserios territory is gone. I can sense my sentinels in the outside world..."

Zoemi uttered, sounding as if he had something stuck in his throat.

"That's a good thing, right...?"

The two girls exchanged worried looks and Burushi ended up asking cautiously.

"It... is... but, my sentinels... there is barely a handful left..."

The black-haired boy gulped down his saliva and answered without looking back at the blond-haired girl.

"Wh... a what left...? Didn't you have thousands of them?!"