Chapter 39

The tremor slowly came to an end, and the base was finally stable again. Grimhold got up from where he had been lying. He groaned in pain, placing his palm on his head, then asked, “Where did she go?”

He walked to where Gretel had been standing and saw both Emmanuel and Lily lying unconscious on the floor. He took out a pair of medicated glasses from his pocket, put them on, and looked around the area where Gretel had stood.

His eyes stopped moving when they met something that caught his attention. He knelt down and picked up a hair strand that had fallen from Gretel before she vanished. The hair strand still glowed brightly. Grimhold smiled and said, “This will do just fine.”

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A large crowd of people cheered loudly as the king walked up to the stage. He stood behind a tall podium and spoke into a microphone.

“Fifty years ago, a massive storm hit a heavenly city named Chrysoverse, reducing it to the wasteland it is today. Throughout the past fifty ye