"Yes, you guessed right," I said as I patted the baron's shoulder.

"The great beauty had sacrificed herself to save us. If I had known she was going to do this, I wouldn't have bickered with her," said Zhang Bao'er guiltily.

"This is not the time to wallow in sadness. We need to leave this place as quickly as possible if we don't want to be locked right back in after the core recovers," I said loudly.

"Canyue, I want to go up first with my thrusters. If it's safe, I'll signal all of you to come," said Old Du. I immediately approved his request.

After turning on the thrusters on his morph-capable suit, Old Du slowly soared toward the exit that had opened above us. Shortly after, he went through the moderately sized opening in the ceiling. A few minutes later, I saw him beckoning at us from above.

"Canyue, it's safe. Come up," his voice came from the communicator.

We all jumped into action after hearing his confirmation. With the help of our thrusters, we left Cloudcast's core, a place that had bought us hope and joy alongside death and sorrow. Surprisingly,...