It all vanished at once, all of it. Any trace of the battle between Conrad and Meliora was gone.
One moment the chamber was drowning in suffocating hot steam and flames, then the next, they were snuffed out like a candle. Even the rising temperature in the air had gone back to normal like nothing happened.
As if someone or some force just decided to reset everything back to the way it was before their battle began.
But that wasn't the most surprising thing. Not even close, because a few paces away from him were two new figures.
The closest one to him was a woman in a wrinkled trench coat with half-rolled sleeves. Her messy black hair was pulled into a low-hanging ponytail, and that blood-red tie went nicely against her white dress shirt.
