Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey

Chapter 53: Change

Ten minutes had been passed since the attack.

Lucas already has left the scene. Sia's rank hero is checking the surroundings.

The news of the attack in the Artifact room spread widely in those ten minutes and because of that Emma, Noah and Evelyn are rushed here as soon as possible.

Currently, they are checking the condition of Adrian and Isabella.

"Adrian I know that you are strong but I don't know that you are strong enough to kill Fallen Human," Noah said as he stood beside Adrian locking his right arm around Adrian's neck.

"Yes, I don't know what to say either."

Emma said as there was a shocked expression on her face but there was also worry.

Evelyn stood silent after checking the condition of Adrian and Isabella, she turned her head to the hall like searching for someone.

Seeing her silence Isabella frowns and asks her a question.

"Evelyn are you all right? Are you searching here?" she asked.

hearing Isabella's words she flusters for a second but hides it.

"N-no it's just that where is Lucas?"

Hearing Lucas's name there was a scowl on her face.

"That guy, he is already left."

"I see."

Evelyn said her expression down for a moment.

Adrian who is watching these two talking said something.

"Actually if not for Lucas I don't think I would have been able to win the fight against the fallen human."

That catches everyone's attention.

"How can be?"

"you are joking Adrian right?"

"Lucas?"

Emma, Noah and Isabella bombed him with questions, as they could not believe what they were hearing.

"It's true guys, I don't know what magic or skill he used but because of that, he can blow the arm of a fallen human, In a single attack."

He completed his short speech, and all of them were silent as stone in the middle of the desert.

They don't know what to say hearing Adrian, at first they don't believe it but since Adrian is it must be true.

Everyone did not notice in their shock but Evelyn had a small smile on her face after hearing what Adrian had said.

"Isabella!"

At that moment, a vehement voice rang out from the entrance. Isabella and everyone turned back. There, she saw a middle-aged man looking around the museum with reddened eyes. It was someone she knew.

It was her father, Dareck Evergreen

***

After thinking that far, an unknown feeling of emptiness rose within me. Why was I so relaxed this entire time? Live a comfortable life? No, that was impossible from the start.

Wiring—

At that moment, something strange happens in the cafe where I'm sitting.

The waitress in front of me was giving me a coffee to a customer stopped, not her but everyone else stopped.

It's like time had stopped moving.

"What the fuc-"

I could not even count as strange words appeared in front of me in the air.

My eyes widened as I suddenly got this strange filling in my guts as it kept writing and stopped.

I read the words that were written there.

[Hello Samuel, oh Sorry! you are Lucas now hehe by the way how do you like my gift?]

"Of course."

"...She seems fine, after taking an [intermediate healing potion] you can go now."

The doctor said to Dareck.

"Yes, sir."

The doctor hurriedly ran out. Looking at the closing door, Isabella spoke briefly.

"...Dad."

"Hm?"

Dareck replied kindly.

"How is sister."

Her low-spirited voice evoked the dark past he wanted to forget. Remembering his eldest daughter always caused a sharp pain in his heart. With a gentle smile, Darck held Isabella's hand.

"...What's wrong?"

"Can I go see her when I'm discharged? I'm on sick leave anyway, right?"

"Of course you can."

Darck agreed easily.

Isabella leaned her head against her father's shoulder and recalled what happened earlier in the day.

"Dad, by the way..."

Isabella's tone was dark. Her voice carried a heavy emotion. Dareck asked worriedly.

"What's up?"

"...No, it's nothing."

Suddenly, she began to loathe someone from the bottom of her heart. But she couldn't tell her father how she felt.

She thought back to when her stomach was boiling from being poisoned by the fallen human magic power. Even while she was writhing in pain, her thoughts returned to her older sister

Four years ago, on the day the sky fell, everyone in the world found out. So she didn't have the time to be sad. After that day, her sister's name was etched deep inside her heart, and he became an untouchable subject to her.

Isabella suppressed the fury rising from her heart and wanted nothing more go to destroy something.

But she held in, she had to first find the solution to heal her sister.

If what Samuel gave me is right then it could help to heal her but I have to get the other half from him.

She thought the black box she received from Samuel was a healing formula to heal her sister but it's incomplete.

It was her last hope and no matter what she was going to cling to it.

**

Eldoria's sky was dyed in an orange hue. The movement of the sun was no different than usual, but the scene reflected by the setting sun could only be described as a pandemonium.

Pieces of asphalt littered the road, while a child was crying under a telephone pole snapped in half. Ambulances travelled back and forth, carrying wounded people or corpses.

Although the situation had been taken care of by the dispatched Heroes, the aftermath of chaos remained.

"Adrian, and Lucas. We heard the story."

Lillian was waiting at the Portal connecting Eldoria and Acdmy City.

"We will ask for details later, so go back and rest for now."

"Um, Miss Lillian. Isabella is..."

Adrian asked, to which Miss Lillian gave a short reply.

"She's taking a sick leave. She's with her family right now."

"Yes, understood."

Adrian didn't ask any more questions.

"Go back."

One by one, we trudged to the Portal. The odd sensation enveloping my body didn't feel interesting anymore. After a short sigh, I found myself back at Academy City