Ethan had already returned to his VR capsule half an hour earlier.
At the foot of Dragonvault Ridge, where the Whitmore family's Hidden Territory lay concealed, four figures stood waiting, scanning the road below with anxious eyes. Markham, Victor, Leo, and Williams had been there since early morning.
It was eight o'clock.
The night before, they had received a message from Lyla inside Ethereal. After calculating when she would arrive, they decided to leave the Hidden Territory early and wait at the base of the mountain. Someone unconscious was being brought along, after all, and it would take several men to carry him up the steep climb.
"Why aren't they here yet? Nothing's gone wrong, has it?" Leo muttered as he paced.
"They're here… they're here."
