41 Seven Seals (2/2)

A few minutes into their dinner, the meal was disturbed...

*Boom*

The large front door of the mansion swang clean open, the pure force echoing throughout the mansion. The sound of a pair of hurried footsteps closely followed the disturbingly loud noise.

”Sev!” the feminine voice of Great Mage Mirlie called out, the signs of distress clearly instilled into every syllable.

Hearing the panicked voice of Mirlie, Sev immediately turned into an incorporeal black mass and raced towards the origin of the sound. Leaving Nora slightly worried and confused...

Deciding that she too should probably look into whatever was happening, she calmly stood from her chair and in polite etiquette pushed her chair neatly back into its original position. Before calmly walking towards the direction Sev rushed towards, following a faint trace of darkness particles left in his wake.

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After a few twists and turns, Nora could see Great Mage Mirlie, Sev, and Lucius all gathered at the top of the staircase. Great Mage Mirlie hastily spoke, Nora only making out a few words, ”-they took Percy...”

Realizing the severity of the situation, Nora no longer calmly walked and now quickly joined the group, interrupting and immediately asking the pressing question in her mind, ”Who took Percy!?”

Seeing the expression on Nora's face, Great Mage Mirlie instantly recognized that although suppressed, the anger within Nora was already reaching its limits. The disappearance of one of the few people who she had come to trust and care for had majorly ticked her off.

”One of the four horsemen has been released, Nero the Horseman of Conquest, ambushed me, sparing me but stealing Percy from under my protection. The first of the seven seals is now free...”