The adventurers all let out a collective breath they didn't realize they'd been holding. The tension that had gripped their hearts since they stepped into this cursed forest finally loosened.
Some of them dropped to one knee again. Some leaned against trees and others just stood there with eyes blinking slowly as if trying to wake from a nightmare that had somehow ended in a dream.
To hear that the people—those empty husks they had seen—were alive again and known that their minds and souls restored, exceeded every hope they had dared to carry.
Mark exhaled and ran a hand down his face.
"I thought this was going to end in tragedy and the god will appear in this world. Honestly, when we saw that… thing... that shadow thatt just appear few seconds in the temple," He shuddered, his voice lowering. "I couldn't even move. Could barely breathe."
