Sylas stood in silence. It was already too late to move, his parents were gone.
More people started to vanish afterward, but they were far less important to him. Or, more accurately, the majority of them were people he had never spared a single thought toward.
What just happened?
Sylas was certainly not ready for something like this. It was amongst the very last things he expected to happen.
He thought he had grown beyond the point of things catching him off guard in this world. He thought he was ready for every possibility, every iteration of what could possibly occur… And then something like this swept out from right under his nose.
For this to not only happen, but for it to also happen on Earth, the place he had the most power he could possibly ever have.
Murder flashed in Sylas' eyes, streams of violet and black lightning erupting around him.
"Scram." The Crimson Eye shuddered. Sylas didn't even speak that loudly, but it felt like there was something inside of him that caused every piece and fold of reality to vibrate to the cadence of his words.
The world shook, and the Heaven System, realizing that there wasn't anything it should be here for, was forced to oblige and shrink away to nothingness.
Sylas' jaw clenched, the space around him trembling.
There was no malice in what just happened to his parents. He didn't believe that they had been targeted by anyone for their lives. From what he could tell, whatever change had just occurred was directly related to their breakthrough.
If not for the presence of the Crimson Eye, Sylas would have been able to stop it before it happened. After all, he was the Progenitor of Earth. There was no place other than maybe his own Hibernation Realm that he had more direct control over.
Some other mysterious power coming in and teleporting his parents away would have been impossible.
For that alone, if Sylas had had the power to do it, he would have destroyed the Crimson Eye.
The problem wasn't that his parents were in immediate danger right now. The problem was that the moment they left Earth, the variables for what might happen multiplied several times over.
And if his enemies found out that his parents were just out and about.
Sylas found himself clenching his fists. His senses had already gone over toward where the disappearances had taken place, but their exact location was already too far away for him to pinpoint. His senses just couldn't possibly stretch that far.
And the Rune Mastery level involved in something like this was too high even for him to see through, and by the time he could, there would be too little evidence left to decipher what was going on.
Sylas was absolutely furious. The very mountain beneath him trembled, and yet there didn't seem to be anything he could do about it.


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