Following her gaze, thunder roared from the sky! Lightning struck down.

Suddenly, as a lightning bolt came down from the dry sky, the men looked around with bewildered eyes.

“What’s this? Why is this happening?”

Bercheria glared at the men with cold eyes.

“Let him go.”

The men mumbled in confusion.

“What’s she saying? That woman.”

“Ha.”

She had only created a lightning bolt, but suddenly, she felt a surge of power rushing within her.

It was a different flow from before.

An incomparable difference in power.

Now that she had regained all her strength, she was certain that using that power without controlling it could lead to her death.

But even when she questioned herself again, the answer was still the same.

Without saving Groovy, she couldn’t move forward as Bercheria.

Lightning struck down from the sky again.

“This darn it.”

As the men were in confusion, Groovy shouted with a pale face.

“No! Don’t! You can’t do that!”

As Groovy struggled to escape, a big man knocked him unconscious with a punch to the solar plexus.

The leader of the group, carrying Groovy on his shoulder, shouted at his men while looking at Bercheria.

“If lightning strikes, just go into the cave. Right? Puhaha.”

In an instant, the worried faces of the comrades turned into smiles.

“Yeah. He’s indeed the leader.”

“Why didn’t I think of that! Why would lightning come inside!”

“All right! No laundry today! Yeah!”

Just as they were about to walk towards the cave,

Crack, woof woof!

A dog stood in front of them, barking fiercely.

“Hey, you. Get out of the way?”

When a man tried to kick the dog away,

“Stop.”

At Bercheria’s words, the men shouted menacingly.

“Hurry up and get out of the way!”

“Don’t you know that person is scary!”

Bercheria closed her eyes.

Kwagwagwang!

A tremendous sound, as if the sky was collapsing, erupted, and at the same time, lightning struck down above all the men’s heads.

“Ugh!”

“Cough!”

“Ahh!”

Compared to the previous noise, the end was short and concise.

All the men collapsed to the ground simultaneously.

“Cough.”

Bercheria approached them and shook Groovy, who had lost consciousness just like them.

As Groovy, moved by Bercheria, groaned, she carried him on her shoulders, similar in size to herself, and walked forward, whimpering.

A few steps forward.

As Bercheria was walking, she suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed.

Kwagwagwang!

At the sudden thunderous sound, Lacrarian, who was processing prey, stood up abruptly.

He looked up at the sky, but where he was, there was not a single cloud, and it was clear and bright.

Surveying the surroundings, Lacrarian noticed clouds gathering in the distance and clenched his teeth.

He threw away the prey he was holding and rushed towards where the clouds were gathering.
“Bercheria!”

When he arrived, there were only men lying unconscious, their faces darkened.

Lacran’s heart raced as if it would burst.

“Bercheria! Groovy!”

Woof woof!

The sound of a dog barking came from up ahead.

As Lacran rushed forward, Mu, who had been waiting in the middle, turned around and started running at full speed.

Lacran also ran after Mu.

When he arrived at the cave he had mentioned, Bercheria was lying on the ground unconscious.

Meanwhile, Groovy, who had briefly lost consciousness and woken up, was gently comforting her arms and legs.

In Groovy’s eyes, tears welled up at the thought that it happened because of him.

“What should we do? The Grand Duke. Ugh.”

Despair filled Lacran’s face.

“Sister, my sister won’t wake up. Huhuh.”

The place her uncontrollable body had arrived was warm, spacious, someone’s embrace.

‘…Who is it?’

In such a situation, she should feel fear or anxiety, but strangely, those emotions did not come to mind.

Just…

‘Warm, sunlight.’

It was so warm.

The body temperature was so cozy.

A sense of relief and uneasiness intertwined, as if she had longed for this all her life.

In Bercheria’s ears, only the thumping sound of her heart remained.

It was a heartbeat that was huge and intense, incomparable to anything she owned.

‘I need to get up, but…’

Contrary to her thoughts, her consciousness was gradually being sucked into a distant place.

Her mother came to mind. Is this person also going to confine me, beat me, or torment me like my mother?

Maybe it could happen.

After all, her existence alone could give a dreadful feeling.

Nobody could like her, her mother had reminded her every time, as if carved into her bones.

But this feeling was familiar.

She really needed to remember this body temperature.

The person who first loved her after escaping the darkness.

The person who first cherished her.

Yes, she had to go to that man, Lacran.

He beckons from the deep.

For a long time, what sustained Bercheria was the tenacity of not giving up hope.

“Brother, please. Huh. Please save my sister.”

Although the sound was audible, she couldn’t move at all.

The ability of the gods to protect humans was more like a curse than a blessing.