A Blast of Lightning With Thunder

Lights began to glow around the city walls, piece by piece it began to build up and began to extend above them like a dome, the barrier was activating itself as the Kraelonia Academy made their decision. There were a lot of problems that would come up if he left the city knowing fully well that a colossal danger would come around soon but [ Professor ] Owen Liddel didn't hesitate for longer, at least less than a minute as he ran out towards the city's gates.

Somehow despite only taking a minute or two to decide, he could already see that the [ Cleric ] had already come at a distance and gritted his teeth. Out of one of his belts, he pulled out a potion and took a quick swig as his senses became clearer. She had already made contact with the captors and they had only decided to stay at the forest instead of running off?

Had they actually been waiting for them all this time?