Chapter 67: The New Carbina

Even though I expected and trusted the Cultists to do their worsts, to keep their promise and go ahead with their plans, unhindered by my presence.

I could have never believed this is what that would look like.

Before me, Carbina has lost all familiarity. The air is soaked, dripping thick with mana, the most sinister kind of mana too.

Before now I never thought mana could reflect the user's personality, but this feeling, the way the air rubs on my skin. It frightens me. 

This is the power of the Cult; this is their nature, evil.

Kaylin shivers beside me, walking nervously across the barren fields, her affinity to mana must be as strong as mine but perhaps not because Anselm refused to fly.

Ahead, past where the little post we set up was meant to be, the image of Carbina is no more. In the place of green grasses, yellow corn fields and galloping horses, all that is left is a scorched, charred ground with several craters splayed all around it.