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"Hmm?" Just under two minutes after leaving the battlefield, Pannis's steps suddenly halted, and he frowned, looking back over his shoulder. However, the dense woodland obscured his view and beyond the trees, vines, and bushes, nothing else could be seen.
"What's wrong?" Catherine asked, alertly, "Is something appearing behind us? Or has something happened?"
"No, nothing's appeared," said Pannis with some hesitation. "I just felt a fleeting energy fluctuation. It wasn't directed at us. I just wonder why the energy fluctuation occurred; it can't possibly be triggered out of thin air."
"It might not be impossible," Freya said, holding a disc-like crystal device in her hand and looking down at it. "For over an hour now, the leyline energy beneath our feet has begun to change slowly but continuously. Huh, they know we've arrived and, apparently, they have already prepared a welcoming ceremony for us."