Chapter 1097 Escape

• In that hour, Scarlet cautiously emerged from the cavern, expending every measure of her strength to ascend, clutching her wounded arm as she laboriously approached Lucian's side.
• Upon beholding Lucian prostrate upon the ground, feeble and forlorn, her heart was rent asunder. "Lucian," she queried with plaintive concern, "why have you done this? Did I not urge you to seize the artefact and flee? Why did you tarry in combat with that fell creature?"
• Lucian managed a sardonic grin, blood scarcely contained within his lips.