Chapter 154 Giving Up

• Amidst the torn pages, only half of a word was visible or to be more specific, just the word "Zie—".
• "What... what word is this?" Ethan murmured, bewilderment clouding his young face. After all his painstaking efforts to crack the code and find the book, was it all for nothing? The sense of impending failure weighed heavily on him.
• He immediately turned to gather the scattered remnants of the torn pages, the ones Xander had ripped apart in a fit of frustration. His small hands trembled slightly as he tried to piece them together.