Chapter 380 — The Shattering of the Holy Grail

Everyone was stunned.

The shock spread through the air like an invisible pressure, tightening around their chests.

The memory that had just been projected before them—vivid, immersive, as though they had personally lived through it—had snatched the breath from every single person, leaving them momentarily unable to react at all.

When the vision vanished, the world fell into instant silence.

Even the wind seemed sucked out of existence.

Only the heavy, echoing thrum of heartbeats pounded deep within their ears.

After a long, long moment—

A faint, trembling inhale came from the ground.

Alia moved.

Her fingers twitched first, a subtle tremor like the first crack spreading across thawing ice.

Then her lashes fluttered; her eyelids slowly lifted.

In her eyes swirled a storm—fear, confusion, emptiness, pain—until, as her focus gradually sharpened, she realized—

Everyone had seen that memory.

She understood exactly what had happened.

And in the next second, her tears burst forth—

like a dam