Even after confirming that Nox and the Scourge Champion were gone—completely vanished without a trace—Valkor and Lumi didn't return to the others. Not immediately.
They searched.
Day one passed with only the wind and the unsettling silence of the ruined battlefield.
Valkor refused to rest, stumbling through the area. Even after receiving healing, his body still required rest to fully recover. But he didn't rest. He searched every broken tree, every scorched root, looking for anything—anything—that might hint at where Nox had gone.
Lumi stayed quiet. Not because she wasn't concerned, but because she knew how stubborn Valkor could be. After spending just a day with him, the little girl had a grasp of his personality. Any protest would fall on deaf ears. She simply followed him, glowing sword in hand, scanning the area with her radiant sight for disturbances.
