Arlo, Cora, Tyler, Lucy, and Kiara all turned to Lane, staring at him with their eyes so wide they looked as if they might fall out of their sockets.
Had he really said what they thought he had?
And with such nonchalance?
'It wouldn't necessarily be so bad?' If the real world, THEIR world, also looked like that?
Seeing their faces, full of disbelief, Lane couldn't help but chuckle.
"No, I mean it," he said, still with utmost confidence. "I get how you feel, but even if our world were fully Manaformed, it wouldn't be so bad… At least not all of it."
"…How can you be so sure?"
"Well, think about the Forbidden Zones! They are fully Manaformed, no?"
Everyone instantly relaxed a little bit.
Right, there were the Forbidden Zones. They had forgotten about it a moment ago, out of fear and exhaustion, but they had even discussed it earlier, before the raid. How, despite the Forbidden Zones being Manaformed, people still lived there. Illegally, of course, but that was not the point.
