For a moment, nothing happened.
Faith stood there, her chest rising and falling slowly, the weight of her own words still hanging in the air. The tension that had built between her and everyone else had not faded. If anything, it had grown thicker, heavier, pressing down on the room like something unseen but impossible to ignore. No one spoke. No one moved. Even the guards who had laughed earlier now watched her with quiet expectation, waiting to see if she would back up what she had just declared so boldly.
Then, without warning, Faith opened her mouth and began to sing.
There was no surge of power behind it.
No glowing aura.
No trace of Blood Mana woven into her voice.
It was just her.
