Capítulo 377: Chapter 369. The Paladin

The time Zein found himself devoid of thought could be counted on one hand.

To be so blanked out, so shaken to the core that he couldn't do anything but stand in place as if he had turned into a lifeless statue... had only happened once before; when he found out he was stranded with two toddlers.

This would be the second time, and the fact that he stopped breathing made him look even more like a statue.

He just stood there, five meters from a glowing light that imprisoned his father.

It was so close; a distance that he could reach in just two seconds. And yet, he couldn't move.

He was scared. He was scared that it was just a mirage, a hallucination, a dream. He was scared that if he moved, if he walked closer, that glowing light would disappear, like any mirage.

And so he stood there, like a rooted tree, thinking of nothing but how scared he was. Everything went still and silent as if he was drowning in darkness--