The Rose Opera Troupe's performance of "Night of Faraas" was essentially a reenactment of real history.
The tide of darkness ultimately swallowed everything, heralding the end of the opera.
But reality had not ended there.
What Luo Chuan cared about was what happened afterward—why Elizabeth had become undead and transformed into a lich.
From Ausia's account, that blank stretch of history was finally filled in.
The tide of darkness swallowed everything. All the resisting armies were like moths flying into a flame, utterly incapable of stopping it.
The cage shattered, and corruption erupted.
The Falas Empire, glamorous on the surface yet rotten to the core, became a puppet of corruption in just a few short days.
Chaos surged forth; light no longer remained.
Ausia had been responsible for handling the matter at the time, but by the time she arrived, several days had already passed.
Yet what she saw before her struck her as exceedingly strange.
All life had completely perished. That itself was nothing unusual, since corruption was, by its nature, something that devoured all life.
The strange part was that not only had life vanished, but even the corruption itself had disappeared without a trace.
Yes, the corruption had vanished for no apparent reason.
Ausia ordered the Tide's members to conduct a thorough search across the Falas Empire and an immense surrounding area. They searched underground and through all manner of layered spaces, yet found not the slightest trace of corruption.
It was as though it had simply evaporated from this world.
"Were there any gaps in your investigation?" Yao Ziyan frowned slightly.
"We investigated everything we could think of." Ausia sighed helplessly. "But the result was no different. The corruption vanished completely. We couldn't find anything."
Luo Chuan fell into thought.
Vanished corruption...
For some reason, he