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Creak~

As they passed through the metal gate at the end of the Art Gallery.

It was as though they had entered the inner layer from outside the "box."

The four-person group that had merely come to participate in the Art Festival had officially arrived in the inner city—the true Perugia City.

Otherworldly demons were obsessed with Human Civilization, preserving the appearance of the original town and the vast number of paintings left behind by humans, treating artistically accomplished humans as equals... What a joke.

It was all just a "disguise."

Merely a method of "disguise" this lord used in pursuit of the truth.

Human achievements in art could indeed help this Mental Attribute Ancestral Body better Perceive Truth.

But there was no need for obsession, much less any need to rely entirely on "art" for a breakthrough.

The lord of Perugia merely used such a pretext to loudly promote the claim that the art left behind by humanity could help with cultivation on the Mental Plane... even using himself as an example.

This lured psychic otherworldly demons from other factions across great distances to Perugia City.

Under the pretext of discussing "art," he dragged them into the abyss... devouring the heads of these psychic otherworldly demons to help himself touch the truth and approach mythology.

The true Perugia City was also known as Mad Rat City.

It was an utterly depraved city, even more depraved and more shameless than cities governed by other otherworldly demons...

With the combined abilities of the painters under his command, along with the support of the Medium Deed.

The lord of Perugia had "painted" a layer of skin over the city's surface, the skin of an ancient city preserving the original Human Civilization.

To conceal this filthy, utterly foul Mad Rat City.

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