As Tyler's palm came down, a deafening boom suddenly erupted from the hollow space beneath the Echo Corridor!
Clang—!!
When Shen Qingzhu and the others had entered earlier, they had seen the structure of the Echo Corridor. Aside from the suspended circular walkway, there was also an enormous bronze bell below, weighing at least a dozen tons by estimation.
With Tyler's movement, the bronze bell suddenly rang. Its thunderous toll was like lightning exploding beside their ears, reverberating repeatedly beneath the circular dome. There was something peculiar about the bell's sound—it abruptly left Shen Qingzhu and the others' minds completely blank.
By the time Shen Qingzhu came back to his senses, Tyler had already vanished.
"It hurts..." Wu Quan covered his ears as blood trickled down his cheeks. He frowned and looked around, then froze slightly. "We... where are we?"
Shen Qingzhu turned around and saw that their surroundings had completely changed. The circular corridor remained as it had been, but the murals once carved into the surrounding walls and dome had all become blank, as though someone had erased them with a rubber eraser.
"An illusion?" Shen Qingzhu frowned slightly.
"No. At the instant the bell rang, the surrounding spacetime underwent a subtle shift." Number 27 shook his head. He turned and walked to the edge of the Echo Corridor, grabbed the doorknob, and pulled hard.
The door opened, but behind it was only a pale wall... This should have been the room where they had temporarily placed the sleeping Lin Qiye.
"These knights can actually cause shifts in spacetime?" Shen Qingzhu said in surprise.
"This probably isn't their power. It's part of the hidden arrangements that already existed within this cathedral. For these knights to survive six years amid the ruins of the Mist, their methods are probably