Although Bernadette, as a Mystery Pryer, was very curious whether Sno's spell pulled reality into a dream or transformed his own dream into reality, her rationality told her that now was not the time to dwell on such matters.
Borrowing the state of being completely assimilated with her surroundings, Bernadette released her scrutiny of the current environment. In her eyes, the entire hall was no longer composed of matter, but had broken down into infinitely converging information. Following that twisted, bizarre information, she found the source of it all.
"The altar."
Her arms curled like wound springs, and her body slanted like an abstract painting of a drunkard. Yet she was strangely able to move normally through the equally distorted environment. As her uneven legs stepped forward in alternation, she did not feel at all unsteady, as though the ground itself had provided suitable rises and dips according to her altered body.
With a comical gait like the cat in Tom and Jerry after being warped by an attack, Bernadette slowly made her way to the altar behind the head of the long table. There stood a peculiar stone sculpture resembling an oversized wine goblet, but the source of the contamination was not inside the goblet. It lay deeper within.
Bernadette pulled a Great Firebox from her pocket and lightly rubbed it. Three hounds appeared out of thin air. The instant they landed, they twisted and mutated into monsters, but in that fleeting moment, Bernadette still gave them an order—
Overturn the altar.
Three bizarre masses resembling squirming rotten flesh and black oily sludge crashed into the stone "goblet altar." It had only been a simple attempt, but unexpectedly, the altar was easily knocked over by the three hounds. However, as the altar tilted, the panting suddenly grew much louder.