Jean Lucas ultimately chose to compromise. In truth, his compromise was within many people's expectations: for an old Bloodkin who strictly adhered to ancient customs, the weight of seniority and seniority in age was something outsiders could hardly understand. Besides, even if he refused to show respect to the other elders, he could not ignore Vivian, this special ancient one.
Hesperis had witnessed every event of the Mythical Era, and she could make him lose face whenever she felt like interfering. Given the current turbulent situation and the considerable influence of the Heiserana Family, Jean Lucas ultimately made the intelligent decision under the influence of all these factors. Relaxing his stubborn principles a little from time to time would not necessarily cost him much, but offending a whole group of troublesome figures just to save face would have been terribly unwise.
The entrance to the ruins was located in the Parthenon, but no one could travel there directly from True Athens. Demon Hunters had kept a close watch on these buildings preserved from ancient times for years, waiting for those reckless, nostalgia-driven aliens to show up. There was another safe route to the entrance: the Parthenon in Shadow Athens.
This shadow city was a masterpiece of the Shadow Masters among the Bloodkin and shadow fiends. Thousands of years ago, when the shadow Spellcasters still retained their full strength, they used a special method to distort the space here, copying half of Athens and dragging it into the shadow of True Athens, thereby creating this bizarre replica. Many of its areas corresponded exactly to those in True Athens—not only in appearance and structure, but even in their Space Coordinates. It was just like a parallel space. Shadow Athens enveloped the landmarks of True Athens, existing beside many ordinary people, though ordinary