The Corpus incident took a dramatic turn at every step.
A simple Demon Hunter Civil War had somehow dragged out so many ancient secrets that, honestly, Hao Ren was already a little numb. The Creation Goddess's palace, the discovery of the godslaying sword, and the astonishing connection between Vivian and the Demon Hunter Order—each one of these alone would have been enough to make him write a report of at least eight hundred words after he got back, followed by several rounds of post-disaster worldview reconstruction with the demons and monsters at home. So when Mimir mentioned those ancient records, he was surprisingly calm. He had already heard enough stories to scare him senseless. Was he really going to be afraid of reading the written versions too?
Of course, calm as he was, he was still looking forward to those ancient scrolls. After all, they recorded not only Vivian's experiences six thousand years ago, but also the Demon Hunters' early excavations of Corpus. After Hao Ren confirmed that Corpus was the ruins of the Goddess palace complex, those records had become the most valuable things in the world to him.
Mimir slowly closed his eyes. Mysterious, ancient runes began to appear around his enormous head. They flowed through the air, then suddenly drifted toward the wall behind the altar, where they combined into the shape of a door. When the door slowly opened, a deeper secret chamber was revealed.
"That secret chamber was where the First Saint once lived in seclusion." Mimir's voice resounded in everyone's minds. "After Vivian grievously wounded her, she still managed to survive for several years. By then, the special curse of the Sword of Darkness had already begun to take effect. The saints discovered that every book, stone tablet, and artifact related to Vivian?Ansesta had