Just as Hao Ren had guessed, the castle atop the small hill was Vivian's slumbering ground.
Strictly speaking, it was the entrance leading to her slumbering ground.
After a thorough round of deductions and discussions, Hao Ren and Heiserana replanned the entire process of unsealing the seal and entering the Shadow World. To avoid complications from delay—the Demon Hunters could track them down at any moment—they decided to enter the old castle before dawn. Although the Dark Power was especially strong at night and would make unsealing the seal somewhat more difficult, Heiserana had already decided to replace the key with her own shadow magic. Her power would also be enhanced at night, so it did not matter.
Haraon Castle had once belonged to a human noble, but after changing hands several times, it eventually became the property of a Vampire. Although that ignorant and reckless young Vampire had later been driven into bankruptcy by Vivian's God of Misfortune's aura, he had at least possessed a considerable fortune when he first took over the castle. Thus, he had lavishly renovated the human castle. Even after it had fallen into ruin and its walls had collapsed, traces of its former splendor could still be glimpsed. The entire old castle consisted of four enormous towers and two main structures. A broad corridor lay between the two rectangular main buildings, making the entire castle look like an "I" when viewed from above. The four towers stood at its four corners, creating an extraordinarily magnificent sight.
Of course, more than half of this grand structure had long since collapsed. The upper levels of the entire castle had become rotten and decrepit through the erosion of time. A stone fortress would not normally decay so quickly, but the Dark Power lingering over this land had