It had never felt such urgency to pursue an answer.
The instant the room's door was pushed open, it held its breath.
It stared.
The empty room was extremely simple. Apart from a few necessary, long-dusted pieces of furniture, there was nothing else.
This seemed to indicate that the room's former owner had abandoned the pursuit of comfort long ago... Medanzo entered slowly, with a trace of unease.
It was merely a room that had been empty for a long time. No useful clues remained.
That made sense.
The Rose Count had an almost pathological pursuit of knowledge. If anything had been left here, the Rose Count should have moved it away long ago.
In fact, all the rooms Medanzo had opened while ascending this tower had been almost completely emptied.
"Nothing was left behind at all...? No."
It was not the sort to give up easily, so it began carefully searching the empty room... It did not believe that some unseen force had driven it here merely to discover this vacant room.
Elohim was one of His names.
"As expected."
Medanzo took a deep breath. It moved the wooden bed aside and discovered a cross-shaped mark on the wall concealed behind the headboard.
Yet a dark-red great serpent was coiled around the cross.
Medanzo seemed able to see the great serpent writhing atop the cross, even making out every scale on its body... Like a great serpent, it raised its head, a pair of eyes staring straight ahead.
As if it was staring directly at Medanzo himself!
Cold sweat quietly trickled down its body. It seemed as though the great serpent might emerge from the wall at any moment and swallow it whole.
Smack!
Medanzo suddenly shuddered and instantly pushed the moved bed back into place, completely covering the