At Saint Ten Church, as the gate closed, the mechanisms atop the church began to turn. The grinding of gears and chains rang out. On the church roof, a gigantic clock with only one hand began counting down moment by moment. With each movement, it made a heavy click, click.
One cycle of the gigantic clock contained 160 ticks, which amounted to more than thirty minutes. When the countdown ended, the sealed gates of Saint Ten Church would open. If a chosen one survived the Song Choir's siege until then, she would be considered to have passed the challenge and could temporarily take away the source stone entrusted to the Song Choir.
If the chosen one died in the battles that followed, the Song Choir would temporarily leave Saint Ten Church, retrieve the source stone they guarded, and wait for the next chosen one to arrive.
That was why the Wolf Knight guarding the Wolf Mound had become the last Wolf Knight. The Wolf Knights and the Song Choir were known as the Healing Church's two great pillars of combat strength. However, the Wolf Knights took charge of killing. They would not accept challenges. Anyone who came was a warrior, and if they wanted to take the source stone, they had to use a more direct method. Once the battle began, only one side would live.
To this day, only the last Wolf Knight remained guarding the Wolf Mound. However, the Wolf Knights differed from the Song Choir. No matter how many Wolf Knights remained, only one would step forward to fight the chosen one. The others would watch from the surroundings and prevent outsiders from intruding and interfering with this battle to the death.
Inside Saint Ten Church was an empty expanse, ethereal murmurs, and lifelike reliefs on the