A Familiar Place

Angel hurriedly pressed Rose for details about this information.

According to Rose, no one knew when that person had arrived. It might have been a thousand years ago, or perhaps even earlier. The Shannon Royal Clan had not recorded these matters in any books, passing them down only by word of mouth. Under such circumstances, gaps in memory were all too easy to form.

However, Rose was certain it had happened at least a thousand years ago.

He did not know whether that person had been a transcendent, but it was a fact that the person had visited the Shannon Royal Clan. Not only had he come to the royal clan, he had also left behind a treasure that had been passed down to this day.

That treasure was the one Shannon had mentioned before—the treasure bound by bloodline, which required the sacrifice of a blood relative every time it was used.

When the Heart-Eating Ghost had attacked the royal palace, the Shannon Royal Clan had relied on that treasure to defeat it.

"What is that treasure? Could you take it out and let me have a look?" Angel asked.

Rose considered it, then nodded. They had already shown him the deepest secret of the treasury. Besides, only someone connected by blood could use that treasure, so there was no harm in taking it out for him to see.

With that thought, Rose ordered one of the death warriors to retrieve the treasure from another hidden cache.

When Angel saw the death warrior bring over a scroll tube, he was somewhat puzzled. It was not until Rose slowly unfurled the item within that Angel realized it was a painting on a hide scroll.

The hide scroll was made of decent material. Angel could tell it was the hide of a