The light emitted by the burning sunflower pierced through the darkness in the basement. Hobart remembered that when he had opened the outer door to the basement, he still could not see what was inside even under sunlight.
Clearly, once the sunflower, which symbolized the domain of the sun, began to burn, it dispelled the darkness created by the Sealed Artifact.
Then, the Sealed Artifact's effects began to manifest. Daly, who had originally been at the front, suddenly appeared in the middle of the group.
At the same time, Hobart suddenly appeared at the bottom of the basement. "This actually feels like riding an elevator!"
He raised the sunflower to inspect the basement. It was quite large, measuring a full seven or eight meters in both length and width.
The first thing Hobart saw was a Stone Platform in the center of the basement, with a stone statue the size of a palm placed atop it.
The stone statue looked very ancient, like a bust, yet it had no distinct facial features. All one could vaguely make out was that it was a half-body figure.
The sight of the stone statue made one feel a surging power of Distortion. Hobart suddenly found its aura strangely familiar.
Looking elsewhere, he saw Giant Dog droppings and chicken feathers.
Yet all the droppings and feathers lay more than half a meter away from the Stone Platform. The ring around the platform was spotlessly clean.
That was highly abnormal, so Hobart slipped to the side, with no intention of rushing ahead.
Daly and Scarface, who came down shortly afterward, also knew something was wrong. But they could only rely on this Sealed Artifact with its unknown abilities to deal with the Living Corpses and Little Henry behind them.
By then, the Living Corpses had