"Even after reading the files, I'm still frightened by this thing."
Only Miss Annette had known in advance that the so-called "Gargoyle" was this large. Miss Bayes sighed just like Shade had.
"I thought it would only be about human-sized. I never expected it to be this huge."
Shade voiced his thoughts. Miss Annette looked around and explained further:
"Keeper of Secrets Level relic Thousand-Eyed Gargoyle No. 3765 actually has a more memorable unofficial name, an elegant title bestowed by Ancient Alchemists."
"What elegant title?"
"Giant God Soldier."
Looking up at the terrifyingly enormous Thousand-Eyed Gargoyle, Shade's mouth twitched. He finally fully understood what stood before them.
"Well, if you'd told me that name earlier, I probably would've understood what this was much more easily."
Such a vast open space had seemingly been built so the Gargoyle could fight freely. Honestly, if they had not known beforehand how to make it temporarily rest, even if the Silver-Eyed One had decided to join them, the four of them might not have been able to defeat this relic.
The enormous chamber seemed empty, but the three of them later found several corpses in varying stages of decay by the walls. The freshest corpse had likely appeared only this morning. All of the corpses had had their eyes gouged out. They were probably innocent people Blood of Mercury had killed to pass through here.
After carefully counting the bodies, there were thirty-six in total. In other words, aside from the Blood Spirit School members this morning, Blood of Mercury had used this method to enter the ruins at least eleven times.
Miss Bayes quietly prayed for the corpses. Miss Annette continued examining the remaining empty space, while Shade looked at the three freshest bodies and suddenly asked Miss Bayes:
"Would you mind if