"Oh~"
Emilia was startled by her own vivid imagination. Looking carefully, it was clearly nothing more than a stain.
She nervously looked away and stopped staring in that direction, but in some corner of her heart, the thought that could there be a corpse bricked up inside the wall? erupted uncontrollably like weeds after spring rain.
The feeling was strangely familiar. It reminded her of thirty or forty years ago, when she had still been a little elf girl, hiding beneath her blankets at night and frightening herself.
But this time, though she had grown up, there was not even a blanket nearby to hide under. The more she thought about it, the more terrified she became, until her body actually began trembling from fear.
"Little Liana, something feels very wrong."
When she forced herself to speak, even she was surprised by how hoarse her voice sounded. The pure-white little beast also sensed that something was wrong. After gently poking Emilia's hand with her horn, she faced the stained wall and let out an "Aang~" cry.
Golden radiance erupted from her horn. Even as an underage Unicorn, the holy power she unleashed at full strength was still astonishing.
The spreading spirit and the dense Whisper Element that had appeared at some point canceled each other out in the air at the bottom of the Clock Tower, but in doing so, they also caused this hidden relic to fully reveal its properties.
The golden light illuminated the surrounding walls, and Emilia clearly saw dozens of human-shaped bulges appearing on the walls at the bottom of the Clock Tower. They all looked as though they had been forcibly left inside the walls while struggling. As Emilia looked at them, the Elf Girl first felt an instinctive urge to enter the wall herself,