The crying shattered the dream like a bubble. Shade abruptly opened his eyes, and the bubble enveloping his head burst with a pop at that very moment.
Yet even after waking from the dream, the wailing still echoed in his ears. Though he had only just heard it, a feeling of irritation had already begun to rise within him.
And it was more than irritation. The crying actually triggered an instinctive fear and immense discomfort in Shade. He felt an urgent desire to go to the source of the crying, even though he knew perfectly well that this thought had not arisen naturally.
The black-haired Halfling Witch curled up nearby also woke at that moment. She turned to look in the same direction as Shade, and the slight frown on her face showed that she too had suffered a powerful mental influence.
"How long will this crying continue ringing in our ears?"
Shade asked, and Linor Bladewei replied:
"Spacetime is abnormally chaotic here. The duration of the crying isn't measured by time, but by the number of rooms we pass through. Once we've gone through six different rooms, the sound will disappear. After that, we'll need to sleep again to find our direction."
Shade nodded. He now completely understood why the three Witches had been forced to carry out the task of lighting the "Life Furnace." Under normal circumstances, Supernatural Beings would be fine without sleep, but in this strange place, the Witches still needed sleep to ease the injuries to their minds.
If every time they closed their eyes, they were immediately awakened by crying infused with such powerful emotional force, even Shade would be unable to endure it.
"Pack up. We're leaving now. If we're lucky, we might find the second Life Furnace this round, since we've already