"Sniff, sniff~ This way!"
After Shade and Wei Ge joined forces to repel another batch of dried corpses clad in skin objects, Ellie, who had been sniffing around, suddenly brightened. Tugging at Shade's sleeve, she pointed decisively toward the southwest corner of the banquet hall:
"It's there! What we're looking for must be there!"
Dried corpses lay scattered around them, but the skin objects had vanished after their defeat. As the darkness persisted longer and longer, the once-tidy hall of the Skin Object Hall looked as though it had been abandoned for over a century. The food on the long tables had long since rotted into strange black masses.
The door Ellie indicated looked as though it had been struck by a tremendous force. It was jammed in its crooked frame and could not be pushed open, so Shade smashed it down with his sword. The Silver Light Orb flew in first, illuminating the equally dilapidated banquet hall beyond. After confirming it was safe, the three of them entered together, and this place was clearly unlike any of the previous halls.
"The power of a Witch Emperor? How could it be here?"
As the Great Witch of Chaos, Wei Ge immediately sensed the lingering power within the room.
This banquet hall was more ruined and chaotic than any room they had seen before. It looked as though a battle had erupted here many years ago. Long tables, sofas, cabinets, and all sorts of furniture lay across the dust-covered floor, mostly reduced to fragments.
At the center of the floor was a sword mark that still emitted yellow light even in the darkness. Even after thousands of years, it had not been completely erased by the Whisper Element of the relic.
The sword mark nearly split the entire room in two.