Shade did not hesitate. Four Great Sin Chains shot through the air and pierced the Scroll Elder's chest. It tried to block the chains, but the Church's Twelve-Ring Arcanist gave it no such chance. The instant its "heart" was torn out by the chains, the thing that looked like an old man exploded into pieces of dry, shriveled skin.
And that extracted "heart" was not a human heart at all, but a yellowed leather scroll. Shade manipulated the chains to unfold it in midair. Even Miss Feliana could not understand the ancient runes written upon it, but Shade understood with a single glance:
"This is the Scroll Elder's main body. This is the index catalog of the human-skin scrolls collected by [Skin Object Hall]!"
"Are you going to destroy it?"
Mr. Delong asked. He seemed to be in acceptable condition, but the Church's Twelve-Ring Arcanist appeared to be seriously injured.
Shade did not need Miss Feliana to remind him that he could not do that:
"Some of the scrolls here are agreements, and agreements are also bindings. If we destroy this index catalog, I fear the trouble it causes will be even worse than [Skin Object Hall] completely losing control."
The purple-glowing Moonlight Ring bound the catalog and temporarily sealed it. Shade then took out a small coffin, tossed the scroll inside, and sealed it once more with the Coffin of the Underworld. Finally, he handed the small coffin to Wei Ge for safekeeping.
The scenery of the Moon Library faded, and the deep library within the hall returned. Shade reached forward to search. Although the hall's power resisted his own, two scrolls soon flew from the bookshelves into his hands.
He directly burned the scroll bearing Shade's true name. The stench of charred human skin made everyone nauseated. As