The flames had long since gone out.
The passage of time became impossible to perceive.
In the darkness, the stone slab carrying Anna and Lin drifted silently forward.
Walls made entirely of corpses rose one after another, stretching deep into the sky and underground.
Like countless great trees, they formed a terrifying forest of corpses.
Much of the time, the stone slab had to veer around them to keep moving.
A faint layer of black mist covered the stone slab.
It seemed to offer some kind of protection.
Anna clasped Lin's hand tightly. The two of them sat on the slab in silence.
Their flight wasn't always completely silent.
Sometimes Anna clearly heard noises coming from the many walls, and even the sound of people speaking.
Whenever that happened, Lin would squeeze Anna's hand, warning her to be careful and not investigate anything.
Until, at a certain moment.
The stone slab gradually slowed down.
It stopped in the midst of profound darkness and remained still.
Anna looked around.
Walls of corpses stretching from earth to sky filled her field of vision.
Beyond them, there was only darkness.
The slab on which the two of them stood was like a speck of dust in a vast world, too small to notice.
"The slab stopped moving," Anna couldn't help whispering.
"Mm."
Lin replied absentmindedly.
Anna looked at Lin's dazed expression and thought she might as well make the decision herself.
There had to be a reason the slab had stopped here.
But why...
Anna stood at the edge of the slab, looking around to see if there was anything unusual.
Suddenly, she noticed a broken wall of corpses directly beneath the slab.
Unlike the other walls, this one seemed to have suffered an enormous impact. It had been broken in two, exposing