The moment Blue Knight sliced through the last layer of flesh wall, everyone looked ahead at once.
Below lay pitch-black darkness, bottomless and unfathomable. At the edge of the passage, several Bronze Pillars could be seen crisscrossing, with only small portions exposed before plunging into the passage below.
Clearly, they were already close to the core of Bronze Sin.
But that was not the important part. The important part was that, within the darkness, everyone saw a colossal figure slowly rising and falling.
They had discovered it.
And it had discovered them.
The Pipe Network Layer beyond the Copper Wall was an entirely different world from the one before it.
Selina led several mentors farther inside. The surrounding pipes had long since vanished, and even the bronze walls had disappeared with them. All that remained in sight was a dense layer of Eerie Inscriptions covering every inch of the walls.
Those inscriptions were still writhing, rotating ring after ring at an exceedingly slow rhythm. The longer one stared at them, the more it felt as though one's eyes were being pulled, one's consciousness spinning along with them.
Selina immediately withdrew her gaze, but her steps did not stop.
The mentors behind her did not possess her resolve.
The young mentor at the very back suddenly slowed. His eyes stared fixedly at a ring of rotating inscriptions on the wall to his right, his mouth slightly open as his entire body was drawn toward that wall.
He reached out, his fingertips only an inch away from the inscriptions.
Without even turning around, Selina slapped backward with her palm.
A layer of pale gray mist spread from her palm, instantly enveloping everyone.
The young mentor shuddered violently and jerked his hand back. His forehead was covered in cold sweat.
"Why panic?" Selina's