The Lantern Knight straightened and pressed the small lamp at his waist. Its light remained steady, revealing nothing unusual.
The Lantern Knight fell silent. Looking at the two motionless people, he rolled up his sleeves again. If their minds were still trapped in that world and could not return, he would have to try everything. No conventional means of waking them could be skipped.
Deep in the fog of the Land of the Dead Silence, Lu Yuan and Frey walked one behind the other toward the outline of the mountain range. They had covered barely a thousand meters.
Lu Yuan, who was in front, gradually slowed. Something was wrong.
As they drew closer, the shapes that had been shrouded in fog began to reveal what they truly were.
The long objects jutting diagonally from the ground were bones of unknown animals or creatures. Twisted and intertwined, they were embedded deep in the dark red earth, rising and falling as they stretched into the fog beyond. The round shapes half-buried in the soil were hollow skulls. Mist drifted through their empty eye sockets, carrying an eerie air of deathly silence.
Everywhere he looked, the ground was covered in dead things. Rotting flesh clung together to form the dark red earth, yet not a trace of it stirred. These things really were dead. Only the White Mist drifted slowly along the ground. This decaying world of tangled bones and corpses was the true face of the Land of the Dead Silence.
Gray-White Text appeared in Lu Yuan's vision without warning.
[Environmental Perception: Faint Sanity Contamination detected. Stay alert.]
Lu Yuan frowned slightly. The effects of the Land of the Dead Silence were beginning to take hold.
"Frey." Lu Yuan stopped and looked back at her. "When you were wandering around