Just as Levis fashioned himself a "red dragon alt" and hurried to the Abyss to "grind levels," while also looking for his daughter, Xiaen VII stood dazed before his daughter's grave in faraway Calimshan.
Back then, to cooperate with Krenville's fake-death scheme and guard against sabotage from Iryklathagra, father and daughter had built more than a dozen decoy tombs alone.
Yet Anisha waited for over eighty years, waited until the Xiaen Dynasty's great edifice was on the verge of collapse, waited until the kingdom fell and the family perished, until all was tossed about by wind and rain, and still she never saw her father return.
Thus, Anisha's final resting place became a mystery within Calimshan. Countless tomb robbers, necromancers, evil dragons, and pashas coveted the treasures buried in the tomb of the Xiaen Dynasty's last empress.
Even Krenville himself had spent years traversing Tethyr and Calimshan, investigating countless suspected tombs of the Xiaen Dynasty's last empress. Only this year did he learn of the secret from an accidental source, finally confirming that this grave of a minor noble's daughter before him belonged to his own daughter.
Because the fairy tale in that secret—the tale of the evil dragon and the princess—had been something Krenville casually made up to coax his daughter to sleep. He had never expected that, before her death, Anisha would still remember it and pass that tale down from mouth to mouth in another form.
At that moment, Krenville understood. This was the "signal" Anisha had left for him.
She had been afraid that if one day her father woke up but could not find her, he would surely be terribly anxious and terribly heartbroken.
Even though, by then, she was already dead.
And that wait had lasted nearly a thousand years.
Xiaen VII silently crouched