"We're here!"
Aaron and the other two moved forward slowly, not daring to make the slightest unnecessary movement.
After walking a little farther, the fog ahead abruptly parted, revealing an open clearing.
No! Those dark-red mists, as though alive, had not dispersed at all. Instead, they had condensed into one Cursed Humanoid after another.
They could not be driven away or purified... their faces were blurred, their bodies twisted... and they were besieging a large crowd.
The Investigation Bureau, Lotus Eaters, Witch Sisterhood... as well as the wild Beyonders who had entered with them, had already suffered devastating casualties!
"Ah!"
Lilliat watched as a Cursed Humanoid pounced onto a certain Beyonder. The person's body immediately rotted and melted away... scarlet blood gathered across the ground, forming a small stream that flowed into the depths of the mist.
She immediately understood what the sound of flowing water they had heard in the fog represented.
That was... blood!
Countless deaths, countless streams of blood gathered into a brook, as though drawn by some mysterious force, flowing in the same direction.
There... was the underground entrance leading to the second level, originally within the ruins.
At this moment, it was wrapped in a layer of viscous blood plasma, from which two half-open doors emerged.
When Lilliat saw a wild Beyonder fall, his mask slipping from his face to reveal an immature-looking countenance, she finally could not hold back and shouted at him, "Don't move! If you don't move, they won't hurt you!"
The Beyonder looked to be around twenty, a beautiful girl with scarlet hair. Her eyes brimmed with tears as she watched the approaching Cursed Humanoid. As if frozen with terror, she truly did not dare move at all.
One step, two steps...
The Cursed Humanoid brushed past her and headed toward