"The Age Controller who fell here... it should have been Him, right?"
Aaron sighed. Rather than entering the deep pit, he continued searching around its edge.
Before long, he made a discovery on the other side of the crater.
Upon a half-broken wall—or rather, a slab of earth—there was a mural.
It seemed to have been painted in blood, brimming with madness and symbolism. The bloodstains had long since dried and blackened, yet they possessed a bizarre allure.
The blood painting depicted a terrifying scene through highly abstract strokes.
—A pitch-black corona covered most of the mural, while vast quantities of dark flames burned another indescribable existence.
That indescribable existence was rendered with only a few strokes, yet anyone with sufficiently high inspiration seemed able to hear a sigh in their heart merely by looking at them!
"Three have passed away. One was swallowed by the Great Serpent, one was burned by the corona, and one was stripped until nothing remained to be stripped... yet Secret History shall remember..."
Aaron murmured a passage recorded in Dreamwalking Notes.
Lilliat's ancestor had clearly also received an infusion of hidden knowledge within the Spirit Realm, faithfully recording all of this.
"One was burned by the corona... So this was how the Fallen Corona recovered. Here, It devoured [Extinguishing Wind], an existence born from the Sun's fall, and obtained all of the other party's authority and power, thus maintaining Its own existence and status..."
[Extinguishing Wind] had been born from a sigh uttered by the [Crimson Creator] at death, and should have possessed the status of an Age Controller.
That was why a sigh echoed from within the deep pit!
"It isn't strange that the Fallen Corona could maintain the status of an Age Controller after devouring [Extinguishing Wind]... What is strange is that