Chapter 354: Riddled with Doubts
When Mary pushed open the door and Qin Ran saw the room beyond, he knew his earlier guess had been right.
The room was neither particularly large nor especially small.
To the left, two bookcases, each three meters tall and five meters wide, completely covered one wall.
To the right stood only a low table, with an empty rack on top.
Judging by its design, the rack was meant to hold a longsword or a similar weapon.
Now, however, it held nothing.
Directly opposite Qin Ran stood a desk.
It was an ordinary-sized desk, with one end facing the doorway and the other facing the window in the opposite wall.
A chair had been pushed under it, leaving only its back visible.
Moonlight streamed through the window, coating the floor in silver frost and making the sword mark across it stand out all the more.
The sword mark stretched from the doorway to the window, almost ten meters long and deep enough to sink a hand into.
"What a sharp sword strike!"
Qin Ran crouched and slipped his hand into the sword mark, unable to suppress a quiet exclamation.
He was very familiar with marks like this.
His [Foot Blade] could leave similar traces.
But it could not produce one this long.
"This strike was unleashed from inside the room, all the way to..."
Qin Ran followed the sword mark to the window.
Here, the sharp cut began to spread outward, splintering the floorboards. It was nowhere near as straight as the earlier section.
His experience told him that only two things could account for this spreading effect.
First, insufficient strength or unfamiliarity with the technique.
Much like him when he had first learned [Foot Blade].
Second, an unexpected occurrence that forced the attacker to