The mural's exact age was clearly impossible to verify, but the story it told caught Li Wei's attention.
Put simply, the mural told the following story.
Long ago-just how long ago was beside the point-a meteor fell from the sky and landed on this land. It brought something evil, terrifying, and uncanny. It devoured every living creature in its path, merging them into a monstrous, enormous creature.
The people were helpless against this monster. Their swords and blades were useless, and in their despair, they could only pray to the gods. Just then, a priest of the Holy Lord Church stepped forward. He lured the monster to a church, fought a fierce battle against it, and let it devour him.
Afterward, the priest's devout faith in the gods granted him tremendous power. He seized control of the monster's body, steered it into a sacred site, and prayed for divine power to seal it within.
But that was not the end. The priest's assistant had also fallen under the monster's curse, so he followed the priest's example and chose to seal himself away to avoid harming anyone else.
In the mural's final scene, people outside could clearly be seen pushing a boulder into place to block the entrance. Inside, a strangely shaped man with wings and a serpent's tail sat on the stone chair atop the altar. Below his body, blood vessels stretched down along the walls, wrapping around something.
Well, that was all the information the mural provided.
Of course, plenty of questions remained unanswered for Li Wei, such as who had painted the mural and when these events had occurred. In his opinion, it probably had not been during King Solomon's era. After all, King Solomon had been an archmage back then, and there must have been quite a