Every corpse in the pile gave off white light spots.
He had seen this before when resurrecting Elsa, but she had absorbed the spots so urgently and quickly that all he could see were rivers of white spots rushing along.
In this warehouse, however, the white light spots merely drifted out, like water in an overfilled pool with nowhere to drain.
So, were these corpses disappearing simply because of this natural dissipation?
Elliot gathered more spirituality into his eyes, held his breath, and tried hard to make out what was happening.
At last, he vaguely detected something, and his gaze fell on the floor.
These spots of light were sinking through the floor at an extremely slow rate.
"Is there a downward-facing observation window?"
"Yes, sir."
The soldier pulled open the cover of a porthole. Elliot crouched down and looked below.
Beneath them lay the deep Abyssal Sea. The farther down he looked, the thicker the darkness grew.
He could not see the bottom at all.
In the water, countless spots of light slowly descended, sinking into the Abyssal Sea.
"Downward?"
Elliot frowned.
Others might not know what lay beneath the Abyssal Sea, but Elliot had been to the seabed.
The seabed... was just the seabed. There was nothing there.
It was as desolate as the surface of the moon, except even the craters that dotted it were gone, leaving it utterly unremarkable.
Elliot suddenly remembered that cave entrance. He had found it using [Veil]; the cave was a concealed location.
A concealed location beneath the seabed, white light spots, resurrection...
Elliot narrowed his eyes slightly and sank into thought.
Though the spots of light seeped out of these corpses slowly, they never stopped.
And there was more than one dock like this. The Expedition Army had marshaled the might