The stone chamber's two side doors opened simultaneously, and a man and a woman walked in.
The woman entered first, wearing a dark silver robe whose hem trailed a faint shadow across the floor.
Her face was hidden beneath her hood, revealing only a pointed chin and a pair of thin lips.
Her name was Yinshuang, the fourth seat of the Moon Envoys. She was in the late Transcendent Stage Realm, and her ability was extreme ice.
Ten years ago, during the operation in which Freya, fourth in the Heavenly Rankings, sealed the Weird Domain entrance on the Greenland Ice Sheet, she had fought Freya head-on. Though she had ultimately retreated in defeat, she had escaped unscathed.
That alone was enough to make most Transcendent Stage Realm experts wary of her name.
Behind her was a young man. He wore no robe, only dark gray casual clothes, and his youthful face looked no older than twenty-five or twenty-six.
His name was Ghost Pupil, the seventh seat of the Moon Envoys. He was in the middle Transcendent Stage Realm, and his origins had a certain connection to Ghost Fox, who had died at Lin Jin's hands.
Twelve years ago, Ghost Fox, a Gold Moon Rank member, had gone to a village destroyed by an Eerie to subdue an S-Rank Weird. In the ruins, he had found a dying boy.
The boy's parents had died in the disaster, and Eerie energy had corroded his eyes, turning his two eyeballs an uncanny deep purple and spectral green.
Ghost Fox had not killed him. Instead, he had brought him back to Dark Moon and poured his heart and soul into raising him as his disciple.
As it turned out, Ghost Fox had an exceptionally keen eye. Rather than going blind, the boy's Eerie-corroded eyes