Chapter 402: The Heart of the Desert and the Shadow of Betrayal

Wu Shan’s study was a chamber of echoes, a room where history breathed from the very stones. The City Lord led Fanix and his team past shelves carved from rock, laden with scrolls that had long turned to dust. He stopped before a wall covered in the same intricate, flowing script that Fanix had deciphered in the Corridor of the Dead. “For three hundred years, this script has been a mystery to us,” Wu Shan said, his voice a low rumble that seemed to shake the ancient air. He turned his...