Chapter 301: The Master of the Altar, A Shadow of the Past

The air in the heart of the Faceless Palace was no longer just dense with spiritual energy; it was thick, heavy, and ancient. It pressed down on Eric Yaits not like a physical weight, but like the crushing gravity of forgotten eons. Every step he took across the threshold into the final chamber felt like traversing a boundary between worlds. Before him lay a vast, circular cavern, so immense that its ceiling was lost in an oppressive darkness. The floor was a single, seamless piece of obsidian-like...