Arsia held her crossbow as she wandered through the third-floor corridor.
The entire mansion was vast, seemingly spanning five floors, with most doors tightly shut and locked, as if to prevent something from entering. Only the ajar door painted with a snake allowed entry.
But as the Ghost King Embryo began to show clear hostility, even the ajar door painted with a snake closed firmly, as if fearing something would get in.
Arsia put on a brown ring, then raised her hand and aimed at the stairway. With a bang, the wooden stairs shattered to pieces.
She wasn't sure if this would delay the footsteps of the rocking chair, but... she had to proceed step by step.
The third-floor corridor was very quiet, deathly quiet, unlike the second floor which was piled with corpses; on the contrary, the third-floor corridor was completely empty.
At the corridor's end, there was a rusty full-length mirror.
