Chapter 589
The stairway leading underground wasn’t very long.
As Ellen descended through the trapdoor which had been buried in debris, the stench of decay and the nauseating smell of blood grew stronger with each step.
“What on earth... What could possibly be down here?” she murmured, her voice tense.
Ellen pushed open the door to the temple’s basement, and found herself in pitch-black darkness. She summoned the cloak of the sun, which draped itself over her shoulders, and soon, the flickering flames from the cloak began to push back the shadows.
As the darkness receded, a long corridor emerged, lined with rooms.
The basement had been spared from the fire above, but bodies lay strewn about, either undiscovered or ignored.
“There are bodies here too...”
Ludwig, his eyes wide with shock, stared blankly at the scene.
There was a hidden place beneath the temple, a place that served a grim purpose. The stench that rose to the surface was the smell of blood and decay.
“It seems like killing the people in here was the attackers’ original goal,” Ellen said, her voice steady despite the horror around her.
Unlike Ludwig, who had been overwhelmed by the scene, Ellen moved calmly down the corridor.
What did this temple and the dead people signify?