Chapter 553: Commander Bookie
Sofia effortlessly made her way back to the main room with the giant statue of Sorrow, and once again snuck up to the corridor on the far side where chanting voices came from.
The darkness there seemed even darker, but the candle let Sofia cut her way through it, and she carefully entered that last section of the palace. Instead of taking her time exploring every nook and cranny this time, she walked straight ahead toward the voices.
As it turned out, the voices were much further than Sofia had thought, she walked for a few hundred meters unhindered, and the voices got stronger as she went. Nothing but the stone slate ground appeared in her small dome of light, until stone benches appeared on either side. Sofia instinctively took a step back, there were rows of candle zombies sitting on the benches.
But they were in the dark, which was strange. Stepping a bit closer again, she noticed they seemed to be asleep, each holding an extinguished candle.
Feels like the nave of a church? A massive one, though.
Would explain the presence of a choir, I suppose. They would be near the altar?
Well… Getting surrounded by those zombies could be bad, but they’re also not that strong. Let’s just go to the voices as fast as I can, that way if something goes wrong I can [Regret] all the way back here and only have to worry about one side.
Sofia deployed her wings and flew straight for the singing voices deep in the nave.
She got closer and closer until the voices just stopped. Sofia’s light revealed the presence of the massive altar, on which was a life-sized statue of Sorrow standing in the middle, Her face hidden behind Her hands.