Chapter 576: Speed dating???
“Yes! That was the correct solution,” Velania explained, sipping on a hot drink, “You can only get the shroud using [Regret], actually. If you get to the final three it’s designed so that the first one you pick is always wrong.”
“Ooooh, that’s nasty. Who designed that?” Everelle asked.
“Like almost everything else, it’s all Romuald. All I really did was make the things…”
“Right, who made the artifact?” Sofia asked, looking at the shroud still wrapped around her shoulders.
“We are not sure… Auntie wouldn’t tell us, but it was already there when… It was there…” Velania’s eyes clouded over slightly as her voice died down.
Shit, is she about to pass out again?!
“R- Right, Velania, I had another question for you! Don’t you want to leave now that I have the shroud? You don’t have to stay trapped here,” Sofia said, coming up with a distraction on the spot.
That question seemed to surprise Velania. “L- leave? I… N- no, I can’t leave. You still have the other trials here to get through later!”
“Right… What about after I clear them all, then?”