The entire underground space lit up, the hollow beneath the ground resembled ashes in a furnace after the flames went out, the faint red glow was the unextinguished fire residual within the matchsticks.
When Hugo activated the magic, lighting the sparse flames lingering in the ashes, the area was brilliantly illuminated by the light of the Thousand-Year Fire.
Francesca and the other elder were left to shield their eyes from the blinding light with their palms.
Through the gaps in their fingers, they saw that the piles of matchsticks around the glowing sparks were humanoid, looking like the remnants left after burning bodies.
This was the first time Francesca had seen the sight of the awakening of the Ashen Man, so she realized that the ashes under the graveyard were not normal.
Why did it appear as though there were tens of thousands of charred bodies here?
What was fueling the Thousand-Year Fire?
