"Now I can basically confirm, this is the Mother of Earth Shrine of Mount Deadclaw!"
After a thorough search, Ian declared confidently.
Upon discovering the first skull that served as an energy node, the four continually shattered scenes formed by condensed Death Qi, then determined the node's locations based on minor differences in their recovery rates.
Without exception, all the nodes were skulls of "Ancestral Humans" engraved with runes.
Beneath the skulls were dense shards of skeletons, all decayed and obviously drained to mere residue.
The Death Qi extracted from them was absorbed by the rune skulls, which then served as the raw materials for maintaining the illusions.
According to Veronica, this magic system from the era of the Mad King was clearly distinct from all rune languages and Shadow Magic currently possessed by the Shadow Temple.
Besides this, Ian made another unexpected discovery—
