Liora did not need to search for a long time before locating the source behind the ever-looming aura.
The moment she stepped into the palace and entered its main hall, she came face to face with it.
She had made several guesses about what it could have been before coming here.
A slumbering being. A powerful weapon. Even the force of an enormous formation.
Yet the moment she saw its source, she realized that all her previous guesses had been completely wrong.
The item emitting that oppressive aura was neither a weapon nor a person.
Instead, it was a statue.
Made of stone and stretching infinitely toward the sky, it seemed bigger than the secret realm itself.
It occupied the central place within a vast space, its head nearly touching the ceiling.
However, it was far from being all alone.
Surrounding it were thousands of other statues. Though big, they looked like dwarves compared to it.
