I shivered, because I understood what the Jade Oracle had just said, when she dies, the last thing holding back the seals from being broken would no longer exist.
In the previous loop, where I had found my way into the pyramid, I had seen the body of Rex being slowly consumed, as his blood and his flesh floated upwards, and at that time, I did not understand what I was looking at.
As it turns out, this was just part of the Ascension Ritual where Orath and whoever was running this ritual in the background had been killing the Jade Oracle.
I had destroyed the camp, and so I had delayed the eruption by three hours, but Rex was hardly the only sacrificial lamb being used for this ritual, and not using him for this had just brought me this much time.
"Why would they do this?" I wondered aloud, and the Jade Oracle replied to me,
