"Interesting... Would you like to listen?" The corpse suddenly spoke.
The moment Corey heard these words, he calmly shifted his gaze to the corpse. There was no hint of shock, disbelief, or fear in his gaze when he heard those words.
He had expected the 'corpse' to still be alive despite the lack of aura, life force, and anything that indicated that it was alive being absent.
The only change that appeared in his gaze was a flicker of curiosity at the words of the corpse.
'Would you like to listen?... Isn't that what was recorded in one of the books of Virendell?'
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' And when the last monarch of Virendell asked them about their purpose, they offered a crown made of broken ribs and asked, "Would you like to listen?"
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Corey recalled a part of the book he read, and he shifted his gaze to the crown of bones.
He increased the input of his Ears of Omniscience slightly, but he still could not hear anything.
He frowned slightly.
