Kalsa's face turned even paler, her lips slightly trembling. Lynch's words were like the sharpest ice spikes, piercing through the last shred of luck. She gazed at the spiral staircase before her, resembling a path to Hell, and the endless darkness seemed even more menacing at this moment.
"So... what should we do?" Kalsa's voice carried a tinge of barely perceptible despair. Knowing it was a trap, yet there was no way back.
Lynch's gaze shifted again towards the deep darkness above the staircase, his voice regained its previous calmness but with an undeniable determination: "Keep going."
"Keep going?" Kalsa was startled.
"Only by reaching the end can we discern his true purpose." Lynch's voice revealed no fluctuation, as cold as metal.
Kalsa fell silent.
To keep climbing, one must decipher the corroding force within the staircase, thereby acquiring the knowledge of the Decaying Domain.
