Chapter 323

This room put the banquet room at the Spanish Council to shame. It was three times as big and decorated in gold and red. It was nearly as ornate as the inside of the Vatican, and dark paintings hung on the walls over even darker sculptures.

On several paintings I saw Wraiths similar to those I had seen on the dark path leading to the Mother's hut, but a massive mural teeming with devil dogs, dark smoky spirits, Centaurs, horned figures, and more Wraiths chilled me to the bone.

Alexis examined the mural. "It is the dark path…"

I focused on the image of a terrified woman, her mouth a gaping maw as she silently screamed. An uprooted stalagmite tree had snatched her from the path, and something slimy gnawed on her foot.

"This is what you saw?" Ran asked while staring in horror at the mural.

"Yes," I said, shivering.

Alexis rubbed my arms. "Follow me."

He led us down an immense corridor decorated with murals, statues of winged demons, and a ceiling that depicted a beautiful represen