'This disguise works… somewhat.'
It was no doubt effective against these lesser demons, but the biggest problems would start if he somehow ran into a powerful demon so early into his mission.
The closer he drew to the castle, the more corrupted the land became.
The red veins beneath the black stone were thicker here, pulsing in an unsettling rhythm like an enormous heart buried under the ground.
Strange structures jutted out of the earth on either side of the road, some shaped like watchtowers, others like broken ribs rising toward the sky. Chains hung between several of them, each chain covered in dark runes that occasionally sparked with crimson light.
Once, he passed a pit filled with pale human corpses.
The sight made his stomach churn. More so since the bodies were piled with a mix of varieties, children included.
He also ran into a bunch of bodies that looked like they had been flayed alive.
